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you two houres to late its a dead issue move one[/quote]
One what?Houres?Learn how to spell. :roll:

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(Edited: Way outside forum policies. -Brad)


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(Edited: Same. -Brad)

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(sigh) I truthfully don't care what the circumstances that are leading up to them, but the posts occurring in this thread are far outside the policies of this forum. highwayoneplayer, you've been intimately involved in 2 controversial threads today. That's 2 too many in my book. Consider yourself warned.
ponis, your comments back aren't exactly giving me warm fuzzies either. Folks just gotta develop thick skins and let stuff bounce off 'em!

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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:12 pm
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Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
(sigh) I truthfully don't care what the circumstances that are leading up to them, but the posts occurring in this thread are far outside the policies of this forum. highwayoneplayer, you've been intimately involved in 2 controversial threads today. That's 2 too many in my book. Consider yourself warned.
ponis, your comments back aren't exactly giving me warm fuzzies either. Folks just gotta develop thick skins and let stuff bounce off 'em!

fair enough i'm glad you have step in


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Hi R Collier--

I've been teaching myself to play guitar for over 50 years. Buy books, ask people to show you how they did that, mayby take a lesson. Most importantly: enjoy what you're doing; don't be dissatisfied that you'r not better. You'll ALWAYS want to be better. Playing a guitar is a joy if you take your time and enjoy it.

--David


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For one, don't waste your lessons learning things like tuning your guitar. You should be able to walk into the first lesson and actually start playing things.

Do you have any musical experience?


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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:50 pm
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Hey, congrats on the win. Nice way to start your guitar journey. As for lessons or things on the web. A good start is a software package called Jamorama (Jamorama.com) It will be a good boost to learn chords and from there you can venture into other things. As for one on one lessons, I feel they are good if you find an instructor that you seem to "click" with. I've done both and benefited from both.

Be patient and age means nothing. I started two years ago at 52 and I play almost everyday. In two years I've owned about 13 or 14 guitars and sold all but five. It's a great journey and if you get into it, it will never end.

And should you decide you aren't interested in playing, PM me and I will give you an address where you can dump that guitar.:D

Good luck and drop a line if you have any questions or concerns.


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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:18 am
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It encourages me greatly that there are more than a few "middle-aged" newbies around. I too didn't start until I was 44, If that is middle aged, then I will be happy to be picking and kicking 'til I'm 90 :lol:

Best of luck, stick with it, the music will be your reward!


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Hi R Collier

First, welcome to the Forum - and to the world of guitar playing. You are getting a very nice instrument to begin that journey with. Congratulations.

Couple of quick thoughts. Even a few lessons are good: "the self-taught musician has a very ignorant teacher" - which was probably the story of most of us.

You and I are of similar vintage. The advantage you have starting now is that there are a vast number of facilities available to help you along. The internet has already been mentioned, and in case you don't know about them, I'd like to point you towards some of the excellent tuition DVDs around now. Check out www.licklibrary.com, for example. DVDs won't take you from A to Z - but I sure wish we'd had them when I was starting out. A lot of time might have been saved...

Last, stick around here. There's tons of good knowledge and ideas flashing around, and even when one or two of them briefly lose their temper (!) they're all great guys.

Good luck to you! - C


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Congrats on your win, and welcome to the world of middle-aged guitarisits (I'm 56 myself).

I've been playing off-and-on for years, and I'm back in "on" mode again after purchasing a Strat a couple of months ago. I've been using these as a refresher course:

http://guitar.about.com/od/freebeginner ... essons.htm

As good a place as any to start (and Free isn't a bad price :P ).

Good luck!

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Ceri wrote:
Hi R Collier

First, welcome to the Forum - and to the world of guitar playing. You are getting a very nice instrument to begin that journey with. Congratulations.

Couple of quick thoughts. Even a few lessons are good: "the self-taught musician has a very ignorant teacher" - which was probably the story of most of us.

You and I are of similar vintage. The advantage you have starting now is that there are a vast number of facilities available to help you along. The internet has already been mentioned, and in case you don't know about them, I'd like to point you towards some of the excellent tuition DVDs around now. Check out www.licklibrary.com, for example. DVDs won't take you from A to Z - but I sure wish we'd had them when I was starting out. A lot of time might have been saved...

Last, stick around here. There's tons of good knowledge and ideas flashing around, and even when one or two of them briefly lose their temper (!) they're all great guys.

Good luck to you! - C

good morning ceri a much better day today


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good morning ceri a much better day today


Hi, guy. I'm feeling good, too. I got some late night practice in, like we were talking about. My wife says the neighbours were hammering at the wall, but I didn't hear them. Here's me at my practice rig in the attic:

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That's the way it's done... :wink:


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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:37 am
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i had a strat like that congrats on winning

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Ceri wrote:
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That's the way it's done... :wink:


That must be your "beater" guitar, 'cuz it's not the beauty in your avatar 8)


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