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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 18th 2017, 7:19 pm

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Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

Never much success with teachers, tried two (only a lesson from each)and just wasn't impressed, luck of the draw I guess.... that said, we took my son, then 5 or 6 to 'school of rock'. I don't know...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 15th 2017, 9:13 pm

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Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

also, try riffstation. it takes any track you have on your laptop and extracts the chords directly from the track, running them below the 'waveform as it plays. also does the slow down thing if...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 13th 2017, 7:52 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

Promise no more links from me after this ;) this is one of my faves. Greg Koch I believe is the top fender demo guy. He lives in another galaxy guitarwise... he has a really good guitar site where he...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 13th 2017, 1:55 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

yeah, as you say, once you are oriented to the location on the neck, it is very easy to play along and then shift positions an octave, add bends, slurs, hammer-ons, pull offs and so on, embellishing...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 13th 2017, 12:51 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

Views: 30,477

Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCEbFRQaIc

hope links permitted, try this, gorgeous rendition of little red corvette, finally I could understand what was being sung ;)

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 13th 2017, 3:36 am

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

hi magnumpi, thanks. my response wasn't really very good. truth is I did try hard to learn theory, but for me it seemed to open things up to the point where I got lost and confused in it. so now (and...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 13th 2017, 3:01 am

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

nahh... on learning those notes. I found it too hard to translate to my fingers. I know that's poorly explained, and I have no doubt whatsoever I would have progressed far more quickly by going that...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 8th 2017, 10:48 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

suspect most have tried this, if not and while we're on the subject of guitars, as yer dad or granddad might have said (if he had blind or lemon or any permutation in his name) 'best fun yer can ave...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 7th 2017, 10:09 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

no. not stupid, at all. i'm not sure really, for some reason it just 'felt right' (that was an unintended pun). the instructors are correct, l/h instruments are a little harder to find. oddly enough...

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Oct 7th 2017, 7:53 pm

Replies: 268

Guitar Mad People

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Posted By strat

Re: Guitar Mad People

I can confirm, it gets no better with age, that lure of amps, guitars, pedals... great fun never the less. Home full of Fender, Gibson, Hamer, Boss, Larrivee, Martin... running out of stands and...

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