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Getting a guitar...

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    #62
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Nope, no easy way. When I started playing, I found the stretch for a G to be hard. Now I can reach about 7 frets.


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    #63
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    so, this thread inspired me to go off and try and learn some chords and stuff.
    i really do now have much sympathy for brian adams during his summer of 69.
    my fingers now also bleed :(


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    #64
    Paladin
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    A les Paul Special will do that do you...
    Same effect on the ears...

    Better than my first guitar though :)


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    #65
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    The first few chords in Stream Of Conciousness are nice for stretching the auld fingers :p


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    #66
    david
    Registered Users Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    3 frets?! Doesnt seem like a stretch unless you play it all on the one string hahaha


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    #67
    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    Get yourself a middle of the road, e200-ish acoustic guitar, a strap, a few sets of spare strings (you'll probably break a few high e's when you first learn to tune your guitar... I must've gone through 6 of them in a week...) and then buy an Oasis or Green Day chord book.

    DeafVision, an acoustic guitar would really suit you better to start off with. It's a little harsher on your fingers so helps you develop callouses on your finger-tips which'll make switching to an electric guitar with low-guage strings like strumming a stick of butter! It also helps you develop accuracy because you don't have tonnes of distortion to mask little mistakes and your general technique will have a good grounding.
    Yea I duno acoustic just seems very depressing to me.. and I like all punk/rock music...

    An acoustic won't sound depressing if you're not playing depressing songs. Remember, "There is Nothing Left To Lost" by Foo Fighters was written all on an acoustic guitar!


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