Thanks for all the advice etc, She is past the beginner stage, Thanks to myself and youtube. She now feels one on one tuition is the way forward and I agree, Will have to look at the practibilty's of her getting to Hessle, Thanks again.
PS. After 27 years of playing the guitar myself I have just started learning some scales ( she's already better than me )
You've been playing the guitar all the time you were posting on City Mad Dean? It just goes to show that old saying, "Music have charms to sooth the savage breast" is a load of bollocks.
Just shows your never too old to learn. I,m self taught, and have also recently started playing my guitars again after a "few" years off em.
What kind of stuff are you playing GT I have been doing a lot of Johnny Cash etc, Trying to do a bit of blues now.
Try get her to teach herself... the key to being a good guitarist or musician of any sort is to train your ear to recognize different notes and octaves at an instant. I've played half my life, without lessons, and the way to learn is listen to a song yourself and just figure it out yourself, or you will never learn properly. All you need to know is the standard 'acoustic' chords I call them, power chords, the different types of bar chords, and most importantly THE PENTATONIC SCALE!!! If you're really being serious, throw every single guitar book away and put a block on websites like ultimate-guitar.com, they just hinder rather than help. Anyone can pick up a book and read it, it takes a true musician to listen to a song and play it..
Are you suggesting I'm not a true musician? Normally people have to hear me play before coming to that conclusion.
I,m a big fan of JC, also anything 50,s rock n roll, rockabilly sound.But will play almost anything if I like the song/tune. The pentatonic is a good scale to learn blues with then add a few passing notes as you get accustomed to it, espeicially if you can learn the scale using the full fretboard. I also mess about with midi quite a lot to jam along with, which keeps my interest going.
haha, yeah, your the 'fair weather fan' of music! kidding pal.. probably the difference is you play for a hobby, where as music's my life. i played keyboard from 3 years old, moved onto guitar at about 10 - 11. I'm now in my early 20's and moved on to producing/DJing drum & bass and dubstep last 6-7 years (dubstep the last 4 years) and just keep making myself better and biding my time til it feels right to send a demo off to a few local record labels and break onto the local scene full time myself. Which I'm fully confident of doing, a few people I grew up with are big on the scene and run their own events, and now got alot of friends heavily invloved in the industry.. Music's pretty much the only thing I know, other than football, motors and birds... so I take it dead seriously it's the only way I'm gonna make my life count for something decent..
It's definitely a hobby for me, I started gigging again a few years ago(after a 25 year absence) but retired for good just over a year ago, now it's just for my own enjoyment. I still do a little band promotion, the last band I was promoting were ironically called the Ashbies.
Very much a hobby with me, I play guitar for my own enjoyment only. Interesting that you produce your own music I wish you luck with that Its a very hard buisness to make it in. What programmes do you use? and do you use other peoples samples/loops or do you make your own? I also have a small home studio/music room that I have been putting together over the last year, with the intention of learning a bit of home recording again for my own pleasure/hobby only.
Use Cubase 5 with a few various plug-ins, Albino 3, NI Massive mainly for my leads & basses and some effect plug-ins with decent compressors, EQ's and whatnot, not a fan of Cubases built in effects. Programme synths myself to make my own sound.. that's what its all about, expressing yourself. Make my own samples for everything other than drums, which I use the Vengeance Essential packages or nick the odd few out of existing tunes.
While we're on this topic, does anyone know the best software for home recording? I have a spare laptop and a fully equipped music room and I've given up on my eight track tape recorder, does anyone know the best software for recording stuff on your own? It doesn't need to be anything special, I just want to be able to do a ghost track, then record 12-16 tracks over the top.
OLM, depends how much you're willing to spend, what you want to do with it and which interface you prefer/how clever you are with these things. I'd reccomend Cubase, it's great for anything, recording, sampling, midi... the sequencer really is second to none. The only drawback is it's fairly advanced and the terms/menus it uses will be entirely confusing to a beginner and will probably get nowhere. The so called 'best', or industry standard software for recording is pro tools, that's what all the big names in music use to produce their tracks (who record their own material) but you'll have to invest a fair bit in it, the software itself is rather expensive and you need an M-Audio soundcard to go along with it for it to work, which are a fair wedge too (ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã100+). But if you want crisp recordings you WILL NEED an M-Audio card whichever programme you decide to use. Your standard jack plug in on your computer really does give you pathetic sound quality, and you have no gain control etc. which are essential for getting a half decent recording. There are free programmes which alot of people use like Audacity, which I have never used so couldn't comment on them for you, but by reading reviews in the past the large amount of people that use them are extremely satisfied with these programmes specially considering they are free. I'd imagine they're not quite as versatile and I know they don't support alot of the plug-ins I use, which is why I've never touched one. So you really need to give yourself a budget, have a look round at what you like the look of, think about your knowledge and/or whether you have someone to tutor you a bit. I'd recommend Cubase personally because of it's versatility and all around brilliance, and you can get the SX3 version on a free download as long as you're not on 64 bit windows (it only works on 32bit). The main thing is not to rush in and buy something, it has to suit you or you will just get frustrated and never touch it again. Pop into a music shop and talk to some proffesionals about it or something, but spend a few weeks looking before you commit to buying, the software isn't cheap and if you don't like it you'll have wasted a good amount of money.
