Hi, I am new to the board, and am looking forward to be here for the long haul, I work for the coast guard and am away every second week at work, I work on a search and rescue cutter and the shift runs 24 - 7, after 16:00, we are all on pager till 08:00 the next day.
Anyways Hi to you all.

Hey glad to have you!
Sounds like your busy!

How long you been playing????
What Styles???????

Keep in touch


Brian


Brian

Brian, I have only been playing guitar for about one year, I never even planned on learning to play the guitar, but last year one of my stepsons wanted a electric guitar for christmas, so with a very limited knowledge of guitars I went shopping in various music shops for a guitar for him.
Anyways to make a long story short, after looking at a few guitars I took a guitar down from its rack and held it as if I was playing it and it was then that I decided yes I want to learn how to play guitar.
I bought him a Godin SDXT electric along with a fender practise amp and all the other goodies that go with it.
I bought myself a Ibanez RG 421 electric guitar and a crate 15 watt practise amp and a few books to start off with, I was taking lessons all winter but all the guy was doing was writing me out a tab and getting me to practise it all week until the next lesson, and so on .
Because of this I stopped taking lessons from him, but am currently trying to find someone else to take lessons from, since I am from a small place, it is not proving easy.
I am now just getting information off of the net and buying more books and DVD's and getting something from each of these learning aids.
I have since had the original pickups replaced on the guitar with two Dimarzio pickups, a Tone Zone and a Air Norton, I also had the original nut replaced with a whalebone nut.
I have also purchased a Marshal AVT 50 watt amp and a Dunlop Crybaby Wah Wah, Danolectric Fab Tone Distortion pedal, Electro Harmonix Phase Shifter pedal and the one I like the most a BOSS SD-1 SuperOverdrive pedal, the Boss overdrive pedal is the last one that I bought and when used on the clean side of the amp iit produces the sound that I was looking for the whole time, so the other pedals are not used very much but that will change once I get more experience and can incorporate them more into different songs.
I am 48 years old and wish I would have started to play the guitar before, but as the saying goes. it is never to late to learn, now I am trying to get my timing and strumming patterns down along with some solo work( that is the only time that I use the BOSS SD-1 Overdrive pedal at the present time)
I am going over scales, I got away from doing the scales, but now after reading some more information I finally realize how important they are in relation to using the proper chords, I am just starting to see the relation and what chords to use with what scales, but right now I only know a hand full of chords, I am having a tough time with barre chords, but they are coming.
The music I am trying to learn is the blues, I love the blues, I have always loved the blues and some of my favourites blues artists are BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chris Duarte and Robben Ford, just to name a few, I bought a Robben Ford DVD to try and learn but it is way beyond anything I can do right now, after one year I am just starting to find my way around the fretboard when just fooling around and trying to come up with stuff on my own, I just do it by ear, if it sounds good to me I play it and try to come with some riffs, mind you I am still pretty slow but I am sure if I keep it up the speed will improve with time.
Well I hope I did not ramble on too long, I just wanted to let you know where I was at and thankyou for welcoming me.
Ken

Yeah sounds like you got the guitar bug now... Look out it's very addictive Don't worry it's a good thing!
I was a private teacher for about 12 years and got alot of students from other teachers because as you said the other teacher would tab out a bunch of songs and that's it. Why get a private teacher just post your questions here or check out our files...... There's chord/scale generators here that will help you too and it's free....

You say you like the blues!

Do you know your Pentatonic scales yet???
Do you have the dom chords down yet???

If not let us know we will do some custom lessons for you!!!! FREEEEEEEEEEE......
Did I mention FREE
Most of us around here are blues jazz buffs
We like Rock too of course.

Keep in touch
Brian

Greetings,
I was pleased to see a link to this site on a dogpile search and also enjoyed seeing the news of the ShadowStand posted here... Not sure who's responsible for that happening but I'd like to say thanks... You see, I'm the designer.
Regards,
marcos

Hello Marcos!

I not sure who found out about the Shadow Stand but we always
try to keep our guests,members and customers up to date on the newest guitar news etc.....

Keep in touch!

Are the stands shipping yet!

Hi Brian,
Thanks for asking... Yes, stands are in production and shipping... It's amazing how long things can take to get up and running, but such is the way of the world.
Next week at NAMM a number of manufacturers will be featuring the stands on display... Seymour Duncan, Rick Turner, Minarik Guitars and Martin to name a few.
The Martin ShadowStand is a brown version with brown leather with and the 1833 C.F. Martin logo is embossed in gold on the headstock; looks wonderful and I'm pretty thrilled with all the acceptance and notice the design is getting, as you may imagine.
There's a few other pretty interesting things afoot and I'll keep you posted as they begin to see the light of day.
Once again, I'd like to say thanks for including some of my design efforts on your site Brian, it's truly appreciated.
marcos

Ok Problem!
It's our honor to have you...

Please keep us updated and send us some press on your products. We will surely promote them here!

You can add a file about your products if you like

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/modules.php?name=Submit_News< /a>

P.S
I'm sure we will be selling them here soon


Brian

For those of you that missed the article check it out and view a picture of the Shadow Stand

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/guitarfile247.html

Thanks
Brian

Hi Brian,
I responded to your message but perhaps I sent it incorrectly... Still learning my way around.

I responded to your private message if that's what your refering to?

Brian

Hey im new and i have a problem.. it sayDropped D and tuned down 1/2 step (Dropped Db or C#)
whaaa and how?

If I understand correctly you tune your guitar down a half step to Eb then drop your low E down Db!
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Basic tuning
E,A,D,G,B,E
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Drop tuning
Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb
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Then drop your low E string to Db

What song are you trying to play????


Brian



[Edited on 1/10/2004 by brian]

I'm confused

Anyway, welcome

hi im tom i play guitar and i just wanted to talk to you about guitars.
cheers tom.

any one there.
tom

Hey Tom what's up.......

What you wanna talk about!


Brian

Tom, dude. Register and join the fun full time.
This is a great place to be (yeah, I know I'm biased), I've been a member here for a while, these guys know thier stuff. They're fiendly too, I think they must like me because they just made me a moderator

Hey Brian,
Me again... Please check PMs and email me when you get the chance... A major client of mine wishes to open a chat and I deem it a good thing. Shake off the NAMM doo-dahs and buzz me please. email direct per the PM will be very helpful. I'll explain later about head injuries.

Hey Marcos!

I sent an email to your main address!


Thanks man
brian

Hey all. Play lead and rhythm using Jacksons and a JCM 2000 Full stack. In a Metalcore band in San Diego. Very much at home on forums. Super Moderate at a few DTV Testing sites. (that's what I do for a hobby) Anyway, play alot around town and waiting for that one good break.
I like this site and has potential to be big. I'll be around from time to time to answer any questions or what ever.


I posted my band site addy in the introdution thread. Check us out.

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I came across this forum while browsing around for some general guitar info, and thought I'd register and stick around for awhile. So, hi

-GILBY D