Madmac55
First Lieutenant   Posts: 4 Registered: 1/6/2004 Status: Offline
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 posted on 1/8/2004 at 11:23 |
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.
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
 posted on 1/8/2004 at 11:36, Reply 1 |
Hey glad to have you!
Sounds like your busy!
How long you been playing????
What Styles???????
Keep in touch
Brian 
Brian
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Madmac55
First Lieutenant Posts: 4 Registered: 1/6/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 13:57, Reply 2 |
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
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 14:34, Reply 3 |
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
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marcos
First Lieutenant  Posts: 5 Registered: 1/8/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 15:43, Reply 4 |
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
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 17:15, Reply 5 |
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!
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marcos
First Lieutenant Posts: 5 Registered: 1/8/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 20:27, Reply 6 |
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
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
 posted on 1/8/2004 at 21:29, Reply 7 |
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
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marcos
First Lieutenant Posts: 5 Registered: 1/8/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/8/2004 at 22:05, Reply 8 |
Hmmm...
"OK Problem..."
(See above) You scared me with that...
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
 posted on 1/8/2004 at 22:23, Reply 9 |
Sorry!
That's what happens when you type two messages at the same time. ha ha
I meant No problem sorry
I sent you a private message!
brian
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