User talk:JohnnyDude

Found this site by searching for Guitar Effects. Had no Idea I could leave a Statement! I have been messing around with Electric and Acoustic Guitars for about 20 years. Like most others, never really got the hang of it. I never had lessons. I can't read music either! But I was in a car and truck accident in 2003. I am Disabled due to a back injury. I found I have lots of time to try the guitar again. To my amazement, I think I am getting the whole Music theory now! I can now hear a song, pick up the guitar and set up the tuning quite easily. Some songs have a very delicate tuning, someare easy as pie. The trick is to find the exact settings for all the strings, for that particular song! I was never shown how to do this, I learned on my own! When you strike the strings, they sound exactly as the song! This enables you to now locate EVERY NOTE YOU HERE! It is mostly training your ear to hear the songs settings! Then I began to locate all the notes, and began studying the finger styles! Thats it! I now play a favorites list of 30 SONGS from begining to end! I was shocked at how quickly I learned once I found the proper approach! I messed around with the electric guitar at first,and developed many fingering techniques I did not even know I had learned! I now recognize little techniques in every song I play! I just was not using the correct approach! Listen to the song, Set up the strings,try to find the notes,begin to emulate the style and technique. This may be as simple as holding a note a little longer, or getting ready for a relocation on the guitar neck. If you try these steps you will begin to see what I mean. I was learning some of these things, but I was not setting up the strings properly. I have found this has endless possibilities! I am now setting up the strings on some songs that I know would be very difficult to play otherwise! I now can play along with over three hundred songs on my computer! In less than two years, this has become quite astounding! I can play lead, where as I now replace the Vocals with the Acoustic, note for note, and anyone can recognize the song after a few notes! I was shocked at first, I am still amazed at the variety of songs I can now enjoy playing! My first loves in the seventies were Yes Genesis, Pink Floyd,Jethro Tull, Robin Trower,Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles,Eric Clapton, Elton John etc.. I Now Adore Bonnie Raitt, Jessica Andrews, Miranda Lambert, Shania Twain, Leanne Rimes, Cheryl Crowe, Etc... I love music ten times more now. I am 47 years old, too old to start a band but not to old to enjoy jam sessions with friends maybe find work in a studio! Remember,give your guitar another chance, try my suggestions, you will be playing before you know it!! Enjoy!!!!! P.S Just Bought a new GS 31 Acoustic - Electric Black Takamine! Wow!!!!