New Guitar Player Looking For Any Advice or Motivation!

[devries9311]

Hey. Im 15 ive been playing guitar for awhile now and i just started to dip my toes into playing with a band. i use a marshall 15 wat and a zoom g2 pedal. any advice for tones? anything? styles to play?
Thanks!

 

[King Guitar]

Hey. Im 15 ive been playing guitar for awhile now and i just started to dip my toes into playing with a band. i use a marshall 15 wat and a zoom g2 pedal. any advice for tones? anything? styles to play?
Thanks!

Best advice I could give is not to get caught up in all the gear nonsense as it is worse than crack and not really productive to making music. Just make sure your action is low and your guitar holds tune reasonably well and assuming you want to be a rock and roll guitarist go get the following records:

1. Led Zeppelin 1
2. The Beatles Rubber Soul
3. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
4. Black Sabbath 1
5. Mettalica And Justice For All
6. Van Halen 1

Devour these albums and learn how to play the tracks and styles, you will be on the right track.

When you get a little older get a decent Les Paul and a Marshall Head and Cabinet and you can rule the world. Everything else is addiction, self serving and unnecessary and this is coming from one of the most addicted gear whores around. Trust me on this.

I have been fortunate enough to jam with Billy Gibbons, Zakk Wylde, Danny Gatton (RIP) and a few others you would probably know and I can honestly say the best times I have ever had playing my guitar was when I was 15 years old with my Cort Les Paul copy and Gorilla amp playing Dazed and Confused in my bedroom when no one was home

 

[Subclavian]

No AC/DC?

Blasphemy

Hey. Im 15 ive been playing guitar for awhile now and i just started to dip my toes into playing with a band. i use a marshall 15 wat and a zoom g2 pedal. any advice for tones? anything? styles to play?
Thanks!

Best advice I could give is not to get caught up in all the gear nonsense as it is worse than crack and not really productive to making music. Just make sure your action is low and your guitar holds tune reasonably well and assuming you want to be a rock and roll guitarist go get the following records:

1. Led Zeppelin 1
2. The Beatles Rubber Soul
3. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
4. Black Sabbath 1
5. Mettalica And Justice For All
6. Van Halen 1

Devour these albums and learn how to play the tracks and styles, you will be on the right track.

When you get a little older get a decent Les Paul and a Marshall Head and Cabinet and you can rule the world. Everything else is addiction, self serving and unnessqcary and this is coming from one of the most addicted gear whores around. Trust me on this.

I have been fortunate enough to jam with Billy Gibbons, Zakk Wylde, Danny Gatton (RIP) and a few others you would probably know and I can honestly say the best times I have ever had playing my guitar was when I was 15 years old with my Cort Les Paul copy and Gorilla amp playing Dazed and Confused in my bedroom when no one was home

 

[King Guitar]

No AC/DC?

Blasphemy

Hey. Im 15 ive been playing guitar for awhile now and i just started to dip my toes into playing with a band. i use a marshall 15 wat and a zoom g2 pedal. any advice for tones? anything? styles to play?
Thanks!

Best advice I could give is not to get caught up in all the gear nonsense as it is worse than crack and not really productive to making music. Just make sure your action is low and your guitar holds tune reasonably well and assuming you want to be a rock and roll guitarist go get the following records:

1. Led Zeppelin 1
2. The Beatles Rubber Soul
3. The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
4. Black Sabbath 1
5. Mettalica And Justice For All
6. Van Halen 1

Devour these albums and learn how to play the tracks and styles, you will be on the right track.

When you get a little older get a decent Les Paul and a Marshall Head and Cabinet and you can rule the world. Everything else is addiction, self serving and unnessqcary and this is coming from one of the most addicted gear whores around. Trust me on this.

I have been fortunate enough to jam with Billy Gibbons, Zakk Wylde, Danny Gatton (RIP) and a few others you would probably know and I can honestly say the best times I have ever had playing my guitar was when I was 15 years old with my Cort Les Paul copy and Gorilla amp playing Dazed and Confused in my bedroom when no one was home

+1 AC/DC Back in Black is a landmark album as well.

 

[ke2]

What Brad said, and I`d like to add:

Iron Maiden - Live after death. (The harmony guitars are panned left and right. A nice way to learn harmony guitars as well)

It`s not too difficult to play along to (I know because I cut my teeth on it after I got it for Christmas in 1985), and contains a lot of classic heavy rock songs that young people of today (in Norway, at least) still dig.

 

[Gainzilla]

Everyone has their own preferences but try to keep your mind open to as much as possible. Try to dedicate time to actual practice instead of noodling, i.e. Scales, Chords, legato, picking etc, using a metronome or some kind of drum track to help your timing. Try not to get any bad habits now because they can be a pain in the ass to correct down the road...

most impotantly; HAVE FUN!!!!!

 

[Copperhead]

Ummm..... By any chance you're not building guitars in Australia, are you?

 

[mysticaxe]

most impotantly; HAVE FUN!!!!!

Big +1. I took the slower road in learning to play guitar - got the music for my favorite songs and learned how to play them as best I could. Took years, but I ended up learning guitar from EVH, Marty Friedman, Alex Lifeson, Phill Collen, and Mike McCready (among a whole lot of others).

 

[itsme]

Play slow and clean. Then speed it up. When I started to play, I played everything as fast as I could, and developed a lot of slop in my playing (extra strings ringing, partially fretted notes, missed string picks, etc...) Did it for so long, that was hard to clean up later. I even find myself slopping through parts now after 25 years of playing. Have to remind myself to slow it down, get it right, then bring it up to speed. Nothing sounds better than a really clean player, fast or slow.

 

[shreder75]

here's my suggestion

spend the least amount of time as you can on these boards...LOL..you'll get sucked into gear and tone chasing which will take away from you just trying to play and get GOOD....

get good, play lots....upgrade gear later....

develop your ears as much as you can..don't rely on tab..especially internet tab cause it's usually incorrect....when you can learn songs by ear and vamp over most anything thrown at you, then you're REALLY useful in a band situation

 

[nbarts]

Train your pinky!!!

 

[K Odell]

Ummm..... By any chance you're not building guitars in Australia, are you?

Exactly what I thought

 

[lllazarrr]

Try to dedicate time to actual practice instead of noodling

Couldn't agree more

 

[ZachMN]

its not what the equipment does for you, its what you do with the equipment- don't worry about the label on the headstock or the pedal or the amp learn to trust your ears.

 

[thegame]

The best advice is to not join Harmony Central.

 

[Anonymous]

1. always try to play with players that are better than yourself. 2. sell your computer

 

[amiller]

Everyone has their own preferences but try to keep your mind open to as much as possible. Try to dedicate time to actual practice instead of noodling, i.e. Scales, Chords, legato, picking etc, using a metronome or some kind of drum track to help your timing. Try not to get any bad habits now because they can be a pain in the ass to correct down the road...

most impotantly; HAVE FUN!!!!!

Yep, this is good advice...and:

Find a guitar teacher...learn what you can from him/her and then - Move on and find another guitar teacher...so on an so on. It's great to have different points of view on the same subject...it lets you look at it from different angles and keeps it fresh.

AND

Have fun...find other's to play with. Learn from them.

 

[guitarslinger]

1. Who doesn't use their pinky?
2. All of these musical suggestions with no Ratt?
3. Don't get a Les Paul if it's going to be your only guitar. Your cleans will be lackluster compared to any hack with a strat. get a super strat
4. Marshall DSL Head is a good place to start for an amp.
5. Please don't be that Australian guy. I'm going to feel duped typing all of this shit.
6. +1 on the developing your ears thing. I HATE tab. It's always wrong, even in glossy $20 books at the bookstore. Learn to play by ear.
7. Learn your music theory. scales, chords, etc.

 

[King Guitar]

1. always try to play with players that are better than yourself. 2. sell your computer

best advise yet!

 

[Gainzilla]

1. always try to play with players that are better than yourself. 2. sell your computer

I agree wholeheartedly with the first but not with the second. Theres a wealth of free info out there on the WWW to help you out. I definitely agree onthe gear thing and gear forums; Dont get it in your head that you need better gear in the beginning, Learn first, upgrade later..