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Thanks. I can play modes too. Pentatonic rock mode, pentatonic blues mode or just plain old pentatonic bit sad mode. I'm pretty good with modes but I don't like to show off, because a lot of players just don't get modes
A pattern of simple loops of riffs will start to emerge. Enjoy both the sound and feel of creating these.
Any guitarist is valid; how you want to express yourself is what ultimately determines what your are able to play.
Just look at how Depeche Mode's Martin Gore has consistently flirted with his Gretsch's over the years and he still plays like he has just learned the instrument! He's worth $60millions...!
He never really showed much interest in the guitar. It was lying around our bedroom and I started picking it up and mucking around with it and ended up buying a couple of "how to play folk blues guitar" type books and learned some chords. But I was really an electric blues fan at the time, and the real take off point was when I figured out that using a minor pentatonic I could play along with so many of my records. From there it went slightly better acoustic, first electric and so on.
You blew the devil? I'd have gone for selling my soul option personally but each to their own man.
I can play 'She'll be Coming Round the Mountain' in any style you care to mention.
I now have a reasonable grasp of theory again and no time to play! Oh well....
There are so many youtube lessons available now, I'd just start there and see how it goes. Sean Daniel does some nice easy to follow lessons. Some people offer Skype lessons as well. Oh and www.justinguitar.com is worth a look
Not entirely helpful for beginning the electric guitar and might well explain a few things...
I had an Epiphone superstrat. But no amp for the first couple of years. I plugged the guitar into my boombox and if I wanted distortion just turned it up. I knew nothing and that probably slowed down my learning.
But things got better when I bought a Led Zeppelin tab book. It was mostly inaccurate, but it got me started on lead and riffs. But the big change was when I realised that I could play the notes from Black Dog in any order I wanted and they worked over the same notes. I'd discovered the pentatonic scale. So improv began.
I started buying American guitar mags that had tabs to songs in. And I bought tab books I had no chance of being able to play. But I'd enjoy muddling through playing along to Satriani's Extremist album despite not being able to play the widdly bits. Though funnily enough it was often the riffs I loved more than the widdling anyway. By the time I started uni in 93 I would spend weeks pouring over tab books and could (back then, no chance now) play most of Maiden's Fear of the Dark album.
The main thing for me though was right from the start I was more interesting in writing my own songs rather than play someone elses. Even now my repertoire of other artists' material is very low. I would have been a better guitarist if I'd had lessons, but less fun for me I think. I enjoyed the journey, I wasn't looking for some destination. I would do stuff like use two boomboxes to record my own songs with sound on sound - dubbing my live playing into it - adding drums from a cheap keyboard. I enjoyed the muddling through, the experimenting.
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