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IMO a few scales and chord shapes moving up the neck let you know everything you need to about playability, sound, resonance and intonation.
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I usually go through a very awkward panic the first time I play a guitar. Even worse if there are folks watching.
Like, last time I went to try guitars in a shop I even forgot to remove my outdoorsy gloves.
I felt like Alf.
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- Gardenia - Kyuss
- Love in Vain - the Stones version
- Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts - Gaslight Anthem
- Simple Man - Skynyrd
Cranking the amp, then downtuning and smashing out the opening riff to Gardenia often goes down pretty well in my experience...https://edmorgan.info
Usually some Van Halen or Aerosmith.
I have been messing about recently with Iron Maiden's Phantom Of The Opera.
If I'm warmed up and feeling confident I go full on Guitar Center and they'll get snippets of Satch Boogie or Circles.
I usually do an E chord to check the guitar's in tune (provided its in standard) then do all the generic power chords and barre shapes before some bends and pentatonic phrases.
As for riffs it depends what tuning the guitar is in. In standard on an overdrive tone I'll do the AC/DC ones, or something like that. Maybe something I've composed myself. In drop tunings then a lot of the heavier metalcore band riffs I'll play, that no one knows.
Nowdays I tend to chuck a few chords in and make some shit up.
So there I was for about 45 minutes chugging metalcore riffs and doing pinch harmonics in drop a# and a in front of all the customers walking in with disapproving looks. One guy was trying to test an acoustic nearby, playing folky pretty chords, but asked to move as I was chugging so loud haha.
Last weekend I tried a few cheap guitars and I remember playing a walking bass accompaniment for 'Sonnymoon For Two,' a strummy open chord number i.e. Neil Young's 'Down by the River', a bunch of James Brown stuff that uses the top four strings, etc.