Are YOU musically talented?

I'll get right on that.

 

tell me micha, how does exactly one quote donnie darko?

 

YOUR MAMA, burby!

 

bwahahaha

 

I feel sorry for me too.

 

dont take his pity, johanna..
we will rise
and overcome!



















then get in a circle and make random noise with our 'unplayable' instruments.

 

Hell, anyone can play the radio.

 

stfu.

 

Well having no talent doesn't stop me, I have 3 drums, two occarinas, and a nice guitar before I sold it. Oh, and a keyboard.

 

Pimpin'...

 

Yeah, I used to have a geetar kinda like yours, it was a Gibson Les Paul of some sort.

 

I'm not sure if I like to play les pauls or strats better... hah... I can get a clapton tone easy on a les paul, but it sounds so sloppy. Strats are much more versatile, though, and less bulky, but if you don't block your tremolo and let it float, keeping it in tune can be a nightmare, unless you have a Floyd Rose or something, but they're ugly as hell.

 

I'm not musically talented. It's just practice, really.

Practice practice practice!

I consider talent to mean that you are good at something before ever playing/doing it... I'm talented at athletics and sports, 'cos somehow I was born with a body for them, they just don't interest me... guitar (and music in general) is much more challenging and fun.

I'm not a good guitarist tho, I can say that much. But I will be!

 

1) You're either born with it.
2) Or you work like hell to get it.

Ahaha... I can't read music. I really don't even care to and I've really never needed to. My only problem when I'm playing is that I get way too violent on my strings and I go out of tune way too easily when I'm tuned down a half a step. Haha, SRV's tuners must have been magical. I somehow managed to get by in band, playing the trombone without knowing how to read music, but then again, it's much difficult to improvise brass and feel it out than it is on any other instruments. I don't give a damn, though, I've been fine without knowing anything by mind except for a pentatonic scale in Em.

 

I don't know if I'm talented, but at the same time I don't "practice", I just love to play. I've been playing guitar and singing in bands since I was 13 and writing many songs. I don't want to do anything else.

 

But I don't see how you could be born with talent for the guitar, or any instrument... unless of course your parents ancestors have been playing for generation. I consider guitar to be no different than martial arts; you may be born with skills that will help you out in your art, but everything you learn is an acquired skill.

I can read music, but barely, and I can't sightread... I want to learn, but man, it's just so freakin' boring
I've never heard him play, but I think Luke (Floyd Soul) is an amazing guitarist... hell, he's in two bands and he never learned much theory... and then there's you I don't think theory and learning to read music is all that important.

 

I don't consider it practice either, it's just so fucking fun to do... if I didn't have a puppy to watch, you'd never see me post on here

 

I really don't practice either. Nor do I play... I just somehow manage and it works. Haha, now if I could only get a backing band that can play so I can stop using p.o.s. drum machines for a beat. Eh, I thought about saving up and buying a Tama or Pearl kit and a Jamman or Gibson Echoplex delay so I can do a drum loop, get up, then start playing a song. I just like guitar better... Even though I can perrididdle to anything in 4/4 time till the cows come home. I test my control by emphasizing different beats... but percussion doesn't have much to it, really. I can push guitar moreso to the limits. There's only three people who have done that with percussion and drums - Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker, and Neil Peart. Though, Neil Peart has a degree in it, so that can take away a few points, just like Steve Vai. They may be great musicians, but if they had to go to college to learn...

 

No, it would have nothing to do with your parents ancestors. I really think if your parents are musically involved or were, it can help. I mean, look at people like Chris Stills, Stephen's son, or Doyle Bramhall II. His dad played for Jimmie Vaughan and Stevie, and now his son plays alongside Clapton, and if you've ever heard him (he's on Crossroads), he looks a bit like Lenny Kravitz, but he can play as good as Stevie could when he wants to. It's nuts sometimes when I watch it, as he plays reaaaaally slow with his picking hand and has a slow attack. Most of the time he plays without a pick, as well. He's left-handed too.

The thing is, no matter what gear set up you have, 90 percent of the tone is in your hands. You ARE born with it. Trust me, if you listen to any "big" guitarist, they're going to sound nearly the same no matter if they're playing a guitar with P90s, single coils, alnico humbers, or ceramic humbuckers. It's not going to make a whole lot of difference in playing.

If you listen to Eric Johnson, I actually thought he played a Strat on his song Cliffs of Dover, but he played a Gibson ES-335 into a Fender amp, which is usually quite the shitty combination. He has tone (he was at Crossroads as well)... it's all in the fingers.

 

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Eric generally plays two 1x15" Fender Vibroverbs, I believe they're both 1964s, but I can't recall. He also uses Mashall Plexis, as Jimi did, mostly plays with a strat... usually '54s or '57s, with a dimarzio at the bridge and he has the tone pots wired for the neck and bridge as opposed to neck and middle p/u combination, as Fender stock wires their strats. I believe he also wires his vintage strats with 5 way switches instead of the old 3 way switches. He just released a signature edition with Fender's Custom Shop. It's really awesome, I played one at a NAMM show. They're $1600, though. Two piece alder body, modeled after a '57. I saw Eric at the Birchmere... he probably does the best Hendrix covers out of anyone living. He doesn't use a whole lot of effects. He occasionally will play a Gibson SG or a Les Paul, as well. He has a Martin signature edition, as well. The MC-40.