guitar

I'm not playing right now because I'm lurking here, but I have a keyboard

>>39330977
Hard as fuck. I have a qt pac112 and i cant even play the most easier songs. I don't want to practice 12 years! I just want to play some cool metal solos.

>>39331018
You have to take it easy man everyone sucks at the beginning but it won't take you 12 years.

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>>39331054
Don't lie to me anon! Why is so hard? When i brought the guitar i though its gonna be fun and its not.

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>>39331086
Every instrument is hard at first.
This goes everything in life.
Jobs are hard at first, when you're a kid and you play a video game for the first time it was hard.
The more you practice correctly the better you get.
Take it slow and practice easy fundamentals. Do this for around 30 mins and then work on any other song you want.
But make sure you work fundamentals and then progressively get harder.
Starting off on the hardest song you know is bad and will make you feel bad.
You can do it anyone can.

>>39330977
because my stomach hurts and i feel like shit. i figured out the the melody and chords to this on piano by ear earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xstrbDWDk can post if anyone's interested

I'm trying to learn a polka on the piano but the second half has me btfo ;_;

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I'm supposed to be studying right now

>>39330977
I used to play some guitar. I never got very good but I could play some songs. Now I'm too depressed to practice so it only sits there.

>>39330977
I know I would drop it after a week, like with every new hobby I try.

>>39330977
I was ok with the trumpet and was actually improving when one day my music teacher came up to me during practice and told me i was terrible and should consider a different elective.
Needless to say, i went back to Art class after that.

I have a guitar I'm okay at but I really want to play bass. I told myself if I get all As this semester I'll buy myself a bass.

Bad idea? Any bass recommendations?

>>39331224
That guy should feel awful don't let him get you down man fuck him.

>>39331171
good taste anon, john fahey is a legend

I'm a baritone singer and have won some legit $$$ at various competitions and the like. Does that count as an instrument?

when I was in middle school my parents made me play the guitar so I would do something besides play video games all day. I could learn & play songs but couldn't do anything original / improv because muh autism. I dropped it after a year or so.

I still have the guitar 10 years later but why bother.

it's an incredibly worthless skill

>>39330977
Bass guitar is better, guitar is for shitty posers desu

>>39331821
ragie bassy spotted

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>not slappin out funky jams on a bass
foreal tho just playing an instrument is fucking great and will help you learn all sorts of cool stuff

>>39331832
Fuck off and go back to playing wonderwall for the billionth time in a vain attempt to get pussy

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>>39331854
>being this mad because you can't play guitar

>>39331809
>>39331854
>>39331832
stop being faggots, lets talk about songs we can play. I can play the bass line from that one vaporwave song

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>>39330977
but I am
https://clyp.it/nvxlh0yf

I'm just getting back into it after a 2 year long repetitive strain injury feels good man but I need to get my practice back so there aren't any buzzes

I think I'm going to try to make a vocaloid song since now I know how to work synths on the computer but i'll have to get good at playing to the metronome

>>39331889
keep it up anon! im glad your injurys better

>>39331882
I got the bass from YYZ down pat, only took me my entire bass guitar playing career to do so

>>39331882
I can't play any instruments. I played viola, flute, and guitar for more than a year each, and got okay at all of them, but haven't played in like 10 years. Doing other stuff is a better use of time

>>39331889
Good stuff mane.
Post more if you have any.

>>39331809
>having a skill that is an outlet for self-expression with an added bonus of acquiring mates is useless

>>39330977
I'll give you two, but if you can solve them I'd greatly appreciate your answer.
>Im poor and don't own a guitar
>I don't know how to play
I mean how does one even go about learning?

>>39331954
>outlet for self-expression
okay, Berkeley

>>39331821
Make life le a bass player and be inaudible. Jk, a good bass player is far superior to any shredder, imotbqhwyfam

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>>39331904
thanks senpai

>>39331946
thanks maybe later i don't want to overuse my hands since I'm just getting back into it

if you want to know the trick with the way I mastered it is to have a channel on the left (not all the way though) doing the basier part (lowpass or highpass forgot which), the middle doing the reverb part, and right doing the higher part (another highpass or lowpass thing) then make the middle have a 25ms delay and the right have a 50ms delay then whatever other tuning to the sound so it sounds balanced and the reverb isn't too much or some shit (has to be subtle)

>>39331963
Buy guitar, pirate method books, practice. Not that hard, I bought my first bass for 80 USD off of ebay and picked up a crap 20 USD amp, and I torrented a couple gigabytes worth of bass method and song books, picked one at random that started at the beginning and took off from there

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>>39331963
>Im poor and don't own a guitar
My favorite guitar is a $10 junker I picked up from a garage sale :3

>>39331963
There are many cheap good quality guitars.
If you want a knock off popular guitar backed by the orginal company I suggest you buy a squier or epiphone guitar.
$200 can buy you a nice solid quality guitar.
They also sell packs for $250 including an amp.

There are many free online resources available.

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>>39331954
>added bonus of acquiring mates is useless
this though the only time girls talked to me was at open mics it will also make normies respect you in some way if you're good at it

jamming with people too, is a way to get into that part of the brain that usually you get to with deep conversation which robots lack

Anyone have any recommendations on how to meet band mates as an asocial autistic robot?

>>39332049
open mic nights
if you're autistically good at guitar normies will overlook you because instead of pidgenholing you as an elliot rodger you'll be le guitar genius

>>39332134
overlook your autism*

>>39332026
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>>39332015
Ok, so maybe I'll buy one. But how do I stay motivated to play it? I'll probably lose interest quickly I I don't feel improvement

>>39331992
there's nothing wrong with experimentation but you should realize that what you've done here is weird as fuck and doesn't really sound good (or it won't sound good to most people, maybe it does to you). the effect is anything but subtle, and it just sounds like you're playing on the other end of a long hallway from the listener. if that's the effect you were going for, fine, but you could achieve it much easier and simpler by simply dialing in the settings correctly on any reverb effects unit

>>39332168
Everyone sucks in the begining.
You just have to stick with it that's the only way to improve.
Work on a song you like that's pretty easy.
After you do your main fundamentals practice work on that song.
It's fun after a while and you'll feel better.
Don't try anything too hard or you'll just feel bad.
I really hope you do this and stick with it.
This is a really fun hobby.

>>39332168
you'll feel bad about spending however much you do on a guitar and not playing it
if you do go ahead with this, check out justinguitar.com. good site and it'll show what to practice and when so you can get to grips with guitar. good luck, anon

>>39332168
Motivation is a meme, get into the habit of playing and practicing everyday. No one has the motivation to practice for years, but they do get into the habit of practicing and just do it naturally IF they stick to it
>>39332134
Actually I play the bass guitar, so not so impressive by myself, also I can't sing for shit

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>>39330977
>started playing guitar 4 years ago
>realize that i don't listen to any music that has guitars in
>have never felt any meaningful connection to any notable guitar-focused musician or band
>the whole concept of a band, or songs consisting of 4 basic chords, or songs having lyrics that are supposed to convey a meaning is all completely alien to me
>can appreciate guitarists from a mechanical perspective in the same way one could appreciate a schematic of an internal combustion engine or a circuit board, but the music has never made me feel any sort of emotion
>do classical guitar instead but learning songs takes ages of rote memorization and nobody cares about classical guitar anyways
>end up playing the same 3 songs or random scales over and over again b/c never learned proper music theory and classical tablature is nonexistent
>i've completely forgotten why i started in the first place

>>39332566
try learning basic theory and figure out songs by ear and learn proper form.

>>39332566
that is pretty bizarre anon. next time pick an instrument used in music you like. i picked up guitar when i was 14 because i was really into classic rock at the time. before that i was playing piano which i gradually lost interest in because i wasn't listening to piano focused music as much. i also played clarinet for a while and that interest tanked even worse because i clarinet is REALLY rare in the music i listen to. nowadays i've lost interest in guitar a bit because once again guitar focused music isn't what i'm into nowadays and i've gotten back into piano a bit more.

>>39331129
>>every instrument is hard at first
The worst rhythm guitarist is still the best bassist

>>39330977
No bridge atm

Yo what pedals do you guys like? For either bass or guitar but I mainly play bass

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>>39330977

>Signs up for guitar lessons.
>nice teacher asks me why I wanna get in guitar
>tells him BS reason about how I liked south american styled guitar music because I used to listen to some guy who played that type of music online, which I did
>Guitar teacher turned out to love that shit as well
>he gets all excited
>learns guitar under his patient tutelage
>gets better at guitar over time
>became capable of learning simple, and then increasingly complex songs
>learns only guitar rearrangements of touhou songs and theme music from magical girl animus
>never learns any south american music on my own
>2/3 of my repertoire is now touhou/animu songs, with most of the remaining 1/3 being classical pieces that was somehow used in video games
>kinda guilty listening to guitar teacher still go on and on about great brazilian musicians or styles while all I ever wanted was to play vapid animu songs
>I don't know this feel

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>>39330977
Cause I am not a talentfag, and talentfags cannot be robots. Get out normalshit

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>>39332791
>instrument require talent
nigga it's like pressing and strumming or blowing the right the thing on time
nigga like it's easy as fuck

>>39332827
>"yeeee nigguhhhh its easy as fuck niggaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Lynch yourself

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>>39332868
polfag mad as always

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>>39332760
these two are the only ones i use with any regularity. and i almost always use the ac-30 (i own one in real life too but i barely use it these days)

>>39330977
don't have the spending money to buy the only instrument I learned to play as a kid, not interested in learning a new one. I'd just lose any small motivation I would've had in the beginning and it all would've been in vain.

>>39332879
>Im a polfag because I find myself disgusted with unironic nigger slang in TEXT
I think you just have brain damage

>>39330977
But I am. I make music for a living.

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>>39332912
>he said a word I don't like
>people aren't like me

>>39332935
Yea, Im not a sub 50 iq monkey like yourself. Good observation, im out of this thread faggot.

>>39332950
good you have contributed nothing so far

Fuck this thread. I haven't played guitar in over 10 years and now I want to play again but I don't have time. Fuckkkkk

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I don't know how to read sheets, also my guitar is broken
Any tips?
Also should i try to learn piano? It's a fun instrument.

>>39332973
What are you doing that takes up so much time?
Surely you can find an hour or 2.

>>39332987
Let's see...
Work: 52 hr
Sleep: 56 hr
Preparing food: 14 hr
Showers/etc: 1 hr
hmmm apparently I have 45 free hours a week. oh.
Japanese: 10 hr
Make that 35 free hours.
This doesn't seem right though; I feel like I have much less free time.

>>39333081
Well to be fair you're probably tired after such a day you seem to have.
You may just have to go through it anyway if you really want to.

>>39333081
>Preparing food: 14 hr

Go on a diet of pure soylent or schmilk. Google these shit or something. Free time acquired.

>This doesn't seem right though; I feel like I have much less free time.

Commute probably eats up time too. And miscellaneous shit like shopping for food, taking car out for maintenance, etc. Little shit that adds up.

>>39330977
It's nearly midnight and doing so would be rude.

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I was just playing for a few hours. It's my favorite thing to do.

One of the only things I enjoy, actually. Really glad I stuck with it all these years.

I'm not that great (some people have told me otherwise), but jamming with others, playing over one of my loops, or even a drum track makes my day a bit better.

>>39333150
Why not plug some headphones into your amp or just play acoustically?

Or just go to some isolated area where the chances of getting robbed, raped, or assaulted are slim.

>>39333178
>don't get raped
ADVICE DISCARDED

>>39331171
I've played for about 12 years (since I was 14). Never had any lessons. Recently started learning some Fahey tunes and they are hands down the most fun. You can play them slow and soft, mechanically, or just fucking wail on it and it will still sound nice. Other people think it's the absolute tits when you play it for them and unless you say something they'll never know it's not an original. 10/10 would recommend Fahey. Most original guitarist to ever live

>>39333610
I've been playing for about 6 years and never got lessons either.

Any particular Fahey songs/jams/whatever you'd recommend starting out with?

I always wanted to learn how to play the piano. Any advice on where to start from?

>>39330977
I don't find it fun. I played for a while and it was fun but it just lost its luster and I grew into other hobbies.

>>39333869
I play guitar, but would also really like to learn piano.

I started on guitar by learning a few chords and practicing from there. I like playing my own progressions, but maybe you could look up some easy beginner songs to learn that you like.

You'd be amazed by how easy some of the best songs are to play.

>>39333800
The first one I learned is Poor Boy a Long Way From Home but I'd suggest starting with In Christ There Is No East or West as it's just the same pattern over and over and there's some room for variation. PBLWFH and Wine & Roses are my favorite to play though. Really easy to express yourself with. A lot of his songs are in a different tuning, and Open D is sooooo easy to play around with. There's a site somewhere that lists all of his songs and tells you what tuning it's in, but I can't be fucked finding it. That way you can learn a few without having to retune after each

>>39331234
I play bass and want to move on to playing guitar. Honestly, if you are soending more than 250 at least it is probably a fine bass.

because you're only setting yourself up for complete failure if you expect to ever end up being even a semi-successful musician and there's no point in paying all that money to be a mediocre musician

>>39330977
Ha, but I very much am!

>>39331018
>>39331086
Start with some Nirvana. Their songs are easy as piss and just require basic strumming patterns and power chords.
Plus, if you like Nirvana it's fun to play them.
This is how I got started.

I can't get good, I can't play faster, I dislike reading theory, I don't want to apply it

>>39336617
How the fuck am I supposed to make sick ass solos anyway ? I know the major scales and pentatonic like a true pleb