level of song difficulty

[Kaya86]

Hi. first of all sorry to repost or something like that but after searching 3 pages i decided to post.
Good day to all.

I play wood guitar for a few years. now wanting to play electric guitar. I'm wondering whose song should i start first. as i only know a few guitar player like those G3 kinda stuff. Maybe you guy could recommend me good stuffs. and songs that i should learn to brush up technic.

songs that i know. always with you always with me.
and some other game sound track from Guilty gears and FF.

I would like to learn some easy songs to start with then mid then hopefully i can attemp a hard one. ^_^

Thanks in advance

 

[jeffrey0603]

Wood guitar?!?!?! You mean acoustic?

 

[theunknown]

Wood guitar?!? So..what are electric guitars made of? Electric? Haha.

Ok I kidd.

 

[fenderrules]

I play wood guitar for a few years. now wanting to play electric guitar.

HAHA sia la this one classic!

 

[Kaya86]

-_- there's always different terms in naming different things. . .
but isn't this a little obvious? i'm just asking for songs/player recommendation. . . didn't know it'll turn out like this. nvm bah.

 

[kimura]

Try doing some old school stuff, Cream,Hendrix ( Little Wing ). CHeck out Mark Knopfler as well.

Practise hard, take it easy.

 

[theunknown]

Come on TS, we are only joking. Sorry if I was offensive.

It is important to learn the necessary techniques. But playing what you want is always good too.

I started playing hard stuff. My first song was Master of Puppets by Metallica. From that song only, I learnt many things. Playing with distortion and clean. Playing power chords, soloing, improvising. Picking open chords. From power chords, I wanted to know what they are, and why are they so commonly used. Then I found out power chords are part of E and A from CAGED system. From CAGED, I learnt what makes a chord. Like a power chord is made out of the root and the fifth.

It's more of a step by step. I started with a difficult song. Everybody has his/her own steps to learning. My steps are rather erm..weird, but I found out it was common. My friends started the same way too. They play their favourite songs then go "oooh this is a power chord. But what is it? Oohhh this solo, why like hear before the pattern? Is the pattern a common thing? Ohh the pattern is called a scale....So what are scales? Why are there scales?" So on and so forth.

So go on. Play what you want.

But if you want systematic learn, there are some sites like www.justinguitar.com.

 

[Kaya86]

no lah LOL unknown, you don't sound offensive.

i've got another question. does the tone come from the amp/pups or comes from the hand?

can do what to get a good tone easily(like cheating)

from classical/acoustic(before ppl quote me again. so this is the correct one?)
the tone is actually coming from the strike and where the player strikes.

for electric I usually strike around my neck pups.

and Mark Knopfler doesn't use a pick. hmmm

 

[firdaus]

hi kaya 86 you said that you would like to learn songs that would improve your technical skills so that means you need to learn songs that is technically challenging right.I would recommend songs from paul gilbert such as technical difficulties ,scarified ,you can also try cliff of dover by eric johnson very nice song and technical or you can try to learn altitudes by jason becker the song that i have been trying to play since 5 years ago .Hope this helps

 

[Kaya86]

I was trying scarified. I could only get the 1st phrase, the rest i think i need tabs. T.T

I love cliff of dover too! my favourite! but i think i could only play the first 3 notes. HAHA!!! the intro sounds damn hard.

gotta go hear what you trying to play for 5 years. I bet it's HARD!!!

thanks btw. I've book marked this page so i can get back here to see advices.

 

[firdaus]

here are some technical rock guitarist that i would recommend listening too
:jason becker
:marty friedman
:vinnie moore
:tony macalpine
:ritchie kotzen
:allan holdsworth
:shawn lane
:adrian belew
:michael shenker
: paul gilbert
:reb beach
:kiko loureiro
:yng wie malmsteen
:alex skolnick
:nuno bettencourt funky guitarist
:eric johnson
:al dimeola
: paco de lucia
:chris impellitri 17 century chicken picking
:zakk wlyde
:guthrie govan
:eddie van halen
:david t chastain
all of this are basically rock guitarist

others of different genre
:django reindhart
:joe pass
: pat martino
:joe diorio
: pat mettheny
:scott henderson(one of my fav)
:lee ritenour
:albert lee
:johnny cash
:danny gatton
:james burton
:brad paisley
:tommy emmanuel

This are all very famous guitarist with fantastic technical skills listen to their songs and try to play them will definitely improve your technical skills hope this list helps

 

[Likui]

tone comes from your fingers, the picking the amp the effect pedal, just go experiment until the sound comes out from the amp u like then ok lor that's good tone.

 

[Likui]

here are some technical rock guitarist that i would recommend listening too
:jason becker
:marty friedman
:vinnie moore
:tony macalpine
:ritchie kotzen
:allan holdsworth
:shawn lane
:adrian belew
:michael shenker
: paul gilbert
:reb beach
:kiko loureiro
:yng wie malmsteen
:alex skolnick
:nuno bettencourt funky guitarist
:eric johnson
:al dimeola
: paco de lucia
:chris impellitri 17 century chicken picking
:zakk wlyde
:guthrie govan
:eddie van halen
:david t chastain
all of this are basically rock guitarist

others of different genre
:django reindhart
:joe pass
: pat martino
:joe diorio
: pat mettheny
:scott henderson(one of my fav)
:lee ritenour
:albert lee
:johnny cash
:danny gatton
:james burton
:brad paisley
:tommy emmanuel

This are all very famous guitarist with fantastic technical skills listen to their songs and try to play them will definitely improve your technical skills hope this list helps

wahh 1 whole list of guitarist but where is Addy cradle where is brandon gan!!
these 2 also must listen then u will know singapore instrumental rock music

 

[firdaus]

haha sorry bro totally forgot about them ok then you should listen to dhalif too i think he is a fantastic guitarist. Paul Danial also both singaporean

 

[Likui]

dhalif and paul no instrumental album at least for now so cannot hear their original stuff, only a bit here a bit there

 

[robboster]

I started playing hard stuff. My first song was Master of Puppets by Metallica. From that song only, I learnt many things. Playing with distortion and clean. Playing power chords, soloing, improvising. Picking open chords. From power chords, I wanted to know what they are, and why are they so commonly used. Then I found out power chords are part of E and A from CAGED system. From CAGED, I learnt what makes a chord. Like a power chord is made out of the root and the fifth.

lol... I was forced to learn that song as my first metal song after playing green day stuff for about 2 months... some idiotic friends of mine signed me up for my school music competition for it without my consent... the solo really worked me up i must say, when i just started, my fingers cramped before the first 10 seconds of kirk's solo lol. Eventually i got the song laid down, a week before they canceled the competition due to H1N1 lol

 

[theunknown]

^Hey bro, at least the incident has gotten you to learn that song, no? Haha. If not for the incident, would you really learn the song by heart? Maaaayyybeeee.... For me, my sister so called intro-ed me to the song. The computer was in my room and my sister would play the song loud in the morning. It was like a daily alarm clock. LOL. So yeah tried to learn it on an acoustic.

PS: Till now, I never nailed that song. Haha.

 

[robboster]

I've nailed the song on electric (except james' solo) though I'm still working on the stamina to downpick the whole song lol. I guess you're right, without those 2 annoying buggers, I'd probably be playing pop rock instead of thrash metal right now haha.

Kirk's solo took me 3 months to nail completely (of which, two were spent speeding my fingers up to the task and training dexterity)

The riff took 2 weeks normally... and so far a month to downpick... I only tried to downpick it a month ago lol.

 

[theunknown]

Wait, you nailed Kirk's solo but not James? Mine is otherwise. Haha! Yeah I used to be able to downpick the whole song. But lazy me now, can't finish the song even if alternate pick. Haha.

 

[robboster]

I haven't tried James' solo yet, kinda lazy lol
I can downpick the whole song, just that for the intro I'm either a tad slower than the original speed, or my right forearm cramps on me xD