(quick post. I’m doing the write fast thing to get me back in the blogging habit.)
When it comes to music my favourite instrument is the Guitar and for many reasons. One in particular is you can achieve so many different tones from it and there are so many beautiful styles which the guitar can e played in. I’ve felt passionate about guitar for many years.
The fact is its such a loved instrument so you can always find a good guitar teacher to give you some Guitar Lessons. no matter what style you wish to play there will be a good guitar teacher to help you. You may like classical guitar and if you do that’s a great choice. Many guitarists often remain faithful to one style alone and never change their view as long as they play their instrument. There are die hard musicians to a certain style in every style of music. The truth is of the matter there is so much to learn in one style alone that if your heart wants to be dedicated to that style alone there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I can recollect the first set of classical guitar books which I bought. It had a wide range of pieces to play and they were so tasteful.
The material in the 3 books which I purchased from a music shop in Wembley thanks to a schools teacher who used to work in Preston Manor whose name was Arnie were enough to keep you busy for many years. Some of songs in the book involved the minimum left and right hand technique but to play them so they sounded clean practice. If you want to make a simple piece of music sound good even the most simple pieces of music involve practice.
One of the appealing things with playing solo acoustic or electric guitar is you learn how to master playing alone so when you do play you give the impression more than one guitarist is playing. Guitarist like Chet Atkins did a great job of this; he was also one of the pioneers to master this style along with Merle Travis.
If you listen to many Elvis Presley records you will hear this style of guitar frequently used and many guitarists who played guitar during this time used this style. Great guitarist such as James Burton and Scotty Moore were both very good at playing this style of guitar playing. They not only played for Presley they were also very good Session Guitarist frequently in demand by many famous artist. James Burton did work for more modern musicians like Elvis Costello, and Ricky Nelson who sadly died in a plane crash.
In my opinion a good guitar player should be able to play the guitar without his or her band and when they play the guitar playing should be complete meaning that the whole thing can stand on its own rhythmically, melodically, and structurally. There are many good song writers Like Paul Weller, Neil Young who can write a very effective song with nice guitar riffs and if you were to brake down step by step what they are dong it would not be difficult to learn yet many guitarists when attempting to play the guitar parts these players and many others play they give a weak impression or it sounds like someone playing the same song very badly. Good practice and the right teacher would make such occurrences a thing of the pass. A good example of a song which stands on its own is Pinball Wizard written by the Who’s famous Pete Townshend.
Richie Havens did some amazing strumming and seldom picked arpeggios from the strings he has an amazing sense of rhythm and if you listen to him play his cover of All along the Watchtower and his cover of the Beatles Strawberry fields along with many other songs written by him I’m sure you will second my opinion with this fact.
Once upon a time buying a good guitar was very expensive however fortunately there are so many good guitar makers who are making replicas of expensive guitars Like Gibson, Fender and Gretch. However if you want a guitar which sound like most guitars all from one guitar then you should check out the company called line 6. They have a new series of guitar which can duplicate the sounds of the entire list you’ll ever need. So if you’re on a low budget and like the sounds of many guitars go to ebay and try and pick up the guitar known as line6 Variax 300.