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OT: I have been inspired to NOT play synths for awhile
Last Saturday I saw Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Richard Lloyd (Television) play on the same bill in a rather small club. As expected, it was great. Those gentlemen were two of the reasons that I took up electricguitar those many years ago. Since Saturday I have been plugging a Fuzz Face and Beano Boost into my beautiful little VibroChamp and running through all of my Thunders, Jones, Ronson, and Williamson licks. Good times.
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I feel myself slowly coming back round to guitar. I didn't ban it or anything, I just got really into learning to play keys proficiently. I think when I pick back up the guitar with focus, I'll be better for it.
I go through cycles like that too. Some months I just want to feel strings under my fingers, then I'll get an itch to play with sound and it's back to the synths
I've been playing my guitar loads over the last couple of months, and weirdly after about 20 years of no progress and the same old noodles, I'm coming up with loads of new fancy stuff. Very odd.
The cycles of musicians. I am an on again, off again guitar player. I was a daily player until a couple years ago, when I started learning keys. I have went weeks without touching it, then I will play it daily for a while. Such as life.
@MonzoPro Don't you just love those little break-throughs? Its like your fingers need to reset themselves or something.
I think it's because I was off playing bass in a band for a few years. I learned a whole new bunch of scales and riffs, and when I went back to guitar I carried these across, but could play them faster because of the lighter strings. I've built on these, plus learned a few more scales via Geoshred. Definitely seem to have improved dexterity - I'd recommend a spell on bass to any guitarist in a rut.
I was playing a Steve Hillage riff tonight - been trying to play it for nearly 40 years with no success, cracked it tonight.
Great thread. I love all the guitarists mentioned here, but Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine are a particularly big influence. I go through periods where I literally despise that I fall into the same patterns when I pick up a guitar--so I don't play at all to avoid that unpleasantness. But, like many others report, I'll teach myself something new like banjo. And then when I come back to guitar, all of a sudden I'm doing new things that feel fresh and I'm cool with the guitar again.
I've recently developed a new fondness for my acoustic after listening to Rodrigo y Gabriela a bunch. So I'll slap at the guitar and pluck it and make it feel like a percussion instrument and wow. So much fun. I swear it feels the same to me as slicing up a sample in Egoist. Obviously less physical and guttural, but it lights up similar spots in the old noggin.
i don't play so much at the mo but whenever i got stuck playing the same old patterns, i would try out an alternative tuning. the last one i made up was dgdage. got no choice but to try new stuff like different finger placement for experimental chords etc. only problem was, i tended to forget what i was playing and in what tuning! still, a good way mixing things up and not going back to tab..
I can't even recognize what I play, let alone reproduce it.
All seems to break down to some subconscious memory of movement.
A bug that I self-declared a feature
I still play my strat but at the worship services but hardly have any time actually record into my iPad. Time oh how fast it does fly.
Sounds like you saw a killer show! I was blown away by Richard Lloyd when I saw Television.
Sounds like an incredible show.
I love this moment. I don't think I have any that nagged me for 40 but Spirits in the Material world ate at me for 25 or so.
I'll have a go at that one, I'm working on a few King Crimson tracks at the moment though.
Since buying Komplete I've also been trying to learn proper keyboard playing - their piano instruments sound so authentic they really encourage you to do them justice. Early days but I've worked out a few jazzy chord progressions.
I dug my old Maschine Mikro out of the loft tonight, so swotting up on using that as well.
I don't think my brain could cope with learning any new iOS stuff at the moment!
Spirits was actually a keyboard challenge for myself: play the bass line with my left hand and chords with my right. Still have to tap my foot while doing it! Chorus has always been pretty simple but the verses are tricky.
He was really good.
I saw him several years back with Television and that was indeed phenomenal. I have also seen Television with his replacement a couple of times, and Jimmy Ripp is no slouch.
About 10 years ago, I saw Richard playing with Billy Ficca in another small club. Another incredible show.
Brother Wayne Kramer was also great the other night. He is such a genuine person and a monster guitarplayer.
It was an incredible show. A friend of mine organized the show as a benefit for homeless veterans. I told Lisa that in the weeks leading up to the show, I felt like I did as a kid and hoped that I did not die until at least the day after Christmas.
Hey, that subconscious memory of movement is my saving grace!
I have a Fender Precision (72) and a Black Strat with a black cherry neck circa 67 in storage with an entire Peavey Sound System.
In a different entire state.
All I do is my acoustic, synth hardware, but mostly really only ios anymore.
I find that Geo Shred is all I need.
some of these 70s Precisions are outstanding in punch and definition
about the best price/performance ratio for these instruments - classic tone but not yet full vintage extra charge
I have my strat, two acoustics, the nylon crossover, a tenor, and my old bass. I mostly stick with one for a while, but move around to keep myself stimulated. But what worked very well for me was getting off an instrument all together. I might get an idea for an interesting melody or chord progression, and I write that down in Notion, and that gets me started on it, and I can finish without the instrument, just hearing it, thinking about where I want it to go. I write all that down in Notion, then start adding and deleting parts. Freed me from my normal influences and pathways, in a most amazing way.
Yeah, it is a blonde one with the white pick guard.
It was my moms.
She used to play bass and sang in my dads band. He played lead.
I was born in 1974 so I remember some gigs and practices when I was super young, mostly Pat Benatar, Linda Rondstat, and like Stevie Nicks if I recall.
My understading from the furniture business is 25 vintage and 100 years antique.
At least that is what I say.
there's a significant jump in price from 70s to 60s, let alone 50s Precision basses
for your mom
kind of funny as it's not many years between them
a P-Bass is the most cool looking instrument for female players
This is a great thread, and as MM4C says time flies by so fast that before we know it it's weeks since we picked up a particular instrument.
What I've certainly noticed in our community here but also in musicians in general is that so many are multi-instrumentalist. 20 years ago it seemed a bit more of a novelty when I told someone I sing, play guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, produce & engineer songs I've written, play baritone/euphonium, cowbell...you get the picture. Today it is pretty common place for musicians to have their "main" instrument and some proficiency at a few others.
When this subject is broached you inevitably get the "jack of all trades, master of none" derision regarding multi-instrumentalist but to me that's too easy. If you're main gig is guitar or keyboard, knowing how to program drums or even play grooves on an acoustic kit helps your rhythm on your main instrument, aids in recording and learning how to communicate with a real drummer.
I'm with @JeffChasteen about going through lapses of enthusiasm for certain instruments and occasionally recording. I never lose interest in music universally so to speak, either other artists, or especially music technology/gear/forums like this keep my passion flowing.
I think the key isn't to force it. Don't let guilt dictate whether you play that guitar you've had in the closet six months, I don't think forcing it if you really don't want to play helps, it may even bring contempt. One of the other cool side effects of playing multiple instruments is you can switch around and go back & forth depending mood. Don't feel like playing piano/keys, pick up your bass...or cowbell.