ActorJ Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 My veryf irst guitar ever. Long awaited! Now I just need to learn how to play it, hehe. It's won yet another fan, the guy than sold it to me had never seen one before, he was a devoted Les Paul player, and he could not say enoughb about it. Told me it played like a 1500 dollar guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarzan Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 congrats, the manager of my store bought the red one that they had and is impressed as well. he is a les paul lover as well. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 Now that I have it, wow does it feel good. I am just so happy with it, my hands shake a little when i hold it, which is unhelpful. But I am seriously a completely beginner, and now I am not sure what I should start with as far as learning goes? It seems like the options are endless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarzan Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 chords are the starting place, here is a good site for learning chords. http://www.chordbook.com/cb100/vguitar/guitar_chords.htm http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Congratulations! Count me as both a Les Paul lover, and impressed by that line from Yamaha. Great axes! If they made an all-mahogany version with three "soapbars" (single-coil, P-90 styled pickups), I'd be very seriously considering one! I'll leave it to those who are more qualified to give you some suggested beginning material to learn and practice... Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverse the Curse Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I'll leave it to those who are more qualified to give you some suggested beginning material to learn and practice... ... which would not be me Congrats. Hope you find yourself a new passion The forumite formerly known as Cooper. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace." Jimi Hendrix "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauce Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 congratulations and welcome to the club. Enjoy the new axe. Then you'll never hear surf music again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbach1 Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 It sure looks nice, Actor. I'm sure it plays great too. Yamaha makes some cool music gear. I banged away for a few years on a Yamaha electric piano. Nothing wrong with their quality. bbach Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeybong Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Congrats Actor. What a cool guitar to start out with. My first guitar was a Hondo II LP with impossible action. I used to have a Yamaha AES (don't remember the #), and it was my favotite guitar to play at the time. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmptinesOf Youth Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 i think when i first started i just practiced switching chords from G to C to A to D to E then backwards and mix it up. i had already played an instrument prior so i knew a little music theory but the chords helped alot. ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 hello, now that I have had some time to play with my new instrument (but no sore fingers yet) i thought I'd post a little more about my buying experience. I shook when I saw the AES620 again, in gorgeous transparent dark red. I researched my purchase for a long time. Early on when the bug first hit me, I thought about buying a Squire Strat pack, or something similar. Then, mostly with the help of people on various web forums, I started to leanrn more about guitars, and decided I should spend more money and get something really nice to start. I started with no bias, and a spending limit of about 750 Canadian dollars. I looked at everything, and found I was most attracted to Les Pauls and PRS guitars. I couldn't afford either, but when I came across the Yamaha AES620 online, it grabbed me right away, I just knew it was right for me, I liked it better than anything I had seen, even guitars costing 3 times as much. After reading reviews online, my instincts proved right. I now have one very beautiful electric guitar. Pictures available online do it no justice, thats for certain. The frets are perfect, the finish is perfect, the intonation is perfect. wow. The guy at the guitar store had never seen one, and he could not get over it, he was drooling, and let it go only reluctantly. He told me it looked and played like a 1500 dollars instrument. So it looks like I made the right choice. http://www.guitarplayer.com/archive/1103/1103_BenchTests10.htm http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/AES620-RED.htm The only thing is I will never know if those original factory strings suck as bad as everyone says. Thre guy and Tom Lee played it when it came in and told me they should be chnaged to 10s right away, so he did it for free. Luckilly the intonation remained perfect, and no truss rod adjustment was needed afterwords, i was a little worried about that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmo115 Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Originally posted by ActorJ: Luckilly the intonation remained perfect, and no truss rod adjustment was needed afterwords, i was a little worried about that....Congrats!! For someone who never played guitar before, you sure know quite a bit. When I got my first guitar, I didn't even know how to spell intonation, let alone know what it is. Come to think of it, I'm still not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 i only know quite a bit because i spent months wokring myself up to buying a guitar, and i sucked in every little bit of knowledge I could, mosty through this and other web forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro_Man Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Welcome, and you've certainly done the right thing in finding out as much as possible and then buying a decent guitar to start off with (never played one but i will, oh yes i will), i am also new at playing guitar but have been playing bass for many years so i've got a headstart, best thing to do is go to sites like this and learn from them, another good thing to do is set aside 30 minutes a day to practice and you'll be pro in no time. Good luck with it all. Nic "i must've wrote 30 songs the first weekend i met my true love ... then she died and i got stuck with this b****" - Father of the Pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 9, 2004 Author Share Posted September 9, 2004 One thing that is difficult for me is I don't know how to gage my porgress. Obviously I should get some lessons to remedy that, but I wonder if some of you can give me an idea of what type of progress I can reasonably expect, given 30 minutes a day of practice (at least), over the next couple of months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 Originally posted by ActorJ: One thing that is difficult for me is I don't know how to gage my porgress. Obviously I should get some lessons to remedy that, but I wonder if some of you can give me an idea of what type of progress I can reasonably expect, given 30 minutes a day of practice (at least), over the next couple of months.If you want to progress rapidly and efficiently, you'll need to put in at least an hour a day and get a good instructor. There simply is no substitute for a good teacher, and given the sheer volume of material out there to "learn" from, you'll probably end up distracted and unfocused if you go it alone in the beginning. Nice guitar, BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 10, 2004 Author Share Posted September 10, 2004 i have been spending the last little while trying to find a guitar teacher in my area, but so far no luck. don't really know where to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmptinesOf Youth Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 im not great..yet, but im lot better than my peers who have taken lessons and have been playing even long than i. I personally think its all in the practice habits...just me tho and this opinion is at debate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeMonkey Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 i believe its not how long uve been playing, but how much youve played and practice, a few people would say 3 years of playing but actually have little practice time at all making them not as great as you would expect them to be. Well back to the topic what a GREAT AXE you got there! You probably did what alot of us never did when we started and that was research an extensive amount about the guitar until purchasing one, I just went ahead to the store and bought one just because I wanted to play a guitar, but I still play my first guitar once in a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tchipman Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Beautiful Guitar! Get Guitar Player Mag and get inspired. All types of music. A little story. I started playing when I was nine. Silvertone flattop, Sear catalog, $29. I'll bet there are allot of similar stories out there just like that. From 12 into my twenty's I gigged. Weekends and then full time when I was about 16. I'm now 50. My son-in-law's brothers (2) picked up the guitar because they just thought it was cool, got hooked and in a matter of just a couple of years they're both pretty decent. Get some books and learn your chords and how they all fit together. And learn songs that you like. Learn to read tab. I wish that tab had been around when I was a kid, just learning. Go to Truefire.com and see what they've got for lessons. You can buy them with CD's and tab which makes the learning go fast. Then, don't ever quit learning. Good luck. Read this forum too. These guys are all great. Tim All my stuff is here: www.timothychipman.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave da Dude Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Originally posted by ActorJ: i have been spending the last little while trying to find a guitar teacher in my area, but so far no luck. don't really know where to look.Try a music (esp. Guitar) shop. The non-major ones (i.e. not Sam Ash, Guitar Center) may have a good teacher. Gotta' geetar... got the amp. There must be SOMEthing else I... "need". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActorJ Posted September 11, 2004 Author Share Posted September 11, 2004 tshipman: Thanks, great inspiration. Wish i'd started as young as you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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