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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:48 am
I have been playing guitar since I was 12 years old.
I am currently 19 years old.
My history of guitar playing is rather sad. I first started learning guitar through Heavy Metal music. For years I spent playing hard heavy stuff, but for the last year I have been trying to forget what I learned and play a different style.
For years I was hung up on metal thinking it was the best thing ever. I wanted to be the heaviest guitar player. Then one day, something changed my musical experience forever. The introduction of Pink Floyd in my life, from a family member that told me I was too closed minded with music. It was a miracle, I had never heard anything so relaxed and heart warming than Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. After that, I came to Stevie Ray Vaughan, and what really impressed me was his happy feel to everything. Even his fast playing, he's so relaxed and not uptight like I had seen from dozens of Metal guitar players. I found Stevie Ray Vaughan from listening to David Bowie's "Cat People". He quickly came about in my top 5 guitar players and I was in love with listening to his stuff.
Strangely enough, I grew to the point of hating the Heavy Metal stuff I had learned to play guitar on, and for the last 2 years I have been trying to stop playing like that, and try playing like a normal guitar player. I came across David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album, and put quite some time into learning some of Bowie's stuff, but once I found the album Station to Station, I was stuck in heaven with the heavy R&B sound of the guitars on that album. Listening to Bowie all together totally changed me as a person as far as music goes. I learned a good deal of things about chords just from Ziggy Stardust, when before hand I had never learned a single thing about chords. Ziggy Stardust helped me as a guitar player in many ways.
My transition was a good thing. Heavy metal music of today's age always made me play uptight like I was racing against time to play a song and by the time I was done I was worn out. But old Rock and Blues/R&B showed me new life, and has changed me. The Rolling Stones also hold a key in this, I discovered them on the albums Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers and was just amazed at their sound. When playing along to Bowie or the Stones, I am very relaxed, calm and in a great mood. Along with Pink Floyd, I started getting more into a Jazzy mood when I came across Miles Davis, in which the music just blew me away.
But me coming to this site, I wanted to learn about the blues to become a better guitar player and forget my past. I only wish I had learned from the Blues when I first started playing. it's like the essence of life and soul, just listening to Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, and SRV, no matter how bad of a day you had, they can cheer you up and get you in a great mood.
My favorite guitar players I guess would be David Gilmour and SRV.
Anyways, my thanks for making this site, I plan to use it at best to become a better guitar player.
I am currently 19 years old.
My history of guitar playing is rather sad. I first started learning guitar through Heavy Metal music. For years I spent playing hard heavy stuff, but for the last year I have been trying to forget what I learned and play a different style.
For years I was hung up on metal thinking it was the best thing ever. I wanted to be the heaviest guitar player. Then one day, something changed my musical experience forever. The introduction of Pink Floyd in my life, from a family member that told me I was too closed minded with music. It was a miracle, I had never heard anything so relaxed and heart warming than Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. After that, I came to Stevie Ray Vaughan, and what really impressed me was his happy feel to everything. Even his fast playing, he's so relaxed and not uptight like I had seen from dozens of Metal guitar players. I found Stevie Ray Vaughan from listening to David Bowie's "Cat People". He quickly came about in my top 5 guitar players and I was in love with listening to his stuff.
Strangely enough, I grew to the point of hating the Heavy Metal stuff I had learned to play guitar on, and for the last 2 years I have been trying to stop playing like that, and try playing like a normal guitar player. I came across David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album, and put quite some time into learning some of Bowie's stuff, but once I found the album Station to Station, I was stuck in heaven with the heavy R&B sound of the guitars on that album. Listening to Bowie all together totally changed me as a person as far as music goes. I learned a good deal of things about chords just from Ziggy Stardust, when before hand I had never learned a single thing about chords. Ziggy Stardust helped me as a guitar player in many ways.
My transition was a good thing. Heavy metal music of today's age always made me play uptight like I was racing against time to play a song and by the time I was done I was worn out. But old Rock and Blues/R&B showed me new life, and has changed me. The Rolling Stones also hold a key in this, I discovered them on the albums Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers and was just amazed at their sound. When playing along to Bowie or the Stones, I am very relaxed, calm and in a great mood. Along with Pink Floyd, I started getting more into a Jazzy mood when I came across Miles Davis, in which the music just blew me away.
But me coming to this site, I wanted to learn about the blues to become a better guitar player and forget my past. I only wish I had learned from the Blues when I first started playing. it's like the essence of life and soul, just listening to Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, and SRV, no matter how bad of a day you had, they can cheer you up and get you in a great mood.
My favorite guitar players I guess would be David Gilmour and SRV.
Anyways, my thanks for making this site, I plan to use it at best to become a better guitar player.