curious..

Acoustic only.

See sig.

~Austin

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com
http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus
http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus
http://soundcloud.com/austintayeshus

y

Here's a sample.....
http://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/windy-j-wind-e-quest

My bandmate and I loosely improvising over a loop.

yep yep. Smooth and stretched out. Behind your thinking and ahead of your thoughts. Dirty get down type of thing and I dig it deeply.

Ahhhhhhh

'preciate the love, nahmeanz.

*Daps

Some creative playing there, fella.

*Daps

Sweet

*Daps

and i'm whatever...but i'm working on it...

I mostly learned so that I could write songs. Here's one of the few things I've recorded that is guitar-oriented. I was in a two-man group with a friend that was total mellow-out, New Age type music; this track is just me though (I played a keyboard wash first and then added a guitar lead to it) and was intended to be vaguely Mark Knopfler-esque, like the really soft stuff he did on the Princess Bride soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHl5DEU4Wxw

~Austin

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com
http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus
http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus
http://soundcloud.com/austintayeshus

That was real pleasant listening right there, Fam.

Very nice.

...is not supposed to be there, and isn't there in the original track. I don't know what happened - something about making it into a video caused the audio to get a little messed up. The original sounds very clean.

also very impressive to hear these different sides of your music over the last few years.

always full of surprises, man

Nice

sounds good fellas!

I have one of 'em saved and just upped it at

http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband/a-couple-guitarists-from

if anyone wants to listen

unfortunately, don't remember who the guitarists were for sure... I believe the first was tom & jerry, and the last was j_bhadra. Middle guy's my favorite though and I don't know who it was!

First time hearing.

~Austin

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com
http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus
http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus
http://soundcloud.com/austintayeshus

>I have one of 'em saved and just upped it at
>
>http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband/a-couple-guitarists-from
>
>if anyone wants to listen
>
>unfortunately, don't remember who the guitarists were for
>sure... I believe the first was tom & jerry, and the last was
>j_bhadra. Middle guy's my favorite though and I don't know who
>it was!

yes

yes....trying to work out the chords to Prince's lady cab driver.....because the rhythm guitar on this track is INCREDIBLY TIGHT.

If any of u feLLas want to / can post up a few different soLo riffs / meLodies... there's a few heads in here who might be abLe to chop some shit up &throw something down.. then, maybe... u might have a LittLe coLLaborative piece -- or, u might be abLe to go back on top of that beat & pLay on top of pieces of that new track with some other guitar parts.

If u want, post up a few mp3's... couLd be just a smooth 8 bar or 16 bar riff... doesn't have to be too eLaborate

Been playing a few years. Trying to step my lead playing up at the minute.

Im 23 now

Far from a virtuoso, but I know what I'm doing. Almost exclusively acoustic. A used Martin guitar I bought off craigslist a few years back is probably my favorite thing that I own. I also strum a mandolin from time to time and sloppily bang chords on a piano.

Never really had a desire to play lead. Which is weird for a guitar guy, but I just like backing myself up in songs and dicking around with different chord voicings and arrangements.

For about 18 years now and it's just so damn fun...

Here's something that I recorded. It's got three guitar parts on it, plus a bass guitar part, and digital drums which in hindsight are recorded very thinly.

Anyhow, the solo begins at 2:30 or so. The song has lyrics and a melody but I'm not much of a singer so I've taken them out for the sake of your ears ;)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yte1r7


Laterz,

>
Thanks brother

I've played for ten years, but have been lazy about practicing, so my playing is nothing to write home about at all. I have a lot more practicing to do. I've been getting back into playing; a lot of my music as of late have been electronic (digital).

I play acoustic and electric.

Yep, for about ten years or so. Electric and acoustic, and some funky bass too :)

>curious..

because I was told in a guitar lesson once that I have a natural rhythm and I was grateful to hear that.

That idea always seemed counter-intuitive to me in terms of
cultivating an extensively intimate knowledge of guitar technique.

"Rhythm" and "soloing" aren't polarized entities that stand in
contention of one another, ya dig.

Lemme put this in visual terms:

If guitar technique is a veritable *tree then the dynamic inter-related concepts of rhythm and chordal/single-line soloing would merely be 2 *leafs out of a plethora of many other *leafs that comprise the tree of guitar technique, nahmean.

When a guitarist understands this maxim, the notion of rhythm versus lead/solo as dynamic opposites seems simultaneously dwarfed and redundant.

I hope this answers your question.

Peace...

no, I dont know what you mean....lol...so what i get out of this is that you are saying that rhythm guitar versus a person that can solo are two different things like apples and oranges.

>that rhythm guitar versus a person
>that can solo are two different things like apples and
>oranges.

He's saying that the technical and feel skills necessary for good rhythm guitar aren't really different than those necessary for good solo guitar.

I'd suggest, however, that more than technique, what good solo guitar really requires is melodic and improvisational creativity. Plenty of guys have lovely feel and nimble fingers, but just don't have much to say.

I know what you mean because ive heard many guitar players in rock music where their guitar playing sounds like sirens.....lol...you cant feel nothing that they are playing.

There's some talented MoFo's in this thread.....

Nobody dropped one of those laid back , seductive, sensual, plauer ass gutar licks fir me yet so i can flip it and bust on it real quick. Come thru

or you can come thru with the whole beat/instrumental. i might do another one of those joints where i record a whole album of brand-new, original material in 5-days--this 4th of july weekend---- so if you got some fresh shit...

was it just a lot of practice or did you follow a specific program?
i can't seem to get from under that beginner/intermediate phase in playing :(
i need suggestions.

Don't expect to improve drastically in a matter of hours, days or even weeks.

Practice practice practice.

Practice the most frustrating things. When your hands hurt, stop for ninety seconds and begin again. For me, this is bar chords. I fucking hate everything about bar chords. But I know how to play them now (sort of).

Try to play without a metronome or any sort of rhythm assistance. You need to know how to stay on tempo.

Ignore instructional videos or how to guides. They were made by people that are better than you will probably ever be and are only a recipe for frustration.

Learn the major chords. A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Then learn to play them in ascending and descending order. This will help you with two big things: 1) Knowing the chords and 2) Learning how to move fingerings quickly.

The most useful piece of advice I can give (because it's worked for me) is to try and play through your mistakes when practicing. If you stop and correct yourself every time you make a mistake, you're training your brain to react that way. If you just try to play through the mistake, pretty soon you'll find that you can play the part without a mistake.

Something that helped me a lot was learning a really easy song, then trying to play it in time signature other than 4/4.

Keep strumming. You'll get it.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world."
—Henry James
austintayeshus.blogspot.com

im definitely practicing and putting in more effort in my playing.

im just frustrated that i feel i havent progressed as much as i should have but i shall keep plugging and working on my playing :)

and oh for some reason barre chords came easier for me with my small hands, go figure.

. . .at incorporating some finger picking. Still pretty simple, in the bigger picture.

Got one I'm cooking up right now. It's a cover tune, but I'm trying to go in another direction with it.

It's slow going. You know.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world."
—Henry James
austintayeshus.blogspot.com

I'm assuming you mean the intro - I wasn't sure if that was fingerpicked or flatpicked originally, esp. since you go into strum mode later on.

I still say you need to just practice a bit in open D tuning, just to get that rolling thumb patter down and get used to the picking pattern with the index and middle fingers without having to worry as much about wrong notes (or barre chords). I could basically just do Travis picking when I started messing around with open D (and DADGAD and open G) and it really opened up a lot more of the fretboard for me rather quickly.

So I started tuning up to D.

You're right about DADGAD. Whenever I go there, stuff just opens up and I get a lot more ideas and things just seem to flow better.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world."
—Henry James
austintayeshus.blogspot.com

I hold it sometimes.

Thaylobleu- all of us were primarily out there as MCs/DJs, all of us have 'pre-hip hop' ears, aka we came up listening to everything and anything.

me and the bass player pretty much learned how to play during breaks at the studio, waiting for data to transfer, etc.

this has been as fun as any other time in music for me, once i got over the 'great guitar players are everywhere judging me' syndrome... cats are basically winging it, good times maaaaaan.

You can hear some of my guitar work on my album Apophenia
keymusic.bandcamp.com

Tracks 3 and 6 I composed and performed on guitar. Kay Sara is a strat run through a univibe twice. Zen Lock has me playing guitar sped up at different pitches to the song and layered.

but im too much of a wuss.. lol

im going to record my playing soon