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Who plays the guitar in here, and how long have you been playing it, and tell us a bit about yourself on the music scene

Rate yourself (and be honest) from 1-10 on how good you think you are.

I rate myself 6/10 (i'm not very good), been playing for a couple of years, but i love the guitar, and its good fun

just say:

1-means a begginner

2-been playing for a month, i can play a couple of songs

3- starting to get the hang of things

4-can play a wide range of songs but not very confidently

5-Stairway to heaven is easy, mucking around with solo's

6-Creating your own songs, and they sound decent

7-classical gas isn't an effort

8-people beggining to tell you, that you are REALLY good

9- well hold on, maybe this could be a career?

10- god damn, im as good as jimi hendrix, WITHOUT THE DRUGS!
 
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hahaha.

I play...i've dicked around with an old acoustic for a long long time but never got serious about it until recently. I know pretty much every note on the fretboard, but i'm so used to playing on just one string because the old gibson was missing a lot.

I can compose music (thanks chorus class <_<) and play it, but not with very much confidence. my friend steven is great though.

i'm a 5.5, he's a 7.5 or 8.
 
I've been playing for about 8 months now. I'd say I'm a 5.5 or so. I don't compose my own songs, but I do make up a bunch of riffs and interludes that IMO, sound decent. I haven't really given Stairway To Heaven a serious try yet though. :p
 
I'm most likely a 3/10 on that scale, I could be a 4 but I never took the time to learn a wide variety of songs so I can't say that I'm a 4 until I do that.
 
I'm about a 9 I think. I really love guitar!!! I play at about 3 hrs every day (spread out in chunks). If a reliable income wasn't needed I'd happily play guitar all day every day and never get bored. I'm not ballsy enough to make it a serious career though, to actually quit my design job... (although I cringe at how crap most local band's guitarists are when I go out in Melbourne... I should really put my money where my mouth is and get up on stage more often..)

I've been playing about 9-10 years and I would feel confident playing Hendrix songs in front of an audience (I played Voodoo Child as part of a school production 7 years ago - with my teeth, behind my head, the whole bit! It felt strange and embarrassing being so full on about it all as I was otherwise very shy back then! The audience LOVED it so I felt okay with doing it after that. I was only 16 then, I'm 23 now and drastically better at guitar). Alas, I can't just bust into some Hendrix in my hobby band at the moment - we're strictly all original material. But I mostly like imitating Hendrix's sound and feel. I also love to play SRV, Mark Knofler (Dire Straits), Steve Vai (when feeling cheesy its very funny) etc and all the older blues guys too!

I actually have a mate who is big into Hendrix and he keeps telling me that I'm as good as Hendrix, but I know I don't have Jimi's endless creativity even if I finally have the technique and his feeling down...

In my book it is impossible for anyone to get a 10 on this scale, even Steve Vai, Satriani, Van Halen (tosser!) etc. Hendrix is amazing. People have (arguably) surpassed him technique wise, but no where near creatively or for the amount of feeling and soul he puts into his playing.

I play a Strat (surprise surprise) and a Les Paul. Occasionally a silly pointy guitar with a really good wang bar for cheesy 80s wailing. Various effect boxes and amps.

Anyone seen/heard playing Stairway to Heaven should be shot on site. Same with classical gas - its popularist rubbish. People only ever play it to supposedly impress non-guitarists who don't understand the tune isn't actually all that hard to play - it just SOUNDS hard!! So its really just a wank. Not as cringe-worthy as Van Halen's "Eruption" however... Oh well.
 
I play the bass gutiar which is the best :D. Eh Pako? Anyways its a cheap Ibanez I screw around with, I really enjoy playing blues type stuff since they actually have good bass parts. I just go off whats in my head at the time and I can usally bust something out thats decent.

I've been playing for about 4 years now, never bothered to upgrade anything since I was never in a band or anything. Just a hobby of mine, so I would I'm in the 6 area.
 
I've been playing guitar for about 7 years now. I have a Gibson Epiphone, just a really cheap guitar so that I could at least have an electric. :sly: I also play my acoustic quite a bit. I would say I'm probably a 7 or an 8 on this scale.
 
I've always fooled around with them, but really started playing in mid-90's. I was influenced by Oasis's b-side, acoustic songs.

I haven't played in a year or two, and my guitar's collecting dust. My skill level is probably between 2 and 3.

James: Glad to see you back. :)
 
Well Id say Im a 8.

Just yesterday I got an incredibly good guitar, by far the best guitar i have ever owned. It set me back over 3 grand.
 
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Well Id say Im a 8.

Just yesterday I got an incredibly good guitar, by far the best guitar i have ever owned. It set me back over 3 grand.
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woah. what is it? post pictures, too. 👍
 
I was once a 9-9.5 but that was a while back. Now, I say I'm a 7-7.5. I just don't have the time to play anymore.
 
Banana pickle carrot pepper... boom boom boom boom.

Yeah i play a bit of guitar (classical acoustic style). Probably about a 4 on that scale. I can play Metallica - Nothing Else Matters very confindently, have a repetoire of about 8 Chili Peppers' tunes and generally improvise a lot on chord structures and sequences. Love playing Drag Racer (BBC snooker theme) as fast as i can. Such a great tune that :)

Where doth Pako lie on the guitar scale?
 
I've played for about 15 years, but I'd say I'm just a 4 on that scale. I don't put the time into it that I used to ten years ago (when I would've put myself as a six), it's just a fun thing for me. I've got a Takamine acoustic on a stand in the living room, and an early 90's Kramer strat copy (ugh!) if I need to rawk.
 
I started playing again about 12 years ago.
I'm an intermediate player.
I pick up lines pretty quickly if the TAB is reliable.
I play mostly by ear. Not that I have an easy time sussing stuff out.
But If I have the chord progression at hand, and have heard the song more than a couple of times, I can fake it pretty well.
 
CrackHoor
I've played for about 15 years, but I'd say I'm just a 4 on that scale. I don't put the time into it that I used to ten years ago (when I would've put myself as a six), it's just a fun thing for me. I've got a Takamine acoustic on a stand in the living room, and an early 90's Kramer strat copy (ugh!) if I need to rawk.
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I got a Takamine too. Mine's the cheapest one though. :indiff:
 
Since I'm only 15, I think I'm a 1 noob :D


My dad has been playing for years classic guitar, electric guitar as well as bass guitar and thats how I started last year. I rate my dad a 7, he can play the guitar piece of comfortably numb :crazy:

But hey, i can play some of Pink Floyd :dopey: :odd:
 
Got my first acustic at 10. It was nothing serious, just mostly listen to Iron Maiden songs and playing to them. I got a real good ear for hearing what is being played and do the same. I cant do notes, i just cant. Its jibberish to me. I tried, but it didnt get in.

Got my electric at 13 and played in bands. All just hobby and for fun. I got stiff fingers so im no soloist, im the riffman and can play most things i got in my speakers.
That was some time ago, now the gear is dusty and mostly broken. Im very rusty, but i feel that i need to play, but on what, that dont sounds like crap??
Got a buddy with some nicer equipment that i grab sometimes, and when i do, the good old times returns to my fingers.

I guess im a.. i were a 5-6 at my peak.
 
Sam Ash is having a 50$ off sale this weekend. Should I buy a bass?
 
I've definately improved since I got it late last december... but my fingers still hurt like hell after a while of playing. I never really got enough time on it to get calluses :(
 
I got my Kramer Stratocaster wannabe last year last year when I was 14 and have been practicing at least 30 mins a day, but thats going up now that its summer and my fingers have toughined up now. I got this metel guitar book and its got to be one of the best out there cuz in like a month I was playing some pretty wicked stuff for how good I thought I was. The Book is Tony Stetinas Metal rythym. I'd rate myself a 3 or 4 I can pick up a lot of songs if you just show me the TAB.

Edit: I can play almost play all of Black Sabbath's Iron Man. The only parts I can't do up to speed are the two guitar solos.
 
Just saw Pink Floyd on the Live 8 thingy. Music used to be soo much better in the old days! Gilmour still has his tone! I'm amazed the singing wasn't super old-man croaky either. Its always fun to play Comfortably Numb, Money etc, it really got me back into playing some Pink Floyd type solos- very tasteful and melodic, similar to Mark Knopfler in a way. :)

Did anyone else notice how similar Gilmour's solo tone is to some of the recorded Hendrix stuff? What he plays is obviously very different, but the sound is a very similar smooth fuzz! (but with a clean channel seperated from the fuzz as well as fancy stereo delays and what not...). As much as things change, they stay the same...
 

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