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Topic: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Hi all   default/big_smile

Ive wanted to learn since i was 15 but never had the money, now im 21 and picked up a guitar for the first time 2 months ago. I dropped on a 1 year old Yamaha 112v in lake placid blue for £50, including a Yamaha trainee amp and case. It was bought the year before and never used. Ive fallen in love with it!

Ive learnt most open chords, barre chords, and pentatonic scales, string bending and reading tabliture.

I'd like to be good enough to play things like system of a down, but also like indie music, arctic monkeys etc.

Hope i learn from you guys cheers for taking the time to read this.

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Congratulations on starting to learn guitar!

What sort of thing are you playing/learning at the moment music wise?

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Well i learnt wonderwall as i think this is a basic beginners song and it sounds pretty cool. As far as other songs go i havnt really learnt a full sone, more bits from here and there. Probably not the best thing to do but it got me used to chords and chord changes and i thought it would be a good idea to learn barr chords etc first. I can just about understand tabs but i still get confused, but hey its only been two months! Thanks for the welcome!

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Sounds like you have come a long way in two months!

I think most guitarists only learn small parts of songs - the interesting bits! There was a long while that I couldn't play a full tune full stop - had the intro and the solos and maybe a riff but that was it!

Worth learning the whole thing if it is a song that interests you! There are some pretty decent backing tracks around that make it fun to play the whole song!

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

I learnt some greenday like the into to wen september ends as that kind of introduced me to picking and would like to learn some arctic monkeys. Can you explain riffs to me please im not really familiar with them?

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

hi fishy keep rockin default/cool

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

A riff is just a short pattern of chords and/or melody line that repeats within a song.

It is the parts of a song that most guitarists want to learn first!

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Hi fingers and welcome  default/big_smile

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Hi all, I'm 60yrs old,  default/sad  and have been playing for about 35yrs on and off,  mainly acoustic, I still own a Yamaha FG160, which i bought in 1978 for if i remember correctly about £120, I don't pick or do anything fancy, I just love to play,  default/smile

I didn't get where I am today,
by being somewhere else.

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Re: Just a quick hi and introduction :)

Hi Alun - welcome to you as well.

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