I stoped to pick up strings...

[64Firebird]

There was this kid, about 10 years old, playing these Guns & Roses songs on a Peavy guitar that looked like it was bigger than he was. He was amazing! He was ripping out Slash solos left and right!

I wanted to cut the little twit's fingers off.

 

[Whoopysnorp]

I hate that.

 

[philboyd studge]

I was there in Idyllwild, Ca. when Chris Thelie began to play the mandolin. Sometimes there's magic and it's meant to be.

 

[Bighand]

Yes, but give the kid a "I-IV-V" progression and he's lost.

 

[Aaron Cheney]

I've gotten so sick of "music store shredders'' that I can hardly bear to go into one any more. The din of 3 guys on 3 amps each trying to impress each other, while at the same time trying to act unaware of each other, with all their friends in orbit around them, while meanwhile, I can't carry on a freakin' conversation with a sales guy that's still in high school and knows absolutely zero about the product I''m interested in, and every guitar you look at is so funked up with fingerjunk and grime from all the "music store shredders" that have played it before that you're afraid you might catch something if you play it.... (pant, pant, pant,....)

I hate GC.


Aaron
Voodoo Vibe Productions
http://www.voodoovibe.com

 

[Nailhead]

Im with you on the hatred for GC and Walmars, but for different reasons......lets keep the local guys in business, by your gear from them.


Some one mentioned Chris Thelie....what talent, been the fastest and best mandolin player since he was 14 or so.....a friend of mine has nick named him 'ol spider fingers.

Hey bighand, why you giving the kid such a hard time? You don't know him and besides that. GNR isn't that far removed from I-IV-V


The shittiest thing I've ever head uttered in a music shop, when I heard a grown man rag on a kid just starting out. The kid was trying out a guitar and was playing AC/DC stuff and this num-nut told him.."hey kid, why don't learn how to play some real music, like blues." Like blues is sooo much harder than AC/DC....You know fellas, we need to encourage these kids, not shoot them down because you're worried somebody might find out your an insecure little twit who doesn't have the confidence to eeven play in a band...........( sorry for going off on a rant, that 1-4-5 comment reminded me)

My piont was going to be, I was in a local acoustic shop not long ago and this kid, about 15, was playing with his dad, who is a killer banjo player around here, on the flattop. This kid was dead on the rythm and G runs and flat picked the hell out of the breaks...He is way better than me and Ive been playing for a coon's age.

 

[Uladine]

Some people are better than others. There are kids a lot younger than me that could out play me any day of the week. Does it make me mad? No, it just makes me want to practice more. Take it as inspiration. Besides, I know that I'm not out to impress people with my playing, but to just have fun with it. Also look at it this way: Maybe those G&R songs are the only songs he could play and plays them over and over again each day. You never know.

 

[eyeslikefire]

Good point Uladine.

Think back to those days guys....
We were 15, 16 years old...
We have playin major and minor scales for two years
and we can play em FAST! Shit,... we were just kids.
I remember I learned Eruption note for note.
Ha! Ask me to play it now, no freakin chance!
Kids will be kids man, remember the song from Santana "let the children play"

 

[Bighand]

Hey bighand, why you giving the kid such a hard time? You don't know him and besides that. GNR isn't that far removed from I-IV-V

Because I can! Sorry you are so sensitive.
I was making "64" feel better. Supporting him by pointing out the typical short comings of a young player. Hell, I couldn't jam to a I-IV-V for very long FYI, I started learning with AC/DC "Back in Black" on acoustic.

hey kid, why don't learn how to play some real music, like blues."

Yeah! He should have said, "Hey kid, you should learn some blues too, you know be versatile." Ah, yes, encourage the young man!
WINNER!!! WINNER!!!

 

[64Firebird]

Maybe you guys are right. That kid was ripping at what he was doing, but I bet he couldn't improvese over I IV V to save his ass.

I still want to cut his little fingers off though.

 

[mrbigputts]

after I had been playing guitar for about 12 years I signed up for a lesson at a local music shop. (I still Like to take a lesson occasionally...there is always something more to learn even after 17 years of playing) The kid giving the lessons was only 12 and was playing circles around me but he couldn't teach me anything. All of his previous students had been beginners and and were more easily impressed i guess but he had no idea what to teach somebody who had been playing as long as he had been alive. It was an enjoyable half hour jam session anyway.