So last night we had another jam session. This time minus the Bass Player (Nick) who I jammed with last week. This time around, I jammed with 2 other co-workers. One has both Electric and Acoustic, the other one is a newbie (like me) who plays on Acoustic.
We had tons of fun. Rotated through various parts of various songs like Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour, Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun (WIP for me.. :D ) and we played some blues progressions. I taught them the Spider Riff and Metallica's Enter Sandman riffs. In all it was tons of fun. They couldn't believe that I have just been playing for 2 months plus (that is a huge compliment to me). I tell them I practice all the time and work on scales and faster songs to improve finger speed (they in turn are calling me Mr Pentatonic - as I just started learning them and I'm totally into it). They gave me pointers on stretching (like hitting the 3rd, 5th, and 7th fret with your hand at once - FREAKING HURTS lol).
Also, my friend introduced me to his "Ms Gibson", a Les Paul Studio (I in turn reciprocated in introducing him to "Ms Ibanez"). WEWT! I've been itching to pick one up and try it (I have settled on having it as my next guitar). MAN! I really want one even more so now! The pickups sound AWESOME! The string action is so low (~half what mine is). So super fast to play. I WANT ONE!
I also tried a Fender Stratocaster. First time I ever played on a Single Coil guitar (has a more 'twangy' sound). It was nice playing it. However, I really did not like the center pick up. My pick would get caught on it all the time... :\
I kinda want a strat later on but I don't know. I think it's pretty much well established that I love to play rock/alternative/metal and Humbuckers are pretty much the way to go for this genre.
Still fun times...
AND I WANT A LES PAUL!
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
My first time
Jamming that is (what the hell were you thinking? ;) ).
I brought my guitar with me when I left for work yesterday because a buddy of mine (Nick) wanted to go play some songs after work over at his place. Apparently, he is a Bass Guitar player. He has an uber cool Old School Peavey Patriot bass guitar. He takes pride that the bass guitar is as old as the both of us (haha!). He also has this sweet ass sticker on his bass guitar case (Do it in chainmail!).
He also introduced me to his new dog, Teja. I'll add pics on Monday (so I can get the link from him to his web album). Super overly friendly (and most of the times baby-ish) Pitbull/Great Dane mix.
But back to the playing, we kinda winged it but we did make decent progress on Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and Enter Sandman by Metallica. We also did some Come As You are by Nirvana. Apart from that we just played around. Nick played some System of a Down bass lines and various others. I played around with Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth (Mustaine FTW!).
In all it was tons of fun. I enjoyed playing immensely. Though I did take good care of my wrist. ;)
Bass looks so much easier. No fair.. :p
I was all out of sync until Nick had to take Teja out again and I did some quick scales and exercises. By the time he got back, I was already recalling how to play Enter Sandman and my picking and fretting were completely in tune... :P
I brought my guitar with me when I left for work yesterday because a buddy of mine (Nick) wanted to go play some songs after work over at his place. Apparently, he is a Bass Guitar player. He has an uber cool Old School Peavey Patriot bass guitar. He takes pride that the bass guitar is as old as the both of us (haha!). He also has this sweet ass sticker on his bass guitar case (Do it in chainmail!).
He also introduced me to his new dog, Teja. I'll add pics on Monday (so I can get the link from him to his web album). Super overly friendly (and most of the times baby-ish) Pitbull/Great Dane mix.
But back to the playing, we kinda winged it but we did make decent progress on Paranoid by Black Sabbath, and Enter Sandman by Metallica. We also did some Come As You are by Nirvana. Apart from that we just played around. Nick played some System of a Down bass lines and various others. I played around with Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth (Mustaine FTW!).
In all it was tons of fun. I enjoyed playing immensely. Though I did take good care of my wrist. ;)
Bass looks so much easier. No fair.. :p
I was all out of sync until Nick had to take Teja out again and I did some quick scales and exercises. By the time he got back, I was already recalling how to play Enter Sandman and my picking and fretting were completely in tune... :P
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