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I am a novice guitar player and am sort of embarrassed to offer this poor playing. I just recorded some chords on a looper and tried to solo over them a bit. sabasgr68 asked that I post some playing so here it is. Most of you all are incredible with your playing. I just bang around and please do not blame the guitar on my bad playing

Hey Stoll, no need to be embarassed. We here applaud everyone who is brave enough to post their playing. Remember we all started at zero and have been improving ever since so. For being a novice, you did darn good. You kept the "conversation" going and did not stay in the proverbial box! You did good sir, looking forward to hearing more and watching as you progress.

Thank you for the kind words. I remember a time when it was all that I could do to play A, D, and E. Regardless of what anyone else says, when I record myself I find that I hear a lot of mistakes but also surprise myself sometimes too with some good things. I think one of the hardest things with guitar is that unless you record yourself, you often do not know what you sound like and what you need to work on. I find myself trying to feel what I am playing and playing a note at the right time within the beat. Sort of hard to explain.

Stoli wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:37 pm Thank you for the kind words. I remember a time when it was all that I could do to play A, D, and E. Regardless of what anyone else says, when I record myself I find that I hear a lot of mistakes but also surprise myself sometimes too with some good things. I think one of the hardest things with guitar is that unless you record yourself, you often do not know what you sound like and what you need to work on. I find myself trying to feel what I am playing and playing a note at the right time within the beat. Sort of hard to explain.

Thanks for posting, Stoli. I think you did very well, and you´ll do better every day if you keep on playing. It took me a while to finally man up and post some of my playing some years ago.

Recording yourself, and then listening to yourself, is a good way to find your weak spots. Only you know how you want to sound like, and only you know if you´re getting there when you´re listening to yourself.

Feeliing what we´re playing is definitely the way we all should play guitar.

Great sounding Agile, I enjoyed it. Thanks again for posting!

BTW, @Narsh, I haven´t forgot to work in your track, I´ve just not had the right time to do it and let inspiration come in. But it´s on my to-do list!

I look forward to more posts! The more we play, the better we get. It had a nice vibe.

Thanks, I got the opportunity to play it on a vintage Fender tube amp that my neighbor has and I really like the sound that you get out of the guitar with his amp. We sat around and played for close to two hours and I asked him to play my Agile some so I could listen to it. He is more advanced with modes and that sort of thing and he sounded really good with it. I really like this guitar.

Thanks, I got the opportunity to play it on a vintage Fender tube amp that my neighbor has and I really like the sound that you get out of the guitar with his amp. We sat around and played for close to two hours and I asked him to play my Agile some so I could listen to it. He is more advanced with modes and that sort of thing and he sounded really good with it. I really like this guitar.

Your playing is good, especially for someone who thinks they're a beginner. I hear a good ear in your chording and soloing.
Very tasteful. Post more.

And the album cover could be on a platinum album.

Partscaster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:00 pm Your playing is good, especially for someone who thinks they're a beginner. I hear a good ear in your chording and soloing.
Very tasteful. Post more.

And the album cover could be on a platinum album.

Thank you for the kind words. My chords in that are a combination of a II-V-I jazz and some parts from the jazz classic, How High the Moon. I practiced both of those for some time trying to learn how to play the very basic "swing chords." I took a couple of semesters of very basic guitar (they called it Guitar for Non Music Majors) at the local community college and I kept bringing up pop/rock songs that had major sevens, minor sevens, etc. in them and he was like you would probably like jazz so he gave me a printout of some basic swing chord shapes, the Real Fake Book sheet (or whatever that is called) and off we went. I often practice those chords changes to just warm up or clear my mind for a short break. We covered so much material that it will take me years to master. A lot of what we did was him introducing concepts that in some cases take months or years to master but it gave me just enough to dig deeper on things of interest. When this Covid stuff ends I may try to take another course with him.

I have been trying to play for about five years but it took me two years to just learn how to play the open cowboy chords in some manner that resembles playing in time. Would love to spend more time than I do but I try to at least play something everyday.

That was surprisingly pleasant and tasteful. Very musical. The smoothness comes with time but I really liked the composition.
Great work.

Bravo. I enjoy highly expressive and intimate recordings like this. There were moments when it reminded me of Amos Garrett's playing on Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis."