What styles do you play ?
I'm sure this question's been asked before, but I just got to wonderin' how many styles or types of music everyone plays and maybe the percentage of time devoted to each.I just ordered an open tunings...
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country blues picking 25%misc fingerstyle (e.g. blackbird) 25%electric blues soloing 25%electric rock soloing 7.5%jazz (chord melody) 7.5%misc noodling 10%not exactly. just a rough guess.1940 Martin...
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Schu, this will scare you, but when I saw this thread title, I thought what you had already posted...I may use Hans clawed paw as a flatpick...The Mighty Oak refuses to bend and is destroyed by the...
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I am reminded of the movie "Back to School" when Rodney Dangerfield asks the professor out on a date. She replies, "I can't right now, I have class". Rodney responds with, "Well, call me sometime when...
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60% Blues/Ragtime Fingerpicking25% Other Fingerpicking10% Electric Guitar Lead Playing5% Bluegrass FlatpickingBest,Marshall"Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle, looks just like a diamond ring"?...
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100% fingerpicking all original material on a hollowneck, Weissenborn type lap slide guitar.A year and a half ago I saw the light and totally ditched conventional, roundneck, fretted guitars. Lap...
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Off topic, but the funniest line in "Back to School" was when Rodney Dangerfield said," The school I went to was so rough that on the football field after they sacked the quarterback they went after...
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I've traditionally been a folk-strumming, flatpicking, Jerry Garcia-like bending player until I discovered Django Reinhardt and learned that he used the "reststroke technique". I believe Clarence...
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Acoustic Blues - 40%Acoustic Rock - 20%Folk & Folk Rock 10%Fingerstyle - 10% (James Taylor or Paul Simon style)Lite Jazz - 10%Assorted - 10%BillMartin 000-15 ( 2005 )Takamine G-230 ( My Beater...
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That really depends on my mood, but overall I would say 40% Bluegrass/Old-Timey flatpicking and fiddle tunes and about the remaining 60% Bob Dylan / Neil Young / CSN / Bruce Springsteen type music,...
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I haven't posted in a while and i think that this will be my last. i love martin guitars but the first two replies to this post made me realize that there are people who feel the way i do when i ask a...
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I understand how you feel mr.F, my response is how i truly feel. I will not confine my playing to a style or a set of techniques, and to my dismay many forumites can not grasp having no set/structured...
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MSchu18,I am sorry that I did not understand your first post to this thread. I in fact, agree completely with what you just posted. It sums up the way I approach the guitar. I say again that I hope I...
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No offense taken F., I just wanted to clarify for those that might not have grasped what I was trying to convey... confusion is always a problem when I write, seems the way I speak (while on the...
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Quote: I haven't posted in a while and i think that this will be my last. i love martin guitars but the first two replies to this post made me realize that there are people who feel the way i do when...
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Not sure in this thread where we interacted HM... I don't see any, and I am not offended by any comments in here. Best to say, all is good with me
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Ouups, me fails. Sorry I meant mrfestival. P.S. Forgot to mention John Lee Hooker and T-Bone as some of my main influences.I fact it all started w.Greek music, Doris Day, Chubby Checker, The West Side...
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I do not "clone". I "cover". I play 'em my own way and I am surely not so fine a musician as the originals so what I come up with will have to do. Sometimes I need a pick and sometimes I use my finger...
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I mostly play in a "Crosspicking" or "chickin' pickin" style with some finger pickin' good thrown in.when accompaning singers, I of course strum unless taking a solo -jayson'05 Martin 000-15'80's...
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I wish I was good enough to play in somebody's style, but I ain't so I just play in the style of Doug. I try to learn other peoples licks but even when I do learn it it comes out in the style of Doug....
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I think 4 or 5 of us could sit in a circle, pass around the same guitar and mess with the same tune-----and we'd each sound different somehow. Even the guitar would sound different under the different...
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