a garagepunk way to play guitar

[croatoa]

hi everybody

when i was younger i use to play (ok it's not the right term...) electric guitar in a hc punk band...just power chords in 3-chords-songs.

now friends give me a guitar just to play on my own...

i'm askin' if out there there's a manual or a method to play electric guitar in "our" way...rock guitar in a "garage punk" style...i don't want to loose any time in stupid and boring stuff...

thanx

[Joenzy]

well, there is like 3 ways to play an E7 and I know three ways to play an E9.
It's just the fact that you have to do a little work to get the right sound.
hey, I sound like a lazy guitar player! lol
But no, when you add in all those variations and there's several chords going on it can take a minute to figure out.
I get bored of that after a while and just make my own music...
But it's cool to see all that great stuff on that site.

Shake Revard said:

"wish it had some notes on if they should be barre chords, etc.
seems you have to toy with them..."


yeah, sometimes an "e" isn't a normal first position chord (i guess that's correct terminology) or barre chord. it might be some weird variation like an E7 or E9.

Good luck!

[jailbird]

I have two words for anyone who doubts the 5 watt amp - Vox DA5. This little bastard amp has kept my playing just fine for me- loud and clear, and when miked, it really lights shit up.
http://www.activemusician.com/store/product.asp?sku=EM.VOX-DA5&...

[Mad Mojo Marmalade]

jailbird said:

I have two words for anyone who doubts the 5 watt amp - Vox DA5. This little bastard amp has kept my playing just fine for me- loud and clear, and when miked, it really lights shit up.
http://www.activemusician.com/store/product.asp?sku=EM.VOX-DA5&...

Or maybe one roughed up a bit for custom distortion?!

[The Branded]

I've used a squire 15w a few times for a good punk sound, but those little tube fender champs sound way better, havent heard those little vox's, I tried a a small gretsch 5w tube the other day and it wasnt bad, its meant for blues but with my jag it was more punk, could be good for recording, but not loud enough with a brick handed drummer

jailbird said:

I have two words for anyone who doubts the 5 watt amp - Vox DA5. This little bastard amp has kept my playing just fine for me- loud and clear, and when miked, it really lights shit up.
http://www.activemusician.com/store/product.asp?sku=EM.VOX-DA5&...

[Dave H]

Jesse said:

For link wray i's say ' Commanche' and for the kinks ' You Really Got Me'

IMHO, Link's "Rumble" and the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night". For that matter, just learn it all. Play along to your records (you can cheat by grabbing some online tabs, but be forewarned, they all are usually wrong in some way or another). If you don't want to waste time playing "stupid and boring stuff" then don't play stupid and boring stuff. Truth is, the best players know their scales enough to forget them. Not all the scales, just the major and blues scales -- don't want to scare you ; )

[Joenzy]

I couldn't have said it better myself...
oh wait ah minute - I kinda did.
nah, just joshin' (joking for those that rock out elsewheres)
no, right fucking on!
uh, yeah i been ah drinkin'!

Dave H said:

Jesse said:

For link wray i's say ' Commanche' and for the kinks ' You Really Got Me'

IMHO, Link's "Rumble" and the Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night". For that matter, just learn it all. Play along to your records (you can cheat by grabbing some online tabs, but be forewarned, they all are usually wrong in some way or another). If you don't want to waste time playing "stupid and boring stuff" then don't play stupid and boring stuff. Truth is, the best players know their scales enough to forget them. Not all the scales, just the major and blues scales -- don't want to scare you ; )

[croatoa]

so i have to study pentatonic major and minor???what do you think about this

http://all-guitar-chords.com/

??

[Joenzy]

nah, you ain't gots to study that.
studying music theory is subjective for me personally.
even the Beatles weren't the best guitar players.
it's what they did with what they had.
arrangements and so on.
what matters more than technicalities is in the art of your soul.
you can play just one chord - but it's the way you play that chord.
I'd listen to a guitar player that has heart and rawness and a certain amount of wild abandon
over somebody that had a real slick sound and knows all the triads and what have yous.
it's all about personal taste.
just play, man.
get lost. lose your mind.
and hit those strings as hard as you can...


croatoa said:

so i have to study pentatonic major and minor???what do you think about this

http://all-guitar-chords.com/

??

[The Branded]

yes thats a good point, 'hitting the strings hard' when you use a tube amp with a good overdrive pedal really effects the dynamics of the sound, gives a nice natural overdrive sound .Another cheap trick is to adjust your pickups to as near as you can to the strings, this will produce some good raw sounds too, then just hit an e chord and see what happens....... TWWWWAAAAAANNGGGGGG!!! he he

[Joenzy]

i'm adjusting mah pickups right now...
thanx for the tip!

The Branded said:

yes thats a good point, 'hitting the strings hard' when you use a tube amp with a good overdrive pedal really effects the dynamics of the sound, gives a nice natural overdrive sound .Another cheap trick is to adjust your pickups to as near as you can to the strings, this will produce some good raw sounds too, then just hit an e chord and see what happens....... TWWWWAAAAAANNGGGGGG!!! he he

[The Branded]

Only one disadvantage with having the pickups close to the strings is they can 'pull' the strings out of tune slightly due to the magnetic pull, but I dont seem to have had this problem yet......
What guitar do you use Joenzy? I find it works best on single coils, humbuckers get a bit 'heavy' but I guess it depends on the guitar, let me know what it sounds like...

[joe]

get yourself an alamo amp. or a gretsch bass amp, also a fender reverb unit & maybe some kind of tape echo like a copicat or echoplex.
get a harmony bobkat or silhouette guitar & your set