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Who on NS plays guitar? If you do, what kind are you playing?

Most importantly, what/who is your favorite artist/style to play?

I'm on a Les Paul Standard... Love playing classic rock and Blues.

And does anyone know a good tabs site? I used to go on MXtabs.net, but it no longer works.

Who on NS plays guitar? If you do, what kind are you playing?

Most importantly, what/who is your favorite artist/style to play?

I'm on a Les Paul Standard... Love playing classic rock and Blues.

And does anyone know a good tabs site? I used to go on MXtabs.net, but it no longer works.

Keyboard / Synth guitar. *does that count?*

guitar: fender squire w/ gibson les paul bridge pickup and smooth bridge
bass: ibanez 5 string

i like to play anything, too lazy to learn real blues or jazz on guitar, so i mostly play rock, anything from audioslave to zz top. i like to play funkier stuff on bass, like 311 or RHCP.

for tabs, i just google whatever im looking for and pick the best one, don't really have a standard site.

guitar: fender squire w/ gibson les paul bridge pickup and smooth bridge
bass: ibanez 5 string

i like to play anything, too lazy to learn real blues or jazz on guitar, so i mostly play rock, anything from audioslave to zz top. i like to play funkier stuff on bass, like 311 or RHCP.

for tabs, i just google whatever im looking for and pick the best one, don't really have a standard site.


I had a squire for a while...I've since given it to my youger brother. My bass can't compare (I got it for 150 bucks at a last minute thing... bassist quit the band, long story)

Thats what I've been doing for tab; I just don't like it that much.

I do.

I play anything and everything...I enjoy the blues a lot, but also heavy metal. I play a little bit of classical as well, but my knowledge there is pretty limited.

My current electric rig is a left-handed Cort X-2 played through a Laney LC-30-II valve amp. For pedals, I use an Electro Harmonix Big Muff and Boss CE-5 Chorus ensemble.I have three acoustics (one left handed steel string, one left-handed classical - which is buggered - and one right handed classical, to practice playing upside down on. :p Got another on the way this week, too.)

As for tabs, eh. I usually just use google. www.powertabs.net in conjunction with the Power Tab editor was my method of choice, but that's all illegal now...damned MPAA...

I do.

I play anything and everything...I enjoy the blues a lot, but also heavy metal. I play a little bit of classical as well, but my knowledge there is pretty limited.

My current electric rig is a left-handed Cort X-2 played through a Laney LC-30-II valve amp. For pedals, I use an Electro Harmonix Big Muff and Boss CE-5 Chorus ensemble.I have three acoustics (one left handed steel string, one left-handed classical - which is buggered - and one right handed classical, to practice playing upside down on. :p Got another on the way this week, too.)

As for tabs, eh. I usually just use google. www.powertabs.net in conjunction with the Power Tab editor was my method of choice, but that's all illegal now...damned MPAA...

Why's it illegal?

Oh, and for an amp, I'm playing out of a Heath kit TA-16. I need to fix the speakers (they blew out before I bought it...50 bucks isn't bad), but once I do that it should be sweet.

I had a squire for a while...I've since given it to my youger brother. My bass can't compare (I got it for 150 bucks at a last minute thing... bassist quit the band, long story)

Thats what I've been doing for tab; I just don't like it that much.
yeah, im surprised at how well the squire has played, the action is perfect, the factory bridge was retarded and broke the high e like every two weeks, so i replaced the bridge.

Also forgot I have a nice martin acoustic/electric and I defretted my starter fender 4 string bass.

As for my electronics, oh boy: 6 track fostex mixer hooked up to computer, rp200A and bp200, rocktron banshee talkbox, Crate 100W bass amp that also works fine for guitar.

Keyboard / Synth guitar. *does that count?*
Lol...your name made me chuckle.
Sure it counts.

Why's it illegal?

Oh, and for an amp, I'm playing out of a Heath kit TA-16. I need to fix the speakers (they blew out before I bought it...50 bucks isn't bad), but once I do that it should be sweet.


It's a copyright thing. The music publishers have decided that tablature and lyric websites are impeding their sales of sheet music, so they moved to ban it. And succeeded. (though only in the USA, but the rest of the world will probably be hit by it...)

$50, eh? My monster amp cost me $1500. (in our money...about $1000 American) Worth every penny too. :p [/brags]

My guitar is a little cheap, though. Being a lefty I usually have to settle for second best.

acoustic is what I am playing now, I mostly write my own stuff, but I enjoy playing folk music, it's easy and relaxing. ;)

yeah, im surprised at how well the squire has played, the action is perfect, the factory bridge was retarded and broke the high e like every two weeks, so i replaced the bridge.

Also forgot I have a nice martin acoustic/electric and I defretted my starter fender 4 string bass.

As for my electronics, oh boy: 6 track fostex mixer hooked up to computer, rp200A and bp200, rocktron banshee talkbox, Crate 100W bass amp that also works fine for guitar.

I don't need electronics; I'm hooked up in so many ways... several of my friends/their fathers own their own studios (I get to record free), and I go once a week (also free) to Jamspot; a recording studio in Boston with a few other friends of mine.

I love being connected.

I play my Epiphone Les Paul standard with my Fender amp, not sure of the watts and too lazy to check it out.

I play metal, punk, rock, anything really.

I play my Epiphone Les Paul standard with my Fender amp, not sure of the watts and too lazy to check it out.

I play metal, punk, rock, anything really.

Ahhh laziness...what makes America.

Lets make this into the Official tab thread. if you've got a song you want to learn, or want people to look at...post it here.

Just a thought.

Crate 100W bass amp that also works fine for guitar.

Hehe, nice! I've considered getting a bass amp just to make window shatteringly heavy music on guitar. :p

I've got a 450 watt bass cab/head setup...haven't mentioned that.

and even though my guitar amp was only 50 bucks, it was a t a frakking thrift shop. Once I fix it, it's gonna kick ass.

I don't need electronics; I'm hooked up in so many ways... several of my friends/their fathers own their own studios (I get to record free), and I go once a week (also free) to Jamspot; a recording studio in Boston with a few other friends of mine.

I love being connected.
that's pretty cool. id like to work in a recording studio, but it costs soooo much to make. I guess once you have everything, virtually everything else is profit!

that's pretty cool. id like to work in a recording studio, but it costs soooo much to make. I guess once you have everything, virtually everything else is profit!

Theres rent :( and electricity and all that.

But its really fun.

I wanna learn.

Guitar: Malibu Samick Stratocaster.

Huzzah for cheap knock-offs because you can't afford the real thing :p:

Meh, it'll do for now. Just six more months, just six more months...

Anywho... as for style, similar to you, classic rock and the blues. Love em to bits. In particular, the pyshcadelic era of rock. Ah, good stuff...

Favourite artists have got to be Pink Floyd and Cream. Ooh yeah...

Ziggy.

*is surprised that nobody beat him to it*

The tab sites here took a real beating from that stupid american ban!! :mad: Incase they don't relise not every band has sheet music!! how the hell am i meant to play along to great songs if im not allowed to look at someone elses interpretation of it, and there is no sheet music in the shops. :mad: :mad:

Who on NS plays guitar? If you do, what kind are you playing?

Most importantly, what/who is your favorite artist/style to play?

I'm on a Les Paul Standard... Love playing classic rock and Blues.

And does anyone know a good tabs site? I used to go on MXtabs.net, but it no longer works.
I've always used:
http://www.guitartabs.com
and
http://www.olga.net/
for tabs and :-
http://www.guitarnoise.com/
for tips and techniques.
Oh, and I'm playing a bad SG copy and a cheap 50W marshall combo. That's married life for you.

i have a Marshall AVT275 amp with a peavy something-or-other i use to boost the high-end. haven't played anything in about 2 years and the amp's valves are busted, but i have some yamaha strat ripoff and a BC Rich Warlock guitar.


i'm selling the Marshall and the Warlock if anyone in the UK/EU is interested (getting a drum kit with the money! :D)

i have a Marshall AVT275 amp with a peavy something-or-other i use to boost the high-end. haven't played anything in about 2 years and the amp's valves are busted, but i have some yamaha strat ripoff and a BC Rich Warlock guitar.


i'm selling the Marshall and the Warlock if anyone in the UK/EU is interested (getting a drum kit with the money! :D)
I got a Yamaha fusion rock kit in blue if you're near Leicester and got £300 to spare. Barely use by a daughter who quit playing. :rolleyes:

i have got an 1978er Fender - Stratocaster with one ( i don´t know the engl. word ) maybe peg from Ritchie Blackmore´s Strat which he has destroyed in Cologne 1979...
An Epiphone Les Paul Studio, which its very nice and i play it most...it sounds much better , than the strat
An Ibanez 12 string Western guitar ...also from 1978
An Ovation copy from Clarity
An Mandoline from Crafter...absolut genious instrument

and some accoustic guitars (a Lute (middleage instrument) a Saz (from Tuekey)..and some others

I play. I own a Les Paul and a Fender Strat. I will play a lot of blues which is why I also play a lot of Jimi Hendrix. However, I do like more modern rock as well and will for time to time play some Van Halen.

I been playing for about 11 years. I have a heavy moded ibanez 7-string RG with seymour duncan pickups. Play shred, rock, jazz and classical. I own a classical guitar of course and planning on getting a gypsy jazz guitar. I know I can read notes, who else can?

I got a Yamaha fusion rock kit in blue if you're near Leicester and got £300 to spare. Barely use by a daughter who quit playing. :rolleyes:
haha thanks but i put a deposit down on an electric kit already :P
(need an electric kit cos i can't make too much noise round here... :()

that's pretty cool. id like to work in a recording studio, but it costs soooo much to make. I guess once you have everything, virtually everything else is profit!
oh hell yeah... been a longstanding dream of mine to own a recording studio! :P

done some recording and production for my mate's band on my computer (and a makeshift studio) in the past... actually quite boring work i found, in that it got really repetitive retaking the same bits of the song over and over, but the technology part of it is fun :)

oh hell yeah... been a longstanding dream of mine to own a recording studio! :P

done some recording and production for my mate's band on my computer

Please send me one...wav mp3 what you want....

haha thanks but i put a deposit down on an electric kit already :P
(need an electric kit cos i can't make too much noise round here... :()
ha ha
yeah it was probably the complaints from the stupid neighbours that made her quit.
Me, I just turn it up and I can't hear them.

Yeah.. Right now I'm on a Epiphone G-400 (I'd have something better if I could afford it, but I can't).

Primarily play punk, progressive, and hard rock with the occasional deviation to some of the intro's that Emo has popularized (I like paying with the odd diminished/minor sounds they use).

I use Ultimate-Guitar (Still working) and 911tabs (a search engine for tabs).

Please send me one...wav mp3 what you want....
go to my website: www.hlj.me.uk and two of them are on there on the main page (or go to the My Music page for more stuff)

nothing ever got finished or polished properly but... meh, i'm still proud of our achievement :)

edit: http://www.hlj.me.uk/music_mine.htm

ha ha
yeah it was probably the complaints from the stupid neighbours that made her quit.
Me, I just turn it up and I can't hear them.
haha the neighbours already complain about me :D

Of course I play guitar. But, then, if you throw a rock in a crowd, you're guaranteed to hit someone who plays guitar.

Yeah, I play an Ashton Strat copy with shit gear. And I can't get a new guitar any time soon because I'm saving for a holiday. *sigh*

I play the same kind of music that I listen to- blues-rock to metal basically.

I play acoustic... mainly classical.

http://www.classtab.org/

There's a few thousand classical tabs, with Midi files for many of them, if anyone is interested in classical guitar.. :)

Of course I play guitar. But, then, if you throw a rock in a crowd, you're guaranteed to hit someone who plays guitar.

Yeah, but anyone can claim to play guitar by virtue of knowing how to play power chords or Stairway to Heaven. Finding someone that plays well is harder. :p

I use Ultimate-Guitar (Still working) and 911tabs (a search engine for tabs).
I use ultimate-guitar as well. I play an Ibanez acoustic--my standard joke is that I play well enough to get laid, but since I've been in a relationship for five-plus years now, I don't know if I'm that good enough anymore. I also have a cheap little Yamaha electric I played when I sat in with the brewery band last year (before I left San Francisco). I'm strictly a strummer, with the occasional finger picking thrown in. No solos--never learned my scales well enough.

Yeah, but anyone can claim to play guitar by virtue of knowing how to play power chords or Stairway to Heaven. Finding someone that plays well is harder. :p
That's the great thing about guitar, though--you can learn it well enough to get by without a whole lot of effort. By "well enough to get by" I mean, "sound like you know what you're doing at a party of drunks.":D

That's the great thing about guitar, though--you can learn it well enough to get by without a whole lot of effort. By "well enough to get by" I mean, "sound like you know what you're doing at a party of drunks.":D

Hehehehe, true...that's exactly right. :D

ive got an ibanez with a 100 watt marshall amp. My style is similar to johnny greenwood/slash/cedric bixler/brian may. I have a fender stratocaster but i dunno... its boring to play on. I prefer modern guitars, dont like the nasal sound of gibsons, theyre very chunky aswell.

i play a squire telecaster.

I'm learning guitar, but I'm currently lacking one.

I want to play pretty much any style of music (except country/western). I'd like to develop my own style, though.

I'm learning guitar, but I'm currently lacking one.

I want to play pretty much any style of music (except country/western). I'd like to develop my own style, though.
YOU! :D