I am trying...

Oct 06, 2005 08:11

To learn to play the "ballad of serenity" on the guitar. The chord pattern is super-easy to pick out, but I don't know where to begin with as far as picking.....

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meekmistress October 6 2005, 15:36:42 UTC
*growls*
I wish I could play the guitar.

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greatblondelf October 6 2005, 15:40:48 UTC
Actaully, me too. I suck like a stack of vacuum cleaners.... =(

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algeh October 7 2005, 14:12:33 UTC
Are you looking for a picking pattern for each chord? Or how to physically pluck at the strings so it makes musical noise as opposed to les musical noise? If the former, I had good luck with Travis picking back when I played guitar, since it's really common in folk music so it tends to sound right. If the latter, all I can suggest is cutting your left fingernails really short and keeping your right ones properly shaped so that you can hold down and pluck the strings respectively.

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greatblondelf October 7 2005, 14:52:06 UTC
Thanks!

And it's the former, actually. In a lot of cases, I've been getting guitar "tablature" that is really only a chord selection (like the ballad of serenity), which is easy, but doesen't really approach the way teh song is really played. Alternatively, I can sometimes find real tablature, but it is usually REALLY hard to play exactly, I think because I'm just not used to doing all of the specific things you're supposed to do with a guitar at once. So, the upshot is that I can play the chord pattern to the Firefly song, or I can play the Chocobo theme, because it's only one note at a time. I'll look into the travis picking and see how it works for me....

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