I'll tell you all a secret. If you're looking for a great way to vent your emotions wether they are happy or sad, do this: buy an electric guitar a learn the blues. That's all there is to it. Sounds crazy? Read on. I remember the day my guitar teacher handed me a sheet with the basic blues scales in E minor together with a backing track CD. I sat down and played around with it, and within 15 minutes i got the hang of the first box position. I learned the rest of the scale within a month. It isn't that hard actually to learn the basics of electric guitar. Once you know it, you can really put some emotion in your guitar. Because that's what blues just is: emotion in sound form.
I'm sure you all have seen some old Hendrix footage at some point in your life (and if you didn't i pity you). You see all these expressions on his face, that's raw emotion right there. Take a listen here if you want to see what i mean. One of the best recordings ever, notice the subtileity of it and the huge climax afterwards. Or listen to this one, also very good stuff..
When i'm happy i pick up the guitar i play the blues and it makes me even happier. When i'm sad i pick up the guitar i play the blues, and it cheers me up that my sadness can help create something beautiful. My guitar is my voice and i can completely lose myself in it. If you listen closely to the classic blues players you can just hear their pain in their playing, or their happyness.
Another funny note is that you can hear wether a guitar player has blues roots or not, no matter how hard-rocking they are. You know Guns 'n Roses? That band that sounded like they want to rip your face off and that was notorious for wrecking hotel rooms, appearing piss-drunk on live EMA awards, having sex orgies with countless groupies after shows and even getting fans killed at shows. They got huge partly because of their lead guitar player, who played with feeling instead of turbospeed that was popular in the eighties era. And he wasn't the fastest by a mile, yet he's the only name most people remember from the eighties era, or from the last 25 years really: Slash. ... and you can hear where he's coming from. That's pure Blues, and even his agressive and fast solo's are drowned in it. Now to contrast: Dragonforce (skip to 3.20). Amazing speeds never seen before. But really, who's more badass here? And who of you heard of this band in the first place, even though they are technically one of the bests band ever?
A guitar starter kit costs maybe 100 bucks, so what are you still doing here? Plus, chicks dig dudes with guitars.
I'm sure you all have seen some old Hendrix footage at some point in your life (and if you didn't i pity you). You see all these expressions on his face, that's raw emotion right there. Take a listen here if you want to see what i mean. One of the best recordings ever, notice the subtileity of it and the huge climax afterwards. Or listen to this one, also very good stuff..
When i'm happy i pick up the guitar i play the blues and it makes me even happier. When i'm sad i pick up the guitar i play the blues, and it cheers me up that my sadness can help create something beautiful. My guitar is my voice and i can completely lose myself in it. If you listen closely to the classic blues players you can just hear their pain in their playing, or their happyness.
Another funny note is that you can hear wether a guitar player has blues roots or not, no matter how hard-rocking they are. You know Guns 'n Roses? That band that sounded like they want to rip your face off and that was notorious for wrecking hotel rooms, appearing piss-drunk on live EMA awards, having sex orgies with countless groupies after shows and even getting fans killed at shows. They got huge partly because of their lead guitar player, who played with feeling instead of turbospeed that was popular in the eighties era. And he wasn't the fastest by a mile, yet he's the only name most people remember from the eighties era, or from the last 25 years really: Slash. ... and you can hear where he's coming from. That's pure Blues, and even his agressive and fast solo's are drowned in it. Now to contrast: Dragonforce (skip to 3.20). Amazing speeds never seen before. But really, who's more badass here? And who of you heard of this band in the first place, even though they are technically one of the bests band ever?
A guitar starter kit costs maybe 100 bucks, so what are you still doing here? Plus, chicks dig dudes with guitars.
