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Gospel Instruments => Gospel Guitar => Topic started by: 4hisglory on May 01, 2006, 02:04:18 PM
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How and why did you orginally start playing the guitar??
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...i saw my 1st guitar on the snakecan game on wonderama...(a tv show)....the rest is history!
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I saw a Fender Stratocaster and it was love at first sight. I used to make my own guitar when I was little; it consisted of a wooden stick with a Strat shaped cardboard body and headstock taped to it. It had two strings, the kind that you sew with and the "tuning keys" were can openers salvaged from discarded cans of corned beef. Plastic bottle caps represented the volume and tone controls.
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I love the guitar because there is no other instrument that can bring out the emotions of the player like it can. When I first heard Eric Clapton, I knew it was for me...
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When i first saw PRINCE,THAT DID IT :P
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a movie called "Crossroads".....about aguy who sold his soul to the devil, and his guitar player friend (ralph macchio) has a duel with the devils guitar player(steve vai) for it. when i saw steve vai, it was over, that's what i wanted to do. i sold my saxophone and got my first guitar the next day.
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Wierd,I played the Bass for years but always loved the sound of the guitar,,don't know why I didn't start out on the guitar in the 1st place. If I wouldv'e started on the guitar when I started on Bass I would be right there with URIAH AND GTRDAVE :D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D..Saw my cousin play and GEEZZAASS he SQUEEZES THE NECK FO SHO.
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How? I used to hum along with guitar parts of songs back in the early/mid '70s...songs like "Jackie Blue", "Doctor my eyes", "Love Rollercoaster" (I love that opening riff), "Sara Smile" and a bunch more.
Then I'd take rubber bands and wrap them around the knobs of my bedroom dresser drawers and pluck them like they were strings.
Around when I was 11 or 12 my buddy Mark got a couple guitars and we used to play them and I started picking stuff up pretty quickly.
Then my parents got me a cheap acoustic...a Hondo II...and I played that thing for hours every day, picking up stuff from records and tapes and tv theme songs.
Why? 'Cause I thought is sounded cool...and I guess God had His reasons, too. ;D
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I can't recall who or what inspired me, but I do remember standing at the alter (@ 8 years old) with my little hands in the air saying "Lord.............I want to learn how to play the guitar............in Jesus A-men".
My first guitar was plastic, with 4 plastic strings. The guitar was bought/redeemed at one of those stores that you pay for stuff with those green stamps. It was somewhat like this one:
http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/images/products/MUS0420.jpg
Man this topic has brought to my mind some fond memories. WOW.
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I can't recall who or what inspired me, but I do remember standing at the alter (@ 8 years old) with my little hands in the air saying "Lord.............I want to learn how to play the guitar............in Jesus A-men".
My first guitar was plastic, with 4 plastic strings. The guitar was bought/redeemed at one of those stores that you pay for stuff with those green stamps. It was somewhat like this one:
[url]http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/images/products/MUS0420.jpg[/url]
Man this topic has brought to my mind some fond memories. WOW.
That cool(i want one) ;)
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Can u imagine bending the E STRING ON that Joint :D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D..Man that does bring back some memories.
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Hi,
My uncles got me started. Dudes could play like fire..and never had a lesson a day in their lives.
GuitarGrover
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Ok well... Showing my age a bit... I got started because Roy Rogers played the guitar.
My first Guitar was like this.
(http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/3114.jpg)
Funny thing was those were made of pressed cardboard, but they really had semi-realistic Nylon strings, and could be tuned, and I started learning to make chords on it.
I had an uncle that was an amazing Bluegrass player and could have done something with that ability and talent if it hadn't been for alchol. I got a classical later and then this same uncle got me a Kay Archtop. (About 6 months later he borrowed it and sold it on a drinking binge) After that I bought an accoustic that was horrid. (anyone remember the Hondo II's?) It almost turned me off of the Guitar, and I switched to the base for many years.
Now I have a 335 clone (See my pic) and am working on my Jazz stylings, Guess I really did love that Archtop. :D
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I started at 18yrs after I saw Babyface's video for "When can I see you again". I love that song and I've always loved fingerstyle guitar. I started for the ladies!! It worked too! that's how I got my wife.
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I was inspired by another female gutarist in my former church. My pastor prayed over my hands and I picked it (the guitar) up and taught myself to play. I began playing for the church and have been playing ever since.
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I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THE SOUND OF THE GUITAR. I ALWAYS MIMICKED THE TUNES IN GOSPEL SONGS. I JUST RECENTLY BECAME BRAVE ENOUGH TO PICK ONE UP AND NOW IT'S HARD TO PUT IT DOWN. I AM SO HUNGRY TO LEARN!!!!!!! ;) :o
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I remember we were in a revival in trenton NJ (my home town), I was sitting next to the pastors son and he took my fingers and placed them on the fret board as he strummed the strings. I loved it every since. I was about 8 years old then, but to my detriment I did not really begin to play until I was about 27 years old and now I cannot put it down. I am not that good but I play in church as much as they will allow me mostly running scales. So if anyone has a good video on guitar or has any ideas to improve let me know. I wanna be the best that I can for the Lord.
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My fire for the guitar started when I was ten years old. When I saw Prince in Purple Rain, I was done!
I begged my father for a guitar and I played air guitar on a telecaster that I made from a poster board until I ;Dgot the real thing.
My first guitar was a Harmony electric. I loved the powerful roar of distortion and the rock riffs. I didn't get lessons then and I didn't
learn how to tune the thing so I played it for a while and went to other activities. It was just about four years ago when my wife
bought me a acoustic guitar for my 27th birthday. I got me a beginner fast track book and started teaching myself. Six months later
I enrolled at a local community college and got my associates in fine arts in music ( classical guitar ). ;D
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For me, it started when i was 15. I always saw my dad playing bass as well as my church friends playin at service, but i never gave music any idea. That changed when one day i turned to the BET JAZZ channel. A show called Blues Biographies was showing, and a man named Walter Trout on guitar and his blues group the Radicals were playing. Man!!!!When I heard that man killin that guitar, it was like a click in my head--i wanna play guitar. Well, with no money, i borrowed my Aunts acousitc guitar. I headed to the store and bought the book that changed my life--Guitar for Dummies(for real) ;D After some months passed my dad(not me) noticed how better i was getting. He decided to take me to Praise n Worship rehearsil at our church. I packed up the acoustic, and when i couldnt play any of the songs, i almost quit. (the action on the acoustic was killing me, but i ddnt know about lowering the action at the time) But praise the lord one of the sisters had a OLD(i mean OLD) squier strat that was tore up(it was her sons guitar, but since he couldnt play, she let me borrow it--not have it) So that squier got me started playin in church. Then the sister moved out of town and took the squier with her. I decided to get a job and get my own guitar. Any way i saved up a little and tried out guitars in the store. Then i noticed the ibanez Jumpstart pack. The guitar was perfect in my hands(i actually liked it more than a Strat) i bought it and ever since then ive been playing my gorgeous red Ibanez GRX40 guitar.(see picture in the top left corner under the name IBANEZMAN)
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I started playing because I always like guitar music. First,the Beatles,I liked their stuff,"Yesterday" is my favorite of theirs.Then came along Neil Young and James Taylor,both god acoustic players.Then when I was thirteen I heard a guy named Jimi playing on the radio.The rest is history.
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Ever since I can remeber hearing my father playing some Charlie Daniels, and various sorts of music it gave me a passion for stringed instuments. I wanted to learn the violin but my parents couldn't afford one. So when I came into the military the first thing I bought was an acoustic gutair, it was very cheap and hard on my fingers to play. I never really gave much devotion to it though. Then recently after my divorce also the time I got saved I had alot of spare time on my hands and figured I would put them to good use. I have bought a Fender Strat custom edition and I love it. Then one day at church the pastor said if God has given you a talent then use that talent instead of hiding it. Which was very weird becasue I would never play anything for anyone. Now I sit in front of the church and let my hands praise the lord. By the way the first song I learned ho wto play was " I wish you were here" by Pink Floyd I love the solo in it! Lets keep on praising the lord! God bless
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I got started on the guitar because my father played guitar and I was just so fascinated with t. I got my first guitar for christmas when I was five. it was a squier stratocaster. back then I would just mess around with, I didn't know what I was doing. down through the years I would mess with it here and there but I was concentrating more on the keyboard. It was because of guiarists like my dad, jonathan dubose, and others that inspired me to pick up the giutar again. before the summer is out, I should be playing like my father and this guy is a monster.
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I was lured to the guitar about 3yrs ago. I was blessed by listening to the Guitarist thats with Shekinah Glory Ministry. I was listening to the Praise is what I do Reprise and after that I was like I just have to have that thing, the funny thing about it, I used to hate the guitar, I thought when I was younger it was no need for it... Now you can't pull it out of my hands.
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This could easily turn into a long story but I'll try to keep it short and simple ;)
A few years ago my brother got interested in the guitar and I had always wanted to learn to play the drums. My parents started paying for him to take lessons and they found a drum instructor in the same music center so it worked out pretty nicely for us. Over the years, he got tired of the instrument/practicing required to "grow" and has all but quit but I kept playing drums and started messing around with his guitar as well.
I eventually migrated over to playing bass but still have a soft spot for the electric even though I never really knew more than a few basic chords and whatever other riffs and could manage to hen peck out lol
Now that I know a little theory and more knowledge of stringed instruments, I'm thinking about actually learning more about the electric this time around.
God Bless,
-J
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I started guitar when I was very young, in kindergarten. Before that I was the kid with the tennis racket and the toy ukelele. However I put guitar down for many years to learn keys. I didnt really pick it up again until I was starting to produce some groups, and I could never find a guitar player that had the style I needed. Most of the local cats only played quartet style. So I said, "I'll hire board players and play guitar myself!" and I havent put it down since.
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For me it was a choice between guitar and violin since I play an instrument in all the other families except woodwinds. I normally play everything with a latin twist so why not play it for real
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I first got hooked watching Don Kirschner's "Rock Concert" on Saturday nights as a pre-teen. Most, if not all of the groups were guitar oriented. The funk episode, on the PBS program, "Rock School", with Larry Graham's guitarist Tony Franklin is an early source of inspiration and hearing Jimi Hendrix' "Axis, Bold as Love" album. I was playing piano in church, by then, and was playing and listening to both musics. I became enamored with Allan Holdsworth's " Metal Fatigue" album. It's fusion. For guitar players it can be tough to listen to. Endless, beautiful lines, slurred, and swept! Amazing chord changes. Potentially discouraging. Then I found the album that changed my life as a player. "Still Warm" by John Scofield. Sco, he's a bad cat. He truly understands the sophistication of R&B, and delivers it through the hands of a jazz master. He Omar Hakim on drums, Daryl Jones on bass, and for all you keyboard players looking for those sugar voicings and speaking solos, the late great Don Grolnick. I LIE TO YOU NOT!!!!!!!!!
Please yall, check this album out. He made 2 other amazing albums "Blue Matter" produced by Hiram Bullock(a bad guitarist in his own right), and "Loud Jazz" with the incredible Gorge Duke. George Benson,Spanky, from Mighty Clouds of Joy(whom I had the pleasure of taking a 2hr lesson with!) Russel Malone, Jeff Beck,Pat Metheny,Mike Stern, Tony Macalpine, I could go on... By the way, though they are a bit expensive, it is worth checking out "good" guitars. Even beginners. For advanced players, there IS a point where the instrument can hinder what you are trying to convey. For beginners, no matter what you get, take it to a shop and get it set up! It will improve the intonation and the overall playability of the guitar. For the advanced guys, I like the Benedetto Benny (THE solidbody Jazz/R&B guitar), Moll, Buscarino and Comins archtops. THEY ARE EXPENSIVE, but worth it. It feels good to save up for and finally own an artist grade instrument. Sterinbergers and Kleins are also cool. American STD Strats, and Les Pauls are cool too, but you've gotta search through a bunch of 'em to get that 'one'. God Bless, and just keep playing. You're already better today than you were yesterday!
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i've always loved music and musical instruments, used to beat on any and everything, do the rubber band box deal, play the rinky dink 11 key keyboard, lol. but i really wanted to be a drummer. they were always out of reach financially, so i really didnt give any thought to an instrument again til i was 21. college buddy of mine was taking guitar at another nearby school, and i saw his guitar and watched him play. i knew he didnt have any kind of musical background, so i said if he could do it, i could do it too. started looking around that summer for acoustics at a consignment shop, which is all my pockets allowed. bout a $60.00 acoustic that was harder'n heck to play. i didnt know any better though so i just kept on with it. next summer i bought a yamaha electric starter kit. that was a brand new world as far as action and playability. rest is history teachin myself, picking up stuff from wherever i could. bought my ibanez semi hollow last year. got my first real amp last week (see my testimony in "my first gigworthy....)
i want to take this time right now to thank God for giving me the gift of guitar. it has been something that has given me peace when noone else was around. i pray that He uses it for the building of His kingdom in some kind of way. but you know what, even if it does not go beyond me playing on Sundays, i am eternally thankful that He blessed me with it. I love you Lord.
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I Then i noticed the ibanez Jumpstart pack. The guitar was perfect in my hands(i actually liked it more than a Strat) i bought it and ever since then ive been playing my gorgeous red Ibanez GRX40 guitar.(see picture in the top left corner under the name IBANEZMAN)
uh..just to clear things up..i really liked the strats, particularly the fat strats, (Mexican), but it was beyond my budget...i almost bought a squier($200) to compensate...but one of the store staff said they were having a sale on the ibanez pack(overstocked), and instead of paying $250, i would pay $150 :o(dont get me preachin') ;D....the ibanez was basically a fat strat with a faster neck(which saves my life during shout music), so thats the whole story....i didnt want to upset any strat players.....
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My interest in the Guitar came about the time Will Smith's movie "Ali" came out. I've always loved music but it's something about the music from the 60's that I really enjoy and the quartet music too. I was watching the movie and was just listening to how the guitar sound really added life and emotion to the scene. During that movie I said "I'm going to play the guitar". and Shortly afterwards I went to the pawn shop and bought me a guitar and amp. I've been playing since then. I know play in chuch and have been teaching myself. I've also found lots of useful information and help here on this site. Yall keep a brutha in your prayers that I'll improve and will be used in the music ministry and GOD see fit!..............dieogo
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I got my first guitar about three years ago for christmas. I was first interested in the guitar when I saw the collaboration between Carlos Santana and Musiq. I was hooked on Santana's unique sound. Even though the only instrument I ever played in my life was a recorder in the 2nd grade ( mary had a lil' lamb and hot cross buns ;D) I was determined to play the guitar and play for my church. It took me awhile to build up the courage to take what I had learned from lessons, books and practice into church. I never knew any guitarists in any of the local churches, just keyboards, organs and drums ( and for the old OLD school a wire hanger and a scrub board ;D). But once I started playing and stuff, everything was awright.
Well that's my story!!!!
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I wanted to hang with my big brothers and they both played so the only way I could go with them is learn to play.