What style(s) came most naturally to you?? Least naturally?

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What style(s) came most naturally to you?? Least naturally?

Unread post by VoodooChile » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:52 pm

For me blues and bluegrass, don't know why, It's not even the type of music Im really into. I can play good blues/BG right off the top of my head, I just learned the basic scales and progressions and went from there. Timmy's style is easy for me too, It doesn't take too long to learn most of his stuff.
However it's the music I like the most, acoustic rock, that's the hardest, I can play daves stuff but I can't make up my own tunes at all, hell I basically just steal Dave's chords and change em up a bit :x How about you?
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Unread post by i am sam2 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:02 am

i like this idea. i play bass but im gonna respond anyway because i feel it applies. the first genre related stuff i learned was the 12-bar blues pattern and since then ive always felt i had a good feel for bluesy type stuff. therefore, if i had to identify a particular genre root in me, id say blues.

funk is something ive loved hearing but havent been able to be confident in my funkiness or whatever. i think i try to make it to complex.

jazz comes fairly easily to me and i love gettin into a little jazzy groove.

rock i think is a different story because so much is based from what guitar is being played with it.
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Unread post by Cor » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:35 pm

Rock, fingerstyle, blues come easily for me

Jazz is tough for me... My solo phrasing needs lots of work. I've only been playing it about 4-5 months, though.
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Unread post by jellyfish » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:48 pm

It's all hard for me cause I dont have any Rythym or mucial thory background. But I can play well enough to be in a band

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Unread post by dmfollower » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:43 pm

jellyfish wrote:It's all hard for me cause I dont have any Rythym or mucial thory background. But I can play well enough to be in a band
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I can play daves stuff but I can't make up my own tunes at all, hell I basically just steal Dave's chords and change em up a bit
Thats me as well. I'm finding i'm gonna have to learn some theory and get my notes down before i'm going to be able to write my own stuff. Lately i've be playing a lot of dave and tim, i've got dave style down pretty well. The beatles i thought were gonna take me in another direction but most of their songs are basic strumming and relative chords. So i'm having trouble learning a style that i'm not good at :lol:
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Unread post by sunglassesatnight » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:55 pm

Blues came really quick to me. It's probably my favorite style to play.

Naturally, I am inclined to play a sort of complex ryhthm with a lot of chord extensions.

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Unread post by acusticdude » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:17 pm

Not having any formal instruction I guess the style that came most naturally to me was folk. I was first attracted to the guitar by guys like paul simon, gordon lightfoot, james taylor. Then dave came along and kicked my ass.
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Unread post by Twostep13 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:38 am

im not really sure what comes easy to me, i apporach everything pretty much the same... classical stuff actualy comes pretty easy to me, not the crazy stuff.. but the simple stuff
daves stuff came easy, mainly becuase i listened to his stuff religiously before i got into guitar, (hes the one that inspired me).... i cant solo for sh!t, but what my friend says are hard chord changes i can do for some reason... i guess some things just come natural to some and other things to others...

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Unread post by Davy28 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:55 am

I was really attracted to various folk stylings. Especially when I write music. I love to write music using different worldly chord progressions and use unconventional time signatures. I have Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, and Richie Halens to thank for that. I like to write blues, but I feel it alone is slightly limited, so I combine it with those kinds of folk syles.

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Unread post by onid41 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:02 am

i like strumming..im a pretty good muter
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Unread post by Ryeguy » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:46 pm

fingerstyle and percussive rythem.. im not sure if the latter is a style..
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Unread post by jaroben » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:54 pm

the no pick style
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Unread post by czech » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:06 pm

jellyfish wrote:It's all hard for me cause I dont have any Rythym or mucial thory background. But I can play well enough to be in a band
same here except the band thing.

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Unread post by Easy E » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:49 pm

onid41 wrote:i like strumming..im a pretty good muter
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Unread post by a1075dd63aa12 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:27 pm

Easy E wrote:
onid41 wrote:i like strumming..im a pretty good muter
same here, ive never really cared about anything but ryhthm, busting out a solo would be nice, but was never really my favorite thing

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