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DMBFan63 · Unread post by **DMBFan63** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 3:17 pm

I agree, you should get your own style, and as people have said, most people are still learning the basics here.. so dmb is some of the best to learn, stretches, bends, slides, hammers/pulloffs.. perfect learning.. I personally can't write music, just don't have that touch... but for those who can, your really talented, and have a unique style.. I perfer dave's music. playing and singing.

I also probably won't end up with any type of musical career, so making my own music is pointless to me.
also, in 10 or 20 years, I wanna be able to pick up a guitar and play some dmb and remember the fun years of my life..

matthews123 · Unread post by **matthews123** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:51 am

ok im just gonna say that if u play ur own style or u play just like dave. both are beneficial. i went to my friends house today a couple of people just sitting around u know. then one of the guys said "i play guitar lets go play" as i found out hes obsessed with zeppelin as much as i am with dave. we both have mad respect for the other band. so i learned some zeppelin and i also dispensed my knowledge of dave (thanks to this site) in short....its good to have a band of your own that u listen to all the time so that u can mesh that style with some of your own and others. thats how i think styles are formed. but that might just be me and im a lil drunk so if this doesnt make any sense just go eh and ignore me.

and u should play what u want how u want...if it makes u happy that is.

matthews123 · Unread post by **matthews123** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:52 am

i wrote this while dmbfan63 was writing and i have to say. u have a damn good point. listen to him not me

DMBFan63 · Unread post by **DMBFan63** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:22 pm

hehe thanks for the compliment.. but you also make a good point, whatever your style, if you enjoy it, play it and be true to it..

cave_cricket · Unread post by **cave_cricket** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 2:01 am

God_Fearing_Man wrote:
cave_cricket wrote:most people here are still learning the guitar...how do you expect them to have their own style if they don't know how to go from a D to a G chord YET....
Well I think this kinda hits the nail... on the side.

EVERYBODY continues to learn the guitar. I mean, you don't hit a peak and stop.... Even the best continue to work to improve.. if you're not doing that, you're missing out on the greatest thing about the guitar!

Granted, it can get a little bit irritating when everybody strives to play exactly like Dave.. That's not the point. The point is, however, to learn what Dave Matthews does ,and how he does it, and try to do it like he does it as best you can, and then move from there.

That is the root for forming your own style. You look at some guitarists and you say, "I want to learn to do what they do, and play like they play." And then you take everyhting you have learned from those guitarists, and try to implement it to form the sound you wish to sound.

A good example is the guy you (cave cricket) have in your avtar - Jason Mraz. From a guitar-playing standpoint you can hear the Dave Matthews influence in his music. However, despite his guitar playing being similar in sound and style to Dave, his music is completely his own style...

In a nutshell.. if you want to play guitar and only sound like Dave Matthews, and nothing or nobody else, you are missing out on a lot.

But if you are trying to play like Dave can play, while also focusing on other players, and trying to learn what they do, you are on your way to forming your own style...

(I can usually make this sound a lot prettier but I'm tired).. you get the point, though.

i never said people stop learning...i am still learning..tim reynolds is still learning...dave matthews is still learning...my point was that beginners of guitar are working on the basic skills of guitar....they want to know how to tune...how to form a C chord...how to play crash into me.....once they get their basics down they may go on to develope their own style...maybe they won't....and it doesn't matter...as long as they enjoy it....

I am saying that people shouldn't look down on anyone for playing or emulating however they want...jsut because YOU think that having your own style is the best part of guitar the next guy may find that ripping out Jimi Thing exactly the way dave does is the best part of guitar.

So....I am personlly on my way to finding my own style in guitar...exactly the way you described it (taking influences form many players)..but i don't think that somone that want to emulate Dave is "irritating" as you put it because that is what they want to do...and who are we to say that what that person wants to do is stupid or a waste of time or "not achieving the best part of playing guitar".....to them it is the best part....

I think you are arguing against points that I didn't make. SO I am hoping to clear it up for you.

God_Fearing_Man · Unread post by **God_Fearing_Man** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:38 am

I wasn't arguing what you said at all.

I was just using your post as a feeder into the point I was trying to make... because you started to make that point, but didn't really complete it.

cave_cricket · Unread post by **cave_cricket** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:30 am

God_Fearing_Man wrote:I wasn't arguing what you said at all.

I was just using your post as a feeder into the point I was trying to make... because you started to make that point, but didn't really complete it.

i see...oh well...no harm no foul :lol:

Granny33 · Unread post by **Granny33** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:18 pm

this is a really interesting topic... and i agree with everyone. (yep, thats politician to-be-granny lol) i think you should go with your own style but playing like dave isn't bad either. I can't write my own music yet, but i'm doing something pretty weird of my own. I take my favorite parts of songs and combine them. My first is jimi thing intro then slide into time of your life (green day) into where are you going, then grace is gone into granny into crash. I'm playing around with G and A on the E string now, (3 and 5) so much to say, what would you say, drive in drive out, the stone, all along the watchtower. tell me what you think and sorry if this makes abolutely NO sense to anyone. :roll:

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:27 pm

Dave's the worst guitarist to emulate anyways, I've seen so many clowns writing songs that are all based off DMB crap and they sound terrible, pathetic, all pathetic.

Granny33 · Unread post by **Granny33** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:55 am

Thanks man, i appreciate your support.

Speenis · Unread post by **Speenis** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:02 pm

Anyway, back to topic, some people just play guitar as a hobby. I personally don't ever think I will play for anything more than my personal enjoyment. Why can't I learn how to play Dave songs exact and nothing else?(this doesn't mean its what i actually do, just a thought) Not to sound like a dick, but your point contradicts itself. Don't follow what Dave does, do something original. In a way, you're saying don't do what dave does, do what I tell you. Anywho, this post was just to point out the intricacies of why some people play guitar.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:14 pm

BigSpeen3436 wrote:Anyway, back to topic, some people just play guitar as a hobby. I personally don't ever think I will play for anything more than my personal enjoyment. Why can't I learn how to play Dave songs exact and nothing else?(this doesn't mean its what i actually do, just a thought) Not to sound like a dick, but your point contradicts itself. Don't follow what Dave does, do something original. In a way, you're saying don't do what dave does, do what I tell you. Anywho, this post was just to point out the intricacies of why some people play guitar.

you have to be really anal to say this post contradicts itself...the point stands tall.

Speenis · Unread post by **Speenis** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:20 pm

gcom007 wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:Anyway, back to topic, some people just play guitar as a hobby. I personally don't ever think I will play for anything more than my personal enjoyment. Why can't I learn how to play Dave songs exact and nothing else?(this doesn't mean its what i actually do, just a thought) Not to sound like a dick, but your point contradicts itself. Don't follow what Dave does, do something original. In a way, you're saying don't do what dave does, do what I tell you. Anywho, this post was just to point out the intricacies of why some people play guitar.
you have to be really anal to say this post contradicts itself...the point stands tall.

Well at 6'4", I'd like to say that I do too.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:21 pm

BigSpeen3436 wrote:
gcom007 wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:Anyway, back to topic, some people just play guitar as a hobby. I personally don't ever think I will play for anything more than my personal enjoyment. Why can't I learn how to play Dave songs exact and nothing else?(this doesn't mean its what i actually do, just a thought) Not to sound like a dick, but your point contradicts itself. Don't follow what Dave does, do something original. In a way, you're saying don't do what dave does, do what I tell you. Anywho, this post was just to point out the intricacies of why some people play guitar.
you have to be really anal to say this post contradicts itself...the point stands tall.
Well at 6'4", I'd like to say that I do too.

telling someone to be more original is not a contradiction, come on...

Speenis · Unread post by **Speenis** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 6:23 pm

gcom007 wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:
gcom007 wrote:
BigSpeen3436 wrote:Anyway, back to topic, some people just play guitar as a hobby. I personally don't ever think I will play for anything more than my personal enjoyment. Why can't I learn how to play Dave songs exact and nothing else?(this doesn't mean its what i actually do, just a thought) Not to sound like a dick, but your point contradicts itself. Don't follow what Dave does, do something original. In a way, you're saying don't do what dave does, do what I tell you. Anywho, this post was just to point out the intricacies of why some people play guitar.
you have to be really anal to say this post contradicts itself...the point stands tall.
Well at 6'4", I'd like to say that I do too.
I agree 100%. I was just saying that when you tell someone to be creative, because thats what they do (writing their own stuff), you are contradicting yourself.

telling someone to be more original is not a contradiction, come on...

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