Though that was my initial mindset. He showed me the standard tuning for a guitar. The EADGBE. Now, that may seem like some weird letter to most of us yea? Allow me to explain.
Now most of you may have noticed that the different strings on the guitar are of different thickness? What? You never noticed? Well, they are :P. And they are not simply just thick and thicker, the bass strings (the upper three strings on any guitar, ) are thicker cos they are coiled with another string.
Now, you may think the tuning is reffered to the thickness of string. Wrong. The tuning is apparently a frequency at which the string vibrates in, my friend had this pretty nifty device that detects this frequency, and on other information my voice seems to be mostly on B tuning haha. (it detects fequency of everything so better to tune in a quiet place)
Tunings aside there were some other things he showed me like finger techniques as Id like to call them.
Tech stuff aside he played this song from creed on the acoustic. Honestly that was the first time I saw an acoustic played in front of me that involved any skill. It was very impressive. Lets just say after that I didnt mind practicing on the acoustic, its a great instrument, and if your a true music fan you can appreaciate what it can do.
The first time I tried pressing on the strings to get a chord, I pressed way too lightly, apparently have to press the string all the way to the fret board below to get the desired tone.
It may sound silly, but it was pretty hard pressing that hard, even with one finger. Had to cut my finger nails cos they were getting in the way too. (they are pretty short mind you, but it needed to be cut further than that >.<). Then we tried a simple tone sequence, he did it almost effortlessly. For me, the times I didnt get the timing wrong I was not able to press the strings hard enough. And the annoying bit was the frets nearer to the body are even harder to press. On top of that you had to strut a little harder to make the string vibrate too. Needless to say, nothing sounding harmonic or nice ever came out of me playing that day.
By the end of the day, my fingers were sore, my forearm was sore from all the pressure and even my shoulder hurt a little cos I was supposed to relax it while playing.
But before that, I got to play around with an electric guitar. It was a Greg Bennet Interceptor (Fasy ge guitar shape). It was a pretty high end one and I always thought electrics could never make the same harmonic and natural tones like an acoustic. A big no there too, the electric did a damn good job.
But its true awesomeness was when the distortion on the amp was on. Truly metal thats for sure.
The electric's strings were a lot easier to press, maybe cos the string material was different. It felt a lot more comfortable though heavier. And I managed to pull off one bit from the power rangers theme song's finger tapping solo XD. The electric really does a lot of the work for the player.
On the downside though the electric is pretty much way more awesome than the acoustic, its still not so feasible cos it was so expensive. And the cheap ones sound like....well....very very bad. So the first guitar Im gonna get would be an acoustic. And when I get the hang of that like my friend said, the electric is gonna be easy in relativity so the price wont be an issue.
So there you have it, my first time playing, it was utterly horrible from my side but it was enjoyable and i guess one has to start somewhere.
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