No more taped fingers

Oh yea forgot to mention, my cousin adviced me against finger taping, so since the third day its been bare fingers...ok so it was a good way to survive the second day but he was right, it wasnt too prudent an idea...

He gave me an exercise to practice, i must say it was the most effective exercise yet. It is to place your fingers on the very end of the guitar.

step 1 pluck the sixth string bare

step 2 pluck it again but this time with the first finger on the first fret

step 3 pluck it again but this time with the second finger on the second fret, without letting go of the first fingers position

step 4 do the same for third and fourth finger while holding all the fingers in place. Its actually pretty hard at first, but once u get the right hand position its actually rather easy.

step 5 repeat the above said for the 5th string and so on

step 6 one uve reached the first string and ur pinky is on fourth fret, let the pinky go and play, then let the third finger go and pluck again, basicly the reverse of wht uve been doing before

step 7 repeat this same thing for the second string, by placing ur fingers in position and letting go of finger by finger

Now the trick is to make a proper sound with each pluck, so its important to apply enuf pressure each time, and ur cheatin if u loosen ur grip on any of the fingers while playing.

As u get better u can do this exercise faster and faster with more accuracy. After this exercise hitting chords will be pretty much childs play, as this four finger exercise makes u stretch ur fingers apart more than any chord with the exception of barre chords, i have seen em, but its hard to explain it, go wiki :P

NOTE: while pressin the fingers on the chords avoid touching the adjacent strings, pluck the other strings while in position and make sure they make the same sound otherwise u will need to adjust the position of ur fingers. Making sure ur fingers dont touch the adjacent strings during this exercise will greatly improve chord hitting accuracy.

Another thing to keep in mind is the pluckin technique, the thinner strings need to be plucked differently to make an actual sound. see that youtube vid and its links for guitar basics, im just covering the stuff they forgot to mention :P

Neways thats the stuff i shud have written before Krauser Vs Shoichi post, now back to practice

Krauser Vs Shoichi

Its been six days since i got ma guitar, i must say, the pains are almost gone, now im working on hitting the chords right and on time. ive been practicing to play ode to joy in this video from youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsmxhYK-SF8&feature=related

Thats all well and good, i guess im improving faster than i thought, but something is really really bothering me now.

I hate the fact that im supposed to play an acoustic first, it sucks, and now its come to the point where id like to call it the Krauser vs Shoichi internal war.Read it up on wikipedia wont u, its hard to explain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Metal_City

But in my case im krauser and now forced to play some acoustic instead. It bugs me so much im usually playing the album blooddrunk while practicing, atleast then i wont fall asleep, and not to mention the songs knda stimulate me so i can keep on going....this is almost torture....just wait...when i get my hands on my electric, this acoustic might as well end up trashed like Krauser's first one :P.

Heres hoping that happens soon, its either that or death by bodom...i mean boredom :P. Okai ima pen off from here, back to practice.

My first Acoustic :D

Yesterday, i got my first guitar, and acoustic from a nameless japan brand...plays like a beauty and still just as hard on my poor fingers....well the pain is actually getting less now.

This wud be the first time since september that id be holding a guitar even. Due to the Gamefest and some other stuffs i kinda got distracted from the guitar thing, but me saved up some dough this month and bam! Now i can start practicing in peace.

The shopping trip itself was kinda interesting actually, me and my friend (hes an expert on guitars so brought him along as a shopping guide and well its boring to shop alone too) went to like three shops. And in my knowledege the only three in male. Amazing isnt it? Though the equipment they had were pretty good actually, and im talking about electric guitars here. Island Music for instance had a Rhoads shaped guitar, like the one alexi laiho from children of bodom uses. I cud tell it was worth its price since it had two EMG pickups and what looks to be a legit floyd rose tremolo. Ok so that was a lil guitar technical stuff i mentioned but ill try to explain these components in detail in later posts. Google them if curiousity gets the best of you, ud be amazed how the electric guitar actually works. They were asking 5000 for it, and they were forced to cut the price from 7000 this month, I feel a little pity for them really, that guitar looks way more than 7000 even, and no one wants to buy it. Or could anyhow...

That being said Island Music did look like they had the better set of instruments and other related equipment like amps, but they had the biggest prices too, and for me, i hate acoustics, i just want to learn what i can from it and then smash it all over the place as soon as i get my electric, so i went for a relatively cheap one. Though its pretty good to get me to sleep, i swear i fell asleep after less than an hour of playing...well thats a good thing in a sense, but it just shows how boring it is for myself.

Twas some nameless brand, about the same size as an electric and cost about 790. Not bad i guess, it sounded great, and even after a whole day of skill-less strutting and sister and bro tampering it remained in tune, so its pretty solid.

Aside all this im still having trouble holding the chords, so i kinda taped the tips of my four fingers...and it actually works :D, hurts a lot less and its easier to press down on the strings too, i guess a week of just holding chords in place i cud finally play a decent song...but it seems a new level from where i am at the moment.

Well thats it for now, maybe it might be another month before another post, or maybe id write one this afternoon, id laugh a little right now and just say, yea it just depends on my mood.