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I fell a little bad about starting a thread like this but heck why not, I havn't been Jones'd in a while.

I was playing my gituar last night and I remembered something the great Stu said, he was talking about how he put the sweet cuppin cakes theme into a solo that he was doing and I thought, I want to learn any homestar related song that you can do on the gituar.

post yer thoughts

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

Gah. It's guitar. Dangit.

I've been playin' guitar for about 10 years now.

Wait...is this about playing guitar in general, or about homestar related guitar stuff?

Arg...the confusion!

I've been playing for about 2 years, and I don't know any Homestar Runner songs.

Oooh, I just answered two questions in one. Now that requires some talent.

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I just got a guitar/gituar for Christmas...

I've always wanted to play

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Good luck and have fun!

Learning is extremely frustrating, yet highly satisfying in the long run.

and painful in the fingers

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

^ Now that, I can imagine...

Do I really want to take guitar? Yes, of course I do! I just hope it doesn't go down the same road as my cello lessons did...

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Oh yes.


Very oh yes.

My fingers hurt all the time, but at least they are getting a good workout, what with all the time I spend on the computer and playing guitar. My fingers are like Super-fingers over here. 'Cept those lazy thumbs. I hate them so much.

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I got mad fingertip toughness.

+3 to Fingertip HP.

+9 in Performance (Guitar)

Roll fortitude...

I cheat, I use a pick. It's much easier, but you don't have the control of the natural way.

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Yeah, I use a pick too. I was talkin' about muh frettin' fingers.

I have recently switched to finger-picking my guitar. I have been using a pick for the last uh...13 years?

You get more timbres out of your fingers than a piece of plastic, so that's why I decided to switch. I am still not very good at it. Everything comes with practice. I have nowhere to go but getting better.

I have not learned any Homestar songs, though that song about bread seems pretty tempting.

My favorite chord is currently a version of the C minor. From the lowest note to the top, it is: X - 3 - 1 - 0 - 1 - X.

There is a bunch of great walking bass lines that can come from it, and it is fun to play for hours. I have also turned my low E to a low C for extra bass - y goodness.

Any other favorite chords? I would like to expand my musical vocabulary.

I learned a buncha wierd quirky chords from playing funkay acoustic worship music.

One of my favorites is D/F#

2-0-0-2-3-0

Yeah...that sounds cool to me...Sounds a little ominous between a G and an E minor.

I use my thumb to hold the second fret on the sixth string. Then the index holds the 2 and middle holds the third fret on the second string.

Fun.

Aww, don't fret, little fingers...

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IJ strikes again! What I really want to do is just give people a place to talk about the guitar. If any of you happen to pick out a H* related tune here's a place to put it.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

I'm learnin' bass. It is much harder on the fingers than learning guitar! Hurts to type

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I am hoping to get hooked up with a full-size stand-up bass soon. I can't wait. A dream will be fulfilled.

Thank you Agent for that chord: very nice. I think I have switched between a D minor and an F sharp major (tension, then release) but I have never combined the two in one feel swoop (or is it one swell foop?)

I have a huge blister on my thumb from finger picking. I have to take a break or suffer the consequences. Bloody thumb being the consequences. Or consequence, rather.

Rather.

No prob, knob! That is a really cool chord.

I've never been that big on finger-picking...maybe cause it's really not my style. It's not that I'm not good at it...I just don't care to do it much, ya know?

I play guitar. I can play "Oh, yeah," but that's just D and A a couple of times. I really can't play anything except songs I've taken the time to look up on the internet, and that's just some TMBG and some White Stripes. I've recently started writing songs with my friends; I like to say I'm good, but saying it dosen't make it so. I use a lot of power chords (or "fifth chords," as they are called), but my favorite chord right now's plain old G. Dosen't get any better than the classic G. I use a pick, and one day when I'm big and famous, I'm going to get special picks made and throw them into the audience at concerts.

My cousin got a bass for Christmas, and the first time he tried to tune it he broke a string. A nice story I like to tell.

Clever Danielle said:


I know what's that like, I did it too and I was so PO'd.
How about musical infulances? I get mine from NOFX (a bad infulance if you know anything about them), SOAD and Bad Religion.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

Musical Influences:

Stephen Malkmus from Pavement. I like the seemingly effortless swanky lurching all over the fretboard, like a constant musical smirk.

Nick Drake. Soft and exact.

Charlie Byrd. Practiced and always improving. I would like to learn more jazz, I think it would make me happier.

J Mascis. Holy bejonk can that man talk with a guitar.

And of course Jerry Garcia. Again, Holy bejonk can that man talk with a guitar. The Grateful Dead is a band that you can rediscover for your entire lifetime.

I would say Jimi Hendrix, but that's too obvious.

Oh, George Harrison, too. Another obvious one.

Nodding to Danielle, I like Jack White also. He plays with a presence heretofore unseen round these parts. That man's got something special.

Anotehr favorite chord: 10-9-12-11-0-x, an eggarated D3 conglomeration. It sound so happy that it's ...depressing, almost.

Hey, Coolguy, I am enjoying writing in your topic. Good idea. You remind me of my friend Scott, who I haven't talked to in a while.

Moving away from Punk other than the Ramones, the godfathers of punk rock (their infulance and legacy fills my winamp playlists)

Hendrix hands down, the entire fact that he was too poor to afford a left handed guitar and he still learned and become godly on an upside down guitar is impressive.

I have to give props to Master Garcia too because I'm mostly forced to lisen to it because it's my mom's favorite band but I've learned to like it and how awsome the guitar parts are.

I'm also going to dole out some congratulations to Green Day, oh man how can I forget about them. I usually don't listen to bands that have a lacking of members (Green Day only has 3 so they have to use a proxy guitarist for concerts and overlapping tracks for their CDs) but they have a flair to them that hasn't been seen on the music scene for a long time. Oh Billy Joe, how can you sing so well and look so scary?

Jello Biafra, he just has such a great voice that he forces his guitarists to make up awsome accompnyments(sp?)

And thanks lumberjack vegetable I feel like I just got +5 coolness.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

I just started learning guitar and had my first lesson on Friday. It's fun and easier than it looks.

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Guten tag, Johann, du riechst ganz richtig. Danke schon, Heidi. Und du auch. - A Bit of Fry and Laurie

My friend who is also taking lessons right now tought me a simple excercise to practice so I can break in my fingers, practice strumming up and down and it makes a pretty awsome sound to boot. If I can figure out how to write tabs using some kind of program or something I'll post it here.

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Hmmm...so many peoples...

Dave Matthews: Fairly obvious...I like to think of myself as an "acoustic groovist"

Matt Theissen: Oh, yeah. Relient K has definitely influenced my writing style.

Tim Reynolds: Yeah...same boat as Dave. Gotta love it.

Various Video Games: For some crazy reason, I get inspiration from video game music...I've always wanted to remix Super Mario 64's music with real instruments...but that's just me...

Other than that...I dunno. I'm actually completely self taught...I learned by listening to music and figuring out songs...

My first songs I learned completely were "Sanitarium" and "Fade to Black" by Metallica...

So you were a metallica freak like most of my school before you went all high and mighty (and graduated from high school......)

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

Before I got all high and mighty?

Oh, yeah. Metallica freak = me in the 90's.

I'm sorry, I know this is off-topic, but reading that along with your signature below was just way too appropriate for me to let pass by.

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Heh, yes, the Metallica-Freakiness is directly linked to the tightness of one's pants.

Hey, I got that stand up bass.

The tuning is just like the electric bass or guitar: E - A - D - G.

That thing rocks. The finger picking is coming in handy.

In regards to pants, I remember seeing a study that Metallica listeners wear black pants 77% of the time, and tight pants only 46% of the time, so I would ask you to not continue the stereotype.