Hahahaha... Iza is Youtubing songs from his new guitar book

[SallyMander]

He is just learning guitar, and bought a big book with a hodge-podge of all kinds of music for beginners...

Anyway, he just played this one and i almost died laughing... remember these guys???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHaI4uZ4oeg




:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

1. ... wow.

Spare him the embarrassment. Just tell him to look up Beatles tabs online. You can learn all the basic chord stuff from Beatles.

[SallyMander]

3. Well, i don't think he's going to learn that one

Yet, anyway. We were pretty entertained by the thought of him busting that out next time friends come over and ask "what have you learned?" :evilgrin:

[DarkTirade]

9. Heh. In all seriousness, though, you can skip over most of the 80s for learning guitar.

Other than working on solo riff type stuff, in which case most of the good ones are late 80s to early 90s anyway.

Chords - early Beatles.
Finger picking - late 60s early 70s stuff.
Solos - Late 80s to early 90s rock. I did mostly Metallica for that.
Power chords - Any 90s rock song that is difficult to understand the lyrics to. I personally built up my power chord finger muscles mostly on Bush's 'Glycerine' and Nirvana's 'Smells like Teen Spirit'. You can also do some of the rhythm side of the late 80s rock too, a lot of Metallica has power chords for the rhythm, ect.

[SallyMander]

10. Thanks! I will pass this along to him

He seems to be picking it up really fast. I just got him the guitar for Christmas - he is taking lessons and practicing like 3 or 4 hrs a day! Whenever he's not doing something else he is messing with that guitar. :D

[DarkTirade]

11. That'll do it.

I know somebody who used to be all high-strung, but his senior year in high school he started smoking pot and mellowed out. After high school, all he'd do was sit and practice guitar. He went from having NO musical ability or knowledge whatsoever, to being about as good as I was by the time I ran into him a couple years later. And I'd been playing since freshman year.

Although I suspect that he only started guitar because of me. Because he saw me getting chicks. :P

[SallyMander]

16. Haha - all about the girls, huh?

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

23. I was the only one of my geek group of friends in high school who actually dated.

:P

Well... not counting the one cute girl in our group of geek friends.

... who I dated.

[WCGreen]

24. Yea, if you can get through the Beatles book you will learn

all you need to know about pop music cord changes.

I think Paul was versed in old music hall tunes, based on his elaborate chord progressions and also the use of keys normally used in Music Hall kind of tunes. I think his father was an old Music Hall pianist. I think that because of the use of horns and such that are typically played in more exotic keys than rock and roll and pop music.

I may be wrong, but songs like Here There and Everywhere are beautifully crafted tone poems that perfectly compliment the lyric.

[DarkTirade]

26. It's good to go in chronological order too.

'Cause they start simple and then diversify. So their songs go with your skill level if you learn them chronologically. :)

First song I ever learned on guitar was 'Hide Your Love'.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Gunnar totally has a sock in his pants.

[SallyMander]

4. Hahaha... they totally support Iza's hypothesis

that the 80s went until 1992. :D

[PaddyBlueEyes]

5. Oh Dear God

I had a friend of mine one night at a party, drunk off his ass telling me about these hot sisters who have a band....He was talking about those two...I had to break it to him gently.....

[SallyMander]

6. BWAHAHAHA!

:spray:

That's hysterical!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

7. That was the second time with that dude

He was a little confused about Poison too....Although since you went to Brown, this was the same guy who thought it was fun to get hammered in Kennedy Plaza and ride the glass elevator at the Biltmore all night...

[SallyMander]

8. LOL! And just look at Brett Michaels now...

:puke:


I have to admit, i've gone up and down that elevator a few times myself... :rofl:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

12. Me too...

also slept in a Bess Eaton.....partied in Roger Williams Park...ate Steve's ice cream and chilled with the artist girls from RISD...

[SallyMander]

13. Aww... I loved living in Providence

When were you there? I was in college during the reign of Buddy Cianci -- a good time for the PVD. :D

I worked at RWPZoo for a while!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

14. I was there back in the early 90's

I forget who the Mayor was....I was too hammered LOL.... P-town was sweet..

[SallyMander]

15. Tons of good food, too

Thanks, Johnson & Wales grads! :9

[PaddyBlueEyes]

17. yup

Thats where my boy went...Craaaanston. Were the Copa and the Bushwacker still open when you were there?

[SallyMander]

20. I don't know!

I never went to them. My grandpa's still there though, so maybe i'll look 'em up next time i'm in town. :D

[PaddyBlueEyes]

21. I went out the front window of the copa one night

and slept on the bar at the Bush...What a week!

[BeachBaby]

18. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO!!!!!! :rofl:

Wow. I don't even know what to say.

My son just started taking lessons this past June. He loves it. But I can assure you that he's NOT learning Nelson songs.

His repetoire, so far, includes:

Smoke on the Water
Enter Sandman
Freebird
Iron Man

You know, THE COOL STUFF.

C'mon Iza - get with the program!!!!!! :hi:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

19. There ya go

and JGD...Im glad to see you upright. That was pass interference on that last play..

[BeachBaby]

25. Awwwww....thanks, hon.

I'm bummed out. Bottom line, though....they didn't play to their potential. The classic Donovan choke.

[SallyMander]

22. Hahahaha - i know, blast from the past, right?

I had completely forgotten about their existence. :rofl:

Iza's been playing a bit of everything - he is learning really fast! That's cool that your son is playing now!

:hug: