The Guitar Learner

there’s nothing more interesting in learning guitar other than covering songs we like. all exercises such like picking techniques, slide, hammer-ons and pull-offs, legato, arpeggios, those stuff made me bored sometimes. covering our idols’ songs is one of great exercises in guitar playing development.

so, what is this all about? well, some people think that covering their idols’ songs is the final results in learning guitar playing. can’t argue with that, because at first we all want that. but, as time goes by, we will be wiser and we will know our true purpose in playing guitar.  (well, i don’t. i just love guitar so much. that’s it)

and i guess i don’t really know much about this, but here are some advantages i got after my attempt to do songs cover:

– first thing is of course. fun! it feels great when you listen your own favorite songs played by your own hands. try it. here i share my video about my attempt to cover joe satriani’s song “always with me, always with you”. it is rough though (omg why I’m doing this??! )

– second, every song has its own knowledge. the song will educate us in one great package. every lick inside it is worth trying. at some points, we can assimilate them into something new in our playing.

– third, you can mark your own progress by marking it with songs. choose your own challenge. pick some songs and rate the difficulty, then you can start Learn guitar playing and mastering them one by one. the end result will be your true achievement in guitar playing.

there are more than those i wrote here. all we have to do is make our guitar learning as fun as possible and who knows, we will end up as the greatest virtuoso of all time 😉

besides our guitar playing and styles, Do we got satisfied with our guitar sounds? it’s my daily-time question actually. when i plug my guitar on stage amps and i heard different sound characters (because i haven’t got any amps for my playing). well, one of my solution is putting the guitar synthesizer on my floorboard. it’s Roland GR 55 guitar synthesizer and it is a smart move i made.

so here what I’ve got. the guitar synthesizer is connected directly to mixer (it’s a tiny xenyx behringer mixer), while i can put the guitar out into my Boss GT 8 and i can connect it to the amps freely without worrying about the synthesizer’s sound output. it is a beautiful sound produced to accompany the guitar tones.

on the other hand, i have more options for minimum stage condition, it’s all handled by the Roland GR 55 since it is a versatile product. it’s a way to perfection. i already have Boss GT 8 for optimal guitar tones, and the Roland GR 55 take the sound into new vision of music and guitar playing. you can get the idea via this video:

expanding tone options by adding some rich tones with guitar synthesizer is fun. enjoy. 🙂