My first experience attracting people to my playing

King Knall · #1 09-11-2005, 08:01 AM

I know that you guys don't want to listen to a teenagers guitar review, but I just had to get this off my chest. I just went to Bentley Music (the local Ibanez & Fender dealer) and tried out a few guitars. Okay, when I came into the shop I was looking at some of the Prestige series. The sales assistant approached me and asked me what I was looking for (a guitar obviously). So he directed me to the cheap Chinese made GIO series

(I'm only 14, so I don't blame him). Well I said that I wanted to have an upgrade, so he directed me to the PGM 3. I said no thanks and he directed me to the Korean made SA Prestige. What the hell? Here goes:

It had a nice feel to it. I love the neck. It was close to that of my Strat's. I immediately started shredding on it. The assistant looked amazed and said that I was pretty good. He was even more surprised when I said that I had been learning for only about a year now

. He let me try out any guitar I wanted after that. By the time I tried out the K-7, a small crowd was watching me play. I actually didn't play that good before (but the sales assistant said I was very good) but add how nice the guitars were and the peer pressure, I was on fire! The sales assistant looked at my fretting hand and tried to imitate me (he was in his 30s, I think

). I was using an assortment of hamer-ons, pull-offs, sliding, and finger-tapping so I was going pretty fast.

Has anyone ever had this type of experience? If so, add your story.
And germX, if you're reading this, the Korean Prestige models absolutely rock as hard as their Japanese counterparts!

zEr0 · #2 09-11-2005, 09:23 AM

Well, it never actually happened to me in a guitar shop but I remember having a similar experience in my Conservatory. I'm usually an average player there pretty much in the same level as the other guys in the Institute. It just happened that I was rehearsing on an open room because there were no free classrooms and somehow I was on fire that day. So after a while a lot of people started gathering to hear my playing and they were all telling me how good I was. I knew it was just one of those inspirational moments but of course I pretended that it was my normal standard. It felt pretty good

BTW I was playing classical guitar not electric.

pawel · #3 09-11-2005, 06:16 PM

In music stores I usually play about twice as badly as I usually do. Same thing happens whenever I try to record anyting

carlos grijalva · #4 09-11-2005, 08:18 PM

same here dude, i am kind of shy so it takes time for me to get use to

Andelusion · #5 09-11-2005, 08:19 PM

lol pawel i'm exactly the same, in guitar stores i just sit there and go 'um' and maybe play some crappy Amin pentatonic blues leads then wander off XD

mi2tom · #6 09-11-2005, 11:48 PM

Well good for you kamikaze

hope to see you among our great guitarist one day like man keedal..

mi2tom · #7 09-12-2005, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by pawel

In music stores I usually play about twice as badly as I usually do. Same thing happens whenever I try to record anyting

Yeah same here too. Was like quite shy and my finger can't damn move like it use to ....

guitarshredder7 · #8 09-12-2005, 12:45 AM

i accually think i play better in the guitar shops, but that might just be the better then mine amp lol

fettouhi · #9 09-12-2005, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pawel

In music stores I usually play about twice as badly as I usually do. Same thing happens whenever I try to record anyting

I get nervous as hell and then I suck even more. I can't really focus on my playing

.

Regards

André

King Knall · #10 09-12-2005, 04:02 AM

I didn't even get nervous one bit! I was playing naturally and played any song that came to mind. Ah, feels good doesn't it?

Man Keedal is hugely underrated, by the way.

Ibateur · #11 09-12-2005, 04:02 AM

I find that I always play worse after I pickup a guitar. Before that, I have some nice ideas that I think I can play.

Reality bites...

mi2tom · #12 09-12-2005, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

I didn't even get nervous one bit! I was playing naturally and played any song that came to mind. Ah, feels good doesn't it?

Man Keedal is hugely underrated, by the way.

Yeah feeling natural is good

Yeah... Man keedal is very hugely underated

Damn it

Drew · #13 09-12-2005, 10:53 AM

I remember this one time I was dicking around on a cheap $100 Ibanez acosutic, and a sales guy came up to me and started trying to sell me on a starter pack. I ripped of a picked scale run, and he kind broke off in mid sentence, and just sorta went, "or, um, maybe not..."

It amused me, anyway.

(the irony here is I ended up buying the acoustic as just a beater acoustic. It was my first Ibanez, and had one of the nicer neck profiles I'd played on a cheap acoustic to that date. It also started off a loooong and expensive addiction.

)

mi2tom · #14 09-12-2005, 11:32 AM

And yeah Kamekaze... How is the bentley shop?? Been to KL a few times but never been to bentley....

I've been close to alley cat's ex drummer and he told me that the bentley is lousy and small compared to what he have seen outside of Malaysia ....

King Knall · #15 09-12-2005, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mi2tom

And yeah Kamekaze... How is the bentley shop?? Been to KL a few times but never been to bentley....

I've been close to alley cat's ex drummer and he told me that the bentley is lousy and small compared to what he have seen outside of Malaysia ....

Well, you have to take into consideration that there aren't as many musicians in Malaysia compared to the countries he's been to. Bentley is an okay store, you just have to get serious help by playing good music (well, they treated me like a kid who's just seen a guitar when I walked in before I started playing a couple of country licks and shred solos

).