K'm Pee Du Wee is the New Stairway to Heaven!!

[Mylo]

Aha, ditto on the Serrana Arpeggios, *if* my pinky will stretch to the 22nd on the A string... If not, then Altitudes

When i'm messing with the guitar volume, I usually play 'Tender Surrender', although one person called me a 'damned jazzer' when I was playing that. Moron.

Playing Eugenes Trick Bag seems to get everyone's atention

[King Knall]

When I went to buy the Behringer X V-Amp, I thought I'd test it for a while (even though I was gonna get it one way or another). I played some Vai licks and not even one of them took notice! Yet when I played some Metallica riffs. Some older guys were staring at me!

Young Malaysian guitarsits nowadays:

Vai-Who? (no offence to those who listen to Vai)
Metallica-Yes! Play this in a guitar store and you will be respected!

[JJEMMER777]

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

Young Malaysian guitarsits nowadays:

Vai-Who? (no offence to those who listen to Vai)
Metallica-Yes! Play this in a guitar store and you will be respected!

That's not saying a lot for them now is it

[lyconxero]

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

Vai-Who? (no offence to those who listen to Vai)
Metallica-Yes! Play this in a guitar store and you will be respected!

Ah, yes. 'Tis sad but true. But (old) Metallica rocks so that's not necessarily a bad thing as long as it's played RIGHT. I've heard so many people mess up Metallica riffs in guitar stores and I think that's why it gets kind of a stigma.

[RCB]

I dont get it. You go to guitar stores to show off or to buy a guitar?

I play whatever I play when Im at home. Some improv that will probably include sweeps, taps and fast picking, but thats just because I need to know how the guitar fits me and sounds. I try at different volumes to see the response, etc ,etc , etc.

I dont see how being able to play Serrana Arpegios or something like that will change the attitude of the seller. They probable can tell who s buying and who is not by your face and attitude before you even grab the guitar.

Just my 2 cents

[prydogga]

I usually play some little pieces that I have picked up, mostly classical, or Midnight which is great for passers by, if there is a crowd nearby I crack out Scarified, Black Star or if I'm really feeling c0cky I go for Altitudes arps, and when it's a quiet shop I play blues improv or some of my own stuff.

That's usually my plan but I'll usually end up just doing whatever.

[Magical Muffin]

Originally Posted by prydogga

Ior if I'm really feeling c0cky I go for Altitudes arps,

Just a question that I have to have answered...

Do use the slides for the long arps or do you just go down the regular shapes?

[prydogga]

That also depends on how I'm feeling, I always try to get it as original as possible.

[Flobanez]

I mess around with chords and scales when I pick up a guitar in a music store after tuning it because they always seem to be out of tune no matter how good the guitar is.

[toma]

i cant play stairway to h, - normal tactic is just to get from the top of the frat board to the bottom then back in as many ways as possible. normally im not warmed up so dont play anything too fast.- jazz chords with loads of tensions are allways a winner.

[Mylo]

I go to a guitar store to buy guitars, and I play there what I play at home, but it seems when you do, you notice everyone seems to be looking at you because everyone else seems to be playing master of puppets, enter sandman or something. There's not really much point showing off in a guitar store, because there's always someone better than you, and if you're unlucky it's the shop assistant!

As for the attitude of the seller, i've been told that the JEM10 in the window is a 'display model' only for the shop assistant to bring it over to me later when he heard my feeble attempts at for the love of god. He said he didn't let me try it earlier 'cuz he thought I was some young hooligan. All that because I had a Metallica shirt on! (anyone else had things like this happen, or do I just look unfriendly lol) People these days, huh?

Hijack over

~M

[mi2tom]

Originally Posted by Mylo

I go to a guitar store to buy guitars, and I play there what I play at home, but it seems when you do, you notice everyone seems to be looking at you because everyone else seems to be playing master of puppets, enter sandman or something. There's not really much point showing off in a guitar store, because there's always someone better than you, and if you're unlucky it's the shop assistant!

As for the attitude of the seller, i've been told that the JEM10 in the window is a 'display model' only for the shop assistant to bring it over to me later when he heard my feeble attempts at for the love of god. He said he didn't let me try it earlier 'cuz he thought I was some young hooligan. All that because I had a Metallica shirt on! (anyone else had things like this happen, or do I just look unfriendly lol) People these days, huh?

Hijack over

~M

The seller is such a jerk. If I were you I won't be going there anymore

[Mylo]

Originally Posted by mi2tom

The seller is such a jerk. If I were you I won't be going there anymore

The store is under new management now and it rocks!

~M(ario)

[Cam-Vai]

yngwie's far beyond the sun (if i start, they dont bother coming over)
The start of building the church
also once
im friends with the guys in musos corner (my local shop i spend too much time in) and i was in the amp room messing on the new 20th satch and i started playing stairway to heaven (stanley jordans version, i know just the start) and brent (one of the guys) came in and started to say no stairway, but saw what i was doing and left haha

cam

[teokiatuan]

pentatonics, lots of bending