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

[JJEMMER777]

Originally Posted by Bluestreak

I think the only other riff that's been abused as much as "Stairway" has to be "Ironman"...

How bout Smoke on the Water

[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

[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.

[MilkshakeFiend]

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

[MilkshakeFiend]

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)

[Eddie88]

So, it seems like nearly everybody here has some kind of "plan" before they go into a shop. _None_ of you just improvise and see what comes out??

[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

[Homebake]

if you want to scare off all those poser emo/metal teenagers that work in guitar stores and try to tell you about stuff they know nothing about, just approach a whammy bar.

they'll flee like water on oil.

but when i'm testing a guitar i always make sure i do some fast picking, fast legato, bending, vibrato, test the whammy (if applicable), play some nice extended chords, some string skipping and some heavy riffing. pretty much a little bit of every technique and area of playing.

[6fingers]

In about 12 years I didn't go to a guitar shop.Here in my country there are always a bunch of dumb metal teens playing metallica everywhere.They always play wrong and out of tune.That's why they're dumb.It's really annoying.
Besides that sellers know nothing about what they're selling so why going to a guitar shop?
I know already what guitars I like so I buy them through my puter.
Guitar shops never more.
Hey that's a cool name for a song LOL

[Lordiesel]

haha... the "can I help you?" riff.

Mine is tender surrender. I would imagine the guys working there thinking here's that guy that comes in all the time but never buys anything. Largely due to the bay.