Search for re-inspiration! please help.

[jibidy]

I have been playing now for about 2-3 years and i am very involved with guitaring now. But i think ive lost my passion to pick up and play. So the conclusion ive come to is to sell most if not ALL of my gear and start again. ill give you a list of my gear so get an idea.

Peavey v-type new neck through with Miracle Men which i will defiantly keep
Epiphone G400 custom shop 1969 re-issue (like Angus Young)my 2nd geet
Schecter Damien 7
21 year old kramer focus 1000 that was given to me. (WARPIGGED)
-into-
boss 7 band eq
-into-
randall rh150g3 limited camo edition with non-camo but model matching cab
with a marshall vibrotrem in the FX loop.

I tune down to drop D then another two steps so it is drop C
my seven is just dropped to A

i like my amp but i think i could find something better.

Generally looking for Playability to puch my playing and versatility. so im considering ibanez's as my next step up

Anyone interested in this gear feel free to make offers. be generous please i am a skint student. but i know nothing here is worth much anyway.

Or any suggestions on new gear or gear you think i should keep, every reply is much appreciated serously!!!

Thankyou all incredibly much if you made it this far i know its a long post.

Cheers! :drink:

[MDV]

There are better and more fulfilling ways than new gear to make you play.

Asside from anything else its gonna get really expensive, cos you'll just get used to/bored of the next thing. And the next. And so on.

Gear is a tool to play music. Music isnt a tool to play gear. Make the music your inspiration and motivation.

Broaden your musical horizons. Listen to things you wouldnt normally, try and play new scales, rhythms, styles, techniques, songs.

Hang out with musical people/different musical people (any music pubs round your end of the world? Good place to challenge someone to a game of pool or strike up a conversation about whatevers on the jukebox) and jam with them. Write songs, start a band.

[sambo]

^+1 on everything said above.

Playing with other musicians really is the most dramatic factor in wanting to keep playing and progressing (in my opinion).

Aside from that, at the most fundamental level, learn a solo you've also found really cool... start working out stuff by ear and play along.

Every few months I hit a dry spot, and then I remember a solo I've always loved but never been able to play. So I set myself the goal of learning it.

Gear is awesome but I think in a couple of weeks you'd probably be back in the same rut if changing equipment is all you did.

[jibidy]

At the moment i am recording lil' bits. i do quite abit of recording with lots of people and with lots of diffeent equipment as i am studying Music tech.

i can get really nice recordings with most people but i feel my equipment keeps letting me down and recording becomes a drag. then i dont feel like practising. i think im just looking to buy something that i can progress more with, i was thinking a ibanez 7string and a line 6 and for versatility and playability.

but i do hear where your coming from i do play lots of different things, i enjoy all shades of music, i have many guitar mags and i pretty much learn from them.

im just thinking of a step up gearwise.

maybe starting a band will be a great thing but i woul still like to find some more practical gear.

Thanks

[kevincurtis]

+1 to all that - I've you have lost the desire then you've got 3 choices, find new inspiration using MDV's excellent advice, take a break and see if that rekindles it, or maybe music just isn't for you........if the last one made you go "NO WAY!" then maybe you need the first one ;)

[Roobubba]

Dude, that amount of gear puts many people's collections to shame. I doubt that it's really the gear that's letting you down.

I get bored/side-tracked quite often myself, but playing in a band has been fantastic for me. Now OK, I'm not picking up the guitar as often as I would like to, or should. But at least once a week I get to crank the amp and work through new material with the band - and that keeps me playing and challenging myself through the "dry" periods.

While we're all obsessed about gear, it shouldn't take over from what we do with it, which has always and will always be the most important thing for us musicians!

Roo

[jibidy]

cool cheers guys i think im gonna take a break from laying down the guitar tracks and start to work on the rest of the music get some other people involved and maybe even have a jjam with some people.

just now i went and put my schecter damien down another step so now it in G....G sounds relly fat. Ill put something down with that for sure

cheers guys im gonna go play :twisted:

[gamesandy135]

Jamming with someone else is a very satisfying experience, when you can weave together without discussing anything then that's one of the best feelings.  But yeah, +1 to what everyone else said, some good advice.  When I get a bit lax in my playing, I try to find a song that I've always wanted to be able to play and make a point of learning that song.  It's great when you finally get there.

[indysmith]

just stop playing guitar for a while if you don't want to and spend the time when you'd usually be practicing on just listening to the music you like. It'll make you want to play guaranteed.