woot! Newb practice does pay off!

[Philly Q]

I remember this moment - it feels damn good doesn't it? :D The bad thing is that it gets harder from here on. In a few years you'll hate those minor pentatonic shapes, and every time you play you'll yearn for them to be removed from your head as you endlessly spew tired licks straight from the boxes.

Nah, I still love those pentatonic shapes.  If I didn't have those tired licks I'd having nothing to spew at all. 

[Ted 'N' Leo]

I remember this moment - it feels damn good doesn't it? :D The bad thing is that it gets harder from here on. In a few years you'll hate those minor pentatonic shapes, and every time you play you'll yearn for them to be removed from your head as you endlessly spew tired licks straight from the boxes.

Nah, I still love those pentatonic shapes.  If I didn't have those tired licks I'd having nothing to spew at all. 

+1

By the way, what the hell is phrasing?

[CaptainDesslock]

Congrats!

One question, though ... why Captain Desslock and not LEADER DESSLOCK???

teh omgz!

I am seriously shocked anyone else knows this character, actually I've never seen Space Battleship Yamato but I lived in japan and am a huge anime fan, waaayyyyyy to many series to list I've seen.

Thank you all for your encouragement, I was feeling really down as just a week ago I went into a cheapo guitar shop to try out a squier tele and it was an embarassing experience. 

I picked up this tele just wanting to hear what it sounded like to some simple Jeff Buckley tunage, first note I realized the entire thing was horriblely out of tune, tried to tune it with some dang-nabled techno contraption that took forever as this thing was more like an arcade thing then a tuner....finally after taking all this time the store clerks are looking at me and I just try to play some simple stuff and the intonation is HORRIBLE, its like the strings were floating in the stratosphere above the fretboard, it was atrocious....needless to say i felt it was pointless to pick up a guitar again until the other day while practicing again.

Thank you again for all this comraderie among strangers but fellow musicians, it is greatly appreciated...I'm in a chill mood right now as I'm listening to some chet baker...so I'll probably enjoy the tunes for a little while and then pick up ye old axe and get to it

Peace!

[Nadz1lla]

There's an old saying that goes "A bad workman always blames his tools." But I am of the opinion that in some cases, it really IS the tool that messes it up for the workman!

I'd be of the mind to tell the store to learn how to set a guitar up properly.  :P

You can't let stuff like that get you down mate, some things just can't be helped. Best thing to do is go home to a guitar that you know works properly and play your fingers off.  :D

Anyways, good luck with your studies on the Guitar, it's a magical journey.  :guitar4: