Thread: Guitar Showdown Anyone?

I'm down. Sounds like fun.

I might be interested, though I already know I can't hold a candle to most of these advanced shredders here.

I'll put my songs up against anybody's though.

Great Stuff O!

Thats two of us, lets say minimum of 2 and see how many more we get, the more we get the more interesting it will be.

If your interested please do join in!

pj - great stuff, listen pj, at the end of the day everyone is good at a certain style, i'm not a shredder, i suck at it. But thats the point of putting in different styles because it will make it more interesting instead of people choosing what they want.

Please join in! Its about how well people adapt and play to the style, not if they can pick 1000 notes a second.

metal guitar reporting in.

I don't play gutiar but I've been thinking on learning how to play bass. Think I should? I already play an instrument so I'm familiar with the all that stuff.

I never took lessons, but I play folk music a lot. Mostly Dylan, but I don't have a guitar here at school Maybe I'll bring it back after spring break.

For now, it looks like this is all we are going to get, so let the showdown begin!

We got;

Me
Oneironaut
pj (possibly, please say yes!)
Carousoul

I'll make the preparations and send you guys some PMs when its all ready to go. For anyone who still is interested, just drop me a PM.

Definately in. I'll solo your guys' heads off.

I have heard both Onie and pj.. I fold.

Maybe in three years give or take ten.

Oh c'mon, Howie! You are hailed in legend and song.

As for me... I still need to see how you are going to work this. You're aware that I have some additional extenuating circumstances going on in my life at the moment. Making the time to even do a simple recording in the next couple weeks might be challenging.

rather than just guitar how about just general musicianshipness? becase I don't actually PLAY guitar but I've written a few sngs for the band involving guitar.

Great to see some more interest, CB your in!

Howie, come on, it'll be fun

pj - yeah, i understand the situation at the moment, thats why i was thinking of leaving this thing until your back in action. Its no problems, it just gives some time for this to be planned out a little better since i think it needs a bit of work.

Demerzel - Hmmm, i don't know, it would be cool to include all musicianship, but i get the impression that we would get quite a lot of biased votes when it comes to voting, you see many people will probably prefer what they are hearing to what they are seeing. And you can apply that to other instruments as well, if a clarinet player was in and up against like 5 guitarists, i can see the votes again been quite biased, you can do a lot more with a guitar than a clarinet, i know because i used to play the clarinet for 6 years, but then i quit

Maybe if we did something separate for music in general in which the submissions are based purely on musical talent, not on how good it sounds, after all, we can learn a good song, but it doesn't necessarily make it good does it? Let me know what you think to a general music competition sort of thing and if people support it enough we can go for it as a separate thing.

Oh, and you guys, for the guitar showdown, i had the idea that each week we have the showdown, post ourselves on Friday, and let voting go through until Sunday. As for picking the style, i thought maybe everyone could pick their favorite style each week and everyone else has to adapt to it and play something at their best in that style. It then rotates each week based on other peoples favorite styles, i thought it may add a bit of variety to it.

What are your thoughts?

I wish I could. No web cam.

shit I'm in. BTW in guitar forums we cal these guitar Wars might wanna change the title.

Originally Posted by pj

Oh c'mon, Howie! You are hailed in legend and song.

Man that's a lot of praise for knowing a few power chords!

I'll tell you what. T Joe is on vacation at the moment, but he is one hell of a guitar player. Throw him a PM LS.

I'm down fo sho!

I'm no advanced shredder, but my loving blues riffs'll knock you off your feet.

Sorry i haven't replied to this, i just wanted to see how many more people would become interested.

So we have...

Me
Carousoul
Oneironaut
pj
CB
ranma
b12
Howie (pending)
TJ (pending)

Well, i think thats a pretty good setup of people. I'll create a PM now for you all and send it, i think we can do a trial run of this to see how it would work before hand.

Okay, so i'll send the details of what style we will be doing first and when the deadline is to come up with the piece. I think this trial will include those of us that are able to play as of now, and then future ones we can include the members who are incapacitated currently. After all its only a trial to make sure everything works out.

Is this okay with you guys?

Cool with me.

What kinds of styles are we doing? All the major ones (rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, etc) or some random ones too? I don't really have an example of random ones, but i'm sure someone can think of something. Lol.

Yeah, sounds good to me.

Yup. Same here.

Damn I hate funk.

If registration doesn't close and I can get my hands on a webcam or something I'll join!

Trying to find a pair of batteries for my cam. Figures that, as soon as I get ready to record, my cam tells me it's about to die. =/

I'll post as soon as I either find some or go to the store to get some.

Hurry up already guys, I've been finished since Wednesday.