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If you want to learn how to play electric guitars or bass guitars it helps if you have an idol. Even when it comes to purchasing the bass guitar packages and electric guitar packages you want to play you can use the influence from someone that you admire.Whether it was coincidence or influence from The Beatles, the early days of rock found the hollow body or semi-acoustic electric guitars used widely. At some point after the use of the stratocaster style electric guitar kind of took over as being the most popular.
For me I am partial to the j-bass and p-bass style, and of course the bass guitar that Paul McCartney made famous the vintage violin bass guitar. I found that having these different style bass guitars, and playing them both personally and on stage, that your sound is broadened by the contrasting sounds.
I chose these bass guitars because of my idols Paul McCartney as stated before, Jim Fielder of Blood Sweet and Tears, and James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers who were the body and soul of the Motown sound of the 1960′s.
Skiffle is the name given to music in the early twentieth century. It was mix of many kinds of music like country, jazz, folk, and blues. What made it different was that it was played with home made instruments.While it started in the United States it found its way to the UK in the 1940′s, and it’s a good thing it did. This music was the early influence of the most innovative and successful electric guitar packages ever to be assembled, The Beatles, So I guess you could say if it wasn’t for Skiffle music there wouldn’t be the rock and roll that was to follow.
While The Beatles honored us with the sounds from there electric guitars and bass guitars it was Skiffle music that implanted the rock and roll seed.
When it comes to electric guitars and bass guitars everybody’s a critic, especially on the Internet. Everyone wants to tell you that the cheap electric guitars that you are looking at are no good, when the opposite is actually true.
New York Pro Guitars and Stadium Guitars are what you would call cheap electric guitars. What makes them cheap is the fact that they don’t cost a lot, and they are not made by one of the high dollar guitar manufacturers. While this may be true the word cheap only applies to the fact that they don’t cost a lot. Many people have tried these electric guitars and found they are really quite well made. There finish equals that of a high dollar guitar, and if it;s an exact duplicate that you are looking for there are some people who purchased these guitars and replaced the electronics with that of a Fender and for a fraction of the cost have a high quality electric guitar.
The first thirty years of rock were the best in my opinion, and I think in most of yours. The early years there was a lot of use of semi-hollow electric guitars, like the Memphis Jazz made by Glen Burton Guitars.
Many of the bands had a distinctive sound, a sound that was identifiable just to them. The Beatles were at the top of the list, mot only were they first when it came to their electric guitars and bass guitar sound they were one of the first with outstanding vocal harmonies not heard since the late fifties with The Everly Brothers. Another distinctive band was Pink Floyd. Their electric guitar sound was and still is like no other, it’s like they were dropped off from another planet.
Do you own and play electric guitars? Do you perhaps play bass guitars? Do you play and own either electric guitar packages or bass guitar packages? Have you ever thought about playing both?
Playing electric guitar or bass guitar by itself is a great thing but the ability to play both is even better. I can tell you from experience it gives you and the band that you are playing with flexibility. I am not the best bass guitar player in the world, but by no means am I the worst. As far as playing electric guitar I am OK, I know enough to get by. There was a time in the 1960′s when I was part of a jazz band with the lead instrument being a tenor saxophone. We had someone on keyboards while I played bass along with having the lead singer role. We had some songs where I would switch of bass guitar and play electric guitar while the guy playing sax would play my bass guitar. If we didn’t have the flexibility we wouldn’t have been able to play those extra songs.
Let’s face it when you’re new to playing guitar, and it doesn’t matter if you like playing electric guitars or acoustic guitars, there are lots of easy songs that you could be playing. Keep one thing in mind, there is no substitute for learning the basics, it’s just that sometimes the basics can be a bit boring.The Difference Between Professionals And Amateurs
Do you know what the difference is between a professional and an amateur? A professional knows how to cover up his mistakes. This is true in such things as woodworking and playing bass guitar. I’m sure the same is true of many other professions, but I’m only touching upon the ones that I am familiar with.
I am a professional woodworker, meaning that I make money building cabinets and furniture. I have also taken my bass guitar packages and played music professionally, meaning that I have gotten paid to do that. Let’s face it mistakes happen, in woodworking you might have an errant nail hit a void and pop out where it is not suppose to, in music you might hit a wrong note while playing bass guitar. In woodworking there are several fixes for most mistakes, in music whether your playing bass guitar like me or electric guitars the thing to do is not stop. Most people won’t realize you hit the wrong note, so keep on playing.
Sometimes in life things aren’t always what they appear to be. This can apply to an object, or to people. Sometimes it’s a question of being in the right place at the right time.
Just because there are people out there who play electric guitars or bass guitars professionally, don’t think that they are the only ones who know anything about guitars. You would be surprised at how many people out there can not only play like a professional, but have a a vast knowledge of electric guitar packages.
I have seen so called professional guitarists who are professionals just because they happen to be in a band that already has a name. This has happened in punk rock, I don’t remember the band but they needed a bass guitar player and the player they selected had no prior knowledge of playing bass, however he had the overall look they were looking for. I have also come across people in the construction field who can play electric guitar much better than some I have seen on stage.
Despite everyone telling him you couldn’t achieve a complete sound with only a three piece band Buddy Holly showed the world they were wrong. Equipped with just a double bass, a set of drums, and an electric guitar, and an arsenal of songs he single handily made rock and roll a force to be reckoned with.
Expanding on Buddy’s original idea using two electric guitars and changing the double bass for a bass guitar The Beatles brought rock and roll to limits that would stand the test of time. The electric guitar packages of the bands that followed varied, with some using Buddy’s recipe of one electric guitar like Rush, to two and sometimes even three electric guitars like The Doobie Brothers.
Guitar Packages are an attractive way to purchase that electric guitar you have been wanting to buy. These packages are available for electric guitars, bass guitars, and acoustic guitars.
Using cheap electric guitars that aren’t so cheap, they make it possible to own more than one style guitar. Many people I know who have electric guitar packages have added either acoustic guitar packages or bass guitar packages to their collection. There are some electric guitar players that have added a semi-acoustic or jazz guitar to increase their options when it comes to getting a different sound.