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TVvoodoo said:
is @LiveeviL2000 perhaps young enough to bring some Tom Petty? A little Free Fallin' perhaps?

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look, no helmets! Kids weren't bubble wrapped back then
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Yeah, that was my childhood... No mandatory seatbelt laws, no video cameras EVERYWHERE, no helmets required, you got a trophy if you actually WON, sheeeit, the list goes on and on.
 
RIFFMASTERS Challenge 1: In the Beginning

There is a picture of me somewhere in my parents' house of when I was 5 years old holding a right-handed toy guitar that my mother bought at the 5 and 10, and I’m holding it left-handed. Hendrix inspired at an early age I guess. I have always wanted to play guitar, it was just so cool to me as a kid … 50 years later, it still is! I would grab that guitar and play rockstar anytime the radio was on, jumping around making all kinds of noise. Not much has changed since! lol!!!

Fast forward to Catholic school 3rd grade. The school was offering 3 months of music lessons for a “donation” to the school. They gave me a permission slip which had all these check boxes next to pictures of instruments and there it was! “electric guitar”!! My dream will finally be realized!! I brought the paper home to my parents and told them I wanted to learn guitar. My father, being EXTREMELY old school said no to the evils of rock n roll guitar. He told me if I wanted to learn music, it was either Piano or Accordion. I reluctantly picked piano (should have gone accordion because, Weird Al made a career of it). 3 months turned into a few more months of piano lessons and with a nun (Sister Rose) teaching me, it was no picnic. MAN she was tough, but what she was teaching me was a good bit of theory which I still use to this day.

Fastforward to high school in the mid 1980s and a few guys at school wanted to start a band (BRUTAL SEX … yes, that was for real!). They needed a bass player. They knew I played piano … I still don’t know what the connection was between piano and bass, but I said ok. I had a good stash of money from my summer jobs and paper routes, so I bought a pearl white NJ series BC Rich Warlock bass and GK combo amp. I am left-handed and all they had were right-handed instruments so that was a little tough to orient. I started putting what I learned on piano to use on bass, theory is theory after all, and its only got 4 strings, so how hard could it be? <-- I say this about everything new I try!

Fast forward some more past a couple more failed bands. I sold my bass somewhere in the 90s and now its around the year 2000 and I’m bored. I finally decided to follow my childhood dream of playing guitar. I played bass, and guitar only has 2 more strings, so how hard could it be? (see the pattern yet?) I went out and bought my Fender Showmaster, which I still have, most of you know her as “Fiona”. I bought some DVDs “How to play guitar” and started a journey which lasted on and off until about 2010 and I was forced to stop, life got in the way.

When the pandemic hit, I was not working due to the shut down and again I was bored. I was cleaning out my closet and in the back were 2 guitar cases, my Line6 FX board and a Line6 Spyder practice amp. Took my guitars out and decided to really commit to learning. I started playing again. Except now it was even easier to learn with so much material to learn from online. I was having so much fun learning and advancing, I started buying more and more gear. Bought my first Marshall amp, joined a Marshall forum, met Mitch, then he got me to join some weird online forum with a bunch of other psychos like myself and I haven’t put my guitars away since. It was in this time period that my modest guitar skills advanced the most. This is also when I started learning songs and song parts. So you see, I'm actually a late bloomer when it comes to guitar and thanks to the help of all of you here on TTR who have pushed me to try to achieve higher standards of play I am still progressing.

So now the question was, what 3 complete songs did I first learn on guitar?

In no particular order

Paranoid, because … Sabbath!!

Immigrant Song, although I play it a bit heavier now and a lower tuning (C#)

And this great singalong! Which also happens to be the first song I learned on Bass. Feel free to sing along if you wish. This also made me shake the rust off my bass slapping skills. Hopefully it sounds ok.
Gear used to record this little ditty,
HX Stomp (Ampeg, Soldano, and Ubershall Modelers)
Ibanez 605e Bass
Epiphone Explorer GT
Scarlette 2i2 interface
Reaper DAW

https://soundcloud.com/user-529226453%2Fchallenge-1-slow-ride
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
RIFFMASTERS Challenge 1: In the Beginning

There is a picture of me somewhere in my parents' house of when I was 5 years old holding a right-handed toy guitar that my mother bought at the 5 and 10, and I’m holding it left-handed. Hendrix inspired at an early age I guess. I have always wanted to play guitar, it was just so cool to me as a kid … 50 years later, it still is! I would grab that guitar and play rockstar anytime the radio was on, jumping around making all kinds of noise. Not much has changed since! lol!!!

Fast forward to Catholic school 3rd grade. The school was offering 3 months of music lessons for a “donation” to the school. They gave me a permission slip which had all these check boxes next to pictures of instruments and there it was! “electric guitar”!! My dream will finally be realized!! I brought the paper home to my parents and told them I wanted to learn guitar. My father, being EXTREMELY old school said no to the evils of rock n roll guitar. He told me if I wanted to learn music, it was either Piano or Accordion. I reluctantly picked piano (should have gone accordion because, Weird Al made a career of it). 3 months turned into a few more months of piano lessons and with a nun (Sister Rose) teaching me, it was no picnic. MAN she was tough, but what she was teaching me was a good bit of theory which I still use to this day.

Fastforward to high school in the mid 1980s and a few guys at school wanted to start a band (BRUTAL SEX … yes, that was for real!). They needed a bass player. They knew I played piano … I still don’t know what the connection was between piano and bass, but I said ok. I had a good stash of money from my summer jobs and paper routes, so I bought a pearl white NJ series BC Rich Warlock bass and GK combo amp. I am left-handed and all they had were right-handed instruments so that was a little tough to orient. I started putting what I learned on piano to use on bass, theory is theory after all, and its only got 4 strings, so how hard could it be? <-- I say this about everything new I try!

Fast forward some more past a couple more failed bands. I sold my bass somewhere in the 90s and now its around the year 2000 and I’m bored. I finally decided to follow my childhood dream of playing guitar. I played bass, and guitar only has 2 more strings, so how hard could it be? (see the pattern yet?) I went out and bought my Fender Showmaster, which I still have, most of you know her as “Fiona”. I bought some DVDs “How to play guitar” and started a journey which lasted on and off until about 2010 and I was forced to stop, life got in the way.

When the pandemic hit, I was not working due to the shut down and again I was bored. I was cleaning out my closet and in the back were 2 guitar cases, my Line6 FX board and a Line6 Spyder practice amp. Took my guitars out and decided to really commit to learning. I started playing again. Except now it was even easier to learn with so much material to learn from online. I was having so much fun learning and advancing, I started buying more and more gear. Bought my first Marshall amp, joined a Marshall forum, met Mitch, then he got me to join some weird online forum with a bunch of other psychos like myself and I haven’t put my guitars away since. It was in this time period that my modest guitar skills advanced the most. This is also when I started learning songs and song parts. So you see, I'm actually a late bloomer when it comes to guitar and thanks to the help of all of you here on TTR who have pushed me to try to achieve higher standards of play I am still progressing.

So now the question was, what 3 complete songs did I first learn on guitar?

In no particular order

Paranoid, because … Sabbath!!

Immigrant Song, although I play it a bit heavier now and a lower tuning (C#)

And this great singalong! Which also happens to be the first song I learned on Bass. Feel free to sing along if you wish. This also made me shake the rust off my bass slapping skills. Hopefully it sounds ok.
Gear used to record this little ditty,
HX Stomp (Ampeg, Soldano, and Ubershall Modelers)
Ibanez 605e Bass
Epiphone Explorer GT
Scarlette 2i2 interface
Reaper DAW

https://soundcloud.com/user-529226453%2Fchallenge-1-slow-ride
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Man that was f$#@in great!! Loved the story and the cover was killer! You did double duties with the guitar but more importantly the funky bass groove!
 
Clockworkmike said:
Man that was f$#@in great!! Loved the story and the cover was killer! You did double duties with the guitar but more importantly the funky bass groove!
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Thanks Mike. All three guitar parts were fun. Panned the Soldano right, Ubershall left and the third guitar with the funky rhythm down the middle used the ubershall for that one.
The bass was fun. Getting my plucking and slapping back for the 2 parts was a pain but once I got it it was fun.
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
RIFFMASTERS Challenge 1: In the Beginning

There is a picture of me somewhere in my parents' house of when I was 5 years old holding a right-handed toy guitar that my mother bought at the 5 and 10, and I’m holding it left-handed. Hendrix inspired at an early age I guess. I have always wanted to play guitar, it was just so cool to me as a kid … 50 years later, it still is! I would grab that guitar and play rockstar anytime the radio was on, jumping around making all kinds of noise. Not much has changed since! lol!!!

Fast forward to Catholic school 3rd grade. The school was offering 3 months of music lessons for a “donation” to the school. They gave me a permission slip which had all these check boxes next to pictures of instruments and there it was! “electric guitar”!! My dream will finally be realized!! I brought the paper home to my parents and told them I wanted to learn guitar. My father, being EXTREMELY old school said no to the evils of rock n roll guitar. He told me if I wanted to learn music, it was either Piano or Accordion. I reluctantly picked piano (should have gone accordion because, Weird Al made a career of it). 3 months turned into a few more months of piano lessons and with a nun (Sister Rose) teaching me, it was no picnic. MAN she was tough, but what she was teaching me was a good bit of theory which I still use to this day.

Fastforward to high school in the mid 1980s and a few guys at school wanted to start a band (BRUTAL SEX … yes, that was for real!). They needed a bass player. They knew I played piano … I still don’t know what the connection was between piano and bass, but I said ok. I had a good stash of money from my summer jobs and paper routes, so I bought a pearl white NJ series BC Rich Warlock bass and GK combo amp. I am left-handed and all they had were right-handed instruments so that was a little tough to orient. I started putting what I learned on piano to use on bass, theory is theory after all, and its only got 4 strings, so how hard could it be? <-- I say this about everything new I try!

Fast forward some more past a couple more failed bands. I sold my bass somewhere in the 90s and now its around the year 2000 and I’m bored. I finally decided to follow my childhood dream of playing guitar. I played bass, and guitar only has 2 more strings, so how hard could it be? (see the pattern yet?) I went out and bought my Fender Showmaster, which I still have, most of you know her as “Fiona”. I bought some DVDs “How to play guitar” and started a journey which lasted on and off until about 2010 and I was forced to stop, life got in the way.

When the pandemic hit, I was not working due to the shut down and again I was bored. I was cleaning out my closet and in the back were 2 guitar cases, my Line6 FX board and a Line6 Spyder practice amp. Took my guitars out and decided to really commit to learning. I started playing again. Except now it was even easier to learn with so much material to learn from online. I was having so much fun learning and advancing, I started buying more and more gear. Bought my first Marshall amp, joined a Marshall forum, met Mitch, then he got me to join some weird online forum with a bunch of other psychos like myself and I haven’t put my guitars away since. It was in this time period that my modest guitar skills advanced the most. This is also when I started learning songs and song parts. So you see, I'm actually a late bloomer when it comes to guitar and thanks to the help of all of you here on TTR who have pushed me to try to achieve higher standards of play I am still progressing.

So now the question was, what 3 complete songs did I first learn on guitar?

In no particular order

Paranoid, because … Sabbath!!

Immigrant Song, although I play it a bit heavier now and a lower tuning (C#)

And this great singalong! Which also happens to be the first song I learned on Bass. Feel free to sing along if you wish. This also made me shake the rust off my bass slapping skills. Hopefully it sounds ok.
Gear used to record this little ditty,
HX Stomp (Ampeg, Soldano, and Ubershall Modelers)
Ibanez 605e Bass
Epiphone Explorer GT
Scarlette 2i2 interface
Reaper DAW

https://soundcloud.com/user-529226453%2Fchallenge-1-slow-ride
Click to expand...
Loved the story.
But I have not been able to listen to the link .
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
RIFFMASTERS Challenge 1: In the Beginning

There is a picture of me somewhere in my parents' house of when I was 5 years old holding a right-handed toy guitar that my mother bought at the 5 and 10, and I’m holding it left-handed. Hendrix inspired at an early age I guess. I have always wanted to play guitar, it was just so cool to me as a kid … 50 years later, it still is! I would grab that guitar and play rockstar anytime the radio was on, jumping around making all kinds of noise. Not much has changed since! lol!!!

Fast forward to Catholic school 3rd grade. The school was offering 3 months of music lessons for a “donation” to the school. They gave me a permission slip which had all these check boxes next to pictures of instruments and there it was! “electric guitar”!! My dream will finally be realized!! I brought the paper home to my parents and told them I wanted to learn guitar. My father, being EXTREMELY old school said no to the evils of rock n roll guitar. He told me if I wanted to learn music, it was either Piano or Accordion. I reluctantly picked piano (should have gone accordion because, Weird Al made a career of it). 3 months turned into a few more months of piano lessons and with a nun (Sister Rose) teaching me, it was no picnic. MAN she was tough, but what she was teaching me was a good bit of theory which I still use to this day.

Fastforward to high school in the mid 1980s and a few guys at school wanted to start a band (BRUTAL SEX … yes, that was for real!). They needed a bass player. They knew I played piano … I still don’t know what the connection was between piano and bass, but I said ok. I had a good stash of money from my summer jobs and paper routes, so I bought a pearl white NJ series BC Rich Warlock bass and GK combo amp. I am left-handed and all they had were right-handed instruments so that was a little tough to orient. I started putting what I learned on piano to use on bass, theory is theory after all, and its only got 4 strings, so how hard could it be? <-- I say this about everything new I try!

Fast forward some more past a couple more failed bands. I sold my bass somewhere in the 90s and now its around the year 2000 and I’m bored. I finally decided to follow my childhood dream of playing guitar. I played bass, and guitar only has 2 more strings, so how hard could it be? (see the pattern yet?) I went out and bought my Fender Showmaster, which I still have, most of you know her as “Fiona”. I bought some DVDs “How to play guitar” and started a journey which lasted on and off until about 2010 and I was forced to stop, life got in the way.

When the pandemic hit, I was not working due to the shut down and again I was bored. I was cleaning out my closet and in the back were 2 guitar cases, my Line6 FX board and a Line6 Spyder practice amp. Took my guitars out and decided to really commit to learning. I started playing again. Except now it was even easier to learn with so much material to learn from online. I was having so much fun learning and advancing, I started buying more and more gear. Bought my first Marshall amp, joined a Marshall forum, met Mitch, then he got me to join some weird online forum with a bunch of other psychos like myself and I haven’t put my guitars away since. It was in this time period that my modest guitar skills advanced the most. This is also when I started learning songs and song parts. So you see, I'm actually a late bloomer when it comes to guitar and thanks to the help of all of you here on TTR who have pushed me to try to achieve higher standards of play I am still progressing.

So now the question was, what 3 complete songs did I first learn on guitar?

In no particular order

Paranoid, because … Sabbath!!

Immigrant Song, although I play it a bit heavier now and a lower tuning (C#)

And this great singalong! Which also happens to be the first song I learned on Bass. Feel free to sing along if you wish. This also made me shake the rust off my bass slapping skills. Hopefully it sounds ok.
Gear used to record this little ditty,
HX Stomp (Ampeg, Soldano, and Ubershall Modelers)
Ibanez 605e Bass
Epiphone Explorer GT
Scarlette 2i2 interface
Reaper DAW

https://soundcloud.com/user-529226453%2Fchallenge-1-slow-ride
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Wicked Cool!!! Well done sir! Thanks for sharing!
 
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