For the guitarists out there

[LittLeWinG]

You guys HAVE to check out this guy.

His name's Erik Mongrain, hes so good.

Watch this video

YouTube - Nice Acoustic Guitar Tapping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4zfDmb1IGs)

It's inspired me majorly :jointsmile:

[ThatTexasTip]

nice bro,i too have been playin the guitar for 7 years now,im pretty good,got a band together and we make a good bit of paper on lil shows here and there.

[bucknuts1870]

fucking amazing. I am workin' on my chicken pickin' right now, Vince Gill style. Though always playing the blues and workin' towards SRV status someday.

[BakedDaily0420]

sweeet. I am more of an electric guy though. FENDER hahaha how cliche

[BUZz UK]

phoar! nice man, thats really unique.

i love my guitars so much, i have 8 now :D

[BUZz UK]

no, i have 9 actually, but 3 are my dads...

[BakedDaily0420]

nice 8 guitars. What do you play?

[BUZz UK]

i got

a 335 copy

tele copy

aria electro acoustic

takamine mini

VOX standard 25 (they're like impossible to find, it's my dads)

vintage v300

some old 80's jumbo from japan

a nice little red folk guitar

epiphone 12 string

yamaha acoustic.

lol.

i play my own stuff, i don't really know about style. I guess my style is like indie/rock/funk/reggae/blues. I love playing acoustic.

you?

[BUZz UK]

sold the yamaha to some smackheads like a month ago actually, LOL.

[BakedDaily0420]

I got a Fender American standard strat and a 60th anny fender strat that i dont play. I got a marshall amp to, i love my setup. My style is blues.

[BUZz UK]

nice, i need to get a nice amp really, i want a vox.

[Purple Banana]

Great video! Anyone from the Baltimore area ever see Tobias Hurwitz? AMAZING guitarist, part of the new zen shred genre... I saw him at a show once as an opening act, and I never thought I could be put under a spell with music, now I see how it's possible... Wow.

[BakedDaily0420]

vox are good shit. i want the vox that you can just take with you i think it is like 150 watts but it is small as fuck.

[Joexi]

I'm playing an RG 320 DX with a floating tremelo through a Metal Zone distortion pedal and a Weeping Demon wah wah pedal. I play alot of older metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, etc.).

[rebgirl420]

Thats pretty good. I love making music. I play bass.

[TheNextEVH]

oh yeah Erik Mongrain is ridiculously talented.
i emailed him and he sent me the tab for "AirTap"

i thought he was pretty chill.

uhh, who likes EVH?

hahah my hero.

:)

[Purple Banana]

I have a '67 Les Paul, a '79 PRS, and an '82 Tele.

Thinking of starting drums one day... I have a pair of sticks I keep in my car for heavy traffic and loud music :P

[TheNextEVH]

i have an 1990 Ibanez RG-560, an '06 Eric Johnson Sig. Strat, and a '61 SG re-issue.

I have a 1977 Peavy Classic, with two 12" speaks.

im 15, been playin guitar for 5 years.

[TheNextEVH]

man, music is great.

[LittLeWinG]

i've been playing 3 and 1/2 years

Got a shitty guitar, forget the brand lol but i have a marshall amp, fuckin vintage, its like 15 years olds.... isnt working right now... haha

Hopefully ill be getting a custom made Maton accoustic for my 18th coming up :)

[TheNextEVH]

oh shit man, i listened to little wing like 12 times last night, i was really high.
sounded the best it ever has.
jimi hendrix was incredible.

"Well she's walkin, through the clouds"

[Reefer Rogue]

Added to favourites, thank you very much!

[Diary of a Madman]

I shred on my Yamaha Keytar.........."bwoAAAAOOOOWWWWWwww!"

I have a six string Peavey bass. I am Les Claypool.

[invision]

ive been playing for 15yrs and went through many guitars, ive settled on my Epiphone Dot Deluxe with Gibson 57 Reissued pickups and sounds simply amazing going through my Line 6 Spider amp which is way to big for just a practice amp but i have no band so i have no where to crank this baby.

[timothylearyisdead]

That's like the exact same style i use to play my acoustic, except I dont sit it in my lap.

You guys should check out Stanley Jordan. He is without a doubt the best guitarist that will ever live. Here's him doing Stairway to Heaven: YouTube - Stanley Jordan plays "Stairway to Heaven" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs)

[yoda]

eric mongrain is sick. i dont even know how to begin tapping like that. ive heard other people who try to tap like him, and they talk of being in tunings that are much different than standard, so im not even sure i want to try it.

[Acouwaila]

<<big-acoustic-fan

even-part-of-my-creative-name

i-have-4-guitars

including-a-nice-fender-acoustic-electric-and-a-takamine-g-series-acoustic-electric...

love-it

i-improvise-a-lot-on-the-e-minor-penatonics-scale....i-know-it-any-key-up-the-fret-board-tho-just-gota-learn-some-more-theory...

but-when-im-high-man-i-can-jam-on-that-shit-like-no-other...been-playin-about-4-years-now..

[Reefer Rogue]

It's like one of my fav songs now, lol :D

[ThatTexasTip]

purple banana,what kind of '79 prs,prs is my favorite guitar,im a really big fan of mark tremonti from creed,even though i hate creed,lol,he seems to have a lil randy rhoads inlfuence with that classical style,like the opening riffs to what if,one last breathe,but he can fuckin shred too.i have his signature prs with the dove inlays,its so awesome.i also have a hondo,i cant find a picture or anything of it on the net,it looks like a dimebag sign. without the v headstock.also got a washburn acoustic,got an ibanez electric in louisiana,and a yamaha acoustic.i play alot of classical music,love randy rhoads,dee is such a fun song to play.LEARN LEARN LEARN LEARN LEARN,u can never know enough about a guitar

[timothylearyisdead]

eric mongrain is sick. i dont even know how to begin tapping like that. ive heard other people who try to tap like him, and they talk of being in tunings that are much different than standard, so im not even sure i want to try it.

You don't have to be in a different tuning to do crazy tapping like that, you just have to know what you are doing

[TheNextEVH]

haha who likes Paul Gilbert?
yeeeahh

YouTube - Paul Gilbert-Guitar Solo Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmGXIrVTJ5Q)

[TheNextEVH]

You don't have to be in a different tuning to do crazy tapping like that, you just have to know what you are doing


yeah, but in about 90% of his songs are in wack tunings.
they're usually open tunings, it makes it sound out, and leaves room for mistake too. but no doubt, thats some difficult stuff.

[halfassedjediknight]

totally sounds like keys..and it even looks like hes playing a little piano haha.

fun stuff. i liked it a lot. that tapping is intense.

[Xhoshi]

i have an 1990 Ibanez RG-560, an '06 Eric Johnson Sig. Strat, and a '61 SG re-issue.

I have a 1977 Peavy Classic, with two 12" speaks.

im 15, been playin guitar for 5 years.

me too man...i got the same Eric Johnson signature strat.
I love the pickups but i think it was too much for a guitar.
Iono...how u like yours?

[TheNextEVH]

yeah that guitar owns.

[TheNextEVH]

me too man...i got the same Eric Johnson signature strat.
I love the pickups but i think it was too much for a guitar.
Iono...how u like yours?

yeah it was a bit expensive, thats for sure.
yeah the tone that thing puts outs causes eargasms man, the pickups are boss.
i love that axe.

[ThatTexasTip]

ive got peavey stack in my band room,i keep that big mother there cuz its too much to be carryin around from my house to the band room everyday.i went out a bought a line 6 spider 2,has tremolo,tape echo,reverb,chorus flange,3 types of distortion,its pretty bad ass,the "insane" distortion on the amp is fuckin bad ass,its a good little amp for just playin around at the house u know,12" speaker

[halfassedjediknight]

I got an iabenz s classic from my neighbor that sounds pretty decent.

edit ibanez oops

[halfassedjediknight]

ive got peavey stack in my band room,i keep that big mother there cuz its too much to be carryin around from my house to the band room everyday.i went out a bought a line 6 spider 2,has tremolo,tape echo,reverb,chorus flange,3 types of distortion,its pretty bad ass,the "insane" distortion on the amp is fuckin bad ass,its a good little amp for just playin around at the house u know,12" speaker

those spiders are fun!

[LittLeWinG]

eric mongrain is sick. i dont even know how to begin tapping like that. ive heard other people who try to tap like him, and they talk of being in tunings that are much different than standard, so im not even sure i want to try it.

the tunings are actually reaaaally easy to do. :D

its worth it.

[Hazle]

yea this guys damn good i seen this a couple months ago, pretty amazing. i have been playing for about 6 years, i was in a celtic rock band for about 3 years making some good cash till the mandolin and bass player decided to get married leaving me in the dust , o well i play a yamaha aex and a b.c. rich EM1 im pretty happy with them though i miss the band life.

Cheers
Hazle