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Location: Oceanside, CA | Hi Everyone,
I'm T.H. from So. Cal. via Iowa. I haven't played a guitar in almost 35 years, but went out today and bought an Ovation Celebrity GC-28. What a beautiful, affordable instrument.
I'm starting fresh on the learning again. Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Happy strumming..... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome to Club!
It's never too late to learn and you can't have too many guitars! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | get used to sore fingers.
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Welcome, welcome!! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Welcome T.H. - you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know here - and some of it is guitar related! |
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Location: GA USA | Welcome TH! Ask anything you want and you'll get many stupid and brilliant answers.
If you haven't played in 35 years you must be a lot older than the rest of us :) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | TH,
Welcome to the 'O' madness!
First hint, buy a US Ovation from one of the members here! You'll never regret it and never look back...
Have fun here and grab the Tums (GAS)... |
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Location: Oceanside, CA | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
If you haven't played in 35 years you must be a lot older than the rest of us :) I guess you'd say I'm an aging rocker. Just turned 60 this week. Great era to grow up in. Got to see the pioneers of rock in person: Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Bob Dylan, Jethro Tull, the Yardbirds and so many more that you wouldn't believe.
I've never been much of a player, but I still enjoy it.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.... |
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Location: big island | aloha and welcome, TH! at 60 you're about in the median age range of this group ;) |
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Location: East Tennessee | Welcome T.H.,
Try playing along with a favorite artist on CD. It will help you ear and get you up to speed with chord changes. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Welcome!!!
(please learn to use "Search") |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Tips?
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1)Buy a tuner, then,
2)Take some lessons, then
3)Buy a book like, You Can Teach Yourself Blues Guitar, by Mel Bay. Go thru the book on your own, then
4)Start learning some guitar centric songs, then
5)When you get to about 12 songs, find someone to play with.
Play everyday, even if it's just five minutes.
Get a subscription to Guitar Player or Acoustic Guitar ...
Buy music gear on a regular basis. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Buy a Guitar Stand!
Someone told me that long ago, and it is true.
If your guitar is in front of you, you are more likely to play it.
And Welcome. :cool: |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Welcome TH!
Just turned 60 this week and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
60... that'd be pretty good for an IQ around here. :D |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Buy a Guitar Stand! Absolutely!! My #1 guitar is out on a stand in my study and I pick it up anytime my mind starts to wander from my research, even if its only for 5 minutes at a time.
Also, log into this forum regularly. Cognitive dissonance sets in and you start thinking "I should be playing my guitar instead of reading about other people's amazing guitar collections and getting jealous".
Also, Welcome. This is a great community. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by T.H.:
Just turned 60 this week. :rolleyes: Geeeez, another young 'un'!
Hey, Happy Birthday! Now just don't let that mind know how old ya are!!! ;) |
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| Welcome. I sure hope your smarter than the rest of the older farts in here. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Who're you calling dumb young ass! I mean who are you calling old young ass. No I mean ... wait ... what was I doing? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by T.H.:
Just turned 60 this week. :cool: You can get 20 cent coffee at McDonald's now, Right? :cool:
~ :mad: Bunch o' young, dumb, whyzasses :D ~ |
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Location: Vernon CT | Welcome "aboard" T.H.!! |
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| At 60 it puts you at least 13y and probably as many iq points ahead of me........... at least according to a majority here.
welcome T.H.
Glenn |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Welcome, T.H.;
Here on the board you will learn everything you've ever wanted to know about Ovations and Adamii, and everything you never wanted to know about everything else. A very eclectic blend of the useful and useless. ;) :D
This is a wonderful place to hang out--we kid each other, laugh (and occasionally cry) with each other, encourage each other, annoy each other, some of us pray for each other, but...the family resemblance is most notable in our passionate devotion to Ovation guitars.
If you don't suffer from GAS now, you probably will--an inherited family weakness.
Welcome aboard--the ride will be a good one.
--Karen |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | WorkShopLive.com |
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Location: Michigan | Welcome T.H. I Wanted to ask you if you saw all of those musicians back then in the 60's did you ever hear or see the one calling himself CLIFF ? He is still alive and an active member here.GWB :D :D :D |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
Welcome T.H. I Wanted to ask you if you saw all of those musicians back then in the 60's did you ever hear or see the one calling himself CLIFF ? He is still alive and an active member here.GWB :D :D :D Cliff's gotta be dead. If he's still alive, he'd be... ah let's see, well, old! At least he'd look really old......
Welcome T.H. Next time we have a gathering up here, you'll have to come on over..... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Welcome Aboard T.H. ... You may want to fasten your seatbelt. |
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Location: NJ | Learn about llamas (and trebuchets).
Welcome. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | CLIFF...HE'S ALIVE!!!
Seriously, welcome to the club...happy birthday and congrats on your new guitar! Don't worry about the group here: most have had their shots... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
most have had their shots... ...  ... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hint #1: Play 'till it hurts.
Hint #2: Repeat daily.
Hint #3: When it takes more than 12 hours to hurt, take rest breaks.
After 10,000 hours, you will be a certifiable guitar genius. (or commitable...)
Welcome aboard. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Welcome from downunder T.H. Enjoy your time here. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | quote:
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Also, don't worry about your guitar sounding crappy when you play it just now.
In 10,000 hours it will sound much better; after you have played the s**t out of it. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Origanally posted by TAFKAR:
Who're you calling dumb young ass! I mean who are you calling old young ass. No I mean ... wait ... what was I doing? Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Welcome, TH, from another Iowa transplant. I even have my Hawkeye tie on today. It's good to have a member even older than me. |
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Location: Tennessee | Welcome TH. Come get together and play with some other old farts ... and I'll come too. ;)
If you can make the trek up to Southern OC, I'll come down from Santa Monica when I'm there and we should hook up, maybe with the moody one. Just getting together and jamming with people will do wonders for your playing, even if it only involved three chords. |
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Location: new jersey | welcome t.h.
i'm new here as well. congrats on the celebrity. my only advice would be to not get overwhelmed at first. if you find yourself getting frustrated trying to learn something, move on to the next thing or put the guitar down for a while and come back to it later. most people who quit playing,(in the beginning) do so because it becomes more like "work" than pleasure.
once you learn the basic chords and ways to strum, the sky is the limit! |
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