GF wants to learn to play...

Hertz32

whilst on Denmark street yesterday my Girlfriend revealed that she was reasonably certain that she wanted to pick up the guitar. Happy to lend her my acoustic for a while if she really wants to. i just have a bad feeling about this somehow... That, or it'll be fine and I'll just have to marry her so GAS isnt ever a problem Gonna encourage her to teach herself for the most part, if you can be determined enough to manage getting to a solid beginner standard by yourself. Then it may be worth her buying herself an instrument and getting lessons for a bit.

ICBM

Gives you a good excuse to buy a second more specialist guitar - something like a parlour acoustic, a small electro, or something like that - for her to use so you can play together (kind of hard to teach using the same guitar)… what's not to like?

Hertz32

I think her plan is to become Syn Gates and therefore a shred demon she's as much of a metal head as I am, so in order to keep her interested she's gonna want to play along to stuff she likes. Which is either Avenged Sevenfold and uses a Floyd (not a beginner trem really) or in Drop A# or Drop G. So, she teaches herself A, G, F, C chords on the acoustic and then I think she'll end up with a Jackson Dinky 7 string and a Blackstar ID Core 40. Given that she has a good few hundred stockpiled gonna be funnnnn

breakstuff

Perfect opportunity to by a Hello Kitty Strat.

Strictly for her of course

jd0272

Hertz32 said:

I think her plan is to become Syn Gates and therefore a shred demon she's as much of a metal head as I am, so in order to keep her interested she's gonna want to play along to stuff she likes. Which is either Avenged Sevenfold and uses a Floyd (not a beginner trem really) or in Drop A# or Drop G. So, she teaches herself A, G, F, C chords on the acoustic and then I think she'll end up with a Jackson Dinky 7 string and a Blackstar ID Core 40. Given that she has a good few hundred stockpiled gonna be funnnnn

Middle child loves DC and ZZ Top. I will, however, be starting him off on Thursday with Jingle Bells, and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Needs must.

Deadman

You'd do worse than asking her to join this forum. She'd be a rare breed.

breakstuff

Just imagine if all our other halves decided to join the forum all at once.This place would be unrecognisable.

I know serious relationships shouldn't have secrets but even Mrs B would have trouble understanding my secret lust for Katie Hopkins.

Bucket

breakstuff said:

my secret lust for Katie Hopkins.

You sure you want to admit to that?

Anyway, no actual constructive advice to offer other than that @breakstuff consults a doctor.

jd0272

Bucket said:

breakstuff said:

my secret lust for Katie Hopkins.

You sure you want to admit to that?

Anyway, no actual constructive advice to offer other than that @breakstuff consults a doctor.

Meh, I'd have a go.

breakstuff

It's a cross I have to bear @bucket

holnrew

Deadman said:

You'd do worse than asking her to join this forum. She'd be a rare breed.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67353000/jpg/_67353755_jeremypaulrb8loaghtanrama3.jpg

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Can't take the country out of the boy...

breakstuff

Like your avatar @holnrew

Really cute.

holnrew

I've gone and changed it now because my face was in it a bit.

breakstuff

/\ you put yourself down too much mate.

Hertz32

@holnrew I liked the twatty rabbit and you! Don't be shy mate, for years I thought you were an actual rabbit, now you're just having some kind of cross species identity crisis.

TinLip

This is a bad idea. She will soon lose interest because it is "too difficult" and her "fingers get sore" and will then resent you for playing - or keep asking you to play fucking twinkle twinkle little star for the children. 

Run.

Run like hell.

holnrew

Anybody made a fingering joke yet?

p90fool

Nobody is "reasonably certain they want to pick up the guitar". You only learn by being obsessed, so if she isn't already spending every spare minute plunking about on it to see what comes out then she's fooling herself and you.

I've lost count of the number of people who've told me they have a guitar in the corner but "nobody has shown them how to play it". If you're not curious enough to pick it up and start messing around on your own then no amount of lessons will help.

It sounds to me like she's making an admirable attempt to share an interest with you, but it's a dead end IMO, sadly.

Hertz32

I havent lent her the guitar yet, so hasnt really had the opportunity to pick it up I said reasonably certain, she said "i really fucking want to learn" we shall see either way though

Hertz32

Girlfriend has decided upon a Schecter Omen Extreme 7 for a first electric, should she agree with the acoustic. Theres one on ebay for £300 with BKP Ceramic Warpigs that I've noticed too... Looking at amps, I think the Blackstar ID Core is probably a decent practice amp for her. Will probably go to Brighton and GAK for a day to see soon, if she gives up on the guitar, I'll happily buy the Schecter off her, and the ID core would make a decent stereo due to the FRFR speakers in it. Any other suggestions for a sub £200 metal centric practice amp?