Guitar Thread

I have a day off work and I've just picked up my trusty Ibanez AKJ85 which has sadly been gathering a thick layer of dust in the corner in recent times and realised I barely remember anything I have learned in the 8-9 years I have played the instrument aside from odd riffs and licks all I can seem to do now is noodle around in the minor pentatonic scale. When I lived in Birmingham I used to teach kids for £15 an hour which was a lot of fun and I think I became a better player because of it, however when I moved to the Leicestershire countryside I found it difficult to find any interested parties for lessons and eventually gave up, my guitars have seen less and less use since then and I've sold all except the aforementioned Ibanez.

I really want to get back into playing now, if only to be able to play my little girl to sleep at night when she's born and further down the line, teach her to play. I'm sure we must have some other guitar players on here, what guitar(s) do you have? and can you recommend some decent tuition websites?

I'm not a very good player, I a lot of chord shapes, I can play bar chords and I know the blues scale and one major scale (I think, it's been about 6 years since I stopped having lessons). Only play now and then, most country because it's easiest, usually about the same 3 chords!

I've got this Adam Black guitar (not this actual one but mine's identical, down to the Bigsby, which I'm told is rare? I don't know...)

Nice guitar! Bigsby tremolos arn't rare I don't think, just costly, I had one on a Gretsch guitar I used to have, however people pay a lot to buy them and have them fitted to guitars that don't come with one, especially vintage ones. I always found that guitar difficult to keep in tune which was perhaps down to the Bigsby.

Ah, maybe expensive was what I meant instead of rare!

Six years of playing drums means I feel more confident with the sticks. Particularly as I taught myself, which saved me from getting a possible Terrence Fletcher.

I've got two guitars - one is an old Spanish-made acoustic the family got when I was 10 as they wondered if any of us was musical, and a cheap Stratocaster copy my cousin learned on before getting a Fender Telecaster. Not very good at either, although I do like playing on it from time to time, and I'd like to learn more so I can finally finish one of the song ideas I've had in my brain for ages.

There's mine. Like you though I haven't played regularly in a few years and they mostly gather dust now.

Nice, that a BC Rich on the left?

Yeah a Warlock, just the basic Bronze series model but it still has a great sound. The difference in quality between it and the more expensive models is smaller than the jump in price so have never regretted getting it.

Santa visited me a bit early this year;

Sounds amazing for the price. Just ordered some hooks to mount it and my old Ibanez artcore on the wall.