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Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/play... - 5/5/2008 8:19:30 AM
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brihead301
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I'm starting this new original band. It's gonna be a trio. We're gonna be bringin back the good stuff like skynard and all that good classic rock style stuff. Straight rock n roll!
I've decided to step it up from just playing lead guitar to becoming the lead singer too. I found that playing guitar, especially lead, and singing at the same time is pretty damn tricky. I can do either one by itself perfectly, but doing both at once is very unnatural to me.
Anyone else have this problem?
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:01:13 AM
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well. i play the piano.. and i CANNOT, for the life of me.. sing and play at the same time. my brain just won't let me. i guess it's a gift. (granted, i'm doing lots of offbeat things with my hands, and also using my feet on the petal)
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:11:31 AM
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It gets easier with practice.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:31:37 AM
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Yes, practice I think. I'm taking lessons only since January, but I'm to the point with some songs that I really should sing so it sounds like the song. But I'm not coordinated enough yet. It has to come with practice and experience.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:34:50 AM
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I think this is a common problem. If what you're playing with your hands is really out of sync with what you're doing vocally it's always difficult unless you're just strumming a 4/4 beat or playing the same notes vocally on guitar.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:38:18 AM
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You have to get to the point to where what you are playing on guitar can be done without thinking. That way you can concentrate on staying in key with your voice. Start out by playing a ridiculously easy chord progression and sing along with it, or take whatever riff you are trying to play while singing and turn it into a simple chord progression. That way you can focus on the vocals, and once you get the hang of that, try doing it with the original riff. Works for me.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 9:42:29 AM
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Ya guitar is so damn easy for me, but as soon as I start adding the vocals to it, I lose track of the rhythm that I was playing. I was thinking that I could just try and simplify things by making the riff accompany the vocals, but in a 3-piece band it would lack fullness if I did that. I just have to practice my ass off I guess.
Silverfox, it's the same thing as trying to play piano to me. Trying to make my right and left hands work independently of one another is a b**** for me, but either one independantly is easy. It's weird.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 3:43:48 PM
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are you playing complicated riffs? or just playing chords? cuz if you doin crazy licks itll be hard to sing at the same time. just playing chords, like power chords, etc., should be done with no effort.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/5/2008 3:55:01 PM
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Depends on the song. As an example, I like to play Iron Maiden's run to the hills, so playing that song is easy to me. Which lets singing along pretty easy. So just get used to playing your songs and singing.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/6/2008 5:34:10 AM
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Yeah i can sing and play guitar at the same time....
Sure its guitar hero, but you never specified LOL.
Actually i am interested in learning guitar (electric, not bass or acoustic)
In general im shyte at music, my friend tried teaching me some tiny portions for me to practice and i cant do both the neck and base of the guitar if that makes sense?
I can do the neck parts good, but not be strumming at the base, or i can strum the correct ones at the base, but screw up the neck bits?
How long would it take to get average at electric guitar for someone starting out at level "hopeless" LOL.
Brihead i reckon it probably is just practice, keep at it and youll get there in the end.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/6/2008 5:45:02 AM
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Nice, you're gonna learn guitar that's awsome.
Me, I was always musically inclined, but when I first learned the guitar I was 'hopeless' for about a month. After that I started to get the hang of it. It is awkard at first. Keeping the fingers of your left hands between the frets and pushing down the strings hard enough, strumming the correct strings of the 6 total, switching from chord to chord, etc... it's very unnatural at first, but like anything else it comes with practice.
That was 15 years ago though, now playing guitar is like 2nd nature for me. I play in a cover band now, and I always have to learn new songs. There's not a single song that I'm unable to learn in under an hour, solos and everything. If it's a classic rock tune that has a lot of lead guitar such as 'That smell' by Lynard Skynard then it takes closer to an hour to learn. Most songs take me 10 minutes though considering most music nowadays is ridiculously simple. But my point is that when I first started playing guitar, it took me 2 weeks to learn how to play 'plush' by Stone Temple Pilots (my first song). I did spent a lot of my youth sitting in my room playing guitar while everyone else my age was playing sports and getting girlfriends, which is why it's so easy for me now, but that's aside the point, lol.
I figure if I put as much effort into singing/playing then it should be like second nature to me eventually. I hope so at least.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/6/2008 6:15:35 AM
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I did start to learn one of the dragonforce solos one time, but I was inturrupted and I never went back to it. Those guys aren't really that great, seriously. Fast, yes, but amazingly creative no way. They have a few patterns that they learned how to play at ridiculously fast speeds, and that's it. They remind me of Yngwie Malmsteen  . I can learn patterns and work up my speed at the patterns until it sounds like that. So yes, I can play like Dragonforce if I wanted.
9 months with steady practice is definately enough time to become pretty good. You can impress chicks just by learning a few simple 3-chord songs, it's sad. I never learned guitar for that purpose though, but now I can play stuff that, in my mind, should be insta-panty-droppers, but if my only goal was to impress chicks I could have stopped learning after only 1 month of playing. A simple Green Day song would have done the trick just fine, lol.
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RE: Anyone here that plays guitar have trouble singing/... - 5/6/2008 6:31:48 AM
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I took piano for nine years. The 'singing while you play' gets easier with time and practice. But, as in my case, if you don't use it...it doesn't feel as 'natural' anymore (even though you don't totally lose it). Keep practicing!!!
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, but when singing and playing at the same time I always screw up the rhythm that I'm playing on guitar. I just gotta practice.
