Hello. I'm new here, and you can call me Abe.
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 7:27 pm
Hello. I'm new here, and you can call me Abe.
I've lived in New England, USA all my life. Grew up in MA, then lived in ME for 17 years, then moved back down here to MA.
I have had guitars around all my life, and me and all my siblings could play some basic guitar chords since a young age. We can also drum and play some other instruments. I started to play piano decently but I no longer have access to one. Our parents were both artistic and could play, more so on the guitar for my Dad and other forms of art for my Mom. Between the ages of 16-24 especially I really took it seriously, studied, and learned in a self-taught way to become more of both a rhythm and a lead guitar player. I like all kinds of music, but I'm more of a jazz-inclined freestyling jamming sort of player. I never play anything the same way twice and I'm actually kind've useless when it comes to composition as I don't memorize things very well and I play via feel. I can sometimes wing it from scratch successfully.
Guitars I've had were Harmony, Hohner, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Ibanez, Taylor, and most recently a PRS. Much of which was lost due to unpredictable life events and an electrical house fire in ME. (All humans and cats made it out safely though and that's what matters most.)
So recently after a long hiatus I decided to get back into playing music on guitar. First I acquired a new Taylor acoustic. Every time I started playing a lot on it I would do too much too fast and create blood blisters on my fingertips before gaining my callouses back. So next I bought a Breedlove Nylon string guitar and played more on the softer strings. Most recently I acquired my current electric guitar which is a hollowbody PRS that I really like. I've since stretched and worked out my hands and fingers and gained back some callouses, mostly catching back up to where I left off years ago. Myself, two brothers, and a friend are thinking of getting back together to jam like we used to so I'm hoping we can have some musical success with that.
So basically I registered at some forums like this just to be relevant with the musicality of my efforts. Currently I've been on a break from playing a couple hours per day because I seem to have sprained my left ring finger a bit excitedly doing full step bends on the G and B strings.
I may share some pics of my current guitars and some old live jam recordings of myself and my bros playing together.
Thanks for having me. I hope to share and learn some about playing music and the instruments and gear we do it with.
I've lived in New England, USA all my life. Grew up in MA, then lived in ME for 17 years, then moved back down here to MA.
I have had guitars around all my life, and me and all my siblings could play some basic guitar chords since a young age. We can also drum and play some other instruments. I started to play piano decently but I no longer have access to one. Our parents were both artistic and could play, more so on the guitar for my Dad and other forms of art for my Mom. Between the ages of 16-24 especially I really took it seriously, studied, and learned in a self-taught way to become more of both a rhythm and a lead guitar player. I like all kinds of music, but I'm more of a jazz-inclined freestyling jamming sort of player. I never play anything the same way twice and I'm actually kind've useless when it comes to composition as I don't memorize things very well and I play via feel. I can sometimes wing it from scratch successfully.
Guitars I've had were Harmony, Hohner, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Ibanez, Taylor, and most recently a PRS. Much of which was lost due to unpredictable life events and an electrical house fire in ME. (All humans and cats made it out safely though and that's what matters most.)
So recently after a long hiatus I decided to get back into playing music on guitar. First I acquired a new Taylor acoustic. Every time I started playing a lot on it I would do too much too fast and create blood blisters on my fingertips before gaining my callouses back. So next I bought a Breedlove Nylon string guitar and played more on the softer strings. Most recently I acquired my current electric guitar which is a hollowbody PRS that I really like. I've since stretched and worked out my hands and fingers and gained back some callouses, mostly catching back up to where I left off years ago. Myself, two brothers, and a friend are thinking of getting back together to jam like we used to so I'm hoping we can have some musical success with that.
So basically I registered at some forums like this just to be relevant with the musicality of my efforts. Currently I've been on a break from playing a couple hours per day because I seem to have sprained my left ring finger a bit excitedly doing full step bends on the G and B strings.
I may share some pics of my current guitars and some old live jam recordings of myself and my bros playing together.Thanks for having me. I hope to share and learn some about playing music and the instruments and gear we do it with.