So I have loved surf style music all my life (born in 1959) and I want to learn how to play it.
I have:
A Stratocaster
A Princeton Reverb Reissue
A Carbon Copy Delay
Do I need anything else (outside of talent) to succeed?
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Posted on Sep 25 2019 10:59 PM
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 11010 Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Sep 25 2019 11:01 PM
Nope. You're good to go. You'll know if and when you need to acquire more gear. —Danny Snyder Latest project - Now That's What I Call SURF I'm back playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta |
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Posted on Sep 26 2019 09:45 AM
I started with a humbucker equipped Steinberger and a computer amp simulator so you're better off than I was! — |
Joined: Apr 18, 2015 Posts: 189 Bay Area, CA
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Posted on Sep 26 2019 11:16 AM
Listen to a lot of music. Learn handful of classics. You'll be good to go! —The Reverbivores - we're local favorites! |
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Posted on Sep 26 2019 07:44 PM
There some good videos on youtube. Bruce Lindquist is one that that I found to be very useful. |
Joined: Nov 08, 2017 Posts: 356 San Francisco Bay Area
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Posted on Sep 26 2019 09:08 PM
Read the thread here about strings. Try some different types and sizes to see what you like best. —If I'd stop buying old guitars to fix, I might actually learn to play. |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19194 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Sep 27 2019 08:22 AM
Welcome to the site! I moved this thread to Surf Musician. —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Apr 13, 2018 Posts: 1340 New Orleans
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Posted on Sep 27 2019 09:57 AM
Practice with a 100% clean tone, no reverb! —Daniel Deathtide |
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Posted on Sep 27 2019 04:37 PM
Reverse engineer the whole Lost Legends of Surf Guitar CD series (4 volumes total and one compilation) Lots of standard kind of Surf riffs and moves on the fret board to pick up from all those Cd's. Best of The Ventures and Dick Dale help a lot too. I slow down all my CD's on a DJ player to pick out the notes and even can do that on a flash card as well. To me that's the best way to do it. |
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Posted on Sep 27 2019 09:51 PM
For practical tips, I'd say learn how to palm mute and do staccato picking. Also get used to the 12 bar blues chord progression. Definitely crank up the reverb, though as DeathTide suggests, you might want to practice with a clean sound and no reverb - that way your mistakes stand out and drive you to play better. Also a tremolo pedal can be useful. |
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Posted on Sep 28 2019 04:57 PM
I will have to try that 100% clean thing, I usually run with a lot of tank and drip. I'm in the process relearning all my 400 plus songs I use to know, been a while (early Summer since playing) Its amazing how much you forget, but at the same time comes back about three times through a recording. I should write this stuff down. Like I totally forgot how to play El Gato, but it came back after a short while messing with it. Still remembered Walk Don't Run though. lol |
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Posted on Oct 01 2019 08:32 AM
second reverse engineering a bunch of songs. I use transcribe! to slow down the tracks and learn them. I usually get way more out of learning the song by ear as opposed to tabs. — |
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Posted on Oct 01 2019 10:48 AM
Search the "Surf Musician" Forum for lots of good info, also some nice tab available at Learn Pipeline first, then everything else will flow from that... —Surfcat 2023 SG101 Compilation - Tribute to Noel From Atlantis with Love - Released - July 2023 Surf, the most dangerous of all musical genres... Last edited: Oct 01, 2019 10:49:10 |
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Posted on Apr 03 2020 09:15 AM
Try this. |
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Posted on Apr 04 2020 03:08 AM
Tikidog wrote:
It say “pre-order” so no book actually available now? —Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine New Single is out! https://waikikimakaki.bandcamp.com/album/rhino-blues-full-contact-surf-single Waikiki Makaki https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki Lost Diver https://lostdiver.bandcamp.com |
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Posted on Apr 04 2020 01:05 PM
hi samurai, |
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Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 2141 Kiev, Ukraine
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Posted on Apr 05 2020 07:16 AM
Tikidog wrote:
Great! Ordering. —Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine New Single is out! https://waikikimakaki.bandcamp.com/album/rhino-blues-full-contact-surf-single Waikiki Makaki https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki Lost Diver https://lostdiver.bandcamp.com |
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