What do you play when in a music store?

[hippietim]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

I grab a soda can and play the intro to Freebird.

[charvelguy]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

Cleve took my line.

[RacerX]

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...and what an original one it was! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Boxcar Willie 84]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

I play businessman.

[LUVGUN]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

Kiss of Death, In My Dreams solo, some original stuff.

[Venomboy]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

Angel of Death
Raining Blood
Welcome Home (King Diamond)
Abigail
No Remorse
Holy Wars
The Conjuring
Devil's Island
Diary of a Madman
Over the Mountain

[MetalMedal II]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

When I'm in a guitar store I become very UNinspired...I can't think of anything to play off the top of my head. Mainly I'll play some non-descript riffs, no songs really. And then some solo-type stuff just to get a feel for the guitar.

IF it's a guitar I'm checking out, I'll play it mostly unplugged 1st. And since I mostly check out used stuff I'll check the fretwear and do chromatic scales up and down the neck to check for any dead spots, buzzing, loose frets, whatever. Mainly I do it unplugged since it's easier for me to pick up on any probs. If it's worthy of plugging in, I'll do some basic riffs.

If it's a speaker cab I'm trying out, like I was doing a while back, I'm most interested in its ability to handle low frequencies, or its "farting out" potential. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Mainly just do some low E riffing and detuning and turn that mother up and see how well it does!

[charvelguy]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

I guess I play a little bit of everything..but just made up jam progressions. blues, rock, jazz, country depends on my mood.

[VitaminG]

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Wow, that's a long intro to that song, VitG! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] 30 minutes of chicken pickin'? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] That's actually the song I belt out when testing the chicken pickin' on new guitars.

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that's right - 30 minutes of the first 8 bars of the tune, over and over and over..... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

BTW, that's not chicken pickin' - that's just clawhammer fingerstyle [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

I mostly improvise chord progressions to check the sound in the various registers. I do an E minor scale that's 4 notes per string and climbs from the open fret low E string to the 15th fret high E, then a voice-leading melody
of 4-string sweeps starting with an Em arp starting on that 15th-fret G, then an F# diminished arp starting on the 14th fret, then a A diminished arp on the 17th fret, then back to the Em on the 15th, Gmaj on the 19th, Dmaj on the 17th, etc... If I get through that without stumbling too much I might try the first section of Trilogy Suite by Yngwie, but
tha's a lot harder since the stroke.

[AfterForever]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

I like to play some Children of Bodom stuff, maybe some vai riffs.. maybe some classical stuff.. just what comes in mind really.. I don't have a 1hour setlist prepared [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

also I don't just play, feel and listen, but I also look at every detail

[VitaminG]

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If I get through that without stumbling too much I might try the first section of Trilogy Suite by Yngwie, but
tha's a lot harder since the stroke.

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Even after your stroke, you're sweeping all over neck and then playing Trilogy Suite, while I'm over amongst the entry level Epiphones (not the good ones) playing Michael Row Your Boat Ashore [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

Hey, a lot more people like Michael Row Your Boat Ashore than Trilogy Suite! Especially the way I play it! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

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When I'm in a guitar store I become very UNinspired...I can't think of anything to play off the top of my head.

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I swear, I thought I was the only one who suffered from this. [img]/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]

[tonemonster]

Re: What do you play when in a music store?

Im with tony! Kiss of death, AND In my dreams solo!! those are favs dude!! you read my mind!!!

and:

I'll seee the light tonite ( no solo)
Crazy train
eruption
breaking the chains solo
into the fire solo
Big city nights
green manalshi (witht the two progned crown, of course:p)
Vinnie Moore's "APril sky" (Bach's Air on a G string)


these are some standards I have used.

Tone