What DMB songs wud you recommend to a newbie DMB guitarist?

acousticraven · Post by **acousticraven** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:01 pm

Learning Dave's way of playing is relatively simple, as long as you learn to slide and mute.. you're in..learn to sing & play .. then you're in

something cool · Post by **something cool** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:23 pm

Boyd wrote:Crash is a bitch to play, I still can't play it through cause it hurts so bad.

Not that you need any more advise, but I imagine you aren't cocking your wrist enough. Get your thumb well behind the neck.

Boyd · Post by **Boyd** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:12 pm

Yea, I've expected I'm not playin right or somethin, but I don't wanna change...I dont know...I get really wierd pains in some parts of my hand on different songs.

dbapollo · Post by **dbapollo** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:29 pm

how exactly do you mute strings effectively? (asde from the fact that you must practice... i still assume that there are right ways and wrong ways that guitarists mute strings)

anyway... for example... (this is from the Trippping Billies tab on this site)

Intro

E: ----------------------------------------------------------
B: ----------------------------------------------------------
G: -2---4----2---4---7---6---2---4----2---4---6---7---2---4--
D: -x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x--
A: -x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x--
E: -2---3----2---3---7---5---2---3----2---3---5---7---2---3--

How do you play the 1st and 4th strings while at the same time muting the 2nd and 3rd strings?

dmbguitar718 · Post by **dmbguitar718** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:36 pm

dbapollo wrote:how exactly do you mute strings effectively? (asde from the fact that you must practice... i still assume that there are right ways and wrong ways that guitarists mute strings)

anyway... for example... (this is from the Trippping Billies tab on this site)

Intro

E: ----------------------------------------------------------
B: ----------------------------------------------------------
G: -2---4----2---4---7---6---2---4----2---4---6---7---2---4--
D: -x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x--
A: -x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x----x---x---x---x---x---x--
E: -2---3----2---3---7---5---2---3----2---3---5---7---2---3--

How do you play the 1st and 4th strings while at the same time muting the 2nd and 3rd strings?

You don't. Only mute the A string, and ring the D.

dbapollo · Post by **dbapollo** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:56 pm

thanks.

but i still have the same question: how do you mute the strings while keeping your fingers pressed on the right strings?

as far as i know, muting is like lightly pressing your finger on a string so that when you strum it, it produces a percussive sound... is this right?

if so, how do you do it for the tripping billies intro?

Carl_SWE · Post by **Carl_SWE** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:31 am

dbapollo wrote:thanks.

but i still have the same question: how do you mute the strings while keeping your fingers pressed on the right strings?

as far as i know, muting is like lightly pressing your finger on a string so that when you strum it, it produces a percussive sound... is this right?

if so, how do you do it for the tripping billies intro?

I usually use the finger that is fretting the low E (low = thick) and just kinda fold it over. It'll get really natural. Try warehouse verse a couple of times, that should learn you the muting really quick. Even if some people here consider it really hard.

1 = high e (thin string)
2 = B
3 = G
4 = D
5 = A
6 = E (thick string)

Guitar lingo when speaking about high and low is "reversed".
High on the neck means closer to the body, for example.

taylor414 · Post by **taylor414** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:16 pm

Get familiar with his style of chords he uses. Like two step, some of billies, the jam in lie in our graves, grey street etc. He uses those alot
some of the easier songs to play though i would think typical situation, seek up, two step, lie in our graves............

ledzepp4l · Post by **ledzepp4l** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:23 pm

this thread should be stickied, it has come up before and im sure it will come up again.

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:35 pm

41 came fairly easily to me after crash.

dbapollo · Post by **dbapollo** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:25 am

so wait... i dont get it yet... what are dmb's easy songs? im getting very mixed replies :p

all im studying now are the songs (ants marching, crash into me, stay...) i like the most coz i have no idea what to start with. ehehehe.

Carl_SWE · Post by **Carl_SWE** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:00 am

dbapollo wrote:so wait... i dont get it yet... what are dmb's easy songs? im getting very mixed replies :p

all im studying now are the songs i like the most coz i have no idea what to start with. ehehehe.

I'd say that's a good idea.

DMBartender · Post by **DMBartender** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:03 am

I swear this thread has been done 100 bajillion times...but I say wayg, pfwyg, and grey street (but make sure to learn it playing with all four fingers, not just 1 and 2)

mlb1399 · Post by **mlb1399** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:48 am

Crash is easy, Trippin Billies, Grey Street, One Sweet World

Warehouse was hard for me as was the natural intro of Trippin Billies

Kukini · Post by **Kukini** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:40 pm

I still can't decide if I like Billies with the ringing D. I actually don't like it at all. But as for muting, a lot of "Dave" chords end up doing the muting for you. Position wise, such as Nancies, Billies and a few others. Your fingers just end up doing it for ya.