classical gas

paywad927 · Post by **paywad927** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:40 am

i just listened to this song and decided i wanted to learn how to play it. i looked at the tabs and i think this ones gonna take a while. so for all you guitar masters out there who can play this song, i was curious how long it took to learn this one. btw, this is an awesome sounding song, almost as good as the OSW intro

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gcom007 · Post by **gcom007** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:52 am

I forgot this existed

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:09 am

I can play the OSW intro, but I have only heard of Classical Gas, except when Lisa "played" it on the simpsons for a few seconds when Lenny asks her to, during a protest outside the power plant.

geekmug · Post by **geekmug** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:13 am

I just sight read it.. :-p And might I mention how sweet it sounds with an electric slightly distorted

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:15 am

geekmug wrote:I just sight read it.. :-p And might I mention how sweet it sounds with an electric slightly distorted

you have the actual music? where'd you get it from?

geekmug · Post by **geekmug** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:17 am

http://acousticpower.com/various2/Mason ... %20Gas.ptb

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:19 am

geekmug wrote:http://acousticpower.com/various2/Mason ... %20Gas.ptb

i need a program to open it...

geekmug · Post by **geekmug** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:22 am

You've never used PowerTab? oh my.. sweet tabbing program.. http://www.power-tab.net/

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:30 am

geekmug wrote:You've never used PowerTab? oh my.. sweet tabbing program.. http://www.power-tab.net/

werd, i'll check it out

isaac · Post by **isaac** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:59 am

it's good stuff.

paywad927 · Post by **paywad927** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:03 am

*sighs*

yet another highjacked thread.

its nice to see that in 8 posts no one has answered my question

im jk, but i would like an answer

geekmug · Post by **geekmug** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:15 am

geekmug wrote:I just sight read it.. :-p And might I mention how sweet it sounds with an electric slightly distorted

I answered it.. but keep in mind that I regularly play lost of classical music and found the finger picking in this to be a trivial exercise. If you aren't good at fingerpicking, it will take a while.

The Man of The Hour · Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:57 pm

Funny you mention this song. A friend of mine fell in love with it the day he heard it just about a year ago. Starting in September of last year, he borrowed his dad's classical guitar, which was nothing more than a practice guitar, and set out to learn it. Without any help from anyone, he bought the sheet music, learned how to read the music, mastered the shit in about 6 months and played it flawlessly at the talent show...blew me away. Never even strummed a guitar until the day he set out to learn the song....damn impressive. The crowd of 1000 thought so, too.

On to the question, it worked in about 5 months for this guy... about three weeks for me, off and on playing. I had already leaped into fingerstyle playing so the technique wasn't so new, but I remember getting into that kind of style took awhile..

julio · Post by **julio** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:34 am

i've been having lots of trouble w/ this song too. the 3rd section (where it starts going up the neck) kills me. for some reason i cannot get the timing right on it.

if anyone has any tips i would love to hear them.

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:51 am

I answred , but it was that I have never tried to learn it.