Does dave know theory?

lyrics101 · Post by **lyrics101** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:08 pm

I would be impressed if you could play the guitar for twenty+ years and not run across theory. In the least, it had to come up during some conversation with Tim. I mean Christ, who knows how many millions of times he's spoken with the guy about the guitar.

JonTheSpaceMan · Post by **JonTheSpaceMan** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:26 pm

cool i do herione too before school and before sex...

makes life grand aye

ericwormann · Post by **ericwormann** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:28 pm

lyrics101 wrote:I would be impressed if you could play the guitar for twenty+ years and not run across theory. In the least, it had to come up during some conversation with Tim. I mean Christ, who knows how many millions of times he's spoken with the guy about the guitar.

not to mention the other 4 experienced musicians in the band and Butch.

DMBartender · Post by **DMBartender** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:11 pm

winglet82 wrote:
lyrics101 wrote:I would be impressed if you could play the guitar for twenty+ years and not run across theory. In the least, it had to come up during some conversation with Tim. I mean Christ, who knows how many millions of times he's spoken with the guy about the guitar.
not to mention the other 4 experienced musicians in the band and Butch.

great point

kcw · Post by **kcw** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:35 pm

He has to know a little theory. Though I dont think he knows too much. Just screwing around on the fret board gets me a lot of the music for my songs. And I bet dave does that for some of this stuff. Though some of his songs are almost impossible to just come across, you have to be trying to get Billies. But Gravedigger and Where Are You Going could have been created by accident if you know what I mean.

GuitarGuy305 · Post by **GuitarGuy305** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:28 pm

I think he knows a bit. I remember reading an interview in a guitar mag where he said something like:

"If you in a key like A Dorian, you can hit an open string and it won't sound like you messed up too badly" or something like that.

Adam

DMB_FAN · Post by **DMB_FAN** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:33 pm

I read that he actually has little knowledge regarding music theory, and this surprises other musicians when they jam with him. He's even stated that the electric guitar is sort of foreign to him.

kcw · Post by **kcw** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:33 pm

I saw in an interview that the first time he picked up an electric guitar wasnt to long before he started recording some devil. I may be wrong about the time he first picked up the electric but I mainly remember he hasnt been playing it very long.

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:38 pm

DMB_FAN wrote:I read that he actually has little knowledge regarding music theory, and this surprises other musicians when they jam with him. He's even stated that the electric guitar is sort of foreign to him.

electric is foreign to me as well, and i used to play it...

JonTheSpaceMan · Post by **JonTheSpaceMan** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:27 pm

electric dont feel right to me either. he played an electric on Crash a ton didnt he?

two step
too much
#41
say goodbye
drive in drive out
cry freedom
billies

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:34 pm

JonTheSpaceMan wrote:electric dont feel right to me either. he played an electric on Crash a ton didnt he?

two step
too much
#41
say goodbye
drive in drive out
cry freedom
billies

thats timmy

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:34 pm

JonTheSpaceMan wrote:electric dont feel right to me either. he played an electric on Crash a ton didnt he?

two step
too much
#41
say goodbye
drive in drive out
cry freedom
billies

Twas tim playing them

czech · Post by **czech** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:49 pm

kcw wrote:I saw in an interview that the first time he picked up an electric guitar wasnt to long before he started recording some devil. I may be wrong about the time he first picked up the electric but I mainly remember he hasnt been playing it very long.

UMmm, there was this album called everday that came out in early 2001, figure in time for recording and what not....ya, you are way off. Unles he started recording some devil in 2001, then i'd be way off.

kcw · Post by **kcw** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:10 pm

Maybe it was before Everyday i said I might be off on the timing.

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:00 am

When you best friend is showing you chords and licks and his name happens to be Tim Reynolds I can only imagine you would pick up a lot.

After years of practice, jamming and touring I'm confident that Dave knows his way around the guitar and in creating music using the same rules as we all do.