Want to play PJ

LeilaMoonTurtle
LeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
edited July 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Learning to play guitar. My goal is to play pj. I need advice/help/suggestions.

Thank you.
http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk103/Moonturltemoon/PJ MSG 6-24-08/

Mihi cura futuri.

The elements they speak to me.

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so cute they are
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  • Guitarhero27
    Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    send a PM to Kat and Sea saying that http://www.giventowail.com should be a sticky in this forum.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    http://www.giventowail.com is the best site to learn your PJ stuff. They have a lot of tips/hints as well to help beginners with the way PJ plays their stuff and which are the easiest songs.
    I would start with some chord progressions. Nothingman, Off He Goes, Small Town, and Immortality are all good beginner chord songs to learn.
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    long road
    not for you
    small town

    very easy songs to start with
    "I'll tell you what: If all I had was Pearl Jam, and I didn't have another band in the world, I would not be worried. Because in there is the essence of making great music. You don't have to use it all at once, but it's there." - Neil Young
  • sandoz
    sandoz Posts: 166
    corduroy
    immortality
    gimme some truth
    i got shit
    all those yesterdays
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    sandoz wrote:
    corduroy
    immortality
    gimme some truth
    i got shit
    all those yesterdays
    all those are a little advanced for someone just starting to play (esp. the odd time sig. in All those Yesterdays).

    Joe gave some good ones.

    I'd start with Long Road and Small Town personally.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Oh and http://www.giventowail.com is the best site ever. Go there and find how to play those songs :cool: .
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org

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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    The intro to Wishlist is as easy as she gets....:)
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    cyberfret.com - it doesnt have PJ stuff but it does explain a lot of things with videos. but if you judt want PJ- giventowail.com
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    Thumbing My Way wrote:
    The intro to Wishlist is as easy as she gets....:)

    That, and the main riff to Sometimes. Sometimes is the song that lets me know that I can play like Ed, if only for a few seconds. :)
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    DOSW wrote:
    That, and the main riff to Sometimes. Sometimes is the song that lets me know that I can play like Ed, if only for a few seconds. :)
    Ed has a Bob Dylan complex..

    terrible musician but brilliant writer.

    Actually he's not nearly as bad as Dylan... Dylan makes Ed look like Hendrix.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • harrisonmerwin
    harrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    Ed has a Bob Dylan complex..

    terrible musician but brilliant writer.

    Actually he's not nearly as bad as Dylan... Dylan makes Ed look like Hendrix.

    song writing is such a talent, yet most could never make money performing them. Coudl you imagine the GUYS (as in male specimens) who wrote like a virgin and girls just wanna have fun dressing up like madonna and cyndi lauper to perform them? if you write good songsd, learn to notate them, copyright them, and shop them around.
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  • Banana-Rama
    Banana-Rama Posts: 108
    I know all the chords to Small Town but always have a hell of a time trying to play it. Wishlist and their cover of Last Kiss are fairly easy to learn.
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    harrisonmerwin wrote:
    song writing is such a talent, yet most could never make money performing them. Coudl you imagine the GUYS (as in male specimens) who wrote like a virgin and girls just wanna have fun dressing up like madonna and cyndi lauper to perform them? if you write good songsd, learn to notate them, copyright them, and shop them around.
    not sure what that has to do with Ed's guitar playing ;)

    Actually i have the opinion that if you have the capibility to write great songs you need to get out there in your own band and play them.

    Even if you're just a tambourine player you need to be involved personally..

    it's just kind of soulless any other way.

    Although i think cyndi lauper's band member was who wrote that song, which is cool :cool:
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    Ed has a Bob Dylan complex..

    terrible musician but brilliant writer.

    Actually he's not nearly as bad as Dylan... Dylan makes Ed look like Hendrix.
    Idk, there's plenty of pj songs I play that I know Ed is playing while singing, and no matter how good I get down the chord progressions, its really hard to synch with the words. Ed may not be a virtuoso, but he's no slouch either. IMO.
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  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Idk, there's plenty of pj songs I play that I know Ed is playing while singing, and no matter how good I get down the chord progressions, its really hard to synch with the words. Ed may not be a virtuoso, but he's no slouch either. IMO.

    Yeah, I agree. He gets the job done as the third guitarist. Nothing spectacular, of course, but the spectacular guitar parts are saved for Stone and Mike.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Playing and singing is challenging. With basic chords its easier. Try playing and singing 'Day Tripper'.....
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Playing and singing is challenging. With basic chords its easier. Try playing and singing 'Day Tripper'.....

    Day Tripper is easy to play and sing IMO

    But the hardest PJ song I find to play Ed's part and sing is Rearview Mirror...what the fuck? how is this possible? The main riff isn't that hard but to sing with it, its kind of rediculous....by the end of the song, after the interlude, I go nuts and I can barely hit the power chords right, lol

    I find Insignificance is hard to sing and play as well...the verse part, Ed is playing which its not hard but again its kind of hard to do both

    some songs i find easy to play Ed's part and sing to are:
    Immortality, Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, Not For You, Lukin(i can scream that pretty well :) )...thats all i got off the top of my head

    sometimes its not that hard to play guitar and sing for a song that Ed doesn't play guitar on...like DTE I find easy for me to sing with as well....

    I've been working on the new album the past week...I got almost everything except Unemployable (I can't find my capo....i had it when i learned Marker, but idk), Army Reserve, and Inside Job....Army Reserve I got the basics but I haven't really tried, same with IJ...but I think this new record has some nice guitar work with it
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  • LeilaMoonTurtle
    LeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
    Thank you very much. I've been learning chords but my fingers are too
    short--thinking an electric/acoustic might be better.
    http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk103/Moonturltemoon/PJ MSG 6-24-08/

    Mihi cura futuri.

    The elements they speak to me.

    http://espn.go.com/espnradiostations/NewYork1050/gallery/35218855.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3gQO1WxUk
    so cute they are
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:
    Thank you very much. I've been learning chords but my fingers are too
    short--thinking an electric/acoustic might be better.
    Electric is easier to learn on, but if you started on acoustic stick with it! Electric will be a snap after that!

    Just don't give up! Once you're over the hump there's no stopping you!

    As for the gratuatous amount of exclamation points there i think they were nessecary.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org

    Oh my, they dropped the leash.



    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    PaperPlates wrote:
    Idk, there's plenty of pj songs I play that I know Ed is playing while singing, and no matter how good I get down the chord progressions, its really hard to synch with the words. Ed may not be a virtuoso, but he's no slouch either. IMO.
    Oh i agree, i was just saying that to reinforce how writing is his strong suit obviously, like Dylan :)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org

    Oh my, they dropped the leash.



    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"

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