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guitar hero vision

The way you see everything after playing guitar hero for an extended amount of time.
-dude, is it just me or does that picture on the wall keep growing and shrinking?
-nah, man. that's just your guitar hero vision.
by HaleyC March 18, 2008
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gitaroo

1. Weapon used by the legendary Gitaroo Man.
2. One of a number of mythical musical instruments, ranging from a guitar to an entire cathedral.
3. A planet once occupied by the Gravilians.
1. I am the Gitaroo Man!
2. Bring me the last gitaroo.
by www.hallofinsanity.com May 11, 2003
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Guitarthritis

Pains in the fingers or wrists resulting from long periods of guitar (Not guitar HERO, that's for pansies who can't play the actual guitar) playing.
Trevor - Wow my wrists hurt...

Megan - What happened?

Trevor - Nothing, just a bad case of Guitarthritis
by AudioEmu October 17, 2008
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GMTA

Acronym, stands for: "Great Minds Think Alike".

Used to express to other individuals that you are thinking the same thing as they are.
Person A: "Let's go for a tal' tour."
Person B: "I was just thinking that!"
Person A: "GMTA."
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Lead Guitar Syndrome

Also known as LGS.

A disorder which causes lead guitarist heads to swell to an unimaginable size, with a strange substance known as ego. Resulting in him gaining an inability to hear any other instrument in the band, causing a more frequent supply of solo's, shredding, too much treble, too much distortion, also his guitar always being a little louder than everyone else, and eventually being asked to leave as he does your head in.

Also this disorder is incurable. Get some reverb you gimps.
Drummer - Is it just me or did (lead guitarist) just do a 40 minute blues solo?
Bassist - Yeah he totally has Lead Guitar Syndrome
by IwasRaisedBySeaHorses May 13, 2011
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hardboard guitar

A cardboard guitar, used for air guitar purposes. Robin Yeatman was the first to ever make and "play" a hardboard guitar in the late 70's, inside the Heavy Metal club "The Soundhouse" in London. The guitar's are fashioned to look like a lead guitarist's instrument.
Charlie plays an amazaing hardboard guitar!
by sixcopies August 16, 2006
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bass guitar

Saying that if you can play a Electric guitar means that you can play a bass guitar is like saying that: if you can play a Cello you can play a violin. Which is wrong, yes you should be able to play something, because of the tuning to be a like, but the play style and the place and job in the band / Orchestra is very different almost totally different.

Guitar Vs. Bass

The Guitar is one octave higher than the bass and is therefore easier to mix notes and make chords, because the sound will be much brighter and clearer than the bass. As the bass often just makes a blurry dark sound. Don’t take me wrong, you can mix notes with the bass, you just need to know what you’re doing. (Personally, I mix notes all the time but that’s my play style. Often 5th’s and octaves)
The guitar has also a smaller neck then the electrical bass and its therefore shorter space between each fret. This makes it easier to move your fingers.

Bass guitars.

The most common bass is the 4 string bass, as a beginner you don’t need more strings. But advanced players sometimes got the urge for more:P the most common option then is one or two extra strings. A 5 string bass (usually, not in my case) adds a dark B string. Needed for metal or heavy rock riffs. A 6 string bass adds a low B string and a high C string. I haven’t heard about two lighter or darker strings. You can also get a 12 15 or 18 stringed bass, but it’s really as a 4, 5 or 6 stringed bass that has the same concept as the 12 stringed guitar but only with two extra strings per main string. I don’t really know the tuning of the extra strings only that it’s higher. Probably a 5th or an octave higher.
Another bass type is the fretless bass. The fretless bass don’t have any frets (the thin metal lines that makes you hit the exact note.) its like a contrabass, cello or violin. This gives it a mush smoother sound, and not the solid sound that the frets generates. Its also harder to play, ‘cause you need to place your fingers quite exactly to make the right not, but it’s not hard to learn, you just need to get used to it. This bass type is often used in Jazz music, but I’ve seen it in most music genres. Even a disco riff that “Frank Zappa And The Mother” made.
Acoustic Basses are also available but good ones costs a lot and still doesn’t work good in a band. (Feedback, Badsound etc.) But as an instrument for use home alone its great, gives a great feeling.

The Bass players Job

Well this is my opinion, some bass players may disagree. The bass is not a solo instrument as the guitar, its not meant to do the same as the solo guitarist. Although bass solos are awesome.
I always listen to the drums and guitars and try to be a link between them. And from that point I try to make song more interesting.
example:

Guitarist plays D C B A
I Play D E B A not every time, but I try to wary it.

The E gives the round a new feeling, which makes the riff more interesting.

or

Instead of playing each note for example four times you can do this.
The next Example I will show in a tab how to read a tab go here
http://mxtabs.net/content.php? (splitted) file=Reading_Guitar_and_Bass_Tabs

G|----------------------------- --------------------------|
D|-----5-7-5----------4-5-4---- ------4------------5-4-2--|
A|5-5------------3-3----------- --2-2----2----0-0---------|
E|----------------------------- --------------------------|

It depends on the genre you’re playing.

at last you can also play with a pick which if you want an even harder sound much more trebled sound. But gives you a more steadier rhythm if you play on note multiple times. Personally, I prefer fingering technique. I feel more free, more “in touch with the sound” :P and pick bass is for wimps :P

Here is a nifty little video with stu Hamm a Great Bass player.
http://video.google.com/videoplay? (splitted) docid=1158095372160188114&q=ba (splitted) ss+playable%3Atrue

I'm glad for any questions so feel free to Mail me. Basshoe@gmail or enkulinist@hotmail.com

Btw I had to split the links to post it, you'll figure it out
Bass guitar players are not Dull people, some of them just stands in the shadow of the solo guitar.

guitar players tend to belive that their Jimi Hendrix just because they can the Nothing Else Matters solo. lol, noobs

Turn up the Bass
by Eskil August 31, 2008
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