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webe123

06-18-2007, 03:04 PM

This is my first time posting here so I thought since I am a guitar player for an apostolic church, I would post my hellos here with fellow musicians and singers.

I have been in the UPCI for about 26 years...(since 1981) when I first recived the Holy Ghost and was Baptised in Jesus Name!

My current church is the Pentecostals of Peoria which I have attended for 7 years. http://www.pentecostalsofpeoria.com/ (Bro. James Lashley is my Bishop and his son Jeff Lashley is my pastor) Before that I attended a pentecostal UPC church in Jackson, Tenn. under Bro. Tom Clark.

I am involved in the music ministry at my current churrch and play guitars and also sing.

Just wanted to give a big shout out to my musical brothers and sisters!

For the guitar players here: this is my setup....

My amp (a line 6 vetta II modeling amp with built in effects and large floorboard)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0136.jpg

My guitars onstage at church (I put them all through a small rolls mixer then into the amp and out to the PA system left to right 1. Prs mcarty Soapbar 2. Fender 57 re-issue stratocater 3. Brian Moore guitar with MIDI (I use this exclusively for MIDI guitar when I want to play strings, flutes, horns or anything that is not a guitar sound) 4. Taylor 312CE Accoustic guitar

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0131.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0138.jpg

I also have a small Boss AD3 accoustic pedal I use with the Taylor for chorus sounds.(seen in lower left)

My MIDI guitar pedalboard Roland GR-33 (this is what I use with my Brian Moore guitar to get strings, horns.etc.)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0141.jpg

Note: I use all of this in service to God...I have never played in a Bar or nightclub and never will! I have always played in church since I got the Holy Ghost and the instruments you see are because I am single and have built them up over the years. I am in no way rich! HA! HA!

Anyway, that is what I use when I play at my church.

ManOfWord

06-18-2007, 04:57 PM

Nice set up!!!!!!

I only have two guitars at the time.

A Marting DCME 6string and a Takamine GS 12 string. I lead worship many times when our worship leader was out of town. I play with the worship band occasionally and play for specials once in a while as well. We have a cordless belt pack which connects directly into our Mackie sound board. The electric guitars are amped and mic'd.

Revelationist

06-18-2007, 07:22 PM

revrandy

06-18-2007, 07:32 PM

I don't think you have enought Guitars!!!! :D

Welcome to AFF!!

RevDWW

06-18-2007, 08:09 PM

I played my guitar until my wife was sick of it,
She said "it will never get well if you keep on picking it.........." :killinme:killinme:killinme:killinme

Scott Hutchinson

06-18-2007, 09:05 PM

I play Electric Bass And Rhythmn guiatr.
I have a Peavey and Fender Electric bass and A Acoustic Yamaha Flattop ,and my Daughter has a Oscar Schimdt Acoustic made by Washburn.

webe123

06-18-2007, 10:26 PM

Well to all who posted...glad I am not alone! I thought there might be some fellow guitar players on here. Mabye if some of you have a digital camera you can post some pics of your setup?

webe123

06-18-2007, 10:51 PM

I've got the smaller line 6 amp.

Two guitars, a Teluride Hastings special acoustic that I've worked over, and a Fender Strat. Got a Fender bass, a Mandoline, and a Deering Goodtime Two Banjo, and one fiddle... that's my string line up...

Jerry Moon

Which amp you have..... the line 6 spider series or the flextone series?

I had a flextone III (2x12 speakers)(Yes they have THREE different versions of the flextone and spider series and TWO versions of the vetta they made) ,but then I sold the flextone III to our church and it is now a church guitar amp.

The reason I like the Vetta II so much is because it has a "two amps at once feature" ...meaning you can take a modeled fender 65 twin reverb sound (for example) and have that comming out of one speaker and then combine it with a marshall amp (for example) and put it through the other speaker and have both sounds coming out at the same time! Gets some neat sounds that way. Plus all of my effects are onboard the amp...so I do not have to connect pedals anymore. And the flextone and vetta has a master control knob that lets you SEPERATE the amp signal from the signal sent to the PA...which menas I can turn my amp up or down and not affect the volume the PA gets at all.

And yeah, I have a fender strat also....that is something I tried to get along without when I got my PRS, but I found I needed it for that "twang"! LOL!

By the way,the PRS has "soapbar" or P-90 pickups in it....the P-90's are found in the oldest gibson les pauls back in the 50's before humbucker pickups were invented. They are basically a single coil pickup like a strat pickup...except they have MUCH more wire wrapped around the magnet and this gives it a fatter sound. It sounds kind of in between a strat and a les paul. Not has high pitched as a strat single coil....but not as dark as a les paul humbucker.

I don't think you have enough Guitars!!!

You don't think I do huh? LOL! Actually for years I only played a fender strat and a fender accoustic guitar running through a guitar amp with an A/B box.

Only recently have I aquired the means to get a MIDI guitar that I use for strings, flutes, etc. and a PRS and Taylor accoustic along with the MIDI pedal and vetta II I have.

Revelationist

06-19-2007, 04:11 AM

Which amp you have..... the line 6 spider series or the flextone series?

I've got the line 6 spider series... it's got a good sound, and it's really light weight... I wish it had a line out though... your tempting me with the line out on yours... : ) My wife would shoot me right now... hehehe...

I married a couple a few years ago... I told her that I needed to tell her something because her husband was a musician. I told her that it was neat right now that he played, but after marriage, the fun would wear off that really quick. A year later, she told me that was the best advise I could have given her... : )

Jerry Moon

webe123

06-19-2007, 04:14 AM

I've got the line 6 spider series... it's got a good sound, and it's really light weight... I wish it had a line out though... your tempting me with the line out on yours... : ) My wife would shoot me right now... hehehe...

I married a couple a few years ago... I told her that I needed to tell her something because her husband was a musician. I told her that it was neat right now that he played, but after marriage, the fun would wear off that really quick. A year later, she told me that was the best advise I could have given her... : )

Jerry Moon

LOL! Well in time you will be able to get one. Just make SURE your wife knows about it! HA! HA!

By the way, the next in line from the spider series is the flextone series and those do what the vetta does as far as being able to seperate the PA volume signal from the guitar amp volume signal. I like it because I can turn up my amp onstage and it does not do anything to the volume they have set for the PA system. Kinda gives the soundman one less headache to worry about. And the flextones have a good range of decent effects too.

You can always find really great used ones on ebay whenever you get into the market. Some look brand new.

webe123

06-19-2007, 09:10 AM

@Revelationist....Here is a picture of the Line 6 flextone III I sold to our church along with the floorboard that goes with it:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0142.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/webe123/000_0143.jpg

Revelationist

06-19-2007, 05:07 PM

@Revelationist....Here is a picture of the Line 6 flextone III I sold to our church along with the floorboard that goes with it:

I'm super impressed with the sound of my spider, I can only imagine what yours and this one sounds like....

Jerry Moon

Revelationist

06-19-2007, 05:08 PM

LOL! Well in time you will be able to get one. Just make SURE your wife knows about it! HA! HA!

Are you kidding.. me and my dad have it figured out... He buys something and sends it to my house. : )

Jerry Moon

webe123

06-20-2007, 10:09 AM

Are you kidding.. me and my dad have it figured out... He buys something and sends it to my house. : )

Jerry Moon

Well I would be careful on that one......my friend almost did the same thing you were talking about and his wife found out about it anyway! LOL!

Revelationist

06-22-2007, 08:56 AM

Well I would be careful on that one......my friend almost did the same thing you were talking about and his wife found out about it anyway! LOL!

Ahhh... he bought a upright bass, I got it, took it to the church and mom doesn't have a clue where it come from... : )

We got it figured out bud... : )

Jerry Moon

Monkeyman

06-25-2007, 06:21 AM

webe123

06-27-2007, 02:56 PM

No such thing as too many guitars! I'll post some pics for ya later. So, what is the music flavor of your church? Are you fitting your guitar into the Pentecostal-wanna-be-black- gospel genre or are you doing guitar led Praise & Worship. What about Country? With a midi set-up do you also use keys driven strings/pads/horns or are you the only "production" musician?

Great set-up, keep playin' for the Lord!!!!

I'll take these questions one at a time...

"So, what is the music flavor of your church?"
Actually, It is kind of a mix of black gospel, contemporary gospel and sopme songs that are older as well as those I flat out rock out on!

"Are you fitting your guitar into the Pentecostal-wanna-be-black- gospel genre or are you doing guitar led Praise & Worship."
Actually, I am not the lead instrument. But they DO look a lot to me to do different things such as strings, flutes, and different instruments as well as all the main guitar sounds.

"What about Country?"
If you are asking if we do country gospel songs....we do on occasion...but not all the time. However, the pastor I grew up under....Bro. Tom Clark in Jackson, Tennessee...was a lead singer for a southern gospel group. So I do know all of the old kingsmen, hinsons and southern gospel hits.
I grew up playing that style...but I did not get into distortion in my guitar or even lead playing with distortion, until I saw Nate Sabin play guitar at the Pentecostals of Alexandria in the late 1980's. That is when I basically had a playing style change. So I can do country, southern and even contemporary gospel with black gospel thrown in for my styles. As well as just do what I did the other daywhen they gave me a solo and I put in all kinds of stuff including hammer ons,string bends,etc.

"With a midi set-up do you also use keys driven strings/pads/horns or are you the only "production" musician?"
Actually I am the only musician they have that plays "outside" the box so to speak. We also have drums, organ, piano, a percussion section and a bass guitar and even a guy that plays a horn now and again.
But mostly, they basically play what their instruments allow them to play. With MIDI guitar....I can mimick a wide range of instruments and make it sound pretty realistic. It all goes accordiung to the song as to what sound I use, when I do MIDI guitar....some call for a string sectiuon...some a horn section...etc.

Please post your setup when you can....I always enjoy seeing fellow musicians setups! Keep on playing for the Lord!

Yukon

07-07-2007, 12:03 PM

I have been playing Bass since I was about 12 years old. I played in hard rock, alternative and heavy metal bands for most of my life until I met Jesus Christ and he delievered me from all of that mess. I now play for the glory of the Lord only!!

I have a Schecter Stiletto 6 string Neck-Thru Bass with EMG-Hz pick ups (this bass smokes) .. a 5 string Yamaha BBG, an Ampeg 50 watt amp for practice and in church I play through a Fender Rumble Bass amp (don't need much more right now, but am looking to upgrade to a rack mountable Trace Elliott system before too long).

Yukon

Scott Hutchinson

07-07-2007, 07:24 PM

What no basses with flatwound strings ?The deeper the sound the better.
My Fender Precision through my Crate Amp sounds deep.

Yukon

07-07-2007, 09:12 PM

What no basses with flatwound strings ?The deeper the sound the better.
My Fender Precision through my Crate Amp sounds deep.

Oh C'mon elder ... everybody knows you need some round wound GHS Boomers to get a good slap!!! :)

Yukon

Revelationist

07-08-2007, 05:53 PM

Oh C'mon elder ... everybody knows you need some round wound GHS Boomers to get a good slap!!! :)

Yukon

Interisting, is that the trick to good slap?

Scott Hutchinson

07-08-2007, 09:41 PM

Why not go all the way and get Rotosound Roundwounds ,for the really bright sound ?
A Rickenbacker 4002 with Rotosounds will cut through anything.

Yukon

07-08-2007, 10:38 PM

Interisting, is that the trick to good slap?

Ummm ... not exactly, but it helps! :) I actually have Elixir's on my bass at the moment, but I prefer GHS Boomers ... There are others that I like but they do not come in a 6 string set! :(

Yukon

07-08-2007, 10:39 PM

Why not go all the way and get Rotosound Roundwounds ,for the really bright sound ?
A Rickenbacker 4002 with Rotosounds will cut through anything.

Sounds like a good set up elder ... however with the long services we have I would prefer not to have a bass that weighs in at about 150 lbs!!! :)

Revelationist

07-09-2007, 08:21 AM

I've now got a big upright that's got a great slap sound.... :)

webe123

07-11-2007, 10:37 PM

Oh C'mon elder ... everybody knows you need some round wound GHS Boomers to get a good slap!!! :)

Yukon

+1 on the Boomers! Our 5 string has them on there. They sound great!

Dedicated Mind

07-20-2007, 02:29 PM

webe123

07-21-2007, 08:42 AM

I was just wondering if any one would like to share some lead guitar tips. I'm a beginner and was trying to learn which is the best scale for playing lead; which chords are suited for switching to lead? Traditional open chords or some type of altered chord like power chords?

To me,I use power chords for rythm when I have an electric guitar on...and I use the mixilodian and minor scales for lead.

I usually play around and just see what "fits"in a song basically.

It really is all depending upon the song being sung. Certian patterns go better with some songs than with others.

Dedicated Mind

07-21-2007, 10:59 AM

To me,I use power chords for rythm when I have an electric guitar on...and I use the mixilodian and minor scales for lead.

I usually play around and just see what "fits"in a song basically.

It really is all depending upon the song being sung. Certian patterns go better with some songs than with others.

Thanks for responding webe, do you play certain notes with certain chords; for example, the first four notes of the minor scale with the I chord, and the notes of the IV, V chords with their respective scale notes, like chord/scales?
Can you recommend any exercises to get acquainted with the fretboard?

webe123

07-25-2007, 10:33 AM

Thanks for responding webe, do you play certain notes with certain chords; for example, the first four notes of the minor scale with the I chord, and the notes of the IV, V chords with their respective scale notes, like chord/scales?
Can you recommend any exercises to get acquainted with the fretboard?

Actually it is kinda hard to describe HOW exactly I play. But I usually play power chords or two note chords when I play notes as opposed to playing the whole chord....I can switch between the two faster.

As far as exercises, there is tons of material on the net nowdays...but you are talking to a guy that got started with only a Mel Bay book years ago...so I am afraid I do not know the new material they have out or what is best. You really need to look around and find what is best for your style playing and what you would be comfortable learning.

But I can say that there is MUCH better learning material out there than when I started out.

COOPER

07-26-2007, 04:23 PM

Why not go all the way and get Rotosound Roundwounds ,for the really bright sound ?
A Rickenbacker 4002 with Rotosounds will cut through anything.
I love a Rickenbacker, wish I had one.

I like heavy guitars and Basses.

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For the Thread:

I play guitar and Bass.

I own a 73' Black Les Paul Custom

Taylor 310

Peavey Milestone Bass

Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2-12 Tube amp

webe123

07-28-2007, 08:07 AM

I love a Rickenbacker, wish I had one.

I like heavy guitars and Basses.

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For the Thread:

I play guitar and Bass.

I own a 73' Black Les Paul Custom

Taylor 310

Peavey Milestone Bass

Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2-12 Tube amp

Great gear. Do you like the 73 Gibson les paul humbucker sound? I am more of a single coil type myself. (Fender 57 re-issue Strat and the PRS Mcarty I have is a P-90....a single coil wrapped big like a humbucker)

But I have a Gibson les paul Special SL (it has a thinner body, the only les paul I can keep on my shoulders) at home, it has humbuckers, but I hardly ever use it...just for weddings and stuff.

I had a Gibson les paul studio, but it was just too heavy for me...though it got an awesome sound....I ended up selling it because I just could not wear it for long periods of time without it hurting my shoulders! And I had a very comfortable strap, but it did not help much...I play standing up most of the time in church.

COOPER

07-31-2007, 06:49 AM

Great gear. Do you like the 73 Gibson les paul humbucker sound? I am more of a single coil type myself. (Fender 57 re-issue Strat and the PRS Mcarty I have is a P-90....a single coil wrapped big like a humbucker)

But I have a Gibson les paul Special SL (it has a thinner body, the only les paul I can keep on my shoulders) at home, it has humbuckers, but I hardly ever use it...just for weddings and stuff.

I had a Gibson les paul studio, but it was just too heavy for me...though it got an awesome sound....I ended up selling it because I just could not wear it for long periods of time without it hurting my shoulders! And I had a very comfortable strap, but it did not help much...I play standing up most of the time in church.
I really like the sound of the 73' Les Paul Custom. It's real bluesy, but can Rock and scream when you need it to.

I love the tones of a good strat as well. But Have never owned a true USA strat.

I have never had any trouble standing and playing all day long with my Les Paul. Heavy Guitars do not bother me.

I like a guitar with heft to it my self. I bet that 57' re-issue is heavier than some.

I have played some re-issue Fenders that wear kinda chunky. I love em' heavy.

webe123

08-01-2007, 06:57 AM

Well most of my guitars are pretty light...though my 57 is a little heavier than my PRS Mcarty Soapbar.

But like I said, I LOVE les pauls and their sound, but the only one I can strap on for any length of time is my Gibson Les Paul Special SL http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/1998/Sep10a.html (stands for sans lacquer....it was a way they cured the finish faster than the regular way they did les pauls and thus was able to have a lower price. The body kinda reminds me of a les paul "lite"...because it is thinner.) But the best part, is that you can buy these guitars on ebay for about $400.00 to $500.00! I got mine for $300.00 even. Not bad for an american made Gibson les paul.

Steadfast

08-02-2007, 01:06 AM

I play several instruments including the bass and guitar. I love playing but seldom get the opportunity due to my busy schedule.

I do, occassionally, play the bass at our place when the bass player has to work over. I probably enjoy the bass more than any of the other instruments I play.

revrandy

08-02-2007, 01:06 AM

I play a little Bass too..

Revelationist

08-02-2007, 07:13 AM

I really like the sound of the 73' Les Paul Custom. It's real bluesy, but can Rock and scream when you need it to.

I love the tones of a good strat as well. But Have never owned a true USA strat.

I have never had any trouble standing and playing all day long with my Les Paul. Heavy Guitars do not bother me.

I like a guitar with heft to it my self. I bet that 57' re-issue is heavier than some.

I have played some re-issue Fenders that wear kinda chunky. I love em' heavy.

When it comes to a banjo, you can tell in a heart beat if it's a good banjo or not by the weight... a good banjo will always be heavy. The heavier they are the better the tone.

Jerry Moon