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I think your terminology is a bit loose here.

Lots of big band guitar players used “electric guitars” — they played guitars that had pickups and amplifiers for additional volume. Most of those guitars were full-depth hollow body guitars with pickups. Think the Gibson ES-175 or a D’angelico archtop. Someone else pointed to Charlie Christian with Benny Goodman in ‘39, but there were other earlier ones.

I think what you’re thinking is electric guitars with more of a rock & roll sound than a jazz sound. You can find examples of that not so much in the big band era, but in the jump blues genre (think Louis Jordan or Louis Prima), where you can here guitar parts that are proto-rock and roll. In fact, Chuck Berry lifted a riff from Carl Hogan, Jordan's guitar player, for Johnny B. Goode.

Here's a sample of Louis Jordan to try out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7M4thNT_EY

He is amazing

Very underrated

Are the early seasons of top gear worth watching..? I just started the reboot of 2015 with Matt Leblanc hosting and it's pretty good, but I'm sure it's completely different then then 23 something seasons before it lol.

Really makes you wonder tho, if the geniuses thru history were born today, would they still go into the same vocation? For all we know, Newton would have been a math-illiterate rock star or influencer!

Get a good looper, at least boss rc-10r, something with drums, practice your rhythm guitar and bass with that. A good keyboard knowledge would be helpful. Decide from there what percussion you want. In a one man set up rhythm is more important than anything so get good at it on all your instruments, fortunately if you can play guitar, you can play bass.

This is a good pick, she’s one of the best doing it right now for sure. How do you feel about Merrill Garbus? Different vocal qualities, but one of my favorites ever.

It depends on what kind of music you want to play. I would suggest starting with guitar or piano - basically the instrument thay will be responsible for melody and overall shape of your music. Vocals also fall into this category, but I think that for most people it takes a lot more hours to be a good guitar / piano player than to be a good vocalist.

After some time, try to include drums. It's a completely different beast and also takes time to practice.

Bass guitar you can leave for last, because when you can play guitar and drums it is more or less a formality. Not all techniques, of course - to be good at slapping takes a looot of practice hours.

Get in person lessons, even if it's just a couple months. It can take years to re-learn basic techniques once you've taught yourself incorrectly. You can read posts for hours or have somebody diagnose and correct your issues in minutes.

It just takes time and practice. It seems impossible for a while until all of a sudden you’re doing it. That’s just how learning guitar goes. The more you practice the more dexterity and accuracy you build with your fingers. My recommendation is to learn how to play a G chord and a D chord. Strum G 4 times on beat and switch to a D to strum 4 times. Keep going back and forth until you can reliably not miss a beat during the transition. Then do it with two other chords and then two others. You’ll learn the shapes, build dexterity, and muscle memory. It’ll be way off beat and sound like crap at first. Keep it up and within a week or two you’ll be good to go.

Practice, practice, practice. Hendrix didn't become a god overnight

Foo Fighters are generic and terrible

Katy perry - I kissed a girl

I did this a few years ago, at least one album by an artist I didn't already listen to regularly every week. My music taste is still defined by that year.

Thanks, I’ll check these out.

My post was a reference to the fact that every time there is a post about covers, the first person to write Johnny cash hurt gets an automatic 10,000 upvotes. Its pretty good I guess, but I think it’s worse than the original.

One of the biggest tricks my guitar teacher showed me many moons ago was to practice the chord shapes while ensuring there is space between the the bottom of the neck of the guitar and the bottom of your thumb (where the thumb meets the palm of your hand). Enough space for you so fit a pencil through. Do this with your thumb flat on the middle of the neck. If you guitar has a line on the back of the neck then follow that. Also ensure that the top of your fingers are placed on the strings while in this shape. Over the course of a couple weeks if you practice often youl build up a lot of muscle in your hands and fingers. Warning: your hands are gunna hurt and get tired fast. The chords will still not sound great either. But entually once your finger and hand strength increases and your muscle memory kicks in youl be killing it in no time. Best of luck!

Tabs are perfectly fine in all levels of guitar playing. Those that say you need to learn multiple scales, modes and the whole fretboard immediately are forgetting they themselves couldn't do any of that shit to begin with either.

Find songs you like and learn them. Practice open chords a lot, it really bolsters learning fret and finger placement.

Other than that, just have fun with it dude.

Stick at it. Learn to play all the open chords well first before you even attempt barre chords. Get through the pain barrier and train your muscle memory. It will come.

BTW, I learned to play on a cheap acoustic. It was he'll and I sounded utterly shite for a while but I found when I could finally afford an electric, it was, in comparison, a breeze to play.

Neither. Sir Brian May. The Sir trumps the Doctor. If he was a Professor, then he'd be Professor Sir Brian May.

Keep your thumb in the middle of the neck and drop your wrist a bit.

Keep your fingernails trimmed. Try to make sure each finger is only touching the string it's meant to hold. Callouses will eventually form and playing will get easier. Dexterity will improve over time.

Also... on YouTube, look up Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock vol 1 & 2. Do everything he tells you to. I found those after I had already been playing for 10 yrs or so and wish I had just started there.

Keep at it and best of luck!🤘

I use a keyboard hooked up to a looper. You can set the beat however you want set to loop. Then switch cords to electric guitar, loop that onto it if you want or just play to the beat. You just need one good amp for this as well. Get an amp that has a mic and guitar cord hookup and you're set to jam buddy.

Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities. Its not an entire album being covered, but is a fantastic album of modest mouse covers

What specific brand and model of a guitar did you get? A poorly-made guitar can be a real buzz-kill, dissuading you from wanting to go further in learning how to play.

Thank you man!