Sloppy slidin'

Bad playing comes in many forms. This time it is slide guitar. Played with Eastwood Airline 2P DLX and Blackstar HT-5 combo, recorded with Shure SM57.

Sloppy acoustic

Here' some sloppy acoustic playing, played with this guitar, Walden G570TB. Recorded with iPhone.

New mic -still sloppy

I finally got myself a new mic, Shure SM57. I recorded some sloppy playing.

Here they are.



"My Gear" series will continue .

My Gear: Vox Li'l Night Train

Now it's time to write few lines about this amp.

My first amp was a modelling Vox VT30, but very soon I found its sound too digital or artficial and started to look for a tube amp. I still liked VOX as brand and when this beauty came across, I couldn't say no.

Lil' Night Train is a 2 watt head with Vox V110NT cabinet. Looks beautiful, sounds chimey, crispy and crunchy. And there is nice amount of little bit higher gain also. All in all it's a nice practice amp and could do some gigging also, at least miked and/or with a bigger cabinet.

I don't have a decent microphone yet, so I can't give a sloppy example of its sound. But as soon as I'll get one, I will put here some sounds.

My Gear: Epiphone SG

In this series I tell you about my gear.

The first post is about my first guitar. I started playing guitar in July 2010 and bought my first guitar then. I also bought an amplifier, Vox VT 30, but I have sold it..

Epiphone SG G-400 & Vox VT-30

My first guitar was an Epiphone SG G-400 and I've still got and it is quite ok, even though it's an inexpensive guitar. Comfortable to handle, plays well, keeps in tune. The pick-ups could be little better, actually I've been thinking of changing them for better ones.

I highly recommend this Epiphone SG for a beginner - and for others also, it reasonably priced and the quality is very good.

More to come, other electric and acoustic guitars, amps, pedals. So stay tuned.

Three chord rock

Here's another sloppy piece, a short three chord rock

Sloppy

Hello world!

This is the first post of my blog, The Sloppy Guitarist. Like the name says, it's all about bad and sloppy playing. but with passion. I have also a finnish blog Kitaralla, but it haven't reach a lot of readers, so I'll try on more international markets. Appearance and lay-out will probably change few times, but let's start with this basic theme.

I'll write about playing, guitars and music. I'll include samples of bad playing - of course. Here's the first piece, a result of quick inspiration from this morning:



I'll be more than happy to read your comments.