what do you always play in a guitar shop?

[Cunningham26]

I'm the guy that goes to every music store right before you get there, find the guitar you plan on playing, and tune it (poorly) to open D

[Tele Fan]

I only play guitars in shops if they have an amp room where I can hear the guitar. I hate trying to tell how a fiddle sounds over everybody else. Then I usually play some open chords because I feel that's the best way to know what a fiddle sounds like.

[RubyRae]

I always play the same thing (first) when I pick up a new guitar at a shop or something, and I think it is really just out of habit. But it covers the low bass notes and has a nice chordal ring with fancy major 7th arpegio lick.

Them Belly Full (opening lick) - Bob Marley and the Wailers

[Dwills94]

Originally Posted by Cunningham26

I'm the guy that goes to every music store right before you get there, find the guitar you plan on playing, and tune it (poorly) to open D

oh my god! you're that guy? could you stop doing that?!

P.S. how do you get to EVERY guitar I want to play before I do?

[czgibson]

A couple of choruses of the blues is normally enough to let me know whether a guitar speaks to me or not.

[Jazzerstang]

Where is my mind?
Golden Age.
Lithium.
A song I wrote.
Random blues licks.

[Alex W]

A mixture of my own stuff plus stuff like

I feel fine
gimme shelter
September gurls

then I go back to blues rock wanking.

[tele_pathic]

OMG, I heard the WORST rendition of Sweet Child o' Mine last week in a Guitar center, from a guy playing an amp that was DIMED!!! **** it was awful...Don't be that guy!

[Breen]

Blues in Bb and all its accompanying passing chords I can think of that moment and single lines to test out the general feel of the guitar, jazz chordal style playing/comping, overall tone. Usually on neck pickup before working through the other pickups one by one as my playing gets centered on that pickup's nominal sound.

James Brown stuff all over the neck to test funkability. Again, with all pickups.

Open chords, barre chords, AC/DC chords in AC/DC fashion in clean and Folsom Prison Blues with as-best-as-I-can Travis picking to test simple rhythm playing on the guitar as well as if the I can swing with the guitar. That will inevitably lead to country style playing with chicken picking and what-nots in the key of E in a I-IV-V. With appropriate pickups turned on at playing's particular need at that time.

Then pick every note available on the guitar.

Then probably Hideaway cause I'm in a cheeky mood by now. Will throw in a diminished Malmsteen style ascending lick in E from the 2nd fret to the 15th fret to test shredability, because thats apparently important on a guitar.

Then pass the guitar back with a smile.

Then walk out feeling sad you can't actually own a new guitar yet.

[guitar dan]

It depends on what I'm trying out. If I am trying out a distortion pedal, I don't usually pull out my favorite Joe Pass licks if you know what I mean.

+1 on Spanish Flea. I love that tune. Now I'm gonna have to go learn it:-)

[tele salivas]

Mostly something I wrote, but then George Jones- Love Bug and Black Sabbath-Paranoid usually make their way in there, which is weird, cause that is the only situation I play either of those songs

[Good Iron]

It

[rave]

I was in GC Hollywood and a guy asked for the red Epiphone double neck to be pulled down then sat down and played every single bar of Staiway to Heaven completely ignoring the stares and laughs of every single customer and employee in the store.

[Stratburst]

Depends: if I'm trying a chorus pedal, then it's 'Come As You Are' or 'Message in a Bottle.' If it's an amp, I'm mostly playing some rhythm or lead things while twiddling the knobs, trying to find sounds. If it's a guitar, I just let my mind go blank and try and figure out what the guitar likes to play.

[ianasdfg]

Stairway to Heaven, House of the Rising Sun and Smoke on the Water :D

[Teiscoman]

I generally play dumb. I'm pretty good at it.

[BadgerDBad]

Originally Posted by drunkinminer

this on tele country style. Yeah be jealous.

dragonforce suck!!!

[JaysRiff]

I usually play some simple blues-rock licks, ring some chords out slowly & end with a bit of finger picking.

*The song people play in the music store that does my head in the most is Enter Sandman

[mal paso]

Man, I'm glad I'm not the only one who goes blank!



Awhile ago I learned "Kind of Blue", so that's what I've been playing recently.





Either that or "Funk No. 49", which is one of the coolest grooves ever

[Flakey]

Just because


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1KqbDdmuE