Bowing Up
 

Hello MX,

I was recently, (Fine, this weekend.) at my cousin Eric's house. He is an avid violin player.

Why should you care? He gave me a bow. I'd like to know if there are any lessons you guys have dug up on it, for the guitar.

No, I didn't ask him, please, no "lawl u never be Jimmy Page! nub!" posts.

I can make a few sounds, but really want to get better.

[B][I][U]Longhorn[/U][/I][/B]

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There really isn't all that much you can do with a bow, violin and instruments like that are created to the bowed, whereas the bridge on a guitar isn't suited for that.

Use it wisely because it'll break soon.

Ok, thanks for trying all. Thanks for the advice Nick and Josh.

Yeah it'll be hard to play single strings, or anything less than like 5 at once, as the bridge on a guitar isn't arched like a violin's is.

ow yeh try diffrent tuneings to get nice a** drowns

Gotcha Lozz. And Woofdog, I've noticed that. Watching the Led Zep concert to get some ideas.

Tune your strings to a chord and play all your strings at once.

Set your bring like an arc like a violin.

there was a lesson on this in the old lessons section, dunno if it's still around

if you have a bass you can use it to sound like a stand up bass I have done that a few times... I use mine on my acoustic guitar just holding down chords and bowing the strings, it's also cool to do it on an electric guitar with effects.. like delay or a phaser.

Get a Total Gym. You'll be bowed up in no time.

rofl

Thanks Goats.

Np. Glad to help

ok so your talking about bowing on guitar made me pick up my bow lol but yea here are some clips i just made... listen if you like :D

this one is a bass an electric guitar with a bow and a looping pedal
[url=http://media.putfile.com/loopbowjam]Click here to listen to loopbowjam[/url]

this is a mini rendition of bukowski by modest mouse
[url=http://media.putfile.com/bukowski-51]Click here to listen to bukowski-51[/url]

of course all of the sounds are coming out of my lovely MG:amaze:

RIP @ tthat bow

you want an E-bow. Your guitar will tear horsehair to shreds.

I'll take a look at my local Guitar store, Puzzle. Any idea how much theyd cost? 0.o

Just use lots of rosin and make sure the bow's tight.

Thanks

[QUOTE=Sup, Goats?]Get a Total Gym. You'll be bowed up in no time.[/QUOTE]

stfu the new dungbell kit ftw

:lol: DUNGBELL

ebows are like 90 bucks at guitar center, and they are quite possibly one of the coolest synth guitar effects for a guitar. They let me sit there and mess around with one for like an hour or so... it was awesome

they aren't a synth guitar effect

[QUOTE=Puzzle]Your guitar will tear horsehair to shreds.[/QUOTE]
haha, yeah, when i saw the how the west was won dvd set, it showed a close up on the strings of his guitar, and you could see like half of the hairs on the bow were broken.

i like how he used a delay, and hit the strings with the bow, so it sounded like he hit it twice.