It’s been about 3 months now since I joined Justin Guitar and first picked up a guitar back on the 15th of January. I’ve been practicing Basket Case a lot over the last couple weeks as I consolidate Grade 2, and I figured it had progressed along well enough to post a video, so here’s to my first AVOYP topic!
Certainly not a perfect recreation of the original, and I still have plenty to work on, but I’m pretty excited to be able to play it at all! I’ve been playing it sitting down for a couple weeks now and the other day I figured it was time to stand up and well, that changed things!
Differences I’ve noticed: The down-picking becomes a LOT easier while standing. Unfortunately, the opposite is true of muting, along with everything else. The little Esus4 progression at the end also becomes a lot harder to get clean while standing. It’s probably just a muscle memory thing, so I’ll just keep standing up as much as I can!
Pretty happy with the tone through the Katana, though it took me a lot of fiddling to get it there. I know I could have just downloaded Justin’s tone or someone else’s, but I really wanted to figure it out for myself and I think it ended up pretty good. Let me know what you think!
I could point out tons of problems with my performance, but at some point I just have to try to remember that I’m still a beginner. It does serve to motivate me though! Hopefully one day I’ll look back at this video and have a chuckle.
Nice work there Beau, especially if only with Justin since January. I’m assuming you’ve picked up a guitar a bit before this. If not, then you’re smokin’ along mate.
Good clean power chords, pretty consistent pick attack, and solid rhythm going there. Keep it goin’
Wow, woke up to a lot of kind words, thank you all!
@sclay, I have probably physically picked up a guitar before now, dad’s been playing since he was in his teens so there were always guitars around when I was younger. January was truly the start of learning anything though. Not sure why I didn’t want to learn when I was younger. I played a bit of drums in my late teens, but it never went anywhere and I dropped it after a few months of lessons. More recently (circa 2019) I studied piano for about a year as well, but then I moved to Japan and that fell through the cracks also.
@twistor59 I I’m going to credit rhythm games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band to that, probably. I played a LOT back when they came out. Of course, the buttons don’t do anything to help you play a real guitar, but you do have to keep the rhythm with a little fake strummy thing and I’d guess it’s a good tool for that.
@theoldman66 No way! I just watched your Dock of the Bay and Man of Constant Sorrow covers and LOVED them. Singing and playing feels impossible to me right now!
Wow, that was amazing, Beau!
Congrats on your first AVOYP
And such a great performance after just 3 months is an incredible progress.
Always a pleasure to hear some catchy, rockin’ Green Day tunes here, and you did a very good job on this one. Rhythm and power chord progressions are great, and you even added the nice embellishments with the sus-chords at the end.
This song is on top of my own wish-list (too advanced yet), and I hope to get the tone right when I start to practise it. I have the smaller brother of your amp (Katana 50), so I’ll try to come close to this. Sounds amazing!
Your guitar looks beautiful, too. Very appropriate to play this song on “Blue”
Nice work dude. Sounded great. You can tell you put the practice hours in. A few parts with slightly wobbly timing and yeah, that ending sequence does get easier with more guitar hours under your fingers. But whatever, that comes with time - great work dude. Keep at it, and keep putting the hours in.
