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In Reply to: What age did Kurt Cobain start playing guitar? Oh and are barre chords essensial to the art of guitar playing? I am a huge Nirvana fan posted by Daffy on September 26, 2000 at 12:11:30:
: Does anyone have any info on Cobain about his equipment,when
: he got it? How he got it? and so on. I am a crazy Nirvana fan and
: would like to know a bit more. Are barre chords important? Are they
: hard to learn
Forget everything that John just said, that is a complete lie. I don't care what genre you are playing, barre chords are a neccesity, if you can't play them now, LEARN THEM. You are just block head if you think you could become a good guitarist, by avoiding a certain phrasing of a chord. That is all that Barre chords are, if you play a major chord on the 6th string, and on the 5th fret, that is the same chord as the open chord that you play for A. Its just another phrasing that you must learn, esspecially if you ever want to learn any Jazz, blues or more than just Nirvana or Green Day. Barre chords will be hard to play at first, but please learn them, you will become just as stupid as the other guy if you don't. Kurt started playing the guitar at about 13, starting a bunch of little garage bands. He got gear from pawn shops, he sold some of his early stuff for drugs, he found gear, he stole gear, he borrowed gear, you get the point. He played a lot of shitty stuff over his career, mostly Epiphones, later strats, Mustangs, Jaggs, jag-stang, kay acoustic, and a buch of others. He used a Ds-1, a Sansamp, big muff, he used a EH small clone for chorus. He used countless amps, and played through all sorts of power amps speakers, and any that he could make his sound louder with.
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