Let's Rock!!

Following on from my acoustic guitar that I was gifted for christmas I decided to purchase an electric guitar over the weekend.

Primarily this decision was so that I can practice it at night in the computer room which is located near the kids bedroom without waking them up by having headphones plugged into the amp. Secondly, I can plug the guitar direct into the PC and have the computer generate the effects such as reverb, overdrive and distortion etc with the other added benefit of also begin able to record what I play direct to disc. The long term goal is of course to be able to create instrumentals to tracks that I want to sing on karaoke but that will never appear otherwise, such as album tracks.

Currently I'm using a sequencer called Fruity Loops which is fine for drums, piano, bass etc but there's no substitute other than a real guitar for the tracks that have guitar in them. There's a long way to go yet until I can play full songs but I'm finding that I can play 'snippets' and record them into the pc individually before piecing them all together to make it sound like the whole track was played in one go. I'm still practicing at playing both guitars properly though in the meantime.