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Lumpy posted:That's why you have many, many guitars! It's like you excrete pure truth. Also, purple flower guitars are doom as gently caress.
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Ain't nothing more metal than a pink guitar. Break some rules
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dex_sda posted:Ain't nothing more metal than a pink guitar. Break some rules The Squier Hello Kitty Strat is the most metal guitar ever made.
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Sep 4, 2017 23:29
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  Seriously I was going to get this, despite my playing tends to be achordal sludge. It's just so honest
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dex_sda posted:Ain't nothing more metal than a pink guitar. Break some rules A while back I was looking for a cheap bass guitar to use in recording and I ended up finding a straight neon pink Dean Zone on Craigslist for $40. It's absolutely hideous, but my live bass player is still forced to use it whenever we do songs in half-step (Most of them  ) Pictures don't do a good enough job of showing just how offensively bright it is.
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Sep 4, 2017 23:43
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I love that bass. Jackson has a pink Soloist.
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Local shop has this, but it's got a gloss fretboard and "traditional" telecaster neck. Looks neat though.  edit: oh yeah, it' a fujigen fender which I hadn't heard of.
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Salt Fish posted:Local shop has this, but it's got a gloss fretboard and "traditional" telecaster neck. Looks neat though. that's simultaneously poo poo and super neat
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Schpyder posted:The Squier Hello Kitty Strat is the most metal guitar ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhvFLHIlBs
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Salt Fish posted:Local shop has this, but it's got a gloss fretboard and "traditional" telecaster neck. Looks neat though. Fujigen just means it's higher quality/has better QC. edit: Fujigen Gakki has been making the dopest versions of classic guitars since like the 60s.
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My guitar player buddy bought one of these while we were in Osaka... Pink quilted maple + white EMG's + a cat inlay at the 12th. It's rad.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:My guitar player buddy bought one of these while we were in Osaka... What's that black thing below the knobs? Pot missing its knob?
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Been taking lessons for a few months; I hate bar chords so much. After a minute of trying to play them but hand gets crampy as gently caress and I have to stop and rest for a bit. Naturally I get distracted during this time. Any tips on improving this or is this one of those repeat-until-you-get-it things? I imagine with enough punishment my hand conditioning will improve, but just wondering.
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Anime Reference posted:What's that black thing below the knobs? Pot missing its knob? Mini switch. Don't remember what it was for, but I think my buddy's now has a piezo floyd and the switch is for that now.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:charvel san dimas
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Salt Fish posted:edit: oh yeah, it' a fujigen fender which I hadn't heard of. fujigen was the factory fender contracted for japanese production until about a decade ago they were very consistently high quality Schpyder posted:The Squier Hello Kitty Strat is the most metal guitar ever made. pretty sure 99% of them were bought by jokesters who to a man thought they were the most clever guy on earth for dropping an emg in there for their one man bedroom wigger porngrind project The Muppets On PCP fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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mythicknight posted:Been taking lessons for a few months; I hate bar chords so much. After a minute of trying to play them but hand gets crampy as gently caress and I have to stop and rest for a bit. Naturally I get distracted during this time. Here's a few random tips
Here's some things E shape A shape (shows the wrist angle thing just after halfway through) baka kaba fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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The Muppets On PCP posted:pretty sure 99% of them were bought by jokesters who to a man thought they were the most clever guy on earth for dropping an emg in there for their one man bedroom wigger porngrind project Confirmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyfxbM-Z0k Here's the other 1%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFBL0VKorWk
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baka kaba posted:Here's a few random tips This is all good. A coupe other things - a poorly cut nut slot can be the culprit. It makes the action higher across the whole neck but in particular it makes the first few frets hard to deal with. So when you start learning and try to play an F barre chord it can feel impossible and you get bad habits trying to make it work when really the guitar is fighting you. The other thing is to realize that you don't just have to squeeze your hand off trying to get it. In lessons I always show that it is possible to do a barre chord without the thumb even touching the neck - you can use the weight of your arm combined with the guitar being secured my your right arm which is already on the guitar and use that weight with very slight pulling back to get the barre chord or anything else for that matter. You don't want to make a habit of not using the thumb but it is not all just squeezing - it is a combination of that and using your left arm weight to slightly pull backwards against the neck. Barre chords do take a while sometimes because it is not a natural or intuitive thing to do. It doesn't mirror anything that you do naturally with you Le arm or hand. So it is important to make sure you learn to do it right and not bend your wrist much, make sure you are not under your index finger but rather towards the outside of the finger (the side facing your thumb). Get a lesson or two with someone you can trust to have good technique if you aren't currently in lessons and ask of you can record the lesson so you can see it whenever you need to or find an online video where you are sure someone is doing the right thing.
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rio posted:This is all good. A coupe other things - a poorly cut nut slot can be the culprit. It makes the action higher across the whole neck but in particular it makes the first few frets hard to deal with. So when you start learning and try to play an F barre chord it can feel impossible and you get bad habits trying to make it work when really the guitar is fighting you. I've been working on barre chords since I was schooled in the CAGED discussion a few pages back, so I'll throw in a few things I've been doing in hopes that it's either helpful or the smarter people here can correct me. -Start practice on barre chords in the middle of the neck. Too high and the small fret spacing makes it awkward to fit my fingers in, too low and the wide spacing makes me curse my index finger for being short and weak (especially for the G and C shapes). I figure getting the basics of the shape down then extending it over time across the rest of the fretboard is more productive than trying to stretch my hand out a bunch to start. -Make them the last thing practiced. If I get frustrated or my hand gets tired it's easy to put the guitar down for a bit, then get distracted or just give up for the night. Doing other things first makes sure I get more practice in and still have fun with guitar, rather than fighting it all the time. -rio and baka kaba mentioned it above, but seriously, watch your wrist. I tried about a year ago to work on barre chords other than the A and E shape and managed to mess my wrist up a bit since I was focusing on my fingers so much I didn't notice my wrist was bent at a sharp angle. I was also squeezing the neck like I was trying to throttle it to get my index finger to fully fret the strings and not just mute them. Had to stop playing for a couple weeks, and I'm only now trying to learn how to barre properly. Don't be dumb like me, learn it right the first time.
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dex_sda posted:Ain't nothing more metal than a pink guitar. Break some rules  The cat inlay is possibly for some Japanese band, they make signature guitars for everyone there. There's another pink guitar for sale currently in one of the shops here that resell old crap from Japanese auction sites, that has a little lizard: 
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Oh man, bar chord chat. I'm on week 1-2 of the Justinguitar intermediate lessons and so I'm doing 5 minutes per day of just bar chords, and yeah, that muscle between my first finger and thumb really aches at the end of the 5 minutes. I can't seem to get the 3rd string to ring out at the first fret (so, Fm or Fm7 chords) but I can pretty reliably get it from 2nd fret on down. The E major shape has never been too problematic for me. I used to play bar chords a long time ago when I played the first time so I kind of already "could" play them but that Fm is really getting to me. Thanks for the remind about the wrist angle, I'll try to take a look at that tonight when I practice. Justin mentions it in the videos, but I don't know if that' issue has been specifically on my mind at practice time.
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WOULD Now that brings back memories! My Paul Gilbert-obsessed buddy has that in a small poster size and he had it framed. We made a lot of jokes about it but my favorite was when another friend suggested what Saturday night at G.I.T. might be like: "...and then Paul comes into the dorm with a six-pack of shampoo and conditioner..."
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Dr. Faustus posted:WOULD Wood? Or is that the joke?
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Hellblazer187 posted:I can't seem to get the 3rd string to ring out at the first fret (so, Fm or Fm7 chords) but I can pretty reliably get it from 2nd fret on down. Like rio said, a nut where the slots are too shallow can make it hard work at the lower frets Try the rolling your finger thing too - the thing about the creases at the joints is that you can end up with one lining up exactly over a particular string, so it never gets fretted properly (or you have to press harder to make it ring cleanly). Fretting more with the side of your finger avoids that kind of thing
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Songwriting 101 question. If I want to write a lead melody to go over a chord progression, do I want to pick notes from the current chord, or from the entire scale? I know there are no set rules for this kind of thing. Just wondering what the typical approach is.
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Whatever sounds good that's in key. 
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Minto Took posted:Whatever sounds good that's in key. Or not in key.
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preferably not in any key. a microtonal guitar that's improperly tuned. 
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Minto Took posted:Whatever sounds good that's in key. Also occasionally even if they're not in key, but that's a little more advanced. People are going to tell you to just do what sounds right, which is loving maddening and doesn't help that much, but there's good reason - it's way easier to understand and that's how the listener is approaching it anyway. The truth is there are REALLY complicated rules for when you "should" be playing certain notes in traditional western music, but until you're nailing fifth species counterpoint in your sleep none of it will come naturally. The real poo poo of it is once you get past fifth species, it literally becomes "okay now don't worry about these rules anymore." Really it's all about developing a better sense of what it means when you play a certain note, and how to lead people into thinking you're going one way before deciding if you want to defy those expectations. If you really want to go down that road, after you end up with your PhD in music, it will still be "play what sounds good." Quick and dirty advice, you may want to hang out more with the notes in those chords, especially on beats that are accented, but you should still be mixing in notes from the rest of the scale (maybe occasionally outside it) in between.
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If you have A Scale and Some Chords* to go with it, you can play any scale notes you like, but the notes that are in the chord (chord tones) will sound a lot stronger. You can emphasise those, dance around them, imply the next chord by walking towards those notes or playing them early, you can avoid them entirely, all kinds of things. What you do is where the musical creativity bit comes in (as opposed to beep boop correct tones identified) A good thing to try is find a cool melody that you like, that sounds really good in the context of the whole song. Work out the chord progression beneath it (pay attention to what the bass is doing too, might be adding notes or just hitting all the chord tones) and what notes are in those, and then work out what notes the melody is playing. Where do they match the chords, where do they differ, how does it sound at each point? If there's a really cool bit where it all comes together, what happens in terms of the notes everyone's playing? What happens before that? Pick up some tricks and steal them *thing about basic diatonic theory (here's a major scale, here's the chords build up from it) is that it doesn't always apply to a lot of music outside of the 50s and 60s. You get a lot of 'rule breaking' and way more interesting chords that don't fit into that basic theory explanation. So the notes in your scale and the notes in your chords aren't necessarily gonna line up all the time. 'Whatever sounds good' gets more important here - it's probably how the song was written anyway - but hitting chord tones is a good start. You might need to change the scale you're playing over the chord, you might not want to, whatever works
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loga mira posted:The cat inlay is possibly for some Japanese band, they make signature guitars for everyone there. Yeah, it's a L'Arc en Ciel Fernandes.
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On a MIM Tele, having trouble getting harmonics other than the 12th fret octave to really sound out, especially on the higher strings. I know practice should help, but what should I be focusing on? Is it something that can be fixed by EQ? Or possibly affected by neck relief/string height and all that? I'm sure my fretting/playing aren't perfect so it could just be that.
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The big thing for me with barre chords and my hand getting tired is that I thought I HAD to press ALL the strings as hard as possible. But as my instructor and several people in this thread have said, really, you only need to press on the open strings, because the other strings you're already fretting with your other fingers. So I was tiring out my wrist/hand because I was desperately trying to press all the strings down with my index finger AND fretting the other strings as appropriate, and even when I got it sounding solid if I ever had to change chords ( to another barre or otherwise ) it would take me like 30 seconds to re-position and clamp down for all I was worth. Once I was told I only really had to press on the strings I wasn't fretting with my middle/ring/pinky finger, it made things a LOT easier in terms of endurance. I think after that it's really just repetition, which you can help yourself with by finding a song or riff that is barre dependent, or making up your own one to practice for a few minutes.
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Hey I have a guitar question: my older brother is a really good jazz player and he bought me a book of joe pass transcriptions. I've been able to pick up a bar or two from it, but I really struggle and can't play any full song from it. What's a good way to ease into this genre in a song focused fun playing way? I would really like to have some jazz standards written out in like 5 complexities for each song that I can learn the base chords, learn a version with substitutions, learn a version with flatpicked melodic ornamentation, and then the fully impossible joe pass version. It's kind of interesting to see what things I struggle with in the transcriptions. As soon as he breaks into flatpicking runs I get completely lost because although they aren't too fast they're not the minor and major runs that I've practiced to death in a rock/metal context, and they're clearly focused on complex changes (C flat???) that are just beyond me right now. today I landed the first 16 seconds of this song as an example of something within my grasp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_UYvUpkr0 lol Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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sout posted:On a MIM Tele, having trouble getting harmonics other than the 12th fret octave to really sound out, especially on the higher strings. How much gain are you using? A compressor may help if its clean, if not, apply more dirt. I tend to dial my high gain tones so that I have at least the minimum of gain required to get a 3rd fret harmonic to sound consistently.
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sout posted:On a MIM Tele, having trouble getting harmonics other than the 12th fret octave to really sound out, especially on the higher strings. You probably already know this but make sure you're right on top of the fret instead of in the normal playing position. Compression, more gain and using the bridge pickup will all help. Using the wound strings instead of the unwound ones will also help, if it's an option. I've had some trouble getting the hang of harmonics on guitar myself, they're vastly easier on bass
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TollTheHounds posted:Once I was told I only really had to press on the strings I wasn't fretting with my middle/ring/pinky finger, it made things a LOT easier in terms of endurance. rio already mentioned it, and I forgot but he's totally right - you can apply a lot (or all!) of the pressure by pulling back with your fretting arm, like you're pulling a door handle. Kinda depends what the rest of your body's doing (since you need to brave the other side of the guitar to stop it pivoting) but it's usually an option sout posted:On a MIM Tele, having trouble getting harmonics other than the 12th fret octave to really sound out, especially on the higher strings. Honestly (natural) harmonics should work really well once you get the technique down, so long as you don't have some weird hardware issue choking the strings. If your open strings ring out fine, you should be good to go The way it basically works is you have all these waves going on making the string vibrate at different frequencies (these are the harmonics), and you can shut some of them up by basically deadening the string where they're trying to move. You can look all this up if you want to see how it works (it's not complicated, pictures help!) but you basically have dead points wherever the string is neatly subdivided into a fraction So if you halve the string, there's a dead point over the 12th fret - lightly tap there when you play and it stops the whole string from waving up and down, but it lets the waves that are 1/2 the string in length bounce up and down on either side. That's why you get that octave. And it's exactly the same for every other harmonic - there's one at every 1/3 of the string, one at every 1/4, every 1/5 and so on. They can get harder to hit, but they're there Thing is these string subdivisions don't necessarily line up with a fret (don't go down that rabbit hole), so you need to find exactly where they are. A light touch and high gain will help you feel around for the exact place you need to hit - then it's just a case of being accurate (you need to hit the dead spot, harder when you have smaller subdivisions) and letting your finger bounce off quick (so you don't dampen the vibration by hanging around). When you're really good you can play a string and then make a harmonic just by tapping the right spot 
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I'm deep into pentatonic soloing over backing tracks, after practicing scales it's basically all I do now. I've been setting youtube on a random one and then I just keep playing through with whatever is next and have had some fun/funny/surprising sessions playing over top of things like this. Tonight, I possibly peaked when playing over top of this backing track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdPrF_70xBQ It could be because I'm getting bored of soloing over top of blues tracks, or that it was so different from the previous "slow reggae jam" track, but drat, this hit the spot. It was possibly the most fun I have ever had playing guitar, let alone soloing, to date. I just put my guitar down stood up and shouted "gently caress YEAH". So I think I will see where this trail takes me - what are some fun rock/punk/grunge/whatever songs that are in this kind of range? Bonus points if it's in E standard ( still prefer staying in E in general, guess it's my baby blanket I can't get rid of ) but I can rig up my backup guitar in whatever tuning if there's something special. TollTheHounds fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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