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I usually get a few months out of my Dunlop 1mm gauged nylon picks. I don't play nearly as much as I did back in the day, but they were always stupidly durable for me. By comparison I remember having to use a fender tort pick once and wearing it down on two sides to a nub after a single practice.
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If I could stop losing them, a carbon fiber Jazz III would last the rest of my life. I just wish they made them in neon glow in the dark colors instead of black.
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Acoustically, the standard Max-Grip nylon 60s are my favorite strumming pick, and for mixed play I liked the 88s enough I started using them on the mando too (though I still prefer the 114 for straight picking the mando).
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My guitar teacher gave me a 2mm purple delrin pick and I've been using it for over a year with little degradation.
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Sep 9, 2019 18:17
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Help All I am doing lately is working on acoustic fingerpicking and my electrics are gathering dust. Is this a permanent thing, and should I be worried? It's super fun when you get your patterns up to decent speed though.
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My picks only ever wear to a state of feeling nicely broken in. Light touch! Lately I’ve been playing a lot more metal because I got a hm300 and playing heavy fast things lightly feels so cool. Clayton Bigsby posted:Help Fast intricate acoustic picking is like bizarro world shredding. It’s satisfying and requires a similar locked in focus in my experience.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Help Are you having fun? Are you growing as a musician? Grats, you are officially doing the right thing.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Help what happens when you try your fingerpicking techniques on your electric guitars?
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Sep 9, 2019 20:51
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Helianthus Annuus posted:what happens when you try your fingerpicking techniques on your electric guitars? Yeah. This is, like, 80% of my playing these days.
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Lester Shy posted:If I could stop losing them, a carbon fiber Jazz III would last the rest of my life. I just wish they made them in neon glow in the dark colors instead of black. I got a Gravity Sunrise Mini as a goof (I love that "stupidly expensive" by pick standards is still only five bucks) and it's screamingly bright green and feels like the Jazz III-est Jazz III ever. I love the thing.
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Anime Reference posted:(I love that "stupidly expensive" by pick standards is still only five bucks) oh buddy that ain't close to stupidly expensive for picks
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The Muppets On PCP posted:oh buddy that ain't close to stupidly expensive for picks If there's one thing all the dudes on mandolin cafe have in common, they all seem to play $50 Blue Chips. And that's on the cheap side for Blue Chips. I've never priced actual tortoise shell picks, but I bet they are nuts considering the ethics around them. (The ethics being, don't play tortoise shell picks.) Huxley fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Are Blue Chips the pick equivalent of audiophiles buying cables?
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Sep 10, 2019 00:48
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its what rio uses. i think they're probably legit, but i haven't used one before i was going to get one, but i couldn't find a way to narrow down the choices. they make a lot of different pick shapes
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They sound good, but when I sound bad it isn't because of the pick, so I play $6 a dozen picks from Guitar Center.
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Lumpy posted:Or you started using the One True Pick Jazz III which, because they are made of pure goodness, cannot be worn away by mere mortals. Oh I have for sure. Carbon max grip.
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Don’t knock the pricey “boutique” picks if you haven’t tried them. They’re worth it. Sound and feel can improve so much with the right one. There’s some really impressive stuff going on in that field. Don’t buy V-Picks though unless you want to support people who post memes dunking on sexual assault victims!
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i wanna get a blue chip pick and see how long it lasts against my trem picking everyday usage.
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Buy one made out of cymbal brass, sand it down to the level of slickness you want. Upside, it'll last forever. Downside, you're gonna go through strings reaaaal loving quick.
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In terms of picking, have you ever seen this guy? https://www.instagram.com/matteo_mancuso96/ Ben Eller posted a video of him, pretty mindblowing and weird finger picking technique he's using. In terms of normal picking, the only picks I can actually use are Tortex 1.5mm Jazz IIIs (non-XL). I've tried dozens of other picks and they just don't feel right for some reason.
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The Dark Wind posted:In terms of picking, have you ever seen this guy? https://www.instagram.com/matteo_mancuso96/  that's what i useedit: actually, i use 1.5 on bass and .88 on guitar nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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You guys ever watch this video of John Mayer just chilling on a Sat. night teaching guitar to 3k+ teenage girls watching him livestream? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM66h2dTWY&t=1028s It's otherworldly to me how much sense what he says makes, but how utterly impossible it is to fluidly play the way he does. Dude doesn't even look at this neck once.
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Ohhhh, find the root and then do that. Now I get it, thanks John! I was doing that but I didn't know about root notes
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What are some good guitar podcasts?
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Franchescanado posted:What are some good guitar podcasts? I like 60 Cycle Hum, they get sent or find listings that would fit in the Stupid Music poo poo thread and poke fun at them, and talk gear as well. It's goofy, but I like it. It's on Youtube, Google Play and I'm sure other podcast services.
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Franchescanado posted:What are some good guitar podcasts? If you’re down with video then That Pedal Show is fantastic.
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TPS is available as an audio-only podcast as well. It's just not the same without the handsome boys.
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TPS is good. I couldn't get into 60 Cycle Hum because the blonde guy interrupts the other guy constantly. Also, while not a podcast, the StewMac youtube channel is basically guitar repair ASMR.
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Huxley posted:Apologies for the, uh, contempo christian, but my wife is a church pianist and handed me this book and I want to make sure I'm reading it right. i think that notation is supposed to be used for polychords rather than slash chords. http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-chords/polychords/ so for example, that first one seems to be calling for a C major triad in the left hand and an F major triad in the right hand, which i guess makes a C6/11 but in this particular piece of music, i think the composer actually wants you to play a slash chord, based on the style of music and the notes on the staff
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Lester Shy posted:TPS is good. I couldn't get into 60 Cycle Hum because the blonde guy interrupts the other guy constantly. Also, while not a podcast, the StewMac youtube channel is basically guitar repair ASMR. I love stewmac but they haven't put out a good video in a long time 
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Helianthus Annuus posted:i think that notation is supposed to be used for polychords rather than slash chords. http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-chords/polychords/ Thanks everyone for helping to unravel these mysteries. I'll say, a few weeks on having hung around with more church guitarists, many of them think the numbers after chords signify dynamics. Like, "I don't know what the 7 after this chord means, so I just play them louder." Also, they will capo as far up the neck as it takes to keep them playing in G. Even on 12 strings.
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heck this chord goes up to 11!!! *bang bang bang*
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Spanish Manlove posted:I love stewmac but they haven't put out a good video in a long time Yeah, the stuff they've put out this year is lame "How to use a capo" or "how to buy a strap" type poo poo. But I could watch those old Dan Erlewine repair videos all day long.
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I don't feel so bad about dinging my Tele on the left side in the back now. I'm on reverb window shopping at work and there are several Teles with damage in that same spot.
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the firefly thinline telecasters are in stock again https://www.amazon.com/Firefly-FFTH-Semi-Hollow-Guitar-Color/dp/B07HFCHPYC/ i was about to get one, but i convinced myself i would hate the intonation with those barrel saddles. i also couldn't find the scale length, i assume its 25.5" but i can't be sure. and im still happy with kevins old tele (which already has legit saddles) e: hmm, i bet you could replace the saddles with angled ones to get acceptable intonation on this guitar https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/How_to_Intonate_a_Three_Saddle_Tele Helianthus Annuus fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:I love stewmac but they haven't put out a good video in a long time Yeah, watching their repair videos on some really damaged guitars were fascinating. Unfortunately they got bought by an investment firm who are now trying to market to teenagers.
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Chip McFuck posted:Yeah, watching their repair videos on some really damaged guitars were fascinating. Unfortunately they got bought by an investment firm who are now trying to market to teenagers. noooooooooooo gently caress
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What about this guy's guitar repairs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zB0xODorY
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Lester Shy posted:TPS is good. I couldn't get into 60 Cycle Hum because the blonde guy interrupts the other guy constantly. Also, while not a podcast, the StewMac youtube channel is basically guitar repair ASMR. I absolutely love listening to Dan Erlewine, but the thing that blew my mind is that he and his brother used to play in The Prime Movers with Iggy loving Pop.
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In the middle of putting in new pickups but a little confused on how to get my 3-way blade hooked up. I can't find any diagrams online for the model below - not on Seymour Duncan or Google. Can anyone help out? We found something from Fender on a 5 way switch but unsure if that is the same. It's a 2 Humbucker, 1 Tone Knob, 1 Volume Knob Setup.  
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