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BonHair posted:Anything heavier than 9s is for downtuning. I am going to buy new strings today. It's almost been a year of the same ones and my E sounds muddy as gently caress.
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Vintersorg posted:I am going to buy new strings today. It's almost been a year of the same ones and my E sounds muddy as gently caress. how is your G string?
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Aug 26, 2020 15:17
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Ok Comboomer posted:how is your G string? "Muddy"
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Aug 26, 2020 16:25
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just replaced my tele's strings after 4 months and now it sounds awesome. i didn't notice how the stickiness of the worn strings was slowing me down.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:09
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My dude have you ever hear of Fast Fret?
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Aug 26, 2020 17:20
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Ok Comboomer posted:how is your G string? Tight. Also want to start saving up for the Albert Hammond signature strat. It's only $1200 and I kind worship The Strokes. (I finally learned 3 songs... granted they are easy. Some of their other stuff really fucks me. 12:51, Barely Legal, Meet Me in the Bathroom so far). I even have my Jekyl & Hyde that I miraculously found locally on the classifieds.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:30
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BonHair posted:Anything heavier than 9s is for downtuning. i like an 11, but i guess i do downtune to e-flat. where's heavy string crew at? represent.
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Aug 26, 2020 18:00
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I run flatwound 11s on my tele, and 12s on my full-size acoustic. I put a set of 9s on it once and it felt effortless, but not in a good way.
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Aug 26, 2020 18:11
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I recently put 10-52s on one of mine and it feels so good(C standard, drop B, drop a# depending). I have gravitated towards thinner strings the past few months and it's quite nice picking up a guitar and it feeling noticeably different to get you in that metal mindset.
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Aug 26, 2020 18:26
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I just put 11-54s on my jazzmaaster for drop B. I was using 10-52 skinny top heavy bottoms but it turns out I dont miss the skinny top and the added tension seems to solve a lot of buzzing issues.
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Aug 26, 2020 18:52
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Helianthus Annuus posted:theres another 6th string root voicing to consider. i dont think anyone uses it, its just "root position" 5421xx Yeah I thought about that as a what if, it's a lot of thirds though! But you could definitely use it in a Situation It's not movable but x3240x is still my fav, so dark, so mean then you can add a finger to get x3243x and have a maj9 - so nice, so pure!
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Aug 26, 2020 19:03
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Ok Comboomer posted:Yeah, and when you find out that all of your guitar heroes from the 60s-80s used way lighter gauge strings than anything you were told was “normal” when growing up in the 00s... Yeah but "Thicker strings have more tone!"  Vintersorg posted:I am going to buy new strings today. It's almost been a year of the same ones and my E sounds muddy as gently caress. a YEAR?!  My dude you need to change your strings like every month minimum. Maybe two months if you get elixirs. beer gas canister posted:i didn't notice how the stickiness of the worn strings was slowing me down. Because it happens gradually, you get used to it as they wear down and never notice it all at once. Which is why you have to be vigilant about restringing every few weeks.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:20
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Spanish Manlove posted:My dude have you ever hear of Fast Fret? it was applied to the neck of one of my guitars a long time ago and it felt slippery - not my favorite. i wasn't aware that it could be used to clean strings though. i just switch guitars when strings start to get bad. i put coated strings on one of my axes but they seem a little bit tough to bend with.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:28
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NYXLs + washing hands before playing + microfiber cloth on the strings after playing = months and months of new string sound Hasn’t failed me in years and I’m picky as hell about my sound and instrument feel. Fast Fret is super gross in my experience but everyone has their own preferences! beer gas canister posted:i put coated strings on one of my axes but they seem a little bit tough to bend with. That’s why I’ve always gone back to regular strings. Even the best coated ones feel strangely rigid and lack the nice bounce guitar strings should have. Kilometers Davis fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Aug 26, 2020 19:28
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beer gas canister posted:it was applied to the neck of one of my guitars a long time ago and it felt slippery - not my favorite. i wasn't aware that it could be used to clean strings though. i just switch guitars when strings start to get bad. i put coated strings on one of my axes but they seem a little bit tough to bend with. You put it on then wipe the excess off so it doesn't feel too slippery.
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Aug 26, 2020 19:39
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baka kaba posted:Yeah I thought about that as a what if, it's a lot of thirds though! But you could definitely use it in a Situation While we're talking about Maj7s around the neck, my favorite movable one is xx7654, no inversions here, just a pure 1-3-5-7 in an easy and lovely sounding shape that just rings gorgeously wherever you play it.
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Aug 26, 2020 20:28
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Baron von Eevl posted:While we're talking about Maj7s around the neck, my favorite movable one is xx7654, no inversions here, just a pure 1-3-5-7 in an easy and lovely sounding shape that just rings gorgeously wherever you play it. That is a good one. I'm a big fan of xx5777 and xx2224 as well, as they sound good and are super easy to play.
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Aug 26, 2020 20:50
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Baron von Eevl posted:While we're talking about Maj7s around the neck, my favorite movable one is xx7654, no inversions here, just a pure 1-3-5-7 in an easy and lovely sounding shape that just rings gorgeously wherever you play it. place this over the root's relative minor to create a maj7add9 chord
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Aug 26, 2020 21:22
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Sure, but you can do that with any maj7.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:08
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Lumpy posted:That is a good one. I'm a big fan of xx5777 and xx2224 as well, as they sound good and are super easy to play. That last one reminds me of a good minor add9 chord, xx7557. As heard in the opening of The Cure's Lovesong.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:09
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monolithburger posted:Gareth Liddiard from Tropical gently caress Storm/The Drones plays a beat to hell CAR Jaguar, therefore they're cool cool well every other JG-66 on the market is CAR so they are easy to find and not a whole whole lot of money.
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Aug 27, 2020 01:26
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i just use the heaviest thickest strings I can find because thats what Kurt Cobain did, I know thats dumb. Thats my whole idea of cool and its frozen there.
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Aug 27, 2020 01:30
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Zaphod42 posted:
Hehe, I don’t really practice enough (in my head) to do it. Nor do I play shows. Even my teacher was like unless you’re going hard all the time it’ll be ok.  Can wiser eyes see any wear and tear?
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Aug 27, 2020 01:55
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If the high strings don't shine, they're corroded. There are some corrosion spots on the wounds too.
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Aug 27, 2020 01:58
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I make playing rusty strings look goooooood  (END STRING SNOBBERY!)
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Aug 27, 2020 02:30
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Hard to tell from phone quality pic or whatever but yeah the high strings do look pretty gunky to me  To each his own but I find that changing strings frequently just makes me happier if I don't forget / get too lazy to do it
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Aug 27, 2020 04:53
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I'm lazy and cheap so I don't change strings that often unless I break one. I'll often go 6+ months without changing, the ones on my tele are probably closer to a year and my dano is at 1yr+.
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Aug 27, 2020 05:09
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Lumpy posted:That is a good one. I'm a big fan of xx5777 and xx2224 as well, as they sound good and are super easy to play. love these ones. great for a 2nd guitar part, or for playing with a friend on bass! especially the maj7 with the 5th in the root they pair well with these minor 7th chord voicings: xx4655 and xx4435 these voice lead into each other nicely -- it pays to know a couple inversions! Baron von Eevl posted:While we're talking about Maj7s around the neck, my favorite movable one is xx7654, no inversions here, just a pure 1-3-5-7 in an easy and lovely sounding shape that just rings gorgeously wherever you play it. its nice of the luthiers to put that major 3rd in there between the 2nd and 3rd strings, so you can play a root position voicing like this without getting "spocked" it sounds nice on littler 4 strings vs the bigger 4 strings. Fmaj7 xx3210 was a life-saver as a beginner guitar player, when barre chords were too hard for me to do. this chord is an old friend  i suggest using coated strings from now on! if you take another picture after you put the new strings on, and compare to ^^, you're gonna be blown away haha
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Aug 27, 2020 05:49
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beer gas canister posted:place this over the root's relative minor to create a maj7add9 chord is my guitar broken or am i bad at following directions? im taking a G major 7th chord xx5432. and playing the E string for 0x5432, but i'm getting an E minor 9 chord instead 
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Aug 27, 2020 06:06
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the other day, i was playing a G# minor 7th chord code: code:
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Aug 27, 2020 06:22
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Helianthus Annuus posted:if you take another picture after you put the new strings on, and compare to ^^, you're gonna be blown away haha  i'll prob change em tomorrow i bought some basic d'addario 8 - 38's i hope i dont have to adjust too much, i just have 9s right now
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Aug 27, 2020 06:23
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I read somewhere Kim Deal of The Breeders prefers old strings. Thus I never change them either. I like strings to sound dead like a corpse, which is way more punk than some slicked up brightass strings.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:47
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Aint no city slicker strings round here, city slicker!
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Aug 27, 2020 07:00
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I never did like the sound of brand brand new strings. A pair of strings with like 2 to 4 hours on them though... man. That's the stuff.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:08
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excellent bird guy posted:I read somewhere Kim Deal of The Breeders prefers old strings. Thus I never change them either. I like strings to sound dead like a corpse, which is way more punk than some slicked up brightass strings. Jeff Tweedy said in some interview I read once that he doesn't feel like a set of strings is "ready" until they get to the point most people would change them.
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Aug 27, 2020 13:17
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I like taking care of my instruments by changing strings relatively often. I also now clean the fretboard every time I change strings as I didn't do that for entirely too long.
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Aug 27, 2020 13:25
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm lazy and cheap so I don't change strings that often unless I break one. I'll often go 6+ months without changing, the ones on my tele are probably closer to a year and my dano is at 1yr+. This. If it ain't broke, don't change it. I have even just changed the one broken string and left the other 5 year-old strings on before. I AM A MONSTER. 
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Aug 27, 2020 14:50
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Firefly les Paul’s are in stock https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/fflp-electric-guitars
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Aug 27, 2020 14:59
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I had a spare cheapo acoustic up on facebook market to sell and a guy offered me twice the value in bass for it, so now I own a bass. How do you play bass? (Is there a Justin equivalent or something? A good book to recommend?)
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It's like guitar but bigger.
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