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Elissimpark posted:Landgrabber, are you a Jamie Hewlett drawing? I can only imagine you're built like 2D from Gorillaz. that's... shockingly accurate, yeah. i have normal sized palms but really long, thin fingers. and i have a short torso and long legs. usually a little bit underweight, eating disorders since childhood plus spending a lot of my life posting and reading theory books for the last three or four years
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general sitting tips not for any specific type. just some stuff to try, you dont have to do all of it at once 1) wear a strap while sitting.. shortened from standing stance 2) elevate one of your feet on a 3-6" footrest, if one doesn't work try the other. 3) try a stool, or at least make sure your chair is armless 4) try to adjust your stance so that you're not propping the gutiar up or down with your fretting hand ethanol fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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My Flying V forces me to play seated in a classical position. I feel like Andres Segovia Hetfield.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I think I might sign up for Rocksmith. I need to gamify this experience due to having hosed up adhd. Anyone use it lately? I too have ADHD and if modern day Rocksmith is anything like the console/PC version (which can be had easily for free with a fuckton of user made songs) it is not a good learning tool. They don't really teach fundamentals well, just how to play Rocksmith well. It doesn't understand when hyperfocus is detrimental and when repetition is annoying. It does not adapt well to how you play, just the binary "did you do this exactly correct or not" for every single note, bend, etc. The practice games on the PC version take forever to restart if you lose and it's infuriating as hell. If Rocksmith exists in an improved form, go for it, just don't pay too much or expect a serious practice/teaching tool. Dang It Bhabhi! posted:My Flying V forces me to play seated in a classical position. I feel like Andres Segovia Hetfield. Classical position for non-classical guitars isn't a bad thing. For me it's the most comfortable way to play - I can keep my hand, wrist, and arm parallel, so less stress and thus less chance of RSI. I couldn't seem to practice more than 10 minutes in rockstar position. I just wish they did Flying Vs for bolt-on necks, their regular neck is just too darn thin. I loved where the V puts the neck while sitting in classical but alas. MJP fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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I could never get past latency issues in Rocksmith.
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MJP posted:I just wish they did Flying Vs for bolt-on necks, their regular neck is just too darn thin. I loved where the V puts the neck while sitting in classical but alas. I think Jackson still does a Rhoads-style with a bolt-neck. Beyond that, Cort & Samick made a bunch of bolt-on Vs under a bunch of brands. Usually pretty cheap, too. There's also stuff like the Dean ML, but Dean is almost a dead company.
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The Jackson JS32 series has Rhoads V and a King V and is a great bang-for-the-buck guitar, and is a bolt on V. Thin shreddy neck though. edit: if you can wait you can usually find one used/returned at like $250 or so at proaudiostar, I've bought two guitars this way and haven't noticed anything wrong with them. duodenum fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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landgrabber posted:that's... shockingly accurate, yeah. good deal of this might actually just be lovely posture + bdd lol
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ethanol posted:general sitting tips not for any specific type. just some stuff to try, you dont have to do all of it at once I have a freakish gibbon-style arm:body ratio and this stuff is all helpful. also classical position.
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widefault posted:There's also stuff like the Dean ML, but Dean is almost a dead company. if the youtube guitar salesdork community was worth half a sorry poo poo, they'd pool their resources together to buy the brand
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check out this cool guitar part: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/alkaline-trio/san-francisco-tabs-1815705 great alkaline trio song but the verse muting part and how it uses open strings and thirds and stuff is super interesting and gives the song a really distinct sound that's way more exciting than just power chords which is what a lot of people might even assume the song itself uses. i think he grew up playing piano and the use of thirds to stand in for chords and stuff really shows that. i want to write parts like that instead of my two modes, "emo chords" and "jazz chords"
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landgrabber posted:any advice for playing sitting down? my torso is really short but my arms are really long, i'm kinda monkeylike in that way. i always have to kind of hold my strumming arm up but it gets tired easily Have you tried playing around with classical position? Either with a footstool or a strap or one of the gizmos they make for holding your guitar up. My strumming arm always rests on the guitar body around the upper forearm/elbow area, so maybe a different guitar shape would work better for you if that's an issue (if I understand you right, anyway).
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ColdPie posted:...a different guitar shape would work better for you...  Gibson accidentally designing the first ergonomic guitar.
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ColdPie posted:Have you tried playing around with classical position? Either with a footstool or a strap or one of the gizmos they make for holding your guitar up. My strumming arm always rests on the guitar body around the upper forearm/elbow area, so maybe a different guitar shape would work better for you if that's an issue (if I understand you right, anyway). it feels wrong on my left leg. one thing i did realize today is that i was lowering my strap and tilting the guitar to basically be in that position while i play standing -- neck way up in the air. it kind of stopped me from tensing up as much.
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landgrabber posted:it feels wrong on my left leg. one thing i did realize today is that i was lowering my strap and tilting the guitar to basically be in that position while i play standing -- neck way up in the air. Yeah it's a good position! This guy goes into some devices you could try (or try to improvise with what you have on hand), using them all on his right leg (around 6:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDFky-U_Agg
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I just discovered 3M dual lock for my pedalboard. So much better than regular velcro. I'm going to put this poo poo on everything.
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I just got a new strap and it doesn’t let me bring the neck as high as I’d like. Going to safety pin it
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landgrabber posted:it feels wrong on my left leg. one thing i did realize today is that i was lowering my strap and tilting the guitar to basically be in that position while i play standing -- neck way up in the air. I found that the trick was to achieve two factors: 1) Get your 1st fret at eye level 2) Get the back of your hand parallel to your arm and keep it that way as much as you can Higher footrest, tighter strap, shuffling and futzing the strap into the right spot, and maybe resting the lower bout within your left thigh or on top of your left leg - or even your right leg depending on the guitar - all helped me get to a drastically more comfortable and sustainable wrist position.
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luchadornado posted:I'm going to put this poo poo on everything. your balls, even
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I have two Ibanez archtops now and I feel maybe too powerful:
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MJP posted:I too have ADHD and if modern day Rocksmith is anything like the console/PC version (which can be had easily for free with a fuckton of user made songs) it is not a good learning tool. If you're going to do rocksmith, get the 2014 version on pc rather than the new one. As mentioned, there's a thriving custom dlc community and you get lots of variety. I'm not as harsh on it as above, but it's definitely better for quantity time with the instrument rather than quality. It's useful for learning how to play in time, exposing you to patterns/song/chords that you wouldn't otherwise see since the catalog is pretty broad, and sometimes for actually learning how to play stuff. The Riff Repeater thing got better in 2014 but still has problems that make it less than ideal as a practice tool.
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I have an ibanez semihollow too it's good but I don't play it enough I need to do some nutwork it sitars a bit on the b
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TheMightyBoops posted:I have two Ibanez archtops now and I feel maybe too powerful: Ibanez make some great guitars, nice one.
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Re: RS 2014 latency, you also need this https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio patch to get low latency audio Also mods to fix everything else: https://github.com/Lovrom8/RSMods The custom loop length mod helps the riff repeater quite a bit
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hot date tonight! posted:Re: RS 2014 latency, you also need this https://github.com/mdias/rs_asio patch to get low latency audio Sick I will give that a try
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Red_Fred posted:Ibanez make some great guitars, nice one. I’ve had the full hollow for long enough to say that they’re my favorite guitars minus that the cheap and even midrange archtops have a plastic nut, not that I’ve noticed besides like seeing it’s plastic.
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Other than Guitar Center/Sam Ash/local music stores/my state's subreddit, where does one go/post to try and find other instrumentalists to maybe form a Duran Duran cover band? I'd like to play more of their music but it's not really a solo guitar thing. It needs the whole shabang.
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TheMightyBoops posted:I’ve had the full hollow for long enough to say that they’re my favorite guitars minus that the cheap and even midrange archtops have a plastic nut, not that I’ve noticed besides like seeing it’s plastic. I have the cheapest hollow and its like some of the best $150 (used) I've spent on music. super comfortable (this was a surprise), sounds decent w/o an amp for practice, just yeah. Finish is SUPER cheap up close but whatever, plays fine
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MJP posted:Other than Guitar Center/Sam Ash/local music stores/my state's subreddit, where does one go/post to try and find other instrumentalists to maybe form a Duran Duran cover band? I'd like to play more of their music but it's not really a solo guitar thing. It needs the whole shabang. I put my whole band together off Craigslist believe it or not
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PYF craigslist beefers
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get yourself an MPC and take the whole haul. most of duran duran is programmed beats no?
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20 Blunts posted:most of duran duran is programmed beats no? Perhaps the same could be said of all music; what is music if not a program  It'd really depend on the keyboard player's ability to multitask but the very Duranie answer is no, not most of it. Vocalist, one guitarist, one bass player, one drummer on actual drums, and one synth/keyboard player. There's definitely a bunch of programmed and sequenced stuff that Nick Rhodes did on every song on every album save for a few, but there's still a lot of live synth playing. Sure, patches got saved to the equipment and computers, so it's not like he's doing everything on Moogs. Nah, Duran Duran isn't synthpop like the Human League, who I think had a rule stating no guitars were allowed in the band. They ended up breaking the rule but it was a pretty good song to break it on, IMO.
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I mean NIN is also mostly programmed drums on record but Trent hires Ilan Rubin for tours and the guy can fuckin play.
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The bassline on Rio is one of the finest ever laid down and I will hear nothing to the contrary 
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True, John Taylor is an absolutely sick bassist. Girls On Film has a wild bassline too.
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MJP posted:Other than Guitar Center/Sam Ash/local music stores/my state's subreddit, where does one go/post to try and find other instrumentalists to maybe form a Duran Duran cover band? I'd like to play more of their music but it's not really a solo guitar thing. It needs the whole shabang. Open mics, though you may run into mostly songwriters
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Huh, Harley Benton make a Mustang? Think some of Thomann's search or categorization is busted because I should have found that before now. Would prefer a Jaguar body shape but if I want to mod a tron-equipped short scale it might be my best starting place. Honestly if I just threw the rest of the thing away it's probably the most reasonable way to get hold of a short scale neck.
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Hi guitar nerds, it's been a while. No idea what post the title is referencing but gonna guess LG is still posting?  I've been incredibly sick lately so not really been making a lot of music sadly. And I also really miss my Strat  I'm *hoping* to get back into playing again, provided I don't get sick again, but that may well happen lol I sold my Gibson because I couldn't physically handle the weight at the moment and I don't like things collecting dust, but the Epiphone Prophecy I was going to replace it with apparently doesn't fucken exist here, so I've only had my start Schecter SGR for like a year lmao.
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