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Professors in college use a syllabus and a textbook. You don’t really need the professor if you can read a textbook, right? Wrong - professors spend their lives understanding the material and add perspective to the written word. Also, teachers can be great encouragers and disciplinarians when you don’t meet expectations. get a book and set goals with your teacher. About what you want to be able to do every month.
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Captain Apollo posted:Professors in college use a syllabus and a textbook. That’s fair. I tried just reading the “textbook” (truefire and ebooks) on my own and recognized that I wasn’t progressing like I wanted to, which is why I signed up for lessons. I guess I expect the college professor to create the syllabus and give a rough idea of what we’ll be doing and where we should be on the first, second, etc. week of class. It would be weird if I signed up for a college class and showed up the first day and the professor asked the class “so what do you want to learn/discuss today?” I guess the converse is that I wouldn’t just sign up for “History”, I’d sign up for “Aboriginal Australian History from Pre-History to 1850” or whatever, so I get that there may be an onus on me to narrow things down. I guess the problem is that my instructor is approaching things like we’re doing a 3rd year independent study when I’m looking for more of a freshman/sophomore “Intro to Pentatonic Blues” class. And either I’m doing a poor job of explaining what I need or he’s doing a poor job of hearing what I’m saying. I probably stretched the college analogy to the breaking point.
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Jul 24, 2019 06:34
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Lawen posted:This is my favorite, too. And it's like $8.50 for enough to last for months and months. The Australian amazon link wants you to throw down $A96 for that kit, no thanks. I'll hit my local bunnings warehouse, they probably have that kind of cleaner in gallon tins.
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Jul 24, 2019 07:44
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Baron von Eevl posted:I'm not sure how that switch works, but I think that single lug to the right is the input and the two outer lugs on the left are the output, probably assigned for the active one being the opposite of the way the switch is pointed (ie if you were to hold the switch and switch it to the left, the right lug would be the "active" one and vice versa). Basically switch the two black wires going into it. I’ll try switching them around, it’s got to be something like that, thank you. I was going by this diagram, it seems that the north start (black from pickup)goes to one of the outer of the three, like you said the outer ones are for neck and bridge. Pretty sure this is how it works  quote:edit: if you're using that 3-way rocker I'm also going to guess the middle position would also be "on" but who fuckin knows Yeah that’s fine
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Jul 24, 2019 14:59
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Just got back from the Guitar Center after trading some stuff in and I can confirm that the Squier Contemporary Active Jazzmaster Spanish Manlove was gushing about is in fact a ripper. I ended up going home with an Ibanez S521, though. The thing is so insanely light when I brought it in from the car I had a brief moment of "oh gently caress did I leave it back at the store".
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Jul 24, 2019 20:26
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Lawen posted:Double post but no gear talk in this one. what's your experience level with guitar? do know how to play a minor pentatonic scale in all 5 positions? can you use barre chords to play a song? what do you know about theory today? is this news to you? the ideas of "diatonic chords" and "harmonized major scales" https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/43 https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/46 for understanding music theory concepts: you can read all about it, but you won't grasp the salience of it until you can play it on the instrument. if you only know the open chords, that will only get you so far once you can play Cmaj7, Dmin7, Emin7, Fmaj7, G7, Amin7, and B-half-diminished as barre chords, you'll be well on your way. i'd make this your goal with your instructor.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:23
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$400 Starcaster! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4MWTBdMRAU There's going to be an Affinity (and a really pretty Contemporary) one too, but the pickups on that aren't wide-range humbuckers, so interest is less. I'll have to try it out if it ever hits local stores.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:35
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Anime Reference posted:Just got back from the Guitar Center after trading some stuff in and I can confirm that the Squier Contemporary Active Jazzmaster Spanish Manlove was gushing about is in fact a ripper. I ended up going home with an Ibanez S521, though. The thing is so insanely light when I brought it in from the car I had a brief moment of "oh gently caress did I leave it back at the store". Those new squiers with active pickups are the best bang for your buck metal guitars right now. The tuners work but if you have the money to replace them, I recommend it.
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Jul 24, 2019 23:08
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ebay junkrod build
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Jul 25, 2019 06:02
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Jul 25, 2019 06:06
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calling it the doodoocaster. started with the poocaster but a guitarbro pointed out fender casters were all 2 syllables and so doodoocaster it is
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Jul 25, 2019 06:09
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the pinstriping, apparently an ebay citizen named speedy did it
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Jul 25, 2019 06:12
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body was like 15 bux neck was a chinese $20 job (its quite nice) pickup was a dragonfire duncan clone i had laying around also the pot was a leftover from another build i think the most i spent was on the poo emoji gold hardware lol at most it was like $80 e:wait no, i spent like another $80 on fer real sperzel tuners lol
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Jul 25, 2019 06:37
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That poo poo is red hot
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Jul 25, 2019 15:00
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motorocker posted:the pinstriping, apparently an ebay citizen named speedy did it  That poo poo is on fire
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Jul 25, 2019 15:15
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motorocker posted:other side Gonna do inlays like that on the next build I do. That's the good stuff.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:18
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Why is the Lth fret two below the 6th fret?
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Jul 25, 2019 15:25
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More importantly-- where can I get that neck?
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Jul 25, 2019 15:33
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Spanish Manlove posted:Why is the Lth fret two below the 6th fret? He said it was a Chinese neck, so it's obviously metric.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:42
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Well, I won't be buying D'Addario's flatwound .12's again. I was setting the intonation at the saddle on the wound G and the winding snapped with enough force to cut my finger open. Good thing my order of Pyramids came in.
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Jul 25, 2019 18:01
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Those are good strings. That's like saying you'd never drive a Toyota again bc you got in a wreck turning out of the lot. Work on your reflexes as well, dodge a popped string like a ninja
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Jul 25, 2019 19:16
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D’Addario has really great customer service, you should send them an email about that.
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Jul 25, 2019 19:19
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Hmm wonder where they got the idea for that neck.
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Jul 25, 2019 19:27
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Fried Sushi posted:Hmm wonder where they got the idea for that neck. Still a favorite of mine tbh
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Jul 25, 2019 19:35
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Fried Sushi posted:Hmm wonder where they got the idea for that neck. the whole build is ripped from some of my favorite hotrod guitars. the "inlays" are just stickers, you can do a google search "jason becker neck inlay" and find them on the cheap. we will see how they hold up to some shred.
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Jul 25, 2019 20:41
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Fried Sushi posted:Hmm wonder where they got the idea for that neck. That reminds me, I've been thinking about adding some new inlays to the side of the neck to be easier to recognize at a glance. Probably two dots on 5, 9, 15, and 19 and three dots on the 12. Keep the other single dots.
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Jul 25, 2019 20:57
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How well do any of those stickers work? I could see the side lasting but don’t the ones on the fretboard get torn up immediately?
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Jul 25, 2019 21:22
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The more people go "what the gently caress this sounds awful" the more metal it is.
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Jul 25, 2019 21:35
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Siivola posted:The more people go "what the gently caress this sounds awful" the more metal it is. thank you for confirming that I am in fact the pound for pound most metal guitarist in the universe
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Jul 25, 2019 21:39
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Kilometers Davis posted:D’Addario has really great customer service, you should send them an email about that. I'll give that a shot. Luckily, it was late enough at night that I didn't swap out the strings, so it's still on. It's weird that the winding popped but the core remained intact, though. I've been playing for 23 years now and never saw that happening. I am Otis posted:Those are good strings. That's like saying you'd never drive a Toyota again bc you got in a wreck turning out of the lot. I like the strings a lot prior to that, but have you ever tried Pyramid strings? They're expensive, but my God are they nice. They play well, sound great, and even their round wounds last forever.
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Jul 25, 2019 21:40
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I decided against selling my old Jackson Dinky and am instead re-stringing it with 11-52's to make it my drop-weird tuning guitar. She's getting oiled up and set up after that gauge jump and then I'm probably going to play Deftones in drop C# for the rest of the night as loud as possible. Don't know if this belongs in stupid music poo poo or here. Relevant to previous discussion, though: I've been using Linseed oil to clean and condition all my fretboards and it does a solid job. Got a little lifetime supply bottle pictured here off Amazon for  or so.
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Jul 25, 2019 21:51
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Did those EMG's fix the Dinky muddiness?
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I don't have a baseline to compare to because I bought it second hand with the EMGs already in place, but they're plenty bright and really high output ... When they work. This guitar has been a constant source of frustration for me ever since I bought it. Just now after doing the re-string I'm getting these intermittent dropouts that put out really loud pops. I forgot that this thing was such a pain. I've changed the battery for a fresh one, I replaced the input jack a while back thinking it was the contacts losing touch when moving, but it's still there. I basically can't play the fun heavy stuff unless I'm sitting perfectly still, which is impossible.
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Love me some mij Jackson's and yeah, emgs really bring the sound to life. I've never really had a problem w my dinky or rr w emgs other than bad battery or strings or whatever.
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Jul 26, 2019 07:23
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Snowy posted:How well do any of those stickers work? I could see the side lasting but don’t the ones on the fretboard get torn up immediately? They're pretty good. Very thing so you don't notice them under your fingers but also pretty hard wearing.
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Jul 26, 2019 07:37
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I have a clip-on tuner that works great, but tears through batteries like a mofo. What are people using that they like a lot? Also, last night I sat in with a friend's band. It was the first time I've played in front of people in 23 years, and the first time ever sober. It was both terrifying and fun!
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Jul 26, 2019 14:56
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Potentially stupid question regarding neck radiuses  *radii When people talk about a 9" radius, do they mean "if the neck extended to be a complete circle, it would have a radius of 9"" ?
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Jul 26, 2019 15:53
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Yes.
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Jul 26, 2019 15:59
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Yes, but the correct term is either "fretboard radius" or "fingerboard radius," since the neck itself is usually flat. You'd generally use the term "neck profile" to describe the width, depth and shape of a neck. 
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Lumpy posted:I have a clip-on tuner that works great, but tears through batteries like a mofo. What are people using that they like a lot? The Fender bullet tuner is fantastic.
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