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This thread inspired me so I bought a Boss Katana Mk. II and a used Fender Player Strat and am gonna learn guitar
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Verman posted:Welcome to playing guitar! An SG like my hero, the protagonist from the manga "Beck"
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Sep 23, 2022 01:06
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Practicing guitar is really fun!
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Sep 26, 2022 20:38
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Guitar practice today was not fun, I tried to practice cupping my pinky during the spider exercise thing and almost vomitted from the mental effort of keeping my fingers arched and moving them individually. Was rewarding because I can now sometimes cup my fingies.
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Sep 28, 2022 03:07
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D chord, A chord, E chord.... and the minor versions of those... Being able to do strumming patterns in time cause I did drums for 3 years. Soon no one on this Earth will be able to match my skill with the 6 strings of steel....
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Oct 3, 2022 03:43
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How do I tell if my guitar needs a setup or has high action? My first ever guitar feels hard to play but it's also the first guitar that I've ever played so I have no frame of reference for stuff. Like I feel like I have to push the strings hard but that's also a guitar noob mistake....
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Oct 7, 2022 02:33
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:Could be high action, could be strings that are too heavy gauge wise, or you could just not have a good frame of reference yet like you said. You can buy a string action gauge on amazon pretty cheap. I like to set my guitars up with about 1.25mm action on the bass side and about .75mm on the treble side, that's over the 12th fret, and on an electric. Acoustics will be different I guess, I don't know much about them. What guitar do you have? I have a mim fender strat with .9 strings. I'll probably cop a string action gauge just to have hard data on my guitar's action instead of guessing, didnt even know those existed lol
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Oct 7, 2022 02:41
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Alternate picking fast feels so weird and sounds so awful.... I will continue to practice it until I get better.
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Oct 19, 2022 19:35
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800peepee51doodoo posted:This might sound dumb or like I'm bragging or something but I've never understood how struggling with alternate picking is a thing. Like, how else are you supposed to pick? Do people just downpick everything? I don't recall ever intentionally learning or practicing alternate picking but I know its a thing because its a huge deal in online guitar communities. Same with downward pick slanting. I was really surprised that holding your pick at an angle relative to the strings was this huge epiphany and that there's zillions of youtube videos describing and discussing it when it's like, yeah my hand just does that when I play fast? For me, the much harder thing is left hand synchronization. My speed is fully gated by my fingers tying themselves in knots at higher tempos. It's just that doing it at a high tempo or with a bunch of subdivisions sounds really warbly and uneven, at this point in my guitar journey. Like I can do eighth notes and triplets with upstrums but as soon as it gets to sixteenths, especially on a single string, my dynamics get all hosed and my tempo becomes really uneven  . Starting off sounding really bad only means I'll quickly sound way better though > !!
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Oct 20, 2022 17:34
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I had just learned the CAGED chords and how to switch strumming patterns on time at like 180 bpm and then sprained my wrist and havent been playing because of school finals. But I am healed and it is time to pick up the axe yet again....
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Dec 8, 2022 16:45
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I usually sit on my bed or a couch when playing but find that I star drifting ny guitar neck away from my body and it causes a bunch of problems playing. Should I sit differently or are there any like cues I should use to hold my guitar closer?
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Dec 19, 2022 05:47
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Does anyone have any experience with the Epiphone Trad Pro SGs? I was thinking of copping a used one for cheap but still don't know what makes a "good" guitar or if it has good hardware or w/e
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Jan 1, 2023 17:31
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The SG Traditional Pro had already been sold, but the shop still had a B Stock G-400 Pro that I had mentally noted as a second choice. I really like it!
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Jan 2, 2023 21:41
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I have a MIM Player strat and when I put the tremolo arm in I get a lot of buzz on the bridge. Is it something I can fix at home knowing nothing about taking care of guitar? There's 0 buzz when I just take the trem arm out
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Jan 11, 2023 00:58
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Power chords and like, properly muting the other strings finally clicked for me today. Now I'm gonna have fun practicing switch from barre chords to non-barre chords. I love how whenever I think I've built up the calluses I need to there's actually more stuff I'll need different callus for lmao
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Jan 15, 2023 06:20
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I'm gonna be able to get guitar lessons for free through my college as a non-music major. I haven't had music instruction since high school so I'm super excited to get instant feedback on stuff!!
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Jan 18, 2023 01:38
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SGs are loving cool, and the best. Simple as
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Jan 23, 2023 21:56
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Interesting claim but still anecdotal. I'm 25 and all my friends love The Cure and Elliott Smith. If you're into rock music at all in my age group you probably know the most famous song by The Cure
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Jan 26, 2023 21:43
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I was also thinking of selling my MIM Strat because I like my SG so much more and switching between scale lengths saps all of my already meagre skill
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Jan 27, 2023 21:37
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Had my first guitar lesson today and felt like 3 months of skill leave my body as I played in front of a stranger evaluating me for the first time. Excited to learn!
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Jan 30, 2023 21:24
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I love my MIM Strat again, all it took was me looking at like 3 hours of videos of how to set up a guitar and fiddling with every single part of it I could, but playing it is finally fun again. Can't believe I thought of selling Ji-chan...
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Feb 1, 2023 00:04
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I'm supposed to be saving up money for post-grad, but I keep staring at the Ibanez FRH and the revstars and feel my willpower draining every day
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Feb 3, 2023 04:33
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Southern Cassowary posted:Do they fill a practical hole in your collection or make better sounds for something you regularly play, or are you just dealing with guitar acquisition syndrome? I dont have an acoustic, I dont need a revstar but if I didnt get one it'd be cool to have some semi-hollowbodies. But I already have an SG and Strat so I should at least wait til after I move to become a guitar hoarder... Maybe I should start diving guitar center like that one guy in the thread, which is such a genius idea I dont know why other people dont do it
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Feb 3, 2023 16:55
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Second guitar lesson today and getting feedback on technique and ergonomics and economy of motion stuff that I didnt have feedback on from internet learning is so lit. I already feel so much more comfortable and in control of dynamics and stuff
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Feb 7, 2023 04:57
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Helianthus Annuus posted:
Heh, I was able to take them as a class so I'm not even paying for them my college is. Although they do get graded...
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Feb 7, 2023 16:33
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I think LG has the exact model of stratocaster I do and also hates its technical foibles that I, as no great intellect, can fully understand so theyre cool imo
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Feb 7, 2023 20:05
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landgrabber posted:2021 player strat? i got the one from chicago music exchange that's pacific peach. and, i have to imagine, a really bad one of the lot. Oh mine's a 2022 player in capri orange, I guess my color recognition skills are bad lmao
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Feb 8, 2023 00:10
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Southern Cassowary posted:walnut is absolutely the best sg color SGs should be red.
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Feb 8, 2023 20:48
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I said this in the dumb music thread, but Gibson should simply make a headless SG (lmao fat chance)
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Feb 9, 2023 02:19
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One of my saddle screws on my D string is also spinning fruitlessly, but there's no rattle and the action is fine so I simply pretend that it is not doing that ☺️
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Feb 9, 2023 17:05
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I saw one of those $200 squier hello kitty strata reduced to $600 from a store in Japan and seriously considered just no longer saving money for post-grad
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Feb 12, 2023 01:14
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Offsets are ftw in both aesthetics and who uses them, and I wouldve gotten a Jazzmaster as my first guitar if there wasnt a good deal on a used Strat from a local shop. I just wanna be Hisako Tabuchi
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Feb 12, 2023 03:15
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One of my fav things about getting guitar lessons is getting live feedback on my ergonomics and technique. I can play much more comfortably now and have better tone cause I'm not tense af holding the guitar anymore
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Feb 16, 2023 19:55
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Headless SG that also has little horns on whatever you call the space past the nut on a headless guitar. Hire me, Gibson
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Feb 16, 2023 20:36
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Seen that but the headstock being in the body repulses me
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Feb 16, 2023 20:41
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I want an Epi Coronet just cause I've never seen anyone use one. They look so cool too....
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Feb 17, 2023 07:00
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My guitar professor told me a big speech about learning the fretboard by relational pathways, so you recognize the notes from multiple places (i.e.: you know their place in a scale AND what note they are in a chord AND the fret number) and I looked at him like he was guitar Moses or something because it made conceptualizing that stuff so much easier
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Feb 17, 2023 20:03
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When you're torn between saving money to move out after college or spending thousands of dollars on a vintage Coronet...
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Feb 18, 2023 18:11
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I was gonna make a joke about the "HH" fretboard but thought that'd be too glib...
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I keep seeing how Kaia Wilson from Team Dresch, who is now in the Butchies, is pretty TERF-y. Noo!!!!!!!
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