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Helianthus Annuus posted:do you have a band playing your wedding? Hahaha, God no. The closest thing may be having people over to the house for drunken acoustic punk singalongs.
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get a side job at a print shop, liquor store, or restaurant. places total degenerates tend to congregate but if you're over 30 and have a house payment and don't want to be the weird old guy in the band like that one guy in the offspring, your only other option is to start attending one of those stupid churches with a full band setup
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It's 10x easier to find a band if you can do decent-ish demo recordings on your own and send them to people. Having material ready prevents a lot of auditions where you turn up and just kinda look at each other awkwardly. I've had so many poo poo auditioning-band-member rehearsals that I just won't meet anyone now who can't provide some recording of themselves beforehand in some format, phone recording, webcam vid whatever. I mean if you can't or won't record your own playing in 2018 wtf are you doing. massive spider fucked around with this message at 11:15 on May 22, 2018 |
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The Muppets On PCP posted:but if you're over 30 and have a house payment and don't want to be the weird old guy in the band like that one guy in the offspring, your only other option is to start attending one of those stupid churches with a full band setup Well I'm hosed
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May 22, 2018 16:17
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One man bands til death
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May 22, 2018 16:21
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One death mans till band
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May 22, 2018 16:28
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At least it’s never been easier to do it
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May 22, 2018 18:05
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massive spider posted:I mean if you can't or won't record your own playing in 2018 wtf are you doing. posting
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i'm real glad i decided to spend money on a proper microphone and audio interface instead of yet another gimmick guitar
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May 22, 2018 18:35
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Helianthus Annuus posted:i'm real glad i decided to spend money on a proper microphone and audio interface instead of yet another gimmick guitar Outsider! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! e: what did you get?
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I found a guy on craigslist trying to get rid of a bunch of recording equipment, picked up a sm57 and a huge boom for it for like 50 bux. My audio interface is this, and I do not recommend it at all: https://lexiconpro.com/en/products/alpha I should have spent more money on the audio interface. There's bleed between the mic channel and the instrument channel. It gets noisy sometimes and picks up Spanish-language Christian AM radio, and I have to rattle it until it stops.
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May 22, 2018 20:27
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I had a lexicon alpha, it was garbage and customer support was non-existentn when it kept stopping working. I know their reverbs etc are highly rated but on the basis of my experience with that I'm a bit leery of them.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:i'm real glad i decided to spend money on a proper microphone and audio interface instead of yet another gimmick guitar Yes but how will you sound better without yet another guitar? If you don’t regularly buy new guitars you’ll never sound good.
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rio posted:Yes but how will you sound better without yet another guitar? If you don’t regularly buy new guitars you’ll never sound good. playing synths instead 
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Guitar modding question: Can anyone confirm that modern Stratocaster necks can fit in the neck pocket of a modern Mustang?
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Nebraska Tim posted:Guitar modding question: Can anyone confirm that modern Stratocaster necks can fit in the neck pocket of a modern Mustang? Those are two different scale lengths (unless Fender released a 25.5" scale Mustang at some point), so even if the neck did fit, it wouldn't ever be in tune when fretted.
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monolithburger posted:Those are two different scale lengths (unless Fender released a 25.5" scale Mustang at some point), so even if the neck did fit, it wouldn't ever be in tune when fretted. I wish they would, but I'm aware of the issue and planning to move the bridge and the bridge pickup accordingly.
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Gripen5 posted:I just had the weirdest issue with what I assume was a bad string. Guitar had been strung for probably two or three months, but I hadn't touched or tuned up the guitar in a month. Tuned the guitar up to E Standard. Played a few licks that included a bend on the high e string, when suddenly the string kind felt like it popped and went out of tune. Except everything was still connected. So I tried to tune up about a half dozen times and every time I got just past D# the string would detune by at least a step to step and a half, sometimes more. Right around the time I was figuring that the tuner was messed up, the ball end of the string pops right off. Seems the winding on the ball end came loose with no actual snapping of the string.
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The Leck posted:I had something similar to this happen repeatedly on my J Mascis Jazzmaster where the winding would unravel, but the ball end didn’t pop off. It happened with different strings, different brands, different gauges, everything. No one I talked to had even heard of this happening, including my guitar teacher, the shop, and this thread! As best as I can tell, there was a tiny burr in one of the holes in the tailpiece that the strings go through that needed to be sanded down a little, and it’s just fine now, but it was a weird few weeks trying to figure that out. Hmm. I haven't restrung the guitar yet, but I will take a look before I do, and keep it in mind if it ever happens again.
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If a string keeps breaking in the same place, that's a sign that a gremlin lives there. Or there's something wearing at the string, one or the other
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How much is a tone gremlin?
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It’s getting hard not to get discouraged and frustrated with my playing. I started in a February and I still can’t switch to G accurately or quickly. I’ve been working on a learning song per my guitar teacher, but forget moving through it with any semblance of fluidity. Even just practicing is pissing me off.
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skooma512 posted:It’s getting hard not to get discouraged and frustrated with my playing. I started in a February and I still can’t switch to G accurately or quickly. I’ve been working on a learning song per my guitar teacher, but forget moving through it with any semblance of fluidity. Even just practicing is pissing me off. Stop worrying just keep playing. That little frustration will mean nothing a year or two down the line. It sucks but it’s completely normal and will pass. Don’t be afraid to step away. If you practice angry you’ll be tense in your mind and body and won’t get as far as you will by relaxing, doing something else and then coming back to the instrument.
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skooma512 posted:It’s getting hard not to get discouraged and frustrated with my playing. I started in a February and I still can’t switch to G accurately or quickly. I’ve been working on a learning song per my guitar teacher, but forget moving through it with any semblance of fluidity. Even just practicing is pissing me off. I feel u Here's one way you can sort out that G chord. "Minute changes" Set the timer for a minute, and practice going between two different chords. Break down the song into its chord changes, and spend a minute on each one each day. The chords have to sound good, so go slow at first. Even if the rest of that day's practice is a bust, that couple minutes each day will eventually get you through the changes at tempo. e: crediting justin for the idea https://www.justinguitar.com/en/BC-115-1MinuteChanges.php
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This is going to sound stupid, but try switching from G to G. Strum some G for a bit, lift up all the fingers, put them right back down where they go, keep playing. I did this with C, which was the chord that made me want to quit. It helped eventually. Also, if I'm doing some fast-moving rock thing that just uses open chords, I use a different fingering, with the first three fingers, than if I was going to G7 next, when I'd have to use fingers 2, 3 and 4 so I could more easily get to G7. Whether you want to take such shortcuts is of course up to you.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:e: crediting justin for the idea https://www.justinguitar.com/en/BC-115-1MinuteChanges.php That really helped me. I'm about to start doing his counting 16ths video from the intermediate funk branch.
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learn some creedence you'll be an expert at chord switching in no time
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So lately I'm noticing my guitar has a few intonation issues. If I adjust the scale length so that the 12th frets are perfectly in tune with the open strings/1st harmonics, then notes played toward the head get progressively sharper, and notes above 12th fret get flat; by fret 19 some of them are over 20 cents flat. In addition, I can't do whole-step bends on my high E string, 19th fret; the string vibrates against the higher frets and mutes itself. I'm trying to learn "Crazy Train" right now, and the solo climaxes on that exact bend, which is a pain in the rear end. I'm playing on an Ibanez Gio, which has a pretty simple bridge; I can adjust individual saddle length and spring tension, that's it. Is there anything I can do to fix these issues, or am I just suffering from cheap guitar syndrome? Is this something a truss rod adjustment would fix? I've had a ton of springs on the tremolo so it permanently sits flat on the body, but the bridge sits at a slight angle, maybe 2-3 degrees, could that be contributing?
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Enourmo posted:So lately I'm noticing my guitar has a few intonation issues. If I adjust the scale length so that the 12th frets are perfectly in tune with the open strings/1st harmonics, then notes played toward the head get progressively sharper, and notes above 12th fret get flat; by fret 19 some of them are over 20 cents flat. Strings fretting sharp at the headstock end is a sign of a badly cut nut. From the amount of issues you're experiencing I would suggest taking it to a decent tech to check it and maybe walk you through some of the issues so you know what to look for next time.
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skooma512 posted:It’s getting hard not to get discouraged and frustrated with my playing. I started in a February and I still can’t switch to G accurately or quickly. I’ve been working on a learning song per my guitar teacher, but forget moving through it with any semblance of fluidity. Even just practicing is pissing me off. See if you can do the lazy G, which is my main G now, especially on electric guitar. Just the two E strings, and you mute the A string by being lazy with the index finger. You'll of course want to get to the point where you can do a regular G but maybe this can help get over the frustration and get into playing songs. It's the second one on this list. https://www.tomasmichaud.com/right-way-play-g-chord/ Are you having this problem just with this chord or are there other open chords that are giving you problems?
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Hellblazer187 posted:See if you can do the lazy G, which is my main G now, especially on electric guitar. Just the two E strings, and you mute the A string by being lazy with the index finger. You'll of course want to get to the point where you can do a regular G but maybe this can help get over the frustration and get into playing songs. Yeah the first G I learned to play was that second one, I actually learned it with my thumb fretting the 3rd fret on the G string. Not sure I would recommend that cause it took me quite awhile to get used to playing the full G with my fingers but just fretting the Low E and High E 3rd fret is good enough to get through a song.
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Thanks guys, I’ll work on chilling and doing the quick changes.
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Kilometers Davis posted:One man bands til death
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skooma512 posted:It’s getting hard not to get discouraged and frustrated with my playing. I started in a February and I still can’t switch to G accurately or quickly. I’ve been working on a learning song per my guitar teacher, but forget moving through it with any semblance of fluidity. Even just practicing is pissing me off. While I think there's something to be said for taking short breaks, you really just have to power through this stuff. It took me probably 30 hours of work before I could nail my first sweep arpeggio even sometimes, and roughly that long again before I could do so consistently. All this poo poo is just muscle memory and if you practice at controllable low speeds with a metronome and gradually speed up, you WILL get there eventually. Slow it down and then work up to speed, even if you have to play it at 30bpm or something.* poo poo even if I'm learning something that's easy for me, I'll still start practicing it at 50% tempo. *There are a few things that are way harder to play slow than fast (thinking mainly of 5- and 7-tuplets, which are basically impossible at a low BPM), but you probably don't need to worry about that now.
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I've always wanted a Gretsch so I impulse bought this on sale today.  What an amazing upgrade from a Squier Bullet. Sucks about the little imperfection on the fingerboard (cosmetic only) but I got a few more bucks off and I still think it's gorgeous. Now I just need to learn how to restring a Bigsby. Also the shorter scale length is perfect for my manlet hands. Kibbles n Shits fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 24, 2018 |
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The inventor of the fuzz pedal has died so let's all hammer out some loud woolly noise tonight 
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Shugojin posted:The inventor of the fuzz pedal has died so let's all hammer out some loud woolly noise tonight
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I really need to dig into gypsy more; Bossa Dorado is a gem I didn't know existed!
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Cherry burst, thoughts?
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