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I do not care for Jazzmasters with Strat trems. 
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Apr 10, 2021 21:14
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a foolish pianist posted:If you’re willing to spend a couple of dollars, Christopher Parkening’s first classical guitar method book starts with the very basics and gets you pretty far with a nice progression. I'm halfway through this myself and can second the recommendation.
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Apr 10, 2021 21:24
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Gramps posted:Dave rules, but he was housed when I met him at NAMM and this was at like 2pm Who isn't housed at NAMM?? Only way to deal with the noise. In other news, guess I'm officially old as poo poo as I've been hankering for an LPC for a while. This '81 Burny popped up earlier in the week and I uhmmed and ahhed because it was a couple of hours drive away until a buyer popped up for my Jazzmaster and some synth gear that would a) give me a perfect circuit of pickup/drop-offs and b) be almost the exact amount of money I needed. Fate was clearly calling, so I am now officially a sludge-dad (like a blues dad for millenials).  I'm thinking neck P90 and a B7 down the line but we'll see. The pickups are SDs but haven't had them out to check models yet. Allegedly the bridge is one of the JB prototypes that were made in a special 777 run for Japanese customers. It sounds good either way.
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Apr 10, 2021 22:57
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darkwasthenight posted:Who isn't housed at NAMM?? Only way to deal with the noise. goddammit that's my holy grail guitar but they never come up
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Apr 10, 2021 23:00
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darkwasthenight posted:Who isn't housed at NAMM?? Only way to deal with the noise. I love everything about it. Especially that pencil line binding. Looks well-played, too. Must be a good one.
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former glory posted:I love everything about it. Especially that pencil line binding. Looks well-played, too. Must be a good one. It's the first time I've spent this much on a single guitar and when I picked it up I had an "oh gently caress" moment because I didn't immediately love it, but I've realised that's mostly because it's so different from everything else I use. I usually go for Fenders or SGs, so light and moderately springy feel, whereas this feels like a brick round your neck, the frets are super low, the pickups are really beefy, and the string tension is pretty high. Decided to give it a bit to bed in and I managed to disappear down the rabbit hole for two hours tonight, so clearly it's growing on me! Not played it through an IRL amp yet so will be taking it in to meet the demo stacks on Monday.
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Apr 11, 2021 01:07
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That should not have MORE string tension than a Fender. It should feel way looser.
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darkwasthenight posted:Who isn't housed at NAMM?? Only way to deal with the noise. Please don't modify that thing at all and keep it how it is right now.
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Apr 11, 2021 05:28
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widefault posted:How about we bring the mood back up with the apparently awesome 2021 Squier Affinity refreshes! I just bought a "Candy Apple Red" Squier Affinity Stratocaster that looks like it was built around 11/2020, according to the pack I bought How is this different, does it matter? Mine looks like it has two single coils and a humbucker edit: how is rocksmith? seems cool but $25 for just the cable seems frustrating GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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Apr 11, 2021 06:20
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I want to learn to play the guitar so I picked up a Squier classic vibe 60s in pink (pic not mine but you get the idea). Then I promptly got severe paronychia the day after in my right index finger so I haven't been able to play it yet but I'm excited to!
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It comes in pink?! 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:
Really good. It's not a complete method for learning guitar, but it's great for getting a lot practice in.
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I've been wondering how well practicing rocksmith transfers to playing without it. Like are ppl able to reproduce what they've learned without the game?
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Apr 11, 2021 09:38
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Siivola posted:It comes in pink?! Yeah they did a shell pink version last year as one of those fender special run things so it's hard to find them new now. I was able to find one through the eBay account of a music store that still had one left thankfully. I love the colour and can't stop staring at it.
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Reverb has some delightful pink FSRs up right now: https://reverb.com/item/39730503-squier-by-fender-fsr-affinity-stratocaster-shell-pink https://reverb.com/item/39730483-squier-by-fender-fsr-affinity-telecaster-shell-pink Shipping from Australia.
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For some reason I set out to make the most guitar dad thing possible (I am a guitar dad). I finally settled on a Stax ballad version of the Doc McStuffins theme as what I wanted to try. It was way harder than I expected. Playing chord melodies up above the cutaway without butchering the intonation proved drat So, enjoy this terribly executed terrible idea: https://soundcloud.com/user-283720154/doc_v2/s-ygpwewQef1r *edit* Forgot to ask, how do ppl go about reducing/eliminating finger squeaks when recording? Do you just have to remove your left hand from the strings entirely between position shifts? Should right hand muting be sufficient? Some combination of the two? Stringent fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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Apr 11, 2021 10:10
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How do all you right handed people stop yourselves from buying all these USSR monstrosities on reverb? Look at all those switches what could they even possibly do drat I want each and every one of them they're probably terrible but that is exactly my aesthetic
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Apr 11, 2021 14:47
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I only have inferior capitalist Western cables.
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i wanted this trainwreck, but it sold before i got to it: https://reverb.com/item/33415508-formanta-ussr-soviet-electric-guitar-vintage
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Stringent posted:I've been wondering how well practicing rocksmith transfers to playing without it. Like are ppl able to reproduce what they've learned without the game? I find it more like quantity time rather than quality. It's great for teaching you to play to a click/drummer, though. Depending on how the song is charted it's also useful to be able to slow a section down and put the time in to learn it, but I do find that unless I specifically focus on it, I don't naturally memorize any of the phrases I'm playing. Back when I played off of sheet music, I'd end up naturally memorizing passages - with rocksmith stuff just keeps coming at you so it tends to flow right through my head and not stick. (If you already have an interface you don't need to buy the dedicated cable, either).
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Stringent posted:I've been wondering how well practicing rocksmith transfers to playing without it. Like are ppl able to reproduce what they've learned without the game? RS is spectacular for getting your hands moving without thinking about it, and it's amazing for developing timing which is one of the harder aspects of playing early on. You want to round it out with lessons/books so you can learn chords and scales and whatnot. I still love playing with the jam session to practice improvising too
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There's a 1970s Maestro Phase Shifter for sale, buried in a local Marketplace ad behind some pornographic high ball glasses. The lister is asking $30 for the pedal. It looks roughed up, but even a non-functional one with six large holes drilled into the face sold for $100 on reverb. It seems like a really cool thing, but maybe not something I'm willing to drive 90 minutes round trip for on a Sunday.
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That's a couple hundred bucks worth of flip if it's working. Still a good margin even if it needs a look over from a tech.
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I sent a message inquiring about it. It was hidden well enough and posted late enough last night that there's still a high chance it's available. The guy asked to be called in the listing without realizing that Facebook automatically removes phone numbers, so we'll see if he even responds.
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I've been on the hunt for an inexspensive volume pedal and just found my solution. 
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I just downloaded a free Android app called Loopz just so I could plug some drum tracks into my aux input and the quality and variety is pretty drat impressive considering I spent precisely zero money on it I'm a middling guitarist at best but it's mad just how much it seems to have opened up my improvisation, and I didn't realise how much fun playing over an Amen break could be
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l3aqFaL7ZM The reverb and post-processing on this sounds amazing. makes me want to make some drone/shoegaze/postrock style music with this combo I mean, first I have to get better at the guitar but it's inspiring
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Apr 13, 2021 06:22
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I always wanted to try out one of those ebows I should look for one.
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Captain Splendid posted:I just downloaded a free Android app called Loopz just so I could plug some drum tracks into my aux input and the quality and variety is pretty drat impressive considering I spent precisely zero money on it Doesn't surprise me. I think Paul Davids is behind it (or somehow linked to it).
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Finally starting to put together Teenage Dirtbage by Wheatus. Its probably the most complex song I've tried to learn so far since I picked up guitar late last year. Open chords, power chords, some with fast mid strum transitions, several different strumming patterns, riffs, the whole shebang in one song. Its pretty hard but when I think back to the single string songs or 2 cowboy chord songs I started on it definitely feels like I've come a long way. Its pretty fun to play.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l3aqFaL7ZM that’s rad but ebows don’t get rosin on your strings
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This might qualify as Stupid Music poo poo, but I thought it would be a fun project. I bought a Monoprice single cut from Amazon Warehouse ages ago for just over $100 to have something to play around with. I was surprised at how nice it felt. The neck is a nice smoothly unfinished 60's slim C and the fretwork is very good. No buzzing, no sprouting, decent finishing on the ends. I pulled the back plate off and noticed it had some lovely electronics and really lovely soldering. I replaced the pots and the switch and installed an Invader with a triple shot ring. I spent pretty much the value of the guitar in improved electronics and now it loving wails. Gorgeous growl and definition compared to what it used to be. The triple shot lets me convert from series humbucker (13k?) to parallel humbucker (4-5k?) or to activate each of the coils alone. It sounds different in each position, and I'm especially interested if the parallel setting (low impedance) has more of a vintage sensitivity compared to the high output face-searing series setting. The Pod Go Marshall model I was playing through showed slightly less bass and maybe more definition in parallel mode, but I'd like to try a more sensitive comparison.
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Wow, that thing owns! I've been thinking about doing something similar with those rings + a set of P-rails for like a million possible combinations.
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if I get off my rear end and I practice singing and playing at the same time, does learning new songs get easier/quicker, or do I just always have to put in a ton of brain breaking effort to be able to sing a song and play it at the same time
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landgrabber posted:if I get off my rear end and I practice singing and playing at the same time, does learning new songs get easier/quicker, or do I just always have to put in a ton of brain breaking effort to be able to sing a song and play it at the same time it gets way easier the more you practice/better you get and also you can lose the skill by lapsing in practice, as I have done. just like a language
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Thank you to the person who recommended finger splints for my finger injury. I've been keeping it splinted at home and wrapping it tight in athletic tape at work and it seems to be healing a lot faster. I really want to start playing again but I am terrified of re-injuring the pinky so I'm going to let it chill for a couple weeks more which really sucks a lot.
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Paul Gilbert is the coolest dude. That's it. Just watched another of his videos* about playing and he's just a being of pure light. Love that guy. I mean a shredder that loves mini humbuckers is just too cool. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcFBOXUogE
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Paul Gilbert is the coolest dude. That's it. Just watched another of his videos* about playing and he's just a being of pure light. Love that guy. I mean a shredder that loves mini humbuckers is just too cool. I have watched this a dozen times. Paul and Josh should do everything together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmvoAQUQzTk
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I ended up getting a new regular boss blues driver. It was on sale for about $15.50 off regular price plus I had about 14 bucks in Musicians Friend fundollars so why not? My uncle Paul Gilbert sent me a picture of himself holding his brand new lightning crackle Jackson pro series Rhoads monster guitar with his eyes closed last week. I think it was supposed to make me jealous but it just made me burst out with laughter. Anyway the real Paul Gilbert is a great dude and player. Krustic fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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