Noodleface
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The Official Guitar Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Karen
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Snark's are cheap and reliable afaik. I want to get a tuner pedal eventually, or some sort of MFX pedal with it built in.
I managed to practice 70 hours last month. This month isn't starting great since I've already skipped a day, but I'm going to try to focus on fretboard/theory/scale memorization and ear training. I have a hard time with intervals, but I'm finding I can pick out simple melodies fairly easy. I don't want to get hung up on note positions, repetitive scales and progressions, but I think it would do me some good to know them without having to think about it.
This really is an amazing time to learn guitar or any musical instrument. I can go on youtube and learn bits of most songs I loved as a kid in half an hour. And the more I practice every day, the less trouble I have learning new things, so it's encouraging.
I managed to practice 70 hours last month. This month isn't starting great since I've already skipped a day, but I'm going to try to focus on fretboard/theory/scale memorization and ear training. I have a hard time with intervals, but I'm finding I can pick out simple melodies fairly easy. I don't want to get hung up on note positions, repetitive scales and progressions, but I think it would do me some good to know them without having to think about it.
This really is an amazing time to learn guitar or any musical instrument. I can go on youtube and learn bits of most songs I loved as a kid in half an hour. And the more I practice every day, the less trouble I have learning new things, so it's encouraging.
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jooka
marco esquandolas
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It is pretty amazing what info you can get a hold of these days. When I was a kid it was pretty much magazine articles, hanging out in music shops until they kick you out. I got super lucky with a high school music teacher who was fucking great, wrote his own musicals for the choir/drama dept. We won state madrigals a few years in a row but the best thing he ever did for me was I was his teachers aid all through high school which he spent teaching me music theory. My junior/senior years I was running a jazz band before school started and he was always around to help us. He basically got me into Berklee.
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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Seconding the Snark. I've had one for years and it's extremely reliable.
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Kovaks
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Yeah I had a great band teacher, I have no idea how I would have learned without them back in the day, youtube is amazing now, fucking kids are lucky. I also have noticed over the last few years how much easier it is to learn now that I'm older, young me would get so discouraged when he didn't see loads of progress quickly, old me knows it is a process and takes forever to get good at things, old me also understands it is a hobby and supposed to be fun and ill never be or need to be as good as a professional
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Kovaks
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Awesome I ordered a Snark, one of my struggles I think is the double strings, I tune g1, then tune g2 and 1 is off again and then once they both seem in tune I play them together and that isn't in tune, need alot more practice with this.
Noodleface
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Noodleface
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Depends if you guys have a floating trem. Everyone has their methods but I usually tune 6th string, then 1st, then 5th, etc.
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I just go through low to high a few times until it's in tune on my guitar with a tremelo. The others I don't have much problem with after a put some pencil graphite in the nut/ bridge string slots and started using the locking string wrap. I was surprised to find that even my cheapo Harley bentons stay in tune from day to day unless there are crazy temperature swings.
Noodleface
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Upgrading tuners is also an upgrade a lot of people forget about. I'm very used to my Floyd rose and the pain in the ass it can be. They also ordered locking tuners on this kiesel, but I've used them without Floyd's and they're awesome.
I thought about getting them on my Gibson but it feels sacrilegious
I thought about getting them on my Gibson but it feels sacrilegious
Springbok
Karen
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Okay last NGD post for awhile (in fact I'm going to sell the S2 594 this weekend), but got a crazy deal on the below. 2019 PRS Paul's Guitar, 10 top.
Paid $2399 out the door, in absolutely mint condition. Only annoyance was, it had to have a complete set up which I'm working on now (new strings on, oiled fretboard, now working the truss) but cannot believe how nice this thing is. As beautiful to play as it is to look at. Reckon I'll keep this one for a while - think the dilweed at Guitar Center priced it wrong, as this is a $4600 guitar brand now and there isn't a single hairline scratch on the thing. Oh well, fuck you Guitar Center!
Paid $2399 out the door, in absolutely mint condition. Only annoyance was, it had to have a complete set up which I'm working on now (new strings on, oiled fretboard, now working the truss) but cannot believe how nice this thing is. As beautiful to play as it is to look at. Reckon I'll keep this one for a while - think the dilweed at Guitar Center priced it wrong, as this is a $4600 guitar brand now and there isn't a single hairline scratch on the thing. Oh well, fuck you Guitar Center!
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Noodleface
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Damn dude. I'd never own a PRS, but I admire the way they look and sound. You can tell they bleed quality.
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Wow that thing is really cool, I had no idea such a thing existed
Only $249 too
Would be fun to take it out busking and blow people's minds with delay coming from an acoustic soundhole lol
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