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lost interest in this thread when I saw Steve Vai and Guthrie Govan. have an extremely dad time, folks.
John Morris
Eh, you're not wrong. Electric guitar might as well be the accordion as far as 2016 is concerned.
But knowing that and coming here and complaining about Lawrence Welk makes you look just as out of touch though.
Brody Wilson
Does anyone have experience with Eminence speakers? The Private Jack looks good for my combo but I'm sure you guys can give some insight
Isaac Butler
>narcissistic >sociopathic >musically illiterate >thinks he's hot shit >thinks he's clever but is actually retarded
is Martin Shkreli the platonic essence of a guitar player?
Aiden Smith
White strat or blue strat
Alexander Bell
>is Martin Shkreli the platonic essence of a guitar player? Nah, he's nowhere near old enough.
Alexander Morgan
blue LP
Austin King
dont insult based shrekeli
Benjamin Adams
he look really fucking autistic it hurts
Jayden Anderson
Gibson sucks shit
Jack Perez
Has anyone tried out Rocksmith on steam? It's not good at all for teaching you theory and how to be intimate with your instrument, but it's fun to pop on and play covers. I've put in close to 250 hours and feel like I've learned a lot from using it. Every song I play I try and get into the mind of the player. This way I can keep practicing riffs and try and figure out their technique or come up with my own to play it. Overall, it's definitely helped me learn how to move up and down my fret board and cross strings. Best part is that I can plug my amp in at the same time and hear exactly what I'm playing.
Lincoln Diaz
Give me a good answer faggot, Id rather wipe my ass with a shitson
Liam Collins
I would go white.
Thomas Edwards
this piece of shit POG sucks and I can't find a sound that I like. Can anybody recommend me something that'll give me more drone/synth sounds rather than goofy ass octaves
Cameron Hill
Hey dude, thinking of getting that cathedral electro Harmonix pedal. Is it worth it for a showcase/ethereal sound?
dont know the song but that sounds like every other post-rock song in the world
Ryder Ross
Ok hamering notes. I remember tapping was a sacred thing but now its norm and not in its best possible form. When jeff beck, eddie van halen, and fripp accomplished this technique they did it rarely and still focused on the basic chords and framework that it takes to make a pleasing guitar track. Thoughts?
Bentley Robinson
What are you trying to say, everyone constantly taps random notes? That's really only true for mediocre Guitar Center teens
Benjamin Peterson
No.. Kek "random notes" i havent heard that phrase used in a long time. I meant when the three stated guitarist executed their technique they had minimal overdrive distortion at least thats said for jeff beck. But the idea that your hammering in notes during recording than when reproducing the sound live compensating for volume loss via distortion, or compression. Zakk Wylde will hammer in a note here or there but its not his focal point he can still pluck out a solid blues run. Is hammering notes worth it if volume loss is inevitable? And if so why have some guitarists chose to move in this direction?
Jaxson Jenkins
>Is hammering notes worth it if volume loss is inevitable That's the whole point of hammer-ons/pull-offs/legato - the attack is much softer and it gives your playing a different vibe
>why have some guitarists chose to move in this direction I haven't noticed an increase in players using legato. But in any case, it would be boring as fuck to pick every single note all the time.
Jacob Brown
Digitech drop
Connor Anderson
Best modern day guitarist coming through
Gabriel Rodriguez
>my vagina when his serial number starts with >MX
Gavin King
If you use hot pickups or active pickups the volume loss is a non-issue. Hammer on will have a different sound and attack compared to standard picking, but volume wise will be very similar. If you play entirely with legato this frees up your right hand for something like a killswitch or whammy. You can get some neat effects through only legato playing and tapping a killswitch in time to cut notes short for example.
Jeremiah Barnes
That isn't Buckethead
Christopher Thompson
>buckethead leave
Colton Wood
>le quantity bucket man
"no"
Wyatt Wood
>octaver does octaves Wow who knew.
Dominic Kelly
I just traded my am standard p bass for a better condition, newer ric 4003. Am I the luckiest man alive?
Cooper Price
Post what songs you're learning right now
Bentley Nguyen
I saw a dude who got a jazz chorus for 15 bucks, so no, but reasonably, yes, in value, no, in upkeep
I've played rocksmith for a year and it hasn't taught me anything but a few songs, I still suck. It's a fun game though, if you're into that sorta thing it's fun.
Landon Stewart
>It's a fun game That's really all it is. People should stop pretending it's anything more than Guitar Hero Advanced.
Sebastian Collins
Alright I have a Chinese Squirer bullet telephone and a shitty 10W amp from when I got scammed 6 years ago. Learning the basics right now so not too miffed but once I get the basics down I'm gonna want to upgrade. I'm looking for something with a warm and thick sound (i.e. I wanna be able to play shoegaze) and an amp suited to that with a ~$450-575 budget. Anything to look out for? Also I live in Austin so I doubt I could flip this crap for even $100 here but do you guys think I'd have better luck selling it at some pawn shop in the middle of nowhere?
Wyatt Foster
Yeah, I like it and I think that type of sound can be dialed in but there's better options out there, especially if you don't need the stereo outputs.Look for a digitech supernatural ambient reverb.
I totally keep meaning to get one of these and it keeps slipping my mind.
Just saw this now, but oddly enough I just got offered one on trade for the POG. I think I'll take it and see how I like it.
Thomas Bennett
yeah I forgot everything I learned in it it's fun to play bass with an electric tho
Jeremiah Clark
>Chinese Squirer bullet telephone Hello?
Mason Turner
Also willing to buy used ofc and go up to ~$650 if it will get me a large jump in quality ???
Jackson Wright
J. Mascis Squier Jazzmaster - more guitar for the money than any Mexican Fender except the Baja tele
You're welcome
Chase Reed
Oh fuck I didn't see that Telecaster*
Grayson Anderson
Check craigslist
Easton Diaz
Yeah, but any recs that I should look for?
Jayden Phillips
blue obviously
Eli Evans
>If you use hot pickups or active pickups the volume loss is a non-issue. I have both a hot humbucker and some more mild pickups in the same guitar. I dont think it's a matter of output level but rather finger strenght, the harder you hit with the left hand, the louder the note is. There's one video where Guthrie Govan talks a bit about legato and hammer on/offs but I cant find it back, I'll post it if I do.
Medically speaking, is it even safe to hold a bass guitar like that? Look at how strained her right arm is, that's ridiculous.
Brody Bell
What are you talking about ? It's fine, it's a bass player. It knows what it's doing.
Bentley Gutierrez
Medical concerns aside, that's a really shitty way of holding a bass. Your dynamics are out of the window and you can't reach all the neck in a consistant manner.
What's the name of this Stevie Ray Vaughn song again? It popped into my head this morning and I can't remember the name at all...I think it's a SRV song anyways.
I know, right? I've never understood this "let's strap the bass as low as possible" trend. I don't know if you can see it form this picture, but her bass is usually very low. I'm surprised she can still play like that.
That's just because it's trendy and people have no originality. The tremolo bar on jazzmasters,jaguars is useful if you want to copy Kevin Shields but really you can do that with any type of guitar.
Alexander Cox
She's playing bass in a death/doom band, it's not like dynamics is any of her concern at that point.
But man touring like that? Looks like you'd wreck your arm/back pretty quickly just for the sake of looking cool
Jaxon Stewart
Whatever catches your eye. /gg/ will probably make fun of you no matter what you find anyways...
Dominic Sanchez
>tfw you only play blues and punk rock on your jazzmaster
Only ever listened to loveless once, don't listen shoegaze in general. I just picked it up because it was by far the comfiest guitar I ever tried.
Connor Peterson
Can I play dream pop and shoegaze on a stratocaster?
Nolan Flores
There's LITERALLY nothing wrong with playing the blues. In some respects the blues is more difficult to master than other styles because of all the subtle nuances to developing your own technique.
how does one get a big titty gf like this? will guitar help?
Aaron Brooks
I'd kill to have a stratocaster
Lincoln Davis
>In some respects the blues is more difficult to master than other styles because of all the subtle nuances to developing your own technique. That's assuming every other genre doesn't have any nuances in their playing. I hate how much guitarists circlejerk around blues like it's the greatest genre ever played.
A classical is different from an acoustic, just incase you didn't know. I really wouldn't recommend this anyway
PS >tfw no gf
Robert Carter
Does a $500 budget for a MIM start and amp sound good? Most strats I'm finding on Craigslist are around 300 leaving me 200 for an amp
Nolan Harris
blues is pretty boring to play after a certain point
jazz blues gets a bit more interesting because they're throwing substitutions and stuff all over the place, but straight blues is ughh. its just the same shit over and over
Henry Hill
>I hate how much guitarists circlejerk around blues like it's the greatest genre ever played.
It may not be "the greatest genre ever played"; but there's a reason for its enduring legacy -- because of how revolutionary it has been to modern performance. It's a go-to for millions of starting guitarists and represents a wealth of knowledge for advanced guitarists to improve their playing.
Learning the subtlety of bends in the blues is single-handedly the most important tool a guitarist can utilize in their playing, more so than scale exercises in Classical or any mount of jazz progressions combined.
Aiden Stewart
What classical guitar would you recommend for same price range And why you didn't like it
Nathaniel Price
>pat Martino is going to die soon
How do you guys deal with that fact?
Jonathan Thompson
>david gilmour will die soon
this feel is worse user
Henry Robinson
You're buying the cheapest possible guitar you could find, it's going to be a cheap piece of shit but you probably already know that so what is anyone here gonna say? Is it good for beginners? Yeah it's a guitar, that's a good start.
Anthony Williams
>Learning the subtlety of bends in the blues is single-handedly the most important tool a guitarist can utilize in their playing modifying the pitch of a note to reach another had never been done before blues, right ?
Cooper Murphy
I was making the assumption that you didn't want a classical.
No knowledge of classicals at all bar £25 no name ones
Alexander Murphy
Don't really care much about the blues, but Gilmour is still good.
>tfw new generation of guitarists are edgy twinkles with 7 string FLAME BURST guitars
Joseph Murphy
I never said that, pleb. I only said learning the subtlety of bends in the blues is single-handedly the most important tool a guitarist can utilize in their playing.
If you know the blues, and know it well, you're an objectively better guitarist no matter what style you prefer.
Daniel Cruz
gilmour isn't very bluesy, he has a bit of it in his playing, but he's way more spacey than bluesy, if that makes any sense
Luke Rodriguez
>the most important tool a guitarist can utilize in their playing. because what use is legato, syncopation, or all these great other tools when you can just bend a note and pretend you're deep
Ryan Moore
the bending in blues isn't even difficult
you want to see whacky crazy bends? jerry fucking donahue
