HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY FUCKING BEHEADED THAT GUITAR
Nolan Adams
Hi everyone. I'm left-handed but I've been playing right-handed for 6 years now because of my first teacher who said that it would have been the same either way. I have no problems playing some lick or riff that I have practiced a lot, but whenever I do something unusual my right hand tends to mess things up, hitting wrong strings. I also feel like I just can't go over a certain downpicking speed no matter how much I practice. Should I switch to left-handed or keep practicing this way? Thanks in advance :)
Robert Smith
>using 3 fingers to make an E or A major chord instead of just slamming your index finger down on the first fret
Jack Morales
>not fingering your chords depending on what comes before and after it in context
Check out this fucking pleb
Asher Davis
Go left-handed, there's really no reason not to these days. Pretty much every model comes in a lefty version.
You'll probably find you play like a retard for a while but it shouldn't take long to find your groove.
Daniel Ward
>3 fingers to play E and A >can't cover two strings with one finger
Jeremiah Hernandez
how can people do that like with the fingertip, like 90º, like not barring
Yeah but I'm afraid that I'll just waste time while switching to left-handed when I could use that time progressing right-handed. Do you think that there's a limit to the progress you can make as far as non-dominant hand control goes?
Landon Green
Redpill me on why Fender became a jew with the rosewood necks
Adrian Rivera
>Do you think that there's a limit to the progress you can make as far as non-dominant hand control goes?
No, but I think that the extra time it would take to learn something on your off-hand would add up over time to be greater than if you switched over. The skills you've learned should be transferrable, it'll just be really awkward for a couple of months. You'll have to consciously think of where your fingers go rather than just doing it, but it's not like you'll suddenly be a completely new player.
Anthony Cruz
Does anybody know any companies that makes vintage style tuners that would fit a strat without drilling new holes?
Eli Murphy
Lead singer and song writer for XTC. He's known for his great song writing. I just happened to stumble on this video.
why does everybody becomes dads with composing and chords after they git gud at soloig
Connor Ortiz
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Jose Hall
is it just another new wave band
Mason James
You're right, thanks :)
Nathan Gonzalez
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Samuel Ortiz
why is being into music so hard I didnt start playin till i was a vague adult, but i just want to play for my own enjoyment and make fun shit
I feel like every musician i talk to has so many god damn rules and like some kinda weird ideology behind their own music that just makes them get in their own way
I just want to have fun, explore, and occasionally make people groove. I never imagined that would be a huge hurdle when trying to find other people
Noah Jones
figured it. thanks i'm one step closer to looking like ace frehley
Leo Turner
I heard Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze recently, can't stand the band but the solo at 51 seconds in this is surprisingly well done for someone who's not known as a guitar player
I finally scored a Music Man combo last weekend in near perfect condition for $315. It even has that stupid phaser (basically a really bad Small Stone but it's fun to mess around with) instead of a normal vibrato.
Liam Wright
>he hasn't heard skylarking before
Logan Miller
I need a rec for a new bass amp head to run between a G&L SB-2 and a LDS 2x12/2x8 for a good rock tone.
Luis Brown
I'll give you $400 for it
that includes shipping to England, cash on delivery ok with you?
Gabriel Garcia
What's it like transferring from bass to guitar? I never learnt the latter and I'm intermediate (reposting from wrong thread lol)
Logan Barnes
nice find dude.
William Morgan
Are these that uncommon in the UK?
You'll approach it with a good understanding of rhythm and right-hand technique which will automatically make you better than 95% of guitarists. Definitely do it.
Brandon Johnson
>Are these that uncommon in the UK?
Used to see them a bit in the 1980s, not seen one in a long time now.
Charles Long
>how you will glue a metal bridge? epoxy is probably my safest bet I think
>you know the lack of vibration transfer affects the sound that comes out of pickup too dont you so what am I in for exactly? less sustain?
meanwhile, the people who created the blues were playing on a broomstick with one string of farm wire attached to it, and here we are arguing like retards on a japanese animation forum.
Is replacing pickups hard? Is it something i could do with basic soldering experience?
Landon Richardson
So I replaced the bridge on my J bass because it was giving me grief. Problem with this high mass bridge is that it raised the action a mile high. I fixed it with a few shims in the neck joint, but now I have another problem: the pickups are too damn far from the strings. I have more padding/foam to put under them, but the mounting screws are too short. Does anyone know where I can get No. 4 1.5-2" screws?
Benjamin Wright
That's gotta be the ugliest piece of shit I've ever seen. And I do own a Tele.
Yes, it's relatively simple. Just make sure to wire them in phase.
Cooper Wright
I tried my local Home Depot and Ace Hardware, neither had any that long.
Sebastian Brooks
>in phase ?
Joseph Martin
just make sure you wire it right and dont swip the 2 wires
Andrew Bell
Shit in your hand and rub it on your chest
Jackson Allen
Thanks, dad.
Jose Young
whatever ampeg amp
Nathaniel Brooks
Find something that you like and then figure it out.Seriously. That's how I started learning about 8 or 9 years ago. The music theory will come over time. For me personally, I could never make myself learn theory, so I just played along to music that I enjoyed. About 5-6 years in I started to really enjoy studying it, and it carried on from there.
John Davis
wut
tl;dr he cant make actual effort
Thomas Stewart
I would put a block under the bridge and screw in the new bridge like it was going into a semi-hollow.
Gabriel Hughes
google is your friend, but here's the jist pickups detect the vibrating strings as magnetic vibrations affecting the pole pieces. The winding of the coil is either clockwise or anticlockwise, with two outputs. The output is alternating (sinewave) current. depending on where you put the groundwire and "hot" wire, the output from each pickup can be positive/up or negative/down. If you wire them out of phase, the two signals cancel out and you'll notice your sound is very tinny and thin. Wire them in phase and you'll have a normal sound, because the two signals aren't interfering.
Wyatt Barnes
How do you tell? Is it just a matter of not being pants-on-head retarded and making sure to connect the right color wires to where they were with the old pickups?
Jason Wood
>he doesn't use all chords he learns >he is a fucking pleb WOW
Evan Young
At first, yes. I was 11 and didn't understand what making actual effort was. Of course, it's different now.
Gavin White
rivotrill me on fender dimension bass is it an attempt to compete with music man bass?
wow epoxy transfers energy very well, its a very good choice for building an instrument
less sustain for sure, but im convinced it would make the tone poorer too
i still dont undertand what making actuall effort is, im sorry for saying that
Evan Flores
yeah I'll probably do that as well. I'm practically converting it into a hollowbody is what I'm doing. I'm even considering covering up the soundhole,.
Isaac Johnson
Wire all the ground leads onto a ground point like the back of the volume pot, wire the hot leads to the right contact on the switch and you're done
yeah should work fine, even thinline hollowbodies like the casino have a decent acoustic sound.
Jace Brown
If in doubt, try the black wire to ground first and the not black wire to the switch. If it sounds weak and trebly with two pickups selected then one of them is out of phase, reverse the wires from that pickup.
Adrian Flores
There are 3 schools of thought, generally, when you get to a certain level
1. Let me see how much I can push myself 2. I'm fucking great, I don't need to get better 3. I've accomplished my goals...and it's not as exciting as I expected
You can have all 3 ideas in your head. I'm number 3, with a little bit of number 1. I played mostly punk, honestly, stuff where you didn't need to be good to play. I still learned in depth theory, practiced patterns, learned shapes, proper technique and practiced to a metronome. I've got great speed, phrasing, timing... big whoop. I have played in over a dozen groups from different genres. It's been fun, each new style brings new challenges. I fucking hate pop country, but because of that it was probably biggest challenge I've faced in the last 3 years.
Guitar is fun, but I know my way around it. When I pick it up I can play whatever I want. The only ways to go are more dissonance, more odd times, or more speed. None of that interests me.
I've pretty much stopped playing guitar. I bought drum kit, I mostly play that now, more physically demanding, the foot work required threw me through a loop for months. I play my bass a lot more than ever, and I've been playing keyboard as well. I'd probably play keys more but I'm having to approach theory much differently than guitar, almost to a point of having to delearn guitar. While that alone is very challenging it's more frustrating than anything. I've . . Really didn't mean to make this my personal blog. Basically, it's really easy to hit a point where things like soloing don't interest you as much as they used to. I go out drinking with a few musician buddies every so often and it always comes up, it's easy to just hit a point where the things you used to aspire to be don't have the same appeal once you become them.
Jacob Thomas
It's good enough for Yolanda Charles and I'm going to marry her. So that's a good endorsement.
Same here. Oncce you can do it to the level you always aspired to, it becomes impossible to motivate yourself to learn new stuff. If I really tried hard then I could get good enough to play jazz fusion which I really hate. So I do my thing, I play anything I want to play and if I don't play for a few months then it takes me a couple of hours practice to get the motor skills back.So I don't play anywhere near as much as I used to but I still have the occasional day when I'll drag a guitar out of the closet and run through some songs that I love. To be honest, I get more pleasure from rhythm playing than endless solos, I'm much happier hammering a Telecaster than wailing away at the dusty end of the neck.
/brainfart
Dominic Brown
i'm not gud but i dont remember the aspects of playing i wanted to achieve and can't figure them out anymore
Alexander Diaz
When you finally figure tham out, you'll know what they were.
Hunter Wilson
If youre so good then why you're not SRV
Robert Hall
I want to write music that I want to listen to. Even if I reach a point where my playing can't progress anymore (doubtful) I will always be writing new material to massage my ear drums. Just as I can't get tired of listening to music, I don't think I'll get tired of writing music.
Levi Allen
Been playing bass for 8 years and used two pedals ever. Im tired of playing straight…Which do I get? Which do I drop? And should I stop playing? Please disregard the Minotaur tags it won’t be used for stoner just droning really.
Aaron Richardson
>I want to write music that I want to listen to.
That's all I do. The trick is to stop copying people and do your own thing. There's no point being a tenth-rate Ace Frehley copy or a bar room Stevie Ray Vaughan, that's been done a thousand times and another clone of their music is about as creative as photocopying the Mona Lisa.
If you write, learn keyboards and drum programming. It's extremely difficult to find people who share your vision in original music so do as much as you can yourself. And force yourself to sing, even if you think you've got a voice like a goose farting in the fog. You'll get better at it.
Justin Harris
how to program keyboards i just pick the chord notes and let them ringing that doesnt do much besides filling space without being dissonant
Joshua Nelson
It's a weird place to be at, you nether stagnate, stop playing, start teaching, start auditioning form touring acts, or join a cover band and make some cash playing weddings.
Honestly the event circuit ain't that bad, you meet some really talented people, usually who are either humble or have a good sense of humor. They all know what it is, have fun, kill the dead air, go back to work Monday. You'll get some divas, had a bassist in his 50s thinking his big break is tomorrow. But I also had a group where no one gave a fuck about it, and got up there acting a fool and killing every set(we actually had about 50 people huddled around our shitty COVER band once). I made $500 for 30 minutes once, we played an awards ceremony for some fortune 500 company, we just played Motown. I have a lot of fun because of the people.
Been there, all you gotta do is find a goal and you'll be back in it.
He's probably not 800lbs
That's big thing keeping me playing in my free time. I've got like 3 albums worth of pop punk to record. Yep, pop punk, like of with their heads meets recent propagandhi. Simple music, but lots of tempo changes, rhythm, solos, and weird chords. I love the music, love the singalongs, even if most most of it it fucking devoid of creativity and intricacy.
You'll eventually hit a level with technique past what you ever expected to have, and it'll be weird. I find myself questioning if I'm making a good choice or just trying to show off all the time when writing stuff.
Eli Cook
What's the most efficient way to learn the notes in the fretboard? I need it so that I can move around the fretboard freely while improvising, and not be locked into boxes. Thanks in advance.
Eli Gray
figure intervals instead of memorizing a specific scale's boxes
Austin Jackson
>join a cover band and make some cash playing weddings.
I am NEVER doing that again. I joined a fucking country and western band by mistake, out five nights a week, decent money but it was totally soul destroying. I can't hear Achey Breaky Heart now without wanting to stab someone.
Ayden Rodriguez
Okay, that seems to be a good way of doing it. Thanks famalam.
Christian Thomas
I did it first by learning where all the chord shapes were, play a progression in every possible location on the neck, use an E shape barre, A shape barre and a C shape barre (yes there is a C shape barre chord) then figure out what each note is in each chord you're playing, where the root, third and fifth are, where the dominant seventh is. Then figure out where the nearest scale is to those chords and suddenly you can play anything anywhere on the neck.
Worked for me, YMMV.
Julian Hughes
That is actually pretty good dude. Do you use the CAGED system? I need to relearn that system again for the purpose you just stated. I have been messing around with triads lately, they are pretty useful for this purpose as well. Thanks dude.
Kevin Barnes
It also opens up a whole world of arpeggios. Just fly over to whatever chord shape is nearest and BAM, there's your arpeggio.
Michael Ward
I don't know what a CAGED system is, is that where your girlfriend puts one of those lock things on your cock and has sex with a black guy? Not really into that, sorry.
Kevin Stewart
That is just noodling and learning intervals
Aaron Hernandez
im reaching this point now. i play in a couple cover bands and the music is just driving me out of my fucking mind, but it's easy money....
Christopher Smith
That is an oddly specific example my friend. I think you may have had leaked your preferences by "mistake".
Lincoln Collins
How get hired in a wedding band
Xavier Rogers
I can't get the damn thing off, pls help
Oliver Turner
even if you had a chance, don't do it. they play the cheesiest of cheeseball music and you'll want to hang yourself.
Chase Gomez
The way I cheated was octaves, as well as different patterns(pentatonic 1st shape, 5th shape, starting on all strings). Modes help for this, just learn where the root is in the pattern.
A common thought process I have.
Start in A pentatonic in 5th position hit G on a string with ring finger, slide to the a Now you can play in the 5th shape for pentatonic in the 10th position
it works across the neck, do the same thing in E at the 12th position, slide into the E at the 17th fret, you're now all the way up the neck.
learn as many patterns as you can, learn where the root is in relation to them and you'll be able to find your way up from first position to the highest fret on high e bending to get the pitch you want.
There are many more things you'll eventually need to do to reach the next level, but that'll give you pretty much a free pass to run around.
I'm dying. My sides. You just joined up with the wrong group. Join a group that does some Michael Jackson, watch people in their 50s get down like they're back in the 80's and trying to fuck. It's a blast. Country is just one of those genres that takes itself too seriously instead of just realizing it's all entertainment.
I've gotta stop posting, I've only got half a bottle of 1800 left and a dozen songs I need to practice on drums before bed. Good talking to you cats, which is pretty rare for these threads. I hope yall the best with keeping with it.
Aaron Peterson
i enjoy it and would be happy as fuck playing it
Alexander Robinson
Very much this. It's fun for about the first month then you find one song really getting on your tit ends. Then you hate the entire set. Then you hate the entire band, everyone in the audience, everyone else in wedding bands and the rest of the universe in general.
Christopher Peterson
Ask Tyrone to help you.
Lucas Perez
>Then you hate the entire set. Then you hate the entire band, everyone in the audience, everyone else in wedding bands and the rest of the universe in general
Juan Watson
He's busy right now.
Jayden Cooper
You can always chop it off? I mean, you weren't giving it much use anyways, not as much as Tyrone at least.
Christian Carter
>get gut at guitar >still no gf what i have to do? make a better solo?
Andrew Brooks
to get a gf you have to stop playing instruments and make sick beatz dude
