>tfw you realize that playing guitar is for men what pumpkin spice lattes and ugg boots are for women
Wyatt Rivera
who makes the best budget active pickup basses?
Wyatt Cox
define "budget"
Nathaniel Smith
Ibanez
Nathaniel Young
I usually don't like the look of non-japanese swords but the thin blade makes it look cool.
Robert Gomez
It's not like there's a million options. You could find all 4 that will fit your bass in 5 minutes of searching the internet.
Kevin Price
>Ugg boots >Don't know what the fuck those are >Google it >Women bullshit, nothing special >Second search result "Ugg boots for men" Why do we live in a world where it's socially okay to be a faggot?
Ian Brooks
What's the best sub 400 new guitar For versatility.
Ethan Collins
yamaha pacifica
William Peterson
Squiyer Stratocaser
Gavin Rivera
Epiphone. You can play shit, garbage and poo poo with it instead of just 2 out of 3
Owen Allen
Add an extra 0 and youvcan get a les paul
Jeremiah Flores
What's the alternative, kill them? I don't want you to die.
Leo King
>sit down to play guitar >major scale melody >pentatonic sprinkled in when I'm feeling especially lazy >it's boring as fuck and pedestrian >decide to practice for 30 minutes >actually practice that long >wow this sucks >go back to playing for fun once I'm done >playing is suddenly way fucking better and more creative
Really makes you think
Jayden Barnes
best cheap left handed guitar for a someone switching from bass under 200?
William Adams
What should i study to help me make rock/hard rock basslines?
Samuel Wood
Anything masculine is frowned upon They've been feeding feminist BS to kids since the early 90's resulting in shitty women with dicks.
Parker Reed
Found the metal players
Mason Cox
>thinking a musical taste is conducive to a certain ideology found the highschool student
Ethan Peterson
What is a good bridge pickup choice for a single humbucker plywood guitar? I want to pimp my first guitar that I got 10 years ago. I also want it to be as fucking stupid as possible.
So... EMG 81?
Henry Scott
Thank electronic music [spoiler]and there's nothing you can do about it ;^)[/spoiler]
Austin Williams
Do any of you use pedals with modeling gear? What pedals do you think are the most useful, that modeling gear can't emulate as accurately?
>Inb4 all of them, hurr durr
I'm thinking about getting a compressor first, that has more controls and is more flexible than what's built into my GSP1101, that can beef up my clean tone and make playing stuff like funk easier
Andrew Miller
>having to look up what Ugg boots are
Cooper Baker
>Don't you know he can make you forget your the man
what did he mean by this?
Jose Ortiz
Often times I find myself thinking about guitars themselves and how to modify them more than actually playing.
Wat do?
Julian Nelson
i eventually reached an end point where a friend and i completely modded the fuck out of a squier i had to the point of retardation and its actually one of my main guitars now. after that i was finally able to focus on my playing lol
Jace Perez
I have heavily modified several guitars. Doing that to cheap shitty guitars is my pastime. I've done so many and I just want to keep doing it. I'd like to do it and sell them after so that I can make some money back but I always grow fond of them and decide to keep them.
Post pics of yours?
Michael Martinez
1. You're right 2. Fuck you Pumpkin spice lattes are delicious and guitars are fun. Ugg boots are trash though.
Dylan Hernandez
What's the female equivalent of actually being good at guitar though
Isaiah Wilson
PSLs are bad and you should feel bad
cafe au lait is the correct way to consume coffee
Austin Davis
I think all of us have this problem. It's so much easier to spend hours browsing guitar forums, watching youtube guitarists talk shop, checking out reviews of equipment, coveting guitars and amps we don't have, etc. than it is to actually practice.
I'm starting to think the ultimate "get good at guitar" rig would be an empty room (that doesn't get wifi) with one guitar, one little solid state amp, and a metronome. That's it.
Everything else is distraction and masturbation when it comes to improving.
Jordan Lopez
wearing ugg boots and enjoying PSLs but also being a well-rounded and intelligent girl who doesn't instagram her basic shit
Jason Wright
A lot of people will say that it's better to start with electric than acoustic because it's easier, but I tend to think the opposite--fewer gimmicks, fewer accessories, fewer things to distract you from getting the fundamentals down.
Daniel Reed
Owning a guitar is the equivalent. Everyone I know owns a guitar but I only know one or two people that actually play it
Hunter Lopez
In my experience even very skilled guitar players are a dime a dozen
Camden Butler
In my experience the vast majority of players stop advancing after they learn the basics, a handful of songs they like, and one hard song.
Of course because playing guitar is so common, the small percentage of players who become very skilled are still a very large group.
Jack Johnson
Sounds about right. Most people just don't know how to practice and don't stay consistent. I had a roommate once with a gorgeous black American Standard strat, maple neck. Covered in dust because he never practiced and could barely remember the chords to Creep; he was too busy playing video games all day to even set aside 15 minutes a day to keep up with music.
Samuel Adams
After practicing, I think the most neglected skill is songwriting. Go into any guitar center and you'll see people shredding better than 90% of successful players in popular bands, but no one really cares about your skills unless you can actually create something with them.
Lucas Thompson
>Try's to say that stereotype is wrong >Doesn't say he likes another genre to disprove me
I was right wasn't I? :)
Parker Diaz
Talk me out of it lads.
Or further in to it?
Chase Reyes
I have a strat pro with the s-switch and I don't like it, I'd get one without it if I could do it over.
Asher Wright
Is there any downside to it if you just don't use it? I can always rewire it but I might as well just buy one where I don't have to if it's a problem.
Oliver Ross
The style of ugg boots were actually male apparel before being coopted by the mass-marketing machine, congrats.
Caleb Walker
>Ugg boots for men They don't really resemble the ones chicks wear anyway.
Joshua Johnson
>not comprehending what was written
Luis Howard
And the percentage of the general public who even notice or care about how good a guitar player might be forms an even smaller percentage. People want to hear good songs with intelligent lyrics, not 30-minute guitar wank solos.
Aaron Cook
>Mainly play metal >Hardly ever break out of the phrygian/minor scale >Just spent the last hour jamming out to link related >Feel like pic related
Feels fucking good playing in major key. I think my ear was getting tired of only listening to minor music for months
People want to hear catchy songs. Most pop songs have fucking awful lyrics.
Angel Wilson
You don't need a Deluxe, you only ever need a US Standard or a US Professional or whatever they call them now, the cheapest US made model.
The S1 switch is a total waste of time, it makes a Strat sound like mud. I've got one on my HSS Strat and I never use it. Plus it looks like some cheap piece of plastic shit from a 1970s washing machine.
Jace Thompson
Well yeah, I don't even figure that horse shit in my calculations.
Parker Smith
>People want to hear good songs with intelligent lyrics
Robert Williams
1. The sounds are really blah, basically unusable 2. Makes swapping out pickups more complicated 3. Mine started making a scratching noise when I bump it, I need to get it checked out
Just a pointless headache in my opinion.
Lucas Foster
Thanks lads. I'll look at cheaper US models then. I can level the frets and change the electronics anyway.
Joshua Barnes
I bought an 8 string guitar and it's shit. What can I do with it apart from beat myself and hang myself with the strings?
Adam Lewis
try Mixolydian too, it has a cheery sound
Luke Reyes
What guitar? Maybe you can trade for a seven
Christopher Garcia
>Maybe you can trade for a seven wew
Thomas Ross
sell it
Landon Carter
Seven strings literally have no downsides unless you have twink hands
Evan Adams
Schecter C8 Deluxe. The pickups are shit and it buzzes horrendously even after a proper set up.
Nolan Rogers
What are some famous bands that use whammy bars a lot? I can think of Van Halen and My Bloody Valentine, maybe Children of Bodom, and not much else. I'm trying to justify buying pic related.
Henry Howard
Seems to me that David Gilmour uses them somewhat frequently
There's your problem. Any seven or 8 string under a thousand is a crap shoot/total shit. Maybe you should look at an Ibanez Iron Label or lower end prestige if you want a good 8.
Alexander Garcia
You could just not string 2 strings. Or shit in your hand and rub it on your chest.
I had a Jackson like that, the Floyd Rose tremolo is such a pain in the dick that I'll never go near one again. If you don't mind the hassle every time you change strings then go for it.
Jack Fisher
>shit in your hand and rub it on your chest YES, force that meme with me, it'll catch on eventually
Andrew Reed
Dimebag Darnell
Gabriel Garcia
Fucking kids don't know how to use a trem these days.
you must be inept unless you change the gauge on your strings ever fucking week, it isn't hard to maintain
James Young
lmao this dude is a fucking clown
Sebastian Davis
>not tying the bar to your dick and doing kegel exercises to pull it
Ayden Hill
Kai's lead playing is in E mixolydian here, sounds like he's playing with a bit of chorus and delay or reverb on it so it's got a pretty cool, spacey vibe.
I was the same way with breaking out of playing in minor shapes, and I started doing all my leads in major. Definitely use it as a jumping off point for learning all the modes. If you get stuck playing in major you'll start sounding like every Satrianicore band out there.
Looking at some of this dude's other videos. He's a fucking machine in terms of his chops.
Charles Bell
Post pic lad
Jaxon Rodriguez
I kind of want to do this to an extreme. Like a guitar with a panel concealing controls for EQ and shit.
Charles Turner
>cafe au lait Redpill me on this.
Alexander Roberts
this is the worst midi song i've ever heard
Easton Campbell
I had one too and ended up getting rid of it because I changed tunings a lot. I have a nice 6 string and a decent 7 string now, so that shouldn't be a problem any more.
Cameron Wright
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Jace Collins
So this audio is programmed? Some Rings Of Saturn shit? I can't tell but my ears are probably shit.
Carson Campbell
That's literally what gave me the idea. The controls would be covered up though. Also,
>all those controls >EMGs
Why fucking bother?
Brayden Flores
good lord
Julian Long
Surprised nobody has mentioned dragonforce
Brandon Campbell
you saw that and actually thought wow, what a great idea? really?
David Sanchez
Not to that excess, but a built in EQ would be nice.
Michael Turner
how about this
>what are some famous bands that DON'T use whammy bars a lot?
Jose Long
...
Julian Evans
Half coffee, half steamed milk.
William Diaz
i wanted to get into that, modding guitars and whatnot. Alas, no money and no time nor dedication for it. i have an ltd m10 that i was going to use for all the projects and just dicking around. maybe some day.....
you're right, it is much easier to watch stuff and get "distracted" by it. the way i see it for me, there's so much information at hand that i don't know where to start. i've been on and off on guitar for 7 years and i'm regretting not having dedicated myself to it. it's the lack of guidance and the abundance of information and the lack of motivation to lock myself in my room and just practice.
Anthony King
>I bought an 8 string guitar and it's shit. What can I do with it apart from beat myself and hang myself with the strings? Don't do that, there wouldn't be enough distance to break your neck. You won't be able to use the thinner strings anyways.
Tune it BEADGBEA, get more useable range. Get a chapman stick next time you wand bass strings on a guitar.
