I can't afford another guitar right now, but I found a good deal on one of my top wants. What to do?
Elijah Edwards
Go to bed, Billy Gibbons.
Ryan Diaz
don't buy it, or pick up a side gig. You can always lyft or uber
Henry Mitchell
Is it normal to feel wirst pain when you first start playing? I started playing two days ago and the area where my wirst meets my hand is starting to feel pretty comfortable and I get a slight pain when I play chords. Iv looked all over the internet to find the correct way to place the fretting hand but no matter how I place it my wrist bends when I play chords, particularly the A cord causes me pain. Is this normal when you first start, i’m really scared of getting carpal tunnel or something similar.
Alexander Rogers
Can't. I'm disabled.
Carter Walker
My question from the last thread. Would guitar or amp be a more important first upgrade?
On the amp, what kind should I get? I wouldn't be getting it very loud, and when I move into an apartment, I probably will plug headphones into it anyways. Should I get one of those amp pedals instead?
On the guitar, someone said jazzmasters have issues with strings popping out of the saddles. would a strat be more ideal?
Elijah Ramirez
You can always work telemarketing from home
Noah Taylor
Can't. Trache.
Sebastian Hughes
Seriously, if you’re asking around here for what shape of guitar then you should start over. Go to guitar center or whatever music shop is close by and try EVERYTHING. don’t buy ANYTHING. repeat process until you know what shape and sort of pick ups you’re looking for. Then come by and suggest the vest option you have and people here can give you detailed input on what problems there might be with that specific guitar. There are literally dozens of types of strats with different necks and pickups even though they might all look the same.
Isaiah Reed
Pick an amo depening in your tastes. some amps are built with different genres in mind. Most amps can create certain tones that other amps cannot. It's basically half of the instrument when it comes to electric guitar. Orange, Marshall, Fender should cover a wide range of amps for you.
James Collins
what you need for a guitar "upgrade" is to set your guitar up. Lower the nut slots as well. If you feel like spending $20 or so, you can even level the frets. After that, consider new pickups or an amp.
Levi Diaz
keep your elbow close to your body. This will straighten your wrist as much as it needs to be.
Landon Nelson
olá
Hudson Morales
Is it normal to start feeling wirst pain when you've been playing for 5 years?
Evan Lee
You guys ever make shit tracks just for fun or are you always perfecting your next top 100 single?
Ethan Robinson
I feel like I grow faster as a musician when I let myself write whatever I play. I think freestyling is important but it's ok to occasionally sit down and play like, 3 notes at a time.
nearly any shitty squier strat will sound like jimi hendrix if plugged into a marshall (more so than a custom shop jimi strat into a line6).
i would get 5W practice amp if you wanna go tube like a crusty old tone purists who refuse to buy anything digital, but nowadays solid state amps like a boss katana are great. 90% of people today wouldn't be able to distinguish a good tube amp from a good solid state amp.
and as someone else said, get your guitar set up, itll be like a new instrument
Grayson Ward
fucking BB King's favourite amp was a solidstate
Tyler Peterson
I just like to make stupid worthless tracks sometimes, it’s nice not worrying about tracking the best take. Like this, I fucked around with a song from adventure time and made a weird waltz sendvid.com/ggp48npu One time my friend and I made a metal Christmas song with Sam-tier shredding, just fun stuff.
Jeremiah Hill
my point exactly, albert king also used a solid state acoustic amp i believe
Thomas Nelson
how do i setup my tele? i've had it for like a few years now. just started playing again. I don't know what you mean by having it setup.
Ethan Collins
>Lower the nut slots as well. That's pretty terrible advice given you've never played his guitar and you have no idea what kind of action he prefers. Lowering the nut slots could cause open strings to buzz on his guitar and not everyone likes super low action, which is terrible for slide players and frequent string benders.
Luke Taylor
I like meaty guitars with medium high action, heavy strings, and a thiq neck.
tune your guitars man. it makes too hard to even listen to what you're actually trying to play
Sebastian Diaz
Katana
Logan Scott
the strings were too old the intoation was off
James Jones
I’m going to be honest, it sounded like you were just hitting chords and notes, I couldn’t really follow what you were trying to go for with that. Out of tune/10 you little whore. All I hear on these are that you can replicate blues licks but your chord progressions are corny and boring. Since you know how to play blues licks you should learn how to play them with taste and not just shot gunning every fast stop you can think of one after another stringed by a weak bend. I think you just really need to work on your rhythm and groove.
Joshua Howard
thanks can you talk about the riffs/ideas itself instead of the lead of the 1st clyp
Jack Collins
1. Your timing is all over the place, it sounds almost Indian but that’s probably because of your guitar. It just sounds like a 4 chord riff. 2. Sounds like an intro to an 80’s buttrock song or something. 3. I don’t know dude, maybe you’re hearing the rest of the song but I’m not getting anything out of this. 4. This one is actually decent and would be fun to hear with a full band 5. Folk or something right? It was two seconds, not much of an idea.
Samuel Morris
thanks, now tell me how do i make a full song with those
Hunter Bell
You don’t, that would sound like absolute trash. What you need to do is work on your rhythm, and I know you don’t want to because pretending to be slash is what’s most important, but your playing will be shit until you do. Take riff number 4 and then try to write what you think would next in a song like that. If it was me; I would loop that a couple times, pick two chords that you can strum and ring out on for dramatic effect and then come back in with the original riff. Do that a couple times and then write bridge that you can build up and ejaculate your pentatonic all over, little bitch.
Kayden Morgan
CHANGE YOUR STRINGS GUYS
Just changed strings today its like I have a new guitar...amazing
Logan Myers
thanks riff 4 is like a followup to riff 3, did you realize that can i hire you to do that for all my riffs and ideas? how does one "work on his rhythm"
Adam Collins
LOL
Thomas Gonzalez
like, wow...
Chase Reed
Listening back now, I can hear what you were doing but it doesn’t sound very good and is kind of confusing. If I’m on /gg/ having a couple drinks I’ll help you out. Start playing to a metronome, for one. I started to play the drums on my lap on my commute to work so I could work on polyrhythms. I guess just start actively listening for rhythm tracks in songs, or even the bass line for grooves. I can almost hear how tight your strumming is so maybe loosen yourself up a bit. Start learning some more exotic chords to throw into your vocabulary too, John mayer is a good start for that and you’ll probably like playing his leads too.
Joseph Brown
If you can hear that your amp is shitty, get a new one. If you can feel that your guitar is shitty, get a new one. Both? Then it's up to you.
Sebastian Lopez
i wont post all my original stuff on /gg/ just in case you're around
Oliver Gomez
Just buy one nice dreadnaught and git gud. You can hide behind electric guitars and effects. Acoustic guitars lay you naked and bare for the world to see and make you much better because of it.
Julian Johnson
why’s that?
Samuel Jones
H EY DUDE hope you see this
Like most have said, get a good amp first. BUT if you wanna get a Jazzmaster but are worried about the shitty straddles with strings popping issues, you will need to buy a bridge upgrade. It is the fender mustang model mastery bridge and it will fit in a jazzmaster style guitar. Basically the grooves fit better and no string fuckery happens.
Jazzmasters are awesome unique guitars but they require a little bit of setting up, such as this bridge upgrade. It's worth it if you want that sonic youth/mbv vibe.
Cheers, if you want jazzmaster recs hit me up
David Price
I got super into jamiroquai and my rhythm improved
Logan Bell
Got a whole album of electric guitar "compositions" i made in about a month
It came out pretty good. I did layering and everything on some of the tracks and it all came out super natural
Gabriel Sullivan
That would be a pretty fun project to try out, I might do something like that but only with phone recordings.
Michael Flores
I'd get String Saver saddles for a Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang. Self-lubricating is a great fucking feature for any guitar with a tremolo.
Michael Fisher
and i'm not a slash fan
Robert Cox
kek I was just memeing you dude
Julian Roberts
Didnt know about those, but yes, they would work too. Anything is better than those notched shitters that come on most jags/jms
Ian Lee
Why does playing music feel good user? It's pure escapism for me other than weeb stuffs
As in 'work on your tightness', play with a metronome very slowly until you don't even think or try to keep up with it
As in 'increasing the variety and knowledge of various rhythms', just listen to so many songs. Good rhythm guitar is usually very interesting but hidden beneath flashy stuffs
Oliver Wood
What's the point of having higher action than low? For thicker string gauges? Every guitar I've played with high action made me want cut my hands off.
Chase Phillips
I like medium high action for two reasons: - I bend strings a lot. With super low action my finger will end up on top of neighboring strings, making them ring when I don't want them to. With medium high action my finger won't do this. - I play slide in standard tuning and often play slide and without slide in the same song. I'm not a "separate guitar for the songs you play slide on" kind of guy. You'll hit the frets with your slide with super low action. I use 9's on 24.75" scale lengths and 8's on 25.5" scale lengths so my shit isn't too hard to play despite the medium high action, and because I bend strings so much. I used to use 10's and 9's but I found that callous maintenance was better with 9's and 8's; the heavier shit tore my callouses up with as much as I string bend.
Jason Gutierrez
My suggestion isn't a listening-on-headphones type of amp, but I always recommend Roland Jazz Chorus for amps. Cleans are clean. Takes effects like a champ. Only problem is it isn't quiet. At all.
Henry Green
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Nathaniel Evans
Buy it and sell another.
Henry Stewart
TUNE YOUR GUITAR WHAT THE FUCK
Carson Flores
I don't think that's possible...
Julian Wright
What do these lines mean? Can't I just play these like arpeggios?
Eli Robinson
Well that makes sense. I remember getting a slide and having it bump on the frets. I'm a brainlet and never thought to try it on a higher action. I'll have to try it out sometime if I can ever find my slide.
Thomas Campbell
It means let the note ring after picking it.
Jose Fisher
I have big hands and low action makes me play sloppier because I always hit the other strings. Plus it's easier to mute the strings you don't want to hit. And yes, I bend a lot. I played on a poor action dreadnought with extra heavy strings to the point that my left hands fingers can barre despite poor action, let alone on an electric.
Gabriel Garcia
hey what's up /shitty-players-spamming-crappy-riffs/ general!
Brandon Ward
nuthin much, how about you?
Eli Barnes
Will you please spam one of your crappy riffs? It helps to break up the questions about hurt wrists and gear.
Nut slots can be lowered to be the same clearance as every other fret regardless of setup. A properly set up nut will improve the intonation of your guitar drastically and a simple twist of the truss rod will bring back your open strings without making your guitar play like a cheap piece of shit.
Basically, you're allowed to prefer a high nut the same way you're allowed to prefer a warped neck, or an incorrect string radius, or whatever. You can prefer that. But frankly, you'd be better off in every way with a properly set up nut.
High nuts are not a feature, they are a cost saving measure that hides other set up issues and ruin your intonation.
Caleb Perry
...Except for slide guitar of course
Oliver Rivera
waddaya think
Ethan Lopez
>kinda want to buy a bass to try it out as an addition to my guitar >see people raving about a €130 Harley Benton 4 string bass (PJ4) Well that's like no money at all. Very tempted.
Grayson King
those things are shit i mean they're better than nothing i guess but a vm jazz bass or something like that will be a lot nicer
Ryder Ward
Cort Action basses are generally pretty good considering they're some of the cheapest basses one can get. Of course the pickups are kinda shit (makes sense when a good set of pickups would cost about the same as the bass itself) but everything else has been fine on every one I tried.
Nicholas Gray
lower action is desirable for softer picking and legato. However, if you really dig in and strike your strings, you'll have a higher tendency to have induce buzz while picking harder. It's all about finding a balance.
Anthony Stewart
holy christ, tune your guitar and stop bleeding all your treble out of your guitar with that tone knob, you knob.
Levi Parker
So I'm thinking of getting myself another acoustic. I already have a Gibson Hummingbird. So I'm wondering if there is any guitars which would compliment it. Meaning it gets some sounds you don't get from the hummingbird. I've been thinking about a Gibson SJ-200, but I'm afraid it's to much Gibson then. A parlour guitar is also tempting, as I've heard they better lend themselves to fingerplay, and they're easier to carry around. What would be a good parlour then? Are there any alternatives I haven't thought of? Bonus points for something that stands out a bit, think the flower designs on the SJ-200 or pic related.
Kayden Evans
How can you get good sounding distortion without being too loud? Pedals?
Juan Davis
>buys an expensive tube amp because tubes are so superior, knowing tube amps sound kinda shit unless cranked up way beyond reasonable volume >wants to play quietly
Julian Hall
If the guitar plays right, go for an amp. Always. It is more tempting to buy a guitar, but what you need to sound good is the amp. A strat is always the answer, but the strings shouldn't pop out from the saddles if the jazzmaster has a proper set up.
Samuel Diaz
Did you change the guitar? Are you playing something new? Does it hurt when rotating the wrist or pressing down the fingers?
Nolan Wood
playing a c chord then going to a d chord is hard :(
Jaxson Parker
He sounds like crap to me, so I think it's possible. All mahogany Martin. One of the 15ML.
Benjamin King
you in europe? if so, go for it. Just make sure you get the right model, harley benton does make some real crap guitars.
Josiah Howard
Yeah, sometimes if I'm practicing and something gets stuck in my head I'll shit it out onto logic through my scarlett 2i2 and put some basic synths behind it
Noah Ross
Don't listen to these plebs, this is the next Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt.
