Nazereth I like you. You explained it nicely and I actually got to do it! Much appreciated.
So I have started flamenco and I worked on the right hand a lot but I am still waiting for my nails to grow to be able to play normally. Do any of you guys play flamenco on the guitar?
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;41310389]Nazereth I like you. You explained it nicely and I actually got to do it! Much appreciated.
So I have started flamenco and I worked on the right hand a lot but I am still waiting for my nails to grow to be able to play normally. Do any of you guys play flamenco on the guitar?[/QUOTE]
Aww thanks babe.
I always wanted to learn flamenco, I knew a guy who was classically trained and it was hypnotizing to watch him play some times.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;41310389]Do any of you guys play flamenco on the guitar?[/QUOTE]
I used to play a bit. I am classically trained but I rarely pick it up nowadays. The flamenco style strumming is like riding a bike though :v:.
What are some decent bang-for-buck bass pickups? Single coil or humbucker, preferably passive!
[QUOTE=A Noobcake;41314485]What are some decent bang-for-buck bass pickups? Single coil or humbucker, preferably passive![/QUOTE]
Gfs pickups are pretty nice for the money. Also accidentally clicked dumb rating while trying to mash my giant fingers at the puny reply button. Posting from a phone is hard.
something popped up on ebay that I couldn't pass up
should be here next week so you'll have to wait and see
awww don't be such a cocktease just tell us
it's just an interesting little piece from the '80s
is it me
I realized today that I've sold all my gear under 20 years old
I said interesting
[QUOTE=absinthe;41317108]it's just an interesting little piece from the '80s[/QUOTE]
is it a Kramer
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[QUOTE=A Noobcake;41314485]What are some decent bang-for-buck bass pickups? Single coil or humbucker, preferably passive![/QUOTE]
There's more to it than single coil or humbucker when it comes to bass. Precision style? Jazz style? Musicman style? Single coil P bass style? Rickenbacker style?
it's not a kramer but I also ordered a bunch of different picks to try out
mosty jazz IIIs and all their variants
[QUOTE=dcalde78;41318339]is it a Kramer
[editline]4th July 2013[/editline]
There's more to it than single coil or humbucker when it comes to bass. Precision style? Jazz style? Musicman style? Single coil P bass style? Rickenbacker style?[/QUOTE]
It's literally anything goes as long as I can make it fit. Preferably P-style one of those jazzies as long as they're kind of tiny, I want to fit them on the soviet bass I bought a while back, and was hoping I could find something that would fit under the original pickup covers, so I don't change the looks too much! The original pickups have wayyy too weak output.
Shit when did Jerry Cantrell cut his hair...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56ybb6hMl-4[/media]
He looks like a different person now. I always loved his tone though, that Cantrell wah he put out with dunlop is awesome.
Day 2 of learning guitar: ow my fingers.
i keep forgetting the songs that i know how to play, really sucks
practice em more? I still remember most songs I learned since I started guitar 5 years ago even tho I havent played em in a while
well its because i started learning guitar when my music taste changed drastically
so i used to like some songs, then i started hating them so i didnt practice them at all, and now i kinda like them again
yeah kinda like me with metallica, learned a lot of songs was only listening to that then I started liking children of bodom and now I kinda hate playing metallica, even tho I can still play it. I've found that when you learn a song and dont play it for a few months also it seems easier to play (especially if you're having a hard time with a solo or some stuff)
So this tip of the day stems from a pretty shitty situation, do NOT play with electronics if you don't know what you are doing. A good friend of mine just lost a few fingers playing with a pretty big capacitor, he is lucky it didn't kill him. The worse part for him is he was a guitarist.
I guess the real tip is take care of your hands.
I found a cool looking guitar from a brand I've never seen before (Conrad) while I was picking up some new picks. It was used, had a ton of dings and scratches, the tuner on the A string was gummed up with rust and oil, the wiring was dirty and the sound kept cutting out, and the action was set way too high.
And I loved every second I spent playing it. One of these days I'm going to go back and buy it, for $250 it's a hell of a deal.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/conrad.jpg[/img]
it was this thing, except with off-white knobs and switches, and I think the bridge was slightly different. The neck was ridiculously thin, and felt great to play. The pickups sound amazing, very clean sound, and stayed in tune fairly well even after some tremolo use.
Good god I remember now why I use a 10-52 set instead of a 10-46 set. If I use a regular 10 set I start breaking the bass strings. I already broke the D string on my Ibanez (which never breaks strings) in just about a week. A 10-52 set has lasted me months before.
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Might I also add I FUCKING hate when strings break like this.
[img]http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8684/d79e.jpg[/img]
I like the heart wrenching snap and brief second of sharp pain to tell you that a string has broken. It took me like 10 seconds to even notice I had broken a string.
I've only ever broken high Es while bending
[QUOTE=absinthe;41340351]I've only ever broken high Es while bending[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's usually what I end up breaking, my father uses 9's and I played his guitar for like 30 mins with fresh strings I and broke the high E and G string. On top of that I couldn't even play the things without them going sharp.
never broken a string on accident
[editline]7th July 2013[/editline]
if I tried something with like 8s tuned to all fifths I probably would
have you been playing for a long time? because my strings break all the time (they break when you'd expect them to, I don't play THAT bad)
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;41341015]have you been playing for a long time? because my strings break all the time (they break when you'd expect them to, I don't play THAT bad)[/QUOTE]
I've been playing for 14 years or so
uh, do you change the strings often? do you play often? what kind of stuff do you play? because i have no clue, everyone i know has broken a string more than once, even the ones that are really careful with their guitars
each guitar gets new strings once or twice a year, which doesn't sound like much on the surface but I have 18 right now so it's not really all that long. I play for a few hours a day, mostly jazzy stuff but often break out into other genres.
I play 13s in standard tuning usually, there's plenty of tension.
the big thing that keeps me from breaking strings constantly is that I don't press down on the strings like I'm angry at them, I use stainless strings with nickel frets, my nuts are all cut from either bone or brass, I use a roller bridge, my picks are all nylon, I use the correct number of winds around each tuning peg, and I keep my guitar setup properly
the big thing is 8 different things combined
[editline]6th July 2013[/editline]
or you just play like a bitch
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Guitar Discussion V10 - February 2013 edition
