Guitar Discussion V10 - February 2013 edition - General

[QUOTE=Rapist;42588064]I wouldn't really know, it's very hard to reach for me since this is not left handed guitar body :v:[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's a thin plank with a neck bolted on it. It has great access for a square heel last I remembered. If it was a lefty, wouldn't you get blocked by the upper round bit?

[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;42588117]Yeah, it's a thin plank with a neck bolted on it. It has great access for a square heel last I remembered. If it was a lefty, wouldn't you get blocked by the upper round bit?[/QUOTE] [img]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/PeW7iH4klfs/hqdefault.jpg[/img] this is how I play right now (not that guitar sadly :v:) so I'm blocked right now.

So after deciding not to shell out £1k on that ESP 7 string tele I was on gumtree and found an 8 string for 700, ended up getting it for 600 n picked it up earlier. Pretty impulsive but for the price I could turn a profit on it.

wondering if you guys could find or know where to find a pot that isn't for a guitar I'd probably be more able to find it myself if I knew what I was looking at with most of these things but here's what I know it's from and old harmann kardon HK395 speaker set that came with a dell it's a 50Kohm it's the on off switch as well as volume control and this is what it looks like [t]http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb331/schtevo/hk395.jpg[/t] [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] that's the exact pcb I'm holding in my hands right now too [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] here's the back side if that helps [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8598216/IMG_20131020_175620.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Rapist;42588220][img]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/PeW7iH4klfs/hqdefault.jpg[/img] this is how I play right now (not that guitar sadly :v:) so I'm blocked right now.[/QUOTE] Hahaha I would totally take a dremel to it if it wasn't a silly idea. When you get some dosh, get an SG or other doublecut like that.

[QUOTE=Rapist;42587679]Never tried Drop D before, feels pretty good! [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] While I'm at this, I'll try the Albert King tuning![/QUOTE] I'm ashamed to say my favourite tuning is drop d. My guitar is almost always tuned to drop d and when I write songs I write them in drop d (most of the time)

I don't even know what most of my guitars are tuned to but the two that I actually play are both in a standard tuning

[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;42593658]I'm ashamed to say my favourite tuning is drop d. My guitar is almost always tuned to drop d and when I write songs I write them in drop d (most of the time)[/QUOTE] Drop C# for me... Too much Tremonti

Drop Db and half-step-down are my two most common as well as open G on occasion when I decide I want to mess with my slide on my acoustic. but 95% of time it's the Drop Db.

Recorded myself improvising for the first time :v: oh god i'm terrible but some good bits which is nice, I know what to improve now. [editline]21st October 2013[/editline] I only feel comfortable with a minor pentatonic, other scales not so much.

I feel the same way singing. I can do some small stuff, and people somewhat reassure me that I'm just paranoid about my voice, but I hate it. As for the guitar; I'm working on figuring out the proper way to record myself with my setup. As soon as I get it working the way I want, I'll share.

[QUOTE=mastoner20;42596382]I feel the same way singing. I can do some small stuff, and people somewhat reassure me that I'm just paranoid about my voice, but I hate it. As for the guitar; I'm working on figuring out the proper way to record myself with my setup. As soon as I get it working the way I want, I'll share.[/QUOTE] I can never sing, even at like half volume to test if I can even stay in tune :v: I don't want anybody to hear me.

That's how I am, too. Haha. I'm very concious when home and really only sing when driving on the interstate (which for what I do as a career is often, but still).

Sod it, did another one, bit better, I'm failing a lot in this one, also uploaded: [url]https://soundcloud.com/randy-domas/help-ive-a-thing[/url] not expecting any positive reactions but please give advice :v: start is pretty dodgy, gets better later on.

My only recommendation is to use some rakes at the start. Adds that little spice to the bends while it's slow. Later in the song, make use of hammers and pulls a little bit more. Oh, and more importantly, give me your backing tracks.... :v

I mostly find them on youtube, but I found this one here: [url]http://www.jamtracks.ru/en/mpjam_blues_misc.html[/url] Thanks for the tip, learning raking now! [editline]21st October 2013[/editline] also guitar sound matters a lot, just for the feel of it, will be posting another one in a minute :v: I've improved already. [editline]21st October 2013[/editline] [url]https://soundcloud.com/randy-domas/improvement-woohey[/url]

I like your tone a lot more on that second one. I personally found my combo and bridge pickup settings to be best for blues as opposed to a high neck tone. Just personal taste, though.

Did you guys read about the Jackson CS Kelly that they fucked up? 24 frets is pretty hard to mess up, and somehow keep everything proportional.

Why are barre chords so damn painful?

[QUOTE=darkrei9n;42602224]Why are barre chords so damn painful?[/QUOTE] I don't know what you're doing to make them hurt

[QUOTE=darkrei9n;42602224]Why are barre chords so damn painful?[/QUOTE] babby fingers

I know a girl who always complains about barre chords, like to her a Bm barre chord is impossible. Yet for me it is easy.

[QUOTE=Nazereth666;42604909]a girl[/QUOTE]

check your privilege

i have fairly small fingers but i can do like extended range quartal chords easily, it just comes with practice and learning how to stretch your fingers.

[QUOTE=absinthe;42604918]a girl[/QUOTE] There are many great female guitarists.

I have stupid fingers.

[QUOTE=Darth Ninja;42605584]There are many great female guitarists.[/QUOTE] Yeah her hands are damn near as big as mine and I don't believe she has weak fingers. But for some reason she has a problem with barre chords, and as far as I can tell she has a good technique.

[QUOTE=Nazereth666;42605696]Yeah her hands are damn near as big as mine and I don't believe she has weak fingers. But for some reason she has a problem with barre chords, and as far as I can tell she has a good technique.[/QUOTE] I'm sure with practice she will get better at them.

My mum could never do barre chords properly, although that might be because her guitar's bridge was lifting and I swear you could fit a truck under the strings the action was that high. Also the wood was warped. I can do them fine though, although not on that abomination she played with...