I absolutely adore playing guitar! I've been playing since I was 16 and i'm still learning. I love classical and celtic folky style guitar meshed into fierce metal melancholy! I'm in the process of piecing a concept album together. Although my lack of skill is becoming a nuisance. I will totally persevere though! I have to I promised a really close now deceased best friend that I would. We shared a very strong musical bond and I don't want to let that slip away anymore than it has. So tell me what style of guitar do you play?
fingerstyle streel string
dobro
banjo
Ibanez dreadnought
Dont know how to play yet tho.
Yeah, there are a lot of guitar players here. There's a thread pages long about guitar and nails lol.
I mainly play a nylon string. I don't play especially well, but it certainly helps me to relax :)
I'm looking forward to hearing the concept album when you're done :)
Yes, I play a bit
Quote from: V M on January 09, 2014, 02:42:21 AM
Yes, I play a bit
Under statement of the year!!!!
She is awesome, even if she is my sister.
Mostly I play rhythm guitar and have both a Washburn dreadnought and a Squire Strat. I also have an Ibanez Mikro Bass. It's scale length is a bit shorter than full-size, making it easier to adjust, for me, as the frets are closer together.
All of the above! Been playing since 1977, been in many bands. I used to build and repair them professionally.
I collect vintage Fenders and have a Lakewood dreadnought that I picked out from a huge pile. Then there's the basses and the amp stacks.
I forget how many I have these days, but it's more than 25, less than 30.
Sadly, carpal tunnel limits me to about 2 hours a day and that's not enough to keep me functioning at a professional level.
acoustic and electric. on some days i prefer acoustic, on others electric. and of course it depends on what i'm playing.
I own an ibanez gio
.... Not the most expensive little guitar but it certainly gets the job done.
I only know a few songs but I really enjoy it. The latest one I've been playing is "No Reflection, Marilyn Manson"
i've been trying to nail "Pictures Of Home" by Deep Purple this weekend. I always loved its hook.
Yes pleasantly surprised by all the guitarists here!
Nylon acoustics sound really nice, but I never understood how to restring those ???, do you have to tie the strings at the bottom?
Owned a lot of guitars actually: PRS SE 22 & 24, epiphone les paul pro fx, epi lp custom, epi sg maestro.
Now Im left with an epi lp standard pro with a jb pickup, and an Ibanez rg170dx.
What? I like epiphone its affordable! ;D
i'm playing a squire strat now.
Quote from: Marieee on January 19, 2014, 04:55:02 PM
What? I like epiphone its affordable! ;D
Nothing wrong with epi.
I play a Sheraton II and it sounds indistinguishable from an ES-355
I've played guitar since I was 11. For the most part I've been an electric guitar player, but I've been focusing much more on classical the past year or so (although I suck at it). I'm all over the place in terms of styles and interests (prog, metal, punk, folk and classical being my music generes). My main electric is a gibson sg that I was given as a child and my classical is a Manuel Rodriguez. I love both, but unfortunately the g string on each guitar never properly tunes. It drives me insane, especially on my classical guitar.
Quote from: Gwynne on January 19, 2014, 05:00:20 PM
Nothing wrong with epi.
I play a Sheraton II and it sounds indistinguishable from an ES-355
Gasp those Sheratons are really nice! Wow isn't it crazy how epiphone sounds a lot more like Gibson now than say even 5 years ago?? They just keep getting better IMO.
Quote from: Marieee on January 19, 2014, 04:55:02 PM
Yes pleasantly surprised by all the guitarists here!
Nylon acoustics sound really nice, but I never understood how to restring those ???, do you have to tie the strings at the bottom?
Owned a lot of guitars actually: PRS SE 22 & 24, epiphone les paul pro fx, epi lp custom, epi sg maestro.
Now Im left with an epi lp standard pro with a jb pickup, and an Ibanez rg170dx.
What? I like epiphone its affordable! ;D
Gotta love that JB pickup. I have two guitars with a JB in the bridge position.
Quote from: learningtolive on January 19, 2014, 05:11:11 PM
I've played guitar since I was 11. For the most part I've been an electric guitar player, but I've been focusing much more on classical the past year or so (although I suck at it). I'm all over the place in terms of styles and interests (prog, metal, punk, folk and classical being my music generes). My main electric is a gibson sg that I was given as a child and my classical is a Manuel Rodriguez. I love both, but unfortunately the g string on each guitar never properly tunes. It drives me insane, especially on my classical guitar.
You may need your nuts* filed and lubed if the strings are binding there. Pencil lead makes great nut lube in a pinch.
*no snarky trans-related double entendre implied
Quote from: learningtolive on January 19, 2014, 05:11:11 PM
I've played guitar since I was 11. For the most part I've been an electric guitar player, but I've been focusing much more on classical the past year or so (although I suck at it). I'm all over the place in terms of styles and interests (prog, metal, punk, folk and classical being my music generes). My main electric is a gibson sg that I was given as a child and my classical is a Manuel Rodriguez. I love both, but unfortunately the g string on each guitar never properly tunes. It drives me insane, especially on my classical guitar.
I have never played an SG. :-\
Always figured that, if I bought a solid body, I'd go tele.
Quote from: Marieee on January 19, 2014, 05:17:02 PM
Gasp those Sheratons are really nice! Wow isn't it crazy how epiphone sounds a lot more like Gibson now than say even 5 years ago?? They just keep getting better IMO.
Epiphone has been around for years and makes great guitars, The Beatles (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO8wJGZdxS.0QAl6pXNyoA?p=Beatles+with+Epiphone+guitars&fr=ush-mailn_02&fr2=piv-web) seem to like them quite a bit anyway
Oh BTW, Epiphone is a Gibson subsidiary 8) Hence the similarities
I have one of these Epi Firebirds strung lefty...
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Quote from: V M on January 19, 2014, 06:02:35 PM
Epiphone has been around for years and makes great guitars, The Beatles (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO8wJGZdxS.0QAl6pXNyoA?p=Beatles+with+Epiphone+guitars&fr=ush-mailn_02&fr2=piv-web) seem to like them quite a bit anyway
Oh BTW, Epiphone is a Gibson subsidiary 8) Hence the similarities
This is true, werent they bought by Gibson in the 60's?
Didnt John Lennon use an epi for the video of "Get Back"?
I was just speaking in the sense that they used to make really cheap bad versions of Gibson models, now even the begginer models are stage worthy!
The big industry secret, iirc, is that the Epis and Gibsons are often produced in the same factory, now. Same hands, same materials, different nameplate.
My main guitar is a Bourgeois
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Quote from: Marieee on January 19, 2014, 06:11:16 PM
This is true, werent they bought by Gibson in the 60's?
Didnt John Lennon use an epi for the video of "Get Back"?
I was just speaking in the sense that they used to make really cheap bad versions of Gibson models, now even the begginer models are stage worthy!
Let's ask Epiphone (http://www.epiphone.com/History.aspx) :) Yes, John Lennon is playing an Epiphone Casino in the 'Get Back' vid.
Quote from: Jill F on January 19, 2014, 05:26:34 PM
Gotta love that JB pickup. I have two guitars with a JB in the bridge position.
Mhmm! they sound so sexy! Which guitars do you have them on?
Quote from: V M on January 19, 2014, 06:23:01 PM
Let's ask Epiphone (http://www.epiphone.com/History.aspx) :) Yes, John Lennon is playing an Epiphone Casino in the 'Get Back' vid.
Thanks for that! was about to pop it into google.
1957, wow my Mom and Dad were 3 years old! ;D
Quote from: Marieee on January 19, 2014, 09:41:19 PM
Mhmm! they sound so sexy! Which guitars do you have them on?
I put one in a cheap Telecaster copy and another in a Fernandes Korina Ravelle. I even still have one JB left in a bin for a future project. I especially love how they sound with Marshall amps.
And yes, I used to work at Seymour Duncan once upon a time. Seymour is a wizard and a great guy to hang out with.
I used to play guitar. Well kinda. But i tried lol. Didn't last long. I'm more of a singer myself. All the time I just sing. Shower,car,grocery store you name it lol. And im a little of a wannabee air drummer.
I smiled widely, when I saw that topic :) :) :)
Guitar is my life! I play almost all my life - started back in 1988, when I was 7, almost 8 years old with classical guitar for 3 years and then I got the electric one and I felt reborn :) Soon after I got my first real electric guitar - Ibanez RG270BK. I love this brand! :) I still play Ibanez, but moved to 7-string long time ago, because I am professional musician and play a wide variety of genres, also I prefer the hard rock and metal music and guitar virtuosos like Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Vai, Joe Satriany, Yngwie Malmsteen...
I worked with many bands and artists in my country and now I am working on my first solo album, which will be also the debut for my new, female identity :)
As for Epiphone and Gibson, Les Paul created and built his guitar at the Epiphone factory I think in Chicago. When Epiphone fell on hard times, Les Paul talked Gibson into buying Epiphone. Gibson owns Epihone and that is why Epiphones are more identical to Gibsons such as the Les Paul and SG models than other guitar manufacturers can get away with wiothout copyright infringement. There are always similar shapes from other guitar makers to these two models but not exact. I own several from both manufacturers in both models and the only difference that I can really tell is that the heads are different, the Epi SG doesn't have the strapping and the hardware on a my Gibsons are a little bit better than my older Epis. The hardware on my newer Epis seem to be just as good as the Gibsons. Plus I get a little more aggressive with the Epis than the Gibsons because they are a lot cheaper to replace.
As for playing, yes. Prefer the SG because the neck is extremely reachable in the higher frets and it's way lighter than the Les Pauls. Dirty dark power chord riffs and bluesy solos. If on a tube amp, overloaded tubes and modeling amps, dirty as it will go and still sound good without blowing out the speakers.
The love of my life (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi58.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg253%2Ftony2toni%2F06_LoveofMyLife_zpsc52b8254.jpg&hash=8c4b492e81e128cfcc397282ba390bcda97038dd) ...
I taught myself acoustic guitar two years ago and now I am playing electric. I love it.
Quote from: Aquarelle on March 17, 2014, 06:23:33 AM
I smiled widely, when I saw that topic :) :) :)
Guitar is my life! I play almost all my life - started back in 1988, when I was 7, almost 8 years old with classical guitar for 3 years and then I got the electric one and I felt reborn :) Soon after I got my first real electric guitar - Ibanez RG270BK. I love this brand! :) I still play Ibanez, but moved to 7-string long time ago, because I am professional musician and play a wide variety of genres, also I prefer the hard rock and metal music and guitar virtuosos like Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Vai, Joe Satriany, Yngwie Malmsteen...I worked with many bands and artists in my country and now I am working on my first solo album, which will be also the debut for my new, female identity :)
Yes! Those are some of my faves as well. I love Marty Friedman especially. He gave me a free guitar lesson once. 8)
Really?!? I am so jealous... ::) I love Marty's exotic melodic lines :) I just made myself a backing track of one of my favourites Marty's (And Jason Becker's) pieces - "Jewel" and I am about to record the two lead guitar parts :)
I have a electric guitar. LTD KH-202. I love it.
I want a purple one.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.musiciansfriend.com%2Fis%2Fimage%2FMMGS7%2FPixie-Acoustic-Electric-Guitar-Plum-Purple-Burst%2F514887000271000-00-820x820.jpg&hash=e9afa506964e5d7e2d3cf4e8e574a57cd82b70cf)
Quote from: V M on March 22, 2014, 09:01:31 PM
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No Joke, Daisy Rocks are pretty bad@ss. Got a friend that bought one and played it at a gig as a joke and was going to give it to his daughter after but ended up keeping it for himself and still uses it. They are especilly good if you have smaller hands. Plus they are fairly inexpensive and seem well made for the price.
I have a Butterscotch Telecaster
Quote from: Aquarelle on March 17, 2014, 06:23:33 AM
I smiled widely, when I saw that topic :) :) :)
Guitar is my life! I play almost all my life - started back in 1988, when I was 7, almost 8 years old with classical guitar for 3 years and then I got the electric one and I felt reborn :) Soon after I got my first real electric guitar - Ibanez RG270BK. I love this brand! :) I still play Ibanez, but moved to 7-string long time ago, because I am professional musician and play a wide variety of genres, also I prefer the hard rock and metal music and guitar virtuosos like Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Vai, Joe Satriany, Yngwie Malmsteen...
I worked with many bands and artists in my country and now I am working on my first solo album, which will be also the debut for my new, female identity :)
If you just added John Petrucci, Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee and Vivian Campbell, you would have my list. God there are millions more and artists from many different bacgrounds and styles. That's why I love this instrument. In particular, I love Jason Becker. I'll never forget hearing altitudes for the first time. It was almost life changing hearing how well he expresses himself through his instrument. It's so unfair that his life and gift had to be destroyed at such an early age. ALS is such a horrible disease that I wish was better understood and had more funding to combat it. Imagining one of the most special and gifted people in the world, trapped in his own mind, without the ability to move or speak is just heart breaking. But he remains a hero in my eyes, and the fact that he still tries to compose is nothing short of inspirational.
It's funny because I started on electric and then went the classical route. Only recently have I been playing electric again. Both are fun in their own ways, though I'm much better on an electric. Interesting to see someone come from an opposite path.
S. L. Mossam - Great Plains
Martin - D28
Today it's my red Frankenstrat/Bastardcaster thing.
1965 neck with super rare factory binding, 1954 body, probably one of the first 50 or so ever made, most parts vintage as well.
Too bad it's refinished and refretted. Oh well, since the collectability factor is out the window, it's my favorite player. Super light weight, very resonant, and if I put more dings in it, so what. Refinish it again? Nah. I love a good Stevie Ray style beater.
Quote from: Jill F on April 20, 2014, 06:33:06 PM
Today it's my red Frankenstrat/Bastardcaster thing.
1965 neck with super rare factory binding, 1954 body, probably one of the first 50 or so ever made, most parts vintage as well.
Too bad it's refinished and refretted. Oh well, since the collectability factor is out the window, it's my favorite player. Super light weight, very resonant, and if I put more dings in it, so what. Refinish it again? Nah. I love a good Stevie Ray style beater.
Wow Jill that a sweet guitar to say the least... My Mossam is the #7 prototype of the build, before they went into production. In perfect condition... It eats my D-28 for breakfast and keep on going. Holds perfect tune even when really banging on it. I bought it from a friend about 20 years ago for $500 and it's worth about $4500 now. I would never sell it though. To sweet of an axe to part with.
Quote from: learningtolive on April 20, 2014, 02:16:01 PM
If you just added John Petrucci, Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee and Vivian Campbell, you would have my list. God there are millions more and artists from many different bacgrounds and styles. That's why I love this instrument. In particular, I love Jason Becker. I'll never forget hearing altitudes for the first time. It was almost life changing hearing how well he expresses himself through his instrument. It's so unfair that his life and gift had to be destroyed at such an early age. ALS is such a horrible disease that I wish was better understood and had more funding to combat it. Imagining one of the most special and gifted people in the world, trapped in his own mind, without the ability to move or speak is just heart breaking. But he remains a hero in my eyes, and the fact that he still tries to compose is nothing short of inspirational.
It's funny because I started on electric and then went the classical route. Only recently have I been playing electric again. Both are fun in their own ways, though I'm much better on an electric. Interesting to see someone come from an opposite path.
Jason Becker is a hero in my eyes too! :) I even recently watched "Not Dead Yet" and was crying almost all the time...
I like Petrucci as well... I really don't know why I forgot to mention him...
BTW, I suppose your nickname comes from the DT's song?
Quote from: Aquarelle on April 21, 2014, 07:27:11 AM
Jason Becker is a hero in my eyes too! :) I even recently watched "Not Dead Yet" and was crying almost all the time...
I like Petrucci as well... I really don't know why I forgot to mention him...
BTW, I suppose your nickname comes from the DT's song?
Oh yes! Becker was awesome. Love Cacophony especially. It was really sad when a mutual friend told me abut the ALS when he was touring with DLR. I've never met Jason, but I hear he's a great guy.
Just saw DT the other night and Petrucci recognized my wife but not me. Hee hee. I drank a bunch of beer with him one night many years ago too.
Today I'm busting out my scalloped 1987 Fujigen Stratocaster to rehab my arpeggio shreddiing, and well, my nails are getting too long for the other ones!
Quote from: Aquarelle on April 21, 2014, 07:27:11 AM
Jason Becker is a hero in my eyes too! :) I even recently watched "Not Dead Yet" and was crying almost all the time...
I like Petrucci as well... I really don't know why I forgot to mention him...
BTW, I suppose your nickname comes from the DT's song?
I've haven't seen that documentary yet. I don't know if I could bare it.
Yeah, it's partially a reference to the song, but it also kind of states my mindset. In any case, I relate a lot with the lyrics.
Quote from: Jill F on April 21, 2014, 09:40:13 AM
Oh yes! Becker was awesome. Love Cacophony especially. It was really sad when a mutual friend told me abut the ALS when he was touring with DLR. I've never met Jason, but I hear he's a great guy.
Just saw DT the other night and Petrucci recognized my wife but not me. Hee hee. I drank a bunch of beer with him one night many years ago too.
Today I'm busting out my scalloped 1987 Fujigen Stratocaster to rehab my arpeggio shreddiing, and well, my nails are getting too long for the other ones!
Did you tell him about you? Or did you keep it under the hat? I'm sort of curious to hear if petrucci had a reaction.
Quote from: learningtolive on April 21, 2014, 10:23:21 AM
I've haven't seen that documentary yet. I don't know if I could bare it.
Yeah, it's partially a reference to the song, but it also kind of states my mindset. In any case, I relate a lot with the lyrics.
Did you tell him about you? Or did you keep it under the hat? I'm sort of curious to hear if petrucci had a reaction.
Didn't get to talk to him, but we were right under his nose. We're regulars. He usually gives me a nod, but didn't this time. Kissing my wife in front of him might have made him wonder though. ;D
I am so jealous, that here are people, who have the chance to meet such musicians and even get closer... In the country I live it is only a dream... Of course, such bands and artist come here to perform, but only the rich people succeed to reach so close...
Quote from: Aquarelle on April 21, 2014, 04:03:12 PM
I am so jealous, that here are people, who have the chance to meet such musicians and even get closer... In the country I live it is only a dream... Of course, such bands and artist come here to perform, but only the rich people succeed to reach so close...
It's both good and bad luck, about half of the famous musicians I've met are dead now
Quote from: V M on April 21, 2014, 05:58:43 PM
It's both good and bad luck, about half of the famous musicians I've met are dead now
So true. It's sad that I have a list that gets longer every year. I guess when your life expectancy is something like 50-55, it's going to happen.
I used to be semi-pro, a bunch of my friends are or were rock stars and I worked in the industry for many years. Dark, but I have two basses now that Peter Steele (Type O Negative) won't exactly be needing anymore.
I LOVE GUITAR!!!
I have a homemade Jazzmaster copy that I made with particle board from lowes and a tiny orange amp. I mean tiny! Like 4 inches tall. HAH!
Still I mostly play my Lag acoustic guitar. I love my Lag!
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Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on April 21, 2014, 06:11:08 PM
I LOVE GUITAR!!!
I have a homemade Jazzmaster copy that I made with particle board from lowes and a tiny orange amp. I mean tiny! Like 4 inches tall. HAH!
Still I mostly play my Lag acoustic guitar. I love my Lag!
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Wow, yet another luthier here? Crazy. That's amazing.
Quote from: Jill F on April 21, 2014, 06:08:54 PM
So true. It's sad that I have a list that gets longer every year. I guess when your life expectancy is something like 50-55, it's going to happen.
It is sad, I still have a 'well loved' (pretty beat to death) mid 80's Japanese issue Squire Strat that I bought off a friend for $50 because he needed to get a fix, he was supposed to buy it back, but stuff happens :P
Quote from: V M on April 21, 2014, 06:31:27 PM
It is sad, I still have a 'well loved' (pretty beat to death) mid 80's Japanese issue Squire Strat that I bought off a friend for $50 because he needed to get a fix, he was supposed to buy it back, but stuff happens :P
Those are the best bang-for-buck vintage guitars you can get. I love my Fujigen. In fact I was just playing it. I think mine cost me about $150. These were actually decent copies of Pre-CBS Strats and now that they're aged, they sound nice as well. I recommend dumping the ceramic magnet pickups (save them!) in favor of some Alnico V. Much smoother...
So sorry to hear about your friend. I'll have to say I've lost quite a few to drugs over the years, and it never gets easier to hear about them.
Quote from: Jill F on April 21, 2014, 06:39:24 PM
So sorry to hear about your friend. I'll have to say I've lost quite a few to drugs over the years, and it never gets easier to hear about them.
Actually he shot himself, but he was pretty smacked up at the time as well
Don't like to think about it
Let's get back to talkin' about cool guitars and stuff
Hugs
Quote from: Jill F on April 21, 2014, 06:39:24 PM
Those are the best bang-for-buck vintage guitars you can get. I love my Fujigen. In fact I was just playing it. I think mine cost me about $150. These were actually decent copies of Pre-CBS Strats and now that they're aged, they sound nice as well. I recommend dumping the ceramic magnet pickups (save them!) in favor of some Alnico V. Much smoother...
I do like it, it still plays rather nicely
The Fujigen sounds interesting, did you say it had been scalloped?
Quote from: V M on April 21, 2014, 07:00:56 PM
I do like it, it still plays rather nicely
The Fujigen sounds interesting, did you say it had been scalloped?
I scalloped it 20 years ago from the 10th fret up. I did deep Yngwie style scallops with a Dremel, various dowels, sticky sandpaper and a 12 pack of Natural Light! I've refretted it so many times now that I'd have to replace the fingerboard next time it needs a refret. Those are mostly glued in now and the scalloped rosewood will crack if I try to pull them. There's already too much filler in there as it is. Oh well, it plays like a champ and I love to do my Blackmore impression on it. I also redecaled the headstock when I refinished it last with a real 1966 decal and replaced "Electric XII" with BASTARDCASTER using rub-on lettering in an almost matching Fendery font. I love Strats. I'm not even sure how many I have right now. 12 maybe?
Quote from: Jill F on April 21, 2014, 06:17:01 PM
Wow, yet another luthier here? Crazy. That's amazing.
Luthier is a strong word. lol
If I could get the neck to stop cutting my fingers...then maybe you could call me a luthier. ^.^
Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on April 21, 2014, 06:11:08 PM
I LOVE GUITAR!!!
Still I mostly play my Lag acoustic guitar. I love my Lag!
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Looks like a nice guitar, is yours a lefty?
Quote from: V M on April 22, 2014, 03:43:41 AM
Looks like a nice guitar, is yours a lefty?
I wondered if someone would catch that! Naw the picture is a lefty but mine is a righty. GOOD EYE!!
It seems we have a lot of leftys here as well. Like a disproportionate number.
I am left handed, and when I got my first guitar in 1977 I wanted to play it lefty and the guy in the shop told me not to learn it that way because good lefty guitars are few and far between and I'd spend my whole life trying to find them. I couldn't play either way at the time, so it was no big deal.
I can play a bit left handed, and oddly enough I have an easier time singing (badly) at the same time when I do so. It's like it takes some relief off of a brain hemisphere or something. Don't know for sure, but that's what it seems like.
Yes, I play lefty so I tend to notice stuff like that :)
The guys at the music stores would tell me the same thing about the unavailability of good lefty guitars so...
I tried to learn right handed at first but that didn't work out and I ended up switching the strings over and playing left
It just felt more natural to me
LOL... My mom nearly lost her mind when I bought my first guitar >:-)
Quote from: V M on April 22, 2014, 06:33:49 PM
LOL... My mom nearly lost her mind when I bought my first guitar >:-)
OMG, so I got this crappy classical style guitar in 1977. In 1985, some of my friends were getting electrics and I wanted one, as you couldn't exactly shred metal on mine. I told my mom that I wanted one, and I remember to this day what she said.
"I absolutely FORBID you to bring an electric guitar into my house."
Challenge accepted! Come on, mom, I was 16. You might as well have engraved me an invitation.
The thing was that one of my stoner friends turned out to be musically hopeless, so I got his Japanese lawsuit model LP copy, small Gretsch tube amp and orange Boss distortion pedal for $100. I made the money in one day by selling, umm, herbal refreshments at school. Oddly enough, I sold the guitar back to him in 1990, and bought it back again in 1996.
My first guitar was a steel string acoustic, a cheap Martin knockoff
My mom would take my two older sisters shopping at a mini mall that had a cheesy music store and a cool record shop
They'd bring me along for lack of a babysitter and leave me to my own devices to meet back up at the car later
I had my paper route money so first there was the dismay of me showing up with Led Zeppelin records and such
Then came the guitar and they and the various church ladies were certain I was "Full of the DEVIL!!!" >:-) LOL
My stories are so boring compared to yours. I went to the guitar store and wanted a knock off Gibson SG.....so I borrowed some money then bought it. I later had to sell it to the pawn shop. And thats it. sigh....
Quote from: learningtolive on January 19, 2014, 05:11:11 PM
I've played guitar since I was 11. For the most part I've been an electric guitar player, but I've been focusing much more on classical the past year or so (although I suck at it). I'm all over the place in terms of styles and interests (prog, metal, punk, folk and classical being my music generes). My main electric is a gibson sg that I was given as a child and my classical is a Manuel Rodriguez. I love both, but unfortunately the g string on each guitar never properly tunes. It drives me insane, especially on my classical guitar.
WOW. That's one hell of a span there LTL. Mix'em all together and you have your own style which is really what you need. There will only be one of everyone and if you play their style all the time all you will be is in cover or tribute bands. Number one rule in being a guitarist is to make your own sound, even if playing someone else's songs. There are only one of each famous guitarits and that is all there will ever be. Look at Rhinobucket and the similarities to AC/DC.
As for the G string staying in tune, I have never had a guitar that the G string stayed in tune for more than two songs. I have a $5,000 Gibson Les Paul and have the same problem but that is the string that I bend the most. I have 6 guitars 1 Gibson SG, 1 Gibson Les Paul, 2 Epi SGs, an Epi Les Paul and a Fender Strat with the Tex-Mex Pickups for Texas style blues. The Epis see a lot more action than the Gibsons, believe it or not. But Epi plastic or Gibson bone nuts, the G string only stays in tune for so long.
Quote from: V M on April 22, 2014, 06:33:49 PM
Yes, I play lefty so I tend to notice stuff like that :)
The guys at the music stores would tell me the same thing about the unavailability of good lefty guitars so...
I tried to learn right handed at first but that didn't work out and I ended up switching the strings over and playing left
It just felt more natural to me
LOL... My mom nearly lost her mind when I bought my first guitar >:-)
Tony Iommi is a lefty with prosthetic fingertips at that. Albert King plays a right handed guitar upside down and Jimi Hendrix flipped his strings over on a righty Fender Strat. I don't think any of these three would be what you call bad guitarists, as a matter of fact just the opposite. Most people that work at music stores are totally imcompetant in my opinion. I ask questions about products and usually have to come home and do the research myself.
Quote from: Jess42 on April 23, 2014, 02:07:32 PM
Most people that work at music stores are totally imcompetant in my opinion. I ask questions about products and usually have to come home and do the research myself.
Yes, I do my own research before buying anything 8) But I was just a bright eyed dumb kid when I bought my first guitar - Wasn't even driving yet
Wow!!! It's hard to believe that was about 40 years ago :)
So true about incompetent tools working in music stores. Not all of them are, though. I know serious professionals who know EVERYTHING about guitars that have to work in these places. Usually older people know quite a bit more than the kids.
Some sales people at chain stores are just there to push certain items in inventory, and their "opinion" is nothing more than a lie they tell so they can continue to work there.
I tend to comb the local GC for extremely resonant guitars with large profile necks, and some of the "advice" I have received lately was laughable. I had to school a twenty-something guy recently who thought he knew everything and tried to cover his lack of knowledge with utter BS. Yes, kid, this old lady knows more than you ever will, so shut up, go away and try not to scratch the merchandise.
Quote from: V M on April 23, 2014, 06:41:58 PM
Yes, I do my own research before buying anything 8) But I was just a bright eyed dumb kid when I bought my first guitar - Wasn't even driving yet
Wow!!! It's hard to believe that was about 40 years ago :)
Allright VM, enough if that cursing. ;) But yeah, live and learn. First guitar being a crappy guitar is a good thing 'cause if you can make a piece of crap sound good, it sounds amazing on a good guitar. When I was younger, 30 some odd years ago a crappy guitar that wouldn't stay in tune helped me learn to compensate for when you can't stop in the middle of the song to tune up. Besides I don't believe a first guitar should be anything really nice and expensive because I have seen people buy thier kids 700-800 dollar guitar and give up before they even get open G, C, and D down.
Quote from: Jill F on April 23, 2014, 07:09:08 PM
So true about incompetent tools working in music stores. Not all of them are, though. I know serious professionals who know EVERYTHING about guitars that have to work in these places. Usually older people know quite a bit more than the kids.
Some sales people at chain stores are just there to push certain items in inventory, and their "opinion" is nothing more than a lie they tell so they can continue to work there.
I tend to comb the local GC for extremely resonant guitars with large profile necks, and some of the "advice" I have received lately was laughable. I had to school a twenty-something guy recently who thought he knew everything and tried to cover his lack of knowledge with utter BS. Yes, kid, this old lady knows more than you ever will, so shut up, go away and try not to scratch the merchandise.
No Jill, not all are incompetant. There are really good ones and there are ones but there are some that don't know what is what. I had one guy tell me that bar chords were the money maker and he only played songs using bar chords. Hmmm, when I showed him the different scales, taught him how to bend and the different sounds you can make with that and slides, it opened a whole new world for him. The songs he was playing in bar chords only sounded so much better when using open and powerchords with a slide added here and there and little hammer on and pull offs to fill in areas.
When I go to GC, the only help I want is for someone to get something off of the high rack for me. Other than that, leave me alone. I don't care about the circle of fifths or anything about theory other than what works for me. I try to hit it early before all the aspiring musicians get there and all you hear is too loud chaotic noise they learned from youtube. When I go to buy something the only thing that I play is chords and scales in standard tuning and if that sounds good the I may do a couple of little riffs to see how hot the pickups are. Then I come home change the strings, tune it up, adjust the intonation and then crank it up and then if I ain't satisfied, take it back and return it.
I really feel like playing today, but my nails got too long to even play over a scalloped fingerboard. I really don't want to cut them because they're awesome right now.
I guess it's a slide day.
Quote from: Jill F on April 25, 2014, 04:06:52 PM
I really feel like playing today, but my nails got too long to even play over a scalloped fingerboard. I really don't want to cut them because they're awesome right now.
I guess it's a slide day.
Oh you're missing out Jill. I played all day today trying to put a song together. My nails are short but it felt so good creating music. ^.^
Quote from: Jill F on April 25, 2014, 04:06:52 PM
I really feel like playing today, but my nails got too long to even play over a scalloped fingerboard. I really don't want to cut them because they're awesome right now.
I guess it's a slide day.
That is the one bad thing when you are M2F and play the guitar. You can still paint them though. Even Orianthe( I guess I spelled her name right) has extrememly short nails.
Never really got the slide down too good. Just enough for a little bit of Freebird and that's about it, even though I love that damn sound, especially on a Dobro.
how the hell did my sense of rhythm detoriate that much. I haven't been the same for almost 3 years now and last year, while it didn't slow me down as much as the previous year, also killed my spark. I just feel hollow and i play hollow. it's gotten better again.
one thing about me is that i'm playing against the odds. i have very low motoric skills. they're so low they're classified as a disability and they're also related to my asperger's, it happens in a lot of asperger people, but i managed so much more than i ever thought i would simply by practicing. I can overcome my motoric skills. i can do this. i did so much before.
ah, i needed that. i hope it'll work.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on April 28, 2014, 01:41:32 PM
how the hell did my sense of rhythm detoriate that much. I haven't been the same for almost 3 years now and last year, while it didn't slow me down as much as the previous year, also killed my spark. I just feel hollow and i play hollow. it's gotten better again.
one thing about me is that i'm playing against the odds. i have very low motoric skills. they're so low they're classified as a disability and they're also related to my asperger's, it happens in a lot of asperger people, but i managed so much more than i ever thought i would simply by practicing. I can overcome my motoric skills. i can do this. i did so much before.
ah, i needed that. i hope it'll work.
I really don't care what someone has, how much someone can learn or anything else. I can teach a monkey to play chords and riffs. It is all about practice, practice and practice, every freakin' day. Sometimes over and over and over again.
Believe it or not, go a week without practicing and your precision gets all messed up especially with metal.
As for rythme, I am probably the most unrythymic person that ever lived and lazy at that.
As for playing hollow, get into it. Move more, make it more entertaining if someone is watching you. The same song over and over again without getting into it will feel that way. Make every song you know by heart entertaining to an audience, even a phantom adience, entertaining and you'll feel like your doing something. Add your own touch and talent to a song. Add things like pickscapes, slides, fillers, tweak solos to your playing and it'll be more fun.
right now i'm attempting one of my favorite melodies. it's not that difficult and good scales practice.
i was taught to fight against the odds, but i do i have a choice?
i love playing guitar, so i have no choice in that regard. my fingers start twitching after a while without playing guitar.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on April 28, 2014, 04:15:14 PM
right now i'm attempting one of my favorite melodies. it's not that difficult and good scales practice.
i was taught to fight against the odds, but i do i have a choice?
i love playing guitar, so i have no choice in that regard. my fingers start twitching after a while without playing guitar.
This may sound crazy but let your fingers twitch on the fretboard. Scales are good practice. Chords are good practice. But playing someone else's songs'll never get you noticed other than in Nashville where there are no "bands" other than for hire. Or a cover band. I can never say it enough, make your own style, even with someone else's songs. Hell, twitching fingers if you can use them may be the next great sound. Hendrix Chords, the Devils Chord, just anything that sounds unique that is your's may get you noticed.
Quote from: Jess42 on April 28, 2014, 04:39:32 PM
This may sound crazy but let your fingers twitch on the fretboard. Scales are good practice. Chords are good practice. But playing someone else's songs'll never get you noticed other than in Nashville where there are no "bands" other than for hire. Or a cover band. I can never say it enough, make your own style, even with someone else's songs. Hell, twitching fingers if you can use them may be the next great sound. Hendrix Chords, the Devils Chord, just anything that sounds unique that is your's may get you noticed.
well they only twitch a bit because they crave playing guitar, bending strings, picking strings......
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on April 28, 2014, 04:55:31 PM
well they only twitch a bit because they crave playing guitar, bending strings, picking strings......
Go the with it hon. Believe me, any musician will tell you, aside from *cough cough* country, which is the new "bubblegum" pop music, you need to have your own sound when it comes to rock or metal. When they twich, see where it takes you. Some of the darkest, and believe me I have been in dark places, I have come up with some of the best darkes riffs and bluesy solos.
So thank you depression and suicidal thoughts.
Quote from: Jess42 on April 28, 2014, 05:07:32 PM
Go the with it hon. Believe me, any musician will tell you, aside from *cough cough* country, which is the new "bubblegum" pop music, you need to have your own sound when it comes to rock or metal. When they twich, see where it takes you. Some of the darkest, and believe me I have been in dark places, I have come up with some of the best darkes riffs and bluesy solos.
So thank you depression and suicidal thoughts.
i did my worst stuff when i was completely depressed. you know i've been through a path of self-discovery only to arrive where i came from. i guess i just had an insane episode last year when i joined, all i know is that i played badly, i sang badly, i wrote awful. I'm better than then at least, but the fire is gone. I wish i still had that recording from when i still lived in the netherlands where i used that echoplex. I was way worse technically, but the fire, the inspiration has been missing since that time. The only thing i can get lost in right now is playing something funky.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on April 28, 2014, 05:18:28 PM
i did my worst stuff when i was completely depressed. you know i've been through a path of self-discovery only to arrive where i came from. i guess i just had an insane episode last year when i joined, all i know is that i played badly, i sang badly, i wrote awful. I'm better than then at least, but the fire is gone. I wish i still had that recording from when i still lived in the netherlands where i used that echoplex. I was way worse technically, but the fire, the inspiration has been missing since that time. The only thing i can get lost in right now is playing something funky.
I am just the opposite. the darker the feelings, the more depressed, the more F'd up I feel emotionally, the more good stuff pops out of my mind. I love blues, I sing like crap so I am a guitarist only. If I sing, I guarantee more people would be suicidal than me :). You just have to find that inspiration. With me feel goody, warm feelings and love hold no inspiration. Raw sexuality, depression, anger, and other darker subjects is where I find my inspiration. If I watch a Disney movie before I gig, my playing sux. ;)
Quote from: Jess42 on April 28, 2014, 05:39:29 PM
I am just the opposite. the darker the feelings, the more depressed, the more F'd up I feel emotionally, the more good stuff pops out of my mind. I love blues, I sing like crap so I am a guitarist only. If I sing, I guarantee more people would be suicidal than me :). You just have to find that inspiration. With me feel goody, warm feelings and love hold no inspiration. Raw sexuality, depression, anger, and other darker subjects is where I find my inspiration. If I watch a Disney movie before I gig, my playing sux. ;)
even when i'm utterly miserable i don't sound dark. i only once managed to make my playing sound dark and that was when i accidentally forgot to take my prescription meds for a weekend and suffered from withdrawal including mild hallucinations and an overwhelming sense of dread. I played my guitar (then i still played an ibanez guitar) with a fury that never came back and i scratched my pick onto the strings for a certain effect too and i sang along with the songs too, i was in good voice that day. I was listening to a Frank Zappa live album recorded in 1982 and a lot of it sounds quite dark and a lot of it is instrumental.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on April 28, 2014, 07:07:12 PM
even when i'm utterly miserable i don't sound dark. i only once managed to make my playing sound dark and that was when i accidentally forgot to take my prescription meds for a weekend and suffered from withdrawal including mild hallucinations and an overwhelming sense of dread. I played my guitar (then i still played an ibanez guitar) with a fury that never came back and i scratched my pick onto the strings for a certain effect too and i sang along with the songs too, i was in good voice that day. I was listening to a Frank Zappa live album recorded in 1982 and a lot of it sounds quite dark and a lot of it is instrumental.
Tell me you recorded that. o.o
Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on May 03, 2014, 06:34:56 AM
Tell me you recorded that. o.o
i didn't have a recording device running that day. It sounded pretty dark and heavy though.
Ever since then i knew that forgetting to take my antidepressants is not pretty, at least when one is taking high dosages, as i was getting at the time. Now i take them irregularly without noticing anything (by irregularly i mean that i often only take them once a day instead of twice a day).
That guitar broke down a couple of months later and was never the same and the "repair job" i had done on it was really badly done. I should've demanded my money back, but i didn't know better. I like the Strat better anyway.
But a couple of months later i actually smashed my acoustic guitar to pieces in a fit of rage after arguing with my dad, although i must admit that in this case it was pretty one-sided. I was frustrated that he couldn't admit his mistakes. But the short while where i only had an acoustic guitar did a lot for my playing. I wish i still had an acoustic. I love acoustic guitars and electric guitars equally.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on May 03, 2014, 07:26:15 AM
i didn't have a recording device running that day. It sounded pretty dark and heavy though.
Ever since then i knew that forgetting to take my antidepressants is not pretty, at least when one is taking high dosages, as i was getting at the time. Now i take them irregularly without noticing anything (by irregularly i mean that i often only take them once a day instead of twice a day).
That guitar broke down a couple of months later and was never the same and the "repair job" i had done on it was really badly done. I should've demanded my money back, but i didn't know better. I like the Strat better anyway.
But a couple of months later i actually smashed my acoustic guitar to pieces in a fit of rage after arguing with my dad, although i must admit that in this case it was pretty one-sided. I was frustrated that he couldn't admit his mistakes. But the short while where i only had an acoustic guitar did a lot for my playing. I wish i still had an acoustic. I love acoustic guitars and electric guitars equally.
I know what you mean. When I play acoustic I get this weird feeling like I want to play electric too. I know I don't have enough hands to play both but I still feel the urge. It's weird. Like the way I want to fly. HAH!
Some of my beauties (the most used ones):
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i played awful today. i used to have a real good sense of rhythm but now i constantly veer off-beat. It's less abilities than me being nervous and overcompensating.
edit:
alright now i did something that sounded actually quite nice again.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on May 03, 2014, 05:36:33 PM
i played awful today. i used to have a real good sense of rhythm but now i constantly veer off-beat. It's less abilities than me being nervous and overcompensating.
edit:
alright now i did something that sounded actually quite nice again.
Are you playing in front of people? Why so nervous?
When I first started playing in a band at real gigs. I would get this feeling like snakes in my stomach. You know like garter snakes when they come out of hibernation. Hands shaking, legs weak and all the other stuff. I used to slam 1 beer beforehand, then be turned around facing the drummer. After the opening riff was played and the verses kicked in, I then could turn around and play in front of everyone. I did this about a dozen times and then it became no big deal. There will always be mess ups in live music, there is absolutely no way of getting around them but it's how well you can recover and find where you need to be after the screw up that takes skill. Dropped picks, broken strings, guitars coming out of tune, and tripping are all part of the game. It happens to the bigtimers too.
Quote from: Jess42 on May 05, 2014, 10:46:03 AM
Are you playing in front of people? Why so nervous?
When I first started playing in a band at real gigs. I would get this feeling like snakes in my stomach. You know like garter snakes when they come out of hibernation. Hands shaking, legs weak and all the other stuff. I used to slam 1 beer beforehand, then be turned around facing the drummer. After the opening riff was played and the verses kicked in, I then could turn around and play in front of everyone. I did this about a dozen times and then it became no big deal. There will always be mess ups in live music, there is absolutely no way of getting around them but it's how well you can recover and find where you need to be after the screw up that takes skill. Dropped picks, broken strings, guitars coming out of tune, and tripping are all part of the game. It happens to the bigtimers too.
i'm playing in my room alone and i still get nervous. i think too much.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on May 05, 2014, 02:47:51 PM
i'm playing in my room alone and i still get nervous. i think too much.
Definately do not overthink it. It should come natural. When trying to play with CDs, remember those songs were recorded in a studio and have been tweaked to perfection. Perfection is a hard thing to come by. Don't believe me? Learn a song, just one song and get it down pat and perfect, riffs and solos. Then go on youtube and watch the band play the same song live. If you have the ins and outs of that song from the album down pat, you will see thier mistakes live or little improvisions they make during the song.
Zoot Threepwood, Wow that's hard to write down. It is all about fun, a release of energy and improvise if you feel like it. Take a song and make it your own sound. That in itself is fun. See what you can do with your talent. There is absolutely no need to feel nervous by yourself. Even at a gig in front of an audience unless you just totally "F" up and the rest of the band has to stop and start all over again, which ahs happened to me by the way, most people won't even notice. The only ones that will are musicians that know how to play the same song.
Don't believe me?, just check out AC/DC and the song You Shook Me, Hell's Bells or Highway to Hell to name a few. I know these songs by heart from the CDs and know the solos by heart from CD and if you watch Angus Young, the solos always sound different than what was mastered in the studio and different from show to show. Same with any band. Have a little faith in yourself and confidence in your abilities. That is the key.
Jimmy Page never played a song the same twice, and neither did Ritchie Blackmore- even on the few "composed" solos he did.
It always bugs me when someone is overly technical on guitar because
a)They are often very critical of other peoples playing and constantly interrupt to point out some lame flaw they've noticed and...
b) Even though they play the songs note for note and are technically correct, they often don't have any feel to their playing
I'd rather jam with someone who has a good feel for the music, if I want it to sound exactly like off the cd, hell, I'll put in a cd
Quote from: V M on May 05, 2014, 04:49:27 PM
It always bugs me when someone is overly technical on guitar because
a)They are often very critical of other peoples playing and constantly interrupt to point out some lame flaw they've noticed and...
b) Even though they play the songs note for note and are technically correct, they often don't have any feel to their playing
I'd rather jam with someone who has a good feel for the music, if I want it to sound exactly like off the cd, hell, I'll put in a cd
^OMG! THIS!^
This is exactly why I hate jamming with trained automatons. Not everyone who got trained at Berklee or MI is like this, but I know plenty who are. It takes a lot of time to unlearn this soulless technical training that makes everyone sound almost exactly the same. I still wonder if John Petrucci ever figured out how to play a proper 12-bar blues or how to improvise without sounding stiff. I'm so happy I'm generally self-taught and not yet another MI clone. At least I can convey gut-wrenching angst or extreme happiness.
Quote from: V M on May 05, 2014, 04:49:27 PM
It always bugs me when someone is overly technical on guitar because
a)They are often very critical of other peoples playing and constantly interrupt to point out some lame flaw they've noticed and...
b) Even though they play the songs note for note and are technically correct, they often don't have any feel to their playing
I'd rather jam with someone who has a good feel for the music, if I want it to sound exactly like off the cd, hell, I'll put in a cd
Oh yeah, I second Jill on this one and tip my hat if I wore one to V M.
When someone starts talking about theory and the circle of fifths the very first thing that pops in my mind is they play piano or teach music. Guitar is a totally different beast.
Lots of great guitar players don't even read music.
Quote from: Jill F on May 05, 2014, 05:53:11 PM
Lots of great guitar players don't even read music.
Jimi Hendrix couldn't and I would guess that most don't that most people try to copy.
Yeah and I really have to add that contrary to popular belief that gutarist do not get drunk or do too much of anything before they play. One or two drinks is fine and actually loosens you up especially if someone has stage fright but the image of being totally messed up during a show is just more of an image thing. Too much and you won't have very many gigs anymore. Oh yeah I'm sure some light up or drink one, me I have to drink one and have lit up a little tiny bit but that is the limit. The party is on after the show backstage or on the bus or in the hotel room.
People are surprised at how the image isn't reality but hey, we all have an image to protect and the drunken messed up musician is one of 'em.
Nikki Sixx in some concerts(you can find it on youtube) downs a fifth of Jack Daniel's, Yeah right. Tea more than likely in a whiskey bottle.
Quote from: Jess42 on May 05, 2014, 06:12:59 PM
Jimi Hendrix couldn't and I would guess that most don't that most people try to copy.
Yeah and I really have to add that contrary to popular belief that gutarist do not get drunk or do too much of anything before they play. One or two drinks is fine and actually loosens you up especially if someone has stage fright but the image of being totally messed up during a show is just more of an image thing. Too much and you won't have very many gigs anymore. Oh yeah I'm sure some light up or drink one, me I have to drink one and have lit up a little tiny bit but that is the limit. The party is on after the show backstage or on the bus or in the hotel room.
People are surprised at how the image isn't reality but hey, we all have an image to protect and the drunken messed up musician is one of 'em.
Nikki Sixx in some concerts(you can find it on youtube) downs a fifth of Jack Daniel's, Yeah right. Tea more than likely in a whiskey bottle.
I found I gig and record best stone cold sober. Recordings don't lie. OK, maybe one beer...
I played only one gig drunk ever because the drummer was two hours late and the remaining two of us were suckered in to swilling beers by a seasoned pro guitatist/alcoholic while we waited for him to show up. It was the worst gig ever. It was mostly the other guy not remembering when to come in while I'd be playing a holding pattern until he'd figure it out, but my playing was pretty sloppy and I had to wiggle and cheat my way through guitar solos because I lost count of how many bars I'd played. It's probably OK if it's an original nobody's heard, but this was all covers of well-known songs. I heard my drunken Blackmore impression was pretty spot on though and the booze probably didn't hurt my Bon Scott impression.
I've known plenty who have admitted there wasn't actually booze in the Jack bottle props. So cheesy. It's sad when you do see a show where the booze is clearly real though. On that note, suck it Volbeat! I walked out on them after the fall-down drunken "We don't effing wear women's clothes" rant. Yeah, dude, is there something you wanted to tell us about yourself? LOL
Quote from: Jill F on May 05, 2014, 06:32:53 PM
I found I gig and record best stone cold sober. Recordings don't lie. OK, maybe one beer...
I played only one gig drunk ever because the drummer was two hours late and the remaining two of us were suckered in to swilling beers by a seasoned pro guitatist/alcoholic while we waited for him to show up. It was the worst gig ever. It was mostly the other guy not remembering when to come in while I'd be playing a holding pattern until he'd figure it out, but my playing was pretty sloppy and I had to wiggle and cheat my way through guitar solos because I lost count of how many bars I'd played. It's probably OK if it's an original nobody's heard, but this was all covers of well-known songs. I heard my drunken Blackmore impression was pretty spot on though and the booze probably didn't hurt my Bon Scott impression.
I've known plenty who have admitted there wasn't actually booze in the Jack bottle props. So cheesy. It's sad when you do see a show where the booze is clearly real though. On that note, suck it Volbeat! I walked out on them after the fall-down drunken "We don't effing wear women's clothes" rant. Yeah, dude, is there something you wanted to tell us about yourself? LOL
Bon Scott impression while drunk? Ain't that a prerquisite for doing a Bon Scott impression? So sad he died way to young but I think he was probably drunk most of the time on stage or at least buzzing pretty good. But he was the singer so his coordination could be off a tad and no one would really care or probably notice as long as he wasn't falling down drunk. AC/DC is a long way from the Valentines and he was perfect for AC/DC. I even like Brian Johnson as good as Bon Scott.
2 Beers is my limit, more than that I start getting sloppy. Believe it or not solos aren't effected as much as the main riffs. But at home practicing, that is a different story. Or just jamming with the rest of the band just to see how much we can take before crap hits the fan and blows up in our faces. This is a good thing because in a case like yours, we know exaclty what we can do before we do too much.
A poem:
I love my guitar
I love my guitar and my guitar loves me
My guitar makes no presumptions, assumptions or judgments upon me
My guitar does not play stupid games or gossip about me behind my back
Even when it seems there is no love for me in this world, my guitar is there and unwavering, always ready to sing
I love my guitar
This is my Stratocaster. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My Strat is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
My Strat, without me, is useless. Without my Strat, I am useless.
Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 12:08:42 AM
A poem:
I love my guitar
I love my guitar and my guitar loves me
My guitar makes no presumptions, assumptions or judgments upon me
My guitar does not play stupid games or gossip about me behind my back
Even when it seems there is no love for me in this world, my guitar is there and unwavering, always ready to sing
I love my guitar
Nice poem!
I have a $400 budget and Im trying to start a lil punk band. Im either going to buy one or make one out of an Ikea table and throw some killer pick ups on it.
Im trying to choose between these:
Les Paul Jr
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SG Standard
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Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 12:08:42 AM
A poem:
I love my guitar
I love my guitar and my guitar loves me
My guitar makes no presumptions, assumptions or judgments upon me
My guitar does not play stupid games or gossip about me behind my back
Even when it seems there is no love for me in this world, my guitar is there and unwavering, always ready to sing
I love my guitar
Mine says all kinds of crap behind my back, should I be worried VM? ;) But seriously though, that is pretty descriptive. Playing and really getting into takes me out of one world and transports me to another one.
Lara, the first is just what it says, it is a Les Paul Jr and meant to be a starter guitar. Plus just the P90 pickups on the bridge, it is not a very good one for punk becase there isn't enough grit to it no matter how much dstortion you use. If you are looking at punk you definately in the Les Paul Style want a standard Les Paul with the standard burstbucker pickups in the bridge and neck positions. Les Paul's are the cream of the crop, but they are heavy and if you play a lot of solos in the higher fret positions it does get a little uncomfortable after a while with just the single cutaway.
The SG, I am a little prejudice toward this one but if you look at the name on the head, you are blowing your budget by about 800 dollars. Epiphone makes an SG and again, I love these guitars and own both Gibson and Epi SGs and really see little difference between the two other than the name and price tag. And Epi SG Pro will run you around 380 dollars at any Guitar Center. I find right off the rack, most are perfect for Dirtier music if you stay away form the P90 pickups.
As for the fender jazzmaster, I really can't comment on. The only Fender that I own is a Strat with certain pickups for nothing but blues.
Just a little advice, guitars are like cars. No two are the same. Variations on the pickups, the grain of the wood and many many other things will have to do with the sound. Between two of the very same pickups, one may even be a little hotter than the other. I never order one through catalogues or online. I want to feel touch and play. Always test the gutar on what kind of amp amps you will be playing on. I use two different amps which is Line 6 and a Marshall, the Line 6 is just a modeling amp and it can give me some crazy dirty sounds and I love it when I play metal. The Marshal is a tube and this is the one that I get serious with just because of the natural distortion I can get from overloading the tubes on clean channels. The Marshall head was extremely pricy but my Line 6 halfstack cost both with the 4x12 cabinet and head toegether only cost around 600 us dollars. Yeah it's cheap but I have gotten my money's worth of fun out of it.
Mike Ness seems to have done alright with P-90's
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Quote from: V M on May 08, 2014, 07:32:59 AM
Mike Ness seems to have done alright with P-90's
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No there is absolutely nothing wrong with P90s. I just can't get the dirtiness out of 'em that I can with the burstbuckers on Gibsons or Epis. It's all about what kind of sound you want. I love Texas Blues like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King and why I have the tex-mex pickups on my Strat, but trying trying to play War Pigs on it just doesn't sound right.
I love guitars, have a b.c rich virgin, b.c rich warlock and a zakk wylde bullseye epiphone and an acoustic from Aldi!
Sadly I destroyed my elbow tendons practicing shred leads for 6 hours a day. Could hardly use my arm for a year :( docs told me I'd never play again. Many years later it seems it was true. Most I can play is about 5 minutes on the acoustic a day before the pain comes back.
Remember to warm up and don't over do it!
@Jess42
Thank you!! That was a lot of great information. It looks like I have a lot to think about. :)
Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on May 09, 2014, 05:14:13 AM
@Jess42
Thank you!! That was a lot of great information. It looks like I have a lot to think about. :)
Your welcome Lara, like I said I am extremely partial to SGs. They are light, the neck is extremely reachable and you can play them for hours standing up without getting a sore shoulder. But like VM pointed out, just because I prefer the burstbucker pickups off the shelf, don't discount the P-90s. It's all about the sound you and your band are trying to acheive. I just prefer heavier more dirty sounds than what the P-90s can give me. Just take your time and pick out what is comfortable and most playable for you. Make for sure that it sounds good all the way up the neck. I was going to buy another SG some time ago and doing an E powerchord on the twelfth fret sounded like crap. In the GC I tired to adjust the intonation and never could get it right and just left it alone. There was something definately off about it, so make sure that you go all the way up the fret board and it sounds right. GCs are good because they will let you tune it the way you want, adjust intonation and use whatever amps you want, or at least the one that I go to.
Good luck.
i play guitar! i'm more into neoclassical and metal shred stuff. i have a lot of guitars but i pretty much only play a Fender Strat now. It's kind of a pieced together frankenstein of Fender parts with Seymour Duncan YJM Fury pickups.
Quote from: sammielicious on May 16, 2014, 04:51:39 PM
i play guitar! i'm more into neoclassical and metal shred stuff. i have a lot of guitars but i pretty much only play a Fender Strat now. It's kind of a pieced together frankenstein of Fender parts with Seymour Duncan YJM Fury pickups.
Hell yeah! \m/
I've been known to make frankenstrats and bastardcasters, scallop fingerboards, shred, listen to Yngwie (and flirt shamelessly with him) and even worked at Seymour Duncan for like 4-5 years. In fact SD and I used to hide in each others' offices when people we didn't need to see came to visit.
I lost count of how many Strats I have. 12 maybe?
Are you a Marshall fan too? I have stacks of them in my living room...
@Jill F ,
Oh yeah, i am a Marshall fan. i don't have any right now. i traded my 1987X 4 input head for a Jubilee. At the time it made more sense. doh! Sold the Jubilee to get a Splawn, ended up not getting the Splawn and bought a JCM800 and traded it for a Charvel San Dimas. :p The best Marshall i have owned isn't a Marshall. *giggles* It's my Crate VC6112. Totally nails the Facing The Animal tone without an od pedal. Just a little delay and it's purrrfect. Sadly it popped the power transformer and the replacement is expensive. Currently i am playing through a Peavey Windor head modded to be more like a Marshall JMP MV. It's not too bad.
Right now i only have 2 Strats. The frankenstein...it's a Mexican body with a MIJ neck. My other strat is a total hack job. i work at a music store doing guitar repair and i get lots of parts left with me. i have a really early MIJ sunburst strat body waiting on a neck. Pretty sure it will end up being my main guitar.
Quote from: sammielicious on May 16, 2014, 05:53:55 PM
@Jill F ,
Oh yeah, i am a Marshall fan. i don't have any right now. i traded my 1987X 4 input head for a Jubilee. At the time it made more sense. doh! Sold the Jubilee to get a Splawn, ended up not getting the Splawn and bought a JCM800 and traded it for a Charvel San Dimas. :p The best Marshall i have owned isn't a Marshall. *giggles* It's my Crate VC6112. Totally nails the Facing The Animal tone without an od pedal. Just a little delay and it's purrrfect. Sadly it popped the power transformer and the replacement is expensive. Currently i am playing through a Peavey Windor head modded to be more like a Marshall JMP MV. It's not too bad.
Right now i only have 2 Strats. The frankenstein...it's a Mexican body with a MIJ neck. My other strat is a total hack job. i work at a music store doing guitar repair and i get lots of parts left with me. i have a really early MIJ sunburst strat body waiting on a neck. Pretty sure it will end up being my main guitar.
Holy f***! YET ANOTHER LUTHIER HERE??? Nobody does that, but we have so many here. WTF?
I have a 1969 aluminum panel Model 1959 (100W Super Lead) set up with Russian tubes that just nails Hendrix, a 1987 50/25 Jubilee, and some mini stacks from the late 80s.
So sorry you blew a ->-bleeped-<- in the Crate. (I know... bad Jill. I just couldn't resist.)
I love the old Fujigen Strats. I have one I scalloped 20 years ago with a Dremel and a 12 pack of Natural Light.
Quote from: Jill F on May 16, 2014, 07:21:46 PM
Holy f***! YET ANOTHER LUTHIER HERE??? Nobody does that, but we have so many here. WTF?
I have a 1969 aluminum panel Model 1959 (100W Super Lead) set up with Russian tubes that just nails Hendrix, a 1987 50/25 Jubilee, and some mini stacks from the late 80s.
So sorry you blew a ->-bleeped-<- in the Crate. (I know... bad Jill. I just couldn't resist.)
I love the old Fujigen Strats. I have one I scalloped 20 years ago with a Dremel and a 12 pack of Natural Light.
Im about to make a Les Paul Jr copy in a few days. lol
I had a Les Paul double cut away that I totally frankensteined years ago 8) It was beat to death right handed model that I'd picked up at a pawn shop and I turned it into a lefty
Routed out a new control box, reset the bridge, filled in the old holes, refurbished the wiring and P90's, replaced the nut and the already busted up tuners, then painted it with white car body paint
People thought I was crazy and they were probably right but it looked and played really nice
I guess I did a fairly decent job because it grew legs and walked away from a gig one night :'(
Quote from: V M on May 16, 2014, 09:41:38 PM
I had a Les Paul double cut away that I totally frankensteined years ago 8) It was beat to death right handed model that I'd picked up at a pawn shop and I turned it into a lefty
Routed out a new control box, reset the bridge, filled in the old holes, refurbished the wiring and P90's, replaced the nut and the already busted up tuners, then painted it with white car body paint
People thought I was crazy and they were probably right but it looked and played really nice
I guess I did a fairly decent job because it grew legs and walked away from a gig one night :'(
That sounds friggin awesome. Why can't I ever find a decent project guitar??
I have an old Ramon Sanchez semi but the bit where you plug the amp lead in fell out of it. ;-;
a few days ago i managed to get a sound similar to Adrian Belew's "experimental" guitar sound on the Fall '77-Spring '78 Zappa tour and i called it the "Belew Man Group". This time around i used a factory-preset as a base though. I was a bit lazy.
No electric for me until I finish.....
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Looks like it's coming along pretty good 8) What kind of wood are you using for the body?
Just nailed Hendrix "Castles Made of Sand" after some time off playing with a 1979 Strat and a 1969 Marshall. That one has some fun chords with muted strings in the middle.
Now it's off to getting mah face zapped for the 10th time.
i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck
Quote from: Elanore joey on June 06, 2014, 04:20:05 PM
i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck
Holy crap, are all of us transchicks luthiers or something? I mean, seriously. NOBODY DOES THIS. WTF???
Quote from: V M on June 06, 2014, 02:29:34 PM
Looks like it's coming along pretty good 8) What kind of wood are you using for the body?
What wood?? A kitchen table! LOL!
Quote from: Elanore joey on June 06, 2014, 04:20:05 PM
i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck
So cool!! Have any pics?
Quote from: Jill F on June 06, 2014, 04:29:12 PM
Holy crap, are all of us transchicks luthiers or something? I mean, seriously. NOBODY DOES THIS. WTF???
I guess us trans chicks sort of make ourselves. In the process we end up making our guitars too. ^.^
I've just started learning Acoustic, I really want to pick up base guitar though.
That's how started, first with an acoustic guitar, then played bass because that was the position available at the time but then ended up on guitar and vocals later on
Now it's just a hobby again but I would like to find a group to jam out with
Going to play my vintage Maui Blue Strat today and once again trying to be Tony Levin on a fretless bass. (fail)
*Sigh* Unlike a real drummer, a drum machine only needs programmed once, shows up on time and never gets wasted.
i have a faith neptune hi gloss semi acoustic, amazing to play :D
but finding it harder to play now i am trying to grow my nails longer :/
Quote from: Jill F on June 17, 2014, 05:33:21 PM
*Sigh* Unlike a real drummer, a drum machine only needs programmed once, shows up on time and never gets wasted.
Yeah, but that kind of takes away from the spontaniety and unpredictablilty and fun of live music*Sigh*. I miss it more than I though I would.
Quote from: billiejane on June 17, 2014, 06:14:51 PM
i have a faith neptune hi gloss semi acoustic, amazing to play :D
but finding it harder to play now i am trying to grow my nails longer :/
I hate to tell you but those nails gotta go unless you just play power chords or just strictly bottleneck. Look at Orianthi's nails. You can still paint them though.
i play finger-picking style, which is great with long nails on one hand, just not on the other ;(
Quote from: billiejane on June 18, 2014, 09:01:25 AM
i play finger-picking style, which is great with long nails on one hand, just not on the other ;(
I use a pick since I don't even touch acoustic guitars anymore. I did have 1 fingernail, the ring finger on my right hand, longer for hybrid picking and just never figured it looked right. Plus it would mess me up somehow doing heavy palm mutes that needed to be really clean. So I cut that one too.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 18, 2014, 06:47:28 AM
Yeah, but that kind of takes away from the spontaniety and unpredictablilty and fun of live music*Sigh*. I miss it more than I though I would.
I hate to tell you but those nails gotta go unless you just play power chords or just strictly bottleneck. Look at Orianthi's nails. You can still paint them though.
My slide playing has improved over the last year or so for this reason. Some weeks I like 'em long, but I do cut them back once a month so I can really dig in. Lately I've been really into playing Jeff Beck, so I need to do both.
Quote from: Jill F on June 18, 2014, 12:24:50 PM
My slide playing has improved over the last year or so for this reason. Some weeks I like 'em long, but I do cut them back once a month so I can really dig in. Lately I've been really into playing Jeff Beck, so I need to do both.
That is one thing that I cannot do no matter how much I practice, try to learn or any freakin' thing. I have tried and tried and tried again and over and over, ya' get the point. I'm just not a natural at it. I have tried with glass and I have tried with metal, so I pretty much claimed defeat on that a long time ago. It's not really my style anyway but I would still like to be able to do it. So if I play Freebird I am pretty much stuck on the rythme part, which is fine by me anyway.
wow. my playing has quite suddenly improved a lot.
I'm at wit's freaking end over my massive pedalboard. I had everything (11 pedals) velcro'd in place, just as I wanted, then the sticky failed, sending them all over the place when I last had to roadie it. Has anyone tried disassembling a bicycle chain, taking the links apart and using single links as mounting brackets? I figure you take a chain cracker, pull the rivets out and harvest flat single links, take the screws out the back of the pedal, screwing it through one hole in the flat link and then screw a self-tapping wood screw through the other hole and into the board. I remember hearing something vaguely about this years ago in my guitar tech days from a deceased seasoned roadie friend, but I've never needed to do it until now. I wonder if there's an easier solution, or if the pedal backing screws might be too big for the holes in the chain, requiring hours with a reamer or drill press. I do admit using a pink chain for this appeals to me.
Armand, you awesome f***ing bastard. Why did you have to die? I could have used some good advice today. Does anyone have a Ouija board handy?
you know, I am thinking of throwing my acoustic guitar out, or perhaps throwing it in storage and getting an electric again. I am terrible at guitar, but I like to make music from time to time and I find I don't usually want the sound of an acoustic guitar.
I find, that when I think about the sort of sound I would want that an acoustic is close to, I find a sound on my synth or a piano sound I like more.
I used to build stompboxes from schematics I downloaded from the internet, and I built some amps too, maybe I could pick up a cheap electric and build my own amp again, that would be kinda neat. I think I would just use a headphone port though, I have a tiny little room and before I designed things for a 1x12 setup and that is way too much for my little room.
Quote from: Jill F on June 19, 2014, 05:57:29 PM
Armand, you awesome f***ing bastard. Why did you have to die? I could have used some good advice today. Does anyone have a Ouija board handy?
Yeah, I do. But there is no guarantee you will talk to the person you want to. You may even invite a demon into your life. >:-) ::)
BTW, that is the reason that I have only one pedal, a wah wah, anything else just confuses a simple mind like mine.
@Hikari. Don't throw it out and don't put it in storage. That is definately a waste. Find a young person that wants to learn but can't afford one. That's what I did but unfortunately that kid plays in a country band now. I really had high hopes for a new metal shredder, but oh well at least he's having fun and I had a part in that.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 19, 2014, 01:52:48 PM
wow. my playing has quite suddenly improved a lot.
I have tried to teach family members how to play. The most important thing that I stress is it is an everyday ordeal. If I go a week without touching the guitar, songs I have played since the beginning I find I am sloppy and uncoordinated on and it takes a few hours to get that coordination back. I also lose a lot of speed and fluidity too.
I take my cue from the simple term 'Play' as in a child at play, it was when I tapped into this concept of not taking the instrument too seriously I began to enjoy playing a lot more and my playing improved by leaps and bounds
Quote from: V M on June 20, 2014, 08:26:21 AM
I take my cue from the simple term 'Play' as in a child at play, it was when I tapped into this concept of not taking the instrument too seriously I began to enjoy playing a lot more and my playing improved by leaps and bounds
Oh yeah. I find if I concentrate too much on the song it always feels forced and and sounds sloppy. When I just let it flow out and just concentrate on playing for the fun of it it is a lot smoother and the solos are a lot better. If I concentrate too much on the solos I will screw them up everytime, if I don't think too much about them they sound so much better. But after about four or five drinks it gets a lot more fun but sounds like crap. ;D But it's still fun though.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 07:17:31 AM
Yeah, I do. But there is no guarantee you will talk to the person you want to. You may even invite a demon into your life. >:-) ::)
BTW, that is the reason that I have only one pedal, a wah wah, anything else just confuses a simple mind like mine.
@Hikari. Don't throw it out and don't put it in storage. That is definately a waste. Find a young person that wants to learn but can't afford one. That's what I did but unfortunately that kid plays in a country band now. I really had high hopes for a new metal shredder, but oh well at least he's having fun and I had a part in that.
I have tried to teach family members how to play. The most important thing that I stress is it is an everyday ordeal. If I go a week without touching the guitar, songs I have played since the beginning I find I am sloppy and uncoordinated on and it takes a few hours to get that coordination back. I also lose a lot of speed and fluidity too.
my playing sounds much more fluid now and i've regained my sense of timing.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 20, 2014, 09:57:06 AM
my playing sounds much more fluid now and i've regained my sense of timing.
Yeah, I'm going a little darker and heavier and speed and accuracy especially on the low E and A string is definately the one thing I have to keep up on the left and right hands. The left pinky finger Ughhh. That little piggy really tries it's hardest to curl as far from the fretboard as possible. And I really need it for those far fret stretches.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 10:13:58 AM
Yeah, I'm going a little darker and heavier and speed and accuracy especially on the low E and A string is definately the one thing I have to keep up on the left and right hands. The left pinky finger Ughhh. That little piggy really tries it's hardest to curl as far from the fretboard as possible. And I really need it for those far fret stretches.
my pinky fingers are getting better but they've always been my biggest weakness.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 07:17:31 AM
Yeah, I do. But there is no guarantee you will talk to the person you want to. You may even invite a demon into your life. >:-) ::)
BTW, that is the reason that I have only one pedal, a wah wah, anything else just confuses a simple mind like mine.
Normally I agree. Most of the time it's either one pedal or I just plug straight in. When I play at home, I like simple. Strat + Marshall = Awesome.
The last gig I had (two years ago, crap...) required some serious toys due to the span of the set list. Fuzz, Overdrive, Delay, Chorus, 2 wah pedals (one "fixed" for Michael Schenker stuff), detune (for Sabbath C# or anything in Eb), Compressor, Strobe tuner, External true bypasses (homemade), and Power supply. Anyway, my board has turned into an anarchistic mess and I can't stow it properly until I get it fixed. It's been sitting there laughing at me since I had my meltdown in 2012.
My friend Armand was (among others) Slayer's tech. I remember him saying something about this method of rigging a pedalboard many years ago. I just wasn't sure if by "bike chain", he meant "Schwinn" or "Harley". Unfortunately, he OD'd a couple of years ago and now I can't ask him. It was pretty cool, though. Once upon a time, he'd bring in Kerry King's guitars to us for electronics work. I was the one who knew all the voodoo for custom voicing the circuit boards by changing out particular resistors and capacitors. I knew which ones did what, how increasing or decreasing values affected it, and (most importantly) how to read the codes on the components to determine the values. I was rewarded with backstage passes.
I can prove I'm "Slayer Family" now... :P
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 20, 2014, 10:28:05 AM
my pinky fingers are getting better but they've always been my biggest weakness.
Watch Michael Schenker. He almost never uses the pinky. It's pretty amazing what he can do with just 3 fingers.
Don't bother meeting him in person, though.
Quote from: Jill F on June 20, 2014, 11:57:23 AM
Normally I agree. Most of the time it's either one pedal or I just plug straight in. When I play at home, I like simple. Strat + Marshall = Awesome.
The last gig I had (two years ago, crap...) required some serious toys due to the span of the set list. Fuzz, Overdrive, Delay, Chorus, 2 wah pedals (one "fixed" for Michael Schenker stuff), detune (for Sabbath C# or anything in Eb), Compressor, Strobe tuner, External true bypasses (homemade), and Power supply. Anyway, my board has turned into an anarchistic mess and I can't stow it properly until I get it fixed. It's been sitting there laughing at me since I had my meltdown in 2012.
My friend Armand was (among others) Slayer's tech. I remember him saying something about this method of rigging a pedalboard many years ago. I just wasn't sure if by "bike chain", he meant "Schwinn" or "Harley". Unfortunately, he OD'd a couple of years ago and now I can't ask him. It was pretty cool, though. Once upon a time, he'd bring in Kerry King's guitars to us for electronics work. I was the one who knew all the voodoo for custom voicing the circuit boards by changing out particular resistors and capacitors. I knew which ones did what, how increasing or decreasing values affected it, and (most importantly) how to read the codes on the components to determine the values. I was rewarded with backstage passes.
I can prove I'm "Slayer Family" now... :P
I freakin' love Slayer. I just wish Kerry King would grow some hair but i guess it plays into the whole Satanic thing though.
No wonder, trying to keep up with that much stuff would blow my mind. I am purely basic and if it wasn't for Electric Funeral I wouldn't even use the Wah Wah. But it just don't sound right without it.
Speaking of, I had one of the local metal bands from the area contact me yesterday. Seem they aren't going anywhere or where they want to go. I had met their bassist about a year ago. I checked them out after at a club and yeah they are original but Jesus Christ!! The bassist knows that I am more classic metal in the way of Maiden, Judas Priest and Sabbath and asked me to play lead guitar with them. I am in my 40's and have the longest hair of all four of 'em, these kids are in their mid twenties with day jobs that they really seem apprehensive about giving up and going for it. Scared ya' know and that ain't good. I don't know. First would have to be a name change. The name just doesn't do it. I won't name them but it is a freakin' lame name for a metal band. The singer when he sings clean sounds pretty good but then he mixes in the screams and growls, one or the other please. Plus he wears a baseball cap Hip Hop style which just really isn't the thing metal heads want to see. Their manager screwed them out of a contract and they just got all kinds of problems and confusion about which direction they want to go. I really don't want to be a den "mother" for a bunch of cubs and since I would be the oldest that would probably be the case. I want to play live music again, I want to go darker than what I played a couple of months ago, but something tells me these kids would be looking to me for all the answers and I am not a founder of the band so I foresee a lot of conflicts. I would rather play with dinosaurs like myself with long hair flying (grey or not), heads banging and where insanity and darkness rules. When I saw this band it was almost like watching statues play music.
May your friend rest in peace. Too many of us whether musician or roadies and techs have fallen by the roadside. And really if it weren't for them we would all end up sucking as musicians especially the big headliners and still be in the garages.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 01:35:18 PM
I freakin' love Slayer. I just wish Kerry King would grow some hair but i guess it plays into the whole Satanic thing though.
Kerry went pretty bald up top, thus the skull tats. Tats are the new hair...
Oh, the Satanic and Nazi things are totally just to press haters' buttons. Kerry is an atheist and Jeff's (RIP) father collected Nazi stuff from people he either killed or found dead on D-Day.
Quote from: Jill F on June 20, 2014, 01:51:49 PM
Kerry went pretty bald up top, thus the skull tats. Tats are the new hair...
Oh, the Satanic and Nazi things are totally just to press haters' buttons. Kerry is an atheist and Jeff's (RIP) father collected Nazi stuff from people he either killed or found dead on D-Day.
That kind a sux. I find I am like Samson in the bible, the longer the hair the stronger the playing or better the playing. Could just be me though and some sort of insane ideas. Of course I am getting where my hair ends up in my mouth and bugs the crap out of me. But I can live with it though because once I start sweating it calms down somewhat.
Image is everything. I could care less what they are as long as they play good. Remember Stryper in the eighties? I never got 'em. I mean come on sex drugs and rock and roll.
Quote from: Jill F on June 20, 2014, 11:59:36 AM
Watch Michael Schenker. He almost never uses the pinky. It's pretty amazing what he can do with just 3 fingers.
Don't bother meeting him in person, though.
i heard some things about him on a music forum i frequent. he seems to be a rather unpleasant, arrogant fellow.
the funny thing about me playing is that i am legally handicapped to some degree. i have the papers to prove it. i have very low motoric skills, which can be raised to a normal level with enough practice though and at the moment i barely notice that handicap.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 20, 2014, 04:23:33 PM
he seems to be a rather unpleasant, arrogant fellow.
Yes, at the very least.
I think Schenker is what mental health professionals refer to as "batsh*t crazy", o como se dice en Espanol, "guano loco".
I mean, Ozzy thought he was freakin' nuts. That's like Jerry Garcia thinking you have a drug problem.
Quote from: Jill F on June 20, 2014, 04:46:50 PM
Yes, at the very least.
I think Schenker is what mental health professionals refer to as "batsh*t crazy", o como se dice en Espanol, "guano loco".
I mean, Ozzy thought he was freakin' nuts. That's like Jerry Garcia thinking you have a drug problem.
but is he as nuts as Phil Spector?
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 20, 2014, 04:54:06 PM
but is he as nuts as Phil Spector?
No way. I don't think Schenker is potentally dangerous to anyone but himself.
Funny story- my wife was in the jury pool for the Spector trial (got immeditely dismissed for being an attorney) and had to share the elevator with him (as well as cops and bodyguard types) in cuffs. Apparently he was shaking like a leaf the whole time and muttering nonsense to himself before my wife realized who that was. She looked him right in the eye and it appeared that nobody was home.
Quote from: Jill F on June 20, 2014, 05:04:09 PM
No way. I don't think Schenker is potentally dangerous to anyone but himself.
Funny story- my wife was in the jury pool for the Spector trial (got immeditely dismissed for being an attorney) and had to share the elevator with him (as well as cops and bodyguard types) in cuffs. Apparently he was shaking like a leaf the whole time and muttering nonsense to himself before my wife realized who that was. She looked him right in the eye and it appeared that nobody was home.
heh, i'm listening to a recording i made earlier. i was trying to figure out the melody of "Martha's Madman" on guitar and played around it in my solo.
Depends on my mood...I've got an Ovation six string, an Ibanez 5-string bass, two Jacksons, and two Ibanez RGs. I don't play that often anymore, used to be play every day for hours in high school.
AHHHH BIG GUITAR LOVER HERE!!!!
I have a strat plus and a washburn acoustic. AND I PLAY EVERYDAY! music is my passion
Quote from: Lady_Oracle on June 21, 2014, 04:44:32 PM
AHHHH BIG GUITAR LOVER HERE!!!!
I have a strat plus and a washburn acoustic. AND I PLAY EVERYDAY! music is my passion
Yay, Strat Plus! I've had a few over the years. I'm not into the Lace Sensor pickups much for tone, but they don't pick up the 60 cycle hum from the lights in my living room and the sustain is awesome because of the lack of magnetic field. I have 2 old Jeff Beck models right now, which are pretty much the same thing but with a double pickup at the bridge and a big fat neck. I like to use them with modeling effects and amps because they don't color the sound much and take a lot of guitar related variables out of the equation.
Yes, I'm a gear nut...
OMG HOORAY!! finally someone else that knows what a strat plus is!! I love the lace sensor pickups so much!!I just got my guitar a few months ago, its a used, made in 95 so it has the "fender lace" pus lolol. I find it funny since it wasn't made by fender but they threw their name on it anyways. I love her so much though everything about the guitar is perfect, from the metal nut to the locking tuners. I have the bridge sitting flat against the body and she stays in tune mostly without having to lock the bridge which is so nice!
Yeah the tone is fat and bassy just the way I like it and perfect with distortion, so much sustain and feedback at least with mine. I was looking for the smashing pumpkins tone and I have it with this guitar. I have the silver, blue and red pus. I just need to find a good fuzz pedal, which I think I found a few weeks ago, just need the funds to get it.
Now I'm gonna get a new amp sometime soon, I can't wait till I do. Yeah I've seen those Jeff Becks, purty geetars.
What kind of stuff do you like to play Jill??
Quote from: Jill F on June 21, 2014, 07:29:23 PM
Yay, Strat Plus! I've had a few over the years. I'm not into the Lace Sensor pickups much for tone, but they don't pick up the 60 cycle hum from the lights in my living room and the sustain is awesome because of the lack of magnetic field. I have 2 old Jeff Beck models right now, which are pretty much the same thing but with a double pickup at the bridge and a big fat neck. I like to use them with modeling effects and amps because they don't color the sound much and take a lot of guitar related variables out of the equation.
Yes, I'm a gear nut...
My God does anyone but myself, Angus Young and Tony Iommi play and SG? I am really starting to feel left out here. ;D Where are the other SG fans?
Quote from: Lady_Oracle on June 21, 2014, 08:32:29 PM
OMG HOORAY!! finally someone else that knows what a strat plus is!! I love the lace sensor pickups so much!!I just got my guitar a few months ago, its a used, made in 95 so it has the "fender lace" pus lolol. I find it funny since it wasn't made by fender but they threw their name on it anyways. I love her so much though everything about the guitar is perfect, from the metal nut to the locking tuners. I have the bridge sitting flat against the body and she stays in tune mostly without having to lock the bridge which is so nice!
Yeah the tone is fat and bassy just the way I like it and perfect with distortion, so much sustain and feedback at least with mine. I was looking for the smashing pumpkins tone and I have it with this guitar. I have the silver, blue and red pus. I just need to find a good fuzz pedal, which I think I found a few weeks ago, just need the funds to get it.
Now I'm gonna get a new amp sometime soon, I can't wait till I do. Yeah I've seen those Jeff Becks, purty geetars.
What kind of stuff do you like to play Jill??
For a fuzz pedal I use a Way Huge Fat Sandwich. For overdrive, I use a TS-808, but I think I'd like to give an OCD a whirl. I have a few Marshalls and a Hiwatt to run them into.
I mostly play hard rock, metal, classic rock and bluesy stuff.
I know what a Strat Plus is and I've played a Gibson SG in the past, I'm feeling kinda hungry right now so I'm wondering if the local deli is open so I can get a sandwich
Dang, I guess I'll have to make my own
The Smashing Pumpkins should rename themselves the Whiny Turd Mongers
Sorry, just my opinion
I have owned over 200 guitars in my life. Not one was an SG.
I have played many and only ever liked one. I usually find them gutless, squeaky and squawky. I'd rather play a Les Paul or a 335, but I much prefer the 25.5" scale of a Fender. I Zen with Strats.
Hey Jill, where you going with that ________ in your hand?
Can anyone fill in that blank? I'm drawing one. It's time for me to rewrite some lyrics. Is "Hey Joe" the most jammed song ever?
I've never owned an SG either, the only time I've played one live is when a rather hyper active but nice young man ran up with one and said...
"Here, try this out" then ran away... He apparently had heard that my guitars had been stolen and didn't realize that I played south paw
Played the gig with an upside down guitar and it actually went fairly well
Straight away he was back, said "Good show" grabbed the guitar and ran off again to go play his gig
i can't stand flying v's. they're so unergonomic to handle.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 22, 2014, 02:11:13 PM
i can't stand flying v's. they're so unergonomic to handle.
But you don't need a stand for them. Just something to lean them against.
Quote from: Jill F on June 22, 2014, 03:28:01 PM
But you don't need a stand for them. Just something to lean them against.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
I love the Flying V it just looks like it is about to play some metal. Then again I also like the warlock, which most people seem to associate with cheap and terrible but, you can always get better pickups and whatnot.
What is weird is I don't really like the explorer style, it just feels wrong in my hands.
Quote from: Jill F on June 22, 2014, 02:50:57 AM
I have owned over 200 guitars in my life. Not one was an SG.
I have played many and only ever liked one. I usually find them gutless, squeaky and squawky. I'd rather play a Les Paul or a 335, but I much prefer the 25.5" scale of a Fender. I Zen with Strats.
Ow. My heart is so broken. :D I have one LesPaul and realy like the deep growl that I can get from it but dang, after about an hour and I'm hurtin'. Most of the guitars I own are SGs (5) 1 Gibson and 4 Epis, All tuned different. The Gibson is stock and retired and hangs on my wall safe and sound in a display case. I have one tuned down 1/2 step. one in Drop D, two standard tuned, cherry and black. A Les Paul which doesn't see too much action because it feels too awkward playing in the higher frets and the main reason I am so partial to SGs. and a Strat. But the Strat is strictly for Blues.
I love my Jackson King V. I changed the pickups and it's just awesome. Definately a bit awkward given that the neck weighs more than the body and the headstock likes to head to the floor when you let go.
The explorer was too heavy for me, but I like look of it.
Quote from: Hikari on June 22, 2014, 04:47:05 PM
I love the Flying V it just looks like it is about to play some metal. Then again I also like the warlock, which most people seem to associate with cheap and terrible but, you can always get better pickups and whatnot.
What is weird is I don't really like the explorer style, it just feels wrong in my hands.
Quote from: Nikki_Denier on June 23, 2014, 04:37:51 PM
I love my Jackson King V. I changed the pickups and it's just awesome. Definately a bit awkward given that the neck weighs more than the body and the headstock likes to head to the floor when you let go.
The explorer was too heavy for me, but I like look of it.
Never played a V but my SGs are neck heavy. Go pro and buy a leather strap. Using a nylon strap does the same with my SGs. A leather strap isn't quite as slick.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 22, 2014, 02:11:13 PM
i can't stand flying v's. they're so unergonomic to handle.
I would think so too. But if you look on youtube for Steavie Ray Vaughn and Albert King jamming together. Albet King even upside down playing the V with the high E on top looks like it is the most comfortable thing in the world. That has to be self taught natural talent if I ain't never seen it before.
Quote from: Jess42 on June 23, 2014, 05:04:32 PM
Never played a V but my SGs are neck heavy. Go pro and buy a leather strap. Using a nylon strap does the same with my SGs. A leather strap isn't quite as slick.
Yeah, the wide Levy's strap I have on their is pretty slick. I can see how a leather strap would create a bit more friction and hold in place. It isn't too bad as long as I angle the neck up high when I'm taking a break. Other solution is to not stop playing. 8)
Oh yeah. the strap will make the biggest difference in the world. I love Epi SGs, they are cheap, around 379 us dollars and if I spill a beer on it, drop it or just end up screwing one up. 379 dollar replacement instead of 1200 dollars. But yeah an SG is neck heavey and body light so with a cheap strap the neck heads south. WIth a leather strap I paid right around 60 dollars for it stays.
I tend to use classic style guitar straps and get rid of the shoulder pad, the newer wider straps tend to dig into my neck too much
I have a guitar strap that has a back like a racerback bra. You put both arms through it and the guitar's neck will never take a dive on you.
I never needed it except for on my Warwick Thumb Bass, but I'd never gig that one anyway. It's irreplaceable.
I so want one of those... :)
Quote from: Jill F on June 24, 2014, 01:33:08 AM
I have a guitar strap that has a back like a racerback bra. You put both arms through it and the guitar's neck will never take a dive on you.
1 x electric lead guitar, 1 x acoustic lead guitar & 1 x electric bass guitar
I also want some drums and a keyboard, so I can make my own records by playing each instrument myself, though considering I can barely play any of my guitars I probably won't be getting a record deal any time soon ;)
Quote from: Jill F on June 24, 2014, 01:33:08 AM
I have a guitar strap that has a back like a racerback bra. You put both arms through it and the guitar's neck will never take a dive on you.
I never needed it except for on my Warwick Thumb Bass, but I'd never gig that one anyway. It's irreplaceable.
It's called a Slider Dual Guitar Strap. They seem to market them mostly to women.
Now I can't find mine. I think one of my ex-bandmates may have "borrowed" it. *le sigh*
Hmmm, looks pretty cool 8)
(https://sp2.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607989080922129878&pid=15.1)
I've usually used traps like these with staplocks
(https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608016448453019688&pid=15.1)
Who'd a thunk that strap-ons and harnesses would have invaded THIS thread? LOL
Today after all these years, I'm finally going to do a thorough inventory of my gear for insurance purposes. I don't even know exactly how many guitars I have, let alone what they're worth. All I know is that if my house burns down or if someone breaks in, I'm going to be really bummed if they're not properly insured.
What do you all bet that I'll be adjusting truss rods and filing frets by noon?
Quote from: V M on June 24, 2014, 04:13:39 PM
Hmmm, looks pretty cool 8)
(https://sp2.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607989080922129878&pid=15.1)
Ok, so this space aged super strap thingy. When I play sometimes the neck is a little more parralel to the floor. Other times I have to raise the neck almost where the head is level with my head for a little more leverage or to where my wrist isn't bent as much. The question I guess to Jill since she has used one is how easy is it using that type of strap to tip the neck up and down? Looks like something that would definatley be a lot more comfortable with my Les Paul 'cause it definately kills my left shoulder after about an hour.
Quote from: Jill F on June 21, 2014, 09:17:59 PM
For a fuzz pedal I use a Way Huge Fat Sandwich. For overdrive, I use a TS-808, but I think I'd like to give an OCD a whirl. I have a few Marshalls and a Hiwatt to run them into.
I mostly play hard rock, metal, classic rock and bluesy stuff.
Yea I play the same kind of stuff! Been meaning to add some more flavor to my geetar skills by learning some jazz licks. I'm curious, whats your dream setup? like amp and guitar wise
aw thanks for the recommendation! Yeah the amp I might get is the Vox AC15, though I don't know its still a bit expensive. Ha if I could afford the voxac30 I so would so get that!! I don't really need anything more than 20watts at the moment so yeah I might just go with something a bit more cheaper.
I bought an acoustic guitar last year, slowly learning how to play it. I seem to be better at fingerpicking than strumming, not that I'm complaining, some of the songs I've learned are fun to play.
wooo another fingerpicking player!
mind if i ask what you are playing?, seem to have hit an block of not being intrested in playing anything.
ive been learning some ben howard recently, which is cool to play mostly as i can play the whole way through and sound pretty good lol
I'm more of an acoustic guitar player, fingerstyle.
Going to see Yngwie Malmsteen tonight.
I'm probably going to need to have a guitar bonfire afterward.
Most of the songs I know are just short songs, and I just randomly picked songs to learn.
Some songs I know:
Für Elise
Sailors Hornpipe
Study in A Minor
Stretchin Blues
Pirates of the Caribbean
Just got back from the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas. Queen was freakin' awesome with Adam Lambert. I still miss Freddie every day, but last night was such a vast improvement over what had happened with Paul Rodgers.
I also fingerf***ed a 1977 Stratocaster (I mean it was hanging on the wall right over the table I was eating brunch at... I HAD to!) that David Gilmour played on the original Pink Floyd The Wall tour in 1980 as well as Rick Allen's original electronic drum kit from just after his accident.
Lots and lots of killer guitartifacts on display all over the place there.
And I only lost $25 gambling...
hmm, I used to have a 1979 Fender American Stratocaster, but I certainly never had anyone from Pink Floyd play it :P
I know this is heresy, but right now my primary Guitar is the FL Slayer plugin or Image Line Hardcore when I need strings, not keys and mouse clicks...I love analog sound but, I also love tight integration into my DAW of choice.
Why, oh why did I have to just look on eBay for guitars? So there's this new Paul Reed Smith Marty Friedman model. Apparently it has that wide, fat neck profile that I prefer, as well as a stupid rare 1991 purple Jeff Beck Strat with probably an even fatter neck.
I know, I know, I have way too many guitars already, nowhere left in the house to put them and I just put myself even deeper in the hole after paying the doctor, but GRRRRRR!!!
Bad Jill! Step away from that *buy it now* button and go the f*** to bed!
Guitar addiction can be a difficult horse to saddle
Okay, I was bad girl and bought a new one 8) I was feeling a bit guilty about it :-\ But my Sis assured me that I shouldn't
My folks gave me such a bad time for doing anything to feel happy or please myself in some way, let alone it involved a guitar and such... Oh the drama, it must be the influence of... Satan!?!?!? (See SNL Church Lady Vids)
Anyway, nothing to brag or gloat about, just a decent electric acoustic called an Epiphone Texan that I enjoy playing
Hugs
Quote from: V M on July 12, 2014, 03:57:37 AM
Okay, I was bad girl and bought a new one 8) I was feeling a bit guilty about it :-\ But my Sis assured me that I shouldn't
My folks gave me such a bad time for doing anything to feel happy or please myself in some way, let alone it involved a guitar and such... Oh the drama, it must be the influence of... Satan!?!?!? (See SNL Church Lady Vids)
Anyway, nothing to brag or gloat about, just a decent electric acoustic called an Epiphone Texan that I enjoy playing
Hugs
Feakin' love the church lady skit and old school SNL. Don't feel so bad. Its just an Epi. ::) Just bought another Epi SG myself a week ago with every intention of going into GC and getting a Gibson SG. Again The Epi blew the Gibsons away. A full "66 pickguard which none of the Gibson's had. The D neck that is a little thicker, which none of the Gibsons had. Hotter than hell pickups which none of the Gibsons had either. I move around quite a bit and the really thin c necks come out of tune when I lean back or foreward. The Gibsons weren't even in the classic SG colors they were all matte or the new sunburst. Plus the Gibson SGs with the exception of the matte finish had that new minetune on the back of the head. I have a tuner. I don't need one on the back of the head, just something else to mess up and bcome useless if I accdentally hit the mic stand.
I don't know what Gibson is doing with the classic types of SGs, even the Epiphone SGs seemed to be being phased out. Everyone one of the Epi SGs I have is out of production and what is out the is all there is. To be completely honest with you VM, I wanted the open book shaped headstock to look a little more professional but for the sound alone, not even considering the price, looks like I'll be sticking with the clipped dovetail headstock. To be completely honest Epiphone seems to be impressing me a lot more in the last 3 years than Gibson all across the board. Even the Les Paul models, the Epis were still not better than the Gibsons put dead even at least.
i can hardly wait, im going to a festival which has both ben howard and jack johnson headlining.
should be awsome, very acoustic music
Both, haha! If I had to choose between either I'd have a very hard time deciding. I play mostly metal but I do finger pick and play the acoustic on the occasion. :)
Other than the price, there is nothing cheap about this guitar 8) She is of beautiful quality and a joy to play, helps me settle my nerves
I think I'm in love
Scroll down to the Epiphone Texan http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2014/The-Ltd-Ed-Lefty-Collection.aspx (http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2014/The-Ltd-Ed-Lefty-Collection.aspx)
Quote from: V M on August 13, 2014, 01:04:03 AM
Other than the price, there is nothing cheap about this guitar 8) She is of beautiful quality and a joy to play, helps me settle my nerves
I think I'm in love
You're right, other than the price, Epiphone aren't cheaply made. I've never had one problem out of mine and I play the crap out of them.
I play and just got a new to me guitar that some people might say is kinda vintage. It's a strat style Aria Pro 2 Road Warrior made in Japan in the mid 80's.
I'm currently shopping new amps and need yalls opinion, Crate Flexwave, or Line 6 spider. Both are gonna be half stacks. The only reason I'm leaning towards the Spider is it has a bunch of presets that can be controlled by stompbox, kinda like a Rolland VG, but without the 13 pin connection.
Line 6 makes horrible amps. (But their effects pedals are all right.) I would go with the Crate if I was given the choice between the two.
Quote from: kariann330 on August 21, 2014, 12:45:17 PM
I play and just got a new to me guitar that some people might say is kinda vintage. It's a strat style Aria Pro 2 Road Warrior made in Japan in the mid 80's.
I'm currently shopping new amps and need yalls opinion, Crate Flexwave, or Line 6 spider. Both are gonna be half stacks. The only reason I'm leaning towards the Spider is it has a bunch of presets that can be controlled by stompbox, kinda like a Rolland VG, but without the 13 pin connection.
I like Line 6 I have a 150 watt half stack and a 15 watt practice amp. They aren't really bad for modeling amps and I get some real dirt out of them both. I never ever use the presets. The channels I have my own sounds dialed in. The presets just really don't sound right to me. Either too much bass or too much midrange and so on. I also have a 15 watt Marshall tube amp and a 150 watt Marshal half stack with a tube head. Metal I go for the Line 6 every time, more classic rock tones I use the Marshall and overload the tubes for natural distortion. Clean palm mutes and the harder you hit the strings the more distortion. The Line 6 dirty I can get the distorted palm mutes. Line 6 is cheap, Marshall tubes ain't. I think Line 6 makes a tube head and it's up there in price too. But I only use one pedal and that is a wah wah, and that's it as far as pedals go.
I have never dealt with Crate. Orange is fairly good but pricey. Really kariann, is it for gigs or just play for fun or what? 30 watts is usually enough to make the neighbors complain if they are close enough to you a 150 watt head and a 4x12 cabinet only with the rest of the band and gigs if we can get the two pups trained enough to actually play and both are where we practice at and their nearest neighbor is more than a mile away and they have even complained. I would save a little money and go down a little on the amp unless you are going to be playing gigs and really need to reach out and touch someone I would go with something a little more portable. 15 and 30 watters you can tale everywhere.
BTW I am not trying to dissuade you out of the half stack, by all means. Just if you have close neighbors believe me, they will complain. And you just gotta turn it up or it don't sound right.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 21, 2014, 12:55:10 PM
Line 6 makes horrible amps. (But their effects pedals are all right.) I would go with the Crate if I was given the choice between the two.
Sorry Laura. I like Line 6. :embarrassed: Now I'm gonna duck just in case you wanna throw something at me. :laugh:
Quote from: Jess42 on August 21, 2014, 02:23:22 PM
I have never dealt with Crate. Orange is fairly good but pricey. Really kariann, is it for gigs or just play for fun or what? 30 watts is usually enough to make the neighbors complain if they are close enough to you a 150 watt head and a 4x12 cabinet only with the rest of the band and gigs if we can get the two pups trained enough to actually play and both are where we practice at and their nearest neighbor is more than a mile away and they have even complained. I would save a little money and go down a little on the amp unless you are going to be playing gigs and really need to reach out and touch someone I would go with something a little more portable. 15 and 30 watters you can tale everywhere.
Sorry Laura. I like Line 6. :embarrassed: Now I'm gonna duck just in case you wanna throw something at me. :laugh:
I had a Crate G40XL a long time ago. It was my first amp and I got a lot of good use out of it. I sold it in early 1998 once I gave up on guitar (for a very brief period amount of time) and I was messing around with bass guitar and doing harsh noise stuff using mics and effects pedals. I actually killed the Crate very slowly without realizing it by running feedback loops through it with my DOD Death Metal pedal. I sold the Crate (and a Zoom 505 multi effects) to a guy for $300 and then, I guess the amp blew up a few weeks after he bought it. He was really pissed at me but I didn't know that the amp was going to do that. :D Had I not been doing that, it would have never blown up, most likely. But I was a bit of a mad scientist with audio stuff at this time (and I killed a few pieces of audio equipment in the process. Broke a few mics being crazy and thrashing stuff around..but they sounded awesome right before they died. :D)
But I bought a Line 6 around 03, I think, and I HATED it. I had a really great ESP guitar by that time that sounded amazing. But this stupid amp made it sound like absolute garbage. I gave it away to a guy I knew that really liked it for some weird reason. I could have thrown the thing off my balcony or kicked it down the stairs and I wouldn't have gave a damn. That thing sucked. So, I basically threw away $250 and gave the amp to him. He was totally broke so, he couldn't pay me but I didn't care. I just wanted it out of my sight. In case your wondering, I bought the amp used so I couldn't get a refund. I've stayed the hell away from modeling amps (and Line 6 amps) ever since. I love their Echo Parks and the DL4 delay, though.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 21, 2014, 03:34:27 PM
I had a Crate G40XL a long time ago. It was my first amp and I got a lot of good use out of it. I sold it in early 1998 once I gave up on guitar (for a very brief period amount of time) and I was messing around with bass guitar and doing harsh noise stuff using mics and effects pedals. I actually killed the Crate very slowly without realizing it by running feedback loops through it with my DOD Death Metal pedal. I sold the Crate (and a Zoom 505 multi effects) to a guy for $300 and then, I guess the amp blew up a few weeks after he bought it. He was really pissed at me but I didn't know that the amp was going to do that. :D Had I not been doing that, it would have never blown up, most likely. But I was a bit of a mad scientist with audio stuff at this time (and I killed a few pieces of audio equipment in the process. Broke a few mics being crazy and thrashing stuff around..but they sounded awesome right before they died. :D)
But I bought a Line 6 around 03, I think, and I HATED it. I had a really great ESP guitar by that time that sounded amazing. But this stupid amp made it sound like absolute garbage. I gave it away to a guy I knew that really liked it for some weird reason. I could have thrown the thing off my balcony or kicked it down the stairs and I wouldn't have gave a damn. That thing sucked. So, I basically threw away $250 and gave the amp to him. He was totally broke so, he couldn't pay me but I didn't care. I just wanted it out of my sight. In case your wondering, I bought the amp used so I couldn't get a refund. I've stayed the hell away from modeling amps (and Line 6 amps) ever since. I love their Echo Parks and the DL4 delay, though.
Yeah, modeling amps are something that should be used just strictly for certain sounds. I can get some really heavy sounds out of my Line 6s. But I buy everything new. I never buy anything used or buy anything that I don't try or can touch with my hands and see the sound I can get from it. This goes for guitars, amps and anything else, if I ever go for a pedal board. I come out with way cheaper guitars most of the time than what I actually went in looking for. The absolute only thing that I will spend extravagant amounts of money on is Marshall. Not even Gibson. Yeah, in order to look professional I really need the Gibson head with the open bookend but usually coming out with the clipped dovetailed heads of Epiphones. Belive it or not every Epi that I have bought since 2010 have blown the Gibson's away. And I usually play for an hour with a guitar before I buy it from Skynerd to ACDC to Sabbath to my own metal junk I have yet to come across a guitar that sounds as good as the newer Epi's. Like VM said, the only thing cheap is the price, but the quality is on par with Gibson. That is just my opinion though.
Hi, people!
Now for my take on amps.
I like Orange, but I've never owned one. Line 6 amps annoy me and Crate, well, sorry, that's something I wouldn't touch with a barge pole.
I have always had a thing for vintage Marshalls and Hiwatt. For clean(er) tones I like my Marshall Super Lead from 1969, and for dirty I like my Marshall Silver Jubilee from 1987. Hiwatt is for when I want to sound like David Gilmour or Pete Townshend. I love using an Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS 808) for overdrive and a Way Huge Fat Sandwich for fuzz.
I had a Hiwatt combo amp once that I knew was dying, so I traded it to this serious jerkwad a*hole (A guy that once tried to screw me over once on a vintage Strat deal.) for a real refinished 1954 Strat body at a guitar show. When he plugged in the amp he was very pleased with himself. I got the hell out of there immediately because I knew the amp probably had an hour or less of playing time left in it before it blew a ->-bleeped-<-. (Did I just say that in that particular context? Bad Jill!!!) I put a 1965 neck on that 1954 body with a bunch of other vintage parts, and to this day, that is my favorite guitar to play.
Quote from: Jill F on August 21, 2014, 04:19:19 PM
Hi, people!
Now for my take on amps.
I like Orange, but I've never owned one. Line 6 amps annoy me and Crate, well, sorry, that's something I wouldn't touch with a barge pole.
I have always had a thing for vintage Marshalls and Hiwatt. For clean(er) tones I like my Marshall Super Lead from 1969, and for dirty I like my Marshall Silver Jubilee from 1987. Hiwatt is for when I want to sound like David Gilmour or Pete Townshend. I love using an Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS 808) for overdrive and a Way Huge Fat Sandwich for fuzz.
I had a Hiwatt combo amp once that I knew was dying, so I traded it to this serious jerkwad a*hole (A guy that once tried to screw me over once on a vintage Strat deal.) for a real refinished 1954 Strat body at a guitar show. When he plugged in the amp he was very pleased with himself. I got the hell out of there immediately because I knew the amp probably had an hour or less of playing time left in it before it blew a ->-bleeped-<-. (Did I just say that in that particular context? Bad Jill!!!) I put a 1965 neck on that 1954 body with a bunch of other vintage parts, and to this day, that is my favorite guitar to play.
Yeah, Bad Jill. Really bad Jill. A lot of gutters in the LA area so we know where your mind is. ;D Or is it mine in the gutter on skid row? ??? I I know really well where skid row is in all cities. :o
I love my Line 6s. But I love my Marshalls better though. But Line 6 hasn't let me down yet. But I set my own sounds to the channels and never use the presets. As a matter of fact, presets are a waste, for me anyway. Especially when you want to go your own sound. But Line 6 goes pretty good for me with Epis and Gibsons. The only Strat I have sounds like crap on the Line 6s or any other modeling amp and if I don't play it on the Marshalls, I just cant get the same sound with the Tex Mex pickups. But that Strat is strictly nothing but a Blues Guitar and that is the only genre that I play on it. I messed up and bought the Tony Iommi pickup and put it on my cherry SG and with ultra light strings, 8 on the B and high E which I end up breaking quite a few, and then only 32 guage on the low E it sounds like crap so don't get it or if you know anyone else that is thinking about it tell them not to buy it. GC makes it sound like a hot pickup but it ain't. I got used to the orange ,9 to 42 Slinkys and OMFG I was bending sometime two steps or more higher and then "Pop".
I ain't even gonna' mention the "G" string, "cause I think it's my mind that is in the gutter. But what "Ax woman" or "Ax man" has never ended up in the gutter? I won't mention names. But do know quite a few. :embarrassed:
Well thanks y'all.....now I'm even more torn then before lol.
I wish it was as easy as when I had my Ibanez because back then it was "ok what is Mick Thompson and the guys from In Flames running" but now I'm trying to broaden my sound range to stuff like Sixx AM, Brantley Gilbert and some classic rock.
Quote from: Jess42 on August 21, 2014, 02:23:22 PM
Sorry Laura. I like Line 6. :embarrassed: Now I'm gonna duck just in case you wanna throw something at me. :laugh:
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Quote from: kariann330 on August 21, 2014, 11:06:44 PM
Well thanks y'all.....now I'm even more torn then before lol.
I wish it was as easy as when I had my Ibanez because back then it was "ok what is Mick Thompson and the guys from In Flames running" but now I'm trying to broaden my sound range to stuff like Sixx AM, Brantley Gilbert and some classic rock.
What about a Fender?
Quote from: kariann330 on August 21, 2014, 11:06:44 PM
Well thanks y'all.....now I'm even more torn then before lol.
I wish it was as easy as when I had my Ibanez because back then it was "ok what is Mick Thompson and the guys from In Flames running" but now I'm trying to broaden my sound range to stuff like Sixx AM, Brantley Gilbert and some classic rock.
Hell hon forget about them all and focus on karianne. Ibanez, Gibson , Jackson Epiphone, Fender, Marshall, Line 6, Marshall, Orange. As long as it is yours, it don't really matter, as long as it is your own sound. BTW how close are you to New Orleans? I really need a good guitarist, preferably lead so I can drink before gigs? :P Besides if you can play rhythm I can wait to drink or at least do the hard stuff first? Then drink :P OMG I would love to find enough trans girls for a real trans band. but..... the singer, my BF for now said he was game. Kind of like when Bon Scott wore the blond braids and school girl uniform. So really all I got to worry about is the Drummer but he is hidden most of the time and if not he said he would consider padding a bra. So.....
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 21, 2014, 11:16:43 PM
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What about a Fender?
OMFG!!!!!!!! that is you? I am so sorry. :embarrassed: The only time I ever pull out the Fender is fo0r Texas blues. Hell hon. After that pic, I will let you throw something at me and hit me. Where was that? I just can't see the face. I won't say pretty 'cuase I don't want Portia to kick my butt. and I ain't no fighter. I am listening to ACDC though like any really good redneck girl. :P For Those About to Rock. HMMM does Portia have any friends?
Quote from: Jess42 on August 21, 2014, 11:34:25 PM
OMFG!!!!!!!! that is you? I am so sorry. :embarrassed: The only time I ever pull out the Fender is fo0r Texas blues. Hell hon. After that pic, I will let you throw something at me and hit me. Where was that? I just can't see the face. I won't say pretty 'cuase I don't want Portia to kick my butt. and I ain't no fighter. I am listening to AC/DC though like any really good redneck girl. :P For Those About to Rock. HMMM does Portia have any friends?
:D No. That is not me. That is the late, great Seth Putnam. Former (obviously) vocalist for the Boston Grind/Noise GODS, A.C.. The pic is not the best quality. I haven't thrown any chairs at anyone playing live...yet. :D But I've only played one show so far. Honestly, I doubt that I would do it unless someone REALLY got on my nerves (and it was an out of town show).
ACca/DCca is pretty sweet. But I like the Bon era best.
Meh...Portia is pretty harmless. It's a few of her friends that you should worry about. ;)
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This is the ESP that I had years ago. After I stopped playing guitar, it was gathering dust for a couple of years. I sold it to some hippie since I knew I was done with playing and it was just going to waste.
I almost bought an ESP, then I found out am SG sound really good with what I play.
Seth Putnam, I am so sorry I have no idea, but most of the music on XL Liquid metal on the XM, I have never heard of but like it.
BTW sis. what is wrong with hippies? I may be one. I just really don't know. ???
BTW ACDC Bon Scott and Brian Johnson, I don't care. Its all rock and roll to me and Angus is the main front man as far as I'm concerned. My band I am definitely not the front woman but I do get a little crazy with the teased hair and makeup. So yeah other than the front man I am the front woman. Sean is the cfront man. I am the front woman but a little more under control than Angus Young. But OMFG I wish I could have that kind of talent. I wont go too much about Sean other than he is a live in. ;) What happens is all up to him. :embarrassed:
Quote from: Jess42 on August 22, 2014, 12:16:12 AM
Seth Putnam, I am so sorry I have no idea, but most of the music on XL Liquid metal on the XM, I have never heard of but like it.
BTW sis. what is wrong with hippies? I may be one. I just really don't know. ???
Actually, I have nothing against hippies. It was just totally obvious that the dude was a hippie (He was around my parents age. As it turns out, they actually knew the guy in high school.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyw57HUOyg
A.C. live in North Carolina in 1995.
Just joking, Laura, my parents were hippies so I really can't complain. It's kind of lame where they hid their stash. ;) Really, who hides their stuff under the coffee table? Duhhhh. But I acted stupid. It wasn't as much an act as just being me. ;) Still is hon. t\The dumber people think you are the really dumb crap they let you know. Act or not. I got stuff on people I could actually use. They have no idea. But I just can't. My conscience wouldn't let me. :(
Stupid me. Growing up right before the D.A.R.E. days. I wasn't going to tell them any different. OMG Let's just say I had a whole lot of friends. ;)
Quote from: Jess42 on August 22, 2014, 12:47:14 AM
Just joking, Laura, my parents were hippies so I really can't complain. It's kind of lame where they hid their stash. ;) Really, who hides their stuff under the coffee table? Duhhhh.
Actually, I've known a lot of people that did that. :D
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 22, 2014, 12:57:52 AM
Actually, I've known a lot of people that did that. :D
So you know why us eighties children are like we are, huh?
Quote from: Jess42 on August 22, 2014, 12:47:14 AM
Just joking, Laura, my parents were hippies so I really can't complain. It's kind of lame where they hid their stash. ;) Really, who hides their stuff under the coffee table? Duhhhh. But I acted stupid. It wasn't as much an act as just being me. ;) Still is hon. t\The dumber people think you are the really dumb crap they let you know. Act or not. I got stuff on people I could actually use. They have no idea. But I just can't. My conscience wouldn't let me. :(
I know this was Laura's quote, but I'm not looking up how to do this properly right now.
ACca/DCca is pretty sweet. But I like the Bon era best
Jess- Why didn't I think of that? I always used to stash my weed on top of the coffee table. No wonder it always disappeared.
And Laura, IMHO you are so right about Bon Scott. I could probably still "do him" live and not get sh*t thrown at me.
I've got big balls...
Quote from: Jill F on August 22, 2014, 03:58:19 AM
Jess- Why didn't I think of that? I always used to stash my weed on top of the coffee table. No wonder it always disappeared.
And Laura, IMHO you are so right about Bon Scott. I could probably still "do him" live and not get sh*t thrown at me.
I've got big balls...
Oh hon I knew where my parents, older cousins aunts and uncles all stashed their stuff. Oh yeah we don't do that, but Jess knows otherwise. ;) Quarterbag at a time, so Dimebag Darrell,
RIP, ain't got nothing on Quarterbag Jessica. ;) But seriously so sad about Dimebag. Crazy Effers.
Let's stay on topic folks 8) Pretty sure we've all been here on Susan's long enough to know that certain discussions about various substances are not aloud
Quote from: V M on August 22, 2014, 04:39:57 AM
Let's stay on topic folks 8) Pretty sure we've all been here on Susan's long enough to know that certain discussions about various substances are not aloud
So sorry VM. :embarrassed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ7QCi4KmpI
my g-string doesn't want to stay in tune today. it's downright comical i tell you.
i start playing and 10 minutes later i notice that the pitch has shifted. then i of course quickly check whether my guitar is still in tune, but that one string has detuned itself.
i suspect it's the climate. it constantly wavers between really hot and really cold here in Germany. It's really strange. This is not normal anymore.
And of course i can't practice this way.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on August 23, 2014, 11:17:18 AM
my g-string doesn't want to stay in tune today. it's downright comical i tell you.
i start playing and 10 minutes later i notice that the pitch has shifted. then i of course quickly check whether my guitar is still in tune, but that one string has detuned itself.
i suspect it's the climate. it constantly wavers between really hot and really cold here in Germany. It's really strange. This is not normal anymore.
And of course i can't practice this way.
With me the G string is the one that I bend the most. Any kind of AC vents blowing on your guitar, fans or just the AC coming on and off is enough of a temperature change to put your strings out of tune. New strings take a day before I have to stop running them after every song I play. Could be a bad string too. Could be that you need some nut lube or like Jill suggested way back using a pencil led in the grooves. One other thing that I found works is to tune the strings down and then back up into tune. If they are up and you tune down to bring it in tune it seems to come out of tune a lit easier.
How long have those strings been on the guitar. I get it where they go dead sometimes. Also clean them with string cleaner like Finger Ease. If you do a lot of power chords like me it really makes chord changes easier, faster and more precise. Not to mention prolong the life of the strings by sometimes twice as long.
Yeah, temperature changes are a royal pain when it comes to guitar strings. Bad strings are even worse. Nothing is more irritating than buying a brand new set of strings and you end up with one that decides to never stay in tune. (Even if the intonation on the instrument is set properly)
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 23, 2014, 05:39:23 PM
Yeah, temperature changes are a royal pain when it comes to guitar strings. Bad strings are even worse. Nothing is more irritating than buying a brand new set of strings and you end up with one that decides to never stay in tune. (Even if the intonation on the instrument is set properly)
Sometimes it could be the hardware on the guitar itself. I have one guitar that I always break the A string on. Right around the saddle. I use Slinky Cobalts, but I do usually play a whole lot on the E and A strings or the A and D stings with power chords. If it keeps happening I will get better saddles or just the whole bridge. Also the tuners make a lot of difference in staying in tune. I like Wilkersons, I have two with Grovers on them but still rather the Wilkersons. A whole lot with the hardware can make it not stay in tune. Check all the saddles on the bridge. Next time you replace strings check all the tuners on the head and if you find any loose, tighten them up. Lube the nut especially if you are doing any behind the nut bends. Other than that it's just normal strings, temp fluctuations and normal tuning. Also keep the strings clean. Nothing sounds crappier and more dead than over tightened strings 'cause they got junk on them.
My main problem (up until '99) was tremolo bridges. They would always increase the number of times that my strings would break. Once I switched over to fixed bridges, I rarely broke a string. I always kept the strings clean until they were so dead from age that they needed to be replaced.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 23, 2014, 06:28:06 PM
My main problem (up until '99) was tremolo bridges. They would always increase the number of times that my strings would break. Once I switched over to fixed bridges, I rarely broke a string. I always kept the strings clean until they were so dead from age that they needed to be replaced.
Oh yeah, tremolo bridges. That is the main reason I like my SGs. But nut locks will kind of help keep them in tune but not really help with breaking. You gotta get thicker gauge strings and then bends are all messed up. I use 9-46 and Know exactly how much to bend. On my Strat I got 10 to I think 52 just to keep from breaking strings and it takes a little while to get into the habit of bending the right amount. Then I go back to my SGs and over bend way to much and takes about another hour to get back into the habit.
One thing I found is that the Cobalt Slinkys seem to out last just the normal Slinkys. For sound and somehow stay cleaner. They are supposed to have higher output but I really don't hear or see the difference in the sound. But it seems like they do last longer. When they do start going bad they don't really go dead but the high E string has a sort of "warbling" to it at the twelfth fret and above. But very few of them have broken on me when the regular or coated Slinnkys do.
i talked to one of my best friends (who up until recently played guitar in a not entirely unsuccessful metal band) and he told me i should spend my money on some fresh new strings.
I prefer electric guitars because they're heavier. I started with an electric bass so when I hold an acoustic guitar, it feels too wide and light and I worry that I'll break it :D I realize that I probably won't, but it's still uncomfortable. And I despise using picks. If I never touch another one in my life again that would be awesome.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 23, 2014, 06:28:06 PM
My main problem (up until '99) was tremolo bridges. They would always increase the number of times that my strings would break. Once I switched over to fixed bridges, I rarely broke a string. I always kept the strings clean until they were so dead from age that they needed to be replaced.
I've never had that problem before...
Quote from: OreSama on August 24, 2014, 09:10:56 AM
I've never had that problem before...
Well, I would also play really hard and I was always bouncing back and forth between D, C and B tunings. That may have contributed to all of the strings breaking so frequently. (I was using lighter strings too since that was all our music shops carried.) I switched to 56-13's permanently in 99. Switching to the ESP with the fixed bridge helped a lot since it was actually a nice instrument. That was the only really good guitar that I ever had. The two other guitars I had back in the day were your typical pawnshop special pieces of junk.
it stayed in tune today. must've been the climate.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 24, 2014, 11:49:35 AM
Well, I would also play really hard and I was always bouncing back and forth between D, C and B tunings. That may have contributed to all of the strings breaking so frequently. (I was using lighter strings too since that was all our music shops carried.) I switched to 56-13's permanently in 99. Switching to the ESP with the fixed bridge helped a lot since it was actually a nice instrument. That was the only really good guitar that I ever had. The two other guitars I had back in the day were your typical pawnshop special pieces of junk.
That is the very worst thing for strings because you are constantly tightening and loosening them and really stresses them out more than anything even the whammy bar. But Holly crap, 13s? That makes the joints on my fingers hurt even trying to think of bending them.
i need to get an acoustic guitar. the more i play the more i think that's my type of guitar. sometimes i like to rock out, but with every year i more and more appreciate the beauty of one person with one guitar and one voice.
Quote from: Jess42 on August 25, 2014, 06:48:58 AM
That is the very worst thing for strings because you are constantly tightening and loosening them and really stresses them out more than anything even the whammy bar. But Holly crap, 13s? That makes the joints on my fingers hurt even trying to think of bending them.
Yeah, it was hell on the strings, but it was what had to be done depending on what sort of vibe I was going after. I never played in E tuning, so the 13's were essential. Attempting to play in B or C tunings with a pair of friggin 9's was hell. Nothing ever stayed in tune and it sounded like slop. Nowadays, some bands play in friggin G. Why? I have no idea. It sounds absolutely horrid. I never used the tremolo bar since I never bothered with playing any leads at all. I was always about riffs. I knew a few guitar players that could play rings around me but they couldn't play any riffs since they all wanted to shred. They also couldn't play any material of their own. But they could play any Metallica or Megadeth song that you wanted to hear.
Yeah..I'm really impressed. ::)
I used to play hard but as I've developed my technique I stopped that heavy hand style since my hands would get too tense so that would cause sloppy playing plus I'd get super sore. I honestly can't remember the last time I broke a string lately since I have a pretty light touch now, its nice finally being able to control how low and loud I play. Getting a clean tone with overdrive sounds so magical.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on August 25, 2014, 02:26:53 PM
i need to get an acoustic guitar. the more i play the more i think that's my type of guitar. sometimes i like to rock out, but with every year i more and more appreciate the beauty of one person with one guitar and one voice.
Most definitely should always have a decent acoustic about 8) It's great fun playing electric, but I find it very relaxing to just kick back on a sofa with an acoustic
Besides, some tunes like Yesterday or Blackbird just sound better played acoustically imo
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 25, 2014, 03:46:16 PM
Yeah, it was hell on the strings, but it was what had to be done depending on what sort of vibe I was going after. I never played in E tuning, so the 13's were essential. Attempting to play in B or C tunings with a pair of friggin 9's was hell. Nothing ever stayed in tune and it sounded like slop. Nowadays, some bands play in friggin G. Why? I have no idea. It sounds absolutely horrid. I never used the tremolo bar since I never bothered with playing any leads at all. I was always about riffs. I knew a few guitar players that could play rings around me but they couldn't play any riffs since they all wanted to shred. They also couldn't play any material of their own. But they could play any Metallica or Megadeth song that you wanted to hear.
Yeah..I'm really impressed. ::)
Mostly my guitars are always in standard tuning. I have one tuned down half a step and one tuned down a whole step. I play a lot of power chords on the E and A strings and have had people tell me if I used Drop D tuning I could play those same chords with 1 finger. Why? Then it would throw every thing else off that I play. Plus playing double stops on those two strings gives a growl that sounds wicked put in the right places.
That Hon is why I always go and buy guitars in the morning hours on weekdays at any guitar center. There are way too many people on the weekends just doing things that really have no idea how to put it all together. They are doing the same stuff that I do when I practice on speed and accuracy and nothing seriously music wise. On the weekends, if I go I can't even hear what the guitar that I am testing out even sounds right with all the background noise.
I use various tunings for various reasons
Quote from: V M on August 25, 2014, 05:13:39 PM
Most definitely should always have a decent acoustic about 8) It's great fun playing electric, but I find it very relaxing to just kick back on a sofa with an acoustic
Besides, some tunes like Yesterday or Blackbird just sound better played acoustically imo
until then i'll use very clean settings for those kinds of tunes. It's alright for practicing and just playing and singing for a bit.
That's one thing i thought i was unable to do:
sing and play at the same time. and yet i can.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on August 26, 2014, 01:13:02 PM
until then i'll use very clean settings for those kinds of tunes. It's alright for practicing and just playing and singing for a bit.
That's one thing i thought i was unable to do:
sing and play at the same time. and yet i can.
How? TELL ME THE SECRET! Please. I can't even sing backup while playing. The Poison song, Every Rose Has it's Thorn I can play and can sing pretty good but not at the same time. BTW, the singing isn't even that good but the playing is on the acoustic. The electric guitar and solo I can, but the keyboard, forget it.
Quote from: V M on August 26, 2014, 07:48:07 AM
I use various tunings for various reasons
At any given time, I will have 2 in standard tuning, one in Eb (due to a maxed-out truss rod), a drop-D, a C# (for some Sabbath songs), and an open G for slide and Keef Richards. Sometimes I'll mess with DADGAD, open D and open D minor. This is one reason I have so many.
I have a tough time playing and singing at the same time as well, but I could sing "Wild Thing" while playing a lefty guitar. Either I was channeling Jimi or there's a brain hemisphere processing overload involved while doing it right handed (I am actually a natural lefty).
Quote from: Jess42 on August 26, 2014, 01:18:42 PM
How? TELL ME THE SECRET! Please. I can't even sing backup while playing. The Poison song, Every Rose Has it's Thorn I can play and can sing pretty good but not at the same time. BTW, the singing isn't even that good but the playing is on the acoustic. The electric guitar and solo I can, but the keyboard, forget it.
i can't tell you. i'd have to kill you.
alright, i don't know why. i got used to it and it got better and better. I started off with truncated singing, then later full-blown singing. I had to get myself to focus on both equally.I occasionally sing along with my solo too, but my main inspiration was Neil Young with his acoustic sets. One man, one acoustic guitar or grand piano. Amazing. I also like doing some bluesy licks and singing some classic blues phrases in a low (my voice has improved and also lowered a bit) bluesy voice. I also love using the volume knob to make certain notes flicker in and out. It's all a big playground. No pressure, no rules, only fun. And lord knows i need that when i come home every day. It's the first thing i do at home.
Quote from: V M on August 25, 2014, 05:13:39 PM
Most definitely should always have a decent acoustic about 8) It's great fun playing electric, but I find it very relaxing to just kick back on a sofa with an acoustic.
Acoustics are cool and all, but I can't play "traditional" chord shapes, like what you would learn in one of those "how to" books. It would just be a waste of an instrument for me. I remember talking my dad into buying me an acoustic 12 string for Christmas one year. (I can't remember when exactly) But it turned out to be a massive waste of money on his part. It was a great guitar. But, it was biting off way more than I could chew. But, when a friend would come over and play with it. (One that actually knew how to write their own music by this time), It sounded amazing. But for what I was doing, it was just too much for me to handle and it didn't really work. I eventually traded it in for some effects processor. In hindsight, I should have asked for the keyboard that I saw at Radio Shack that same year. I would still have that since it came in handy for Experimental/Ambient/Noise stuff.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 26, 2014, 03:10:38 PM
Acoustics are cool and all, but I can't play "traditional" chord shapes, like what you would learn in one of those "how to" books. It would just be a waste of an instrument for me. I remember talking my dad into buying me an acoustic 12 string for Christmas one year. (I can't remember when exactly) But it turned out to be a massive waste of money on his part. It was a great guitar. But, it was biting off way more than I could chew. But, when a friend would come over and play with it. (One that actually knew how to write their own music by this time), It sounded amazing. But for what I was doing, it was just too much for me to handle and it didn't really work. I eventually traded it in for some effects processor. In hindsight, I should have asked for the keyboard that I saw at Radio Shack that same year. I would still have that since it came in handy for Experimental/Ambient/Noise stuff.
God a 12 string sound so sweet. A double neck even better. Stairway to Heaven anyone? Unfortunately I'm on the Highway to Hell. Literally I have been on Hwy 666 between Colorado and Arizona. Interesting ride and kind of nerve racking to say the least from all the stories. Open chords are so easy if you know and play any ACDC stuff. Rock is different and the open chord rock like ACDC isn't that precise. Basically D,C, G, AD, D F# and a couple of Hendrix chords is all you need to know. ACDC G's are extremely simple with the A string muted. D with the high E string muted unless it is You Shook Me. and then it is a straight D and Dsus4. A lot of people make the guitar out as some undefeatable beast but it is probably one of the easiest instruments to learn how to play. The only problem with it is that it is mostly a feel and emotional instrument. Most guitarist I know and myself play by emotion more than written music. I can read the tabs or even the music which looks like flies on the lines. Yes I can read music and hate it. Take NIB by Sabbath, I can play it note for note, but if you don't play it from the heart with the darkness, it sounds like crap. Same with any blues song. I can learn the tabs and the actual music really easy and have it down in less than an hour. But if the emotion isn't behind it, forget it. Take You Shook Me by ACDC, If you don't feel it or can identify with it, it will suck. Same way with me and any songs I play on the guitar.
Open Chords don't forget Rhino Bucket, no matter what was said about them and ACDC wannabes, they were good. Beat to Death Like a Dog. I loved them.
My guitar quietly sings or cries? Who sang that? It is true. Piano, one key is one tune maybe a little vibrato or trill. But one string and one fret on the guitar, how may sounds can you make? Bends, trills, pull offs, hammer ons, double stops, half bends, bend and a halfs. That is just eight right off the bat. Even more than that when you talk about pinch harmonics and palm mutes. It is way more of an emotional instrument than just a musical instrument if you really think about it. It really don't matter if you can play traditional chords or what. Hendrix made up a whole different sound, the devil's fifth (outlawed by the church in the middle ages for stringed instruments) and such a part of the song Black Sabbath without knowledge of that by a young guitarist named Tony.
Quote from: Jess42 on August 26, 2014, 04:11:34 PM
My guitar quietly sings or cries? Who sang that? It is true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo
Is this what you were thinking of?
That's it. God the Beatles? Sound more bluesy to me. Maybe. My guitar don't weep, it screams. Capital SCREAMS. ;D
Quote from: Jess42 on August 26, 2014, 04:52:34 PM
My guitar don't weep, it screams. Capital SCREAMS. ;D
Do you use a wah?
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 26, 2014, 05:15:51 PM
Do you use a wah?
I use 2 wah pedals sometimes. I have a Vox Clyde McCoy and a Dunlop Cry Baby Fasel. I usually operate the Vox with my foot after finding the "sweet spot" on the Dunlop and just parking it there, as sort of a parametric EQ. It's a trick used by Brian May and Michael Schenker to get some really sick tones.
Too much wah wanking sounds cheesy to me. I call it "Hammett's Disease".
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 26, 2014, 05:15:51 PM
Do you use a wah?
Yeah. only on a few songs like Electric Funeral. And it is a Crybaby Wah Wah. 150 bucks on just a few songs. But Sweet Child O' Mine I needed it and Voodoo Chile, I needed it. So three songs I play for 150 bucks. Tax write off baby. It pays to be in a band even if not doing too many gigs if at all right now. ;D I freaking hate teaching and preaching. I need a drummer and bassist and another guitarist. Who is close to New Orleans? Tired of the practice and begging and pleading, "play to the people not me or anyone else". My God, my kingdom for some musicians. :P
Vox makes awesome wah-wah pedals. I have a Dunlop "Crybaby From Hell". I have no idea how old it is by this point but I've had it for a long time. I could never do that funky "wacka wacka" stuff where you rock the pedal back and forth to the beat. If I attempted to do that, I would lose my balance since my equilibrium is so bad. I would just find a sweet spot, set it and forget it.
These days I use it with dynamic mics when I want to do some psychedelic Japanoise.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on August 26, 2014, 05:50:17 PM
Vox makes awesome wah-wah pedals. I have a Dunlop "Crybaby From Hell". I have no idea how old it is by this point but I've had it for a long time. I could never do that funky "wacka wacka" stuff where you rock the pedal back and forth to the beat. If I attempted to do that, I would lose my balance since my equilibrium is so bad. I would just find a sweet spot, set it and forget it.
These days I use it with dynamic mics when I want to some psychedelic Japanoise.
Crybaby from Hell. that sounds like my style there. I just got the cry babby and yeah, you gotta' work it. But hell I saw Orianthi working it on Jimmi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile so I can work it if she can.
<---- Some Fenders. I had most of these long before I transitioned. Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?
Quote from: Jill F on August 29, 2014, 04:34:06 PM
<---- Some Fenders. I had most of these long before I transitioned. Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?
Does that really matter Jill. Are you masculine? I don't even care for Fender 'cause I am a Gibson girl or Epi girl and I see a pink or peach Telecaster that would fit my personality perfectly. Maybe really need a pink SG. ???
Can you tale a pick of the Tele on the very right end? Is it pink?
Quote from: Jill F on August 29, 2014, 04:34:06 PM
<---- Some Fenders. I had most of these long before I transitioned. Not exactly the most masculine looking guitar collection, is it?
i don't care how they look, i'd wish i had that collection. I love Fenders. No way back for me. No more Ibanez for me. Even a Fender Squire plays better IMO. Strats for example may take some getting used to to get best results but these results are miles above the Ibanez i used to play and they handle better too.
Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on August 31, 2014, 04:35:32 AM
i don't care how they look, i'd wish i had that collection. I love Fenders. No way back for me. No more Ibanez for me. Even a Fender Squire plays better IMO. Strats for example may take some getting used to to get best results but these results are miles above the Ibanez i used to play and they handle better too.
I am an SG girl all the way. ACDC and Black Sabbath. I can make some hellacious metal sound with an SG. Especially mixing the open chords and power chords. If not a Les Paul woks really good. I little darker and heavier. I have one Fender Strat and it is absolutely perfect for Blues. Texas style with Tex Mex pickups, Chicago style I am not to into. Mississippi Delta Blues, only an acoustic for that. But mainly for me, it is metal with the SGs. Classic style metal at that an SG with hot pickups is the way to go. Love the Iommi sound.
So I FINALLY got the Aria in. Its amazing but I really have some learning to do before I start playing. It has a Floyd Rose tremolo on it and I have never tuned or strung one before. I did some reading online already and did a double take when the first step in the instructions was "Cut off the bead and wrapping holding the bead in place"
Never had to do that with my Ibanez. But I did recently make a deposit on Paul Reed tube head and a Paul Reed stack. Once I get it in gonna get as much crunch out of it as I can and really shred up some Slipknot, In Flames and FFDP
Oh I also have to get used to 6 stings instead of 8 lol
Apologies for the double post.
Quote from: kariann330 on September 03, 2014, 01:08:15 AM
So I FINALLY got the Aria in. Its amazing but I really have some learning to do before I start playing. It has a Floyd Rose tremolo on it and I have never tuned or strung one before. I did some reading online already and did a double take when the first step in the instructions was "Cut off the bead and wrapping holding the bead in place"
Never had to do that with my Ibanez. But I did recently make a deposit on Paul Reed tube head and a Paul Reed stack. Once I get it in gonna get as much crunch out of it as I can and really shred up some Slipknot, In Flames and FFDP
Replace your Floyd Rose strings one string at a time, tune the replacement back to pitch, and make sure the strings are the same gauges, otherwise you'll need to rebalance it.
Thank you Jill.
And whoever said that they couldn't get a good sound out of an Ibanez, hook it up to a 5150 head with the Gain at 5. Those guitars were made for metal and lots of gain with a ton of distortion. Trying to go clean with one is like peeing into the wind, it won't end well at all. My old 8 string Ibanez was very fickle when it came to amps and even settings on those amps/heads.
i just ran through Neil Young's Helpless. I attempted another song, but i have a bad cold and my voice is almost completely gone. I had to sing it in falsetto to hit any of the notes. :(
You should've heard me attempt "Sail Away Sweet Sister" or "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". It sounded out of this world, and not in a good way.
I've been learning a few of hendrix's songs I've always wanted to learn and have to say it's been a ton of fun and painful lol..my poor pinky is slowly but surely getting stronger by the day :D
I picked up an acoustic a few years back. Though I'm hardly anything special, I think its pretty amazing that I can play songs on it. Still feels a bit surreal, like I can't really wrap my head around the fact that I'm causing these sounds.
Guitars in general sound utterly fantastic and I hope that I'll continue getting better.
I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.
Quote from: Abby Claire on September 16, 2014, 12:47:30 AM
I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.
Wow, drop "C" or "C" as in every string dropped two whole tones? What gauge strings do you have to use? Do you have the Floyd balanced?
Sorry, ex-pro guitar tech here...
I like to write stuff too. Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t. Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again. Anyway, here's your songwriting exercise/challenge- pick two chords at random and figure out as many ways as you can to get from one to the other, then do it the other way around. Experiment. Use as few chords as you can, then work up to using as many as you can. If it sounds right to you, then it is good. If you don't like it, change things around until you do. Keep doing this. You will write awesome songs in no time.
Quote from: Abby Claire on September 16, 2014, 12:47:30 AM
I have an Ibanez RG that I've had for about eight years now. I tune it down to C and play death metal/black metal stuff. I have an acoustic and I wish I was better at writing music that is slower and more folkish, but I'm self taught for 11 years now and for those first 5 years I mostly listened to fast/heavy metal music. So it's all I find myself playing or writing. My musical taste has broadened tremendously since then, so I wish I was better at writing music for other genres, but I'm only capable of writing metal or generic pop riffs.
C is a good middle ground. You can play Death Metal and play slow. Winter, Autopsy and My Dying Bride are just a few good examples of mixing up slow and fast. Well..actually, Winter was pretty slow most of the time....yeah.
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 01:15:30 AM
I like to write stuff too. Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t. Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again.
I like listening to some happy stuff. But I could never play it. It's just not in my blood. Sure, I could play some major key Japanese Hardcore type of stuff. But it's not like it's peppy Pop music.
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 01:15:30 AM
Wow, drop "C" or "C" as in every string dropped two whole tones? What gauge strings do you have to use? Do you have the Floyd balanced?
Sorry, ex-pro guitar tech here...
I like to write stuff too. Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t. Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again. Anyway, here's your songwriting exercise/challenge- pick two chords at random and figure out as many ways as you can to get from one to the other, then do it the other way around. Experiment. Use as few chords as you can, then work up to using as many as you can. If it sounds right to you, then it is good. If you don't like it, change things around until you do. Keep doing this. You will write awesome songs in no time.
I wish I knew what gauge the strings are, but I have no idea. Lol I just take it to a shop to be cleaned up and tell them I play dropped and trust them to use the right strings. Even after all these years I haven't learned much about guitar tech so I'm bad with all that stuff.
And it's C standard, so everything is dropped. I' afraid to tune it back up because it feels like the strings will break. I guess the best way to describe what I usually play is like Black Dahlia Murder. I don't listen to them as much these days, but that's the style I'm best at playing.
I'll take your advice on the lessons and give it a shot. Usually when I'm writing songs, I'll program the notes into a computer program like fruity loops so I can hear what the songs sound like. I do this because I write a rhythm and lead part, and sometimes a bass.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on September 16, 2014, 01:25:02 AM
C is a good middle ground. You can play Death Metal and play slow. Winter, Autopsy and My Dying Bride are just a few good examples of mixing up slow and fast. Well..actually, Winter was pretty slow most of the time....yeah.
I didn't mean I wanted to slow down while doing death metal though. I've grown to become huge fan of Regina Spektor and Tegan and Sara and that type of music. I wish I was better at writing indie pop. Death metal and fast stuff is fun, but I wish I was capable o slowing down.
Quote from: Abby Claire on September 16, 2014, 01:32:17 AM
Death metal and fast stuff is fun, but I wish I was capable of slowing down.
:D But you can. Just pull way back on those BPM's.
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on September 16, 2014, 01:37:02 AM
:D But you can. Just pull way back on those BPM's.
But arpeggios are so much better done fast!
Quote from: Abby Claire on September 16, 2014, 01:39:57 AM
But arpeggios are so much better done fast!
I would beg to differ. But, everyone has their preferences.
Yay guitar talk, i'll be reading the rest of this thread tonight it looks like! lol
I've been playing guitar on and off (with particular emphasis on off) since year11 and i'm still using the exact same guitar. It's a Fender Squire Strat and it's versatile enough, i've never really needed anything better, though lately ive been thinking about getting a gretsch acousitc, i spotted a few affordable ones lol
what bugs me though is i'm still sloppy on a few chord changes. what i need to do is get quicker, i just cant seem to play a lot of the stuff i'd like to ::)
Quote from: Abby Claire on September 16, 2014, 01:39:57 AM
But arpeggios are so much better done fast!
Wouldn't that be more like sweep picking?
Quote from: Laura Squirrel on September 16, 2014, 01:47:26 AM
I would beg to differ. But, everyone has their preferences.
Most definitely with you on this one Laura.
It's okay, you can admit it... How many of you have farted while performing up on stage?
Quote from: V M on September 16, 2014, 07:07:03 AM
It's okay, you can admit it... How many of you have farted while performing up on stage?
First off VM, ladies don't fart, we poot. >:-) Who hasn't? Especially when it comes to nerves and playing in front of people.
Quote from: V M on September 16, 2014, 07:07:03 AM
It's okay, you can admit it... How many of you have farted while performing up on stage?
Well, I've only played one show, so far. So it hasn't happened yet. Even if it did, there's so much loud, screeching noise going on that no one would hear it anyway. But it may be a pungent stench if I've been eating fruit that day or the day before.
Anyway...here's some Pungent Stench.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IiQ4MINaPM
I should learn to play my guitar - I get really into it every few months but then just stop
Farted? Screw that. How many have tossed their cookies?
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 11:25:52 AM
Farted? Screw that. How many have tossed their cookies?
Never. I've only vomited a handful of times in my life. A couple of times when I was a child. There was a few times when I drank WAY too much booze. But I could count those on one hand.
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 11:25:52 AM
Farted? Screw that. How many have tossed their cookies?
Yep, stage fright is a bitch. A bigger bitch than me even. Not even drinking, just terrified out of my wits the first five or six times. Still I can't look at the people watching me too much. I either bang my head without focus on the people, play with my "toy" and focus all of my attention on that or walk around and focus on the singer, drummer and bassist. Thank God sometime the lights blind you and you can only see a few people in the front. I still don't know how the big names do it.
Quote from: Jess42 on September 16, 2014, 02:39:22 PM
Yep, stage fright is a bitch. A bigger bitch than me even. Not even drinking, just terrified out of my wits the first five or six times. Still I can't look at the people watching me too much. I either bang my head without focus on the people, play with my "toy" and focus all of my attention on that or walk around and focus on the singer, drummer and bassist. Thank God sometime the lights blind you and you can only see a few people in the front. I still don't know how the big names do it.
Actually it wasn't stage fright, it was the flu. I won't miss a gig for any reason. I'd have to be in the hospital, jail or morgue for that to happen. I even blew off my 20th high school reunion because I had a major gig in the Hollywood Hills that day. (Like I'd go to a high school reunion anyway...)
I barfed a few times the day after that show, but I'm pretty sure that was due to all the drinking we did.
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 04:34:38 PM
Actually it wasn't stage fright, it was the flu. I won't miss a gig for any reason. I'd have to be in the hospital, jail or morgue for that to happen. I even blew off my 20th high school reunion because I had a major gig in the Hollywood Hills that day. (Like I'd go to a high school reunion anyway...)
I barfed a few times the day after that show, but I'm pretty sure that was due to all the drinking we did.
Well I have a bad case of stage fright. Or at least until I learned how to counteract it. I just concentrate really hard on my toy at hand or close my eyes and bang my head or just look straight at the light and blind myself. One of the main reasons why I don't even sing backup. The way I dress and look helps but the first four or five times, yeah, I barfed.
One thing for me is that I am so freaking scared I am gonna' mess up. Riffs or solos. Nerves. But even the big names mess up. I have seen it too many times. The latest was Dave Rude from Tesla. He looked at Frank Hannon and shook his head and I never even noticed. Neither did anyone else. So... All those "F" ups I made that I caught during the years, no one probably even noticed unless they played the songs themselves. I can watch bands on Youtube that I know their song front and back and see their screw-ups and guess what? No one even notices. No one Boos them. So, now I just try to recover the fastest that I can or make it look like it was meant to be no matter how bad I mess up. You gotta' love live music, 'cause you never know what you're gonna get.
Quote from: Jess42 on September 16, 2014, 04:56:18 PM
One thing for me is that I am so freaking scared I am gonna' mess up. Riffs or solos. Nerves. But even the big names mess up. I have seen it too many times. The latest was Dave Rude from Tesla. He looked at Frank Hannon and shook his head and I never even noticed. Neither did anyone else. So... All those "F" ups I made that I caught during the years, no one probably even noticed unless they played the songs themselves. I can watch bands on Youtube that I know their song front and back and see their screw-ups and guess what? No one even notices. No one Boos them. So, now I just try to recover the fastest that I can or make it look like it was meant to be no matter how bad I mess up. You gotta' love live music, 'cause you never know what you're gonna get.
I saw Tesla recently. I was literally 5 feet from the stage. I watched Dave and Frank screw up plenty of licks. I suspect they may have partaken in some quasi-legal substance beforehand. I also got Frank's pick!
I try to steer clear of well-known guitar solos, because everyone knows them note-for-note. You don't cover "Hotel California" or "Stairway to Heaven" unless you plan on nailing every nuance. There's a reason that Hendrix, Page, Blackmore and Iommi never played the same solo twice!
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 05:15:16 PM
I saw Tesla recently. I was literally 5 feet from the stage. I watched Dave and Frank screw up plenty of licks. I suspect they may have partaken in some quasi-legal substance beforehand. I also got Frank's pick!
I try to steer clear of well-known guitar solos, because everyone knows them note-for-note. You don't cover "Hotel California" or "Stairway to Heaven" unless you plan on nailing every nuance. There's a reason that Hendrix, Page, Blackmore and Iommi never played the same solo twice!
Oh so true so true. I saw Tesla when they were opening back in the eighties with Poison. And yeah I heard screw ups from both bands. This was before Dave Rude with what's his name. Iommi with sometimes triple solos recorded n the same track. War Pigs specifically? Jesus. How can you not take creative initiative on that? Freakin' Studio Magic. ACDC, If you have two guitarists, one rhythm and one lead, you can do pretty good. But jesus, Angus Young actually play music in his solos. It takes me about a week to get it down note for note. And then it is debatable. In a studio you can do 40 takes if need be and then splice. Live you got one chance to get it to sound halfway right. But even Angus plays solos differently than recorded, but don't you dare if you are covering an ACDC song.
Yeah Hendrix, Page, Blackmore, Iommi, Young and plenty of others don't play the same solo that is recorded. It is pretty much by heart give or take. But covering, don't you dare stray away too much from the recorded versions. Oh yeah never ever ever mess up Free bird especially the bottleneck part or Sweet Home Alabama.
Quote from: Jill F on September 16, 2014, 01:15:30 AM
Wow, drop "C" or "C" as in every string dropped two whole tones? What gauge strings do you have to use? Do you have the Floyd balanced?
Sorry, ex-pro guitar tech here...
I like to write stuff too. Before I transitioned, I wrote some pretty dark sh*t. Now I write a lot of happy stuff and have problems trying to go dark again. Anyway, here's your songwriting exercise/challenge- pick two chords at random and figure out as many ways as you can to get from one to the other, then do it the other way around. Experiment. Use as few chords as you can, then work up to using as many as you can. If it sounds right to you, then it is good. If you don't like it, change things around until you do. Keep doing this. You will write awesome songs in no time.
Drop C really isn't much, I'm currently tuned down to drop G and am using .6 strings so I can cut down on deterioration. On top of that my amp is set to it's distortion channel and my settings are Bass 7, Gain 8, treble 10 and mid 6. I don't have a reverb setting on my amp nor do I use a petal, but I do have a distortion petal that is set at 5. I can currently get the same sounds as most down tuned 7-8 string guitars, like in a couple of Scar The Martyr songs, and the The Hills Have Eyes intro.
playing down tuned is my life and I can suggest one thing, buy individual strings, not a pack because depending on guitar you can easily end up with a more pronounced deterioration then what you would normally get from down tuning.
Quote from: paula lesley on September 16, 2014, 05:24:39 PM
No " Stairway " :o
Not no but... You get the jist of it. Everybody loves certain songs and if you don't play it the way it's recorded or really really close then you can really make yourself look really bad. Highway to Hell, shhhh, no problem, little bitty solo. You Shook Me, another one that's fairly easy. Hell's Bells is a little tricky. Back in Black is fairly somewhat easily learned. And a bunch when they were kids still. Anything by Tony Iommi, you can pretty much get away with because with the recorded tracks especially War Pigs, there are three different solos. One guitarist no matter if his name is Tony Iommi can't play three solos at the same time. Sweetleaf, the same. The second part you hear the main riff and another little riff tracked in. Motley Crue is the same. Early Crue like Shout at the Devil is really simple but then when they got a little older, Mick got a little bit more complicated. But Stairway to Heaven? Nope, won't touch it. Too many people know it word for word and know exactly how it sounds. Plus there is no way unless you are Led Zeppelin that you can get away with any mess ups. Not to mention not everyone can sing like with a haunted sounding voice like Robert Plant and without the vocals it just isn't the same, cover or not.
So pissed I just got royally outbid for that 1991 purple Jeff Beck Strat I've wanted since forever. I bid too much already, but some dummy paid $400 more than it's really worth. Those are getting impossible to find nowadays, and I hope to find one again someday.
Then I just got told I need to pay my amp tech $50 to fix my Clyde McCoy wah pedal. The guitar gods are clearly mocking me today.
This clearly means I need to bust out an acoustic guitar and play me some blues.
So, a big, happy update on the 1991 Purple Jeff Beck Stratocaster. My birthday is Saturday, and I actually found this rare guitar on eBay today when I looked on a whim/had this strange gut feeling. It was right there, on top, in my face with a "Buy It Now" option. And yes, I bought it.
Happy birthday to me!!! I haven't bought a guitar in ages, but what's awesome is that now I have a Stratocaster in every color of the rainbow. How queer is that?
my guitar needs repair.
got a Yamaha acoustic guitar ;) ,FG700S
Don't get it to play it often though.
my guitar broke down pretty recently.
Somehow skipped past this thread....
I play electric and acoustic, as well as some 12 string stuff(though not too often, mostly when I feel like playing celtic stuff). Though mostly 6 string acoustic.
Mostly play celtic, pop, pop punk, and some indie folk stuff, also like playing classical sometimes(Fur Elise sounds amazing on guitar, in my opinion).
Quote from: Jill F on April 30, 2015, 04:27:55 PM
So, a big, happy update on the 1991 Purple Jeff Beck Stratocaster. My birthday is Saturday, and I actually found this rare guitar on eBay today when I looked on a whim/had this strange gut feeling. It was right there, on top, in my face with a "Buy It Now" option. And yes, I bought it.
Happy birthday to me!!! I haven't bought a guitar in ages, but what's awesome is that now I have a Stratocaster in every color of the rainbow. How queer is that?
What precautionary measures do you take to ensure you are getting an authentic year, brand, and model of guitar when purchasing from eBay?
I play an '84 Fender Gemini II, because I love dual purpose instruments. :D
Quote from: kittenpower on May 07, 2015, 12:28:28 PM
What precautionary measures do you take to ensure you are getting an authentic year, brand, and model of guitar when purchasing from eBay?
1) Buy from someone who is reputable or clearly knows what they're talking about. In this case a well-established music store with a great reputation for vintage gear. I don't buy from people with no track record or make major purchases outside of the US and Canada no matter how good the deal seems.
2) Know what you're getting into. In my case, I know vintage Fenders quite intimately. I could see by the mutitude of clear hi-res pictures that this was indeed a 1991 Purple Beck that had not been refinished. I also requested "nude pics" of it taken apart. Everything was as expected by date stamps, serial numbers, hardware, etc. They also disclosed that two of the tuners could use replaced and that I probably would need to do a fret leveling to make it play well.
3) If you have ANY doubts about the seller or the product, do not bid. There are a lot of people who don't know what they really have, and people who are outright frauds. (Yes, sure, buddy, that's not a reissue '62 Strat that you switched serial number plates on or anything ::))
Pretty sweet Strat, is that a phase or a coil splitter down by the tone knobs?
Quote from: V M on May 07, 2015, 03:58:29 PM
Pretty sweet Strat, is that a phase or a coil splitter down by the tone knobs?
That's actually 4 Lace Sensor pickups, but the one at the bridge is a "dually", or 2 singles stuck together in parallel (not series, nor "humbucking", as most people seem to think). The switch, when in the "down" position will ground out the coil further away from the bridge to give you a more traditional Strat sound, and when "up" will use both coils, giving a tone more associated with humbuckers due to phase cancellations attributed to a similar aperture. I personally do not care for the tone (or lack thereof) from these pickups and would never record professionally or gig with them, but due to the low voltage lighting in my living room, these are the only pickups quiet enough for me to use at home for practice or making demos. The sustain is nice too, as it has a miniscule magnetic drag compared to standard wound pickups. I prefer the Jeff Beck to the Strat Plus simply because the neck is much fatter and I can play it with much less fatigue and carpal tunnel stress. These are super hard to find and I also suspect it will appreciate much more in value in the years to come. Also, Jeff Beck is probably my fave guitar player of all time and I like guitars in weird, fun colors.
I now have a vintage Strat in every color of the rainbow, so how awesomely queer is that?
That's interesting about the PU configuration and the tone, I nearly bought a Strat with Lace Sensors years ago when they first came out on market but decided I didn't care for the sound - I remember thinking "Sounds like diet soda", plus the sales guy just kind of annoyed me
I love the purple finish and kinda like the PU configuration, but I'd probably go with hot wound standard PUs and maple fretboard
May the smooth action and tasty licks be with you
Hugs
Electric!!!
I need another one. I had an Ultra Strat. It was over kill for me. I ended up selling it. It sure did sound great
Quote from: V M on May 07, 2015, 06:46:50 PM
That's interesting about the PU configuration and the tone, I nearly bought a Strat with Lace Sensors years ago when they first came out on market but decided I didn't care for the sound - I remember thinking "Sounds like diet soda", plus the sales guy just kind of annoyed me
I love the purple finish and kinda like the PU configuration, but I'd probably go with hot wound standard PUs and maple fretboard
May the smooth action and tasty licks be with you
Hugs
Thanks!
Lace Sensors are very sterile sounding, but this is actually fine if you're using modeling preamps so that you can let the processor do the work and take a lot of your guitar out of the tone equation. I agree with generally using hotter output Strat pickups to slam the front end of the amp, but too much winding will make them sound dark and lose sparkle. I sort of like using a Duncan Quarter Pound (read: WAY overwound) sometimes in the neck position so I can get that fat Ritchie Blackmore sound on certain leads. The other thing I like Lace Sensors in is the Eric Clapton Strat because they are quiet, and using the 34dB boost circuit will amplify seemingly nothing but hum along with the signal if you use a standard pickup.
Just discovered this thread, hope I don't derail the conversation too horribly.
I play both electric and acoustic. Started out in middle school, think I was like 11, on a cheapie acoustic my dad found. Moved up to a beautiful vintage Yamaha Pacifica 912, only to have it stolen. Currently own a First Act Adam Levine series acoustic and a Fender Squier Stratocaster with a busted Behringer amplifier. Looking to upgrade to a BC Rich Warlock or Beast, would love to eventually get my hands on a flying V-style guitar.
I primarily play punk rock and metal, but I do sometimes fiddle around with acoustic adaptations of my favourite songs.
I am "trying to learn" not very well though...
Have 2 accoustic, one is spanish style, nylon strung, wide neck, the other is a Fender "tim armstrong" hellcat Accoustic, metal strings and thinner neck...
One I can't stretch my fingers over properly, the other; metal strings are sore on the fingers... Aya.... Just a complainer... LoL
Still on scales and finger speeding (as the guy I took a few lessons from told me) very slowly getting there tho. Which is comforting to my fingers
L Katy
Figured I'd jump in.
Started playing guitar around 17 years old. Tried that for a while with a cheap ibanez. Ended up switching to bass because nobody played that. Played in bands as a bass player through my twenties but had to give it up and get a real job. I could finally afford nice gear but no time to play.
So, currently I have
Ken smith bass 5 string which pretty much covers what I need.
Taylor acoustic
Ibanez electric and a schecter electric.
Lost my job recently and joined a band as a bass player again. Love playing guitar but I can get work as a bassist.
Small city so there isn't a lot of opportunity but at least it's something.
So who wants to form an all transgender band? That would be interesting.
Take care.
Ella
Ella
I started electric guitar two years ago, I'm not really good, but I love to play ! I'm also going to learn electric bass.
Quote from: katrinaw on May 07, 2015, 11:08:29 PM
I am "trying to learn" not very well though...
Have 2 accoustic, one is spanish style, nylon strung, wide neck, the other is a Fender "tim armstrong" hellcat Accoustic, metal strings and thinner neck...
One I can't stretch my fingers over properly, the other; metal strings are sore on the fingers... Aya.... Just a complainer... LoL
Still on scales and finger speeding (as the guy I took a few lessons from told me) very slowly getting there tho. Which is comforting to my fingers
L Katy
I LOVE Spanish-style guitars. Grandmother's old roommate had one, I couldn't get enough of that sound.
Time to jump in too. Tenada acoustic and a cheap Les Paul copy electric. Love the acoustic and play mainly folk/country.
I've recently been playing with my Lakewood Dreadnought acoustic and have fallen back in love with it. I was just playing parts of Beethoven's 7th Symphony (second movement \m/) on it and OMG! This guitar smokes every five figure Martin that I've ever played.
And yes, I've had mine longer than Ritchie Blackmore has had his.
i'm unloading a lot of emotions through my playing and my singing at the moment.
when i'm feeling blue, a little session will do.
take my mind somewhere it needs to go
where, i don't know,
i only know that it's so
i remember complaining about my voice. now i believe that i just, as with the rest of puberty, had a delayed voice break. I was a late bloomer in such things. Part of it may be renewed confidence though.
My guitar playing has been a bit sloppy lately, but that may just be my ears, i can't trust them. I listen back and it sounds fine, or the opposite. But whatever, it helps me deal with all my problems. Doesn't make them go away or cure a lack of energy, but it helps a lot. And seeing as i've had a lot of mental problems reoccurring as they like to since June, i can use it.
Quote from: Jill F on July 11, 2015, 03:17:29 PM
I've recently been playing with my Lakewood Dreadnought acoustic and have fallen back in love with it.
Some music just sounds better on an acoustic 8) If I'm not mistaken I think Lakewood guitars are made in Germany?
Quote from: V M on July 11, 2015, 06:26:26 PM
Some music just sounds better on an acoustic 8) If I'm not mistaken I think Lakewood guitars are made in Germany?
Mine was hand made by Martin Seeliger himself in 1994. I am the original owner. I used to work for the US distributor as the in-house tech/luthier. As soon as I picked that one up to send out to a client, I couldn't let it go and set it aside for myself because it was simply the best sounding guitar ever. It's been borrowed by a couple of artists for studio recordings and live performances.
QuoteGerman luthier Martin Seeliger founded Lakewood Guitars back in 1986 with one purpose in mind--- to build very special musical instruments that would become treasured by their owners. He aims to make guitars that are "an extension of your soul".
Sounds like he has accomplished his goal 8)
Quote from: V M on July 11, 2015, 06:49:02 PM
Sounds like he has accomplished his goal 8)
Absolutely. I could never part with that guitar. I have always called it "My magic guitar". The weird thing is that it sounds best with semi-dead strings. I think I restrung it last about two years ago and it just explodes with harmonic richness.
So I broke out my Aria Pro 2 from the 80's recently.....yes I actually put down my 8 string lol. Well I saw a newer Aria at guitar center and thought maybe I'll be buying a new guitar today......Uhhhh no!!! Omg those things are crap compared to the 30 year old guitar I have! The neck feels cheap and slow, the fret board is almost nonexistent it's so thin, the neck pick up looked lose and they used a knock off Floyd Rose.....it's official, they sure don't make things the same as they did 30 years ago.
I ended up picking up a new braid wrapped cord and going home since they suddenly don't carry Soul Stone cymbals anymore either....at least at my store
Early sixties Framus archtop electric here. I haven't really played guitar in a long time though. In more recent years I was mostly playing a 1926 paramount tenor banjo and a Kay cello.
I used to play an Ibanez Destroyer bass. Still have the custom made lightning bolt guitar strap that I used with it :)
Acoustic and electric since 1975. Been in and out of bands since then.
Sill in male mode but the last two years have been doing the local Open Mic scene and made a lot of friends.
I pick songs that I like and work them out. Seems to be stuff no one else does. I'm loving it.
Totally electric, yo! :P But yeah, I suck at it! ;D Its still a heck of a lot of fun!
Though I like the authenticity of the acoustic guitar that the electric guitar doesn't have....at least in my opinion.
Electric guitar : )
I hone thy style: symphonic/neo-classical, more of the Versailles/HGP style~
I play with a chinese Les paul; and ended up trashing my epiphone.
My amp is a marshall vs100 tube amp.
I will soon get a 7 string from more technical shredding.
I do produce metalcore/deathcore as well : )
Quote from: Valkria01 on March 27, 2016, 09:50:28 PM
Electric guitar : )
I hone thy style: symphonic/neo-classical, more of the Versailles/HGP style~
I play with a chinese Les paul; and ended up trashing my epiphone.
My amp is a marshall vs100 tube amp.
I will soon get a 7 string from more technical shredding.
I do produce metalcore/deathcore as well : )
I bought a Gibson SGJ as a starter a couple of years ago, and now that I know that playing guitar is something I want to stick with, I'm looking to upgrade; I'm still going to keep my SGJ though, because it's my first guitar, and even though it's only an entry level guitar it sounds really good, and I have had it professionally setup, and I also had a custom bone nut installed. Anyway, I want an acoustic electric, and I really like the Taylor 314ce, I had the chance to play one last week, and it felt and sounded amazing.
Quote from: kittenpower on March 28, 2016, 01:45:13 AM
I bought a Gibson SGJ as a starter a couple of years ago, and now that I know that playing guitar is something I want to stick with, I'm looking to upgrade; I'm still going to keep my SGJ though, because it's my first guitar, and even though it's only an entry level guitar it sounds really good, and I have had it professionally setup, and I also had a custom bone nut installed. Anyway, I want an acoustic electric, and I really like the Taylor 314ce, I had the chance to play one last week, and it felt and sounded amazing.
SGJ from 2012? they are good guitars, it's a usa made Gibson, as far as Gibson goes you just get prettier the more money you spend. I played guitars for 25 years before finally buying a Gibson. Certainly not entry level guitars, even 100 dollar chinese guitars are exceptionally good compare to what used to be around.
Anyway change the pickups in that SGJ if anything and it will serve you for a life time (the pickups are not bad, from what I recall it has 498r with black plastic covers. some classics or burstbuckers give a more preferable Gibson tone (unless you are playing metal or something)
Quote from: kittenpower on March 28, 2016, 01:45:13 AM
I bought a Gibson SGJ as a starter a couple of years ago, and now that I know that playing guitar is something I want to stick with, I'm looking to upgrade; I'm still going to keep my SGJ though, because it's my first guitar, and even though it's only an entry level guitar it sounds really good, and I have had it professionally setup, and I also had a custom bone nut installed. Anyway, I want an acoustic electric, and I really like the Taylor 314ce, I had the chance to play one last week, and it felt and sounded amazing.
SGJ's can be gigged with ;) ;) ;) i'd say with a few hardware upgrades you would be able to make it a intermediate to advanced guitar. I did like the SG body over the les pauls body because of the double cutway the SG has; that makes reaching the higher notes easier. I had planned on getting a acoustic and throwing some steel strings on it for a more darker tone, but I have not decided on anything in specific yet.
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These are chinese copies but sooo playable it's unbelievable, I had them for about 8 years now, before that I was accoustic only, 12 strings 70's folk rock, typical. I'm now into prog rock but mostly symphonic contemporary, no metal at all. Bands like Transatlantic, The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, etc... but my Favorite: Kaipa (from Sweden) Intrigued? Check out 'A Complex Work of Art' on YT, quite properly named I say. The only problem is: I don't play anymore, I haven't touched these beauties in 3 years, ever since I started singing. I got so caught up in that new thing that I dropped everything else I was doing. Playing guitar is wonderful (and I will soon get back to it) but singing comes from within, the whole body gets involved so... Anyway, wanna hear? Here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJz8X8EkaNBvpLFeyj7dUP41XF32bgMFG
Peace and happiness to you all, with love, Rose.
Acoustic guitar, but I hope to get an electric soon!