/gg/ - Guitar and Bass General

first for cort

best poverty bass?

I'm a beginner, redpill me on Rocksmith 2014

>>72056161
shit, just play guitar hero and take lessons separately, no need for those to be combined

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>25
>Turning 26 in less than 6 months
>Suck at guitar, but trying to git gud with practice
>Trying to un-JUST my life before/by 30
>Want to be good enough to be in a band and making songs by that age

Is it possible /mu/? Or did I wait too long?

>>72056204
You have your whole life to unjust your life

If you're asking that question you're blessed much more than you may know. At least you don't have cancer, or a terminal illness that will kill you at 30 or something.

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>>72056204
My dad plays/ed but he never taught me and now I'm afraid to ask if I can borrow one from him because we both know I will give up

>>72056204
Definitely didn't wait to long. You just gotta take it pretty seriously. Take lessons with a good teacher and you can improve very quickly. After that, you just have to practice enough.

>>72056238

Go for it. It's better to try and fail then never try at all. I'm actually trying to teach my dad to play since he's always wanted to learn.

>>72056238
Do you actually post here and not play guitar.

What's wrong with you.

>>72056355
S-sorry I'll leave now.

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Batio seems like a genuinely nice guy, if anyone ever wants to chill and watch some guitar shit I recommend watching this guy's guitar clinics and his interview with Troy Grady. Which are all on YouTube

>>72056239
How much should I practice each day if I want (relatively) fast results? Is 3 hours enough?

>>72056388
What the fuck is up with Troy Grady? He has a multimillion sub production quality yet only has like 50k

>>72056414
At the very least practice an hour a day. 3 hours a day would be good. I would recommend, if you can, to practice 5 hours a day. When I went to school, pretty much everyone practiced for at least 5 hours a day. Although, it's not just the amount you practice, you have to make sure you do a good job of practicing and not just messing around. It also depends on the style of music you want to play.

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holy shit, chrome edition? I just took a bunch of pics of my EGC

>>72056507
>It also depends on the style of music you want to play.

I want to play [spoiler]early 2000s edgy, gothic/numetal stufff.[/spoiler]

>>72056528
>those string angles coming out of the nut

they're sooo fucking smart and advanced making a guitar out of a piece of aluminum but they can't make a decent fucking headstock lmao

>>72056475
Ikr his cracking the code series could literally pass as something you'd find on the discovery channel

To whoever helped me with recording through my mustang in the last thread, I got it working, thanks senpai ~

>>72056567
Yeah this is a super early model. the headstock is a little different now. I won't have this one for long but I'll certainly be buying another

>>72056555
That's certainly doable. You probably don't have to practice 5 hours a day in that case. 1-3 hours would suffice. I would still recommend a good teacher too. Navigating a guitar can be pretty tricky. The main thing is just finding a good teacher that can help you set up a good practice routine and to help you understand what you need to practice. It can be hard to figure out what to practice and focus your energy on by yourself.

>>72056646
what type of music do you play? I've yet to meet someone that has an EGC that doesn't play hard rock/metal

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who /deathbyaudio/ here?

>>72056668
I only play EDM, it really connects with me

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>>72056547

cute af

Anyone here play fretless? I wanted to see if anyone had some pointers on intonation. The notes I play always flatten out as soon as i change notes.

>>72056692
fuzz gun? more like "who /fartfuzz/ here"

Daily reminder that if you own a Chapman Guitar you are part of the problem.

>>72056238
Ask him to show you the basics and let you learn on one of his. Save up and buy your own. Could be a bonding experience.

>>72056608
Was me. Glad you got your stuff hooked up.

>>72056739
for our help I recorded the hardest song I know how to play JUST for you~ hope you enjoy senpai

>>72056821
shit forgot link
https://clyp.it/qoumg2sq#

>>72056204
>guitarist
>being in a band

lmao. Good luck with that. Guitarists are a dime a dozen, literally everyone plays it. If you're not a guitar god you're not good enough to be in a band.

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>>72056833
im a bass player can I be in your band~

>>72056668
indie/alt rock stuff. thing sounds amazing clean. My next one will be a 30" scale Bass VI

I will highhandedly bring electric guitar back into the mainstream, watch me

>>72056821
Kek

Hey, it's a start. Better than most on here that talk trash. Keep at it. Youll get better in practice.

>>72056388
>his interview with Troy Grady

watching now

>>72056944
why would you want to do that

I'm starting to get triggered by people using the terms 'solid-state' and 'modelling' interchangeably.

>>72056944
But why tho?

>>72057034
My computer has the best modelling drive

>>72056969
https://clyp.it/1j1zch4v
i've been playing for about a year now but I still am not happy with where I'm at :( i sound fine next to a drummer and guitarist, but when the bass is isolated it sounds kinda shitty. thanks for your kind words senpai

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What do you dudes think of my tone and soloing on this little jam I made today?

Granted this was done at bedroom level because I live in an apartment, so no cranking the tubes sadly.

>https://clyp.it/xynzcjiv

>>72057087
Invest in a Sansamp, makes pbass sound like a beast, play along to drum tracks, start to feel the groove. Timing is everything with bass

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-PUiwdxeI
rate my playing boys
been playing for about 2 years now

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Ibanez>esp

>>72057179
Lots of sloppiness in the picking hand, but that's a hard song. Definitely better than most people 2 years in

What's up with that bit that keeps bouncing off the b string? The open b is way out of pitch but everything else is fine

>>72057375
Kek oooooookay

There's 3 guitars a man ever "really" needs as a gigging musician imo

>Fender Telecaster
>Gibson ES-335/339
>Fender Stratocaster

With these 3 you can pretty much do anything you want.

>>72057415
see
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>>72057466
I'll stand by them all day, they've been in production since the 50s for a reason

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>>72057715
>what is a tele with a mini humbucker in the neck

That badboy has paid my bills for quite sometime

>>72056161
Awful tones and enforcing bad technique and poor dynamics.

>>72056584
Does that shit work? My picking is fucked, I need to relearn it with proper technique.

>>72056572
The hex screws are a nice touch.

>>72056737
Apart from memes, why?

>>72057415
Aren't a tele and strat close enough that you only need one?

>>72057894
Well strat now you have a guitar with a floating trem which can be very useful, also no tele can sound like a strat in the neck/middle combo setting

Also strats you could in theory put a humbucker in the bridge and now you have your super strat/metal guitar

>>72057922
Fair point. What sound can you get out of a tele that you can't get from a strat?

>>72057415
>>72057894
>>72057922
friendly reminder that Leo Fender designed the strat to be used for western swing style music and be able to perform any and every part of a song, from rhythm to lead, and back.

>>72057951
Personal experience when I play a tele in a band setting nearly any genre it will always cut through and be heard

If there's another guitarist, strats tend to get lost in the mix, plus bridge setting just doesn't quite have the bit of a tele

If I had to choose one and one only it would be a tele, maybe add a bigsby.

>>72057979
like I said strats are great if you're the only guitarist or in the studio, live every time with another guitarist they just tend to get lost

>>72058015
well when you're using singles and the slash wannabe is using both humbuckers with everything turned to 10, yeah

>>72056238
He wants you to ask to borrow it

>tfw haven't picked up my bass(es) for about 6 months
>tfw it used to be the thing I loved most and now it's sort of a background interest

What's the longest anyone's ever neglected to practice their instrument?

>>72058054
I pick it up every day, but never do anything that makes me better. I can't go without it but I can't commit to it enough to get better.

>>72058038
Like I said more of a personal thing, but I think strats really shine when they're the only guitar, the range of tones is very beautiful

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>>72058068

>>72058054
about a week, every week. but it's because i've been in a rut and everything i once held dear just seems distant, in short, i'm bored and i can't find a fix
>>72058068
google +1'd

>>72058054
I've had a few slumps during my 9 years of bass playing. Longest was probably a month or 4. It happens sometimes, but you'll eventually pick it up again. Right now I have a band and bi-weekly open mic sessions at my local bar to keep me motivated.

>>72058138
*bi-monthly

General question:

I live in an apartment and sound is a big issue here, so I feel I can't really play unless it's through headphones

I need a way of playing guitar through headphones while listening to music a the same time (i.e. I get both music and guitar through headphones).

I know fuck all about this sort of thing and how I can make it work. I've got an amp, laptop, wireless headphones, ... I just don't know what to plug into what. Forgive me for being a retard.

>>72058157
get something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Line-6-POD-Studio-UX2/dp/B001EKECC2/ref=pd_lpo_267_bs_tr_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JPTPE073RC922SPKRGB3
All you gotta do is connect it to your pc, get a DAW and then get something like BIAS FX and you're set my man

>>72058157
Digital
Audio
Interface

>>72058054
Yikes, ashamed to admit it but about a year. A few times... a year or 2 after starting when i got discouraged because 2 dudes i played with told me i sucked cause i didn't learn metallica shit, when i moved out and my brothers wanted to play L4D and COD WAW on 360 online all the time. Again when my kid was like ~2-3 and every time i picked it up she'd come over and grab at the strings and shit until just stopped trying to pick it up. I play every day now tho, with maybe 1 or 2 days a week break if i got grown up stuff to do but never 2 in a row.

>>72057179
Don't use a scrunchy. If you can't mute properly you can't play properly.

>>72058179
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ty

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Thoughts on steve vai?

>>72058315
He's from space and speaks alien languages with the guitar

>>72058505
What is this?

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Any luthiers here that can provide some information?

So I have a Les Paul. Just a regular Les Paul with a regular Les Paul neck joint.
I used to love them but my current main axe is a neck through guitar that I've had for a year and now my fingers are so used to it that trying to play solos on a Les Paul is annoying and frustrating as shit.

From what I understand, the neck of a Les Paul is not only glued at the base, but from the sides as well. So in theory I could use a wood file to reshape the neck joint and make it look like a Gibson Axcess heel, right?

This guitar always has .10 strings and I usually keep it tuned half step down (or Standard D#) so I'm guessing the string tension is not a lot. Do I risk fucking the neck up? It's not a Gibson or even Epiphone, but I still like it and don't want to ruin the guitar.

I've been playing guitar for about 10 years, and over the summer I picked up electric bass to join my college jazz band
But I still have a lot of trouble with proper slaps, it seems fucking impossible to me and everyone tells me it's "so easy" to do
am I just a retard? tips? will it even matter for performing jazz?

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>>72058725
>that 'pickup cover'

>>72058933
It's a thumb rest you jabroni. It's a bass VI.

>>72059195
Subtle get

Why are they carrying boats? Is this that giantess shit again

>>72059735
they ARE the boats

So it's like Transformers combined with K-on?

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Why is /a wasting time in this forum with their /virgin crap? What are those fags trying to get out of being here?

>>72059913
meant for >>72059839
I'm a faggot

>>72060205
You should make a thread with these pics on /c/ where they won't get deleted by an angry mod. They're great.

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which one, /gg/? which one would you get?

>>72058754
sell it , you could fuck it up ! buy something that is made to be that way , one example could be the les paul matt heafy signature guitar from epiphone comes with 6 and 7 strings . reshapeing it with a wood file is a bad ideea , besides , doing this "guitar tunning" could cost you a new one. so why would you invest work,stress and money into something that could go wrong ? keep playing the oe you have and hide 100$ very month ... bam... in 4 months you can get a new one without stressing over it.

>>72060284
Orange, is this even a question?

>>72060284
None. They have shitty pickups and none of the features that made the mustangs/duosonics cool

>>72060284
4

>>72060284
I don't get the obsession with these. Shoer scale guitars suck penguin dick.

>>72060334
I guess cool colors, they're Fender, and affordable

>>72060284
Army green is the only one that doesn't look like a queers guitar.

>>72060409
You sound like someone that got beaten by their dad.

>>72058315
GOAT guitarist

>>72058315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_5TOzciuAM

>>72060836
Yeah and it made me a man. Lack of proper discipline is why we have so many guys thinking they should have been born girls these days.

>>72061084
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0LitOZwt0Y

>>72061138
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPDt7-malzs

>>72061105
U love it bb

~.0

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>"How much for the ESP sir ?"
>"Oww.. Guess i'll take the E-II then"

Squire, Mexican or USA strat?

I plan to do at least a few mods to it. Are the trem systems on mexican strats ok?

>>72061672

Sent ;-)

>>72061713
Thx

Neunaber Immerse ordered. Tell me what a memer I am.

Can anyone remember the name of that band from the 70s with five bassists??

>>72062645

jethro tull

What is it called when a guitarist slides their finger up one of the guitar strings? Is there a name for that? Like at the beginning of MM's Trucker's Atlas.

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>>72062645
Big Bottom by Spinal Tap?

>>72062781
Moving up a 4th

What do you think of Tanglewood guitars? I'm being a bit of a woman here, I've decided I want one because they look really nice, and I've no idea how they play.

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anyone got this or know where I can find it?

I'm just glad we all agree that sunburst is the worst finish on any guitar

Should i buy this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/192149443304?
If yes, whats the hight bid should make?

>>72063404
no

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Hey guys
I got my first tele!
Pic related

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>>72063440
that's not a telecaster

this is a telecaster, it says Fender Telecaster on the headstock

>>72063464
It's a tele.
It's a SuperTele

>>72063404
Nah that's lame as fuck lol

>>72063199
In the faggot section of guitar headstock up the butt magazine

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>>72063440
Maple fretboard would've made it look way better.

>>72063440
>3 bumfuckers
Why
Won't there be signal interference due to induction anyway?

>>72058054
1 or 2 weeks maybe, mainly because I'm busy with college bullcraps.

>>72063637
I checked and it wasnt there

>>72064417
It's on the special issue, comes out 31st april

>>72061672
get a mex, and if you have money to drop, a usa
the only difference i noticed was the pickups, the usa being brighter and having more treble, the mim singles are fatter imo
stay away from squire

but if you're going to mod, get an mim

>>72063974
>induction
that only happens in AC circuits
i know what you mean though, but that only happens in singles

How the fuck do I git gud?
I practice but no matter how much I try I pnly get worse
I literally want to smash my guitar, break my fingers and hang myself

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>>72064741
If you're going to mod, get a rondo. They got what you want for a mod platform: a good neck, and a low price.

>>72065467
wrong anon, i'm just giving advice based on what the other fag wanted

>>72065522
Bruh I know that. I'm just saying your advice is bad.

Will a Fender Strat neck drop in to an SX Strat body ok?

So now that I've got a looper pedal I've started actually playing against backing chord progressions using scales, and I'm trying to mix in different positions etc. I've just been practicing scales by themselves for the most part without actually making music out of them. Any tips for making my playing less boring or repetitive when playing against backing like this? It sounds pretty good at the moment, but I'm not really doing much more than avoiding the wrong notes and playing in some random rythms and stuff w/ occasional slides and bends

hey guys,

whats a good pedal to stack with my EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold?

>>72065761
just keep practicing, that's it. sounds cheesy but you can't expect to become steve vai in an instant. keep doing what you're doing and you will come up with something

>>72065791
Korg Miku

>>72065791
another eqd pedal

maple fretboard was a mistake all i can see is my dead skin gathering around the frets

>>72065795
Thanks, anon, it's probably the most fun I've had since I started playing guitar a year or so ago, very glad I invested in a looper pedal finally. Was just worried about making it too habitual since it doesn't really feel like it's expanding my playing too much when I'm just sort of using the same techniques etc while playing along.
>>72065826
Eh, I bought one of these things, helps a decent amount at getting all the skin flakes out of strings etc
www.dh gate DAWT com/product/guitar-string-scrubber-guitar-string-cleaner/260667790.html#s1-0-1b;searl|4034544115

>>72065826
This is exactly why my next guitar will have a maple fretboard.

What are clinics?

>>72065248

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxndWl0YXJyYWNvbnNlcnB1ZWdlcmFydDJ8Z3g6NGQ1NzQ0NDJmZjg5N2NlNQ

this should be in the sticky desu

>>72065881
but its just like grey mush lol why do you want that

>>72065873
im sure a cloth will be fine

>>72065826
I made a Frankenstrat a little over a year ago and I can't find a way to get the fretboard to look naturally worn out.

Help?

>>72065687
It should be fairly close, you'll want to get one that doesn't have holes drilled in the back yet. What radius are you thinking of? What mods in general are you planning?

>>72065917
Yeah, but that device thing is kinda handy because it gets under the string and cleans them at the same time as cleaning the fretboard itself, Working under the strings to clean the fretboard usually is a pita

>>72065915
this book seems really, really shit
it's like full of stuff you should figure out for yourself
maybe an intermediate player should read it but definitely not a beginner

>>72065926
no my fretboard doesn't look worn out it looks like there's dead skin wedged into the frets. sorry

at least it smells of oranges from when i was eating oranges that one time...

>>72066000
Same with mine. I need new strings and to take an eraser to the fretboard.

Just think about this too, on rosewood and ebony boards, you do not see the skin buildup, but it is still there.

>>72066069
Rosewood you can definitely notice gunk.

Ebony is love. Ebony is life.

>>72066069
yeah, i never wiped down my rosewood guitar after every use
but now i can see why people say to do it lol

thanks
>>72065804
lel

>>72065809
right i'll look at some now

think i'm going with a Tronographic Boxidizer + Acapulco Gold + another EQD pedal

>finally found a decently priced mexican jbass
>usually they'd be 500+ usd where i live
>found one for 350 and jumped on it
>playing bass is fun again

>>72066483
damn, 500+ for a used MIM J is a ripoff

>>72056204
Most songwriter-guitarists don't have amazing chops, they just know the basic rhythm shit they need to accompany themselves. You can learn many of those things in a few months if you work at it.

>>72066563
Yeah our market is p weak, demand is high but supply is low. Seeing mim strats for 500+/- is quite common as well.

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>>72057415
>no acoustics
Good luck getting a fraction of the gigs out there with your glorified planks

>>72065761
Sounds like you're boxing yourself in from practicing scales, and also aren't connecting your "inner melodic ear" with the guitar as well as you could. Try singing melodies over the progression then try to play them as accurately as possible on the guitar.

Also, find different ways to practice your scales so it's not just going up-and-down with the same rhythm throughout. Play them in sequences and explore different rhythms, including syncopated stuff.

I don't believe the B chord is humanly possible.
Honestly, was it even designed for human hands?

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I'll just hang around here for a while.

>>72067154
there's like 5 different places you can make a b chord

>>72067154
i dont think anyone can actually make an a-shaped b barre chord and have the high e ring consistently without their ring finger getting in the way

its sort of one of those 'theoretical' things

>>72067233
my fingers are so smol that it's harder to actually mute the high e string lol
i'd rather mute it because it sounds worse with it imo

>>72067187
>Ibanez bridge
Vomit.

>>72067363
What's wrong with it?

>>72067400
They go out of tune a lot. Can't compare them to an original Floyd Rose.

>>72067477
>floyd rose anything
>sacrificing tone just so you can divebomb

>>72067477
Not in my experience. Gotoh and Schaller have pretty much the same quality and Ibanez has added some nice features to their designs.

>>72067521
>Not knowing floyd rose adds tone and thats why a lot of people order customshops with floydrose but no arm

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>>72067521
>Implying people that dive bomb give a shit about tone
We only use rhythm settings and a reverb pedal for leads, that's it.

>>72067610
the only guitarist i've ever known that uses these is doyle from the misfits because he said its the only style bridge he doesnt cut his hand on when he downstrokes really fast lol

>>72065941
I'm not really sure about radius. I want a maple fretboard. The current neck is a V and I hate it. Maybe get a fairly standard C. Locking tuners. Nicer pick ups. One of the tone stacks will be bass roll off. Maybe a kill switch.

>>72065873
you'll come to realise just how wrong you are about that, and that's a good thing, keep it up

>>72067154
not to brag, but, i can.

What's with the bikeshedding /gg/ ? Literally all you talk about is gear.

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Who here /spacemanagement/?

also post comfy rig rooms

>inb4 gamer babby

>>72068066
all the time you spend gaming, you could be getting actually good at your instrument.

>>72066920
Eh, nah, being able to play by ear in the sense of knowing where what pitch is located on the fretboard is well beyond me

>>72067233
Nah, it's not that hard, you just need to practice and experiment angling your wrist in different positions. Some hands will make it easier than others, I can do it a good majority of the time and I'm new to guitar

>>72068024
Because it's the most interesting part.

>want to sell Epishit
>probably worth between 200-300 €
>put up on ebay for 300
>get offer for 250
>go into Jew mode, try to haggle towards 270
>buyer declines
>doesn't sell in a month
>put it up again
>get offer for 250 after a week
>from a buyer that signed up that day, with no feedback
>who messages me in English (this is Germany):

>I believe I was too hasty in suggesting a price. I have just moved to Germany and do not have a bank account yet. Can you send me a direct link from PayPal so that I can pay you? I have tried to transfer from PayPal account to PayPal account before but for some reason that does not work with my current bank.

Fucking scammers. REEEEE

What's the procedure for being in a band where you write all the music? How is the money from gigs split? What do you do if other members want to include their own ideas and they suck?

I'm not in a band, I'm just curious how people pull this off. Seems like navigating treacherous waters.

>>72068357
you get paid to perform, not to write you dipshit. If you were a cover band that means you'd be paying queens of the stone age every time you play a gig

>>72068066
I need a new desk so bad. Gotta remember to keep checking Craigslist.

>>72068383
No need for insults friendo. Fair point though. Any ideas on how you'd deal with people contributing ideas you don't want?

should I go with Martin or taylor? For fingerpicking

>>72068357
>thinking that money is split via songwriting input when you get paid for playing a show

>>72068554
Lots of compliments while you shoot them down

>>72068559
you realize what that question sounds like right?
>should i go with fender or gibson? for playing with a pick

>>72068554
If you're in a good band, with a tight nit group of people. That shouldn't be a problem due to being adults and explaining why you believe said idea wouldn't work so well etc.

If you're not in a tight nit group of people, then immediately leave the band.

>>72068587
Not even slightly, certain brands of acoustic guitars veer towards lower and higher actions.You quite obviously have no idea what you're talking about, so any other anon's with some actual expertise want to chime in?

How is Josh Homme so based, lads?

>>72068574
I didn't know how it was done. That's why I asked.

>>72068575
>>72068588
Makes sense, thanks.

>>72068655
whenever i fart I think of Josh Homme. I just hate buttrock.

Hey fellas I'm tryna cop a Multi-effect pedal as I can't afford to buy 40 effect pedals and haul em around.
I'm trying to decide between a BOSS ME-80 as I love boss effects and expect them to emulate a similar sound as their normal effects or a Line 6 pod hd500x because it looks like more effects/options

Gimme some advice guys, thanks!

>>72068665
You take that back. :c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdiSbAaVICc

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What are you practicing right now? Apart from shitposting.

>>72068693
>what kind of poop should I get? What's the best tasting kind of feces? I can't afford good food, so I have to settle with fecal matter, was hoping someone could give me the best tasting excrement

Just get whatever, not like it makes a difference at that point

kys poser

>>72068617
Are you serious? You can just adjust the action as you want
Plus both brands have a fuckload of models to choose from

>>72068761
I learned this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrJlPiyX_s

>>72068761
vulfpeck dean town

>>72068761
Trying to get the hang of singing while playing, so I'm currently practicing Tender by Blur, and No One Knows by QOTSA. And also doing shitty improv, as per usual.

>>72068790
Thanks for a pointless and literal garbage reply dick.

>>72068761
trying to learn wednesday morning 3am for an open mic tomorrow

>>72068876
Good luck.

>>72068850
Oh fuck off you don't need "40" pedals, the most you need is a reverb, delay, OD/Distortion, and one or two other post effects or a wah. Even someone on minimum wage could afford that shit. Don't get mad just because someone tells you that the thing you want isn't as good as you want to pretend it will be

>>72068888
this tab is ridiculously simplified and i almost have the hang of it

http://www.paul-simon.info/PHP/showsongtab.php?songnummer=196

i literally have no intention of learning it the way it was recorded fuck taht

>>72068808
>>72068837
>>72068840
>>72068876

Holy shit. People here actually play guitar?

>>72068916
It's literally not even about the money at this point, I don't want to haul a shit ton of pedals, fuck with a ton of cables, etc. Literally I spend about 30 min of practice just moving the cable out the way to use my Wah, but honestly maybe I should just invest in a pedal board, it's simply a shit reply's a shit reply. A simple "Nah don't get that they suck" would've been suffice.

>>72068976
everyone here plays guitar, we just dont want to talk about peoples shitty bedroom playing. And open mics

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>tfw you blow everyones minds you play guitar for, people are often left speechless, but you still feel like a shitter

I just want to be on Paganini level

>>72069055
1/100 bait

>>72068998
>tryna cop
Lmao, it actually is about the money because you are clearly a 16 year old child who can't get his mommy to buy him good pedals

>>72069084
literally not bait, everyone I play guitar for is instantly blown away. I mean yeah i've been playing for 15+ years, but I still feel like i'm no where near where I should be and its infuriating.

>tfw no mildly abusive parents who made you spend most of your free time practicing your instrument, making you a young prodigy

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>>72069129
>tfw slave driver parents who forced you to play music at the church they preached at for free despite wanting to play death metal.
>tfw had to constantly practice 300 year old hymns and no time to practice shredding

>>72069117
Haha 16 year old line, god you're original.
I'm 18 with a decent paying job who lives in an apartment with gf and goes to college. You were close tho.

>>72069182
Wow look at Mr. Successful over there!

>>72069117
>t. actual 16 year old child who can't get his mommy to buy him good pedals

>>72069182
>I-I'm 18 and m-my mommy no tell me what do

This is common with the underage posts here, they immediately say they are 18 - never 23 or 20 always 18 - and make up a story to make people believe them. Maybe your mommy would buy you more if you didn't lie

>>72069242
Why say I'm 20 or 23 if I'm 18? That literal makes no sense. It's an anonymous music board why even lie about anything it's not like any of you cave dwellers care.

>>72069182
you literally can make a pedal board in 10 minutes easily.

Ask your mom if you can use the power tools, then again you're saying you go to college, you're probably a bit nu-maleish, maybe don't' use powertools

Should I be looking at my guitar when I practice? How do I start playing without looking at the fretboard.

>>72069267
You seem very mad my friend. Oh and your story doesn't match up. If you are in Uni and only 18 you are defintely not playing enough gigs to worry about carrying 40 pedals. pls stop lying

>>72069298
Just do whatever feels groovy, man.

>>72069298
that literally doesn't matter at all. Why are you putting so much emphasis on something that doesn't matter. What the fuck else are you going to be looking at? Sheet music?

>>72069298
Practice lots and lots until you can play whatever you're playing without needing to look

>>72069311
I didn't say Uni, I said college, I'm just going because I got a free ride. I'm boutta drop out next semester.
>>72069282
I don't know what nu-maleish is but I'm quite skilled in building, was raised to be a carpenter by my mother actually. I just might do that thanks

>>72069383
> I'm just going because I got a free ride. I'm boutta drop out next semester.

4edgy8you

>>72069413
Are you even trying anymore?

>>72069356
I don't want to have to stare at my fretboard when I play live.

>>72069383
Maybe you should stop being a dumb lazy piece of shit and finish college so you afford good pedals Mr.Independent College boy

>>72069419
so you're going to stare at the poor audience?

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>>72069419
good guitar players don't look at the fretb-

WRONG

>>72069440
Move around a bit and look where I'm doing so I don't trip over the bassist.

>>72069432
Now you're assuming I'm a lazy fuck? Jesus this threads flooded with autists. It's all the same insults taken straight out of a "How to insult someone online" page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2VLIO14dns

thought cho head would be bigger

look like a peanut

>>72069476
Generally smart non-lazy people don't drop out their freshman year of college dumbass. Go waste your tuition money on your pile of shit multi effect babby

>>72069476
>dude bragging about how he's dropping out of college in a guitar thread on a korean message board calling other people autistic

>>72069518
Smart non lazy people also pick a major they actually enjoy.

>>72069520
I came here for advice, got called a 16 year old. Who said I was bragging was just explaining my situation.

>>72069550
Yeah and you picked no major because your dropping out so that makes you even more dumb and lazy

>>72069471
t. Yui

>>72069562
No, I'm majoring in chem engineering

daily reminder that if you can't get it done with a Tele, you can't get it done, son....

>>72069594
>Wants a shitty cheap multi effects
>Moves out at 18 to live with girlfriend
>Majors in chem engineering
>drops of college freshman year

man you're just full of good decisions. Why don't you trade your American strat for a squier affinity while you're on this streak of idiocy

>>72069594
>18
>majoring

uhhh what? Lol .you're taking all first year stuff. Maybe try telling the truth

>>72069684
>PLANNING TO drop out sophomore year

still haven't done it. And no I love my Strat.

>>72069667
How about ending a solo on a high f#?

its just roman stop believing his lies

>>72069711
What are you talking about? You can declare your major as soon as classes start

>playing a guitar in the first pic of your tinder profile

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What the fuck is going on ITT?

So who is going to buy this?

https://reverb.com/item/3419008-gibson-1958-korina-flying-v-1958-natural

>>72069877
325,000 tones. I can't even imagine how good that guitar will sound through my boss katana. I bet the wood resonates for years

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>>72069588
N... Not at all... He... Heh.

Also, can I get some feedback on this practice?

>>72069827
>Tinder

I'm guilty of it on facebook though.

>>72069929
Eh... Forgot the link.

https://clyp.it/2n3ojuo5

I hate the noise my tele makes do i sell it or get a noise gate

>>72069978
just practice more

>>72069978
Can't you shield the cavities and maybe replace the pickups?

>>72068617
Nigger, you think an entire brand has higher bridges? You can adjust the bridge height of any guitar.

>>72069978
>I hate the noise my tele makes

Your playing? A noise gate should silence that if you turn it up enough.

>>72052961
probably would still pick a good les paul

>>72070015
Single coils still hum when shielded

>>72068693
I got a zoom g3n, it sounds great. If you want to have a whammy, the other versions have that. I used to have the g3x, and it was pretty great besides the amps and distortion. I actually don't use a ton of effects at once so the upgrade made sense for quality distortion. I think if you don't care about the amp models, boss gt100 is the best choice. I don't like the amps they have but the fuzz and overdrives are so realistic it's crazy. GT100 is surprisingly cheap used, so if you're running into a real amp and don't feel the need to have the versatility of switching amps, this is for sure the best choice.

ME80 is just as good sounding, but I don't like the layout. I want to be able to move pedals around in the chain digitally and shit.

>>72070035
No it makes noise when im not playing, no ground issues

>>72070141
Turn down your fucking gain.

>>72070147
I have only have it on 8 though

>>72070147
Yeah im going to roll down the volume knob now

>>72070141
does it stop if you mute the strings with the left hand

>>72070183
not that anon but i have this
what's that about?

>>72070204
grounding
when you put your hands youre grounding it

>>72070183
Yeah it also works

What is the safest type of locking nut to install?
I've already seen two guitar necks break at the nut that didn't even have locking nuts, so I know how delicate that part of the neck is.
Should I get a top mount nut with wood screws, a bottom mount with bolts, or a nut that goes behind the original nut and blocks the truss rod opening?

>>72070147
I play metal on my tele fuck off

>>72070222
makes sense since it's grounded to the bridge

I've had my main guitar for 10 years now. 5 years ago I changed the electronics a bit. Now I find it's time to tinker with it again because my soldering skills were poor back then and I want to make it more "my own".

Right now it's got two humbuckers, a 3-way blade switch, a tone knob and a volume knob. The pots are push/pull which switches the coils of each pickup between parallel and series. The switch lets me select between neck, bridge and both pickups in parallel. The tone and volume knobs are swapped, i.e. the tone is closer to the pickups and the volume is closer to the jack.

Here are some things I've noticed:
>very rarely use tone pot except for switching neck pickup coils to parallel
>tone pot is in an awkward spot
>almost never use bridge pickup in parallel mode
>almost never use bridge for clean sounds
>for overdriven leads prefer neck pickup on its own with coils in series
>for overdriven rhythms almost always use bridge pickup on its own with coils in series
>for clean sound prefer both pickups in parallel, and sometimes neck on its own
>use neck pickup in parallel and series mode roughly equally as much

What should I do? I'll definitely replace the tone knob with a switch but I'm on the fence as to what each of the three switches should do, and whether I should get a 5-way blade switch to replace the old 3-way one.

Maybe have the new switch change the neck coils between series/parallel, the volume pot push/pull switch as a phase switch? Which coil should I reverse?

>>72070251
>I've already seen two guitar necks break at the nut that didn't even have locking nuts
Ibanez?

>>72070290
take everything out and put one pickup in the bridge with a single volume knob

>>72070319
One was. The other was some hollow body guitar. I don't remember what brand.

>>72070327
No, I don't like metal that much anymore. In fact I think I use the neck pickup much more than the bridge pickup nowadays.

>>72070337
>Ibanez paper necks
>some no name cheapo hollowbody
No wonder.

>>72070362
The guitar I'm looking to install a locking nut onto is also an Ibanez. How can I avoid damaging it if its so delicate?
I'm looking it up and most people are saying to get a top mount nut

>>72070406
Can't you sell it and get a guitar that already has one? Maybe also with a chunkier neck? Fat necks are the best.

>>72070406
I'd reconsider

>>72070440
>>72070466
Maybe I'll just get the kind that goes behind the nut. Looking at it, it seems to be an area that would tolerate screws more easily.

>>72070440
Not if you're a handlet who needs to play difficult chords.

>>72070536
How fucking small are your hands?

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Thoughts on Bugera amps?
Thinking about getting this babe, sounds good enough to me

>>72070708
well they are cheap valve amp... so get what you pay for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjqUxaUSRKc

>>72069945
ryan?

>>72070737
Literally elevator music

>>72061524
I got a standard for 500 bucks.

>>72069945
>tfw have nice guitars but never post pics of them anywhere because I'm ashamed of my playing

>>72070762
No

>>72070737
Nice, I should get back into fingerstyle playing. I prefer groovier stuff though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ualtLQW8xCg

>>72070821
>that tam tum tam tum tam tum isnt groovy enough

>>72058315
>Meme tier guitarist

Liked him when I was 14

>>72070919
It's all legato, no groove. You need more percussive effects, like muting, staccato playing, chicken pickin' etc

>>72070967
the backing is

>>72071005
This is /gg/.
>>>/perc/

>>72070967
listen to ace frehley for that hooky, groovy soloing kind

https://youtu.be/nPO2rXXjHko?t=1m56s

>>72070625
Presidential. Like 7 inches from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger.

>>72071308
Yeah I'm 7 inches from wrist to tip too, if you catch my drift.

>>72058315
liked him on crossroads

>>72071340
5. I'm a handlet and a dicklet.

>>72071368
isnt clapton on that one

>>72071308
I'm like 6.70 from wrist to tip of mid finger

>12/8 Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxPz7KpdG8
>Jazz Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubmw5jvRvZU
>Quick Change Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8BBzCVY6c
>8 Bar Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_f0WVsHuw

eheheh... im 5.5 inches..
don't all stare now.. 8-)

>>72071457
thanks for reminding me i hate the blooz

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>>72058754
Fuck it I'm doing it.

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>>72056036
I've been playing for about 6 or so years now and I want to do something kinda weird.
They sell fake guitars on aliexpress: I was thinking of buying something like pic related and having them send me one with a blank headstock and then replacing the electronics with my own.

I figure it would be a good way to learn basic maintenance + get a really unique instrument out of it.

Anyone here buy a fake before?

>>72071671
Good luck. I hope the joint comes out comfy and strong.

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>>72071671
godspeed anon
post results

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>>72071671
gg no re when you tune it up afterwards and the neck buckles at the body

>>72071671
RIP Resale value

>>72071671
This is why i'm comfy with my a recessed bolt-on

>>72071687
I'm curious about these shitty cheap guitars too, doubt anyone on here has ever used one though

>>72071687
but the neck is going to be shit and that's like the most important part

>>72071687
I haven't personally done it but a friend has, and the guitar required so much work in the fretboard area that he just gave up
If you keep at it I think it might be worth it as a fun project
>>72072157
this

>>72071671
pls post results

>>72071457
What's 12/8 on Sweet little angel? Isnt it just regular 12 bar?

yesterday was the first jam with a new drummer and a new lead guitar player. I'm mainly doing the rhythm, what do you think?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s17lai1RkzH7

>>72072428
is everyone playing a different song?