"My nylon's got balls" edition
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SCALES:
https://www.all-guitar-chords.com/scales

GIT GUD with GUITAR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1L-sBIxnY

>>127103626 (OP)
First for SCOOCS
Hope you've been memorizing your fretboards

Do I really need a fancy fret leveler if I've got a hunk of wood and sandpaper I can staple to it

>>127103643
Most get a leveler or at least a welder's straightedge bar because you need a... straight edge. The wood might be warped but you can still try.

>>127103658
>welder's straightedge bar
that's a good idea. and now that I look at some prices, I can get an understring bar for pretty cheap

i'm sick of the sound i'm getting outta my mustang. I'm gonna swap in some humbuckers i have lying round from some old les paul.

I'm not gonna cut the pickup holes though, i'm making a cheap generic plate out of perspex.

my question for /gg/ is, red or clear perspex or aluminium i guess?

a jam session was held here tonight. It was fun. I didnt play my guitar much but my friend liked my JM. Went on a gear run for my birthday and got a distortion pedal and a synth pedal. I like them both so probably my last bass pedal purchases for a while. Don't need anymore guitar pedals until I can play it. I want to get better at guitar so bad. More practice very excited for it.

>>127103710
very cool good luck

>>127103685
why are you asking us you are the one looking at it you dingus

>>127103643
lol good one

>>127103710
looks like you're set fren. happy grinding

>>127103710
very cool. i also jammed tonight with my keyboardist. its very frustrating because i know im going to be continually pushed until im a master level improviser but id really just love to sit back in a groove for a song or two.
>t bass in 3 piece

Anyone of you ever play an Ibanez Iceman? An old MIJ model from the 1980s popped up locally and they’re so goofy looking but I’m curious. I don’t play metal so it’ll be extra goofy playing it.

>>127103723
>>127103735
Thanks anon. Good luck to you too

>>127103749
I also have a hard time keeping up with my friend. He's a lot better than me, so I always try and push myself hard. Whenever I do I fumble over myself, I'm only really decent when playing a few notes. My improv attempts fuck up the pacing.

>>127103685
clear, then spraypaint it on the back like a Gretsch pickguard

>>127103822
dude i feel you, surely it will get better when you can start writing and recording and you can have a chance to refine a single idea. my keys guy has been playing 30 years i've only been playing for 2, but it's a family thing and all of our stuff is just spur of the moment ideas. he says take a solo and im like bro ive already been improvising for 2 hours im out of ideas

>>127103638
The Move Forward Guitar youtube channel has a lot more in depth guitar learning material than that guy

https://youtu.be/CHT_bE8IdIw?si=yq7-UN0p4IQMLTFg

>>127103638
why does he look like a normal guy

>>127103989
horse words

Aight, lemme ride that B minor vamp for a few bars I’m feelin’ that smoky third hangin’ in Dorian. Lay it down soft, comp it real hush-hush like you're sneakin' through a rainstorm."

>>127103998
>gives you two bars

>>127104003
Ooh, modal trickery, I see you. Throw me a curve sneak in a lydian dominant when I least expect it. I’ll float over it like smoke on whiskey daddy-o.

>>127103932
That's literally the 6th lesson though and he gives you charts he tells you to practice

>>127104012
>inverts your Bmin

holy shit you guys

U ok bro

who me? im fine and dandy fren

>>127104065
u got a problem my guy?

sorry guys he was taking to me

been better......

I'm a problem, I am ruthless, you gotta deal with me.

>>127104108
matter of fact, ima be straight with you, dawg

first for ergonomics

>didn't think a guitar could be any gayer
>it's a yakob collenstein model

>>127104154
Should make it look like a Pikachu

>>127104138
Still love that the original LPs were just "How do we make the heaviest fucking slab possible that we can get away with without injury lawsuits" because Les was stuck on the damn log which weighed about 20lbs

>>127104154
My chinese clone of that comes in tomorrow, I truly hope the 8 different youtubers I checked weren't lying about the quality.
Looking back, I should've bought a blues jr instead but what can you do

>>127103710
This nigga loves dunking donuts

Make some acoustic panels

*gag

>>127104332
i love these except for the sprinkle coated ones

>>127104099
>pseud faggot

>>127104363
I've only seen them in elderly people's houses, dried out in a bowl that has been sitting there for years.

>>127104445
I don't even remember what any of it tastes like

>>127104445
rip black licorice is probably my favorite candy. however just like circus peanuts there is a huge quality difference between the cheap and good licorice allsorts

>>127104486
I always called circus peanuts bananas because I'm retarded

>>127104486
There used to be a candyshop next to the theater me and my dad used to go to when I was little. He'd always get those rope licorice that was black but brown in the middle. It seemed like quality stuff. I kind of miss that.

https://youtu.be/4rw1_FNdy-Y?si=jJnJqeTmlzSj0I9T

>>127104509
Me and ur dad was getting busy in the men’s room while you were chowing down unawares in that dark theater.

>>127104509
It looked like picrel..but if you broke it, there was a brown center. It tasted like strong licorice though. I can't find it. Or can't find brands that show pics of their candy broken in half.

>>127104471
anise and sarsaparilla

https://voca.ro/15MQKxnvGA1J

>>127104552
i can't find the string version but maybe this
https://www.finnstyle.com/nordic-sweets-salmiac-stix-salty.html

>>127104618
should mention those are salted but the salmiak should be the filling you're thinking of

https://voca.ro/1bQ5gaDtWoII

>>127104618
>>127104626
Fair enough. It didn't have the same outer layer, but I bet that's tasty. I might order it or look for it around here.

>>127103710
nice counterfeit guitars and pedals

This looks more like it. They were long ropes rapped on big spindles and they'd cut it for you there. Not like these little premade chunks. But I'm not complaining.

>tfw kept trying to play the whole song live
>realized I can just record the guitar parts and edit them together

>>127104785
Now you know how I feel as a classical pianist.

>>127104615
>>127104639
???

>>127104829
idk man i do things sometimes and i have no clue why or any real memory of doing it.

>>127104720
nice. i've never tried those. remember what the filling tasted like?

sexy red

candy thread

>>127104877
if it was up your ass you'd know

>>127104877
I don't. Just the rich licorice flavor. Definitely better than that Twizzler type shit.

>>127104881
crusty stang

>>127104921
you looking for a fight? you've found it. think fast
*punches u*

>>127104883
that bass all the way on the right looks like a chocolate bar. let me take a bite.

why is there a bridge-only Tele (Esquire) but no neck-only Strat

>>127104827
people have been killed for less. i know this is a /gg/ but i wonder if learning piano will make me a better guitarist?

>>127104996
Maybe a better musician, but not necessarily a better guitarist. I knew piano before I started guitar and they just get me a different perspective.

this jews videos on fender strat and fender telecaster teached me more about guitar setups than all the other videos i watched
so im gonna drop his channel here
https://www.youtube.com/@GuitarQuackery

>>127103710
you got this bro

>>127105098
Yeah, that guy's educational. Stumbled on him awhile back.

i've been practicing 1-2 hours every day for 2 years. has anyone here ever practiced 8+ hours per day? is there a point of diminishing returns?

>>127105289
optimally people keep saying 15 mins a day, but i believe a couple of hours a day is probably the best to get you 80% there

started too late in life? 6 hours a day probably will get you over that last 20% bump, not counting noodling around sitting on the couch etc.

Apparently throwing roses on your bed helps with room acoustics when recording guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyrjDeGlBgU

>>127105423
then you can look at all the greats, what did they do all day? scroll tik tok? nah they were playing and practicing autistically

Have you ever played a really loud amp? How was it?
I want one day to have private use of a really big space, like an airplane hangar, and a 100W JCM800, just to fuck around.

>>127105440
i usually plug into my 2000w RMS PA, shit starts feeding back because my guitar room vibrates so hard my strings starts vibrating if your not double hand muting or whatever its called, when you use the palm of your hand and your fretting fingers to mute all the strings you are not playing.
its fucking awesome when you get the groove going and you feel shit rock your body though

i thank god every day im not a rentcuck

>>127105459
what you dont want an amp sim for your apartment?

>>127105289
I play music like 30 minutes a day but I think it really just depends on the kind of person you are. Some people benefit from prolonged periods of intense focus others need to assimilate more gradually. I get a lot out of my incremental improvements day to day doing 30 minutes or so. I also play like 7 other instruments and have a bunch of other hobbies, so it feels natural for me to just flit around. Other people are probably more singular.

I've played guitar for two decades, and my first bass is coming in the mail soon.
I got stuck learning lefty, genetically and memetically, so they're fucking impossible to come by physically.
That being said, how much different do they feel to play? I know finger-style is vastly different between the two, what should I prioritize learning if I want to expand my capability beyond basic pick-playing? Any song recommendations for someone with experience learning this?

>>127105440
I have a superlead on top of a 4x12 in my bedroom. Generally I close the window if I wanna turn it up

>>127105574

I’m a lefty and I play bass. The main thing is muting, and it happens naturally with muscle memory. As soon as I start thinking about muting it becomes stilted.

If you want there’s this website made by this turboautist that can give you techniques and exercises: https://www.studybass.com/

>>127105289
Tom Morello once said in Guitar World magazine to practice for one hour every single day, no excuses

>>127105440
I had a Line 6 120w for a few years before selling it, my friend couldn't hear himself drumming if I turned it up past a quarter. You're wasting your money on amps more than 50w unless you're gigging at venues bigger than the average room.

>>127105594
Being good at playing doesnt mean he's good at teaching

>>127105423
>>127105569
>>127105594
thanks for the replies. i did start late but i feel like i have made excellent progress during the time frame for my age. unfortunately i have a lot medical problems from the military and im worried i can only absorb so much knowledge or rather memorize it in one day. some players have said to instead focus on the things you're good at already to push them into mastery level but i genuinely have no idea how to accurately assess myself in that regard. i have written down my goals though

>>127105605
well he must be an amazing teacher then!

>>127105574
i don't want to discourage you but there are tons of things to learn playing finger style on bass including raking, ghost notes, string crossing, slapping, double thumb. if you want my honest opinion you should focus on the genres of music you like and use those techniques and just practice very rudimentary technique for 5-15 mins every day. advanced slapping takes for fucking ever to develop

>>127105289
>>is there a point of diminishing returns?
When your parents kick you out in your early twenties, you realise you were just a noodler and you don't know shit about anything. Also the only way to survive is to work jobs you don't want to do.

Best thing they ever did for me really.

>>127105641
The only people I've heard who actually practice for 8+ hours a day are the guitar autists like pic related

>>127105641
>have no idea how to accurately assess myself in that regard
record yourself, view it, join a community and get someone elses opinion
dont join any 4chan ones, they will just shit on you and not help you

>>127105696
that's actually pretty good advice, thanks

>>127105704
np anon

>>127105696
>they will just shit on you and not help you
Sounds accurate

>>127105641
I have had a few concussions that radically altered my perception and information processing capacity and I’m telling you it really doesn’t matter music is like learning a language it takes place beneath the surface in a lot of ways. The most important thing is the quality of your practice not the quantity. Also it’s not really about getting gud it’s just about doing it.

https://vocaroo.com/1a8mlIXBRpls

>>127105696
I've received nothing but helpful comments what are you on about?

>>127105982
you've gotten lucky, it depends on the day. there's a few people that are obsessed with making this general unusable, they think its funny

>>127105974
def leppard is a tall order if you dont know how to mix, anon.
youtube is your friend. not bad though

>>127105974
sniff her now

>>127105594
Tom morello is a faggot

>>127104264
Les had absolutely no design input on the les paul. they had already designed and built it before approaching him to put his name on it.

>>127106158
Lame if true.

>>127106222
nta but its true. the lp was actually marketed and sold as the solidbody guitar (sg) before they basically made it the first licensed guitar by putting Les' name on it, then designed what we know as the modern sg

RIP

>>127106100
Calm down Joe.

>this dude on a discord server bought a suhr and the seller had lied and the truss rod was seized
>i suggested heating it up and he made a joke about flamed maple necks and ignored me
>he couldnt get it loose and made a complaint to reverb and got refunded
>some other rando walks him step-by-step through heating his truss with a solder iron
>it works and that guy is now a hero
>i was the new guy on the server and needed the cred but didnt know i had to retard-explain things
im butthurt i admit it

>>127106497
>making groomcord friends is hard
maybe log off and go to some shows next weekend instead

a little sunday morning that i always seem to play
good mornin lads
https://voca.ro/1nJw1yHgJwR4

>>127106653
weird takeaway but k

>>127106674
I'm sure internet strangers will give you ass pats anon, just keep giving out good advice.

https://voca.ro/12xuC6Yb7wq3

Another day in paradise

Load up the Mossbergs boys, cuz I'm coming to roast every Telecaster I find

>>127101022
https://youtu.be/vthjlbZmmk8?list=RDvthjlbZmmk8

Oh she cookin now boy

Definitely some wierd shit going on in this corner

>>127106892
>>127106901
>>127106923
>>127106940
AI

>>127106959
Nigger, I will beat your bitch ass for assuming such a thing. Apologize. Now.

For me, it's the Swastikaster

I heard Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam has 10 of these

Bye bye Tele

Really pisses me off is she was chambered but I couldn't get the warp out and still be in spec

>>127104012
>sneak in a lydian dominant
https://voca.ro/164ng8EFft5Q

>>127104996
I think learning drums does.

>>127107061
Shit. That ain't bad bro. I've played 20 years and I don't even know what the hell a Lydian scale is

Body cavity filling and routing is done.
Body work is nearly finished.
Still can't pick a color.
Thinking green maybe.

>>127107084
Whatever the fuck color seafoam madness my beer fridge pedestal is

>>127107084
If those routes aren't for P90's, I don't think we can continue this friendship

>>127107119
They are for a set of stacked p90s.
>>127107104
I like it.

>>127107080
>Lydian scale
https://youtu.be/SINl5JY7LhI?list=RDSINl5JY7LhI

>>127107130
>P90's

There might be hope for you yet Anon

p90s? more like P 9 gays

>>127107141
>expecting Vai
>bald ass Satriani

How dare you

>>127107174
>weighs 300 pounds
>plays a Squier strat

Damn

Have you seen Juniors grades?

>>127105594
>Dual hotrails hums
Just get a fucking tele deluxe at that point ffs

>>127106940
Yeah nah yeah this rather aesthetic
But why incinerate a tele body

DUMWIT: jazz guitar all sounds the same

MIDWIT: jazz guitar has incredible complexity and pushes the boundaries of theory and technique

BIGWIT: jazz guitar all sounds the same

anyone else take this journey? i went from a metalhead, to a jazzfag to being a metalhead again when i realised it actually offered a lot more opportunties for expression. fusion is a bit more interesting but that generally sounds like garbage.

>>127107408
Listen to Greg Howe.

>>127105594
>arms the homeless.
>Gets murdered at an ATM
imshockedshockedimnotthatshocked.gif

>>127106284
Sweet.
My v65 hardtail is about to skyrocket in price.

>specs listed the fretboard as carbonized maple
wtf even is carbonized maple

>>127107408
Yeah this is basically me
>spend late teens/early 20's shredding
>want to shift gears and appreciate technical proficiency at the other end of the spectrum
>its cool for maybe a year at most before I get bored
>go back to playing in c standard again just with less gain and more knowledge
I still love listening to and playing jazz regularly but heavier shit is just more fun for me. https://youtu.be/aJuBUORWDHM?feature=shared

bareknuckle mississipi queen 90 in the neck and supermassive 90 in the bridge of a 24.75 inch long stratocaster

i think i should have a tune-o-matic installed and locking nut, plek'd, replace the frets with big ss wire. replace treble knob with bass cut knob.

>>127107691
tune o matic fucking sucks, still slightly better than those wrap arounds though

>>127103710
whats that thing on the right side of the sp404

>>127107704
now that i think about it there isn't room anyways. the knob is where the post would be. i'll have to look for some kind of adjustable bridge.

i'm putting Guyker china brand locking tuners on everything. these are better than gotoh.

>>127107713
Dr 880. We have no drummer so thats our only option.

>>127104327
>panels
Are the ones from Amazon any good?

>>127105115
We will all make it one day. Guaranteed

>>127105289
you doing good mate, 2.5 hours a day stacks up nicely anyway

Hold the front door
I just read a 100w is only about 15% louder than a 15w.
What the actual fuck?
Could I run a blues jr. or equiv into a cab or PA system and play a venue then?

>>127107736
I've seen those threaded knobs sometimes, are they actually easy to turn especially after a while when the oil inside dries up

>>127107691
>fixed bridge
>locking nut
pourquoi?

>>127107774
they're difficult to turn, but also, they turn the string very slowly. so they never get accidentally bumped, and you never overshoot. I like them, i've had a set on my tele for about six months and no issues. they bite even .007 strings no problem, just run it through, tighten it, and tune it, zero winding. you could probably oil them manually from the looks of it.

>>127107776
looks good.

>>127107793
I have a set of guyker locking tuners myself (with the normal knobs), the locking nuts come off exposing the gears inside so yeah you can just open up and clean or oil them

>>127107753
sound perception is logarithmic. turning up just 3db makes it sound twice as loud for example. this also doesnt factor in speaker efficiency or any other factors but you need to fix your perception of how your ears work first.

can the vox amplug3 work with pedals

>>127107847
i know im probably off on that 3db figure but the message is the same

>>127107847
I was doing some reading and apparently the watts is just marketing speak, and it's mainly the headroom before breakup?
So theoretically even a 5w could be thrown into a 4x12 and do so some damage

>>127107776
i hadnt thought about it really. i should get a trem, if it even fits. i should put a fucking jaguar circuit in it. i just know i have to replace the plastic squire nut.

Standard with p90s, Special or Junior?

>>127107776
>>127107803
>fixed bridge
>locking nut
Actually a bonne idée if you plan on using a thicc ahh sting gauge like 60 or baritone, or even 56.
I regret filing the nut on one of my guitars, it was a poor inexperienced decision that basically ruined the guitar. I have to get the nut replaced now.

>>127107883
>even a 5w could be thrown into a 4x12 and do so some damage
Picrel is a 1/2 watt amp and it pushes a 16ohm 4x12 with no issues

I ask a question about pedals and get nothing, I ask a question about amps/guitars everyone has some answer ready. fuck this general

ask something less gay next time

>>127108090
what was your pedal question, i didn't see it.

>>127107859
>>127108134

guitar took a tumble and has a chip in the paint now
do I leave it as is or get a color match at home depot and paint over it?
or maybe just some clear nail polish or wood filler to keep the chip from getting worse?

>>127108156
thats not a question about pedals, it's a question about a vox product ive never heard of.

Just got my first proper guitar, an SG. I'm in love.
I've been teaching myself to play for a while now on a busted old ibanez gio that's worth about $100 and the difference is insane.

>>127107859
>>127108156
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/can-the-vox-amplug3-work-with-AFdrhfWgRpG2th8fKPMlbA

if Fender made a Bluesmaster electric guitar, what would it look like?

>>127108374
they already do, it's basically their entire lineup

damn it I just restrung my strat a few days ago but already I want to change the strings out again for even thinner ones
gotta be able to hit those boomer bends

I can't help cringing at these guys who have more than one guitar but can't play fluently on any of them.

>>127108663
one reveals his insecurities.

>>127107545
roasted. coal is carbon

>>127108685
Have you ever watched a gear video on youtube ? No need to feel attacked brother

>>127108663
>fluently
Most cover band guitarists can't improvise at all and they get paid to perform.

>>127108739
Yeah and they suck ? I wouldn't call them real musicians like most retards who have access to musical instruments

>>127107737
>panels

No. Make your own it’s the cheapest and most effective way. You need Owens Corning 703 fiberboard, pine planks, some screws, some fabric, and staples. Look up how to do it online. If you still buy bullshit foam panels after me telling you this you deserve to have a gay room that sounds like shit

I can do almost all basic setup stuff relatively well, but I'm still paranoid of fitting a nut.

>>127108767
fit this nut in yo mouth

lube is warming up

>>127108744
>they aren't real musicians
They get paid to perform in front of an audience, you improvise for free in your bedroom. I think you have it confused.

Improvising is a cool skill but if you want to get paid to play music, it's not really that important. Most people want to hear the songs they like, not some 10 minute improvised guitar solo. Maybe that'll work for your side project but it's not going to get you bookings.

>>127105289
Yes, back in my teens and early 20s I would play between 5 and 10 hours a day during certain periods and those were my most substantial growth spurts for both technical ability and writing riffs and songs. By my mid 20s I had recorded multiple EPs and played large capacity shows with the three bands I played in, two as the guitarist/singer. As long as you’re feeling it, no, it won’t be diminishing returns.

>>127108800
>They get paid to perform in front of an audience, you improvise for free in your bedroom. I think you have it confused.
Why would you use money as a measure of musicianship ? The cope is real on this low IQ board

>>127105594
This dude can't play for shit and is also a leftist punk fag so he doesn't even believe in knowing how to play your instrument.

>>127103626 (OP)
Alright /gg/:
You do like the *correct* fretboard material, don't you?

>>127108816
Repeatedly scoring gigs shows a sign of sufficient musicianship. Means they know how to play, and how to perform.

>>127108772
You need Jesus bro.

>>127108858
>Repeatedly scoring gigs shows a sign of sufficient musicianship
You must be some sort of shitty pop rock fan to think like this. You know that musical instruments existed before the 20th century ?

>>127108823
He can play. He just doesn't shred all the time. But he WAS a shredder before Rage. Not everyone needed to jerk off in every song in the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JukTvlrh-Wk&list=RDJukTvlrh-Wk

>>127108858
Means u are a faggot and other faggots accept you lol. That’s it

Why is it that any guitarist can be a functionable bassist but no gayssist can swap out and act like a semi-passable guitarist?

>>127108816
>Why would you use money as a measure of musicianship ?
Because the two are correlated. The best musicians don't work for free and there is no shred master who doesn't want to make a living off playing guitar and takes the noble path of treating it as a hobby while doing a 9-5 in some other field.

>low iq
Do you know what money is or how musicians feed themselves? Getting bookings, dumbass.

>>127108890
>Because the two are correlated
No. Whats correlated with musicianship is how rich your parents were, not how much money you make from music

>>127108876
>>127108882
Samefag

>>127108932
Not even but I tend to use the word faggot to make a good point

>>127108884
Melissa Auf Der Maur mogs you on guitar too, since she just plays Danzig songs.

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

>>127108890
How would you know what the best musicians do

Where my Mesa Boogie niggas at?

>>127108931
>with musicianship is how rich your parents were
Being born rich accommodates you pursuing music as a profession, it doesn't mean that anyone will want to pay to see you play. Money doesn't buy talent or hard work, even when it comes to covering other band's music this is still required.

>not how much money
If you suck you don't get booked and you don't make money. It's really not hard.

>>127108974
I know they aren't doing it for free, that's for sure.

>>127108989
Most excellent musicians excel way before they even have the age to monetize their talent. Stop coping with your pseudo scientific arguments brother

oh boy, another nonsensical argument

>>127106132
He rages against the machine and gets there to do it in a Mercedes Benz

>>127108884
>Why is it that any guitarist can be a functionable bassist
It was invented for guitarists to be able to pick up immediately.
>>127108884
>no gayssist can swap out and act like a semi-passable guitarist?
wrong but ok

>>127103710
It's nice to see some wholesome content on here occasionally. You're winning, anon. Keep going.

You don't have to like Morello for his politics, but he can still play.
Hell, even his politics don't matter much. Ted Nugent and him are friends. None of this catty bitch behavior. There's still mutual respect because of Rock alone.

>>127108989
The best musicians play music for the love of it retard

>>127108975
Right here my nigga

>>127109049
He's good at coming up with riffs in drop D but sucks at pretty much everything else.

>>127109049
Morello is a dogshit player

>>127105289
A friend of mine has been playing 6-8 hours a day for nearly 20 years. He's a full-time guitar teacher and plays in a band too. He's a workaholic and tells me he's still constantly learning. He sets himself insane challenges, like learn a Dream Theater song by ear and master it in a couple of days. I can barely manage power chords and the pentatonic scale. He's a really humble guy too. Makes me fucking sick.

>>127109075
Retard here: why are there two sets of EQ controls? Do the bass/mid/treb knobs turn off when you use the sliders?

>>127109076
>>127109089
He was doing Buckethead-like shit in the early 90s. He's just not a autistic wanker who imposes shit where it doesn't belong. Just like Frusciante. Both can do a lot more than the specific take of a style in the bands they happen to be in.

>>127109005
>excel way before they have the age to monetize their talent
Because they are children and they don't know what money even is yet. That's why most bands get screwed by their first managers when they first get famous.

>psuedo scientific
I'm the only one rooted in reality. You are off in some dream world thinking that there are people at the highest level of musicianship living as starving artists and that somehow there is no correlation between your ability to play and making a living off your playing.

>>127109069
Grow up. Being a musician is a job once you grow out of your teenage years. There is a reason that every band you know the name of and reached a massive level of success breaks up and comes back together. Money.

>>127109118
>dream theater

He’s a gay faggot lol

>>127109159
All bands are faggots lol imagine going around with a group of guys because you need to make money lol. Suck my dick you stupid pussy

>>127109158
Morello: Fully jewish, would rather complain about Trump than play
Dan Auerbach: Half jewish, top 10 modern blues player, doesn't complain, just makes bangers

>>127109162
Go back to playing Oasis, peasant.

>>127109191
I don’t play oasis lol. As a matter of fact I don’t play songs other people have written period

>>127109172
Who gives a shit. I don't like his politics either, but we're talking about music. And I prefer being grounded. Not given to fantasy and delusions about his skills. He isn't shit.

>>127109203
You misspelt "can't".

Some people are committed to being angry and negative and they want everyone else to be as frustrated and unhappy as they are. Leave them alone. Responding to them at all just gives them the opportunity to reinforce the neural pathways they've etched for themselves.

im so tempted to snap one up now but i just know that in 3 months theyll be on the used market for half the price of new

>>127109236
I’m not angry you're just retarded

>>127109225
No don’t because when I play instruments I play original music that I create every time because I’m an artist not a dumb faggot like you are

>>127109157
The dial knobs are the pregain stage, sliders are post gain. You shape what is going into the gain stages with the knobs, then shape your overall tone with the sliders (like you would with the dials on a traditional amp).

>there is no shred master who doesn't want to make a living off playing guitar and takes the noble path of treating it as a hobby while doing a 9-5 in some other field.
that’s literally me doughbeit
https://voca.ro/11S9VpJXhHq7

alright I think I'm gonna start learning chords now

>>127109238
I reverse headstock? Doesn't seem so good.

>>127109277
Good intermediate but nothing special. There is a reason you are working a day job.

>>127109359
had the original version a few years ago, great guitar but the non locking bridge kneecapped it
this is exactly what i had been hoping for, but again its an absolute ball busting at 2 grand as they lose like half the value the second you buy it

>>127105440
If you buy those 100w+ heads you must also buy an attentuator so you won't destroy your ceiling, walls and eardrums

A 0.5w-1w tube amp is already loud for headphones/studio monitors, 5w will rock your tiny ass apartment/room

That's why every nigger has a Spark or Katana, so they can practice at high volumes without destroying your hearing

>>127109252
>I'm an artist

>>127107673
Nice setup.

>>127109403
you really do have to practice at 100% volume to not sound like shit at 100% volume. i do it with a very long guitar cable, and standing outside the house in the back yard, and slowly getting closer to the 300 watts of tube power, one dozen six L six tube. i have to make adjustments by turning the guitar off and walking in and then walking out again before turning it up.

it's just a different creature to control a legit 100 watt tube amp that is full on rocking. the thing is a safety hazard first of all and just because it sounds right with the master at 10% doesn't mean it'll sound like 'that but louder' at 100%, so you kind of have to dial it in at dangerous volumes, and then just live with it at lower volumes as best you can.

but once you get the hang of it there's literally no feeling in the world like hundreds of watts of overdriven tube and eight speakers that feel like an earthquake under your feet. there's a visceral painful detail when you're drowning in volume.

>>127109403
just play at 50W volume?

this fucking loser >>127109376 heartbreaker literally banned me for posting a vocaroo lmao
go swab the shop floor you schizo freak, or better yet practice with some of that junk Craigslist garbage you have in your moms garage instead of seething over your betters on the internet
https://voca.ro/11028SQINipO

>>127109467
can confirm, or at least practicing with high gain and or compression. it makes your muting mistakes louder

>>127108294
You’ve tasted it now, beware anon, new gear acquisition syndrome has destroyed many a player’s wallets and credit scores. What kind of SG?

playing unplugged helps fundies much better than amplified

>>127108744
Sounds like you spend an inordinate amount of time concerned with what other guitarists have going on. What do you have going on, anon?

>>127109403
Nope. I have a super lead and a 4x12 not a katana

>>127109435
Yup

>>127107545
It's green wood that they couldn't afford or be assed to season properly, so they put it in an oven for a few hours and send it to the woodshop for production.

>>127109545
how am I gonna hear slapback delay unplugged huh?

>>127108238
leave it alone

>>127108816
The -ian suffix in musician literally means they make their income through music.

>>127109508
Guitar Center called they want their riffs back.

>>127108238
the headstock didn't snap did it?

>>127109049
>You don't have to judge the ideologue who dismisses others because of their politics

>>127109545
you can barely hear sympathetic resonance on an unplugged electric

>>127109674
No it doesn’t

>can't bring myself to practice when I'm in my period
Anyone else?

is this how you write tabs

x
-2--
--1-
---4
0---
x

>>127109859
pretty much. sometimes people add a beat track to the top so it better communicates a sense of rhythm

>>127109530
>new gear acquisition syndrome has destroyed many a player’s wallets
that's the thing about buying nice gear though, eventually it forces you out of the poorfag habit of "filling the void" with another pedal or cheap guitar. if you have any will power whatsoever you just end up with better financial habits.

>>127107408
jazz is literally a secret club, you never hear people who play jazz explaining what theyre doing, they always talk about their music in terms of emotion

even if you read jazz books they just expect you to learn jazz standards and learn by rote by copying the best recordings of those standards. no one will really tell you what theyre doing unless you look really hard for obscure jazz mid level jazz books where they accidentally explain what theyre actually doing

Dropping 1% of one's net worth on a used guitar: dumb or no dumb?

>>127110002
If it puts a smile on your face who cares

>>127110002
Dumb unless you're paying a local luth

>>127109467
Nothing makes you serious up like hearing all your imperfections and playing quirks amplified at 100 watts

>>127109859
Use a program to write tabs. Guitar Pro for instance
You can write tabs in MuseScore too which is freeware

>>127109630
yt ppl dont season they guitars

>>127110011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd71pORWNVo
>>127110039
My brain agrees but my heart does not want to accept.
>>127110059
I've been thinking it would be fun to write a super bare bones terminal tab writing program that creates .txt files.

Fender comes to you and asks you to play only pic related for 3 years. No other guitars allowed.
Name your price.

>>127110118
$300k

>>127110118
One hundred billion dollars

havent picked up the guitar in years, never could play before that either. but now i really want to start again. my plan is tho do some finger exercices on the fretboard (like 5-10 minutes) and then learn two of my fav songs with youtube tutorials (gimme danger and N.I.B) a day. what do you think? also should i throw in some beginner theory or nah

>>127110118
$70k yearly. BUT I'm gonna put a Tele bridge on it.

>>127110118
>Three pickup systems: New Fender Acoustasonic Shawbucker; Fishman Under-Saddle Transducer; Fishman Acoustasonic Enhancer
this is torture

>>127110175
you can develop technique just by learning songs but the problem with just learning songs is that you are doing it entirely by feel and memory. once you can play through the song play it to a metronome and shift the tempo up or down by 15 bpm

>>127110118
I need a better finish

>>127110175
>should i throw in some beginner theory or nah
Ive been playing for decades and just recently started back at basics to fix bad habits and expand my knowledge of theory. You absolutely should

>>127110214
I would rather shoot myself than do something like this

>>127110214
>>127110226
thanks guys, will take your posts into consideration

>>127110118
Why did fender choose to make this instead of a reliable semihollow?

>>127110247
well you didn't learn the fucking song if you can't play it in time lol

>supposed to meet up with new band this weekend
>we don't have a practice space
I could just pay for one but nah apparently it's easier to practice outside in Florida heat

PEACE AND LOVE TO MY OLD BAND MATE JAZZ LISTENIN' JAN

this is an interesting part, I wonder if it can make a good sound

>>127110325
i can read schematics but i wish i knew how resistors caps and diodes effect tone

>>127110299
I don’t learn other people’s songs period lol. What you describe sounds mind numbing

>>127110425
that would explain why so many vocas here are out of time

>>127110353
diodes are usually used for hard clipping distortion

>>127110353
resistors and capacitors often form filter networks with cutoff frequency 1/(2*pi*R*C), you can tell which ones get passed and which are cut from the circuit, diodes are often used for their ~0.7V drop

>>127105289
at my peak i was playing 8 hours a day, there's no diminishing returns. if you want to be exceptional at anything you live, breath, eat and sleep that thing. 2 hours a day is good though and as long as you're consistent and use that time wisely you'll make noteworthy gains

>>127110425
if you can't find joy in playing your favorite tunes than music isn't for you, try knitting faggot

>>127110511
breathe*

Okok, I'm going to wait until payday next Friday, and if the guitar is still available, I'll order it. Someone made in offer on it already; I'm a little nervous.

>>127110497
>>127110502
interesting. it was eye opening seeing a pedal have like 50 resistors in it

>>127110516
My favorite tunes are the ones I write

>>127110596
too bad they're out of time, out of tune and show and utter lack of talent
be an avant garde faggot if you want, people can be happy with that i guess, but pretending like you're too good to learn from the past is why your family wants you dead

Do you feel like playing when you can't, but don't when you can?

>>127110725
Yeah.

>>127110629
Too bad you’re a bitch lol

>>127110629
holy projection

>>127110752
LOL YOU'RE SO FUCKING WITTY OMG LETS ALL LEARN MUSIC WITHOUT LEARNING ANY MUSIC HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT ITS SUCH A GOOD IDEA
i legitimately hope everyone you love leaves you

>>127110502
NO SHIT

>>127110771
uh oh melty

poor soul. the metronome was more than he could bear

i'm a better composer than anyone else so i just listen to my own stuff

at least you know one person is listening to it

I'm a bad man... Yaldve learnt by now ong. Imma nightmare on the streets dawg. Gonna get my nut.

>>127111120
Take yer swing...

Whoa

is anyone seeing this

You act tough online but you come across a real man like me in the streets your looking at your feet. And watching your tone like a good little slug. End of. If your who I think you are id knock you out with one punch you little pimp. You any kinda artist?

>>127111171
Cool your jets my guy. Just chill vibes yeah?

>>127111191
Buzz off goober.

Last 12 posts where me btw (by the way)

>warm your tubes
>cool your jets
>eat bi/gg/
Simple as

You /gg/otta live it

>that guy who plays power chords on an acoustic

Toan is in the goans (gonads)

>>127111309
Sounds good to me

>>127111309
Me

>>127105974
what do the push pulls do

Chinese strandberg clone with the great reviews came in.
... it looks like someone tried to wrench out the bridge pup and they fucked up the output jack and grounding wiring.
I will try one exchange and if that guitar's shit isn't together I'll just refund and maybe buy a used tube amp instead.
Everything else on the guitar was the great, the neck and fret access were a dream compared to my LP

>>127111467
dave's world of fun stuff set up a chinaberger and it was a pile

>>127111467
lol

>>127111481
There've been a couple, this one was an E-ART which are unusually affordable with a lot of attention to detail, even Elmo K off youtube loved their starter strat. I know phil mcknight did a review/teardown and they were even using full size pots and korean-made PAF knockoffs, for the 3 seconds I had clean humbucker sound it sounded almost on par with my MiJ lp, but the jack (maybe the wiring?) is fucked and it keeps squealing.

>>127110118
jej just saw someone playing one of those

>>127110118
It doesn't seem that bad

>>127111630
>Not a full acoustic
>not a full senihollow
>one pickup

>>127111523
>rubs the bottom line of an EART, making it a FART guitar

>>127103710
decorate your bare ass walls

>>127111309
I liked the first Days of the New album. Who knew they were on meth
>>127111838
back when I was in Jr. High one of the required readings was 'The Good Earth'. The edition the school chose had a cover featuring the title in simple white text on a black background. Many luls were had

>>127112266
Agreed, he should put his guitar waifus there

>>127112314
>I liked the first Days of the New album. Who knew they were on meth
I wish Travis Meeks got his life back together

Enter Sandman has one of the most uninspired over wah'ed solos in the history of rock and roll.
There I said it.

>>127112781
i don't consider metal to be music

>>127112869
true

>>127112869
I do

>>127112949
Your gay

>>127112960
DANGIT

>>127110771
You’re a gay nigger

>>127113107
>still seething that nobody will ever take ((them)) serious as a musician

I was just playing the Understanding in a Car Crash riff for a half hour straight and my finger tips are on fire.

>>127113622
>>127113622
>>127113622
new