The Real Boss Katana Edition

>>127329169 (OP)
how do you play this while sitting down?

Is this a good beginner guitar?
I'm also planning to get a Rolland Cube.

>buy badass jet black guitar
>strings all have fruity little rainbow ends and ruin the look

I need to buy another amp instead of just having the one I’ve had forever, I’m tired of having to tweak amp settings when swapping guitars with drastically different pickups to balance them out. Having another amp I can mist have them both dialed a little different. Thinking about a Deluxe Reverb or equivalent hand wired clone.

>tfw you watch a real guitarist do their thing

>>127329254
Literally me every concert I go see

>>127329261
i'm learning how to render gifs. gimme some material ideas to work with, what would be useful in these threads?

httpshttps://vocaroo.com/1gu2ooCAtVFm

Kingfishbros...check Instagram

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>>127329254
Rick Beato has a horse cock

>>127329371

>>127329272
Girls with giant tits playing guitars with their boobs bouncing over the forearm contours AOOOOOGA

Well I took it up to the luthier and the electronics are fine so I either have a problem with my audio interface input or my headphones causing the static noises. It’s probably my headphones cause I’m always accidentally stepping on the cord. I’ll check to see if they’re plugged in all the way and maybe order a new 1/8th inch cord if it’s still happening. My pickups were pretty low actually so we raised them which should help with my pinch harmonics ringing clearer. They want 4-500 to paint the body Snow White if I bring it to them stripped. Which I guess isn’t bad cause they build custom guitars so it’d have a really clean paint job with a nitro finish. Only issue is then I’d have all white and chrome hardware. I suppose I could slap a black pick guard on it and it’d still look good. We’ll see. Might just offer it for trade for a charvel with JB/59 in a color I like more.

>>127329502
got u senpai

I just can't take it with all planes and copters flying over me

>>127328417
ol karl sanders from nile will teach you how to sweep pick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlfz6iUhKpY

>>127329272
Find some of his reactions listening to modern music. He makes the most ridiculous grimaces

I think what I’ll do is either spray paint it or have the body painted white professionally, and then put a black pick guard and white top hat fender plastic volume and tone knobs on it. Then the maple neck and fretboard, white pickups and knobs with the black pick guard will accent the white body and chrome hardware nicely.

>>127329556
i'll have a look

>>127329191
as long as it isn't made in china

>>127329664
Shes so ugly it upsets me

>>127329169 (OP)
I'm building a guitar with some TV jones filtertrons, trying to figure out placement. Thinking I should center them where I'd normally put a paf style humbucker. I could also them up my ass but then I'd have to find a new place for my eggs. I don't have a guitar with filter trons and don't feel like driving to guitar center to take some measurements.

>>127329556

>>127329888
he's not saying that

>>127329822
>>127329888
This is your friday activities? At least wait for someone else to post. This site isnt even good enough for you to be this entranced. It may be time to actually go outside.

>>127329909
>>127329915
it's called commitment lads, not something you mustang owners would know about

>>127329955
Yea you should be committed. Mustangs are for fags.

so thrash metal=punk+metal? where is the difference?

1st 4 never shittin/gg/ cum
#IntactBlackCherry

>>127329987
thrash is basically punk but with more intricate riffing beyond the stereotypical 3 chord riff

>>127329532
hate that gay ass nigga

>>127329987
Singing style lyrical content and drumming.
Black metal is also a mishmash like that.

>>127330025
The biggest difference between both is the guitar playing. Then theres crossover bands like suicidal tendencies and d.r.i. who have thrashier riffs.

Listen to slayer song black magic. The guitar has very little to do with punk

luv strats
luv teles
luv stangs
luv jags
luv jms
luv lps
luv sgs
luv 335s
luv archtops
luv superstrats
hate prs
simple as

>>127330056
based

My teenage years were full of Melvins records and recently I’ve been digging back through them, and Buzz’s cool aluminum guitar caught my interest but they’re like $4k

>>127330056
based

good morning sluts.

>capo users

>>127330507
Why’d you post a picture of an egg yolk separator?

>>127330705
That's a nofap cage bro

Are any of these countless boutique doom fuzz pedals even worth it? I'm looking for something to riff away through, but most of this shit is expensive as fuck and comes with gay edgy artwork

>>127330780
Just get a big muff or maybe some flavor of fuzz face 2bh

>>127330780
no

>>127330780
green russian big muff

>>127330765
*capo cage

>>127330792
>>127330806
Funny you mention that because the big muff is the only fuzz I've ever tried and sounded lame as fuck to me, that's why I'm looking for something else

>>127330780
>Watch videos comparing all of the muffs
>buy your favorite
Simple as. Don't overcomplicate it.

>>127330857
boss fz-1 or behringer sf300(boss fz-2 clone) or dod carcosa. this is all I got chief

why would you want to buy pedals when you can get all of them on this?

>>127331032
Can you play those high end digital shits through a traditional cab? Or do you need monitors and a sub?

>>127330780
Seems most of them lose out to behringer's super fuzz 300 in youtube head to head comparison videos. It and the Mosky Black Rat are probably the best value pedals out there

>>127330857
Sounds like a personal problem

can i play drop d songs by putting my capo on the second fret but leaving the low e string open

>>127331070
You need a way to power the cabinet like a Duncan power stage or something, and the cabinet will replace your IR’s, but yes.

>>127331172
yeah but it will be a step higher than normal if you don't drop your E. there are several songs played with a capo only on four strings

>>127330780
gain 10 on my amp is good enough, don't need any pedals

>>127327861
need it or keep it?

I love pre-owned guitars but I would never ever buy one

shut the fuck up about multi fx pedals

>>127331385
I'd buy one as long as I got to play it a bit first. Def wouldn't buy a short scale one off the internet though

>>127331737
Why not short scale especially?

>>127331315
I have a 100 watt amp and a cabinet I never use for fear of starting a noise war with my neighbor who works night shift and has a dog who can bark for 10 hours straight

>>127331757
The risk of them being beat up and neglected by 12 year old owners

>>127329987
Here are a couple songs I consider Thrash:

https://youtu.be/rtOyqrNPzsY?list=RDrtOyqrNPzsY

https://youtu.be/jSTUQO0XyaM?list=RDjSTUQO0XyaM

>short scale guitar
why? they're already tiny. i understand for a bass

>>127329987
depends on the era of thrash. Kill em All era is very Punk and BNWOHM influenced
In Flames era is far more polished and has lost a lot of its punk roots but still technically thrash

>>127331902
manlets but more realistically timbre

>>127331902
>>127331934
>manlets
I'm 6'3" and I love short scale guitars, much easier to play at a high tempo

>>127331902
My pinky can only stretch up to 5.7" away from my index finger

>>127331902
They’re really not though, they feel the same as playing a regular scale Fender with a capo on the first fret.

I am humble guitar merchant, /b/. My shop was just featured on The Joe Wentz Project. What do?
https://youtu.be/_83ObPxehCY?si=Tis8kAophSO4Pniu

so short scale helps alleviate bad technique. i am learning a lot about guitar in these threads

>>127329169 (OP)
Is it normal still feel your thumb aching when you are playing barre chords even though you have been playing for years

I mean, when you are playing a song that uses barre chords, eventually I feel that.

So if you pull the pickups out of a guitar and put them in a different guitar, do you just have a guitar skeleton sitting in the corner of your room? Or do you put some other/inferior pickups in it?
I'm taking the old pickups out because the new ones are better, and don't see the sense in putting the 'bad' ones in the other guit.

>>127332175
Songs that uses barre chords all the way throught*
Fixed.

>>127332175
Yes it's like running. You'll feel like shit even if you're done that for years. But with training you can do that for longer and faster

totally dude, it's like the same way how regular scale guitars are a crutch for talentless manlets, all the real guitar gods use a 6 string bass with an octave up pedal
remember there's no compromise for pure fucking skill, anything less than 30 inch neck is doing yourself a disservice

>>127332175
it's started.

>>127332197
yes it is normal to get sore when you keep muscles and ligaments in constant tension for extended periods. is it healthy? no

>>127332191
>pull the pickups out of a guitar and put them in a different guitar
why would you ever do such a thing
just buy a new set of pickups, it's only like $200 for a Seymour Duncan neck+bridge

>>127332221
>anything less than 30" neck
manlet cope. that's not even a full scale bass

>>127332241
They're USA DeArmonds.

>>127332257
USA DeEz nuts

>>127332257
they were so good that the company went out of business

>>127329169 (OP)
Gibson or Fender?

>>127332318
Heritage and Fender Japan.
Simple as.

>>127332350
Ching chong guitar
Ping pong resurt

The NUGE plays short scale guitars
towering over British "players" like Clapton, Beck and Page, Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman, is famous for his high octane Rock Guitar playing

>>127329511
nice hello kitty strat

>>127332318
modded Squiers

I just figured out today that the SG's horns are asymmetrical. What a world we live in.

>>127332318
>or
A Tele and a 335 is the perfect electric guitar collection.

>>127332318
yamaha mij. eastman for electrics since build quality and tonewoods don't matter for those

>>127332428
https://a.co/d/1mbG983
I think I will buy a can of this. Take my guitar apart, scuff it up with some 300 grit, and do a few light coats of the Snow White. It shouldn’t be too difficult and it should look at least decent. As long as it’s not pink anymore. Get a black pickguard, black and white fender volume and tone knobs. Should look pretty cool.

>>127332623
i think the pink is cool desu

>>127332221
i like short scale guitars theyre fun af
i had this one uh idk wtf it was because it didnt have a brand, it was some sears kit-built 60s one
it was tiny. you could tune it up to like G standard and it felt normal

>>127329272
Just use webmforbakas, .gifs are soooo 2010

>>127329193
If this actually triggers your tism I'm pretty sure some manufacturers don't color code their strings. Or at least don't use bright signal colors. I had some where the rings were just copper or silver or something.
Can't remember which though

>>127329664
>>127329702
I don't know who that is

>>127332830
there are fewer companies that colorcode than those that don't. D'Addario colorcodes.

>>127330006
I hate these new YouTube guitar sluts. But they also make my dick hard.
The logical conclusion is that we should take away their rights. Everyone would win.

>>127332229
I don't get it.
Arthritis?

>>127329502

>>127329664
I hate harp lady so much, she just looks like a massive cunt

>>127329702
Polish with black eyes

>>127332943
Mamma mia what a slut

>>127332943
i like her titnique i mean technips fuck i mean BOOBA

>>127332943
The best is larisa livier

>>127333105
no tits no thanks

Is everyone in here a pajeet?

>be me
>NEET
>want to buy nicer guitar
>don't have the income for it
Any songs for this feel?

>>127333147
it's friday night. Find a bar where there's a band playing and steal their shit, what the fuck are they gonna do?

>>127333117

>>127333231
is that the same person? not what google search looked like

>>127333122
I'm Canadian if that counts

>>127333122
I am

what guitar brand do pajeets like?

Sorry for the newfag question but how the hell do i play this?

>>127333336
Fender

>>127333336
Only the best

>>127333345
Barre the first fret. Its gonna suck.

If anyone was watching the Scotty West video series (32 episodes), this is the full YouTube link and Playlist for all the videos. Bookmark this URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1L-sBIxnY&list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPH

>>127333412
Lesson 1 Notes - The 6 Main Areas of Music:
Music is the LANGUAGE of sound expressed by a musician who uses it to communicate and extract a level of human satisfaction using an instrument as a tool of their expression over a period of time.

A musician needs to know what they're doing and be able to learn and play songs from beginning to end.

They need to be great listeners. In order to be a good player one has to:
1. Choose doable material and get to the end of the song.
2. Access yourself. Ask, how did I do? Correct mistakes with repetitive practice until mastery.

Truthfully answer the following questions...

Music is made up of these six main points:

1. Pitch: high & low frequency of notes you play in patterns. Chords (groups of notes played at once),

scales (sequence of notes played individually), melody, harmony, intervals, progressions are all part of

this category. Using the language metaphor this is all akin to using words. Music has an alphabet.

Question to ask yourself: Did I play the right notes?

2. Rhythm: Beat, tempo, timing

Question to ask yourself: Did I keep with the beat?

3. Dynamics: loudness (or softness), volume, amplitude

Question to ask yourself: Did I play loud enough in the loud parts and soft enough in the soft parts of a song?

4. Timbre: Sound quality, tone, EQ, Instruments, amplifiers, effects, distortion, chorus, etc. Change

your strings because they lose their tone over time.

Question to ask yourself: How did I sound?

5. Technique: Physical interaction with the instrument using fingers, toes, whatever body interface you

have access to in order to interface with the machine/instrument.

Question to ask yourself: Did I cooperate with the machine (my instrument)?

6. Notation: Read & Write

Question to ask yourself: Hows my reading and writing coming along?

>>127333345
It's just 8th notes. Not that difficult.

>>127333429
The fuck's an 8th note?

>>127333436
it's 1/8th of a measure of 4/4 music duh

>>127333412
Shit. It didn't include the playlist key word...let's try that again.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPH

Anyone know where I can find a similar switch to this? It's rectangular shaped from a TRBX

>>127333542
¿ more information is needed
https://www.soundofmusicstore.com/wd-music-wdmt3offb-1-mini-toggle-switch-3-position.html

>>127333542
Does it have any identifying numbers on it? Those numbers can be googled. You'll find a similar switch if the numbers match up.

idk, bing it

>>127333426
Isn't this from the course pdf?

>>127333601
Probably...I don't have the PDF. I took those notes. Do you have a URL for the PDF? That would save me a lot of time.

>>127333620
I couldn't find it ripped anywhere so I bought, pretty succint and readable but imo the video lessons are just a bit better. The mode patterns are helpful (8 sheets of the same fingers... BUT the note patterns are color coded) so once I memorize the fretboard I can lay down a mode anywhere I want provided I know the root note.

>>127333577
>>127333566
No identifying marks at all. It's a 2 position switch from a trbx 504.

>>127333637
There are mnemonics I can give you to memorize the fretboard quickly. Interested? I can type them out.

Ya the PDF is $19.95 USD. from his site.
I will just take notes as I go through it. 33 hours or so is going to take me a while.

>>127333637
Oh lookie lookie what I just found...

https://vk.com/wall-223223834_48

>>127333658
You may wish to use the search engine reverse image search features with your photos you took and see if you can narrow it down. I don't know what a trbx 504 is. But maybe you can email the manufacturer/brand/website you got whatever it is you're using the toggle switch from and ask them if they can help you out.

>>127333704
Thanks anon.

>>127329987
Thrash is tight fast metal. It's riff and rhythm heavy.

Punk has a lot of syncopation and otherwise sloppiness. There are subgenres on both sides that borrow ideas from the other.

>>127333757
You're welcome gitbro.

>>127329532
Whats your obsession with that tranny?

>>127333658
any of them will work as long as the schematic works the same. this one lists the diagram. i can't find a schematic for the 504 bass
https://www.amazon.com/Musiclily-Guitar-6-Foot-Mini-Switch/dp/B07MRZZWD4

>>127332175
No, work on your wrist angle and thumb placement.

>>127332241
See more chunk in the garbage

>>127333874
Show me what you mean

>>127333828
I'll probably ask again when the parts come in but just keep the put wires in the same position as on the old part or does it not matter?

>>127333926
it really depends on how the DPDT switch is wired to work but generally they are the same. check this out
https://www.reddit.com/r/BassGuitar/comments/ngecgx/where_can_i_get_this_toggle_switch_i_have_a/
pic related is your wiring diagram. good luck. i'd need to look at the bass because that diagram sucks. you've got two wires in and out for your pickups and 1 wire in and out for your 12v power (i think). that's all 6 poles

>>127333672
This is an excerpt of a diagram I was making for a book at one time. I drew this so I can give it out for free and this is only a section of the real file anyhow.

I no longer use the Every American Dad Goes Bald Eventually mnemonic. I use Eat A Damn Good Breakfast Everyday phrase instead for the open strings and 12th fret.

But the other phrases still work.

Fret 10, you just have to write it out fully to make sense...

SEE SHARP EFF SHARP BEG-SHARP SEE SHARP.

>>127333949
Meant 9th fret, not 10th. 10th fret is correct.

>>127333429
>>127333473
I'm talking about how to finger the chords

>>127333658
Tayda has dpdt mini toggles. You can find the everywhere else also.

>>127330857
You need single coils and mid boost the fuzz

>>127333948
>>127334071
Thanks for all the help.

Caved and bought a Boss GE7 EQ

I'm about to give up on this piece of shit.
Ended up getting some neck relief, changed the strings to 10 gauge. However, I'm now getting buzzing from the nut for the g string and the break for the mustang still looks bad before the strings are touching the guard. I genuinely feel cursed and honestly starting to think I should just give up learning guitar. Feels like something is actively keeping me from have a decent set up.

>>127333906
No unnatural or stressed wrist angles. There should be basically no wrist tension as you're almost in line with the forearm nearly all the time. Thumb resting directly on the back of the neck, fingertips pointing at the strings always for notes. Choke the thumb toward the palm as needed for barres. Using the guitar in more of a classical lap position may greatly help you.

Crustanged again

>>127334129
Get a PRS, it just werks

>>127331385
What the fuck that even mean

>>127333949
i always told ppl to just memorize the E and the A
makes it less intimidating and it only takes like 10mins. then you can just use octave shapes to figure out the rest. eventually you just learn the rest incidentally

>>127334129
Bridge is too low, you’ll need to shim the neck to increase the break angle but not enough break angle so the strings don’t hit the saddle screws. Buzzing at the nut means your but is cut too low, you’ll need to either replace the nut or shim the nut or use superglue to fill and recut.
If it’s too much work and hassle just get a Mastery

>start formal lessons with a private teacher earlier this week (I'm a beginner)
>tell him I want to shred (that's why I went with him, he's an specialist)
>he makes me do a bunch of simple exercises at an ultra slow speed
>all my fucking technique fall apart, I find it harder than playing at speed
>he tells me we will work slow for a couple of months
>asks me to please don't do exercises by myself cause I will make it worse

This dude expects me to spend at least a month doing 1-2-3-4 at 40-60bpm (1/4 notes, not 1/16) on every string for at least a month, is this normal? is he right about me needing to avoid going off the rails for now cause I'll just develop bad habits even further?

>>127333147
Get a job you fucking bum

>>127333147
>>127334203
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-i8IvYIcg

Someone told me to learn 10 songs before learning theory. is this viable or not?

>>127334129
>I should just give up learning guitar
Wait you don’t know how to play and the first guitar you bought is something with a Bigsby and a Mustang bridge? Bro wtf are you doing, get something simple and easy like a basic old Strat or Tele. Bigsbys and Mustang bridges are fine but they just need some know how and finicking to dial in, that’s not something I’d ever want to do with no real experience with guitar. Something simple like a three saddle or six saddle Tele bridge or a strat bridge with an easy to adjust vibrato or just blocked vibrato would be way simpler to learn to setup on for someone’s to first guitar

>>127334217
Sounds like a stupid rule that some idiot made up

>>127334193
Yes. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Get it absolutely nailed slow and get it so it’s all just muscle memory without even thinking about it. Don’t go fast off the get go, you will develop bad habits that will end up biting you in the end and then you’ll have an incredibly difficult time trying to break those established habits and develop new correct habits.

Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie

>>127334288
That's the one I've used

>>127334177
Yes, also, it's just alphabetical. So once you figure out that your E and A strings start on E and A lol, you can just do the alphabet up the string. One just has to realize there are just 12 notes. 7 natural notes. And that after G, things wrap around back to A again. No H for example...

However I found the mnemonic phrases helps get the random notes in between the E strings and the A string.

Those dots on the neck and inlay-ed on the fretboard are there for a reason. Using phrases for them just hammers things home quickly in my opinion. I'm a visual learner so that worked for me.

theory isn't playing guitar. You can only get better at playing guitar by playing guitar. Studying theory does jack shit and nobody here can play well enough to warrant 'studying', you need to learn to fucking play first

>>127334217
the number is arbitrary but I do think it's good advice. have fun first and get comfortable playing the guitar before diving into theory. some basics you should know though are power chords/barre chords, the names of all the strings, and how to palm mute

>>127334188
if the bridge (saddle) goes any higher all of the strings coming out of the shitsby will touch the back end of the saddle

>>127334266
There are players who definitely didn't go slow and have a "bad" technique but regardless
Gary Moore for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAgmoGeMB4

>>127334242
I unironically asked in this thread like two weeks ago about this, and was told it was a good deal and would be a good beginner guitar. The bigsby aspect isn't the issue. It's the mustang bridge, now the nut. I probably wouldn't be in this situation if the retarded guitar tech at the music shop I went to actually set it up, and didn't lie to me that it didn't need to be set up.

And yes, while I'm learning guitar, It's not actually my first guitar. I have an Ibanez Gio, but it's kind of a piece of shit.

Now, I don't know if I should take it to another guitar shop, or talk to Sweetwater about either an exchange or refund or what.

>>127334288
That works too. There are lots of them. The point is whatever you used, stuck in your brain and therefore it works reliably. Good luck ever forgetting it too!

Mnemonics work well. When using them to learn musical notation though they can seriously slow you down. Great at first but soon you realize you have to know the note letters in reverse too. Then the phrases break down usually and you're lost. So I encourage people to learn to read things in both directions on the staves as well as on the fretboard. Saying notes out loud and singing them at the same pitch of the note you're plucking makes a huge difference too. It can encourage you to start singing AND playing which is an entirely different and hard ball of wax to master.

>>127334346
If I were you I would just go to a different shop that has a reputable tech and get it set up. You already bought the damn thing.

>>127334302
It’s actually a bit of both isn’t it you moron

>>127334217
it doesnt rly mean anything, no

you want to learn theory not as some separate thing, but as something you can apply to whatever it is youre playing.
learning some new song with a new chord or progression?
go look up how chords are built. try and figure out how that works in the chords of the song youre playing
learning some song with weird rhythms?
try and figure out how to notate those rhythms yourself
song is in some weird mode?
look up modes and try and figure which one it is
etc

not only will it be less boring, but itll likely be more effective in terms of actually internalizing the knowledge
not saying you should totally skip book learning, as you have to learn what a quarter note is, or what a C scale is first before you can start applying that obv. im just of the opinion that the sooner you start using music theory as a tool in your playing, the sooner itll actually make a difference for your playing

>>127334346
what's your action at the 15th fret when the guitar is in tune? also you said you have relief by changing strings. is the truss rod backed all the way off? does it have a two way truss rod?

>>127334346
I have a Bigsby on one of my guitars. Is yours an Gibson ES 335 type copy? Mouse ears?

>>127334292
>No H for example...
krauts use h for Bb iirc

>>127334346
Just get a graph tech nut and replace the nut. I was uncomfortable filing nut lots until I had to on a replacement neck that had a high low e and a string action, stuck a good kitchen knife in there and fucked around and now the action is perfect. Guitar maintenance is retard proof if you look up how to do stuff, give it a go

>>127334382
krauts also use jews for soap and lamp shades

>>127334382
Ya, I heard this. I saw this once and I was like WTF is THAT? I thought it was a colombian thing. They don't say ha ha ha for example, they write ja ja ja and I'm like is this one of those fucking things? LOL!

>>127334302
This is babble from the school of paranoid classic rock guitarists who think knowing more about music makes you play worse for some fucking reason. Learning about theory doesn't need to be separate from your playing. Bothering to learn why what you're playing sounds good will make you better in the long run. I suppose if you literally just read textbooks on harmony that have nothing to do with guitar and never do any technical exercises that would be pretty stupid but no one encourages that.

holy shit writing tabs by ear is so much more fun than just copying them off the internet
it's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle
when it's all done, you get to look at (listen to) the pretty picture (song) that you recreated

>>127334346
mustangs are cool guitars dont give up on it
you kinda blew it getting a bigsby, as theyre kind of a meme (they just look pretty cool) and can be annoying to deal with. if youre literally just starting, youll almost never use it anyways

im just confused why you wouldnt get some cheapo guitar first. you havent even figured out whether you wanted to do this longterm or not, yet youre already dumping hundos in? stop listening to these guys telling you to buy more gear. thats obv not going to fix the problem. its literally how you got this problem

>>127334346
shoulda just got a tried and true pacifica

>>127333147
Apply for several lines of credit.
Immediately use the money to buy your guitar shit and whatever your favorite leech political figures are insider trading or most basic shitcoins like btc eth. Enjoy the guitar and hodl. Deliver newspapers or pan handle to make minimum payments. Eventually (1-3 years) the investments just pay for the guitar as the Fed prints away any dollar purchasing power.

>>127334346
I thought you had like 15 mustangs like most of the reggular guys here. Since you are still learning, it is ok.

>>127334367
well i tried

>>127334367
Relief is .10mm
And action on low E: 1.55mm
action on high E: 1.55mm, though it might be a little less. I'm using a feeler gauge.

Sorry guys, I'm just stressed out to cause my half brother had a heart attack the other day and I was gonna use all this as a distraction.

>>127334460
once you git gud at envisioning the tabs in your head, skip the tabulation process entirely
one of the best things you can do in terms of radical improvement on guitar is learning how to pick out songs/parts by ear
just do that over and over again. youll lvl up so fucking quick. esp if youre still low lvl

>>127334346
You still have a return window right? get a hardtail.

>>127334484
Because it's an American Vibe Classic and I wanted to do some of the mods for it.

Also, I know I want to do it long term. Just having a bad day and got a little melodramatic because I just feel exhausted. I've been practicing for six hours a day on the GIO causing I'm currently unemployed. The GIO just is my style.

>>127334564
*Isn't
I need a fucking nap. And maybe a Klonopin.

>>127334529
Sorry to hear about your senpai member anon. Hope he heals up and improves. You'll get your instrument worked out. You'll learn a lot in the process too. Music is a distraction and a huge dopamine rush. Maybe treat yourself out to a live show at a bar this weekend? Just listen to the music whatever gig you pick. Enjoy it! Get your mind off your senpai and other hard shit. Music is all we got in the end when we die. We don't take any hardware with us. It's all up in the brain...that's where it all lives anyhow.

>>127334578
senpai is not what I'm writing...F A M. 4chin is putting that in for me like S O Y would be onions

>>127334529
the relief is good but that's quite low action for an instrument that hasn't had the frets leveled. do you know if there is a shim behind the neck? if not the only thing you can do is add a bit more relief (no more than .008") and drop the saddle back down to 1.5mm also is the G string touching the first fret?

>>127334564
>tfw forever a GIO gguy

>>127334564
I'm not one to judge but why are you buying guitars at all if you don't have a job?

>>127334597
sorry i should say that's all you could do to get the strings off the back of the saddle. unfortunately that is just a poorly designed instrument and i would return it if you're still within the window or live with the problems of the string break angles. if fenders didn't have bolt on necks they would never sell any instruments because most of them need adjustment and they aren't immune to being unplayable from the factory

>>127334564
just buy the fuckin screwdrivers or whatever you need online then do it later
its not going anywhere

>>127334617
sorry third correction. what you should actually do is replace that fucking garbage with adjustable saddles, drop the bridge and raise the saddles

>>127334597
I doubt there's a shim, but I don't know for sure. G string is not touching the first fret. I did notice if I put my finger on the string from the nut to the tuner without any pressure, the ringing disappears.

I'm really happy with the handwired 12" Princeton bros. I also bought and installed some Curtis Novak pups for the JM that are a bit brighter on the neck and slightly darker/fuller on the bridge. Immediately went from a bridge pup guy to a neck/middle pup guy.

>>127334655
probably just need to take a piece of string with sandpaper around it and polish the back side of the nut slot. there are probably two peaks and the string is barely making contact with one of them and buzzing. (photo). i always forget you can just replace the saddles on fender stuff. just buy a pack of saddles, replace them and drop the bridge to clear the string and then raise your saddles to your action height

I'm buying a Rat tomorrow

>>127334615
Because i worked security for a long time, and saved away a bit of spending money that I use every now and then to buy nice stuff.

>>127334696
or the break angle is too shallow and you need more string windings on the post to lower it. sorry. i'm off my game today

>>127334698
It's going to be counterfeit

>>127334665
Sounds like a good move, those bridges get annoyingly bright sometimes.

>>127334590
555 come-on-now

>>127329169 (OP)
Way cooler than a V, except for the floyd(?) bridge

>>127334726
why

>>127333996
Very carefully

Tonight I'm gonna tune up my squier and play some chords when I get home from work

This looks kinda cool. I just saw it online...I am like a cat chasing a laser pointer at the moment. I don't know why I want it, but I want it.

>>127334129
You're going to have to modify that bridge, or buy a replacement and file down the back lip where those strings are touching.
The reason for it is because that bridge was designed for a shallower string break angle. Because there is a Bigsby tension bar there, it's fucking up the geometry.

What I'm gonna do is probably call Sweetwater tomorrow and see what they say. If I can't figure out anything with them, whether it be a refund, trade or whatever, I'll take it to a repair shop.

as for now, I'm gonna lie on my floor and listen to Built to Spill
https://youtu.be/1svwWcWwW0c?si=aZndfDWNuoA1e63S

>>127334997
NTA but why the fuck would they put this on a guitar without redesigning it a little? Especially a Squier which are typically new player guitars?

>>127335165
that's what people want, a shitty mistake of a bridge that was universally hated, a design that Leo Fender completely abandoned

>>127335175
The Mustang bridge is unironically the best offset bridge Fender designed. People ditched their Jazzmaster and Jaguar bridges all the time for Mustang bridges because they handle lighter gauge strings the best. The most common upgrade for offset bridges is either Mustang or Mastery. It’s not the bridge’s fault they decided to put it on a guitar with a Bigsby, although Bigsby with a Mustang bridge is also a very popular combo.
I’ve never had a guitar with a Bigsby. Is there a way to change the break angle on them? Tweaking springs, shims, etc? It seems unlikely they there isn’t a way to adjust it at all. >>127335175

I was singing in the car yesterday and I woke up to having a hoarse throat, is this normal or should I be worried I'm damaging my voice?
I don't usually sing

>>127334344
I wouldn't call that shredding

>>127335248
Go get a slurpee or ice cream. Cool your throat and let it relax. It will be fine but don't over do it. I got laryngitis once for several days singing too much while partying out at a bar to live music. It can happen with inflammation. It could also be related to sickness/covid type infection. So get rest, it will probably be fine. But if you get the runny nose and other symptoms then guess what? It's not your car singing.

>>127334129
ICE must have deported the Mexican intellectuals in charge of the engineering department. That break angle is all wrong. The bigsby should have been installed further back on the body so that the break angle behind the bridge isnt so sharp as to bind the strings on the back of the bridge/intonation screws. You can try removing the shim in the neck so that you can lower the bridge and still have a playable guitar. Personally, and I say this as a tech and music store owner, I would probably shim the bigsby with washers so that it is a mm or so higher off the body. If the neck shim didnt end up being the solution. They should have just given that bitch a Tune-O-Tragic bridge or optimally a roller bridge because they are narrower and would have probably worked with the steeper break angle.

>>127335165
it would be fine if the saddles were adjustable. that was the fatal flaw

>>127335295
They’re perfectly adjustable, they match the fretboard radius and you can raise and low either side to tilt it to raise one side or the other.

>>127335276
Well this was the first time I really sang seriously and it was for Sweet Thing so that's like 3 octaves lol

>hey I'm doing pretty good on this riff
>let's try a simpler one
>flubs everywhere

>how many pickup selections you want senpai?
Just switch my shit up

>Decide to change strings
>no idea whatsoever
>jump into it
>bridge falls out (Edge)
>Struggle to put it back in place
>manage to do it while fighting against the springs lmao
>Put things back in order
>Somehow bridge stays slighty above parallel to the body
>Springs suffering with strings tension
>Start over and manage to balance tension a tad
>Strings still feel too tense at the neck around the locking nuts section
>Strings entirely out of tune
>Below zero idea how to tune or how to sound but they do sound sharpy
>Neck looks a tad leaned forward and close to the strings at the upper part
>fret buzz and 2 broken screws (one at the bar above the locking nuts, the other at the spring regulation at the back)
>mfw
Is that tension and slight leaning normal for Ibañez guitars? I have an honest Gio

Realistically, how much does the average rock musician know about theory? I feel like im diving too deep and should try to make something. Like do they really start soloing and think "im gonna play the phrygian mode over this minor seventh chord"

>>127335439
No tit's not normal, you're supposed to jam half a deck of cards or something under the Edge trem before loosening the strings to save all this headache, r.i.p.

>>127335458
well, nothing ventured, nothing gained lmao

https://youtu.be/ROtIdPoDpBg?si=uOSgRDVX4WOTZUCA
The break angles are shorter with the bigsby on these telecasters. One has a mastery bridge. Putting a mastery bridge on a squier seems dumb though.

>>127335476
At least I know what not to do when doing my first string change now, thank you for your service.

>>127335428
10 position and still cant do neck and bridge?

>>127335486
There’s a custom shop Bigsby Tele about half an hour away for sale that I’ve been tempted by all year cuz it just seems so cool but $4k for a vibrato unit I know I’ll hate is just wild

>>127335507
Just wire in a killswitch for the middle then

>>127335490
That's where we disagree; I like to do things like men instead of the safe route.

>>127335523
I have a shed full of dismantled electronic gadgets I'll never put back together again for that itch.

>>127335528
Reassemble your solder pile of shame, anon

How do cover bands cover so much ground that they can take song requests without previously ever playing the song?

https://vocaroo.com/1fFfDuKLYD29
acoustic song about becoming ted kazinsky

>>127335610
>read sheet music
>have sheet music/ipad
>have heard music before
>know how to play music
>profit

it's what happens when you spend time learn how to actually make music with people that people want to hear instead of practicing two-hand-tapping on your schecter

>>127335318
they're not perfect adjustable if he's having the current problem he's having

>>127335640
It’s not the bridges fault it’s stuck on a with a vibrato that it wasn’t designed for. It works perfectly fine with the vibratos it was designed to be used with.

>>127335652
fair point

>>127331070
tonnes of guys just use a head and cab, just running into the power amp section, thru the fx return

>>127335534
One day, when I buy a decent soldering iron

On a Mustang you can raise and lower the height of the vibrato bar itself to help tweak break angle, I don’t know if you can do anything like that on a Bigsby. If there’s away to adjust break angle with the Bigsby instead of just the bridge it should help with the issue.

>>127335610
Ear Training is the primary reason. All music resides in the mind first. It's a language. They are good at hearing it in their brain first and just know how the music they want to play goes together based on what they've already heard. You already do this with the spoken English language. You can learn to do this with the musical language of sound too. Try humming in your mind randomly. Guess what, you're playing music too! Now translate that to the instrument...eventually your fingers will know how to convert your brain thoughts into notes in patterns like words to make sentences to tell a story.

>>127335626
you sound like if the guy from xiu xiu listened to musicals and went to grad school

If you ended up becoming famous, would you break guitars on stage for brands you don't like? Which ones?

>>127335856
>I'd pay money to use and give free advertising to guitars you don't want
you found the stupid question anon, gg.

If you're decent at guitar will you be decent at bass?

>>127335626
Despite a little shoddiness around the edges you have actual talent especially in the writing. But I mean this as nicely as possible: nobody here will like this. /gg/ is for incels who listen to dad rock and autism-core djent, not fucking effete confessional folk songs. You're not going to find helpful advice, even about the purely technical side of your guitar playing, because everyone here is already predisposed to hate people like you personally and find your music off-putting.

>>127335929
it's also a tranny, which doesn't help

>>127335891
>1) will you be able to play the basics of the instrument, and know which frets which notes are on?
yes
>2) will you be a competent bass player who knows how to actually use the instrument correctly?
no, probably not.
> 3) is 1) enough to get by in whatever shitty band you're joining?
yes, probably

>>127335856
I’d break the same year and model of my favorite guitar so that mine would progressively grow in value and rarity.

>>127335929
You this desperate that you need to samefag?

>>127335803
Thank you (?)

>>127335929
Thanks (?) you're probably right, tbf. Not claiming my music's good but people don't actually seem to like music in general here.

>>127335947
I'm not lol what makes you think that?

>>127335706
I wonder if you could just stick some washers under all the screws on the bigsby for some height.

best
bursts
Bourbon
Iced Tea
Desert

>>127336027

>>127335975
no

>>127336051
I believe you this time.

I'm starting to think maybe the strings are supposed to sit on the outside "guard rails". I'm looking at pictures of other bigsby customs and seeing shit like pic related.

>>127336122
bigsby are a meme, get a real tremolo.

Why did he ruin a perfectly good song?
https://youtu.be/Oqe8zxrbo9A?si=nU8_zIaqn2AqLCgt

songs for this feel?

>>127336296
I hope that guitar was at least 18 years old

>>127329191
Get a Yamaha Pacifica 112VM

>>127335066
>built to spill
I do feel as sorry for you anymore.

Yamahas won't get you laid Danny.

>>127336306
>it isn't

That's sir lil Timmy to you

>>127335456
I feel like they just throw a handful of canned riffs at some changes and make sure they land on the notes they need to phrase to phrase. Jazz players can voice lead. Theory doesn't make you good, but it's important when you're burned out of the same generic sounds. I'd sooner flick tritones or chromatics than listen to the same pent links 10000 more times.

just get a gibson

>>127335856
I'd repair firebird x's on twitch alongside hot tub e-girls

>>127336391
there's a bunch of different approaches.
If i think of say opeth or mastodon, they play a lot of chromatic progressions, like some really out of key chords but they make it work with simple thru-melodies that tie things together.

Tool use pretty much the same scale for half their catalogue but the focus is more on rhythmic changes so it still works.

you gotta do what speaks to you. if you like things that stay in one key, then do that. if you know your theory and find something out of key that sounds good, you'll be able to work out 'which key(s) have i modulated to' and how do i get back to home base

need it or keep it?

when i think of the posters here
https://youtu.be/at2BufPf6bo?list=RDat2BufPf6bo

>>127336443
Gimme the P-90 one.

>>127336443
>Goldfinger starts playing

>>127336541
P90s limp like coomer dick. If i want limp i'd use single coils.

>>127336027
all les pauls should have a natural back. the cherry mahogany looks like shit

>>127336688
it'd be really lame

>>127330430
Gretsch Tennessean master race

RIP Chet

Chet hanks
White boy summer good song

>>127336792
>white

>>127335175
He "abandoned" the designs because he sold the patents.

>>127333502
Thanks anon!

practically superior in every way

>gay & lame

>>127336876
>ceramic pickups

>>127336883
ceramic pickups are better imo, nice and hot

https://voca.ro/1g5LxqWnIrnr

https://voca.ro/11Dwb0FK5EvB

Electro Spanish Three Hundred and Thirty Five Electrical Guitar

>>127337264
based

what kind of nut do you like

>>127337371
graphtech

>>127337371
hippo tooth

>>127337371
almond

>>127337371
your fathers

>>127337371
You already know playa

berserk inlays kinda juicy ngl

>>127337371
Hazelnut.

>>127337520
yummers

why should i spend $8,000 on this gibson custom ebony LP with gold hardware just to play it on the neck?

Does the SG have better pickups or sound any different?

>>127337590
>spending $8000
>not looking into the details in advance.

go play one dude

>>127337621
SG has underwound pickups
LP has burstbuckers

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZA07-MYxZQ8

I'm not driving to fucking reno, they can just mail to me

mfw i'm probably just gonna get a tele with 2 humbuckers

>>127337590
i would never get a gibson custom anything. honestly i wouldnt even get a lp that's higher grade than a studio desu. they sound the same

>>127337712
>>127337712
>>127337712

>>127335257
You didn't watch it through