Guitar advice? - Page 2

On March 30 2009 02:49 cgrinker wrote:
What a strange place to look for musicianship advice. The internet?

Go talk to the music teacher at your school.

I made sure every note sounded the way it should, every finger pressed at the right spot and had the right angle and every sound came out as a natural progression of the previous one. I still warm up with speeds like that. It helped me improve tons.

On March 30 2009 02:35 HeavOnEarth wrote:

ok thanks.

On March 30 2009 04:11 EscPlan9 wrote:
Well yes, if you use a cheap shitty multi-effects pedal, what do you think it's going to sound like? Hence, mid-level is recommended.

You should always fret the note as close to the fret as possible [ x] . The only times you don't are with advanced techniques like trying to hit certain harmonics that are inbetween frets.

On March 30 2009 06:10 Murkyith14 wrote:
A good place to learn techniques is justinguitar.com
Completely free, full lessons. Awesome site.

On March 30 2009 05:14 R3condite wrote:
if you've nvr played b4... u do not need 500 bucks to play...

i suggest burrowing the guitar from ur friends or something similar to that. Mots people have guitar in their homes but they nvr use it...

also if u've nvr really played guitar or other string instruments b4, then play acoustic b4 playing electric as it gives u a better basics

as for an amp you can totally buy a practice amp for around 100 bucks (15 watt ones, i really like my Frontman 15R)

also if you buy extra strings i recommend getting ernie ball super slinky types <- those r the standard ones that comes w/ guitar (super slinky)
also as for the pick get a medium flex one

but seriously i high recommend u practice like the basic 7 chords and stuff w/ a burrowed guitar from one of ur nicer friends and then see if u want ot get ur own and such
because if you do that then if for some reason u decide u do not like it or it's too much commitment u didn't waste any money, also if u do want to continue playing you have much more knowledge about guitars and such in general that u r in a better position to buy the stuff u need

buy a metronome/tuner combo devices
also as for the guitar any beginner's should be fine? but i recommend that u buy ur guitar at a store
a key thing to check on ur guitar is how ezily the strings become loose
u do this by bringing that tuner of ur to the store and tuning one or two strings to their rightful pitch and then on one chord try tugging on it side ways rite and left couple of times and see how much it's out of tune after doing it a couple of times. You should be able to do it rapidly for like about 30 times w/o having it go out of tune (giving i ta nice tug, but not too hard, just about enough to barely touch the string next to it)
then u need to check the effect of the other strings on that particular string u r testing (u only need to test one string most of the time, try strumming al lthe strings just randomly up and down couple of tiems and such and then see if the string u r check has gone out of tune or not
u should be able to a fair amount of strumming (like 30 min continued?) b4 u start seeing that the string goes out of tune, but usually guitars r so that either they go out of tune really fast or they don't so u won't need to strum in the store for 30 min more like 30 sec-ish

so yeah... gl w/ ur search (also if u strum enough the store owner might get ticked and offer u the guitar at a cheaper price if u just take it out w/ u, haha)

oh try to not buy guitars from those chain stores...

EDIT: oh if u play cello then guitar should be ez for u.. trust me guitars allow so much more rm for error than violin or cello does! so u can probably practice w/a electric rite away... unless u wanna go pro w/ it
Also i noe it would seem cool to try out ur cello vibrato skills on the guitar but most of the time u can hardly hear those things... it's really really subtle... that's y they have tremolo arms, but i dont' recommend u get guitars w/ tremolo ones unless u r paying up like at least 500 for just the guitar cus all the cheaper ones suk due to the tremolo arms causing problems w/ strings loosening and such... like i said just burrow the guitar from a friend... it's really not that hard

On March 30 2009 05:47 Skyze wrote:
I suggest rondo music guitars for cheap but great.. www.rondomusic.net - look at the Agile ones specifically, they are really good (most people like the Agile LPs better than most Epiphones of 3 times the price, myself included)

Amp.. check out Tech 21 Trademark 30

On March 30 2009 06:10 Murkyith14 wrote:
A good place to learn techniques is justinguitar.com
Completely free, full lessons. Awesome site.

On March 30 2009 04:56 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:
I was thinking of how I described the vibrato and actually it's not that accurate. I had in mind that you do it with your 3rd finger. If you're doing it with the 2nd or even worse with the 1st one, the rest of the hand doesn't remain steady at all, so scratch what I said before (also the thickness of the guitar neck plays a role in this). I searched youtube and found a few videos that could help you (and some pretty hilariously bad as well that made me laugh so hard lol).

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