Guitar Thread - Page 46

On February 27 2014 09:35 AirbladeOrange wrote:
Does anyone have experience with loop stations? I'm looking to get one but I don't know the best way to set this up. I want to be able to play acoustic instruments (guitar, cello, percussion) along with a keyboard. I'd like an easy, affordable setup that doesn't sound terrible.

On February 27 2014 00:16 Wombat_NI wrote:
Pretty solid Death covers there man, fun band to play for sure

On March 04 2014 00:46 Mikau wrote:
It's unreal how fast "wow I'm progressing so fast!" and "fuck this piece of shit guitar I'm stuck what the fuck" alternate in my mind.

And I need to practice more.

On March 09 2014 01:48 pebble444 wrote:
Anyone here haev experience passing from playing the guitar to the piano? any advice? i have problems coordinating both hands while playing the piano, unless its the same note with the left hand (i' m right-handed). I guess it cause be i have to practice more but after 2 months i don' t feel any improvement in the coordination

On March 05 2014 08:19 Gotard wrote:
Guys i need help. I don't get how I can learn string bending. It's really holding me back and it's super annoying when sometimes I can hit few close perfect bends in a row and then fail miserably next few.

On March 09 2014 08:53 MrTortoise wrote:

that may be confusing. Several steps
1) play the note you want to bend to fix it in mind then bend to it
once you start to get that
2) play a note, sing the note you want to bend to and bend to it. You may find you need to practise being about to know what note you are about to bend to. Thats where my real problem was

On March 09 2014 08:53 MrTortoise wrote:


Have you sat down and made your fingerings thought out.

Are you bending with no other fingers for support?
Are you bending using your wrist or just your fingers? - if you want a whole step or more reliably then you probalby shuold use wrist more.

Do you know which strings you are goign to pull or push and when?

Mechanics over ;p

a good practise is to play the note you want to bend to then bend to it. Practise this both slowly and just hitting it as quick as you can - practise with as many different feels as you can. Reaching is ok as long as you identify it as reaching when you do it and then do it right after.

Bends change as your strings age, with humidity etc so there is a lot of feel and adjustment that you cant talk about.

I had a lot of problems for a while - still do but i'm a hell of a lot better now - it turned out for me that i didn't have the note i wanted to hit firmly in my mind. So when i started to sing what i was playing things started to work a bit more regularly. When you can play a note and then sing the note you want to bend to when your bending for some reason just works that little bit better.

that may be confusing. Several steps
1) play the note you want to bend to fix it in mind then bend to it
once you start to get that
2) play a note, sing the note you want to bend to and bend to it. You may find you need to practise being about to know what note you are about to bend to. Thats where my real problem was

a little every day.
2) helps a fuck ton in all kinds of places especially if you like to or want to improvise.

If its not a musical problem and its an execution problem then thats just practise practise practise, every single place you bend and every single degree you bend to is slightly different. Its hard as fuck - i still have some bends i know i fudge regularly. IE if its an e minor shape ill play a D# shape and bend it all up, then a D shape and bend it all up again.

One thing i try to do is take simple stuff and make it simpler, then try and play it only using half step bends then whole step bends. Then start messing about with prebends etc. Just really really practise it out of context. You can do some quite cool stuff.

hope that gives you a few ideas you may not of had.

Oh what gauge strings do you use? A lot of bend heavy guitarists use surprisingly light strings - you can solve tone elsewhere because you gain a ton in terms of feeling and expression. I used to use 11, im on 9 now. Eg Billy gobbons uses incredibly light strings Billy Gibbons string guage

On March 09 2014 21:27 Gotard wrote:


Thanks for your advice!

I think my mechanics are fine since I usually go too high and have more finger strength than it's necessary to bend properly (maybe except for 1 finger bends). I was learning bending technique from JustinGuitar's videos so I always use my wrist and as many fingers as possible.

I use 10-46 or 10-52 (I like to play around sometimes so I tried some 9 and 11 sets in the past). I should say that I tune my guitar half step down. I sometimes like to strum a little bit harder when I play some rhythm parts so 9s seems a too light because they like to buzz a lot and I don't want to trade even more string action for it. I considering using a light set just for sake of learning bends.

I think you are right that I need to focus more on what note I want to bend to because right now it's like i'm bending and after it i say "oh, that doesn't sound right". Lately I've found out that when I try to play some songs with bends it seems much easier that when I fooling around because I have the exact note in my head.