I don't care enough to argue these points. If an absolute beginner thinks it behooves them flick their wrist up and down for hours at a time with no discernable timing whatsoever, all power to them.

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

March 22 2015 11:51 GMT

#1282

Honestly if you just want a mechanical exercise to practice alternate picking, grab a metronome and play the chromatic scale while altering fingerings: 1-2-3-4, then change to like 2-1-3-4, and go through all the patterns. Start with one string, then start going up and down strings. The hard thing about alternate picking isn't doing it quickly on a single string as much as coordinating that with your fretting hand.

On a completely unrelated note, the harmonic scale is awesome

lohdon

170 Posts

March 23 2015 10:27 GMT

#1283

On March 21 2015 22:25 SixStrings wrote:Now that Spring has finally arrived in Germany, I love hanging out with my guitar in the sun, but it's a bit annoying that I have to always carry about a collection of my tab. I usually play 'fingerstyle' arrangements that I can't really learn by heart...

So I guess my question is, how do you emancipate yourself from tabs and play from memory or 'from the heart'?

For me it helps immensely to not just print out the tabs but to write them down myself in a notebook. I memorize the song structure and the picking patterns much quicker if I do that. Also it helps me to keep them organized and thus reduces the hassle to bring them along because they are just all in that notebook.

Since we are at the topic of practicing alternate picking and such. So far I have hardly been using a pick since I really enjoy picking with my fingers and I feel like the songs I want to be playing next are mostly songs that use fingerpicking.
However I also have been practicing the pentatonic scale just using my thumb for every string. So I guess my question is how should I be practicing scales as a fingerpicking player and would you advise me to also get comfortable with a pick?

SixStrings

Germany2046 Posts

March 23 2015 11:10 GMT

#1284

Does anyone have a proper printable tabulature in A4?

lohdon

170 Posts

March 23 2015 19:30 GMT

#1285

Like this?

SixStrings

Germany2046 Posts

March 23 2015 22:36 GMT

#1286

Literally perfect, thanks mate.

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

March 25 2015 16:41 GMT

#1287

progression diary from today (fucking around)

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

April 18 2015 10:14 GMT

#1288

Because fuck breakups, just buy some (used) guitar gear:

LeperKahn

Romania1839 Posts

April 19 2015 03:22 GMT

#1289

I fell ya man... I just had a similar deal and got an amp. These look like great pedals! I know MXR and Boss both make awesome ones. Enjoy the sounds!

Is the micro amp a boost pedal?

Powerpill

United States1692 Posts

April 19 2015 05:11 GMT

#1290

On April 18 2015 19:14 Teoita wrote:
Because fuck breakups, just buy some (used) guitar gear:

Nice, I still prefer my old boss ds1, probably for nostalgic reasons though. =]

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

April 19 2015 09:05 GMT

#1291

On April 19 2015 12:22 LeperKahn wrote:
I fell ya man... I just had a similar deal and got an amp. These look like great pedals! I know MXR and Boss both make awesome ones. Enjoy the sounds!

Is the micro amp a boost pedal?

Yep i use that as a boost for leads or whatever, and a little drive from the amp+the overdrive pedal for my main rythm sound

Also the DS1 is cool too but i didn't need that much gain, so i just got an overdrive pedal instead. Now all i need is a delay.

LeperKahn

Romania1839 Posts

April 19 2015 17:34 GMT

#1292

I've yet to find an affordable delay pedal I like. I think this one is good, but it's pricey:

(also it might not be that useful to you since it also has chorus which you have now.)

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

April 19 2015 18:02 GMT

#1293

Delays really are on the expensive side of pedals yeah; it's probably my fetish for affordable stuff, but i think your average mxr carbon copy, boss dd7, or tc flashback is actually really good though

SixStrings

Germany2046 Posts

April 19 2015 18:52 GMT

#1294

I love those Boss pedals. It makes no difference if you buy them used, you can throw anything at them and they'll be just fine.

JSH

United States4109 Posts

May 04 2015 08:51 GMT

#1295

Uhh I think I have a guitar problem

When I hammer on anything past the 5th fret from open string, I think it's plays another note as well as the hammer on note
The second "note" seems to be pretty high starting like 5th fret, then decreases in pitch until 12th fret, then start get higher in pitch for the E B G D string
Then it's the exact opposite for the low A and E string... for some reason

I am assuming this isn't supposed to happen...
Not sure if it is a recent problem or I never noticed
If I hammer on from a fretted string, it's fine, but from open string it does this

SixStrings

Germany2046 Posts

May 04 2015 10:41 GMT

#1296

when would you ever even do a 0-5 or higher hammer on?

At any rate, that's completely normal, of course if you're hammering down, both halves of the string are going to reverberate. You won't hear the lower half of it, because its sound won't reach the pickups.

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

May 04 2015 10:51 GMT

#1297

for example

And yeah you shouldn't hear that amplified

JSH

United States4109 Posts

May 04 2015 11:40 GMT

#1298

oh good
I guess as long as it does come out amplified I guess it's fine

At first I was confused thinking like why am I hearing notes I am not playing lol

ty <3

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

May 04 2015 17:28 GMT

#1299

Bought a TC Flashback today, my DIY pedalboard is now complete \o/

That piece of wood there is a piece of a chair that kinda broke off so i just stuck some velcro on top of it and added rubber thingies at the bottom to keep it in place. Also whoever at MXR decided it would be smart to put the power plug on the side of the pedal is a goddamn moron.