how about play some songs that let you express your boredom / melancholy
now thats a twist

i thought it'd be a good idea to try practicing making open C + G by positioning fingers at the same time / in reverse order and it caught on pretty quick (10 mins) after seeming very hard and is actually like a massive improvement in speed/accuracy

literally too tired to remember the sequence , look forward to practicing clean-ness soon
the solo low notes are unintentional from lack of form lol

watson7tyler

5 Posts

December 11 2015 04:45 GMT

#1402

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FFGenerations

7088 Posts

December 20 2015 21:38 GMT

#1403

well i bothered to get 2 recordings , not much to see here but might aswell post them

endless rain is getting better but its still tons of room for improvement. and that's with reverb on. i just dont have time to practice this shit as the weeks go by

one life chords are ok, too tired to get them down here but wanted to record it. also trying dif strumming pattern which make it harder

started learning the scale shapes, i know the pentatonics already and learnt major and minor 1st and 2nd positions over the weekend, aim to practice them this week. minor scales are soooo sexy :3

edit i went and recorded some airman playthru

A3th3r

United States319 Posts

December 21 2015 00:54 GMT

#1404

Got a guitar from a guy named Jussi Kamarainen (with umlauts over the a's) for 25 Euros & played it at a party at my apartment in Helsinki, Finland for my friends!

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

December 21 2015 07:21 GMT

#1405

sounds like a song in the making^

Rowa

Belgium962 Posts

December 21 2015 15:27 GMT

#1406

Hello gents,

I came back yesterday from the local guitar shop ( good reputation ) with my American strat ( sienna sunburst ) to find it scratched ( front and back ), badly set up ( I pulled the strings up once and not one was in tune ).
Furthermore, half of the strings are now buzzing..

I'm trying to fight the anger, especially since wreaking havoc there won't bring any kind of solution..

I feel depressed just thinking about it. I was planning on taking it with me when I visit friends and family and had been repeating christmas tunes etc...

What can really be done when one encounters this situation ?

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

December 21 2015 15:49 GMT

#1407

For the scracthing nothing, but to be honest if you play a guitar for a while it's going to get dinged no matter what, might as well get used to it.

For the set up and buzz, either try to remedy yourself if you know how to do it, or take it to a professional luthier rather than a guitar shop and have him look at it.

Did you just buy the guitar, or did you ask the people in the shop to work on it? If you just bought it and it's scratched you should be able to return it and get another one.

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

December 21 2015 16:09 GMT

#1408

Yeah, what Teoita said. Basically all you can do now is set it up again, and maybe try to get either reimbursed or a discount from the shop as an excuse for their services. Even though it's every guitar's future to get scratched, that doesn't allow them to do it.

LeperKahn

Romania1845 Posts

December 21 2015 20:13 GMT

#1409

I was playing a show the other night when my pickups went out!! Boo!!

I posted a picture of the guitar earlier in the thread. It is a Godin lgx with modified Gibson 498t and 490r pickups.

I was playing and the sound stopped. I checked all connections and used another guitar and the sound worked. I plugged back into the godin and when I selected the piezo pickup the guitar made noise. Only the piezo would make noise and if the piezo was turned off the guitar would not sound.

I assume the person I bought this from did a crappy soldering job and it came lose or something. I've got experience soldering, but never opening up a guitar before. Any tips/places I should look? Should I just suck it up and take it to a tech?

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

December 21 2015 20:38 GMT

#1410

try somewhere like here or i think there are luthier forums or waheterv the word is

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

December 21 2015 22:09 GMT

#1411

If you have experience soldering (and a soldering iron available, eh) and the problem comes from a soldering issue, then I don't think you should take it to a tech, you'll do just fine. Just be aware that there isn't much space in the electronics cavity when soldering, meaning it can be a bit annoying if you suck at soldering like me.

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

December 22 2015 22:18 GMT

#1412

here is the miku melt solo, it is super short and easy but my god it mindfucked me trying to get the timings for it right (at 17s), i literally felt like an austic i just couldnt replicate it from the tabpro nomatter what

dont practice it much, but it just goes to show theres not "much point" learning new stuff if there is so much work to be done just to get something short like this sounding good

Karis Vas Ryaar

United States4396 Posts

December 26 2015 20:17 GMT

#1413

so i'm trying to get into guitar and Ive got a new guitar and a cheap 10 watt amp, I I practice sometimes but am trying to do it more. I was wondering if its worth getting a pedal for it or If I should wait until I'm better.

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

December 26 2015 21:29 GMT

#1414

If it makes you want to play more why not. What amp do you have and what genre do you play?

Karis Vas Ryaar

United States4396 Posts

December 27 2015 07:09 GMT

#1415

On December 27 2015 06:29 Teoita wrote:
If it makes you want to play more why not. What amp do you have and what genre do you play?

an epiphone electar 10 is the ampp.guitar is an epiphone les paul. i got em in a set. I play mostly rock and metal (pretty much everything here but mostly power metal/ cleaner stuff although something that could also do black metal distortion would be awesome.)

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

December 27 2015 13:13 GMT

#1416

I see. Imo when you first look into effects and you have a cheap amp, your best bet is to buy a multi effects unit from Boss or similar, so that your main sound comes from that rather than the amp. The affordable ones aren't the greatest sounding units, but they are usually better than a small amp's overdrive channel. A friend of mine got one of these http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ME25 used for about half the retail price, and he's pretty happy with it.

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

December 27 2015 19:04 GMT

#1417

I agree relying mainly on the pedal for distortion and not the amp would probably sound best. I think there are a lot of good distortion pedals for going into a clean amp other than multi-fx though. All my distortion comes from pedals as well, but mine might be fuzzier than you are looking for. Works fine for metal for me but not the most standard tones. I have a Mr Black Thunderclaw, and an EHX Lumberjack and Satisfaction Fuzz. I don't think I'd recommend any of these if you just want a single pedal that can do good lead and rhythm type stuff for standard sounding rock/metal.

Karis Vas Ryaar

United States4396 Posts

December 27 2015 21:11 GMT

#1418

On December 27 2015 22:13 Teoita wrote:
I see. Imo when you first look into effects and you have a cheap amp, your best bet is to buy a multi effects unit from Boss or similar, so that your main sound comes from that rather than the amp. The affordable ones aren't the greatest sounding units, but they are usually better than a small amp's overdrive channel. A friend of mine got one of these http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ME25 used for about half the retail price, and he's pretty happy with it.

okay thanks a lot. I figured i needed a pedal for osund reasons. Ill go to my local store and see if they have anything good either used or new

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

December 28 2015 00:27 GMT

#1419

you can plug your guitar into a usb audio interface (or rocksmith cable but there is a delay i think?) and plug that into your PC then use headphones and reaper/amplitube/etc
instead of using an amp

Ben...

Canada3485 Posts

January 03 2016 03:16 GMT

#1420

My yearly "I really should get a Les Paul" itch just popped up again so I've been drooling over a few for a while. I was going to go with a Japanese domestic market copy since they're really good and pretty cheap but have decided to go for the real thing and think of it as a bit of an investment since Gibsons seem to slowly be going up in value and the one I am looking at is just a few hundred bucks more. I picked one out on the Ishibashi that was a rather good price so I will have to see if I get it (I put in an inquiry).

Oh, and for the rocksmith cable plugged into PC and using amplitube instead of an amp, yeah that works great. I do that quite a bit since I don't want to be noisy.