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Posted: 6/19/2006 3:29:22 AM | Thanks for that. Yeah I know what you mean about the mixes, they're basic demo's done via my home pc so the quality was always going to suffer.
lol it's easier(more fun) for me to practice/experiment with the soloing so I guess the rhythm tightness has suffered. Thanks again, I'll get on it. | |
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Posted: 6/19/2006 3:55:25 AM | ^^^^^^^^^^^^
dude it is all good I am glad to see you posted that stuff
you are a step ahead of me
and tightening up phrases usally means learning them note for note and repetition
Ie
memorization--I have never been good at that---remembering lots of complexed melodies | |
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| The guitar player's thread - tuning
Posted: 6/19/2006 10:37:38 PM | Forgive me if this has been addressed already; I was loathe to investigate 68 (?) pages of posts right now...
I have a show in two days, and I had to change my strings. Tonight. They're slipping out of tune, of course, and I'm worried about them doing so on stage. I stink at tuning while breathing, let along setting up a song, and I don't have a digital to patch in. I *can* buy one tomorrow (provided I can find one) if that's really the best solution, though.
I've heard that if you stretch the strings manually (as opposed to letting it happen naturally while you play), you can get it to stay in tune faster - but won't this make just ONE part of the string stretched, yielding wierd tone?
Any ideas that might help?
~Thunder | |
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Posted: 6/19/2006 10:59:12 PM | thunder
stretch down the length of the string,careful don't break them
for the gig get a good tuner or tuner pedal,spend more than $30 you get what you pay for
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| The guitar player's thread - tuning
Posted: 6/20/2006 12:19:27 AM | Guitar man...
THANK you! Will do.
Tuner *pedal*? Like, something with a display that you press for tuning ea successive string? Meh - I'm sure Dude at Prom will know exactly what it is. How much more than $30 do you figure?
~Thunder | |
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Posted: 6/20/2006 5:06:54 AM | thundersong
how much more?
go to a good music store in town and ask the guitar tech to show you a good tuner at the store.
get the best you can afford....it is a good investment
being in tune will never go out of style | |
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Posted: 6/20/2006 6:26:09 AM | For both stretching strings and tuning - may be important -
Nylon or steel-string
Acoustic, Electric, or Acoustic Electric? | |
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Posted: 6/20/2006 12:40:12 PM |
get the best you can afford....it is a good investment
being in tune will never go out of style
Agreed. After that previous post was out and claimed by cyber-land, I thought, "Now, that's a silly question", and went out and got what I could afford. Unfortunately, the pedal tuners at the music store here started at $80, which just wasn't reasonable for me right now. I settled for a chromatic at just over half the price, and have now committed myself to writing a song in drop D, just to make use of that feature. Would be cool to do so anyways... with 30-some songs behind me, I've never written in anything but standard tuning. Time to give it a try!
Thanks again
~Thunder | |
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Posted: 6/20/2006 3:26:52 PM | drop d is lots of fun
try d-a-d-g-a-d too
you will love that one the guitar plays it's self
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Posted: 6/20/2006 3:52:02 PM | Set length just doubled.  Show starts in 22 hours - just enough time to polish up another 8 songs? Eek. I find myself asking, "Why, oh why did I have to be such a brat and only practice my favourtie ten for the last month?" Tsk. Tsk.
try d-a-d-g-a-d too
you will love that one the guitar plays it's self
Cool. Automated accompaniment. Now I can focus on my lyrics and showmanship! Maybe finally drag that bass onstage.
;)
Back to work!
~Thunder | |
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| The guitar player's thread - tuning
Posted: 6/21/2006 12:47:56 AM |
drop d is lots of fun
try d-a-d-g-a-d too
you will love that one the guitar plays it's self
Ooooh Led Zep, Black Moutain slide, must see if I can remember that later. | |
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Posted: 6/21/2006 7:32:45 PM | Spacedust:
cool tunes...love to hear some good instrumentals..."weak at the knees" was cool...love the avant guard stuff...but the drums were giving me a headache....damn machines....
...keep on rockin' man... | |
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Posted: 6/22/2006 7:43:42 AM | Guitarman100:
Thanks! Your advice worked like a charm. At the outset, before I posted my question, my strings were sliding nearly a whole tone (and she's the only guitar I know that tunes herself UP rather than down when not in use), but by the time I performed, I had to make only microadjustments between songs. That helped!
Also, I read (I think in this thread?) that it's a good idea to tune up your git even if you're not going to play right then, because it creates something like a 'comfort zone' for the strings. I used that information, also, so yesterday went very well.
The feedback was good - people really enjoy the lyrics and listening to the stories and my voice itself, but the negative constructive feedback was, "Girl, you gotta learn to use more varied strumming patterns!" I'm thinking, that to achieve this, I'll shift a hefty portion of my focus from composing to learning a few covers.
For the new song I'm currently writing, I'm using the tuning Guitarman100 suggested d-a-d-g-a-d... wierd, but it will keep me out of my comfort chords, and I'm trying a picked rhythm with a few dotted notes thrown in there to stay away from my comfort strum.
Wish me luck!
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Posted: 6/22/2006 9:00:09 AM | Holy sweet Jesus!!!
I seen a 9-string electric bass today.
The width of the fretboard is massive.
How on earth would you play something like that?
I have small hands as it is and have a hard time trying to play a 5-string bass LOL. | |
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Posted: 6/22/2006 10:02:49 AM | ^^^^
might have been a WARR guitar??? based on the same principles as a chapman stick...played by tapping on the neck.... | |
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Posted: 6/22/2006 10:12:09 AM | Holy Crap.... there are WAAAY to many guitar players here!
My set up:
1975 Yamaha Classical
1995 Yamaha Eterna
Modified 2004 Jackson DKMG with scalloped neck and kill switch
Line 6 Spider II amp
Morley Bad Horsie 2 wah pedal.
Soon to acquire:
a) Grandfather’s classical guitar (Uncle Khai…..where is gramp’s guitar!??!?!?!)
b) Fender - Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Stratocaster
c) Ibanez - Paul Gilbert Signature model PGM 301 & 800
-B
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Posted: 6/22/2006 10:57:20 AM | blown 383
welcome dude !!!
thundersong
with d a d g a d you can do lots of one finger melodies while strumming all the strings--try that.
yes ................'the one strum folk girl syndrome' it is common because typically you are thinking about singing too. Learn some covers .......and try just focusing on the guitar part, learn some funk guitar too, get a James brown CD and jam to it
perpetualmorbund
the 9 string could be a - conklin | |
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Posted: 6/22/2006 7:17:27 PM | | heres how you get a Marshall stack sound and save a shit load of money. I ve been playing for years and I no wat I am talkingabout. I hav a mini Marshall practice amp that I paid 125.00 for. It has a LINE OUT section. That is very important. Not a CD line out, but a LINE OUT. Run that line out into a really big old amp if you want. I run mine into an old shitty Yamaha 100 watt jobby. You run from line out to the imput of your big shitty amp. And voila. The mini marshall produces the sound and the big war pig pushes the air. I swear to god over the years I spent thousands on amps, this was so cheap and simple it is disgusting! | |
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Posted: 6/23/2006 12:33:55 AM | | The guy who played rhythm in my last band swore by using a small overdriven amp as a pedal. It sounded great with the big gibson humbuckers but it lacked something for me playing single coils. | |
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| The guitar player's thread - tuning
Posted: 6/24/2006 8:35:01 AM |
I seen a 9-string electric bass today.
The width of the fretboard is massive.
How on earth would you play something like that?
I have small hands as it is and have a hard time trying to play a 5-string bass LOL.
Oh yeah, I saw a video on one of those video sites of a dude playing the Super Mario brothers theme on like an 11 string bass er some shit =P It was totally trippy =) | |
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Posted: 6/24/2006 8:37:48 AM | Okay, so, I sliced my fingertip open on my fretting hand... pretty deep - probably should've got a stitch put in it.. (dont ask how - computer nerds do dumb things) =)
Anyway - it hurts to fret and bend strings - I'm wondering if theres some kind of protection to throw on it so it hurts less - and no, band-aids dont help =P | |
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Posted: 6/24/2006 11:24:41 AM |
learn some funk guitar too, get a James brown CD and jam to it
This is by far, the kickinest homework I've ever been assigned. Oh YAHHHH! ;) Philip Candeleria (new guitar teacher for this Sept.) will be absolutely aghast! Heh heh... that's what they get for letting me into the Classical Music program! ;)
Got my James Brown tunes this morning ~ any suggestions on which song to start with? I couldn't play by ear if my left hand depended on it, and don't read tab... Should I be looking for some sheet? Or just give in and learn tab?
Thanks, always for your great advice!
~Thunder | |
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Posted: 6/24/2006 1:07:37 PM |
perpetualmorbund
the 9 string could be a - conklin
No...apparently it was homemade.
Conklin?...yeah that rings a bell,there the guys that made those connect-a-neck guitars aren't they?.The ones where you can remove the lower neck and then snap on a complementary piece to make it a normal 6-string again.I remember seeing some in the late 80's.They make pretty crazy looking guitars,are they still around? | |
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Posted: 6/24/2006 1:13:29 PM | thundersong
any James brown tune will do ..........
just find one that moves you and try to fingure out the guitar,the lines are prety simple and they repeat.
Manowar
Anyway - it hurts to fret and bend strings - I'm wondering if theres some kind of protection to throw on it so it hurts less - and no, band-aids dont help =P
pot...........I use pot
lol
ps
I sliced my finger open the day of a gig...........I had to stitch it up myself so it would not open up..............that my friends is a weird feeling pulling thread through your own flesh
the boys in the band called me 'rambo' after that incident
perpetualmorbind
yes conklin is still out there | |
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Posted: 6/25/2006 12:29:02 PM | Anyway - it hurts to fret and bend strings - I'm wondering if theres some kind of protection to throw on it so it hurts less - and no, band-aids dont help =P
I have heard of ppl using crazy glue... | |
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