Maple Syrup EditionPrevious: >>129883417SCALES:www.all-guitar-chords.com/scalesfretboard-navigator.com/GIT GUD with GUITAR:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1L-sBIxnY&list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPHhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCt3UBTS1Y ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND GUITAR PDF: web.archive.org/web/20251212114818if_/https://files.catbox.moe/qafrab.pdfEAR TRAINING:tonedear.comwww.tonegym.co/exercise/BACKING TRACK GENERATOR:www.onemotion.com/chord-player/www.musicca.com/chord-player/DRONE TOOL TO PRACTICE SCALES BY EAR:www.dronetonetool.com/METRONOME:scottsbasslessons.com/groove-trainerwww.onemotion.com/drum-machine/RANDOM NOTE GENERATOR FOR FRETBOARD MEMORIZATION:www.therandomscalemachine.com/index.htmlrandom.bretpimentel.com/
I haven't played in like two weeks
Yes bass at bottom treble at top.
>>129894543I stopped playing one amp and six pedal ago. I'll focus on gear from now on.
>>129894565Love this man like you wouldn’t believe
>>129894565Where are the knobs bro
If you could, how much time would you spend practicing every day? I think 3 hours spread across the day would be nice.
>>129894656I can only jam for like 4 hours max before I’m bored and tired. practice maybe like 2 hours
>>129894565Dick Dale has been dead too long
What are some good videos on CAGED that explain the shapes up the neck & why they are what they are.
>>129894656I practice in my head all day. If I’m home and working, I reward myself with 7.5 to 15 minute sessions between work and meal slimes. It helps to have different instruments littered throughout the house. And keep track of real practice, not fickarounditis>pic rel
>>129894525As much I like the feel of rosewood, maple fretboards are the greatest
how can I sound like this?https://voca.ro/1f7yCsOe117vhttps://voca.ro/19kqcDP2suDN
>>129895356indian laurel is better anyway
>>129895286
>spanish
>>129895347What do you do to practice?
>>129894565works for surf but not for my style. i like the high string at the bottom because it makes the melody stick out when its the last note strummed
>>129895286>explain the shapesthere's nothing to explain you just learn them>why they are what they arethey are just collections of intervals. the different permutations of those intervals result in the different chord shapes. if you want to understand chord shapes you need to take a step back and understand intervals
>>129895286>>129895418From top to bottom:>1st line: Open position major chords, the "cowboy chords"Below that you have the same shapes transposed up to other positions on the neck, often using a barre as a capo (think of it like a moveable nut).>2nd Line: Transposable Major chords (can be slid up or down, putting the black dot on the root note of the intended chord)>3rd Line: Transposable Minor chords>4th Line: Transposable Major 7th chords>5th Line: Transposable Dominant 7th chords>6th Line: Transposable Minor 7th chords>7th Line: Transposable Half-Diminished ('Minor 7 Flat 5' or 'm7b5') chords
>>129895526Oh yeah and the 'x' markings just show you optional / alternative notes you can include in the voicing.Here's another good one.
>>129895347Yeah I'm trying to figure out which of my sessions are actually practice vs just fucking around
One more.
>>129895459>IN MY HEADI like to review stuff I learned or imagine new patterns. I do rhythmic stuff too, like trying to do odd meters/polyrhythms against steady beats.>I have to do this method primarily because I’m still living out of hotels for the time beingpic rel for some junkie family that just smoked meth and used incense to cover it up.>REAL PRACTICEI learn multiple things at the same time to crosspolinate concepts. For example, learning violin gave me a starting base for mandolin, which is in the same tuning. So, for example, I tried to take “Bonaparte’s Retreat” in deadman tuning (dDAD) and see if I could play it on mandolin, viola, bass, piano, and guitar. Turns out I can, and then I see if I can do it in standard tunings. Other times, I just grab a quick 7.5 minute session so that it counts on my board. This could be just running a Hanon exercise mindlessly while I baked a blackberry cheesecake. Still, my hands get exercise and it beats doomscrolling.Filling in the blocks over time satiates the inner speech and when I hit 20 hours, I count that as a new era, like BEGINNER -> LOW INTERMEDIATE -> INTERMEDIATE -> etc.
>>129895286CAGED system is only the major scale shapes all over the neck. Isn't that difficult. If you understand how chords are built, know the name of the notes in the fretboard and know these patterns, you learn CAGED.
>>129895895you are constantly posting from parking lots do you live in your car
>>129895550Just pick what’s hard in your mind. I’d say that mindless scale patterns while watching a movie isn’t fucking around because you’re putting in gym reps. However, hyper concentrated practice can get you myopic and frustrated. But playing little ditties until you fuck up the same part? Yeah, that’s fuckarounditis.Violin was like this for me for a minute until I learned the scratchiness was coming from not warming the violin and strings itself. I actually was fucking around and made a discovery about the instrument warmth, and boom, progress. Back in my beginner days, I’d grab a joint and just play along for hours in a stinky sweaty room until I felt like I could nearly play anything. Then boom, I’d revert to being a little better than the previous day. The real progress came from constant jamming with anyone. Punk rock kids, jazzbo wannabes, chorus fags, jazz combo, etc. Until you can pull it off in front of someone under pressure, you can’t really do it>inb4 muh ego
>>129895955No just since Feb. Suing my absentee landlord for $20,000 (lost wages, accommodation, pain and suffering), so I’ve had to do this while all my equipment is in storage. I do have a beater guitar, but I don’t want to attract junkie attention or get the stinkeye from mothers at the park.Luckily, the idiots didn’t think I’d record their admission of blame in January (they didn’t do a service call for my flooded basement in June!), so I’ve just been waiting for my lawyer to initiate the suit for a settlement.>what does this have to do with guitar?Well, I’d be posting better SHRED BEDS and vocaroos. Now even shitposting retard is gallivanting around with his Kmart - Amen breakbeat. The world is off kilter I tell you!I will have my arthoe harem yet
>>129896111surely you mean the fiddle
>>129895286Dont learn caged. Its a crutch and puts you in a retard box.
I’ve got a spare 10” speaker in storage so I’m gonna get it out and plug it into this old amp and see if the original speaker is causing the lack of volume and just overall lack of cleans, and if it’s just a speaker that’s an easy fix. If it’s not a speaker then at least it eliminates the old stock speaker from being a cause of the problem so here’s hoping. I’m just glad that the amp is working even if not as intended vs not working at all.
more like gayged
>>129896309That's a very nice satin finish.
>>129894629When I heard you loved Dick I thought they meant something else. It's good to know you made the right choice.
Which guitar is the best?
>>129896428Les Paul Standart
former bass guy here, starting with justinguitars fingerstyle videos. practiced the D chord in 6/8 for about 15 mins. by the end was able to get really good and loud tone out of my fingers and increase the speed quite a bit. I don’t have nails so it took some learning. my beginner eastman thank you for your time
>>129896309If that is the version with 2 6l6 power tubes your lack of power could come from old tubes, the need to replace the power supply caps or both. The big, old electrolytic capacitors in those dry out. They can eventually cause the whoke amp to fry. They would be the first thing I would look at because they store the energy to keep the tubes powered. Bad caps are a sign of low power. Look into it. That is a nice amp that should be sounding fantastic.
>>129896336>satin finish>amp?
>>129896480The guitar you nitwit
>>129896442Look up Rob Mackillop for info on playing fingerstyle without nails. He's a great proponent of it. Although his stuff is geared towards classical, nylon-string guitar.https://rmclassicalguitar.com/
>>129895372anyone please?
>>129896215I learn all styles. Chris Haigh and the Fiddle Channel is great, as is working through the Suzuki books like a Chinese toddler. >getting back to MIND PRACTICEI subscribe to something I call “adjacent skillsets”, which means I get a better ROI with limited time. Even if I can’t touch the instrument, I listen to Bartok’s 44 Duos to absorb the nuances by osmosis.https://youtu.be/3M6_vUaNI0k>melody is in A Dorian #11 for all the readingchads, tabcels gotta sit this one out sry :DDDDD
>>129896474The tubes are apparently old 6L6s from an old Peavey amp so they’re definitely on the checklist of things to look at. Caps were my very first assumption but I figured it’s easiest to just eliminate the speaker since that’s something I can just grab and plug in to check. There’s a great amp tech maybe an hour and a half away who I’m gonna contact about looking it over. The way I see it for what I paid for it I’m happy with it as is, and if repair cost keeps the total under a grand I’ll still be happy with it. Worst case scenario I can sell it as is for what I have in it but I’d rather get it up to speed.>>129896491:^ it’s my dookiecaster
>>129896524how exactly do I navigate this website? it seems like it’s laid out like some kind of repository blog
>>129896586caps, tubes, and bench time shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred bucks. A matched pair of 6l6s are around $75. You don't need fancy NOS IMO. Caps $30 or less. Bench time varies. It shouldn't be much of a job for an experienced tech. $1k would be rape.
>>129896682Click the links? They're all at the top of the main page. Each page has whatever content is has at its top, then followed by open comment fields. Yeah, it's laid out kind of boomer-y like a Geocities page, but he IS an old music scholar and teacher. Not expecting him to be a master web designer.
>>129896738well i guess the better question is all of it relevant to me? I see the technique section and just making sure that isn’t the primary thing you were referring to
>>129896779I scanned the website and he recommends putting hand cream on after playing. Seems like his the same pain in the ass as dealing with nails or slapping on some acrylics
>>129896795lol well I’ll still peruse the website at any rate. thanks
>>129896699No I mean if I can keep the total cost of all the work plus my $400 already into the amp to less than a grand I’ll be happy. I’m figuring around $300-$400 for any work but that’s just a guesstimate
Does anyone here have any experience with these Squire bass VIs? Any tips or suggestions? I'm a bass player but I wanna dip my toes into more strings and more chords but keep my low-end focused sensibilities. I know they have some problems right out of the box but I have some basic modding experience
>>129896428my little vintage martin
>>129896862saddle height needed some slight adjustment for proper intonation but besides that it was g2g
1500 dollars before taxi need a strat and a bass. what combo would you go with?
>>129895356i really don't like the feel of rosewood, maple feels better. nothing to do with the wood, rosewood is objectively better because you don't have to lacquer it, i just prefer how lacquered feels. lacquer rosewood and id like that too
I’m debating buying an AVII 61 or 65 Strat, or spending half that on a MIJ 62 reissue with inferior electronics and bASSwood instead of BALLder
Why did Harley Benton remove all their hardtail fusion strats from production?
>>129896816>rub the lotion on your skin or you get the hose again
https://voca.ro/1cAehxP0JwGF
>>129896995two used classic vibe squires and 2 really good setups
>>129897299i can set my own guitars up since i'm not a retard. so take that out the budget and re-evaluate
>>129897142>the sound of domestic violence
>>129897310two used classic vibe squires and a brand new squier vi
>>129896941hell yeah nice. I saw some people replace the entire bridge as well as strings, but if it just needs intonation work, all that can wait
>>129897415well I've done additional modifications to mine too, but none of it was absolutely necessary, just personal preference stuff.I put locking tuners on mine, restrung it with lighter baritone strings so I can tune up to B standard, and I changed out the individual pickup switches for a single 5 way.
>>129897493gotchu, noted. How does it feel compared to a regular guitar neck wise and string spacing wise?
>>129896111how's your progress in violin? i thought i was doing well but my fingering suddenly produced awful notes again
>>129897526it really just feels, plays,and sounds like an electric guitar with a 30 inch neckan anti-jag, a fat stratonly a couple things worth noting>finger vibrato is much tougher to do because of the necessarily stiffer strings, the whammy bar actually comes in handy for this>chords tend to get muddy in the lower registers, moreso at the default E tuning
>>129897393sss or hss? 50's sounds nice but the 70's looks cool too.
>>129897692all same quality and mostly same specs. go for the color and pickups you like personally I think hss is more versatile
>>129897692>sss or hssidk you're the one who said you needed a stratif the pickup configuration doesn't matter to you why do you need a strat
>>129896554Please try to stay on topic.
>>129897692get an sss for the authentic strat aesthetic and then if you really want a humbucking bridge, just swap out the single coil pickup with a stacked humbucker
>>129897762he'll probably find that he doesn't need the humbucker. it's not the 50s anymore, you can roll the tone off the bridge
>>129895447It's porch you geez
>>129897814Give it a trem at that point.
>>129897814Hockey stick headstock
>>129897854bless you
>>129896309what guitar is that?
>>129897972George Harrison tele
>>129897972Squier George Harrison Indian Laurel Telecaster Sonic
playing IS practicingokjust wanted you to knowI'd say thanks but really, you're welcome
>>129897721hss has a nice brown wood version i had my eye on. basically story goes my first guitar ever when i was 13 was a hondo II strat clone. it was a black hard tail strat, absolutely horrible to play on, i had no idea what the fuck i was doing when i was a kid but in retrospect there probably wasn't much wrong with it outside of needing to be setup properly, but it wasn't set up properly, sucked ass to learn on and eventually gave up until the last few years where i began to actually try to learn properly with a guitar i bought with my own hard earned money.Got me a squier tele now, absolutely love the thing, but i have an opportunity to get some new instruments for absolutely free, within a 1600 after tax budget, which means roughly 1500 before taxes. I have the tele, so i determined that i kind of want to give the strat a chance again. obviously i don't want a cheap shit hondo II, but i figured i'd get one. My dad gifted it to me after a surgery, it was probably one of the only nice things he ever did for me. he died a few years back, but if i got a new one it'd be a nice way to remember him by, and honor the gesture by actually getting kind of decent with it.if i want to be a purist about the subject i'd get one in black with single coils, but interested in other configurations too. but part of the whole budget is that i would like a nice quality bass to go with it to replace an old ibanez POS i got on craigslist like 10 years ago.i was heavily considering sire guitars but after reading more about them, while they are really nice quality they're incredibly proprietary, to the point where you can't really replace much outside the pickups on those things. should anything go wrong down the line you have to basically work through a warranty system and that's kind of gay as fuck for after it's no longer covered.anyway thanks for reading my blog.thanks for reading my blog.
>>129897982>>129897991is it a real one or a squire one?
>>129898077real depends on your stance on reissues, but it is indeed a fender
>>129898049Nothing will break on your guitar and you will never have to replace your bridge and even if you did guarantee the sire strat copies/tele copies are compatible with aftermarket fender parts
>breaks you’re fucking tremolo in half what now strathole
>>129898149*cries*
>>129897993Scales ARE music. (according to Robben Ford, and I'm inclined to agree.)
>>129898121so you think the sires ain't a bad choice? the s5/s7 strat clones they have just look great in comparison to anything fender's doing desu but i do like to think about keeping them in good shape for a long time. they have edgeless rolled frets for her comfort and idk how getting those refretted years from now will come out, but honestly they're free man so i don't know if i care too too much. i just want some fun shit to jam on and the quality for their asking price is just crazy. they don't get talked about too often but literally anyone who owns one raves about em.
I dunno, too much?
How can I find out where my guitar was made? It hasnt arrived yet but it's an unbranded guitar from ebay
>>129898207You will never need a refret, quit listening to fat faggots like Phil McKnight and obsessing over fret ends like a pussy, quit thinking about fret leveling and all this garbage youtube put into your head. Sire, MIM Fender, Yamaha, Epiphone, Squier all this shit is fine quit being autistic and just buy a 500 dollar guitar
>>129898232>unbrandedit's probably from china m8
>>129897542It’s the same incremental improvement path as guitar, but I understand 5ths tunings, got callouses, and im willing to sound bad because it’s fucking funny as heck. Same with reading treble clef, but the bowing direction with slurs throws me off (but makes sense). The analog to guitar would be economy picking and sweeping. The main challenge for me is to understand the feel of zones and common positions. The naming conventions of the positions are a bit counterintuitive; I am getting used to finger spacing and hand frame. Surprisingly, I have better intonation on viola which accommodates bigger hands.I really like the sounds you can get. Here’s a laser:https://voca.ro/1otcEvkcYqqIAnd here’s shitty viola:https://voca.ro/19nonsSIdPpW>i suck but it’s fun as fuck so slime win>>129897759sry bro crowd (>>129897542) says otherwise UwU>maybe tmrw you’ll be right
ni/gg/as will discuss anything but guitar in /gg/
>>129898276what qualities do you look for in an acoustic
>>129898286that it has a solid body and at least 3 pickups
>>129898290good discussion
>>129898300Do I need to start doing the reddit thing of /s
>>129898276>mentions analogies to guitar>has shitty vocas >offers blind-leading-the-blind advicewhere did I go wrong
>>129898314Could you try the reddit thing of going back?
>>129898209I think so yeah. Sorry I tried really hard to rationalize this but I think the beauty of the maple board neck is how plain it is
>>129898318go ahead and start /vg/>>129898329You can't play for shit.https://voca.ro/1asu9nGkLlO7
>>129898286If it can support a mbira for bass/vag/ - Violin & Guitar general >start that up for me
>>129898248alright fine jeesus sire's website doesn't ask me for taxes on checkout so this might end up working out.
>>129898443what does the can lid do?
thought on suhr guitars? they're way beyond my price range but maybe someone in /gg/ is rich enough to own one
why do you look on reverb when everything is retarded overpriced
report the post or shut the fuck up gatekeeping is off topic too
>>129898474Gatekeeping is part of guitar culture which is entirely relevant.
>>129898451It’s at an angle so I can get a snare sound after a down strum. The mbira is super resonant, but they are a pain to intonate. Plus, to do bass, I had to space them. I dont know what a logical tuning system would be, but I had it in a 1 2 4 5 b7 octave configuration. I only have shitty out of tune recordings:https://voca.ro/1c249Sc8vfq8
>>129898451shaves your calluses off
>>129898524shave your anus
>>129898514makes me think of the movie hanna for some reason
First for Gibsons suck!
>>129898381I hate the strokes, but that might impress slime's harem.
>>129898563>trustfund
>>129898574wat
>>129898381this song is fun to play
>>129898622what song?
>>129898514https://voca.ro/19672lvvDRxv
>>129898563the slime is developing multiple approaches. I think if I can pretend to be a sensitive gay, I can trick the ones with better music taste:https://youtu.be/fysxCBOIa9U?si=qK5IF21pbjq9wd2t>o hummingberrrrrrrbhttps://youtu.be/OtnOfstvefE>Eeeeliiiiiiiiiiieeeeeellllllliiiiiiiihttps://youtu.be/9IZKcb3LndA?si=vjrvdivjnMiCLgvF>bass for me, sultry vox for her
>>129898640you tried, son, and that’s all that matters>we’re all too hard on one anotherhappy easter
play her this and the panties just melt right offhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ux6SlOE9Qk
Would you rather buy a factory guitar for $2k or a partscaster with a neck and a body from two different guitars of that exact same $2k guitar for $1.3k? I’m looking at an American Vintage 2 Stratocaster and there’s a partscaster where a guy took two of the same American Vintage 2s but with different fret boards and swapped necks, and is selling the other guitar. The 57s come with certain finishes and maple boards and the 61s with different finishes and rosewood boards, and he had one of each and swapped necks to make the one he wanted for himself and is selling the other. Is 35% off a non swapped used one worth it if I don’t care about finish and just want the specs?
>>129898699I nailed the tone I play to the band. My guitar is even 14 cents out of tune to match but you think this mediocrity comes easy? I've been playing for 20 years to achieve this.
>>129898704The ones I had success lived shit like this:https://youtu.be/46cnkoFqVno?si=drnuKxcgu9idTCJX>like your example but on more drugs
>>129898704Most 4channers weren't born when this music came out, unc.
>>129898723>https://voca.ro/19672lvvDRxv
>>129898736I wasn't born when Bohemian Rhapsody came out but that doesn't make it any less of a banger.
>>129898729the venn diagram of women who like this type of music and who have genital herpes is a single circle
>>129898715there is fundamentally no issue with this but you need to look really hard for red flags
>>129898765>the 3 hot girls in the scene that everyone else has already fucked, including the touring bandchecks out
>>129898765My ex like Converge and Unwound, so who knows. >basically just gotta pull a kozelekhttps://youtu.be/e6DxdQ-9Z8w?si=_MiSarn6wqXdmuh5
>>129898793That’s what I’m thinking. On paper I don’t mind it at all. He wanted a certain finish with a maple board so he bought two, made what he wanted, and is selling the other. I’m just on the fence about if I want to take the seller’s word for it.
>>129898715ngl I'm not going to subject myself to this kind of longform hypothetical. This is some type of trauma you need to take to your Sweetwater rep.
>>129898838It’s not hypothetical, it’s a guitar for sale.
>caring about finish>caring about woodglad i'm poor
$1000 MIJ vs $2000 MIA for the same specs minus body wood (stuck with) and pickups (can change)?
>>129898886always go for whatever has the better neck. stability, carve preference, radius preference etc. but if they’re the exact same finish and the mia isn’t nitro I’d get the jap
>>129898904I like Japanese necks a lot. Spec wise they’re the same neck. The MIA is nitro over poly, the MIJ is poly.
>>129899268yep looks like a shitty pedalboard
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^^^jester hat and eviction notice coming soon^^^
its 2026 you still rent? ew.Work on your housing situation before guitar.https://voca.ro/1kfYhV1UumnX
>got my gibby>still living with mom and dadhyuk hyuk hyukhttps://voca.ro/1bZbTP5tXURz
>>still living with mom and dadmake that 3 jester hats
Does this type of burst have a name? The rim is all at the top and none at the bottom
>>129899492analburst
Is that the Seinfeld publishing renegade? Without his constant gatekeeping /gg/ would be overrun with 8 string core kids or Brazilians? I say let him cook. The hero this dojo deserves.
>>129899559thanks offset fag
>>129899492Maple Burst Fade
>8 string core kids or BraziliansThis would be an improvement
milkshake
https://youtu.be/3ad4NsEy1tg
ooohhhh plinku plunku
>>129899704what styles of music are the primary influences here im getting funk/disco
>>129899622be the change you want to see in the world its never too late anon
>>129897814Reverse headstock and angled HSS
>>129894525i am pleased to announce after many years of woodshedding on my 3/4 squier mini strat i have finally upgraded to a 7/8 japanese fender junior strat.
I want a 5 strings bass but anything remotely quality is quite pricy
>>129895356>>129895383>>129897010You actually touch the board? My fingers only touch strings. If I can feel the fretboard I know my technique is off.>>129899904Some of the Ibanez 5s prior to the mid 2000s were decent.
>>129899951I'm more into jazz basses, ibanez basses never sound quite right but I haven't tried their top end models, seems like they're all pretty metal-focused
>>129899951when bending, yes
>>129899904im sad theres so few 35 inch models available too, im surprised the length is so uncommon
>>129899719waka waka jpop waka wow!
>>129899760>primary influencesPersona 5 and maid cafes
>>129900038Wish these weren't a fortune despite being indonesian made
>>129899834Your labors have not gone unnoticed. Yet, your journey has merely begun. 3/4 pink gang, rise now as a full member
do you pinch the pick just between your index finger and thumb or between your index, middle finger, and thumb
hes learning slide guitar now?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9REy6ZqAhQ
>>129900163thank you. are you saying this as a current member of the pink gang also? ironically i am 6 feet tall with man hands and long fingers but i like playing mini guitars theyre soo cuute
>>129900242Sounds gay as hell. I'll never forgive Derek Trucks for popularizing that gay ass black woman singing R&B style of slide guitar playing. It sounds cool the first time you hear it then all the copycats killed it.
>>129900189the former.
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https://voca.ro/1ZHto7xExsYH
https://voca.ro/1eGpzfzN3eZ8
>>129900593this one is gg sound
Imagine buying a guitar so badly put together that it needs shimming
>>129900242>only playing one string>only playing melody lineYeah he's "learning" alright
https://voca.ro/17INDpyYikD7
https://voca.ro/16zCfxqv5wcC
>>129900698lmao
>>129900650Are you referencing someone's guitar here? I can't be bothered to read the thread. But it's kind of gone the way of the dodo with new guitars, fortunately. CNC and the industry autistically holding to exact specs has improved things, at least in this respect. Back in the day, specs were just guidelines.
I want a burgundy mist Stratocaster.
>>129894525Oh no no no /gg/Don't tell me an ugly seamonkey mogs youhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrlOX1jZ_xg
