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Ursad0n
United States523 Posts
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom8712 Posts
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On January 12 2014 23:19 Jockmcplop wrote: 150W really does seem to be the sweet spot for bass amps. My ol' Peavey head is 150W too and it can both rattle the windows and be quiet enough that people upstairs can't hear it.My Dad just bought me a Trace Elliot commando 15 150w bass combo for my birthday and holy crap this thing is awesome. Just about loud enough for a gig, but small enough to be a practice amp too. Thanks dad Also, grounding issue should be fixed on said Peavey amp head. Now I just need to find a cabinet to to test it with. If the head is still broken I'll just buy a new head and use that with the cabinet I buy. I really do hope the Peavey head is fixed though. It is quite a flexible piece of equipment sound-wise. No gimmicky crap like lots of new amps have, just a proper gain setup and a full EQ. I could get a huge range of sounds out of it. Well, I could when it wasn't shocking me. It will now properly ground to the outlet it is plugged into so I should be good to go. I'm just going to go with a 1x15, 1x12 or 2x10 cabinet. No 4x10 nonsense like I used to have. I don't have space for that. | ||
ohsea.toc
Australia344 Posts
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pebble444
Italy2474 Posts
Man i' d love to be able to afford a nice good classical guitar. I love to arp. I' m laying off of buying a cheapo one cause i tried a good one once and it just sounds so more nice Edit Here are pictures of my other instruments i own + Show Spoiler + | ||
Tactical
United States77 Posts
And, I was in guitar center the other day picking up some strings, and found this Ibanez Artcore AF85 hollowbody. I impulse bought it because it was so gorgeous, with the alebony frets, and the color, I hadn't seen anything like it and for only $299 thought it was too good to pass up. Taylor 110 Ibanez AF85 And here's two video clips of me playing around on the taylor, I don't know the full songs yet, and they're not perfect, but I'm getting better. Andy Mckee's "Drifting" Andy Mckee's "For my Father" | ||
SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
What do you guys think about this: http://www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_hbz2004.htm http://www.thomann.de/de/orange_crush_pix_25bx.htm The amp should be able to sound great in small wattages, because I have to be able to practice without annoying my roommates too much. Also looking to get a second electric guitar to play harder stuff with, while not breaking the bank. Which of these would you prefer? http://www.thomann.de/de/espltd_f50bk.htm http://www.thomann.de/de/epiphone_gothic_lespaul_studio.htm | ||
Mikau
Netherlands1444 Posts
My fingers aren't liking their new job very much and I have a habit of getting wrong/mute notes when I don't press down on the string correctly but overall I'm really liking practicing so far. I have to make sure I don't get too far ahead of myself though and stay with what's good to learn now rather than looking up videos for songs I ideally want to play but are far too hard right now. | ||
Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On January 16 2014 21:35 Mikau wrote: Scales. Tons of scales. A major scale pattern like the following will help stretch your hand out. It's just a simple one octave C scale with each note being of equal length (IE all quarter notes). You can move the pattern around anywhere on the E or A string and it will work. For the D string or higher some modification is needed since the B is only a 4th apart from the D, which messes the pattern up a bit. Most people will give you a different pattern for major scales but I have always preferred this one because it is more logical and symmetric.Just started playing (had my first lesson 2 days ago). Homework is playing the intro to Smoke on the Water on 1 string (at first, once I get that down I'm supposed to play it on D and G). Getting the hang of it if I only use my index or middle finger, but when I try to use different fingers for different frets my fingers seem to be unable to get that far apart. I'm assuming finger dexterity and flexibility will get better with practice and there's no such thing as 'unable to reach fret 6 with your pinky when index finger is on 3'? Are there any specific finger exercises I can do or do I just sort of practice through it? My fingers aren't liking their new job very much and I have a habit of getting wrong/mute notes when I don't press down on the string correctly but overall I'm really liking practicing so far. I have to make sure I don't get too far ahead of myself though and stay with what's good to learn now rather than looking up videos for songs I ideally want to play but are far too hard right now. Use your index finger for each "8" (the C and the F) and the "9" (The B notes), your middle finger for each "10" (D, G, and the 8th or octave C), and your pinky (not your ring finger!) for the "12" (E and A). It will be a bit of a stretch at first so don't overdo it.:
And yes, you will gain flexibility with your hands in time. I chose a C scale (or starting on the 8th fret) because it isn't too much of a stretch compared to starting on the lower fret. The goal of having it on a closer together set of frets is so that you can simply get used to using your pinky. And no, don't try and push yourself too far or you will actually slow your development or you will hurt your hands. | ||
rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
On January 16 2014 21:35 Mikau wrote: Just started playing (had my first lesson 2 days ago). Homework is playing the intro to Smoke on the Water on 1 string (at first, once I get that down I'm supposed to play it on D and G). Getting the hang of it if I only use my index or middle finger, but when I try to use different fingers for different frets my fingers seem to be unable to get that far apart. I'm assuming finger dexterity and flexibility will get better with practice and there's no such thing as 'unable to reach fret 6 with your pinky when index finger is on 3'? Are there any specific finger exercises I can do or do I just sort of practice through it? My fingers aren't liking their new job very much and I have a habit of getting wrong/mute notes when I don't press down on the string correctly but overall I'm really liking practicing so far. I have to make sure I don't get too far ahead of myself though and stay with what's good to learn now rather than looking up videos for songs I ideally want to play but are far too hard right now. Hello I've also begun practicing guitar lately (3months ago) and don't worry things will slowly get there as you keep trying. Do a minimum of work every day or every other day and even if you fail horribly the whole session don't worry. Don't try to go too fast, practice accuracy before speed, once you can do a riff or a scale perfectly at low speed just go a little faster. As someone mentioned, do scales a lot. In one order, in reverse, improvising, etc. Time will improve a lot of the rest: finger pain (make sure your hands, back and arms are correctly positioned though), being able to use the pinky etc. I'm also quite fond of my purchase of Rocksmith to practice here and there. You can do brute practice with small arcade games on it to help you learn strings skipping and fret placement as well as playing scales (there are other games for chords, bending, tremolo picking and harmonics). You can also pick one or two easy to learn song like Next Girl or Blitzkrieg Bop and try to slowly raise your score. Like I said earlier in that thread, the game isn't enough by itself though, it's just a fun way to practice in between. It isn't a necessity obviously and if cash is an issue (since you need to buy both the game and the cable) you'd have to think twice about it. | ||
Mikau
Netherlands1444 Posts
As I understand it Rocksmith is basically Guitar Hero with a real guitar? It seems fun, but I'm kinda scared of using it only to pick up wrong habits. It does seem like a good and fun way to break up any potential repetitiveness in practice, and keep me motivated to practice more and/or longer. Practicing every day doesn't seem like much of a problem, but I'm getting bored of playing 0 3 5| 0 3 65| 0 3 5| 3 0 over and over and over again . | ||
rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
The problem with the game is that it cannot teach you to correct your posture, hand technique etc. And it's also quiet lenient when it comes to notes and especially chords. For example the game doesn't really make a difference between a botched note that sounds terrible and a well played note. Well, you will hear the difference (since you hear your own play on top of the music) but the game will give you the points. So it relies on you to then make the necessary hours of practice to make your accuracy better. Chords are the same. But on the other hands, there is a lot of songs for which you can practice at the speed you want the section you want (RS2014), good arcade games to teach your left hand to switch between frets or to switch between chords. At this stage I would never regret the purchase but like I said, self practicing is still mandatory. For scales, a beginner imo can also try the scale A pentatonic minor (fret 5) which is what I started with and still practice (among others): http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php?qqq=5&scch=A&scchnam=Pentatonic Minor&get2=Get&t=0&choice=1 It forces you to use your pinky and ring finger. No need to really know what a scale is, just remember where are those 12 notes and go from the lowest to the highest and then highest to lowest. So start on the low E string (the fat one) fret 5, then fret 8 with your pinky. Then go to to the A string (second fat one) fret 5 and then 7 with your ring finger, etc according to the link I gave you. Remember, accuracy before speed. Then just improvise using these notes. Also, for easy songs, after the riff of Smoke on the Water you can try also Seven nation army. A string 7 7 10 7 5 3 2. The chorus is also a good introduction to power chords for later. | ||
renoB
United States170 Posts
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
When you begin a song it starts on easy just asking you to pick like 20% of the notes and you have single notes instead of chords. If you pass a segment near perfeclty its difficulty automatically increases. So you'll have more notes when that segment come again in the song (chorus for example) or when you replay the song. The game will put more notes, give you chords instead of notes, add bends etc. However, that automatic difficulty adjustment is sometimes destabilizing so I spend most of time in the riff repeater instead. Then there is the riff repeater which is imo the most important part for multiple reasons: -Once you're in a song you can go to the riff repeater and manually select which part of the song you want to practice. -You can set the speed and difficulty of the part to your will. Then there are options to make it go faster each time you do it perfectly or to level up each time you do it perfectly at full speed. -As the name suggests, the repeater will just loop that same part over and over again. -You can put multiple parts at the same time to work on transitions -For very good players it's also useful to note that since the level you set in the repeater will be saved for when you really play the song, they can just go in set everything to 100% and play the song at maximum difficulty without having to play it multiple times. However if they suck the game will lower the difficulty. I personally disable automatic upgrades and just manually increase speed and difficulty once I'm confident. It also allow me to just slowly increase speed (3 or 5% at a time) rather than the game 10% default increase to make the transition from one speed to the next almost seamless. And finally there is score attack which you do once you're comfortable playing a song at a specific level of difficulty. The game won't raise or lower the difficulty in it, just pick easy(50%) medium(75%) or hard(100%) and play the song and get a score depending on how good you are (and get ranked). There is also a fourth mode, master where the song is at 100% and you have no visuals to help you. I also should point that by default the game uses an inverted tab, where the low E string is at the top. There is an option somewhere to invert it and make it look more like a traditional tab if you prefer. | ||
SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
On January 16 2014 21:02 SixStrings wrote: I'm looking to pick up a cheap bass and amp as a third instrument after guitar and piano. What do you guys think about this: http://www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_hbz2004.htm http://www.thomann.de/de/orange_crush_pix_25bx.htm The amp should be able to sound great in small wattages, because I have to be able to practice without annoying my roommates too much. Also looking to get a second electric guitar to play harder stuff with, while not breaking the bank. Which of these would you prefer? http://www.thomann.de/de/espltd_f50bk.htm http://www.thomann.de/de/epiphone_gothic_lespaul_studio.htm Guuuuys? | ||
ptmc
Finland306 Posts
And what kind of heavier stuff would you want to play? | ||
SixStrings
Germany2046 Posts
I'd like to play the guitar parts of Tool, in Flames, Metallica etc. and I prefer crisp, percussive sounds. | ||
ptmc
Finland306 Posts
For the guitars you mentioned: I dislike epiphones, so out of those two i would go for the esp, however, the sound you get there would be very similar to your strat with the humbucker. Having the variety of tone from a two-humbucker les paul (derivative) and a sss strat could in itself be worth it, but the lp sound is not usually described as crisp. Have you tried your Strat with a decent gain? Singlecoils don't sound terrible distorted, just different. Maybe you already like what you have? | ||
Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
You can't put an active pickup along with passives because they require completely different electronics (different value pots, caps, their preamp etc etc), so don't try that. If you have enough money (and dont want to play in e flat/drop c/drop d) you could even add a locking trem to your strat. The result of all the mods would be that you have a kickass guitar for both metal and classic rock (hss strats are awesome for basically anything ever), and that stays perfectly in tune. Probably beats having a great strat (like most mexican fenders are) and a really low end metal guitar like those you listed. | ||
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