Rad!
Its a bit boring, but I cannot stress how useful it is to practice your scales every few days. Especially when you get good enough to start doing some picking and lead/solos etc.
You’ll be able to move your hands where you want to without having to think about what actual notes your playing. Moving from fret to fret and string to string becomes so much more natural.
Yes! I have been practicing some scales but not coming that easy so far. I seem to usually manage to move my fret fingers okay but often hit the wrong string with the pick. Also have a habit of I’ll manage to do it right once and then immediately try to do it again but faster and then it falls apart.
I never did learn scales. I’m stubborn so found my own way there, so I do obviously play around scales but unconventionally. So even though I have been playing for nearly 30 years, I still don’t know where all the notes are on the fret board, bar the obvious. I play from memorised shapes, I would get lost in the jargon and cannot retain that info anyway. Same with anything, it’s all patterns and shapes.
Same deal here.
Yeah that’s what I mean. I hit a bit of a roadblock with solos and then realised if I just practice lots of various different scales I could just use them as a reference.
All a solo really is is just playing around with different notes of a scale, when people go on those mad runs it’s always just working up/down some sort of scale with some nice phrasing around it.
It’s not like I remembered what note is on each fret, but if you build some muscle memory around them, your fingers will remember where it needs to go.
So it’s patterns around the scale, not just patterns around a chord shape if that makes sense. I just mentioned it because I found it useful, I was trying to be Brent Hinds and realised I couldn’t do it until I practiced some boring stuff… Wish I’d started early on
Yeah absolutely, I sometimes wish I did learn them and approach more academically, I’d have more knowledge of what to do if I was presented with a situ where I needed to solo in a key I wasn’t used too, or some weird chord changes underneath, whereas now I’d take so many chances some of which would pull off and make me sound exotic and better than I am but then other notes would totally bum and i’d have to try and style them out. ha.
It all depends who you are though, you can learn by the book and use it to reference when you need it and that in turn helps get to ideas quicker so you can play in around and outside the theory, or you just become a standard player who is technically good but has no identity or individual style.
Not learning can limit you drastically and you can get stuck with bad habits and make numerous mistakes when out of your small comfort zone, or it could just mean you develop a style of your own and you don’t need technical proficiency and you can happen on interesting ideas that you possibly wouldn’t happen on because if you knew the theory you might not naturally go with things that shouldn’t work on paper.
No right or wrong innit.
Anyway, waffle.
also you don’t have a forehead tattoo which is even more important.
I could have one though…
I still love this solo more than any Mastodon solo apart from maybe divinations and roots remain. It’s just so tasty
Just ordered some baritone strings, gonna tune my other guitar down three steps to standard B muhahahaha. Hopefully the strings fit in the nut and I don’t have to file it. Guess I might have to screw with the truss rod too
Six months in and I’ve already bought another guitar. Our daughter has shown an interest and she wanted an acoustic, something that I could just grab and take to another room to mess around with. Dreadnoughts are too big and I didn’t want to spend too much so I asked around guitar nerd friends and got this little parlour size Gretsch Jim Dandy. I love it, I mean she loves it.
Bought GF a guitar to learn on, had it a day and it got crunched in the car taking the top down. Looked pretty bad but managed to fix it.
Nice. Didnt know this thread existed.
@anon90826813 that break looks about as clean as you could hope for! Good work
Is pedal chat allowed?
Latest purchase. Lovely overdrive. Sold the tubescreamer I had and bought this, way more my cup of tea. No mid boost just drive.
Definitely.
I really want to build an overdrive pedal and a reverb pedal, partly so I can say Ive built the entire signal chain from guitar to amp but I suspect its going to be a fiddly nightmare.
My latest debacle with guitar building came the other night when my tremelo arm sheared off in the block after a couple of uses but helpfully 1 month after the warranty expires. Good times
Any recommendations for a reasonably budget friendly mic for recording acoustic?
Been looking into soundhole pickups but they seem a bit mellow, I’m playing a lot of fingerpick stuff these days so want something I can place near the bridge to get a good twang out of it.
Any condenser to be honest. as long as you’re in a quiet environment.
I have been using a pair of Lauten LA 120’s which are beautiful for acoustic.
I’ve used a couple of these for acoustic guitar, hi hats and overheads for a few years in my project studio. For acoustic I Some times coupled with an audio technica at2020 to catch a bit more low frequency. Always got great results. It’s a good cheap and cheerful setup
If I get myself my first-ever drumkit for my 40th birthday, does that constitute a midlife crisis?
Fuck no!
