I'm considering buying one ofthesekits for fun over the summer. I have a friend who doe luthierie as a hobby, and I've always wanted to start. this seems like an okay place.
Unless you're most interested in painting it, you'd do just as well to get a Squier and take it apart. Electric guitars really aren't terribly complicated.
Unless you're most interested in painting it, you'd do just as well to get a Squier and take it apart. Electric guitars really aren't terribly complicated.
I'm familiar with most of the electronics, and it appears there's no actually woodworking involved. I'll just work on the old Washburn I have and perhaps get a PRS Custom 24 SE.
I guess since this is the guitar thread that I should mention that I've recentlygone fretless.
That's really awesome. Also, I didn't realize Fender made fretless jazz basses with the "frets" still inlaid. That's a pretty cool feature.
squire does. The fret board is some type of composite and the lines, for the where the frets traditionally are, are just sown on the board. their cool, coupld probably use better pups and tuners but their cool.
I am personally fond of wonky shit. weird shit. in particular I love old Japanese Copy guitars. Aria, Fernandes, Cortley, Creastline, Burnie, Tokie. All the old law suit shit.
This is my ever evolving project. I call it a Strat-E-Caster, aka my stripey guitar bigger version of the pic
Anyone have a vague estimation of the difficulty of teaching oneself classical guitar? I need to learn fingerstyle; I already know a lot of basic theory and how to read music. I'm just trying to judge the feasibility of what I want to do.
I've been playing classical guitar for 8 years now. I think the hardest part would probably be to have the self-discipline to learn "fingerstyle", since it's a lot of tedious repetition. But once your able to play your guitar that way it shouldn't be much of a problem to learn pieces yourself, especially since you have Youtube to show you how others play. I personally only still take lessons because my teacher will play the piece I want to learn, so I can see what techniques to use and thus learn much faster. If I wouldn't take lessons I'd probably have to spend a lot more time figuring out how to play a song then actually practising it.
In short it is feasible, you just need a lot of self-discipline, as with every other instrument.
If you need any other advice/ help, I'm happy to help.
I'm getting a bass sometime this week, possibly even today. I'm super stoked.
That's great! Bass is really easy to get right, within a few hours you can play a simple bassline along a song. It's one of those "easy to learn, hard to master" kind of thing.
I recently managed to grab a great deal on a new guitar (my old one had been played a lot, gigged a lot, and generally treated horribly, and it was super busted. Anyway, this was the first time I'd got to play around with a proper floating trem - I gave it a restring and clean up the other day, not expecting anything much different. I was so wrong, God fucking damn was I wrong. Until I actually realised what was going on, tuning that thing was an exercise in the worst kind of frustration. I even wasted a set of strings. God damn.
For those interested, it's one of the older models of these - the 2550E, rather than the 2550Z. Until I take a real photo, you'll have to make do with stock.
Does it have a Floyd Rose or the Ibanez proprietary ZR? With a Floyd you'll have to put in the new strings and stretch them for a good 20 min before re-tuning them that until the strings are fully stretched. I've heard that the Ibanez ZR suffers less from this, but still needs re-tuning every so often.
Think of it as a great way to exercise your ears.
BTW if you do have a Floyd, put either a 9v battery and some paper stuffing under the bridge or lock a coin or butterkife under the bridge so it lays flat and parallel to the body, also to avoid the bridge from moving when you re-string and re-tune.
I hate Floyd Roses with a passion, detest them. I always try to go for Stoptail/string through guitars, I don't need silly whammy effects in my guitar playing, and if I do can just use a pitch shifter.
Yeah, his guitar tone was A) better in the 80's better when accompanied by a band. It's actually not a bad tone right now for his genre of music, altough I still prefer his 80's tone.
My roommate, Bryce, was tuning the bass while I was at lunch and one of the strings was already way too tight and it snapped. So that's why there's only 3 strings.
The bitch about it is that I hadn't even gotten to play the bass before it snapped.
So Rock Band 3 will have a guitar, like a proper guitar. It'll also actually teach you how to play. Does anyone think this is a good way to learn? I have 0 experience in guitars and it seems like a great way to learn and actually enjoy playing and keep being motivated until I stop sucking big brown dick.
I have 0 experience in guitars and it seems like a great way to learn and actually enjoy playing and keep being motivated until I stop sucking big brown dick.
I'm not sure how it would be more enjoyable than just learning the electric guitar "normally".
So Rock Band 3 will have a guitar, like a proper guitar. It'll also actually teach you how to play. Does anyone think this is a good way to learn? I have 0 experience in guitars and it seems like a great way to learn and actually enjoy playing and keep being motivated until I stop sucking big brown dick.
I feel like the almost instant gratification of playing songs will definitely help people with continuing to learn.
So Rock Band 3 will have a guitar, like a proper guitar. It'll also actually teach you how to play. Does anyonethink this is a good way to learn? I have 0 experience in guitars and it seems like a great way to learn and actually enjoy playing and keep being motivated until I stop sucking big brown dick.
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This is my ever evolving project. I call it a Strat-E-Caster, aka my stripey guitar
bigger version of the pic
I personally only still take lessons because my teacher will play the piece I want to learn, so I can see what techniques to use and thus learn much faster. If I wouldn't take lessons I'd probably have to spend a lot more time figuring out how to play a song then actually practising it.
In short it is feasible, you just need a lot of self-discipline, as with every other instrument.
If you need any other advice/ help, I'm happy to help.
I was so wrong, God fucking damn was I wrong. Until I actually realised what was going on, tuning that thing was an exercise in the worst kind of frustration. I even wasted a set of strings. God damn.
For those interested, it's one of the older models of these - the 2550E, rather than the 2550Z. Until I take a real photo, you'll have to make do with stock.
Think of it as a great way to exercise your ears.
BTW if you do have a Floyd, put either a 9v battery and some paper stuffing under the bridge or lock a coin or butterkife under the bridge so it lays flat and parallel to the body, also to avoid the bridge from moving when you re-string and re-tune.
/Jazz, Blues, Fingerstyle.
The more I hear from him, the more I feel like an amateur.
Example
Say hello to Black Dynamite.
My roommate, Bryce, was tuning the bass while I was at lunch and one of the strings was already way too tight and it snapped. So that's why there's only 3 strings.
The bitch about it is that I hadn't even gotten to play the bass before it snapped.
Also, weirdly, it can only handle two note chords, but that's entirely a sidenote.
Also - I'm thinking about buying either a bass or a guitar. Can't decide. Still figuring it out.