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    How Many Guitars Do You "Need" ?

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    Thanks for posting this!  Some very interesting points in that video.

    Lately, I have been thinking about 'lightening the load' so to speak.  I believe I will put some serious thought into this.... 

    I have a Yamaha nylon string that rarely gets played and I've considered letting it go. Its a great guitar, just not my 'go-to'.

    For electrics I'd have a harder time deciding.  With one each of Les Paul, Strat, and Tele, I feel like I'm still learning what each can really do.

     

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    Since I had to change the filter anyway ...

    in Guitar Care, Repair & Building

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    8 hours ago, Magnit said:

    This is the reason I wished I knew about carbon fibre guitars and how they're unaffected by humidity. I would replace my three wood acoustics with one Emerald X20  (or a Rainsong) in a hearbeat. Now it's too expensive to sell off the guitars and buy a carbon fibre one. They're hard to find on the used market too.

    I too, have considered carbon fiber guitars. Hopefully someday I'll just happen on a nice one at a good price! 

    Learn and Master Guitar Course - General Questions & Comments

    in Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar

    Posted

    Hi Costancr! 

    There are so many different directions guitar can take you, its easy to get sidetracked! 

    From my experience, you might want to cover the material in sessions 7 & 8, barre chords. You will need barre chords even for fingerstyle, so from what I see they are pretty important. As a matter of fact, session 10 really highlighted the fact that I needed a bit more work on my barre chords! When you start plucking just a single string and its buzzy, well...  for me it was humbling. 

    Maybe you can work thru 7 and 8 at the same time as you explore fingerstyle. But I wouldn't skip them right now. Those sessions can take a bit to work thru so getting started would be great!

    Steve just this week started a Wednesday Night workout for Barre Chords. It was great! I think the link is posted above... and there is a pdf handout for it. I'm very sure it would be helpful for you to watch! You can watch the first session then join us the next two weeks! 

    The most important thing is that you are having fun learning! 

     

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    Wednesday Workout: April 22nd - Triads Bonus Workout

    in Weekly Live Lessons & Guitar Workouts

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    4 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

    I think for those of us that haven't learned the fret board.. this Triad series is making us think of all the notes on the fret board to find the Root notes.

    the chord shapes are familiar enough, but to jump up to the 8th or higher fret and say.. ok in this shape where is your root, Index, Middle or Ring fingers.. go.. is a different story for many of us.

     

    These are definitely challenging! I am concentrating on getting the major and minor down first and those are going pretty well actually. Getting to where 'all of my fingers going in different wrong directions at once' is happening less and less. 

    I found that trying to learn all of them at once was too much. Concentrating on major and minor and just now starting to toss in the sevenths, but only on the first three strings. I'll do the second set when my brain clears up some memory space, lol! 

    As I was practicing earlier today I realized that I'm having so much fun learning these, that I didn't notice Steve had tricked me into learning the fretboard... lol! 😜

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    Wednesday Workout: April 22nd - Triads Bonus Workout

    in Weekly Live Lessons & Guitar Workouts

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    4 hours ago, ShadowBoxer86 said:

    These workouts were great.  Each one was better than the previous.  I would have gladly paid for these workouts like the previous series.  Thank you Steve, these workouts have really brought everything you have taught me together into a cohesive package.  It makes all the hard work worth it and fun.  I can't thank you enough.

    Couldn't have said it better! :) 

    Still working on getting thru them all but I'm seeing amazing progress each time! 

    Thanks Steve!!! And of course Paulette!  :)

     

    Message from Paul Reed Smith

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    What a wonderful message! That is absolutely right: We are in this together and we will get through this together. 

    I consider myself blessed to have guitar, bass, banjo, Steve's lessons, these forums, and various other online learning and just music in general, especially during these difficult times.

    Thanks for sharing that! :) 

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    Social Distancing for Musicians!

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    22 hours ago, Nutty 1 said:

    @K9kaosI love it Barbara! Especially the claw hammer technique,

    Truefire have some great courses on banjo. The blue grass technique with the finger picks is hard but I am getting it slowly.  Banjo is addictive.

    I saw mine in my local guitar shop when I went to part exchange a guitar for another guitar. I went home and kept on thinking about the banjo. It was so beautiful. So I started looking in to how to play a 5 string banjo and it looked like it was going to be fun. The banjo was calling out to me, it was meant for me.

    He is a Barnes and Mullins Albert https://www.bandm.co.uk/traditional-instruments/banjos/barnes-and-mullins-banjo-albert-open-back-5-string.html

    Very nice!!! Mine is a Johnson JB-100, and the action was so high when I got it I could actually fit my fingers between the strings and the fretboard! Its a resonator so it is pretty loud, even with the banjo mute.  I have not tried playing clawhammer style, only with fingerpicks and thumb pick. It really is quite fun!! :) 

     

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    Social Distancing for Musicians!

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    15 hours ago, Nutty 1 said:

    I am also learning banjo, I bought an open backed one without a resonator, it is a bit quieter than the standard closed back ones but I am also social distancing with it over 4 metres!🤣

    I should have looked for an open back.... Are you having as much fun as I am with it?

    This one just looked so lonely sitting in the pawn shop. All alone in the corner.  I just had to get it and clean it up! 

    And its one more thing I checked off my to-do list: ✔️ Buy a used banjo at a pawn shop - Done! :) 

    I must say, it seems impossible to be unhappy while playing the banjo! My neighbors and my hubby may disagree though! Lol! 🤣 

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    NUD

    in Guitar Gear, Amps, Effects, Pedals

    Posted

    Oh that is so cute!! :)

    Ukes are fun to play! 

    I have one and I thought I'd bring it to play with my local uke group, but I wound up playing bass with them instead! :) 

    Let me know what you think of it! It sure looks nice!! :)

     

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    Are you getting a lot of playing in while socially distanced?

    in Guitar Open Talk

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    8 hours ago, Dave White said:

    I have been working on and off from home for the past two weeks. Typically, I have been spending about a half day in the office and then the rest of the day fending off emails and participating in conference calls or Zoom meetings. I have had a bit more focused time to practice and play, but not enough. However, tomorrow that will change.

    April 1 is my first day of retirement 🙂

    Picked a great time to start tapping into those retirement accounts. 😐

    So I have a plan, a course to work through, and lots of (well enough) guitars and other miscellaneous equipment. We will see how it goes. I'll keep you posted.

    Congrats Dave!! Enjoy! :)

    On 3/30/2020 at 6:08 PM, gotto said:

    No practice for me the last 2 weeks as I try to get through my acute sciatica.  Lots of time reclining and trying to medicate TENS unit, heat and cold pack, limited stretching when I am able. Elective medical services are suspended in the state of Washington, so epidural injections are not an option. Very easy to self isolate which i began several days before the onset.  I have made some progress recently but a bit of a relapse today again as I start my 3rd week.  My problems pale to the horrors occuring in the hospitals across the country. Stay safe and be well, all.

    Greg

     

    Hope you are feeling better Greg! Stay safe! 

    Just starting session 3

    in Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar

    Posted

    Sounds like you are doing well!

    As Simira said above, stay on session 3 and just keep practicing the chords. Add a few minutes to the beginning and / or end of your practice and just practice switching between them.

    Start our very slowly, taking careful note of how your fingers move between the chords. Then bring up the speed slowly. First do it right, then do it faster.  

    Have fun learning with us! :)

     

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