***The Official Guitar Thread***

[potatolord]

Definitely...there's some things I've learned and can still play on a piano with full size keys but turns to junk trying to play it on a midi controller or something with smaller keys/spacing.
Also if try playing just the left or right hand on their own then it falls to pieces but fine playing it with both like I've learned it

I was trying to explain ghost notes and some basic slapping and was amazed to find I can do it, but can't understand how to explain it.

It's been pretty helpful to teach, as it made me review my own technique.

Downside is, I'm now considering buying myself a 6 string bass...

 

[LuckyBenski]

I was trying to explain ghost notes and some basic slapping and was amazed to find I can do it, but can't understand how to explain it.

It's been pretty helpful to teach, as it made me review my own technique.

Downside is, I'm now considering buying myself a 6 string bass...

Take mine, I need to downsize by 50% and it's not been played for years

 

[potatolord]

Take mine, I need to downsize by 50% and it's not been played for years

Ooh, what is it?

I was planning on a no-name fleabay bargain.

 

[LuckyBenski]

Ooh, what is it?

I was planning on a no-name fleabay bargain.

It's a no-name fleabay bargain

I think it's actually a Shine, which looked to be made in the same factory as Tanglewood given the shapes etc. I'll do some googling

Edit: Pretty sure it's one of these with chrome hardware.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shine-String-Extreme-Bass-Guitar/dp/B00A4ER7E4

 

[potatolord]

Oops.

 

[potatolord]

It's a no-name fleabay bargain

I think it's actually a Shine, which looked to be made in the same factory as Tanglewood given the shapes etc. I'll do some googling

Edit: Pretty sure it's one of these with chrome hardware.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shine-String-Extreme-Bass-Guitar/dp/B00A4ER7E4

Well, let me know what you want for it and I'll come back to you.

Reminds me, I have to sell my ibanez 7string guitar... similarly unloved and unplayed.

 

[Andrew_McP]

<sulk>Gardening and fingerpicking are mutually incompatible.</sulk>
I sometimes wish I'd taken up the piano, not the guitar. I seem to have spent a significant proportion of my life faffing about with nail glue and (now) extra strong kitchen towel to stop bits of nail dropping off altogether. I've learned to appreciate and use a plectrum semi-effectively late in life, and I've learned to live with a thumb pick when I manage to rip my thumbnail irreparable, but finger picks are an abomination, so...

So time to stop whining and break out the glue again.

 

[ik9000]

I use short nails and pick with my fleshy tips not the nails. I can't stand having nails and prefer the tone I get from my fingers.

 

[Andrew_McP]

I can't stand having nails and prefer the tone I get from my fingers.

I struggle to play with un-nailed fingers... I think the positive feedback from a successful 'catch' with the nail helps me. I aim for about 2mm beyond the end of my fingertips; nothing too freaky. But that's enough leverage to ensure routine snagging and bending and fracturing and frustration.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Fingers and plectrums depending on the song.

 

[potatolord]

I like my fingernails fairly long for picking, I prefer the sound over fingertips.

The debate around this goes way back to the early 19th century - Fernando Sor used fingertips and Giuliani and Aguado used nails.

 

[builder22]

I like the sound of with nails better...grew them and filed them to shape when I first started learning classical but I hate the feeling...clip my nails 2-3 times a week now but wish the feeling of long nails didn't bother me...

this just came up on my recommended and it's pretty good

 

[McGray]

I've always used the flesh part for fingerpicking.

I play piano as well so long nails not an option (and kinda gross).

 

[potatolord]

This is a pretty good acoustic cover of Killing In The Name Of. Did work it out a few years back- I think it's in DADGAD.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I have a Klon(e)!

 

[ik9000]

nice. My last buys were a Keeley Pro compressor, an old Boss AC2 acuostic sim (2nd hand) that I've still to really try out, and a cheap (but verstaile) Donner Yellow Fall Delay that was in a flash sale, and which for <£20 is a bargain for what you get.

 

[Raymond Lin]

nice. My last buys were a Keeley Pro compressor, an old Boss AC2 acuostic sim (2nd hand) that I've still to really try out, and a cheap (but verstaile) Donner Yellow Fall Delay that was in a flash sale, and which for <£20 is a bargain for what you get.

I also have my name on a Boss TB-2W...

 

[ik9000]

I also have my name on a Boss TB-2W...

how did you manage that? I'd love to order one but can't find how

 

[Raymond Lin]

how did you manage that? I'd love to order one but can't find how

I am signed up to Anderton's emailing list, was on my computer at the time, saw the email pop up in my inbox at 8:59, I ordered by 9:02. I think places like Peach and Macari had them on sale at the same time and all were out by 9:15.

GuitarGuitar put their stock up at 10:00am ish and was gone by 10:30.

It was a very small window, totally unannounced. I thought pre-orders were in April, not February.

3000 worldwide, even if only 100 countries get them, that is 30 in each country, 5 stores in each country, that's 6 from each store. Even fewer if you consider each State in the US as it's own country as I am sure it's easy to find 5 music shops in a state.

The only places to get them now is reverb, 3x the price. Cheapest ones are £1k from Japan, which you have to add 20% VAT and duties on so will be more like £1250. Insane money, practically instant Klon status.

 

[ik9000]

ah well, that's that then.