>How do I start learning guitar/bass?
justinguitar.com
studybass.com
>Guitar chords and inversions
chordbook.com
>String tension calculator (D'Addario):
stringtensionpro.com
>Music theory:
musictheory.net
>Guitar Maintenance and other information:
frudua.com
youtube.com
>Why is my guitar buzzing?
frets.com
>Large repository of tabs, books and other resources related to playing and theory:
mega.nz
Previous thread:
>tfw only a Gibson™ is good enough
peavey 6505+ sucks and I am disappointed
>tfw I should have never sold my randall solid state half stack
Prestige is better
I’ve been getting noise complaints lately. Is a focusrite 2i4 and a guitar XLR cable all I need to record straight to my computer? I don’t know if I like the idea of taking the amp out of the equation
he's never coming back
>ibenhad
lol
He's right here!
creepy desu
goodbye romani, good riddance
im here tonite
me too!
imagine thinking that froosh ever left
Sorry dude. I'm considering the 6505 1x12 or one of the larger Randall Diavlo combo. Any thoughts considering your experience?
Telecaster Custom FMT HH, Taylor 110, EC 256. Not pictured is my Frontman 25R amp. Thinking about buying a strat or a bassbreaker 007 soon.
the allure of the HH tele
It has coil split and is actually a pretty versatile guitar - though I bought it when I had no idea what I was looking for just liked the way it felt
imagine thinking froosh was actually ever here
>anno domini 2019
>still playing music on six strings
explain yourselves
lol different company
youtube.com
Bugera 333xl is unironically better
Fuck you dude dimebag was cut way too short and we all know it and we all wish he was back
this but unironically
>uncanny valley knock-offs
lol
>t.
You can always tell a guy is not gonna be very good at guitar when he has a les Paul in his room.
It's always a mix bag with Ibanez or fender.
But they're usually really good when they have brands like suhr or charvel
The best guy I ever heard had a strandberg.
1. It's broken
2. You can't dial in sounds for shit
Pick one. It's a classic amp lad.
Havent posted in a while. Is jcum still around?
He's probably one of those "it sounds bad because it doesn't have a block letter 5150 on it" guys
Still better than overpriced shit planks lol
>headless guitars
les paul did it les paul did it
There are only two kinds of allures on a tele. One is a P90 neck pickup and the second one is being an esquire.
>shitty knock-offs are better that the real thing
lol
Mmmm, Ibanez is more mixed-bag than Fender. Generally I find Fender guys to be competent players that upgraded from Squiers or shit-tier cheap Ibanezes after playing for a few years.
Agree about Suhr, though (I've definitely met some Charvel players who are wannabe 80s shred guys and can only play sloppy sweep arpeggios). Suhr tends to be really selective about who they endorse, and anyone who cares about the kind of attention to detail that goes into driving up the price of Suhr guitars has probably been playing for quite some time.
Also Vigier.
Not him, but for the last couple of years, yeah.
>the most expensive and sought after guitars in history
>but last couple of years
lol
You've got to admit, they've had problems, that are hopefully behind them now.
>all the best electric guitar players in the world play Gibson™ Les Pauls
>this is a problem
lol
Literally all the best players right now play Ibanez and suhr if we're talking technical.
If we're talking boomer rock bands, yeah you win.
How do you like those pointed picks? Do you think they'd be good for tremolo picking?
was this a bad idea
instaud.io
I wasnt being ironic faggit
>all the most famous technical Suhr players are now switching to based Gibson™ Les Pauls
lol
Don't forget a lot of them moved to PRS and ESP
takes a while to get used to. I think it excels at precise picking, works well for tremolo too. They are 1.0 so a little thicker than I'm used too. feels good for riffs not so much blues stuff.
If by “couple” you mean 40, you’re right.
70s LPs made by Greco, Burny, Ibanez, Memphis, Arai/Aria, and Tokai absolutely smoke Gibson product of the time and still remain the very best LPs from the era.
It got so bad Gibson contracted with a big Japanese maker to make LPs under the Epiphone name just to get some of their own market share back.
He literally hardly ever touches les Paul and you know it. He was suhr for years before switching to charvel.
Eric Johnson is a fender guy too.
But hey you have...joe bonamassa lol.
anyone else learn entirely through youtube lick videos?
>70s LPs made by Greco, Burny, Ibanez, Memphis, Arai/Aria, and Tokai
lol
>COPE
lol
I never learned a single song or lick. Start composing right now.
>says best players in the world play Gibson
>posts pic of a dead guy as an example
Couldn’t have made the point any better myself
Bra-fucking-vo, user.
I see. I'm debating between the 1.14 sharps or the 1.14 jazz III's, suppose I should just head to a store and try them out.
Pics are cheap. Buy a bunch and try them out
You think you'd be better off just doing scales/chord exercises and writing your own material rather than trying to learn other songs first? Why is that? I'm not disparaging you, I'm genuinely curious.
>reaching for straws in shear desperation
lol
Let’s try to get along now, boys
that's the spirit!
That they’re also cheaper to buy doesn’t make me wrong. Their quality advantage was vast, well known at the time, and remains.
>That they’re also cheaper to buy doesn’t make me wrong. Their quality advantage was vast, well known at the time, and remains.
Wow you actually found one good job.
Jackson Ps-4, any good??
Jazz iii are my favorite. Can't go back to anything else. Eric Johnson's version of jazz iii are great too.
>COPE
>O
>P
>E
lol
I’m just going to leave this here
nylon a shit though
Tortex Jazz III is kang
also hey whatup bluefem, been awhile ;^)
Is that John Mayer??
What would be the best guitar and amp combo to achieve a tone like this?
youtube.com
You're making Gibson look worse now.
Why would you do that.
I been practicing piano and producing stuff for awhile so I been at /prod/
>SS frets
>active pickups
>locking tuners
>guitar polish
>locking nut
>alternative tunings
>more than 2 modulation pedals
>loop pedal
>picks not made of plastic
>picks that aren’t the same size or shape as normal
>tapping
>baritone guitars
>7 strings
>8 strings
>strap locks
>specialty coated strings
Did I miss any memes?
Yeah, yourself.
Yes
What, are you gay or something?
youtu.be
who the fuck is "sub-500 woman"
sub 500 pounds
He likes the fatties
Not your mom.
nasty fucker
>she's not my mom
duh
Don’t worry, incels, he was just joking. You guys hoped on that faster than jcum hops on roman getting food lmao
But I didn't even comment on your post.
In your opinion what are the best bass amp and cab brands?
Acoustic
kek
Slapping the body for percussion
A friend of mine told me his fetish was piss, and he wouldn't fuck them he'd JO under a glass table while the chick would piss on top.
oh yeah he's jewish alright
Nice Freudian slip weirdo
They heard it from a friend who heard it from Taylor Swift at a party in LA.
I didn't know he was based
Incels hate him. Chads want to be him. He’s won more awards than Mark Knophler lmao
>n-no seriously, I didn’t make it up while thinking about my own fantasies
Bro, just stop replying
naw, cause you're wrong. It'll be in a T swift bio some years from now. You'll feel like a damn fool.
>Freudian slip
Don't know what that is, huh?
Oh no no no no
For real, everyone.
Google John Mayer Piss Fetish.
The man has a piss fetish, regardless if he's peeing or being pee'd on.
Why should I care?
The point is 500 isn't sex, it's piss play.
If you don’t understand the reference don’t reply to me brainlett.
I know I defended him but I honestly like him more now
Again, why should I care?
I get it, and I get that you used it wrong.
>tfw you’ve pissed on Taylor Swift AND Katy Perry
anybody want a discord invite?
You don't have to, I've already made my point. Ignore my posts and stop replying to me faggot.
You’re too dumb to get the joke stop replying to me autist
MAKE ME CARE!!!
Jokes are funny. You are not funny
He has signature guitars AND pees on girls
>Jokes are funny. You are not funny
No you big fucking baby.
Wait for him to make another Freudian slip lmao
Catch 22, he was right about John Mayer being a peepee god so the Freudian slip is fine.
You work for John?
>tfw if you kiss taytays at feet she'll tell everyone about your fetish after the break up
why live
lol jeez I wish
What the fuck? Do people REALLY buy guitar speakers and record THEM WITH MICROPHONES in PROFESSIONAL SETTING? WHAT???????????????????????/
So why do you care?
Yeah and people still play super smash brother melee. John Mayer pees on girl’s feet and mics his amp with a 57
Care about what? I’m just making fun of the autist that can’t take a joke hombre.
I love that my nigga John pees on feet
Thank you for admitting.
SeeSaid it a long time ago brainiac
Guys, I think someone's working very hard to subvert guitar-related posts with shitposting in this thread.
Grab your guitar and post some playing to vocaroo to combat this
Jesus christ you're a nasty one
I’m down but we have to pick a track to honor our peepee feet god
youtu.be
roman plays custom boutique so that's incorrect
Alright, I been working on this for 2 days now, I need some feedback anyways.
>everyone’s heard of kaka picking but have you heard of peepee plucking?
>HIS FEET HIS FEET
I've heard of cockpicking, William Murderface of dethklok did a live cockpicking solo once
Mah nigga
Yeah dude we all watch anime here but we’re talking about real life. Nice Freudian slip faggot
I don't
You just referenced an anime...
Get out
No I didn't
Grow up
>he doesn’t know that titmouse outsourced animation from Asia
Yes you did lmfao what’s it feel like be a weeb you fucking loser
I'm not that guy you fucking cunt
Jesus Christ, just stop replying if you’re just going to COPE that hard you spineless pussy.
No u
I didn’t know this was r/guitar?
Guys we’re stealing content from reddit this is low even for us
I'll say this slowly. I'm not the guy that mentioned the cartoon. I'm the guy that said I didn't watch cartoons when you said that everyone here didn't. Maybe if I say it with some weird Japanese accent you'll understand?
Why are you in Reddit, faggot?
>trying this hard
Why can’t you follow my advice and stop posting? You’re embarrassing yourself, naruto
>google
I hate mouth breathers like you
>Posts a screenshot of Reddit
I didn't actually go to Reddit guys! I swear!
You embarrass yourself by watching cartoons
You must have been the one that plagiarized reddit if you care this much :)
Bro you literally made a reference to a meal babby anime and you’re going to say that to my face? Fuck you dude that’s gay
Again, I'm not the guy that posted that. Fuck, you're dumb.
Never been there
Yeah, I’m totally the dumb one here lmao
Takes a big man to admit it.
what is wrong with these threads
Except that one time you plagiarized r/guitar and then tried to make fun of someone else. Isn’t that a Freudian slip?
Says the guy that watches adult swim lmao
Fuckin queers talkn guitars n shit LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING LEGS
Who do you think I am?
We’re talking about John Mayer taking a peepee on some girls feet on reddit
Someone dumb enough to reply to my bait
Or are you replying to my bait?
OH I AM LAFFIN
>modsplshelp.jpeg
Cringe. Post more guitars dumbfucks
Look who needs attention now. Can’t let your daddy have all the fun huh?
Ha!
At what price point does the quality/price start leveling out? American Original 50's Fender Strats sound nice but I also found MIJ 50's reissues for less than $1k online. Are you just paying for the "Made in USA" stamp or is there some weight to the premium price? I heard MIJs are on par with MIA Strats.
Currently playing a MIJ Mustang.
GUITAR IS TURNING YOU GAY
American labor is overpriced.
And giving me a peepee fetish
Shit tier meme tonewoods:
Mahogany
Maple
Swamp ash
Basswood
Alder
Underrated tonewoods:
Oak
Beech
Birch
Cherry
God tier tonewoods:
Resin
Plastic
Plywood
Fibreboard
Colored pencils
Styrofoam
>At what price point does the quality/price start leveling out?
about $500 for a 6 stringed solid body guitar
it's a working man's instrument and class won't buy you tone. that's why everyone moved on to digital production, where class will buy you a better producer which will buy you better tone. mankind is a funny thing. for how much it complains about how the world is not fair or too biased towards one type of person who "doesn't really deserve it all", it will stop at nothing to keep the world that way.
broke a string like a retard. is it difficult to put on a new string? keep in mind i'm retarded
it already did
Put it up your butt for that sweet retro sound you've been looking for
Famous guitarists who putt their strings up their butts:
Jimi Hendrix
James Hetfield
Steve Vai
Nigel Tufnel
Jared Scallion
Laura Cox
lighter wood sounds overall better
this is the only 'tonewood' property that really affects sound
>Floyd rose
Take it somewhere
>Standard bridge type
Ur fine and its very easy.
is it okay to change only the string I broke? or should i change them all for consistency?
It depends on the hardness/flexibility of the wood and certain frequencies will decay faster or slower if you suspend a string between two blocks of one hardwood or another
Thankfully we have the good sense to suspend our strings between pieces of metal so any hard, inflexible material will do for improving sustain and everything else is just personal taste because there's little room for the things the metal is screwed to to do anything
Tonewood is an accepted fact with acoustics because the wood makes most of the sound. With electrics, congrats on buying expensive wood and coating it in nitrocellulose paint. It sounds exactly like any other hardwood and the differences between mahogany and a solid chunk of oak out of your backyard are the same as the differences between two chunks of mahogany from two different trees.
It doesn't really matter unless all the others are clearly worn out and won't stay in tune
thanks. hopefully i can figure it out with a youtube guide. im afraid ill lose all my progress if i stop practicing so i want that string back asap
Get a guitar with locking tuners. It makes changing strings easy for retards.
Macmull - I'm Macmullin' it.
Macmull: just right.
>macmull only does nitro finishes
into the trash
When I turn Treble Boost up from 0 on my active pickup bass, I get static crackling when I am touching the strings AND I am NOT touching the jack plugged into the guitar. If I touch the jack it stops cracking. What could this mean?
It's the only good tone finish.
>he isn't acquainted with the unique tonal properties of a 1 micron thick coating of kaka
Yup I don't use finishes that cost less than 4000$.
obviously not more either, pleb
Yall muthafuckas aint ready for my YAMAHA.
Herpes
Dimebag confirmed for manlet.
Jazz iiis are the best bro.
Meh locking tuners are great for string changes.
@86757104
No (you)s for you.
>John Mayer has only slept with 6 women
It's to his credit that this is completely unbelievable.
roman hasn't been here in 5 years
john's not a slut
No, he's just a normal guy with means and opportunity.
normal guys have 1 (one) partner
Macmull. Some sell tone wood, some sell tone hardware. We sell tone.
Gross.
What kind of tone?
This buttflusters the boomer worse than being asked to identity the tone woods used in 5 different guitars, and finding out they were all maple
Those aren't guitars, 900fag.
THIS saddle and ashtray bridge: good or bad?
if the tab is in dadf#be tuning but it also says capo 1 at the top of the page, do I tune the guitar to dadf#be first and then put a capo on?
yes
don't use tabs btw
thanks
what do you mean by don't use tabs though?
you shouldn't use tabs, read sheet music
I'm new so sheet music is too hard for me plus the song in question only exists in a tab format
This is retarded. Sheet music and guitar do not translate as well as sheet music and piano.
Real men learn with their ears.
don't listen to this jackass btw
you don't really need sheet music if you play guitar that's not classical academic guitar, you're only going to harm your playing.
There are very few cases in which a guitarist needs to be proficient at reading sheet music
If you're just a hobby guy or just in it for making your own music don't bother
alright thanks guys
So many losers that can't read sheet music triggered :))
Don't listen to them. Sheet music is essential to become a musician. Instruments speak music and you need to learn that language. Not the number of the frets.
You don't have to read sheet music to know theory, my man
Alright, string broke so its now been totally viable to start looking at a bridge/saddle replacement. Anyone have any ideas what kinda of bridge would fit best in it's place? about a 2x3 5/8s inchslot. P or Jazz bass replacements are readily available on amazon, but its almost half an inch to short, and a quarter inch to thin. I can't go any wider because its a fitted groove. And working with Luthite is fucky.
you don't HAVE to, it's good to learn music theory, and alot of the WHYs in music, but this is just a fedora tipping outlook don't listen to him
I can read sheet music better than you. Want to have a competition? :)
And what would this prove?
Someone posts a piece of sheet music. I guarantee I will post faster and have a more accurate recording. I understand if you’re too chicken shit.
No, no. What's the point? What would this prove?
That I’m better than you. Do you not know what competitions are?
Uh oh, someone doesn’t like confrontation
Bass!
Archtop guitars are retardedly overpriced. I can get a nice upright bass with a carved top for 1000€ shipped made in eastern Europe. Or a fully carved cello for 600€. Meanwhile what kind of archtop guitar can you get for 600 bucks that has at least a carved top, good acoustic sound and is decently made? A purely acoustic archtop should be available for 400€ or so, add electronics with a floating pickup and maybe 500€-600€ max. Why are people paying these retarded prices?
>get new guitar
>decide to dig out my first amp and play on it
>Rocktron V10 Velocity
>sounds bretty good as a bedroom practice amp
>google it
>can find almost nothing other than used ones for sale
I find more about Gorilla amps than i did about this thing. What's up with that?
Samuel: t. Can't survive the flu
Idk but it looks pretty shitty
Samuel: t. Can't read lead sheets
Samuel: t. Can't into midrange guitars
Samuel: t. Couldn't play to save his life
Sammy: t. Couldn't upgrade his shitplank
He tries, but he just wrecks them.
What this guy said, for bass guitars too.
I have a Fender and a Gibson as electric guitars, but my bass has always been a 600 dollar Yamaha. Nobody can tell it's not a Fender when I play out on the weekends or jam with others.
this one's good
Yeah, $500-600 is where you get a guitar that's pretty much plays as well as it gets.
You kids have no idea how lucky you are to grow up in an age where cheap guitars are actually good and not plywood monstrosities that sound and play like ass.
Are you paraplegic? Miss a thumb? All fingers are thumbs?
If not, change your fucking strings. Do all of them unless it was a completely new set.
i can already see this garbage hanging up in every paw shop in 10 years because all the white trailer trash who bought them had to sell them for meth money
Recommend me a lightweight 25.5" scale, mid price. I need something lighter than my Gibson block of mahogany for my back.
and what if i refuse?
Then you'll burn in hell and so on.
meh not enough incentive srry
Well, I'll just have to tour the guitar centers again and see what shit they have in stock then. But at least I'll do so in the knowledge that at least one /gg/ poster burns in hell.
k den
Looks like shit in sunburst though (as does every guitar). Why not blue or tequila burst? Posting prototypes
Just put a Duncan Pearly gates on the neck
and a JB on the bridge of my Epiphone Sheraton and Gibson Hardware.
Sounds and feels great!
>he plays an instrument for sissy hippies and women
yoooo hahahaha
ewwwww why are the necks brown like doo doo
Kakanecks are lighter and less prone to temperature changes
Modern day Gibsons are themselves shitty knock offs of the real thing.
>He plays the gypsy box when he could be playing K I N G of the instruments.
LMAOing @ ur life
>king of instruments
>can't be moved, at all
>doomed to stay in sky man houses no one cares about anymore
Portable instruments are poorfag instruments.
Just install a new one lol
based Gibson™ has always made the best guitars in the world, sorry that's just the way it is lol
whats a good book for learning rhythm theory? I want to up my game on rhythm guitar
Who's to say the quality of the "Real Thing™" hasn't gone down significantly?
I've been having issues with hitting the wrong string with my right hand when skipping strings.
Any exercises I can do to work on this?
>humbucker tele
>posting on Yea Forums
>offended by indecency and perversion
Pick one.
You’re here, you really should know what you’re getting by now.
Hell ya brother!
I mean it does you just have to try a bit harder.
lol no. What if you want to play with other people who aren't guitarists. They don't write tabs. If you can't read sheet music it makes life a lot harder. It's just easier to communicate or pick things up quickly.
this one is pretty decent for a change, if you ask me
Grounding issue.
Also, treble is where all of the annoying noise collects, so boosting your treble also boosts the noise issues.
>lol no. What if you want to play with other people who aren't guitarists. They don't write tabs
90% of people in rock bands write tabs.
what are you a jazzman or somethin
>Sheet music and guitar do not translate as well as sheet music and piano
>I mean it does you just have to try a bit harder.
So it doesn’t translate as well. Do you try to put yourself in positions that make look dumb?
Of course. Firebird Zero is definitely one of their best designs ever. Absolutely iconic. Definitely up there with 59 LP gold tops
Imagine unironically owning an Ibanez
Lmfao
ID on animu?
30 year old Bunny Rabbit senpai boomer.
Imagine ironically owning an Ibanez
You're right it's unreasonable to expect people to put effort into a craft that requires hundreds of hours of practice to begin with.
Every single instrument has something that is harder for them than for everyone else. Those things can usually be overcome with some degree of effort.
>rent free
Imagine being so autistic you are convinced you need gear to be good
Hey look, you put yourself in a other position that makes you look dumb. You called reading music a craft, what a fucking joke lmao.
yup, but who gives a fuck? Electric guitar in not an orchestral instrument, it's a guitar music instrument with its own subgenres, subculture and conventions.
You're going to expose lots of insecurities here m8.
Have you ever played music with another person? Sometimes they write out charts with sheet music, because no one else uses tab. If you wanna play with other people who aren't guitarists then it's useful to be able to read. Genre is doesn't matter.
apparently telling people to practice something that could be useful triggers people
I said it doesn’t translate as well, which triggered you. And now you won’t respond to me, because I triggered you. I’m also the user that proposed a sheet music reading competition but I suspect like the other user you will run away too.
>Sometimes they write out charts with sheet music,
jeez-louise, no one I know in local indie/rock/metal scenes gives a flying fuck about sheet music. and I'm from a big city.
>apparently telling people to practice something that could be useful triggers people
Yes, specially among scene musicians.
Niggas that read sheet music still write in cursive lmao
what scene? you're talking about scenes but you never mentioned what you play or with whom
currently diy scene, grew up in the rock and metal scene
don't really have much options here
>reading sheet music is pretty pointless honestly
diy punks? and they write down their chords via sheet music?
go back and tell me where that was implied m8
I think these are a tad too expensive for trailer junkies. We aren't talking about /gg/'s favorite budget RGs here
DIY is a broad term, it can be mongolian throat singing tribute band or a hardcore punk scene
I hate how common it is for guitarists to be boastfully ignorant when it comes to music theory. Like the less they know makes their playing somehow more impressive
Fact: tabs are vastly superior to generic music notation when it comes to guitars.
Well it does. The less you know and the better you are just shows how much raw talent you actually have. You can’t practice having the X factor.
Ever wonder why pretty people are famous and you arent?
No, I mean where did I imply the scene wrote their stuff down.
Anyways, what I meant to say is that the DIY scene if full of people with lots of complexes, suggesting anything that might help them improve can be taken as a criticism.
That's why I replied to that user saying that he was going to expose lots of insecurities. Which is pretty much what it's happening right now.
>the DIY scene
What do you play?
Guitar on a noise rock band.
how many noise rock bands use sheet music?
So reading sheet music is for ugly people?
That's why all the best guitarists exclusively read tab right?
I don't know, I'm not even sure why are you replying to my posts considering you aren't even reading them.
Classical musicians often look fucking wonky as frick so yes
the best guitarists write riffs and keep them in their head.
What kind of improvement a useless skill is?
It's not useless just because you say so. But anyways, carry on. I'm gonna go back to shitpost about gear.
There is a bare minimum level of theory knowledge that comes with different genres. If you're bragging about not knowing any theory and you play only rock you just look like a dumbass
>It's not useless just because you say so
I don't say so, in fact being able to read sheet music is quite easy, and indeed improves your musical understanding, but it has no practical significance in the world of e. guitar, at all.
We’re talking about sheet music, dumbass, please try to keep up.
Half of the people here are so triggered they don’t even know what the argument is.
The topic was changed slighly, referenced it for you friendo (:
New thread
Sheet music is piano tablature. it isn't a magical generic format designed by top intellectuals. It is a fairly direct representation of how notes are layed out on a piano. Note duplication and fingering efficiency concerns make it less than ideal for guitars tuned in fourths and a third. The way guitars are set up and played means they need their own format. They aren't like flutes, which can only play one note at a time, or violins, which are tuned in fifths, only have four strings, and can only play two notes at a time. It's useful for composing though.
>but they yooose eet in orchestras so that makes it smarter
>yeer not a reel musician if you can't sight read
There is a such thing as real music outside of fucking chamber music. It's more like the only instrument in the classical ensemble that plays a role that's anything like a guitar is the piano, which has an interface that resembles sheet music so much that sight reading is a naturally acquired skill for pianists.
>but classical guitarists
Those guys make things hard for themselves on purpose because early composers were too lazy to translate to tabs. You know, the format that's been in use for longer than grand staff notation.