/gg/ - Guitar & Bass General

thinn guitar edition

How do I start learning guitar/bass?
>justinguitar.com
>studybass.com
Guitar chords and inversion
>chordbook.com/guitar-chords/
String tension calculator (D'Addario-based):
>stringtensionpro.com
Music theory:
>musictheory.net/lessons
Guitar Maintenance and other information:
>frudua.com/guitar_craftpedia_en.html
Why is my guitar buzzing?
>frets.com/FretsPages/Luthier/Technique/Setup/BuzzDiagnosis/buzzlist.html
Large repository of tabs, books and other resources related to playing and theory:
>mega.nz/#F!v2oQgKhB!5nEaeUD8xxQYO8ipUoViqw

Previously:

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Gibson sucks

ESP sucks

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I'm in love with the les paul shape but not how it plays
how do I stop being retarded

S L I M

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Ok this thread has some potential.

ibanez and fender are the two industry leading guitar brands for a reason

"fun" is what failed musicians have when they can't have success

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What are some thin/slim models? I am very intrigued by these and wanna check one out.

>your parents when you make being a musician your goal in life instead of just doing it as a hobby

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Ibanez S or Ibanez Sabre.

Frank Gambale signature series aswell

LMAO at anyone who calls themselves a musician. You're a grocery clerk who plays music after hours. Get over yourself.

boy he sure is upset

Grow balls

Nobody is paying to hear a bored sounding guitar

Honestly just get a cheap knockoff one. Having it will make you get over liking it so much. Just sell it locally once the retard spell has worn off

seething poorfags that hate themselves so they have to shit up an internet forum site and try to bring others down

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how do I into guitar music theory. you know, scales and shit?
is there a good book or video series that will take me from someone who can just play a bunch of songs to actually having an understanding of what it takes to write or improvise something worth listening to?
please don't bully me

Thanks, I'll keep my eyes out for one of these in a local shop.

That's /gg/ from beginning to end tho.

>guys i bought an ESP now i'm just like my waifu uguu :3
>-you

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....b-b-bbut he started it!

>seething poorfags that hate themselves so they have to shit up an internet forum site and try to bring others down
not them but damn kid they got to you

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bruh, there's tons of shit on youtube about the basics. someone is going to go off on a rant about not needing to know theory for one reason or another. theory is good for knowing what the fuck you're doing as well as a guide. think of theory as a tool for writing music.

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Take paid (cheap) cam lessons with me, seriously

I didn't know yohio got his own anime

How can one guy be "them"? Haha you gave it away now

why don't I just fly you to my house instead? I bet you need a good dicking aswell

they got the attention they're craving, so i guess so

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This, this so much. I want off this ride now.

>he can't afford a Gibson, the only guitar which is good enough, because he's starving to death since the workers own the means of production in his country

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>he bought a cherry burst les paul but denies anime had anything to do with it
>he secretly wishes pic related was him

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I'd enjoy traveling
Wouldn't touch you sexually tho

Don't forget you're here forever

>denies anime had anything to do with it
it had everything to do with it. its the sole reason i even bought it in the first place. i disliked les pauls for no particular reason, so after getting one i kind of got used to it. get your facts straight

that's ok, I'd do the touching

I REFUNDED MY SOLAR GUITAR!
NEVER MAKING THAT MISTAKE AGAIN!

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based fro/gg/man snatchin' motherfukers birthdays

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I really hate how right you are

Hey guys. The tranny posting qualifies as Avatar doesn't it?

Only touching I'd tolerate would be fucking your ass if you're a feminine & clean tranny

dood i told them NOT to seethe and the seethed anyway lmao

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i was free from this place until i was kicked from the discord server for whatever reason. it wasn't anything like this.

This guitar is adequate.
Avatarfagging is always posting using an image of the same character. Nobody does that here except the Yuifag.

Who the hell is yuifag

dunno could be anyone

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This guitar's color is ugly.
The guy who always posts pictures of Yui from K-ON. Avatarfagging is always posting with images of the same character, especially when it's multiple times in the same thread, which is what the Yuifag does. That's reportable and bannable.
Simply using a reaction image, like a smug, is not in and of itself avatarfagging. If you post several reaction images of the same character in the same thread, that's avatarfagging.

Don't they have an S Series out without the ugly ass plastic pickup selector cover? If they're capable of making them without it why the fuck do they not make all the models that way

Isn't that the gibson tranny to

>He bought a guitar just because of anime
>he would never have considered that guitar if it weren't for his weebery
>his gear is inauthentic and tainted by japanese pop culture

Lmaoing @
Gibson Les Paul owners
ESP M-II and Snapper owners
Fender Mustang owners
Strandberg owners (if /gg/ can even afford them)

If you are considering one of these step back, and realize you don't want it. You're just a feminine freak who wants to imitate animated women.

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no really, why the fuck the recordings sound this shitty?? it didn't use to sound like this few months ago, but then it started to sound like this so i dropped it. now i come back and i find this. i thought it got by better by now, but nope

you forgot the E-II owners (me)

Their guitars don't suck but they're certainly overpriced.
The Yuifag and the "he can't afford a Gibson" guy are two separate people.

>tfw only a Gibsonâ„¢ is good enough

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>Strandberg

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>The Yuifag and the "he can't afford a Gibson" guy are two separate people.

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>liking things is wrong
what level of unironic irony is this

Why didn't you just buy a real one?

I like you

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I bought my Gibson Les Paul Standard many years before K-ON came out.

>he's over 30 and still posts on Yea Forums

the difference between 2k and 5k is significant to me

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cant even play a mere c chord aaaaaaa
(acoustic guitar btw, i always play acoustic. no electric shit, so there are no distortion or effects shit, i don't know what the fuck is wrong)

where is ol' jroach anyway

The bookmatching on this guitar is really great. Want.
It's the only place people say what they really think and mean because of anonymity. I will always love it for that reason.

>>He bought a guitar just because of anime
>>he would never have considered that guitar if it weren't for his weebery
>>his gear is inauthentic and tainted by japanese pop culture
But that's you precisely

>I'm not allowed to want or have a specific guitar cause some anime character played it
I'm still gonna pick up myself a Mustang, don't care

Okay, but consider that ESP guitars cost 4x as much as they're worth because they think they're more prestigious than they are, so you got the quality of a $500 mexican fender while a japanese ESP is on par with a $1125 american fender.

So for the price of your "too shitty to say ESP on the headstock" guitar you could have got an american made fender guitar that was better than it in every way and had money left over.

Play authentic or gtfo

now kiss

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I don't like the caster shape

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or he could have bought a top shelf charvel for that price

it would be better made with more convenient truss rod access, and have an actual brand name on the headstock (lmao)

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If you're a zoomer, you bought a guitar in 9/10 cases because of guitar hero or rockband.

Tell me which "ESP" you bought and I will find you a cheaper alternative that is better.

Hopefully you still have some of the return period left, friend...

lol charvels are made by illegal mexicans in the fender factory now

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You guys like SRV?
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For the price of a $2000 E-II kiesel can literally make the guitar of your dreams

I thought people only bought those E-II guitars used because they lose 50% of their value the moment the receipt is printed

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look user a special someone wants your attention

/gg/ in a nutshell

your guitar sucks and looks gay and you should feel bad for buying it

Well he ain't gonna get it!

why are G&Ls better than actual strats?

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Mostly a better tremolo design.
>humbucker
Absolutely disgusting.

>ESP E-II ECBB Eclipse
gonna keep it because I am a weeb

I'm just happy to learn

>extra small penis
>gay and lame

>Gay & Lame
lulz

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because its the strat's final form that leo fender finally perfected

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>be so dumb that you sold your company
>want to make guitars again
>forced to make knockoffs of your own guitars

OUCH

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If it's better than a strat, why isn't it an HSH hardtail?

Sounds like the mistake you've made here is playing on a piano instead of a guitar

Rather play a Fender, i want to have a stable resale value

You two get your asses up for my dick

>being so poor you need to sell guitars

>knockoffs
so by altering the dimensions of the hardware and guitar to avoid patenting lawsuits is considered a knock off? if you took a shit, and then took another shit, is that a knock off of your first shit?

this is the type of senseless argument i'm talking about

>fenders
>stable resale value

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that looks pretty slick. What sets it apart, just the price point?

>Finally brings a girl over
>She see's your vast quantity of knock off brand guitars that have been sitting on Reverb for years
>She leaves

I like p90s

Yes that's the definition of knock off guitars.

By the way Condors have great resale value. They're still sold for the same price I bought mine 6 years ago.

How would i go about learning how to play black metal?

Is my picking pattern correct?
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>needing a vast quantity of guitars
A gigging guitarist really only needs two electrics and two acoustics, so they have a backup when a string breaks during a gig. Maybe an electric 12 string and an acoustic 12 string, too, if you're into that sort of thing.
>but I want more sounds
EQ pedal.

we posting our floyd rose shredders?
>2001 MIK Squier Stagemaster neck thru
>seymour duncan 59 in the neck/JB bridge
>coil tap on volume knob for strat-like single coil tones
>tremol-no in the back set up to be able to be bent upwards around 2.5 steps (i can even herman li that shit and reef on the trem in the air)
>currently set up to standard

I wanted to get an EVH d-tuner on the low E of my floyd, but i'd have to route out a divot behind the bridge if I still wanted to bend upwards with the d-tuner. Not worth it to me. I like screaming up on the trem, and I'm not gonna drill a fuckin pothole in my baby

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>because its the strat's final form that leo fender finally perfected
i agree fully. I own a fender strat and a G&L F-100, and the G&L wins by a mile and a half. Smoother. Easier to play.

what?
is that even supposed to be funny? wheres the piano??
xd?

does it have alnico or cermaic pickups?
i personally prefer the ceramic pickups because they have a fatter sound to them, i think they call them uhhh 'texmex" pickups?

Does this stuff about diatonic chords/progressions I keep seeing even apply to riff-based music?

He cute, I like the shape of the body

Yeah or nah?

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they're the old mfd pickups from the early 80s. I honestly am not too sure if they're ceramic or alnico. I'll take a guess and say ceramic?

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imagine going to a gig holding an autistic fire truck

Cheaper by merit of being used, and being an unpopular model due to les paul fans and their traditionalism (otherwise it would be hundreds more)
Higher quality overall
Actual nitro finish
Authentically aged
Better pickups
Better fretwork
Probably lighter
It's an actual gibson les paul and not a bottom shelf japanese knock off that they were too ashamed to put their name on

Gigantic no

youtube.com/watch?v=JIFdMbhCa94

One day /gg/ will realize you get the most guitar for the least money if you buy something from fucking America

Made me kek so I'm not getting it

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Just pick a more famous song and google the tab
Most BM is dead simple

youtube.com/watch?v=MXwBsxTBxGM

same. I initially bought it because it was a really sexy looking super strat with a silver squier logo (silver and gold logo'd squiers are usually super high quality). I expected it to be lackluster at best. After a setup, it blew me away. It's one of my top 3 favorite guitars. I wish you could play it. Fuckin shreds.

how can you tell any of those things without having handled either in person, dude?

Because Gibson puts out consistent quality and ESPs are consistently plasticky crap.

cmon, I genuinely want to hear a real answer

>Because Gibson puts out consistent quality
not since the late 70s bro

Think of arpeggios, interval oriented riffs, string skipping, tremolopicking, diatonic and non-diatonic passages. There's a lot of different styles out there though. Varg had lessons on many of his songs online. The opening riff of Darkthrones Quintessence is also a real eyeopener that can show you how simple and powerful riffs can be at the same time. One of Ulver's guitarists has a few riffs from Nattens Madrigal online. Learn songs and incorporate their ideas.

If you haven't been able to handle examples of both brands I'm sorry for you.

No, continuing until today. QC horror stories come from people who buy guitars from catalogs sight unseen and get factory 2nds.

No now, let's be fair. It is consistent quality. Consistent shit quality.

Gibson doesn't do factory seconds...but keep living in your dream world.

i'll cop to that, for sure. Epiphone makes better shit at the $400-600 range than Gibson does in its $1000-1700 range.

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you wish

have you handled an e-II in person?

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>interval oriented riffs
What does that even mean, everything's intervals
>diatonic and non-diatonic passages
Oh now I get it, i can just use whatever

E-II Eclipse, blue natural fade
E-II Horizon III reindeer blue

Jackson stealth made in japan prefender

and they still felt cheap to you?

They felt like they were coated in a thick layer of plastic and sounded the part too.

I mean isn't that literally what a finish is

I used to really want an actual ESP. For years I drooled over the Ganesa or the Forest or the Reindeer models and was planning to save up enough to finally get one until they pulled that EII shit.

Not on a Gibsonâ„¢ it isn't

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Not on Gibsons.

it's just rebranded ESP standards only now that they don't say ESP on them you're free to stop being a fanboy and realize they're mediocre for the price. they pulled the E-II shit because calling them ESPs was making people think all their guitars were like that.

if you want an ESP buy one from the 90s, they hold up well.

high end gutiars with pricetags like $2000 usually have nitro finishes that feel better, allow the wood to continue drying, and wear in to become smoother than poly can possibly be

>HS config? Yeesh. Practice clean on the neck pickup and then riff on the bridge. Pfft, incels.

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Same reasoning behind why I got this.

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>if you want an ESP buy one from the 90s, they hold up well.
this is what i did, and i show cased it here and got shit for it because its too pointy and black

Lol couldn't afford the Roselia one?

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the what?

Offensive

You bought an ESP and you don't even know about the only relevant band that endorses them?

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Yeah, but he can practice clean on the neck pickup and then riff on the bridge.

Guys help. My tele's bridge pickup is super quiet and I have no idea how or why. What do?

i don't listen to metal, so i don't know any of the ESP guitarists other than richard kruspe of rammstein, which, like yui and the les paul, is the only reason i got the mirage. i liked ESP for awhile and finally got my hands on one.

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Big issue m8 take it back to Guitar Center pronto

i couldn't find the exact one that he used in the early days of rammstein, which was 901, so the mirage was the next best thing

Wipe the cheeto dust off your hands before you play

Oxblood, the thinking man's color of choice

I like my St vincent repro lol. It sounds good and is easy to play

bassed

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for me it's the charvel star

also bassed

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no, the CHARVEL star. fuck off you yui-knockoff.

based

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gaaaay

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I want to grope all of their thighs.

The drummer is the only good one.

Also those guitars are stupid.

At what age did you play your first live gig?
Me: 22

The one on the right looks normal

That means she's the most autistic one. Every time.

14

Try finding a case for that

People who play those don't need one.

This painting makes no sense since he can clearly reach the grapes.

17 in Belo Horizonte

That's fucking hideous looking. Why would you even consider that?

It makes the most sense actually because the fox, like the posters above, could reach them if he wanted to. But he knows better. Clever fox.

lol he knows better than to eat delicious grapes?

How are you sure the fox is a male one?

grapes are bad for dogs and foxes

Yes, it's a mentally ill fox. Like the posters above.

He doesn't buy gibson

Haha so it's like you're allergic to good guitars

based self congratulatory user

I think you need to refer the the vape.jpg.It should clear everything up for you newfriend.

Not strong enough to handle it? I stand behind my shitplank and don't give a flip about them motherfrickers

The only reason nitro is still used is because it checks, and boomers like that.

*ahem*

wrong

Closer to the truth than your bullshit rambling.

again

wrong

Do any of you do that kind of slap guitar shit that's so popular these days? How do you manage with that tiny string spacing?

i can't play guitar like i used to and i dont know why. when i was 16, 17 years old i played much better than i do now, there was like a magic to it that i cant seem to get back no matter how hard i try. it's bothering me so much. my phrasing seems dry and lifeless, and my fingers feel heavy and tired... what's wrong with me? has anyone else had this problem? could it be psychological? could it just be age? i'm 22 now. please help.

heres a cover of the stairway solo i did when i was 16:
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and here's one i did recently to compare:
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it's HORRIBLE compared to the first one. what do i doooooo... fuckkk im gonna kms

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are you Max Cavalera?

You need to do actual research and not just regurgitate shit you read on the net.

are those San Marcos blankets?

He likes it because it's super thin, dies in the cold, and wears out when you look at it funny.

word on the street is that bass guitar is for faggots

Could be early signs of Alzheimer's, saw artwork once of an artist slowly going through the stages, fucking horrifying shit. He got worse and worse slowly, untill finally his stuff was just a mess. Go see a doctor, user.

Example of that? I tried doing slapping for fun by lifting up the string with my thumb. Didn't have a problem with the spacing.

and again

wrong

Repeating it won't make it true.

Theory drained your soul. It's a one-way street, sorry buddy.

but you being wrong still will be

I was trying to do that kind of quintuplet stuff where you do double strokes with the thumb and use several fingers to pop using only one string for uniformity.

I'm guitar player and started playing bass recently.
I use a pick and I have a problem with the E string touching one of those round things on the pickup and making a loud pop or click noise.
I put duct tape over it and it's better now but you can still hear it
How can I fix this?

Fuck no

Same, user

I think he meant popping with the thumb. That is hard with the tiny spacing I agree.

Lol @ literal retard

lol baited

Do you do manual labor for a living? That shit will fuck up your fingers. Badly.

Do you play a lot of video games that require fast, forceful finger motion? That'll wear on them too.

Also if you've had clinical depression for a while that shit causes a lasting reduction in certain cognitive abilities, especially memory and, yknow, muscle memory. It's reversible but you have to be genuinely happy, every day, for years. If you never take care of it through sheer willpower it becomes dementia. Why the fuck would your mind stay intact if it wanted to die anyways?

Things that cause depression include:
Anime waifus and other unachievable love
Feeding acquired gender-dysphoric anxiety disorder (failed male syndrome) with trap fantasies and "im cute lol" internet roleplaying
Having actual gender dysphoria, repressed or not (completely untreatable and irreversible)
Low testosterone from an inactive, unhealthy lifestyle
Living a "life" fraught with defeat and failure at every turn (every time you fail or feel inferior, your testosterone levels drop as if your body has accepted that you are #2, #3, and then #4...#5....dead last) which then predisposes you to practically permanent depression
Holding deterministic, darwinist beliefs without actually being a fine specimen of humanity with male model looks and a 200 IQ
Imbibing in viewpoints that run contrary to what you always and still do want (ie: men who are attracted to asian women being racist against asians)

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>90109999
No, I didn't answer seriously

Musical instruments is a $6B industry.

Help me user I need help
I too went through depression and I feel my fingers slow and all the other symptoms

>90110108
doesn't matter pic related was you

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If you feel you are shit, you are shittier than you could be. If your body is weak, your mind is weak. If you don't want to thrive, you will slowly die. You are an efficient self reproducing system and you will not become better unless you put energy into it (work and quality food) because if you were just naturally a super high performer your ancestors would have starved in the first famine due to their constant exaggerated calorie needs.

It's very hot today, we're not using a blanket.

On the wall back there: my GUITARS

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Fish catapult

this is true

i stopped watching anime and acting girly on discords and started working out and got a japanese girl pregnant

now my parents are trying to get my name legally changed to chad, i can shred like you wouldn't believe, and i'm planning on which ibanez guitars to buy my progeny

Ive been trying to exercise for 2 minutes at morning before work, take cold showers and been trying to improve my confidence through external things like posture and looks. I'm not happy but at least I don't feel like I'm dying alive anymore. Some of the things you mentioned I've verified first hand, for example feeding tranny fetishes, feeling my body and mind shutting down while I want to die and stay in bed, test drops etc.
Idk what to do. Some days I actually act superior and feel good with it, but most days I feel like a defeated submissive loser afraid to stand up.

>yfw your brain stops working and you become the half remembered concept of a head

mymodernmet.com/william-utermohlen-alzheimers-self-portraits/

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...is this what passes for a "troll" on reddit?

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One thing remains unclear. How did he remember to make self portraits, or even did he remember how to paint?

willpower

art is the last thing you forget

youtube.com/watch?v=QGgRCzBw5gw

But he had Alzheimer, how did he remember what his will was?

yea i feel threatened by my own muscles and depressed by the fact that i havent kissed a girl yet... got abused as a kid, didnt get to go to high school, and now im afraid of growing up because i missed out on almost all normal childhood/teenagehood experiences. now they can't even be called desires anymore but something i've just accepted. as a result i no longer chase my desires, they no longer motivate me. im only motivated by pain, and have begun to fetishize my pain. my situation is no longer that of preferring fantasy to reality, but of preferring the very preference itself... i.e, i no longer desire straightforwardly but instead desire to view myself as being in a state of desire. girls no longer make me horny, only the idea of being horny makes me horny. i constantly probe myself to make sure i can still feel it. is it still there? do i still have the ability to feel things? ah yes, titties, i'll think to myself, i'm young, healthy, and looking at some tits. but the tits dont turn me on. i must keep thinking how hot it would be if i found those tits hot. yes, if i got a boner right now that would be hot, probably...

my initial post isnt a troll im legitimately scared that im losing my marbles in a weird freudian kind of way thats affecting my musical ability

if depression is the precursor to dementia this post is exhibit A

my case isnt normative i'm an exception on account of being so incredibly smart that i became insane

Which would sound better, answer honestly.

A $30 piece of shit Chinese strat ripoff hooked up to a $1500 amp.

Or a $1500 strat hooked up to a shit cheap amp?

user listen to me
You still got it
Your new vocaroo is as good as the old one, if not better
You are delusioned to think it's bad because you're depressed
Go pursue something in life. Are you gonna kill yourself? If so, do it now. Can't do it now? Chances you're not gonna do it and you just gonna keep living in worse and worse situation. Don't think of your regrets. Only think of the future. Improving. Start exercising and taking cold showers, that will give you stress hormones to start getting active. Exercise your mind, do math, read books, study. Depending on your state doing any of these things might feel like it's impossible, I've been there I thought it was the end for me. but keep at it. Buy books like Jordan Peterson's or Napoleon Hill's. Child books you enjoy reading; it's good for the brain. Get a low paying job that will get you active and force you to do things. You will suffer, but past the suffering it's glory.

At age 22? I'm sure he hasn't been guzzling aluminum.

>Alasting reduction in certain cognitive abilities
>lasting
fuck
>especially memory
yes
>It's reversible
Great!
>you have to be genuinely happy, every day, for years
FUCK

>If you never take care of it through sheer willpower it becomes dementia.
I am just about at this stage.

At least he doesn't frequently forget what he was thinking of 5 seconds after he thought it.

>being so incredibly smart
>didn't get to school
Lol

I'm going to add to your post and recommend intermittent fasting. If I don't eat for a day I feel somewhat more awakened, and my fingernails are less purple. Red meat seems to be the worst.

When I say fasting, I mean "don't eat when you're hungry". Being slightly hungry gives you something to think about.

>my fingernails are less purple
See a doctor ffs

Also
>More awakened
Sounds like you got diabetes, i reccomend getting checked user, maybe it's not too late

I did see a doctor, they took blood and everything. I just didn't follow up.
Do you think they still have the test results 3 months down the line? I could call them up again.

stop it fro/gg/man

If you go to the same clinic, it should be there. Just make an excuse on how the call for the next appointment was labeled as spam or something.

I bought a blood sugar test kit just for the sake of biometrics. My fasting blood sugar is always between 85 and 95. I do not have diabetes.
My illness is a condition of demoralization.

Assuming you don't live in a third world country and the tests were performed after like 1990, your doctor almost certainly uses EHR and thus has literally every single note ever written about you and every single test result stored.

Christ that guitar is fugly

I have a $200 Yamaha acoustic that I like, but I’m thinking of getting something nicer maybe in the 700-1000 range. I’m leaning toward Taylor or seagull at the moment. Input would be appreciated

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That guitar looks exactly like the one I'm getting from guitar center. It should arrive at my local branch next week.

It's impossible to use the pinky on the lower strings while wearing the guitar fairly low, unless you bend the wrist all the time.

Logically, using the pinky is for betas that wear the guitar high up.

Prove me wrong

Any new gear here? Just got a king v.

t. small hands

i already do all that shit bro im not some lethargic faggot like everyone else, i dont lay in bed all day on the contrary im in peak condition, have eclectic, erudite interests, still want to off myself... it's because im a genius and know too much about the world

I'm adding a humbucker to my Acoustic, making a headless guitar, and after that I'll add a middle pickup to my Tele. I don't really want another guitar. After I finish these 3 things I'll be pretty satisfied. I'll just change my amp's cabinet for a 2x12 with Celestions instead of this trebly nasal cab

Wtf trem system is that? Looks cocked forward really far

already do intermittent fasting as well...

Well fuck you then for wasting my time with this bait. You had just said you spend all day anticipating getting horny and shit. That doesn't match up. Now fuck off I won't reply anymore

Get a Takamine instead my duder.

Kill yourself then you're hopeless

Get a gypsy guitar

WAKEY WAKEY

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you're literally supposed to bend your wrist all the time. your thumb should never, EVER rest ontop of the neck, but touch the back, lightly.
hitting notes on the lower strings, at lower frets, your wrist should be bent at almost 90 degrees, and your elbow tucked in towards your torso.

personally the best acoustic ive ever played was an alvarez on account of its low action and bell-like sound, but it wasnt an electric so take that as u will

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kek a roach must have run across your face and wake you up again

Same here. Vintage 70s Alvarez 12 string. Amazing sounding guitar.

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Why dont you apply your imagination to guitar?

bending wrist too often causes pain and injuries, you're baiting

don't be that way jroachy, you wanted attention remember?

>tfw another day of depression
>tfw didn't get out of bed yet (it's 8 PM and I went to bed at 8 PM last night)
>didn't go to work
>didn't play guitar

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Bad bait, you'd have been fired already

based loser

>put guitar body on flatbed scanner
>scan
>draw the shape of the floyd rose hole in CAD
>print
>cut it out of hardwood
>put in hole
>ducktape the borders
>pour epoxy resin from the other side

What could go wrong?

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I'm on an alternative work arrangement where I only get paid for the hours I work with a goal of doing 30 total hours a week.

No matter how hard youre not a chick.

The former easily

i said DON'T be that way didn't you listen jeez

no, having unnecessary tension causes pain and injuries. there's nothing wrong with bending your wrist if you do it right. it's infinitely advantageous to do so.

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>flying fingers
Oh no no no

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The scan is the wrong size, use a fucking caliper and do it right or find someone who can.

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>ALPHA MALES wear their guitars low!

t.

John petrucci has a flying pinky and a thumb that frequently travels up and around the neck and he gives no fucks

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the former would have a better tone on its own
but the latter would get a better tone from the guy playing it

Smoke some weed
Play some mixolydian

>tfw haven't mastered crab style yet

why do you guys just talk about gear and not technique

what's something cool and new you learned lately

the height of the chair you're sitting on is very important and playing on the couch gave me terrible wrist pain

>6:30pm
lol thank god have fun in your bucket this weekend losers i'm outie 5000 see you on monday

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Uh oh, I do all my playing on the couch.

Is it a high couch for your legs or a low one? I'm 6'0" and my couch is barely two feet off the ground.

I can tremolo pick the coolest black metal riffs now

Low couch

Uh oh

Are you playing a jazzmaster in the flamenco position? I am.

My tennis and gaming hobbies probably aren't helping but at this rate I'm going to have to be one of those people that plays a strandberg on a special stool, with a strap despite sitting down

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stay safe! i realised my small hands were giving me horrible wrist posture technique recently and it's a real journey to adjust that but it's better to notice now than carry on
badass!

It's a little bit off. If this was a hardwood block, I'd be able to sand the vertical faces a bit in order to fit it snugly. This means my plan is perfect.

Just fiy, you were wrong in assuming I did not use a caliper to set the scale right.

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This is my american pro strat through studio one 4. Im playing positions 1 through 5 to show you how the hss american pro sounds. Its a.pickup demo

vocaroo.com/i/s0E8VReaysrl

I stand corrected, good job mate.

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you just saved me $1500 user

thanks

based conspicuously gay guitarist

>heres your shipment bro

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Man, Gibson is really stepping their game up with that new CEO

Its a Dean

Not mine! The guy on the phone said it comes with a hard case.

Good. The headstock won't be broken off.

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For ever 1 Dean, there's 100 Gibbys.

Because you have about 100x more Gibby players than Dean lmao, nice try doe

DOH!

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1 out of 101 people is a Deaner

You dont have money user dont lie

And theyre all dead lol

plinkplink plink plink plink plink buck buck buck plink plink plink

Drop a Dean, maybe break the headstock
Fart and definitely break a Gibson hedastock.

1 out of every 1001 peasants plays a condor

>tfw your guitar is so inoffensive that people don't even meme about it

Its probably poorfa/gg/ shit so no one cares

You have my pity

American quality (TM)

Anons can read my posting and be filled with the joy of your music.
F I L L E D
W I T H
J O Y

Is there an all in one jazz book out there?

Yes. Its called Google

I want something more structured

Jazz is pretty broad, no.
Is there an all in one Classical Guitar Book?
Nope.

New thread

I just want a book that will show me how to improve

If you want to learn jazz, I just recommend you take music Theory courses at your local Community College(saves $).
You'll eventually learn about extended chords on top of the foundational material. Use this as a springboard to interpret particular jazz methodologies, not all jazz musicians were classically trained so they may have some bizarre terminology they made up.

Thank you