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
Owen Edwards
Thanks, I'll keep my eyes out for one of these in a local shop.
Nathan Price
That's /gg/ from beginning to end tho.
Jason Kelly
>guys i bought an ESP now i'm just like my waifu uguu :3 >-you
>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
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.
>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
I'd enjoy traveling Wouldn't touch you sexually tho
Nathan Smith
Don't forget you're here forever
James Powell
>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
Blake Bailey
that's ok, I'd do the touching
Brandon Harris
I REFUNDED MY SOLAR GUITAR! NEVER MAKING THAT MISTAKE AGAIN!
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.
Ethan Jackson
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
Connor Edwards
Isn't that the gibson tranny to
Sebastian Taylor
>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.
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
Jayden Walker
you forgot the E-II owners (me)
Thomas Roberts
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.
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)
Hunter Morales
where is ol' jroach anyway
Jaxon Nelson
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.
Thomas Cruz
>>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
Carson Moore
>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
Luis Powell
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.
If it's better than a strat, why isn't it an HSH hardtail?
Evan Reed
Sounds like the mistake you've made here is playing on a piano instead of a guitar
Joshua Wood
Rather play a Fender, i want to have a stable resale value
Sebastian White
You two get your asses up for my dick
Isaiah Kelly
>being so poor you need to sell guitars
Caleb Bailey
>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
>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.
Colton Allen
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
>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.
Wyatt Mitchell
what? is that even supposed to be funny? wheres the piano?? xd?
Angel Gomez
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?
Jayden Rivera
Does this stuff about diatonic chords/progressions I keep seeing even apply to riff-based music?
imagine going to a gig holding an autistic fire truck
Eli Green
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
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.
Jack Diaz
how can you tell any of those things without having handled either in person, dude?
Ryder Kelly
Because Gibson puts out consistent quality and ESPs are consistently plasticky crap.
Carson Harris
cmon, I genuinely want to hear a real answer
Andrew Bailey
>Because Gibson puts out consistent quality not since the late 70s bro
Dylan Carter
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.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
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.
Jonathan Thompson
No now, let's be fair. It is consistent quality. Consistent shit quality.
Jacob Richardson
Gibson doesn't do factory seconds...but keep living in your dream world.
Joseph Baker
i'll cop to that, for sure. Epiphone makes better shit at the $400-600 range than Gibson does in its $1000-1700 range.
>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
Gavin Peterson
E-II Eclipse, blue natural fade E-II Horizon III reindeer blue
Josiah White
Jackson stealth made in japan prefender
Juan Russell
and they still felt cheap to you?
Aaron Walker
They felt like they were coated in a thick layer of plastic and sounded the part too.
Nolan Roberts
I mean isn't that literally what a finish is
Ayden Murphy
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.
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.
Ryan Jackson
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
Hudson Scott
>HS config? Yeesh. Practice clean on the neck pickup and then riff on the bridge. Pfft, incels.
>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
Yeah, but he can practice clean on the neck pickup and then riff on the bridge.
Christopher Ramirez
Guys help. My tele's bridge pickup is super quiet and I have no idea how or why. What do?
Ian Ward
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.
At what age did you play your first live gig? Me: 22
Carson Richardson
The one on the right looks normal
Benjamin Gomez
That means she's the most autistic one. Every time.
Julian Turner
14
Gavin Ramirez
Try finding a case for that
Camden Hall
People who play those don't need one.
Parker Barnes
This painting makes no sense since he can clearly reach the grapes.
Luis Scott
17 in Belo Horizonte
Jace Morales
That's fucking hideous looking. Why would you even consider that?
Ryan Williams
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.
Brayden Hall
lol he knows better than to eat delicious grapes?
Joseph Anderson
How are you sure the fox is a male one?
Nathan Flores
grapes are bad for dogs and foxes
Oliver Flores
Yes, it's a mentally ill fox. Like the posters above.
Nathaniel Lee
He doesn't buy gibson
Cameron Bell
Haha so it's like you're allergic to good guitars
Lucas Wright
based self congratulatory user
Jaxson Smith
I think you need to refer the the vape.jpg.It should clear everything up for you newfriend.
Adam Sanders
Not strong enough to handle it? I stand behind my shitplank and don't give a flip about them motherfrickers
Nathan Bailey
The only reason nitro is still used is because it checks, and boomers like that.
Cooper Butler
*ahem*
wrong
Christian Barnes
Closer to the truth than your bullshit rambling.
Jacob Ramirez
again
wrong
Lincoln Gonzalez
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?
Kevin Martin
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.
You need to do actual research and not just regurgitate shit you read on the net.
William Fisher
are those San Marcos blankets?
Henry Thomas
He likes it because it's super thin, dies in the cold, and wears out when you look at it funny.
Christopher Cook
word on the street is that bass guitar is for faggots
Evan Howard
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.
Ethan Morgan
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.
Isaac Kelly
and again
wrong
Lucas Jackson
Repeating it won't make it true.
Camden Adams
Theory drained your soul. It's a one-way street, sorry buddy.
Hudson Robinson
but you being wrong still will be
Landon Peterson
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.
Matthew Green
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?
Brayden Stewart
Fuck no
Same, user
Eli Wright
I think he meant popping with the thumb. That is hard with the tiny spacing I agree.
Nicholas Young
Lol @ literal retard
David Richardson
lol baited
Isaiah Robinson
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)
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.
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
Jacob Anderson
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.
Luke Parker
>yfw your brain stops working and you become the half remembered concept of a head
But he had Alzheimer, how did he remember what his will was?
Leo Ward
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...
Zachary Johnson
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
Carson Carter
if depression is the precursor to dementia this post is exhibit A
Alexander Smith
my case isnt normative i'm an exception on account of being so incredibly smart that i became insane
Hudson Nelson
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?
Nicholas Ramirez
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.
Lincoln Robinson
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.
Justin Howard
>being so incredibly smart >didn't get to school Lol
Wyatt Miller
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.
Jack Green
>my fingernails are less purple See a doctor ffs
John Collins
Also >More awakened Sounds like you got diabetes, i reccomend getting checked user, maybe it's not too late
Jace Cox
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.
Michael Turner
stop it fro/gg/man
Gavin Phillips
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.
Noah Harris
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.
Isaac Ramirez
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.
Josiah Flores
Christ that guitar is fugly
Jeremiah Young
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
That guitar looks exactly like the one I'm getting from guitar center. It should arrive at my local branch next week.
Robert Perry
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
Sebastian Wilson
Any new gear here? Just got a king v.
Aaron James
t. small hands
Christopher Miller
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
Bentley Richardson
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
Charles Butler
Wtf trem system is that? Looks cocked forward really far
Alexander Hughes
already do intermittent fasting as well...
Benjamin Peterson
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
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.
Logan Turner
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
>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
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.
Cooper Harris
No matter how hard youre not a chick.
Julian Lee
The former easily
Michael Anderson
i said DON'T be that way didn't you listen jeez
Nathan Torres
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.
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.
Aaron James
I can tremolo pick the coolest black metal riffs now
Kevin Ward
Low couch
Evan Fisher
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
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!
Hudson Ross
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.
Drop a Dean, maybe break the headstock Fart and definitely break a Gibson hedastock.
Christopher Jenkins
1 out of every 1001 peasants plays a condor
Noah Bennett
>tfw your guitar is so inoffensive that people don't even meme about it
Elijah Taylor
Its probably poorfa/gg/ shit so no one cares
Cooper Nelson
You have my pity
Sebastian Perry
American quality (TM)
Nathan Brooks
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
Dominic Peterson
Is there an all in one jazz book out there?
Luis Cooper
Yes. Its called Google
Asher Hill
I want something more structured
Austin Cook
Jazz is pretty broad, no. Is there an all in one Classical Guitar Book? Nope.
Aaron Myers
New thread
Hunter Phillips
I just want a book that will show me how to improve
Ethan Gutierrez
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.