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Who here plays? I just started in may/june and I cant stop playing and learning new songs. Currently trying to get my barre chords down right now becuaes iv been avoiding them.
TheHamburglarIts just the universe telling you to stop trying to bring more indie music into the world ;)
I'm currently balls deep doing a contracted heavy metal version of carol of the bells, aka carol of the hells. Its for an older progressive church, and I plan to offend their neohippie sensibilities with the sound of hi-gain chugging in drop D. Channeling the spirit of Lemmy for the holidays.
Hail Santa
Yes indie may be saturated as fuck but there ain’t many people doing it with a metal back ground
JemsYes indie may be saturated as fuck but there ain’t many people doing it with a metal back ground
Sorry I was just making a joke anyway. Make whatever music you want to man and have fun doing it. It'd be rad to hear what other people on here are making, post it up when you're done
I did when I was a kid, but I had a super vivid dream after smoking last night where I had a Casio DG-20 and could shred the fucking stankiest bass lines and James Bond was there and he was super impressed
Got baked as a snake last night and threw this together. All parts in one take, couple fuckups in there but whatever. Might do a better version later if I ever get some real drum software or a v-kit.
CrunnchyVanManI did when I was a kid, but I had a super vivid dream after smoking last night where I had a Casio DG-20 and could shred the fucking stankiest bass lines and James Bond was there and he was super impressed
Bushdid9_11Got baked as a snake last night and threw this together. All parts in one take, couple fuckups in there but whatever. Might do a better version later if I ever get some real drum software or a v-kit.
Recently bought an Ampeg 8x10 bass cab, gonna eventually top it with a Marshall JCM900. For now, I'm using my friend's Acoustic and Sunn. The tone is crazy, no need for a bass player when your guitar captures everything!
dune_pilotRecently bought an Ampeg 8x10 bass cab, gonna eventually top it with a Marshall JCM900. For now, I'm using my friend's Acoustic and Sunn. The tone is crazy, no need for a bass player when your guitar captures everything!
Siiiick. That looks like a sweet setup for some stoner/sludge metal
dune_pilotRecently bought an Ampeg 8x10 bass cab, gonna eventually top it with a Marshall JCM900. For now, I'm using my friend's Acoustic and Sunn. The tone is crazy, no need for a bass player when your guitar captures everything!
I just said goodbye to this guy on Reverb. It’s a 1970s Japanese made no name P Bass copy that was randomly in the basement of the house I bought. It never worked but I got 200 bones for it.
CaseyI just said goodbye to this guy on Reverb. It’s a 1970s Japanese made no name P Bass copy that was randomly in the basement of the house I bought. It never worked but I got 200 bones for it.
I don't think I've ever seen that pickup in a bass before lmao
Bushdid9_11I don't think I've ever seen that pickup in a bass before lmao
Yeah no one has been able to tell me exactly what it is, kind of an oddball instrument. She is arriving in Nashville today, someone is rehabbing it hopefully get more use out of it than I did.
Angus' live tone was always so much dirtier and harder than his studio tones. In the ACDC gig rundown I watched a few years ago, I vaguely remember the engineer saying they ran angus' amps way hotter with increased power input to give him that tone, pretty sure he said they blew power tubes all the time. One of my favorite guitar tones of all time by far.
Blows my mind that Malcolm always played more or less clean through that dirty old Gretsch. It sounded awesome, worked for him and complimented Angus' tone super well. RIP Malcolm Young, legend.
TheHamburglarAngus' live tone was always so much dirtier and harder than his studio tones. In the ACDC gig rundown I watched a few years ago, I vaguely remember the engineer saying they ran angus' amps way hotter with increased power input to give him that tone, pretty sure he said they blew power tubes all the time. One of my favorite guitar tones of all time by far.
Blows my mind that Malcolm always played more or less clean through that dirty old Gretsch. It sounded awesome, worked for him and complimented Angus' tone super well. RIP Malcolm Young, legend.
Hell yeah, never heard about that! But doesn't surprise me haha.
Malcom was such an underrated guitarist and song writer.
CaseyI just said goodbye to this guy on Reverb. It’s a 1970s Japanese made no name P Bass copy that was randomly in the basement of the house I bought. It never worked but I got 200 bones for it.
my philosophy is that the bass should be played like a weapon
was feeling tapped out a bit and then heard whiskey myers bury my bones and was digging the guitar solo. Nothung crazy but i just liked the feel. Now ive been fucking with learning it. Have a sort of bullshit version that has some elements. Trying to actually figure out the proper one. Might spend my weekend on it.
Haven't fucked with solos but feels good. Bending some notes moving around and getting some nice tones. Idk. super green but felt like a nice breakthrough today. Especially to play part of the song I wanted to learn within a minute or two by ear. Getting a taste of what I wanted from guitar. And I know the feels that are ahead and I want to get there. That point where I can play what I feel. It's still so far away but those little tastes are enough to keep me forever hungry. The guitar is such a powerful thing.
These last 9 months I've been learning so much. My original goals were reasonable but mellow, but every time I get close to them or pass them it's like looking up at the night sky. We're so small, there's so much out there. Every time I think I know something about the guitar, I see 20 different doors open up to the unknown. Things I don't know shit about. Hell I can barely even play the fucking thing to begin with.
Idk, shit is super fun. It's all I want to do is sit and play this fucking thing. Especially now that I have some of the basic tools for expression. It's a great spot but it's like getting a taste of food when you're hungry, you just want more. I don't know that I'll ever really be satisfied and that's not a bad thing.
I bought this guitar to kill time, learn a little bit and maybe eventually be able to badly play a song or two. It's now morphed into this insane passion that's tough to put words around.
If you think I type too much to express myself wait till I can play my feelings hah. Maybe someday I'll get there. Regardless it's worth the pursuit. I hope I never get sick of this thing.
Also I know I've posted the same thing like 800 times but this friggin guitar is pretty damn exciting. Now that I'm getting some mellow solos between octaves and nice runs in between im like woah. simple shit and prolly played shotty af but it feels good and it's a big breakthrough for me.
But again, the guitar is the universe. I can look at stars, I can remember constellations, but there's infinite stuff out there. The more you learn the more you learn how ignorant you are. It's a chunk of wood with some strings clapped on it but it's so much bigger than a few chords. It is whatever you make of it. It's your vehicle. It can sit in your garage collecting dust, or you can take it on an adventure. It's limitless in the rawest sense where the only real limitation is you. It's all what you make of it, and that's a friggin beautiful thing.
I'm just enjoying the journey. Butchering some songs and noodling my way around having the best time ever. Fuck yeah
right?? the cab was such a deal too, I negociated it down to $250 with the seller. And everything works just like new, I guess he really just wanted to get rid of it.
theabortionatorAlso recommendations for a cheap ish electric?
The two main budget electrics are the epiphone les paul and the squier strat. I've played both and imo the epiphone is better. You can get one for less than $200 and it'll play great as long as it has a good set up.
For an amp I recommend the boss katana 50. Its around $200 and is easily the best amp for the price. The only thing that comes close is the postive grid spark.
Side note: learn how to do your own set ups, it saves a ton of time and money and you can dial it in exactly how you like it instead of having someone else do it.
theabortionatorAlso recommendations for a cheap ish electric?
I have a squier bulletstrat hss that I bought used at a shop for $100. Have had it for 4 years and the only thing I don’t like is the cheap tuners but that’s easy enough to change. I strongly recommend!
BigPurpleSkiSuitIm really getting the hang of bar chords tonight. Just realized the key is to put the bar on last and not first
I usually end up going middle finger first or even if it's together using that reference point. Obviously not all barre chords need a middle finger but that's helped me find my placement fast getting into them in different spots. I feel like I kind of do it in one motion but the middle finger is prolly a little bit ahead or at least my reference point.
Idk if that's good advice or not but it works for me and I can move into them pretty smooth.
Fuck yeah on tackling barres though. I almost wanted to give up on geetar because barre chords were for magical people with voodoo skills. Crazy how easy they end up getting but getting a good sound at first, fuck that shit seems impossible. At least for me.
Also if you can find a song with some barre chords that can really help with transitions. Or just a chord progression. I generally barre my f's now. Am F C G is in a ton of songs, and that was one of the first ones I fucked with playing faster and barring the F. Helped me get really comfy with it.
Problem was once you put the bar on its much harder to move the other fingers
theabortionatorI usually end up going middle finger first or even if it's together using that reference point. Obviously not all barre chords need a middle finger but that's helped me find my placement fast getting into them in different spots. I feel like I kind of do it in one motion but the middle finger is prolly a little bit ahead or at least my reference point.
Idk if that's good advice or not but it works for me and I can move into them pretty smooth.
Fuck yeah on tackling barres though. I almost wanted to give up on geetar because barre chords were for magical people with voodoo skills. Crazy how easy they end up getting but getting a good sound at first, fuck that shit seems impossible. At least for me.
Also if you can find a song with some barre chords that can really help with transitions. Or just a chord progression. I generally barre my f's now. Am F C G is in a ton of songs, and that was one of the first ones I fucked with playing faster and barring the F. Helped me get really comfy with it.
Jemstone knobs are the most useless thing ever put on a guitar
Until you've got EMG pickups and you want to go from playing metal to jazz, then you roll back that tone, turn down the distortion and get some beefy jazz tones
Mr.MittenUntil you've got EMG pickups and you want to go from playing metal to jazz, then you roll back that tone, turn down the distortion and get some beefy jazz tones
Literally what happened to me haha. Feels weird trying to play a standard with an ESP superstrat with EMGs. I want a hollow body so bad :(
theabortionatorwas feeling tapped out a bit and then heard whiskey myers bury my bones and was digging the guitar solo. Nothung crazy but i just liked the feel. Now ive been fucking with learning it. Have a sort of bullshit version that has some elements. Trying to actually figure out the proper one. Might spend my weekend on it.
Haven't fucked with solos but feels good. Bending some notes moving around and getting some nice tones. Idk. super green but felt like a nice breakthrough today. Especially to play part of the song I wanted to learn within a minute or two by ear. Getting a taste of what I wanted from guitar. And I know the feels that are ahead and I want to get there. That point where I can play what I feel. It's still so far away but those little tastes are enough to keep me forever hungry. The guitar is such a powerful thing.
These last 9 months I've been learning so much. My original goals were reasonable but mellow, but every time I get close to them or pass them it's like looking up at the night sky. We're so small, there's so much out there. Every time I think I know something about the guitar, I see 20 different doors open up to the unknown. Things I don't know shit about. Hell I can barely even play the fucking thing to begin with.
Idk, shit is super fun. It's all I want to do is sit and play this fucking thing. Especially now that I have some of the basic tools for expression. It's a great spot but it's like getting a taste of food when you're hungry, you just want more. I don't know that I'll ever really be satisfied and that's not a bad thing.
I bought this guitar to kill time, learn a little bit and maybe eventually be able to badly play a song or two. It's now morphed into this insane passion that's tough to put words around.
If you think I type too much to express myself wait till I can play my feelings hah. Maybe someday I'll get there. Regardless it's worth the pursuit. I hope I never get sick of this thing.
Possibly the best purchase I ever made.
For my senior project in college I designed and built a 20W tube amp. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot and I've been designing amps ever since. I've been trying to design tube amps to match certain players tone but suitable for home use. Recently I've been experimenting with recreating the brown sound for EVH but that ones been a little tricky.
steezboxLiterally what happened to me haha. Feels weird trying to play a standard with an ESP superstrat with EMGs. I want a hollow body so bad :(
Look into the some of the older Ibanez Artcore guitars. Pretty solid prices for older used ones, almost got rid of my Eastman hollowbody jazz box for the Artcore haha
Mr.MittenUntil you've got EMG pickups and you want to go from playing metal to jazz, then you roll back that tone, turn down the distortion and get some beefy jazz tones
i don’t know if it’s me but the neck pickup is a lot hotter than the bridge
Jemsi don’t know if it’s me but the neck pickup is a lot hotter than the bridge
Interesting, I've got an EC-1000 so I'm rocking humbuckers, but my bridge pickup is firey compared to the neck haha. Neck with dialed back tone is my go to for jazz on that guitar
CabbyArrantFor my senior project in college I designed and built a 20W tube amp. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot and I've been designing amps ever since. I've been trying to design tube amps to match certain players tone but suitable for home use. Recently I've been experimenting with recreating the brown sound for EVH but that ones been a little tricky.
Thats so cool man
Didnt EVH use a variac transformer to get kind of a spongy sound?
