My first contact with the electric guitar happened in the fall of 1983, but it took me at least 4 years before I could tune it in its common tuning. All from the beginning I messed around with all kinds of tunings or no tunings or just random. One tuning that I often used before I got my tinnitus was AAEBAA from the bottom up. It was very useful with lots of distortion. I have cassettes with recordings dating back to 1983. Have plans to master some recordings and put out a multi CD box with solo guitar works. I am just very lazy and uncertain of things. That is what hinders me.
I suck at guitar, but for some random blasphemous bullshit reason, the cirriculum of 8th grade music class here involved learning how to play a guitar. I figured out how to tune a guitar because I naturally play the default strings more than anything else because I simply can't play guitar. (My future as a crazy headbanging metalhead is impossible.)
Patti Smith once commented on her guitar playing that although it might sound crappy, it comes from her heart. I guess she meant that if the music is true to your soul, then it can't be bad.
Meiloyn. I was 18 when I bought my first guitar but it was love at first sound. A suggestion could be to tune the guitar in an open chord and drum on the backside of the neck to create a drone.
Low volume is advised. Or ear protection.
Patti Smith once commented on her guitar playing that although it might sound crappy, it comes from her heart. I guess she meant that if the music is true to your soul, then it can't be bad.
Meiloyn. I was 18 when I bought my first guitar but it was love at first sound. A suggestion could be to tune the guitar in an open chord and drum on the backside of the neck to create a drone.
Low volume is advised. Or ear protection.
True. I love the piano. I'm not good at it because my left hand is more powerful than my right and dynamics with one hand becomes very hard for me.
Huh? We use acoustic guitars.
Meiloyn! I figured that you were refering to acoustic guitars. I just hoped there would be an electric one somewhere at your school. A lonely guitar sitting in a dark and dusty place.
My acoustic is a Yamaha with steel strings and I have had it for 16 years. I think all guitars are happy to be tuned differently. The alternatives are limitless.
The piano is a good instrument but it weighs a lot. Musical instruments are also non-judgemental. Well, mostly... being animistic about objects I guess they can be judgemental. But always from a humble point of view. They are not like people...
I hate it when my guitar is out of tune. New strings have to constantly be tuned. I am so picky. I wish I had an electronic tuner for my electric guitar. I have not played it much over the past 15 years. I hope to get back to it.
Does anyone here read guitar tabs? There are alot of tabs available on the internet. I am going to learn soon. I have not got a good ear so picking out guitar solos from recordings is really difficult for me.
Out of tune guitars is always an issue, even if the strings have grown into the instrument, old and jummy, I guess it has to come down to where an instrument is stored, air temperature, draught, humidity. It happens all the time with my guitar that it comes into such brilliant tune it is mind blowing how good it sounds... at other times it sounds just crap and when one listened to enough of those chords or finger settings, it is time for retuning the instrument entirely, applying old finger setting to new tuning, see what happens, compete with yourself in being the quickest
If you can't copy the standard rhythm, then Create your own
That's what Tomorrow's are about...
Does anyone here read guitar tabs? There are alot of tabs available on the internet. I am going to learn soon. I have not got a good ear so picking out guitar solos from recordings is really difficult for me.
Easiest way for me to pick out a solo is to just play along and make the guitar sing something pretty close to what the solo tells you in your head - if you screw up, you'll know how to tweak it. Figure out the main note and play it about 50 times.
I'm all for dropping the low 4 strings an octave, maybe adding a B below them... you need a bigger guitar for that. and, you can play fast easily without a pick...
go bass... we decide whether the guitars sound good or not.
I prefer drop C tuning: CGCFAD - I've found that if you drop a string more than two steps, it just sounds like butt on the upper frets.
Hey, that thing's kind of nifty.
I'm all for dropping the low 4 strings an octave, maybe adding a B below them... you need a bigger guitar for that. and, you can play fast easily without a pick...
go bass... we decide whether the guitars sound good or not.
Spot on! Well said.
Had my new 5-string Squier Precision for just a little over 3 months now and quite surprised at how my playing has improved heaps since getting it. I got it especially for the low B-string because I also love playing melody-/vocal-lines and for most tunes/arrangements with low D, low C etc notes a normal 4-string bass just won't do (so I have to have a 5-string for those tunes as well as a 4-string for the others).
Since getting my very own 5-string axe, I also discovered something new about tuning bass guitar strings: you've really gotta concentrate hard when tuning the low B string at the 5th fret in line with the open E string. (very important if I'm gonna start playing live and expecting to score a date with some lucky chick in the audience *LOL*)
Cheers,
Steven.
I tune to D#G#C#F#A#D# for all of my band's stuff. I like it. I have no idea why, but it just sounds right to me.
Somewhere among the rubble of my flat is a piece of paper with the name "Crafton" and a few numbers. The numbers is my way of recording a tuning. The "Crafton-tuning" was, what I like to call it, a mantra-tuning; something that one can repeat strumming out in absurdum and still retain one harmonical signal which corresponds exactly to your internal signal thus creating feedback without the use of intense volume...