General Guitar Discussion

In this threat you can discuss about guitar gear, your progression as guitar player or ask help for certain part of the song you are learning etc.
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Cool thread :)
I'm really unhappy cause my right hand (rythm mostly), seriously still sucks... It's kinda frustrating 'cause my left hand improved a lot during the past few months and is now getting to a "not that bad" level. (Well, not in a Joe Satriani way, but it's not the kind of stuff I wanna play anyway).
Hope you'll recover as soon as possible kralj !

Well, I kinda recovered 10-15 years ago :). I'm just wondering if that's normal when you break something, or if someone botched it.

Anyway, a mate of mine gave me the link to this video yesterday, and I found it quite depressing. How the hell will I ever be able to do the stuff this guy does?
I listened to Incubus a couple of years ago, and Stellar was probably my favourite track. Now I know I'll never be able to play it :)



EDIT: http://www.guitarcardio.com/

Erm... It happened a long time ago, I only recently got a guitar :)

Here's an interesting link. Not very well organized, but has a lot of lessons.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Lessons/Search/

by the way, can someone explain what "pentatonic" means?

What does the thickness of the pick influence? The thinner it is, the lighter the sound?

I'm having problems with my Aimee Mann song, it sounds rough and loud, not quite as soft as she plays it. What are the possible causes for it, other than me and my heavy hand? :)

Breaking your arm won't do any difference on your abilities to play guitar (of course, it depends on how bad the break was). I've broken both of my arms twice the last 10 years, last time was 3 years ago when I broke both of my bones in my right arm, and I can play guitar fine, although my flexebility in my right ankle is a bit lowered.
Stretching comes with time. When I started out, I sucked. Now I can stretch 6-7 frets, but no more... please.

Pentatonic means that the scale only contains 5 different tones in each octave - usually, scales contain 7 tones. Two tones are removed, and the 5 that are left sounds great with blues, country, classic rock and that kind of stuff.

/You said you wanted some "more seasoned" guitarists with patience to join the group, so I did. I've just been playing for a year but I got tons of patience and know a lot of theory. I play mostly melodic metal stuff, but I know fairly much about classic rock, the blues and acoustic as well.

Oh, that's pretty bad. I got some problems with that in my right arm (it has taken quite a beating...) but it doesn't affect my guitar playing the slightest. Do you find it discomfortable to play with your arm like that? Maybe you should try to find another position to hold your guitar in.

best thing to do to get your picking speed and also the fingering quicker is to find a good wee scale progresiion and use that as a warm up and play it just as u start to play each time

i HATE barre chords.

kralj_svemira said:
Well, an acquaintance of mine has been playing for a couple of years now, she still doesn't know barre chords :). And she does pretty well without them :D

Sure, you can devellop your own technic to avoid them :)
But sometimes it doesn't sound exactly like the original. For instance I play songs like Creep and Karma Police without using barre chords, l sounds good though...

kralj_svemira said:
If I stop playing in the future, will my fingers go back to normal? :)

Do you mean will you loose the corn your fingers growed ?
Well If so, yes but it will regrow faster if you ever decide to replay.

A friend of mine paused playing for like six months and his corn came back in like 10 days when he decided to grab his guitar again.
It hurts way less restarting practicing, than starting practicing for the 1rst time.