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[rmro]

Thanks for the tips, the Jens Larsen PDFs are what I’m working with currently. I enjoy his YT channel a lot but sometimes it feels like there’s a bit too much implied knowledge for a neophyte like myself. There’s so much content online it’s hard to know what to settle with. I’ll keep tinkering away, I’m aiming to get to a point of feeling freer around the fretboard.

[lumena]

I think to get freedom on the fingerboard arpeggios are the fastest method. Once you know the 1,3,5 of all the basic chords in one area transposition is quick. The caged approach is good but using fingering patterns like Tim Miller is a more intuitive way to do it. His patterns move your fingers in predictable ways so that you always get something nice. I personally hate memorization and although over time I have memorized it - I got there backwards, finger patterns then understanding.

[3Keay]

Have been kinda all over the place with finding a “voice” with guitar. Pretty pleased with this setup as a baseline.
Main Electric Guitar is Yamaha RGX Fz - with pickup mods
Generally play with a laptop, but this is the pedal version. The odd Camphor block with a pedal switch is a switchable trs 3.5 box which routes my jamman clock around. Sometimes love, sometimes hate the sDrum, so have to be able to cut it out of the chain, but still have the sync signal routed to the two loopers. When the sDrum is cut out, the Solo takes over timing duties. M5 is cheapest midi syncable effects unit I could find and love it enough that I will eventually replace the Zoom with an M9 ( but will sorely miss the computer programming software).

Sometimes drop a small mixer between the zoom and Freeze to allow injecting samples into the signal path. Currently use phone for sample playback, but latency is problematic for drum pads. Mainly more abstract samples which don’t demand critical timing.

This is the kind of stuff I’m using this for: Sketch 5/4

[mheton]

thank you lumena ,… nice set of links… Tim Miller is beyond awesome

[ElectricaNada]

Arpeggios are crucial. More important than scales even. I used to play long three-octave arpeggios up and down the fingerboard. These are positionless; the LH is always moving.

No matter how you do it, you need to know your notes up and down each string. Skip this and it slows your progress way down.

[ideaofnorth]

I’m mostly playing guitar with my band An Anderson these days, at least I was pre-quarantine. In 2017 our drummer became very sick so we ended up taking a few years off. I had a massive pedalboard, a Heritage H535, 4x12 cabinet, etc. In the time we took off I dove into modular and sold off much of my guitar gear to help fund things. After he recovered in late 2019 and we began practicing again, I wanted to see how minimal and cheap I could be happy with in a guitar setup. So I’m playing through an old Alamo head that I got in trade for a phaser pedal through a Mesa “thiele” style 1-12 cabinet, and a tele copy I bought for $75 to keep at my office. I’m being way more judicious with pedals and keeping a very small board, super happy with the setup so far.

[mattlowery]

That board right there would appear to be capable of sheer madness. A beautiful collection.

[Prof_lofi]

Here are some of mine - Moog guitar played with found objects, pedals and other electronics on a table.

Cheers,

Bill

[oot]

Do you have a recording of this???

[Prof_lofi]

Hi oot,

I do - most of my stuff is released on www.burningharpsichordrecords.com (especially the ‘mouthful’ cds).

But also there are a few YouTube videos too - here’s one:

And tons more info on my site:

- prof_lofi

It’s, unconventional

Hope you like it,

Bill

[MaxMyriad]

I really enjoy the HX Stomp. It has the right ratio of flexibility to limitation and encourages simple and elegant patching. I enjoy taking the default “good guitar tone” stock presets and then doing dumb stuff to them like moving a fuzz so that it’s after the amp and reverb.

Maybe it’s being involved in modular synthesis but a large portion of the guitar community seems obsessed with tiny details instead of creating new interesting sounds, which is a bit strange to me. It’s like someone having a huge eurorack case that’s all filters and nothing else, arguing about which Moog ladder clone sounds best…it all basically sounds like that filter. On the other hand, that obsession with minute details is like a form of ear training to learn a skill in differentiation I probably lack. I don’t doubt that at least a portion of them end up with freakishly attuned senses to these tiny variations in distortion circuits etc. which is fascinating on a psychoacoustic level.

[adrianf]

@kisielk @zebra Would you say the baritone tenor matches the range of a cello more closely?

[zebra]

Yes, it matches exactly

[kveye]

I see this all the time in my work as game developer. Professional deformation, when you are so invested into something your perception of what’s “normal” shifts.

[janglesoul]

@MaxMyriad

a large portion of the guitar community seems obsessed with tiny details instead of creating new interesting sounds,

oh yes. It’s fascinating to see people so obsessed with recreating every grain of timbre in a Hendrix-fuzz sound instead of expanding what guitar could be, which after all is what Henrix did. Lots of people who call themselves creative are merely stylists, I guess.

[eblomquist]

[yoyosandshoes]

This is a 1994/1995 MIJ 62 reissue that has shared many adventures with me. The peeling of the coating is going to become really bad if I play it too much. Any ideas on something that can be done to arrest this? I thought about taping over it or something but it will all come off when I remove the tape

[909one]

I’d honestly strip it all off and refinish. Usually with lacquer it checks nicely and looks awesome, but that looks annoying as hell to play on.

[bradfromraleigh]

I second the suggestion of refinishing. The good news is that it will probably just chip off and maybe (hopefully) require little sanding. Refinishing is fairly straight forward these days - no specialized equipment necessary - and you can either spray it from a can or rub it with oil.

https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/materials-and-supplies/finishing-supplies/colortone-tinted-aerosol-guitar-lacquer.html

Fender's Response to My Baja FInish peeling off in Sheets.

[philmaguire]

oi oi thought that guitar looked familiar!