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I "found" rocksmith 2014 for my pc and have been just gradually getting my metal speed back up, but playing all the songs I know on a 7 string with fanned frets is a challenge. My left wrist is the one getting the workout now. My pinky finger cramped up playing Jesus of Suburbia because the entire song is nothing but 9 minutes of full fingered power chords which never used to be a problem when I was playing regularly. My biggest issue so far is having to play around the fact that the bottom string is no longer E, its B which honestly screws me up a lot more than i thought it would mentally and physically. The neck isn't even that much wider, but it's enough to make it feel like a slightly different instrument. That and the guy I bought it from has the action set pretty low so I'm having to work a little to get the sound clean until I adjust to it. Which leads me to the multiscale part. Honestly it's not too bad, but due to the bridge being slanted it changes how I have to set my hand for palm muting. All in all it's a new guitar that I'll have fun with for a while.
 
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Marty unboxes and tests out a new one. The Standard looks a lot like my Epiphone.

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I picked up this 2008 Gib LP Traditional.. I like it a lot but I don’t play it a ton.. may end up selling it for car parts.. but I’m sure I’ll end up buying something else later on.. the tug of war with two expensive hobbies lol

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j par said:
New years resolution....

GET BACK TO THE GUITAR !!!!....
E'F!!...
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I've had youtube "how to play" vids for Hell Bent For Leather and Turning Japanese open in other tabs since the summer.

Turning Japanese is MUCH harder than it sounds.
 
YY1 said:
I've had youtube "how to play" vids for Hell Bent For Leather and Turning Japanese open in other tabs since the summer.

Turning Japanese is MUCH harder than it sounds.
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Try a little bit of Grinder, you’ll be rockin the Priest in no time flat! :)
 
cosgig said:
Try a little bit of Grinder, you’ll be rockin the Priest in no time flat! :)
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A lot of Priest are fairly simple from a rhythm standpoint. Desert Plains, Living after midnight, devils child, Solar Angels

Victim of Changes is still one of my faves from them

Site call songsterr has a bunch of tabs and play though for free. Pretty cool but free has synth on playthrough, although the paid version overlays the actual song in many cases, IIRC.
 
YY1 said:
I've had youtube "how to play" vids for Hell Bent For Leather and Turning Japanese open in other tabs since the summer.

Turning Japanese is MUCH harder than it sounds.
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Something simple, like symphony of distraction... This is where I'm aiming first.. it's got my interest...
 
Did i mention my boy is playing guitar too now ?

Hes got a gift for it

Last nite he got a looper pedal for Christmas, so he recorded some bass lines with it, then guitar, then rythem guitar, then played it all back over the amp while he drummed along

Pretty cool
 
Megadeth is harder than it sounds, big time.

I pretty much taught myself with the entire "British Steel" album, as mentioned before in this thread.

HBFL is a little more technically complex. Especially that pull-off.

Somewhat oddly, I give myself a "C" on "Delivering The Goods" which I consider the "next step up" from the British Steel/Point Of Entry material, despite being older.

I figured out what I could of that one about 10 years ago.
I LOVE the bends of the opening, and the way it kind of "grinds it's way" into the main riff.
 
YY1 said:
Megadeth is harder than it sounds, big time.

I pretty much taught myself with the entire "British Steel" album, as mentioned before in this thread.

HBFL is a little more technically complex. Especially that pull-off.

Somewhat oddly, I give myself a "C" on "Delivering The Goods" which I consider the "next step up" from the British Steel/Point Of Entry material, despite being older.

I figured out what I could of that one about 10 years ago.
I LOVE the bends of the opening, and the way it kind of "grinds it's way" into the main riff.
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I like the for mentioned md songs return to the main opening riff...
 
FlamesAreWicked said:
I picked up this 2008 Gib LP Traditional.. I like it a lot but I don’t play it a ton.. may end up selling it for car parts.. but I’m sure I’ll end up buying something else later on.. the tug of war with two expensive hobbies lol

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I hear you there, the struggle is real, lol. I'm trying to balance cars, guitars, guns, and rc airplanes. The non car stuff has to get a trim. Everything fun costs, never mind the Michter's #1 bourbon.

All kidding aside, I almost feel an *** for joking about it. Reality is, we've been very blessed to be even talking about such things as being an issue.

Beautiful LP, by the way.
 
Dartswinger70 said:
Les Pauls always were expensive IMO.
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It’s subjective I guess.. they can easily get out of hand. This one i bought is pretty modest in today’s market. I have friends that don’t give much thought over dropping Murphy Lab level money on one. I look at the ML models and think, I could buy a fully dressed BP 408 for my Dart for that kind of money lol. To each is their own though.. if I sold mine, it would cover a disc brake conversion along with some new steering parts
 
Lol. Just saw this. I've played for 35+ years.

Want to have fun? Best advice is to have a large mirror in the room you like to play in. Ya gotta look cool while playing.

Seriously, if starting out, learn a little bit of theory. Don't have to be a theory genius, but It's good to know. It will avoid getting into a rut. And at some point you will get into a rut.

I really like the signals studios YouTube channel.

I wish I had YouTube when I started. I wore out many cassette tapes and bought quite a bit of guitar magazines. This was late 80's, early 90's.
 
You Tube has helped me immensely, it's a really good tool. There is so much guitar-specific stuff on there, you'd never be able to watch it all. I can't vouch for the accuracy of everything I use but I can say that there were enough songs I learned to play by ear but then watched a YT lesson and said "ooohhh, that's how you play that". You really can't beat free private lessons. Trurhfully some of them are not that great so if you don't like the presenter just keep searching until you find someone you can tolerate.

Someone mentioned Shut Up And Play on YT, that guy is really good for classic rock. There's a British guy (My Blues Guitar) that does a lot of Cream-era Clapton stuff which I like as well. He breaks the lessons up into a couple different parts which makes them less overwhelming.

Up until recently I was stuck in a bit of a rut with my playing. I learned some new bits by chance but it was like finding the pieces of a puzzle that had been missing for decades. I'm still talking simple blues-based rock and roll here but these nuanced little techniques have helped to make my improvisations sound more musical and organic.

Regardless of however you do it, just keep playing and it will come together.
 
I've been learning a lot about relative chords and chord progressions in different keys. For instance, if someone can't sing a song because it's out of their range, the song can be transcribed to a different key that suits them. That's why I mentioned signals studios.

Before the Internet I would buy tab books. I learned a lot of lead licks that way, not too many times an entire song, but bits and pieces till I got my own style of playing down.

Good luck with the skills. Try to pick up every day. Keeps me in check. I keep a guitar next to me on the couch. But I live alone so I don't have to worry about bothering anybody.
 
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