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OK I'm back.
Believe it or not, I got a different guitar--it stole my heart.
Went with the Epi--upgraded Alnico Hot pickups, Grover tuners, don't remember the official title, but I call the finish "honey sunburst"....in a side by side comparison, I have to tell you, it kicked the snot out of the PRS
Oh man, are the neighbors going to complain!
Just had to tell someone, so thanx for listening....
Going over to Sam Ash at lunch today to order the guitar that I've been dreaming of (not the Lari...or the Taylor Koa...or the '57 Gibson Goldtop...the other dream)
PRS SE Singlecut, tobaco sunburst, flame maple top! Oh we're going to be so happy together!
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The person below has a name for his/her guitar.
So you still playing your girls guitar, or are you starting to develop a wish-list?
Oh, and we drive similar cars! Mine is a candy apple red.........Kia. Really turns heads, but you know that.
Welcome aboard!
Frank.
don't know the song...
should you pluck them instead of strum them?
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The person below me should be working, instead of playing on Chordie!
I've never had this problem because I can't sing with a dern. Actually, I sing great, but I have a range of about 3 notes.
I just sing in my head--sounds incredible...I have a whole band up there that plays along with me. We have a good time.
yes, that sounds psyco, but I KNOW you all do it too.
It is incredible how the body adjusts--I practiced for a couple hours at home on Sat, then had band practice sat night for 2.5 hrs, Sunday 1.5 hr practice before service, and last night a 2 hour gig at a shelter...my fingers are like cinder blocks today!
First one I ever got was Peter Paul & Mary's greatest hits. My sister got a Donnie Osmond album the same year.
First two I ever spent my own money on, I'll never forget: Kiss Alive & ZZ Top Fandango!!
OK, for the past week or so I've been getting a lot (constant) of tingling and numbness in my left hand & forearm. The inside of my left index finger is numb all the time, and the discomfort radiates up to my shoulder. I've been playing a ton, and I did a google search and it sounds like I have classic symptoms of CTS which comes from repetitive motion, and that's pretty much what we guitarists do. Anyone ever delt with this before? From what I see, brace it at night, double up on some tylenol, rest it as much as possible to get the swelling down could do the trick.
Thoughts?
Call me wierd, but I think the nicks and dings on a guitar give it character...like a diary. I have a ding on my headstock from the first gig I ever played, have a crack in the finish when I left it in a cold car in detroit all day before playing with a professional drummer, I was nervous as heck and didn't let it warm up.....stevie ray vaughn's guitar was beat all to heck and looks fantastic.
That being said, I'd be carefull on the finish, seagulls can have a hand-rubbed, low gloss look, but on my Carvin, I use a dunlop product, a carnuba wax, that makes it look good--I imagine it fills in little scratches and stuff.
I've played the P-90's on a couple guitars at sam ash, and they seem to have a lot more bite & growl than regular singlecoils...I think they're double wound, or something...I'm over my head here, but they don't sound like a strat style pickup.
So what's on your wish list, and do you think you have a chance to get it?
I'm not a materialistic, wanting kind of guy, but if I don't get a PRS SE, single cut, tobacco sunburst, I'll probably die.
And I think I have a real good chance of scoring this thing!
this is a good time to say PRACTICE YOUR BARRE CHORDS. I know they're hard and frustrating and impossible at times, but once you get them, sharps & flats and sevenths and ninths and minors become very easy--you don't have to learn a bunch of new fingerings, you just slide the shape up or down a fret, or lift a finger.
Welcome Cotweety--
About the whole x, don't play the string--that is absolutely the case, but I have to tell you, guitar players "cheat" all the time. In a perfect world, we play the chords perfectly...in most of our worlds, we just wack all the strings and hope it sounds right!
Don't know the model number, but Martin has a concert series that still has a pretty nice tone unplugged....I know where it's hanging at Sam Ash...and I know it's black...and the wood grain on the neck is really cool....man, I'm being no help at all here....
What's your guitar(s), Siege? If Slash is an influence, I'm guessing something with a couple humbuckers in it! and I'm going to guess boss distortion pedal & a marshall half stack is involved as well.
Well done Zurf!
The bass player in our worship band is a professional gigging musician, and whenever he says "good job" after a set it always makes me feel warm & fuzzy...and then I figure his monitor was unplugged or something.
And for what it's worth, I can't remember a song if my life depended on it--when I go to the guitar store I wind up playing about 8 bars of a dozen different songs because I'm....well, not very bright I guess. I was playing a les paul at guitar center the other day, played the same three songs for an hour because that's all I can remember; Crawling (linkin park), Cumbersome (seven mary three), and Keep on Rokin' in a Free World. I think they were going to kick me out if I started my "set" one more time.
"yellow mater custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye"....what a great line.
I'm not a Beatlephile, but I want to vote anyway--While my Guitar Gently Weeps...love that song. I'll throw Paperback Writer a vote too...love the guitar riff in that one.
Frank.
Double bonus points for ark! Great movie.
And thanx for the CFG call Jerome...we should start a CFG thread--list all the songs we can think of with that progression.
Great Movie!!--And a song I'm going to go play in just a minute...sounds like a CDG number if I ever heard one.
Trivia: Why did paul newman get thrown in prison to beging with?
OK Chordians, I think we done good. Looked on line to see what Guitar Center carries, etc--checked out some Harmony Central reviews as well.
I had my eye on an Epiphone Masterbuilt AJ-500; solid wood construction / bone nut & saddle, etc.--nice guitar.
Usually go for $450-500 ish. I told Kyle if we could grab one for $360-375, would be a good deal. So we get there 7:30, the line is already 30 feet long & was a heck of a lot longer than that when the doors opened at eight. Bunch of musicians up at 7:30; it was not a pretty crowd that's for sure. So we high tail it back to the acoustic room--and on a stand, right by the door was THE guitar--WITH A DOORBUSTER SALE TAG ON IT. Marked down from $499 to $299, and got 20% off on top of that--so he spent $240 on very nice insturment. Had enough for a hard shell case & strap as well. All-in-all, a VERY good day. I played a Seagull and LOVED it--I actually preferred a Seagull artist series, but Kyle fell in love with this epi. No Washburn's to speak off--no Tanglewoods either...couple very nice Parkwood's, but they were out of our price range. And just for fun, I plugged a Les Paul into a nice Marshall combo and played that baby for an hour or so. I stayed until they ran out of free coffee and donuts....you think I'm kidding, but that's the truth. Les Paul. Marshal. Free coffee. Free donuts. It was a good day.
I got one for you...serriously!
Colide by Howie Day...nice song...easy...she'll love it.
Jerome, I just got back from a Youth Workers convention, and one of the speakers called Lutherans the "Frozen Chosen", so I think you're on the right track. And she was an equal opportunity offender, I'm not all hung up on titles (which tend to get in the way of the important work), but I do go to a United Methodist church. She started her talk by saying that she "had a conversation with a United Methodist right before the seminar...that's not unusual around these parts, but the fact that he was literate was".
Man, I WISH I started as young as 30. Started Acoustic at 40, first electric at 45...first band at 45, playing with a 20, 21 and 30 year olds. 30 is young....40 is young....heck, I'm 46 and I'm still young!!
GO FOR IT!!!
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