1 Reply by Whammo

(12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Several months ago, when I was looking for my first electric, I asked this forum about preferences between Strat and LP style guitars. I got some great advice.


I eventually purchased a new LP and have enjoyed the hell out of it ever since. Black Flame top custom. After a few months with a micro cube and mulling over larger amps, I took my ax to the guitar center in Denver and played every 212 they had in the building. I narrowed down to the Crate RFX 120 and the Marshall 250. The tube versions were just out of my price range and I liked the sound of these every bit as well. But suprisingly, I liked the Crate because of the clean, bluesy-jazzy sound and onboard effects. I had no intention of buying that day, but they immediately started talking discounts and I came home with it. I couldn't be more pleased.


Now I'm trying to learn a little of everything, jazz, blues, Rock.... But I'm falling into a rut with blues scale and pentatonics and I need to learn to take it up and down into different positions. Fretboard Roadmaps is helping with that.


No, I not any good and I am very self conscious around others. But I have decided that playing guitar is a lot like sex. Even if you're not very good at it, you can still have a lot of fun.


Thanks for the great advice, guys!

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I've always been an accoustic man, but have always wanted an electric. Never owned one. I have only recently come back to guitar after 25 years and would not call myself anything other than a begginner. I am interested in mostly country and southern rock and have been looking at cheap end Strats and Les Pauls. I am not interested in buying an expensive electric for something I will just play for fun and for myself. Are there others to consider? Ibenez for instance? What about a hollow or semi-hollow body?


I sat down in the guitar shop and we tried out Strats from Highway 1's down to Squires. Same Amp. But the way he described them, you play them pretty rough and they like distortion. I guess this doesn't sound a good match for the music I like to play. First, do you agree with this characterization? And second, how would you describe the characteristics of the Les Paul? 


My accoustic is a Takamine.


Thanks ahead of time for the advice and your opinion.


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I'm guessing this is not a problem with your guitar. Nearly all tuners are adjusted to "tempered" tuning. The method was invented in the time of Bach and is a means of tuning each note in the scale slightly "out of tune" in order to make it possible to play in all 12 keys without having to retune.


Tuning using the 5th fret or harmonics tunes to "Just tuning", or true acoustic tuning. If your guitar is in tune with itself when you play, use your tuner for the E's, then use your ears for the rest. You're doing fine.


IF you are playing some distant modulations, like from A to G# and you notice the chords are slightly out of tune, it's natural for this to occur. (Listen to some of the recordings of the Preservation Hall Jazz band and you'll hear some pretty sour sounding Major 7th chords, but it's natural for this to occur).


Does anyone know if guitars are fretted to tune to tempered or true tuning?

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