Question: Guitars and how to play?

[stonehenge]

Originally Posted by JayBo

I has grazed

cao gonna be pissed

[JayBo]

Yah, thats why I lulz'ed

[stonehenge]

[theholycow]

I like fingerpicking. Possibly the only music I ever created was a nice fingerpicked C arpeggio.

[shootermcgavin003]

Originally Posted by MikeH

Any particular brand to look at? Obviously not looking to spend much.

buy a epiphone........... mexican made gibson same parts same design half the price.

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i got where i could play a little and just quit cause i dont have the time really. my dad can play the shit out of one though. ill prob start back here once i get free time.

[MikeH]

Originally Posted by JayBo

K. Is here Nao.

what you want?

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I has grazed through this thread (lulz)
and if you want good geetar to start learning with, and you want acoustic. Get a Jasmine. It is made by takamine. Around $100.
I have had mine for 15 years and I still play it.
It mostly sits in my corner b/c it's tuned to open E and I only use it for 2 songs.

Classical guitars are cool, I'm just not a fan of nylon strings unless you're wanting to start right off the bat learning to fingerpick and personally, I think that is a bad idea, unless classical music is what you want to learn..

First things first. Learn to keep it properly tuned. You'll never learn to play if you can't keep it in tune!!! ThaT is something I stress to everyone very heavily when they say they want to learn.

will look into them thanks

any "guides", so to speak on how to keep them tuned?

[theholycow]

Being Mexican-made doesn't make Epiphones lame, but often they have cheap materials and parts and that makes them lame. That's more relevant to electric than acoustic, though.

My Les Paul was an Epiphone, as were my amps. Decent enough stuff.

The Les Paul sounded ok and I think it was at least real wood instead of particle board or plywood. The pickups were kinda crappy and I didn't love the unvarnished rosewood fretboard. It was as pretty as any Les Paul, with a nice sunburst finish.

The bass amp sounded great with a guitar coming through it. They should have sold it as a guitar amp. The guitar amp was a slightly smaller version of the same unit with a few extra controls, mainly for distortion, but the distortion on it sounded terrible, like modern crap rock distortion.

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There's not much to keeping it tuned, you just tune it each time you use it. Good quality equipment stays in tune better but nothing stays perfectly in tune all the time. $20 should buy a decent enough electronic tuner. You pluck a string and look at the tuner, it tells you whether it's low or high, you turn the tuning peg until it's perfect...then you tune the next string.

[stonehenge]

Originally Posted by nekkidhillbilly

buy a epiphone........... mexican made gibson same parts same design half the price.

[JayBo]

Yeah. Invest in an electronic tuner. Cheap Insurance. Its quicker/easier for me to tune by ear now, but without a tuner, I would have never learned how.


My stratocaster is a MIM model. Nothing at all cheap about it. I have an Epiphone Les Paul jr right now that I love. The sound is great! Cheap tuners that won't hold tune, but the pickups and playability are just as good as any other guitar. I have guitars that range in price from $100 to over $600. The only reason I have/kept the ones I have is because they play like I like.

My $200 Squier stagemaster is by far my favorite guitar as far as feel and sound. I wouldn't give it up for anything.

[theholycow]

My Squier P-bass seemed great, but I never really knew much about bass and couldn't tell a good bass sound from a lame one.

For those who don't know what Jay and I are talking about, Squier is Fender's Mexi-cheap line like Epiphone is Gibson's Mexi-cheap brand.

[stonehenge]

rofl i think thats the same one in the closet at my rents house cao

let BIL use it for a while but now its back in there

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yep, thats the one i have:



Need to put it on CL or pawn shawp it for extra ke$h since I never use it and never will.

[theholycow]

Yup, that's exactly what mine was. I think I changed the knobs out for some nicer looking ones.

Sold on Craigslist to nice dude buying it for his brother for Christmas 2010 IIRC.

[stonehenge]

Mine isn't gift quality. I think I bought it used (but almost perfect condition) and put a few nicks in it. Then BIL thought I gave it to him and covered it in fgty stickers and shit. Need to remove them and clean it up before selling.

[theholycow]

Mine had a few nicks too but no fgty stickers and shit.

[JayBo]

what you want for it wan?

[shootermcgavin003]

martin has a mexi brand too still like 600 bucks at least

but damn the sound of a martin is sex

[stonehenge]

Originally Posted by JayBo

what you want for it wan?

no idea what its worth

[Manbearpig]

Originally Posted by nekkidhillbilly

buy a epiphone........... mexican made gibson same parts same design half the price.

Mines made in S.Korea

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I want a bass

[shootermcgavin003]

whatever sheap labor

still sounds good

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my 335 has the same parts even as a the gibson counterpart

[JayBo]

me played last night w the band. First practice in over a month.

Played le Strat straight through my amp. Only pedal was a tuner.

I need pedal board now. It would be simpleeeeee.
Chrous
Delay
TS9
Tuner
maybe a wah.. doubt it. I rarely use one.
and a TALKBOX!!!!!!

[Manbearpig]

[Cez★]

you can join ho-kago tea time brah

wait its an all girl band

[JayBo]

I played yesterday for alittle while. I must say, and I'm ashamed to say it. My LUNA Telecaster sounds TONS better than my strat. I either has to replace pickups in Strat..
or just accept it.

[Manbearpig]

Isnt Luna made by Dean guitars?

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That fucking grain! ARGH

[MikeH]

hopefully can sell some shit and pick up a guitar soon