first for cabinets are for the stage
buy a reactive load box and some studio monitors today

https://voca.ro/1cYTRdsvcak0

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do you say "three three five"
"three thirty five"
or "three hundred thirty five"?
I say "three hundred AND thirty five" personally

Tree fiddy fi

>>129932971
I say lol to hollowbodies

hello please enjoy my shitty walking bass
https://voca.ro/195wdQjg7sah

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>*mogs ur favorite distortion*

>>129932971
I’ve always said three thirty five but when talking to someone who as one and I’m talking about his guitar I’ll just call it eee ess (“bring your ES” “can I play your ES” etc) because two syllables are faster than four.

I'm exchanging or selling my westone back to the store tomorrow I'm not sure.

>>129932520
Oh shit!!
Fuck meeee in my nostril

So the joke is GAG FAG

redpill me on magnatone amps

>at what point did playing guitar become something you do for leisure instead of something you practice as a student?

Once you make it through 32.5 hours of Absolutely Understand Guitar listening to Scotty West.

Don't get me wrong, I like him and love this course but after 32.5 hours straight of listening to him talk, I want to kill myself with my broken guitar string coiled tightly around my neck. Oh and don't get me started about that fucking font in the ebook!

Perhaps I should have spread it out in chunks?!?

>>129933192
LMAO

>>129933100
Never heard them but they arent as good as friedman

>>129933100
magnatone is a company that sell amps

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I've convinced myself that I really need an ESP snapper. Anyone have one themselves? I really wanna get pic related but I am a little bit worried it might come off as too flashy if I actually showed up to a gig with it. What do you anons think?

>>129933279
I don’t think that guitar is flashy at all

>>129933100
They where a better Valco, now idk.

>>129933279
i don't get flashy from this. i get off-brand discount guitar

that's because flashy is consoomer bait and off-brands are getting good.

not a big fan of flame tops especially if they are just veneers and poly

>>129933385
you're the one convinced you need to make a purchase and asking for approval
but we're the consoomers, gotcha

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So uh. Oxblood tort or black pick guard?

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>>129932642
can someone answer my question

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7 string headless SG

>>129933433
that anon is not me! but keep swinging at ghosts!

>>129933508
I answered it in the last thread to be the last post

I'm going to look into a rickenbaker tomorrow. I will probably take the 100 i put on the aquatone and put it and the trade in value for the westone towards whatever i like

>>129933508
You improve when you're motivated, playing, and trialing new music or concepts. Lessons aren't a free ride to get good, but if the instructor helps you fast-track then you're getting your return of investment.

View teachers pragmatically. If they can or have played in ways that are enviable, they'll have insights. They can understand the game despite physical limitation. If they're a hack and demoralize you, that's important to vet.

A lot of the time, just playing with others is higher level instruction.

what’s the deal with /gg/ liking Rickenbacker all of a sudden?

I'm going to look into two rickenbakers tomorrow.

Black midi, electric wizard and someone from QOTSA used rickenbakers so thats why I'm looking into them

>>129933677
>Rickenbaker
Let me know how the buns taste. I hear Rick makes good sour dough bread too.

>>129933639
Thank you ill check that out, i havent been watching any videos on bass since i dont really like the clickbaityness of them but ill look for some
>>129933658
Thanks i think i will just go then and see how it is
>A lot of the time, just playing with others is higher level instruction.
Im struggling a lot to find people to play with as none of my friends who are beginners in guitar and drums have time right now, theres a very new jazz club in my town though but they dont have any jam sessions yet from what ive seen, i might ask them about it but i think it would feel kind of shitty as a beginner

>>129933674
you may find it as no surprise that people in gg only compliment what they already have or hope to some day afford. one guy traded for a used rick and hasn’t stopped posting about it since. that’s fine but it just shows they most people here don’t actually care about guitar they just care about their junk and want people to give them attention

>>129933796
I only play sunburst stratocasters, then invented a rule that no one can post sunburst stratocasters.

I'm getting the urge to buy a Solar guitar but I'm nervous about buying a guitar without playing it even though I can't see any reason I wouldn't love it.

>>129933892
gotta protect your investments, that’s wise

>>129933956
Just test it at home and send it back if you don't like it

>>129933724
We're >>129933649 having a threeway. You can come too if you like.

week 1 down of playing guitar. I played my bass mostly yesterday cause I was missing it and didn’t touch guitar for more than 10 minutes I think. I played bass again this morning and it went well, but I played guitar this evening and it went really well so I’m even more motivated to play it. picking, posture, and fretting is feeling a lot more natural

>>129933508
having a teacher is always better than not having a teacher
unless you straight up can't afford it or live in a village with 12 people in it, you should have a teacher

>>129933956
I don't even have solar on my roof. Couldn't be bothered.

>>129934010
insane channel y/n?

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>>129934034

>>129934065
miring rn (right now)

>pooped mids

I've never found ricks attractive but they look decently cool.

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mids

I never trusted a pickup that screws into the wood instead of mounting onto a bracket or pickguard, that's sus. Why are you trying to get with someones wood and screw it so bad?

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couldn't be me

he bases financial decisions on phallic theory

when you think a pickup sounds good it’s because it’s adding back the mids you cut

SRV played a strat into a scooped amp with a tube screamer to boost the mids
me, an intelekshual, just play a strat into an orange

>>129934409
shitplank Ibanez lol

Get Dean outta here.

>>129934506
Do not insult m’lady’s honor.

>>129934409
What is with schizos and ai

>>129933796
>one guy traded for a used rick and hasn’t stopped posting about it since
That’s not true, I haven’t posted a pic of my new 360 in over a week and before that pic it was another week before that. I haven’t “not stopped posting about it” you LIAR!!!

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>>129934563
you weren’t supposed to challenge me

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>>129934575
really luv me rics luv me rics luv me rics a lot luv me rics second only to me teles luv me rics a ton luv luv LUV me rics
Ok now I have proven you correct

DS-1 < SD-1
same letters huge difference in sound

we do a lil bit of trollin around here

>>129934584
Right looks pretty cool left looks like candy snack ass guitar

>>129933052
Is the ds-2 better than this one?

>>129934653
twice as good if the specs are to be believed

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mids

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almost distortion

I dont really know anything about ricks. I just see the name a lot on bassist's pages on equipboard.com

>>129933099
>laughs in slime
hehehehehe

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>This guy comes up to you at the club and smacks ur gf on the ass

Wat do /gg/?

>>129932971
Considering that's a 355 neither...

>>129932971
'bout tree fiddy

>>129934694
is the go to bass for pick playing. it really wasn’t as popular as most people think. some people played one but I think lemmy was the biggest person that didn’t stop using it

>>129934740
I used to go to a Sam Ash as a kid and play this solo on a korina Hamer explorer through a dual rectifier half stack. https://youtu.be/iin88DxJlpo?t=139

>>129934721
I throw him out onto the street with one hand because electric players are 5’5” twinks and I am an acoustic chad

>>129934780
I sort of pick but I'm more of a finger guy. Any reason for them being picking bass?

>>129934649
Left is the iconic hollow body Rickenbacker minus 60s style pickups and sounds great, but right is the one that I honestly like the most. I love them both and they both do their own Rick thing but also sound different but the solid body neck through one just hits different

>>129934830
I think it’s an “everyone else did it” thing but the way the pickups are balanced they do sound good with a pick. you can do fingerstyle on them and it’s ok but slap is a little hard because of the hardware getting in the way

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>>129934821
I fucking KNEEL

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>>129934867
now that’s a dreadnought

https://youtu.be/O8-l7b2W1Mk
Replace Monica with My Nigga and the song gets funny

>>129933508
A teacher would be good. If you want to take a leap in understanding learn a few songs. Find a drummer. Go work the songs out so you can play the songs start to finish with beginnings and and endings.

3 days until new guitar comes, HURRY UP UPS

>>129935322
Wait no four days NNOOOOOO

>>129934721
Tell him real niggas play that Boogie

>>129935334
F

>>129935322
>>129935334
This kind of despair just hit me when after 36 hours of no tracking updates I finally got a notice that my gear is just now leaving its country of origin rather than already being on a plane like I'd hoped.

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>country of origin

>>129935322
Good color choice

>>129934584
But can you play the entire tom petty catalogue?

finally got my hands on a audio interface so i dont have to record with a phone or mic. I spent the last day and half learning about my daw of choice and i made this little demo to make sure everything is working

https://voca.ro/15cnWHspquLf

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Kind of want this bc its so retarded

>>129935618
What color
>>129935678
No but Tom Petty/Mike Campbell were my gateway to wanting a Rickenbacker when I was a kid and I can play a lot of TP songs cuz he’s one of my favorites. Even The Losers is one of my default “goof off on electric in front of people” songs and Two Gunslingers is one of my default “getting told to play this acoustic and sing a song” songs. Luv TP like a nigga wouldn’t believe

>>129935921
Is that a knockoff floyd? There's no lettering on the baseplate. Don't waste your money it'll go out of tune every 5 seconds.

>>129934821
Translation: I only had enough money for a guitar and cant afford a head and cab

https://voca.ro/1cuEOZMHj82A

Having a sudden existential crisis over DSP

>>129934821
>has no idea what sustain is

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>>129936219

Orange amp
2x12 loaded with greenbacks

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What does /gg/ think of Jazzmaster's? I got the J Mascis squire and first impressions are pretty good

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>>129935945
nah, it's a hot rod floyd, either special or OFR. it's just the engraved name, painted black.

>>129936361
tf is a squire
you aren't a feudal lord

>>129936405
it's a yes' bassist

>>129936336
Friedman amp
4x12 loaded with greenbacks

>>129936361
offset = gay
youre gay

>>129936412
why would you want to fry a man

>>129936412
>4x12 loaded with greenbacks
can't fit that in a Miata passenger seat. I'll stick with my 2x12.

>>129936204
Not usually a fan of acoustic but this one rocks.

>>129935878
sounds canned, really small sound not sure how to open it up more I've got the same issue to a lesser extent.

>>129933034
If your bass is walking you better go catch it!

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>>129936616

>>129936592
https://youtu.be/O9g7RUOYbGM?t=157

>>129936600
i have a option on my audio interface to enable vintage, suppose to emulate tube amps. i could try that, but there could be a million variables here. from the daw im using, to the amp sim im using. also not a complete audiophile so as long as it doesnt sound completely gross idc about the small minute details only people who listen for can hear.

>>129933034
emphasize the 2 & 4 more. it's subtle, but just think:
>dun DUN dun DUN
This is what jazz musicians refer to as swing. It's really just a backbeat, but most people don't give a shit and it's a lot of black people saying
>ya'll don't even play it right, no further elaboration

The idea is that bass in jazz music is like a pitched percussion bass drum that outlines chords. You can add the rakes and triplets as needed, but always try to nail the chord changes on beat 1, then beat 2 ACCENT.

Ultimately, you'll realize that chords only go so many places (up a fourth, down a minor 3rd, up a fifth, up a major 2nd), and there are patterns that just work.

You can play two of the same notes in a row, which is useful for faster tempos.

Once you start to get into the high-BPM bebop zone, it's basically half-notes and sticking to the roots with an occasional fill to hint at the speed works.

>jazz is boring and gay.

One good walking bassline I always liked to point out is the feel in "How Many More Times" by Led Zeppelin. Look at JPJ's right hand and how it moves out a bit further on the 2 & 4 to accent the off beats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPog_WdPE4&list=RDwEPog_WdPE4&start_radio=1

Do that, and you can play any jazz.

>>129936960
can a ni/gg/a just enjoy something without Methany giving a lesson?

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>>129936970
proceed

>>129936970
>Methany
jej

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>>129932898
MILF?
Man
I
Love
Fenders

>>129937080
aren't you supposed to be in /nba/

>>129937080
This is what it feels like to know how to read musical notation on /gg/.

glarry a good guitar when u ain't got a bitch in yo ear tellin you you is poor

I don't understand why people steal my post cadence, get your own schtick fella. i've got a meme i've been brewing up but the time ain't right yet need the right tizzy to start it/

>>129937096
See >>129933099 for how I feel every day.
>can I read?
yes
>can you read?
no

>>129936960
I thought swing comes from swing time where the eighth notes are just the last beat in a triplet? and swinging a bass line is just adding some of those here and there

>>129937150
And look where it got you, same place the tards ended up so looks like reading music ain't what makes good music.

Want to write songs but it's so daunting.
I like a lot of Bowies stuff and he does such weird modulation I can't wrap my head around it.

>>129937217
A trick I use is try to play one of their songs with no reference and then lean into any personal mistakes you make and try to shape the mistake back into the song and boom you have an original in the style of.

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>>129937161
>swing
Swing means lots of things. But what are the basics entail includes a backbeat (drummer's hihat or ride pattern).

Yes, triplets are correct as part of the subdivisions (ex. "add swing"). the upbeat (3rd triplet of each beat) gives propulsion. its why fast jazz tends to speed up, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

However, when tempos start to go above, say 160 BPM those triplets become straight. Hence, emphasize the 2 and 4 as a bass player.

>>129937195
I'm having a great time and my ladyfriend yesterday told me she'd be a cum guzzler for me. I don't know what you're on about.

>theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhME5dsdakQ&list=RDqhME5dsdakQ&start_radio=1

>>129937248
You are at your lowest vibration frequency of course you don't. You aren't aware of anything besides your primal desires because you're a slave to your dopamine reward system. I've projected myself over your consciousness and you didn't even notice my shadow, your flying by the seat of your pants blind through life just like so many others.

>>129937248
I’ll see how it sounds at those tempos and report back tomorrow. that submission was just getting used to the form and recording myself improvising so I think I’ll be able to add more embellishments when I’m comfortable with it

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>>129937272
I just killed a bug that wandered into my room. Was that you?

>>129937280
no worries bro. Do me a favor, can you tell this moron (>>129937272) to fuck off?
>god bless you and your family and your walking bass efforts.
Just tell him "shoo shoo"

>>129937304
I'm (You)

>>129937304
you have no right telling anyone to fuck off you're a wart on this thread

>>129937321
this lmao

>>129937316
This guys a problem, he's ruthless.

https://voca.ro/16cEGOdfRuW6

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>>129937272
m’lad has requested you cease and desist. I do not wish to spill blood this day…

Get in, we’re going to Guitar Center.

>>129929932
The kind of advice that's fantastic but you only hear once and never again
There needs to be an archive for this sorta thing

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>>129937321
>just gave actionable advice
>receive harsh critique >>129937321
ni/gg/as, shoo shoo.

I'll need your advice for walking bass because turns out you have none.
>your parents worry about you
>your relatives take a deep breath when they have to let you hold the baby (but not too long because, you know...)
>your boss knows to bully you because you can't operate without a domineering element to steer your life.
so on and so forth.

EVERY DAY!

>>129937387
Thanks bro. I think you said this last time about playing along to tv themes for chord recogntion (slime recognizes slime).
>appreciate you bro

>>129937395
https://voca.ro/1dg4aeIVLzT7

>>129937395
what’s better for getting faster at chord changes: playing to a metronome that is slightly challenging or just doing them as fast as I can rubato

>>129937444
>connetquot on yaaaa azzz
https://voca.ro/18SyNvfVVus5

learn kirinji's composition, they're the best at modulating to some random chord progression like it's nothing
enuff said

>>129937465
For walking bass, just metronome that shit from slow to fast but keep it in time. Approach notes are your friend.

Like I said, there are only some many places chords can go, and people rely on you to hear where the form is. No one’s gonna be like “bro, why did you just play the roots instead of harmonizing my harmolodics?”

Once you know it with music, look away and see if you can “solo through it”. Then do it in as many keys as you like. Rhythm changes, blues changes, modal, ii V7, and giant steps (moving in 3rds, which is rare) are all the basic skills you need.

Bear in mind that all of this is best played on a double bass and that you’ll never be trad if you after some pussy like Christian McBride or Ron Carter.
>maybe if blackanon didn’t steal other peoples work I’d be less hostile, but that’s just they way it is fo sho

>>129937583
sorry bro I should’ve specified chord changes for guitar

>>129937444
>Hows that
>fuck you where you breathe
YOU'RE NOT THAT GUY, PAL. TRUST ME, YOU'RE NOT THAT GUY

>>129937419
Oh damn another /gg/ regular with too much space in his brain

>>129937651
I'm dropping nuggets of wisdom like McDonald's
> o o o o o o <---nuggies of wisdom
bite one

The guitar-bass interplay and rhythmic displacement in this is wonderful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEDDd1vTZTM&list=RDvEDDd1vTZTM&start_radio=1

Alright, I gotta work for the rest of the night and smoke a cig. I hope everyone's having a good time and reaching their next level.

https://voca.ro/129AvjvECqNc

death bed
chromosome interchange
meth harvest
(underage) art hoe pussy

massa boggie

>I Rarely Used My Dumble

>How Does He Do This?
>They Were Joke Band
>are you serious?
>ONE YOU SEE IT YOU'LL NEVER GO BACK

Im gonna buy a $200 Tagima HSS Strat as a backup

>>129932932
https://voca.ro/1cGHU5l3kWVn

>>129937826
Nice

>>129938157
awesome

>>129938157
I made the backing track, can I upload this with it to freesound.org under CC0?

>>129938170
Thanks, appreciate it

>>129938231
Sure no problem. If you don't mind I might also upload it to fiverr as part of my wank "portfolio/resume" if I ever come around to making that kek

>>129938315
cool

>>129938315
>>129938231
>>129938318
warms me heart

https://youtu.be/N1Dg4LiDCRk?t=47
What's the song I thought of at this exact moment? The one that goes waaayu waaayu waayu waaaaaaayu I feel good
It's popular in meme videos as a sex moment kinda sound

>>129938404
james brown cmon bro

>>129936361
I hope you didnt pay whatever they are asking for that, it used to be like $400 or maybe $450 before going over $600.

Istanb my fingetr one sharp wire when changing string and now ii fhave to type with a bandaide ong my finger

https://voca.ro/1hmxAp118A5R

i psj my figners nto my eeys

>>129937248
>my ladyfriend

Is she hot?

>>129937716
So you call yourself Slime? I like you Slime. Hope you never had to kill anyone for the interests of usa imperialism.

jazz loops at midnight call me the vamp ire

^^^big ick^^^

>>129939273
vamp ire

>>129939282
dropped the D

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>>129937126
its a strat clone, so it is good, period.
>does everythign
what else do (You) need? Whe (You) git gud you will need somethin better tho

>>129939296
>anon plays in drop D because he is a tranny
kek

https://voca.ro/1asqhO1c2IAb

>>129939309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFlCD5CYAcU

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FUCK YOU CUZ THATS WHY IM PUNK ROCK FUCK YOUR CORPO ROCK BULLSHIT YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FUCKING STARBUCKS AND YOUR BOUGIE CUSTOM SHOPS IM WITH THE REAL PUNK HARDCORE SCENE WHERE THE REAL MUSIC IS PLAYED YOU FLATLINED FUCK
https://voca.ro/17cQ9aKAk9B0

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>>129936361
My most expensive guitar is a Jazzmaster, it was also my first guitar lol. One of the best things ever made

>>129939346
Very...Balenciaga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memDWTAvcXs

>>129939348
>p90 strat
*pukes*

sometimes it's the tiniest turds that are the hardest to push out

>>129939499
why are you eating tin?

>>129939499
ancient chinese reverb

woah, just like that a really long post has vanished

>>129940059
I deleted it out of shame.
I should have paid scotty to begin with.

>>129940077
if you want to absolutely understand guitar, there is a price to pay

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>>129940100
Fair enough.
On a related note, can you tell me what the difference on the chord page is between white notes that have a finger indicated (which I understand to mean optionally add to a chord, though I'm unsure if you optionally add one, multiple, or all - the way I learned G major was with optional 2, but not 3 for example)
and the ones without a finger indicated.

>>129940108
2nd chord is G minor
3rd chord is G7
If you want to ask why 3rd chord has circles without number, my guess is if you just mute those 2 strings, it'll still make G7 since both muted strings if played will be B and F notes, and those notes can be played in other strings. But honestly no one plays G7 that way and most play it 320001.

>>129940108
One thumb is enough for a G
3×000

>>129940108
im guessing he is saying those notes are optional because you already have the higher 3rd and 7th on the B and e strings

I would start by deleting that dogshit and disregaring anything whoever made that says because the first chord should go 2 1 3 4 not 1 2 3 4. never seen anyone hold a G chord like that. that's some dumb faggot shit right there

>cheapest rickenbaker is 2000
I'm still going to play it today and see how i like it. Why are they so expensive though?

Ultimate guitar is all you need

>>129940171
>>129940162
>>129940161
Thanks anons. Muting makes no sense because there's specifically X for those. I'll just cross reference with online sources and learn those as grip types.

>>129937606
No worries, but the concept is similar because you can also play walking bass. In fact, every note underneath is like slash chords in real time. The ability to see this without thinking is what’s good.

>SLIME SCHOOL OF SUCCESS
You need to play shit and know shit in your sleep. And the only way is through REPETITION.

I play shit x100 in a row until I nail it fatigue out. By rep #30, your mind will wander but that’s a good sign - it’s almost like the thing you’re practicing is so easy you bifurcate your mind into the mechanical (why you’re playing) and what you’re thinking (arthoes). Bring it back into the state of watching everything you are doing, and look for patterns where you have difficulty.

I got this method from Louis Armstrong who said he would hit a high C hundreds of times in a row to attain certainty in his skills.

>for practicing guitar, just play the changes at a slow tempo
Then jack it up incrementally by one click if the metronome at each pass. By the time you get to the ridiculous tempos, the slower shit is cake.

>>129940181
>Why are they so expensive though?
to price out black people. seriously... no black people play rick guitars (basses aren't guitars)

>>129940197
that’s why there is an x and a circle, you need to mute if you don’t play that third because it will be a 2. would be a Gmaj7sus2add9 or some shit. idk how it would sound

>>129940198
word. so it looks like time in the saddles (TITS) is the only way

>>129940175
CORRECT!

>>129940201
meant to say add10 but you get it

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>>129940208
TITS
>now we’re talking

Yeah, but it doesn’t take much. At 60bpm, you can play one repetition of a 12 bar blues (4 beats x 12 measure = 48 seconds) and have 12 seconds left over. If you double that at 120 bpm (playing in 1/2 time), you get twice as many reps.
>Food for thought

As I showed with my charts (pic rel), I track my practice because my WFH day gig is working with Fortune 100 companies. However, I can grab 5-minute intervals throughout the day and working on concepts all day. I’m of the mind that 12 5-minute sessions per day is better than a 1-hour session.

Just returned my DS-2 and ordered RAT.
With RAT i have overdrive, boost, distortion and fuzz in one. With DS-2 i only had, like the name says, turbo distortion, so over the top distortion with not much variance. And i dont play pub rock or punk rock much anyway so its not of much use for me

Hold the fuck on my brothers.

E/F# ??

There is no F sharp in E. This isn't a..


Hold on. "E" means E dominant, right?

Still, even in E7 dominant, there is no F sharp.

>>129940264
Reaper?
Also kek at the 10 languages with none except one having even one entry. Very relatable as someone who kinda can understand 6 languages to varying extent, but none except 2-3 well.
I should really focus more.

>>129940282
That E major with F# on bass
222100 if you want to play it

>>129940300
But that isn't an inversion. Can you just play a chord over anything? Fucking anarchy!

>>129940282
I’ve heard that add9 slash chord is common in punk. as cool as guitar is you don’t get the true feel of playing the E chord over a bass playing the F#

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>>129940284
Haha
>that’s an old sheet from 3 years ago

>reaper
I’ve since bought Ableton and it is the RAPER

It’s nice to have a reminder where I fall short. When I go into “language mode”, it changes how I learn (goal-oriented). I also do a lot of prep and put things in a “college” curriculum. It helps to have pussy as a motivator because damned if I didn’t learn French when my friend Claire visited the US.

Good luck, fren

>>129940313
Yeah you can even play E major with G on bass despite G being a minor third

>>129940315
Why didn't he just write E7add9/F# then?

>>129940264
appreciate the advice. I’m interested in bluegrass so I’ve been trying to get my chord changes down at 80 bpm. a single bass note is plucked on the 1 and 3 and a strum on the 2 and 4 for the boom chuck obviously, but the metronome only clicks on the 1 and 3. so you could look at that as 160 bpm or however you want. I did have success playing at that speed today. my lead is around 90-95 bpm so it makes me feel like I’m lagging behind on rhythm badly.

>>129940341
it probably isn’t actually an add9 but the bass can imply a 9th by playing the 2 as the root. it’s not the exact same thing just a whimsical choice

>>129940349
Trust the experts, they said....at the end of the day it all comes down to imagination and ear.

>>129940199
It's called bass guitar

>>129940349
Thanks by the way

>>129940357
lol I’m sure it’s actually an harmonically equivalent real chord but the average player doesn’t know that much theory I don’t think. I’ve just seen people do that and rationalize it that way. it is fun to just use your ear sometimes even if you can’t explain what’s going on

I/II chord is always fun to play, especially if it's shaped like 5x543x and you use your thumb for the bass part

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>>129940342
I forgot to add that you should always try to hit ridiculous tempos. You’d be surprised how you can nail it once or twice. Aim for thrice and henceforth. Fast stuff becomes a twitch and their are limits to speed (think of a shepherd’s tone)

You’ll eventually learn to not tense up. Check your breathing and don’t take a mega-inhale, just do it like a meditation master would. You’ll soon find that speed isn’t tension but economy of motion. You already do this when buttering toast or grabbing your keys for work most likely without thinking, so why not guitar and bass?

>>129940359
they're not guitars though. But what would I know... I only have a PhD in instruments from fucking Oxford

Want to keep practicing playing Africa after Rick Beato's latest video (he did 20 fucking years as a producer, Steve Lukather can vouch) but I am also pondering a wank because I work later.

>>129940387
What's a shepherd's tone?

>>129940393
You do?? Ho, Paganini over here!

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>Giuseppe Satriani imvented the tapping! And he was robbed! Everybody knows that!

I don’t think he has the makings of a /gg/ guitarist.

you guys see that black tranny on Beatoff's channel?

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HE INVENTED HEAVY METAL IS WHAT HE DID! HE WAS A DARING ITALIAN MUSICIAN, AND IN THIS HOUSE TONY IOMMI IS A GUITAR HERO, END OF STORY!

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>>129940484
Mmm’boy are you fat.

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People say, "how can you play with all those rings on your fingers?" and I say, "how can you play without them?"
Ha ha ha. But seriously...
Truth is... I've been wearing my jewelry for so long, it's become a part of me. Sure, sometimes I might flub a note or scrape against a string... I've got some necklace rash on the back of my Three Hundred and Thirty Five, but that's Rock and ROll, baby

Do you keep your pick slants always going in the same direction or do you like to mix it up?

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>>129940318
>It’s nice to have a reminder where I fall short. When I go into “language mode”, it changes how I learn (goal-oriented). I also do a lot of prep and put things in a “college” curriculum. It helps to have pussy as a motivator because damned if I didn’t learn French when my friend Claire visited the US.

Personally I suck ass at learning languages. Always have. But the secret for me how i got to 3 good languages is immersion learning. I just need to get good enough to consume media in that language and then the rest happens by itself. Once I can listen to podcasts in their languages and/or consume media in them I'm set. Also if you can, travel there for a vacation. Makes the nebulous goal of "I wanna learn it" so much more tangible.


>Good luck, fren
Good luck to you too. Have this self-made gondola in response to yours anon.

>>129940313
It's not an inversion, it's a sus4 with tension
Try playing this. It’s the one I posted to /keys/. It has a G/A chord
|A/G|D/F#|A/C# F#7|Bsus4Bm/A|
|G#m7-5GM7|D/F#Fdim|Em7|
|G/A A |
|A/G|D/F#|A/C# F#7|Bsus4 Cadd9|
|G/B Gm/Bb| D A/C# Bsus4 Bm7| Em7|
|G/A Gadd9/A| D
My favorite chord progression.
Make the top note D

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I've been writing songs and trying to practice singing, do any anons have any tips or advice for learning to sing?
I have literally no clue what i'm doing but my singing voice is definitely not what I imagine it to be when I write lyrics lol

>>129940596
Go binge every Ken Tamplin video you can find

>>129940539
:DDDDDD

>>129940408
A shepherds tone is a note that eventually reaches a peak and then a lower note appears, restarting the process.

The concept is that as things become faster, you think slower because eventually speed becomes a blur and Lo and behold, it’s slow again. That’s why you see that bebop stuff at like 200 BPM but the players are barely sweating.

A good demonstration is through drums. As a tempo accelerates, eventually a drummer switches to bounce (economy of motion). He’s not thinking of individual movements but a cluster of movements in a short time span.

Guitarists can do the same when comping, as you become more sparse in your playing but the implied feeling of motion (it’s a mental model trick) actually becomes easier.

You end up seeing the larger patterns and the other stuff (picking hand, fretting hand) becomes automatic. Then you start asking better questions, like:
>soloist just played a b9, add a slided 1/2 step chord to show I’m listening cuz his solo is up in about 7ish bars and I know that no/gg/a drummer is gonna want to send him out in style

Alright, gotta get back to work

>>129940181
You can find certain models used around $1500, look for used 330s or 620s. They’re expensive because they’re still made in the same single shop they’ve always been made in, they’re not pumping guitars out from multiple factories across the globe. They’re still a comparatively small family owned business that can only pump out so many guitars a year and that brings prices up both for cost of building the guitars and supply and demand.

>>129940600
Too creepy
https://youtu.be/YkXHQJc9L6s?si=Cj-RfYe3WaXMUVjd&t=53

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>be getting better at guitar
>find music I really want to learn
>it’s all played by people with banana fingers and perfect pick accuracy
>want to give up again

>>129940719
invent your own style

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Do I need to be Rick Beato's illegitimate son with perfect pitch to be able to transcribe stuff like this?

I figured out that the song is in A minor. I figured out the progression: Am G Fmaj7 Em. I just can't get the exact notes they're playing and I don't even know how many guitars are dangling in there. I've transcribed the 2 sections before this part, but I'm not even 100% satisfied with that and it's not as cluttered guitar wise as this part.

The picture is the best I could come up for this. I assume it has 2 guitars.
https://vocaroo.com/16nzHi7gykk1

>>129940803
Levi Clay doesn't have Dylan's ears so, no

>>129940803
no you should be able to learn stuff by ear in a couple of year of playing. if something is not mixed well or have to two of the same instrument playing over top of eachother like duet guitars it’s always going to be hard to transcribe

>>129940505
Terrible larp

>>129940826
I assure you that was posted unironically

>>129940641
I think I can probably get the shop to go down to 1600 for the 4003. I have some stuff to trade so I might do that if I can get a good trade

>>129940842
Most shops run at around a 60% trade value, it might be worth selling things on your own instead of taking a 40% hit. Before committing to a 4003 I’d spend some time playing it at the shop first, they feel and sound different than normal old Fender basses and it’d suck to spend all that money on one just to decide you don’t actually like it. But if you’re buying it used then Rickenbackers hold their value very well and if you ever sell it’ll be easy to get your money back.

what is the current toan you’re obsessed with right now?

>>129940972
p bass with flats into a b15
simple as

>>129940972
https://youtu.be/qCGSOOCCapE
Especially the feedback bit at the end

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Is this cord sticking out between the pick up and bridge normal on older fenders?

>>129941003
it’s a ground wire for the bridge. idk if it’s normal but I have seen it before

>>129941003
Uh oh shock hazard

Improvisation is hard.
>must constantly be creating novel AND interesting rhythms and melodies on the fly
>by the time 8 bars (or whatever) pass and you feel like you might have a grip on the progression and an idea of what you might want to do it's over and you've got to put a cap on it and end with a solid finisher
>solo like you've got a gun to your head

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>>129941016
Seems like every 62 jazz bass or reissue has the wire, it looks shitty but I guess in Leo's vision it would be covered up by the ashtray anyway

>>129933279
They're very pricey. I would like one though.

>>129941065
you can just do ascending/descending triplets all day in random intervals

>>129941065
When people say they're "improvising" they're mostly just playing patterns and licks they already practiced before

>>129941099
Well, yeah, that's what I do but I seem to run out of ideas quickly and have trouble connecting ideas or I'll get locked in to one position because I'm afraid to branch out. Not that there's anything wrong with playing in one position. There should be plenty of juice to squeeze there. I just feel like, when I have to take a solo without having a plan ahead of time, less like a kid running around on the playground and more like a hostage with a gun to his head.

>>129940719
I'd suggest finding what you excel at and leaning into it.

>>129941065
not really. you have true improvisation which is avant garde and then you have what is commonly referred to as improvisation. if it makes you feel any better there are a few quotes in jazz about improvisation:
>you can’t improvise over something you don’t know
>you have to play a long time to play like yourself
>improvisation to me is, I think of a note and I don’t play it
>composition is improvisation slowed down, and improvisation is composition sped up
sometimes the notes themselves aren’t important, it’s how you play it and the rhythm that you choose but either way typical improvisation is something you can and should practice. once you have a vocabulary you’ll need to learn to listen to the rest of the band to see when and how you can react to their playing with your own vocabulary

>>129941072
based Leo keeping it real cheap for the working man. for real though these late 50s to 60s holy grail instruments were not that good

the squier affinity jaguar is routed for humbuckers; lollar sell novel broilers, you see where I'm going with this

>>129941405
I think lollar pickups are the best on the market

>>129941493
yeha the best at sounding like fucking shit

>>129940937
Yeah it's used. My plan now is to just see how it plays in the store. If i like it, I'm going to use the return money from my westone to rent it out for 2 weeks. Then buy it in full when I can

>>129940583
>Make the top note D

Meaning? And thanks

https://voca.ro/11ZmUxs2a972

>13:59
I know who you are, gonna save myself the click

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>>129941513
I walked right into that one

I took a couple lessons from famous jazz guitarist James Blood Ulmer many years ago and one of the most memorable things I learned from him was " you can't learn no jazz from no book". If you don't get that, you don't get it

>James Blood Ulmer
why the fuck did I end up with a girls name?

>>129941521
It sounds more beautiful if the bass moves chromatically down from Bm/A to Em7 while keeping D as a common top note.

Aint no party like a diddy party (in the key of A)

>>129941775
that’s usually true for most inversions

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finally, an LP for people under 30...

>>129940596
go learn how to use the right muscles to sing from the diaphragm, learn breath control, BAM you're better than 90% of humanity

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>>129941829
7 string? nice

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>>129940505
"i came to NAMM cosplaying the guy that plays the same pentatonic licks for 40 years"

>>129941725
sounds like he didn't know how to use his words all good like. if you can't teach it then you don't really know it, ya dig?

https://youtu.be/TmWrvCIUKB8?si=YB7eSG443nchN1kL

>>129941792
?The chord progression "Bm/A| |G#m7-5GM7|D/F#Fdim|Em" includes D.pedal?

>>129941981
Is that Darin Gray on Bass?

>>129942016
i dont know

>>129941982
I was saying inversions typically work best with chromatic or very little movement on bass. so you are always reinforcing the inversion/slash chord

>>129942034
Damn

>>129942035
to add, the D remaining a common note is sort of a voice leading thing that ties weird chords together through a common note or motif. bass is a singular note instrument, so the bass doesn’t voice lead in an ensemble

Is 9.9 pounds a lot for a guitar to weigh?

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>>129942052
>bass is a singular note instrument

>>129942075
it's kind of light for a penis

>>129942075
only for manlets real vintage chads add lead weights inside the control cavity for extra toan

>>129942078
I know, it's like I'm talking to chat gpt, not a single lateral thought in this guys brain

>>129942075
Heavy for a strat, average for a les paul

>>129942105
its like im talking to chatgpt cause its spitting out falsehoods

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Anyone ever played one of these?

>>129942052
It's just that the guitar sounds better with a D on top.

>>129942179
looks cool, might sound like garbage because of the rail pick pickups, imo

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I played and did not like the rickenbaker that much I'm going to look for a music man stingray since someone mentioned that if i dont like that then I'll just return the westone. This guitar i saw looks crazy

>>129942078
sorry I didn’t close all potential loopholes in my post for your autistic brain because I’m lazy. If you want to argue generalizations go for it

>>129942242
stingray is basically the same shape as a p bass and feels similar it’s just a lot heavier

>>129940596
Join a choir. I learned to sing in church choir as a kid because we had to do the tenor/ bass parts and it taught me to sing notes besides the obvious ones (the melody) and stay on pitch

being the vamp ire is less fun the next morning i got like 3 hours of sleep
practice is more important than sleep though gotta capture that motivation when you can

>>129942495
if you just play for fun you'll have naturally mastered in a couple decades no need to rush

>>129942287
Yea I'm not finding anything in my price range or played anything that i liked. The rickenbaker wasn't bad there was just buzzing on the 3rd and 4th fret. Apparently that's normal on them

>>129941159
I seem to excel at bedrotting and disappointing my friends and relatives, but I don't think that's a good path to take.

>>129942511
i'm not forcing myself to practice or anything. when i have a short term goal i get obsessive