Not sure if this guy was a genius or not
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Guitar players corner!
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Update - I bought a beautiful Schecter guitar on Sweetwater last weekend and it arrived at my house today. The only problem is that it's 95 degrees outside in Southern California, so I have to let it sit in its box until tomorrow afternoon so it can cool down and adjust to room temperature. I will be celebrating NGD (new guitar day) tomorrow!After 3 years of playing piccolo bass and an unsuccessful piccolo bass NBD this week, I'm thinking about switching from piccolo bass to guitar. I've been playing:
- Bass since 2009
- Baritone ukulele and tenor (4 string) guitar on and off since 2013 (I tune both to D3-G3-B4-E4 like the highest 4 strings of a guitar)
- Piccolo bass since 2022
I somewhat know how to play the highest 4 strings of a guitar from playing baritone ukulele and tenor guitar. The lowest 4 strings of the guitar are the same as on piccolo bass. Yesterday, I realized that 6 string guitar is the tenor guitar and the piccolo bass all in one instrument!This mathematician finally put 2 and 2 together!
I went to my local GC yesterday and I played a very nice Schecter guitar. Playing it helped me realize what I said in the last paragraph. What was crazy is that I was able to play lead lines, 2-3 note power chords in the lower register, 2-4 note ukulele chords in the upper register, and even some of my own piccolo bass solos. Even playing with a pick was a lot easier than playing with one on bass (I'm a fingerstyle bassist almost exclusively).
It’s new guitar day! I have been so busy playing that I forgot to upload a photo.
Normally, this kind of thing would get its own thread. But it’s not a bass, so a post here will suffice.
This is my Schecter C1 SLS Evil Twin. It’s my first 6 string guitar and my second guitar overall. I owned a 4 string electric tenor guitar in the late 2010s.
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And then I recently found out that Grover retooled their 18:1 505 mid size tuners last year to now be a drop in replacement for the`14:1 mini Rotamatics (205 series). It took a little digging to make sure I got the new ones, as there are tons of the older model out there for sale right now. There are still a few more bits I could do the blackout treatment on, which I'll probably get to sooner than later. But I threw quite a bit of time into rewiring and chasing down every little minor buzz and I've been playing the hack out of this thing for the last few weeks:I had been looking around for a set of US made black Grover mini tuners, as that was more or less the last thing I could try, but now the guitar is dead stable and tunes very smoothly, so I'm going to leave it alone. I still have some wiring tweaks in mind, but that's true of everything I own, pretty much...
I even revisited the synth pickup setup and took a look at my old Roland GR-09 synth, which needs a new backup battery but otherwise works great.
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Playing some Beatles and Eagles tunes tonight... I don't play this one nearly enough
So off and on I have been checking things on the guitar parts mentioned in posts 1755 and 1756
Some of the things I was initially thinking might be options, are not, but I have some other ideas, however when checking out some tuner ideas, I noticed that there are no side position markers on the neck.
Although there are ones on the fretboard
Some of the things I was initially thinking might be options, are not, but I have some other ideas, however when checking out some tuner ideas, I noticed that there are no side position markers on the neck.
Although there are ones on the fretboard
You gotta lose the Fender; no notch in the top of the headstock to go along with all those other headstocks.Some headstocks in a row…
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There is a little dent in it…You gotta lose the Fender; no notch in the top of the headstock to go along with all those other headstocks.
Interesting corner of the world... I started on drums, I was taught some piano in school once my drumming surpassed the Band directors skill level. Then late in school I took up guitar. Bass was actually the last instrument. I started because I needed bass parts in my recordings. Then I got hooked. Now I play them all. Some better than others.... LOL
