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Picked up guitar, too. Huge mistake

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I have two electrics but this here is my favorite.
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I started on guitar and had a bass strictly for recording and then after a 10 year hiatus, started playing bass some years back and haven't really picked up the guitar.

But after getting the songwriting itch again recently (and also due to more time on my hands), I got a Mojotone Quiet Tele pickup/harness combo to upgrade my 30 year old Fender American Standard Tele's pickups which I had never really been fond of.

Also got some new strings and a Boss DD-5 Digital Delay pedal, and have some wiring issue with my current guitar amp, which is just the reason to go amp shopping, though I'm sure it's just a lose wire :D

Anyway, all this was a month ago, around the same time I got another Spector Euro. So, outside of upgrading my guitar's pickups, haven't picked her up again (and haven't pulled the trigger on a new guitar amp).
 
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Admiral Akbar said:
If you’ve got issues with bass GAS, guitar GAS is even more severe.
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Got that right. After a avoiding getting my own guitar for about 30 years, I finally bought a Squier CV Tele about six years ago and did my best to leave it at that.

But then Yamaha came along with a P90 loaded Revstar, and I caved on that in less than a month...

Now I’m thinking about maybe getting a one of these:



From $300 to $600 to contemplating spending $2K. The first one you get is the gateway drug! You have been warned.

Guitars are everywhere, smaller, slightly cheaper and therefore, IMO, easier to collect.
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And, unlike many basses, there are huge and immediately obvious differences in tone and timbre between different brands and sometimes even the models within a given brand. :thumbsup:

Guitars tend to be more distinctively voiced than basses are. So in my experience it’s easier to justify owning more than one guitar to the unchurched. :laugh:
 
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Picked up an Epiphone LP 100 model and a lil Mustang practice amp couple years back for home recording. Great investments, and very nice to have a guitar/amp on hand in case of spontaneous jam sessions.

I'm a bass player, they mostly collect dust and are in no danger of setting off a GAS run. :D

P.S. A previous poster mentioned learning chord inversions. A very old friend had a work accident that rendered his left index finger useless, so I've been jamming with a guy who uses them almost exclusively for years. Joined my current two guitar band and discovered the LG uses a lot of inversions for flavor. His mind was blown I could still "read" his hands so easily. I just nodded and said "Oh yeah, inversions. No biggie." without explaining.
 
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Wilmingtonian said:
Now I have double the GAS.
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If you get a really nice guitar, guitar gas fades a lot more quickly. At least it did for me.

I bought the Strat I always dreamed of owning since I was a kid, and it was a done deal.

I do of course have a Les Paul Paul style guitar I love, an acoustic and a classical... but that's it.

I'm doin good!
 
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Joe Nerve said:
If you get a really nice guitar, guitar gas fades a lot more quickly. At least it did for me.

I bought the Strat I always dreamed of owning since I was a kid, and it was a done deal.

I do of course have a Les Paul Paul style guitar I love, an acoustic and a classical... but that's it.

I'm doin good!
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I agree. I never even experienced gas in my guitar days. Always wanted a Tele, got one and that was done, though my first guitar was a Strat and had a few others in between, but once I got that Tele, didn't care for anything else.

But damn, since focusing on bass, GAS is real. Especially SAS (Spector), but there are so many beautiful basses out there from many brands (and at many prices, from the low end to the high).
 
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My guitar gas ended with my modded '84 Les Paul Studio with really low action, Dimarzio pickups and some cool p'up coil taps and switching. It can sound like a bunch of different type guitars. I can play it for hours sometimes.

I do have a Strat clone and a Fender Acoustic too.
 
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Since we’re in this topic of guitar, are there any good reading material on learning guitar? Because guitar is such a widely popular instrument the amount of resources is vast on YouTube and majority of the people with these resourceful videos aren’t that pleasing or rather “boring” to watch.

My main goal is to learn scales, chords, arpeggios.

P.S. Feels very sacrilege asking this question on a Bass forum :roflmao:
 
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sonojono said:
Since we’re in this topic of guitar, are there any good reading material on learning guitar? Because guitar is such a widely popular instrument the amount of resources is vast on YouTube and majority of the people with these resourceful videos aren’t that pleasing or rather “boring” to watch.

My main goal is to learn scales, chords, arpeggios.

P.S. Feels very sacrilege asking this question on a Bass forum :roflmao:
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Reddit has r/guitarlessons. They have tons of great resources.
 

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