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  1. Forgetabull

    (Beginner) Finger touching multiple strings

    It's practice and finger strength. There's a spider exercise you can do that will help with your individual finger agility. With respect to your pinky, it could also be that your thumb is too high on the back of the guitar neck, as you move towards the thicker strings, you will want to move...
  2. Forgetabull

    Comment by 'Forgetabull' in media '🗣 PLAY FREEBIRD !!!'

    Try the slide on your ring finger instead, that gives you the pinky to use for muting the other strings.
  3. Forgetabull

    Battery on sun valley schreder

    Also note that your battery usage will increase if you leave your cable plugged into the guitar when it's not in use, so remember to unplug in between sessions. The circuit between pickup(s) and battery is typically complete when the cable is plugged in to the socket (if you replace the...
  4. Forgetabull

    What's a simple way to remember the caged scale and chord combinations?

    So something i do is to use partial chords, based on the cage system. Ie. if you take the D shape, I will typically use the top three strings to move that shape up the neck, sometimes I use the G shape where I only use the top and bottom two strings (so three and four are muted). When doing...
  5. Forgetabull

    Guitar String Gauge

    Roughly translated, each step you go down goes down an equivalent string gauge. So 9-42 standard tuning is basically 8-38 in E flat. You'd need to work out what normally geeks comfortable for you and work it out from there. I use 8-38 in standard so for something like drop d, I'd probably...
  6. Forgetabull

    How do you keep sustain in general

    This might help
  7. Forgetabull

    Transcription ear training? Easy transcription songs?

    If you want to go super simple, try nursery rhymes/children songs. They let you focus on intervals and you can start recognising scales from them pretty easily.
  8. Forgetabull

    Guitar Quick Tip: Changing Magnets your pickups and correct phase

    Howdy, A simple thing you can do with cheaper humbucker is swap out the ceramic magnet for an alnico one. Something you will want to ensure is that you keep the magnet in the right orientation. (Or potentially to reverse the orientation if you want that out of phase sound). An easy way to do...
  9. Forgetabull

    Generally.. if you end up/finish your phrase on the root note of the scale, it doesn't overly...

    Generally.. if you end up/finish your phrase on the root note of the scale, it doesn't overly matter how you get there. What you might find sometimes is that there are notes that sound 'less good" than others in the scale, and if you skip them your phrase will sound nicer. People smarter than...
  10. Forgetabull

    how do you feel it's wrong ?

    how do you feel it's wrong ?
  11. Forgetabull

    Picks shapes and sizes

    Dragon's Heart GT (Sorry had tooth instead of heart) Jazz III ultex Jazz III normal .50mm Dunlop Tortex 1.14mm Dunlop Tortex Hetfield Blackfang .88mm Tortex Bass Pick 3mm Dunlop Big Stubby I really only use the first three now a days.
  12. Forgetabull

    Is this guitar related or something bigger

    Your arm looks a little further back that I'd have it. Do you warm up before you play (or like play general warm up stuff for your strumming arm?). I end up having to do some easy chord based songs for somewhere between 5-15mins before my hands/arms get up to speed.
  13. Forgetabull

    Guitar Guitar strings hard to press?

    I like to have my action between 1.5mm and 2mm at the twelfth fret.
  14. Forgetabull

    Guitar Guitar strings hard to press?

    A side on picture around the twelfth fret will given us a better idea of what your action is set to. As you can see from this picture, the action was very high when I got this guitar so would have been hard to play before I set out up. If I recall correctly that's a stack of four 0.5mm picks...
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    SynTv/Restringing and working with a Floyd Rose and other guitar stuff - Tuesday 7pm MST

    That'd also be useful if they'd said 9-42 in what tuning... 9-42 standard is basically the same tension as 10-46 in a half step down (like E flat tuning).
  16. Forgetabull

    Scales

    So this may or may not be useful, however.. The cage system is a bit neato because it means you can use the same chord shape up and down the neck to do either the full chord or a partial chord. A couple of ones I can think of are if I use the C shape and I move it up two frets, there's a D...
  17. Forgetabull

    Tremelo picking and sudden starts

    Couple of things: How warmed up were you when you started at the 90 ? I need to have been going for at least 20mins or so before I'm remotely full speed. What type/size pick are you using ? I am much faster with my Dragon's Heart than I am with my Jazz III. Having said that, some people are...
  18. Forgetabull

    Favourite guitarists ?

    Paul Gilbert SRV
  19. Forgetabull

    1-1 help

    Tempo/Phrasing: Try to keep an ear out for the rhythm, sometimes you can just follow the rhythm rather than adding fills. Phrasing/Passage Wise: Let there be some air in it. Think of it as there should be a pause when you take a breath. This gives the listener time to absorb what you've...
  20. Forgetabull

    1-1 help

    What is your timezone mate ?
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