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  1. Firsty Lasty

    I'm back. It felt like forever. Help me please

    There were a couple times I took a few or more years away from playing guitar. For me it was far easier to regain skills and knowledge I had forgotten than it was to learn them the first time. The last time I came back from a long break I felt like I couldn’t remember more than a couple scale...
  2. Firsty Lasty

    Whats your favorite pick?

    Yeah, I’m a big fan of ultex for several reasons. The pick I probably practiced the most with in the last two years is the Clayton 1.2 mm ultex, but I don’t use those very often anymore. They’re one of many old favorites that were awesome at the time but now are completely outclassed by the Andy...
  3. Firsty Lasty

    Whats your favorite pick?

    My overall favorite is the Andy James flow by Dunlop, but it’s only one out of many picks that I like. No one pick is best at everything, so the search for the next fun toy never ends. For the specific job of scraping a pick down the windings of the fat strings, the Dunlop ultex .60 is the best...
  4. Firsty Lasty

    Meet Your New Keymaster!

    Congrats!
  5. Firsty Lasty

    Is burning out beneficial at times

    I’m pretty sure everyone takes breaks unless there’s something forcing them to “sink or swim”. Imo what is important is living in such a way that you can stay passionate about something each day, even as your interests change over time. Right now I’ve taken several days away from practicing...
  6. Firsty Lasty

    CAGED breakthrough!

    Fluffy Kitty! Honestly the whole CAGED thing is something I should to put more time into. I understand the system, but my natural instinct is still to stay planted in one spot most of the time.
  7. Firsty Lasty

    Picking problems

    This kind of thing is always easy to diagnose in person but sometimes very difficult to diagnose by text. A general rule is that once you have the string height set properly at the bridge the only setup adjustments you’ll need to make again is with the truss rod. Of course after years of use...
  8. Firsty Lasty

    Barre F Chord

    When I was new to guitar I struggled with barre chords with no success for about a month and then one day I could suddenly do them easily, so I know what it’s like to have trouble with this. The reason this F chord is giving you trouble is simply due to a lack of experience. Once you get the...
  9. Firsty Lasty

    Help me pick a guitar!!!

    A couple of choices to maybe pick up and try in a guitar store are the Fender mustang and jaguar models. They have a slightly shorter scale length for your smaller hands, but they’re still proper guitars. Among the guitars that I actually own my Jackson Mick Thomson signature (import, not USA)...
  10. Firsty Lasty

    Short-Term Goals vs. Long-Term Goals

    Short-term thinking definitely holds me back.
  11. Firsty Lasty

    The power chord breakthrough

    I had to pick up a guitar to look and see what I do, ‘cuz this isn’t something I think about. It looks like my habit is to prefer the pinky when just playing root + fifth, both pinky and 3rd finger when playing root + fifth + octave (instead of using one finger to get two strings), and either...
  12. Firsty Lasty

    Who/what inspired you to play guitar?

    For me the biggest moment was the first time I heard Yngwie, with the song “Crucify”. It was so incredible and unlike anything else I had ever heard that it was almost like a religious experience.
  13. Firsty Lasty

    My journey with Avenged Sevenfold.

    Very cool! I had a bad first impression of a7x simply because I first heard them way too early in their career. I think it was close to the year 2000. I can’t remember if it was some kind of demo or bootleg or what. The only reason I heard of them was because someone in another band mentioned...
  14. Firsty Lasty

    Some Advice In Life I'd Like to Share

    I agree!
  15. Firsty Lasty

    Day one

    Usually when something feels like a “stretch” on guitar what really matters is being relaxed and having experience in how to position yourself in relation to the guitar. There are many details that matter- the hand, the wrist, the arm, the angle of the guitar, etc. Almost nobody uses .43 picks...
  16. Firsty Lasty

    Something feedback on my singing please

    Your voice still sounds like you’re trying to sing softly, as if you don’t want people to hear you. You’ll probably sound great once you learn the skill of projecting with power.
  17. Firsty Lasty

    Day one

    There are multiple reasons why fret buzz can occur, and most of them are not serious problems. I wouldn’t feel stressed about it. One thing I see technique-wise that will help you play more clearly is to focus on playing the notes closer to the appropriate fret. Hit play on your video and really...
  18. Firsty Lasty

    The Seven Deadly $yns

    Great post. Tbh the ratio of wisdom/goofiness is very high.
  19. Firsty Lasty

    Music or lyrics first?

    If you want the highest quality results then hiring a top-line songwriter is basically guaranteed to be best. It ain’t free, but it can cost a lot less than collecting guitars. Of course that’s not really what you were asking, but it’s always important to have perspective. Melody, Rhythm, and...
  20. Firsty Lasty

    Needing Help Changing a Song's Pitch + Tuning Questions

    B is like tuning down five frets (2& a half steps) from E. One & A Half steps up from drop B is Drop D. For changing pitch, my first thought would be to see how it would sound if I dumped the song into Reaper, used reaPitch to adjust it, and then export that into Mp3 or Wav or whatever. I...
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