# The Great Ongoing Guitar Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 31, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172 "2010-01-31T23:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 292
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5826 "2022-08-16T13:58:59Z")
Thank you! I plan to make more of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5827 "2022-08-16T15:10:14Z")
Thanks. _Wish You Were Here_ is buried somewhere in the mist. I’ve been meaning to relearn that one. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5828 "2022-08-16T17:15:45Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Thank you! I plan to make more of them. Is that your channel? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5829 "2022-08-16T19:54:04Z")
Yes it is. I started out doing pedal videos. Then I realized that I really enjoyed doing the intros and outros to them, and really didn’t enjoy the actual pedal part so much. So I decided I’d just do music and music videos. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5830 "2022-08-16T19:58:48Z")
Awesome. Your helping a lot of youngsters. We need them to keep the music playing… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5831 "2022-08-17T01:12:44Z")
I’m taking a bluegrass course at Truefire. He insists the bluegrass players use this fingering for G7. I’ve always used the standard G7 like the Eagles. 1st fret on the 1st string gives the needed F note. I see the F being played on the D string. You could play Gmaj7 by shifting the finger one fret for F#. It’s just a weird chord shape. Do bluegrass players really use it? [![](https://sixstringacoustic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/G7-Chord.png) ](https://sixstringacoustic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/G7-Chord.png) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5832 "2022-08-17T02:18:48Z")
Haven’t seen that one, and no opinion on bluegrass players. But I like how that voicing sounds. No idea why you’d deaden the B string - it’s an octave of the A string and sounds fine when struck. Reminds me of the 7th in the intro of Born on the Bayou, Creedence, or the B7 in Peaceful Easy Feeling, Eagles, I just haven’t seen that voicing off the E string. Sounds nice. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5833 "2022-08-17T03:22:45Z")
The B and G are open in that chord diagram. It is a nice sounding chord. The lower F makes a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5834 "2022-08-17T07:01:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Awesome. Your helping a lot of youngsters. We need them to keep the music playing… Heheh, I don’t know if the pedal videos did any of that. They’re for very small production runs of oddball pedals made by a kind of obscure manufacturer that I really like. I figure that anyone viewing those videos are probably scoping one of them out on the used market (at least one video was linked in a Reverb ad for one of them), or are in a weird YouTube guitar pedal hole. I hope they are helpful to those folks, I did enjoy sharing what I could figure out about the largely un-labeled pedals’ controls. But really, that part was kind of a grind, and since I didn’t really analyze the circuit, it was often more of a guess than anything. I might do more of those, and I have several pedals from that guy that have no review or demo vid, but I don’t know when that will be. But if you think that recording odd songs and having them accompanied with videos, with both containing sketchy production values, will encourage kids to keep playing music: I’m all over that idea! I’d do all of that even if nobody watched or listened. It’s really a pleasure unto itself. 🤡 @Jack_Batty : A Yamaha is always a good choice for an acoustic when price is a consideration. If someone is wanting to start out on acoustic and is asking me what they should get first, I always advise checking out Yamaha. Similarly, if I think someone already plays guitar and needs a gift of an acoustic, I scope out pawn shops for Yamahas in need of minor repair. Their quality is usually undervalued if they have minor problems. I might fool with an Epiphone or any other budget maker - my acoustic for the last 20 years has been an EPI ED-100 that I keep fixing up, you can get one now on reverb for $89 😃 . But dollar for dollar, a Yamaha is generally your best bet in acoustic guitars.I really should get myself a Yamaha, like I do for other folks, but I haven’t run into one that was simultaneously a bargain and had an all-mahogany box like the ED-100. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5835 "2022-08-17T12:44:53Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m taking a bluegrass course at Truefire. He insists the bluegrass players use this fingering for G7. That’s new to me (and I play with lots of bluegrassers). Sounds good. Also sounds good if you move your pinky to the first fret on the high E string. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5836 "2022-08-17T14:28:49Z")
Oops, not your pinky, that won’t work. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5837 "2022-08-17T15:10:48Z")
That voicing of G7 may just be something Eric Lambert likes. I’m enjoying his beginners Bluegrass course. I wanted to at least try that style. Bluegrass is so fast. I find it challenging. I usually play slow ballads. I love listening to them and playing with the recordings. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5838 "2022-08-17T15:12:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Bluegrass is so fast. I find it challenging Bluegrass flatpicking is impossibly fast. Love watching a good player shredding guitar, their hands becoming a blur. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5839 "2022-08-17T15:14:20Z")
Totally agree. My jaw drops watching Doc Watson. Molly Tuttle is doing really well in representing the next gen of pickers. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5840 "2022-08-17T15:18:33Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Molly Tuttle is doing really well in representing the next gen of pickers Her brother Sully is also [pretty damned great](https://youtu.be/6QoMFxBsEuw?t=83). Saw him a couple times live in AJ Lee’s band. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5841 "2022-08-17T15:22:01Z")
I’ll check out Sully’s music. I love watching great pickers. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5842 "2022-09-08T19:58:18Z")
I’ve been playing Rocksmith for many years now and have purchased quite a bit of the DLC to expand the library. I was absolutely thrilled to learn that people have the ability to personally create songs you can add to Rocksmith and folks have done just that. There are thousands of additional songs, for free, you can add. I’m guessing some of them are poorly done, but I sorted the list by number of downloads and started at the top and I haven’t yet found one that doesn’t seem right on. Some of them are just the song without the ability to “dynamically learn”, but that is fine with me. I’m so excited to be getting ready to enter a long winter with hundreds of new songs to learn. The reason I finally learned about this ability is due to the new Rocksmith+ that was just released. I was reading folks thoughts about it and everyone complained it is a subscription service and why would people want to move with thousands of custom songs available for Rocksmith 2014. Custom songs? 💡 ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5843 "2022-09-11T06:30:24Z")
Why can’t I get a decent recording with Audacity? I’ve got a behringer audio interface and an M57 mic with windscreen about 6 inches from an acoustic guitar, when I click toi monitor, only get to abut 24, and I can barely hear the recording. Oh I have tried 1 inch from the guitar, with the mic right beside the soundhole and with the mic up tbe neck a bit. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5844 "2022-09-11T07:08:45Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > a behringer audio interface Which one? Any chance your mic is plugged into a line input? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172/5845 "2022-09-12T01:44:51Z")
U-Phoria UM2. Mic plugged into MIC/Line 1 with 3 pronged cable, it’s the only place it can go [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172.md?page=291) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-guitar-thread/527172.md?page=293)