My buddy E got it. Yeah, sorry, y’all, but I couldn’t resistificate!
Y’all are good to put up with my stinky sense of humor sometimes!
I think it was a gerbil, though, y’all. And I think it was a rumor, to be fair to this great actor.
Quasi
PS: For you budget guitarists, Zzounds has 6 great axes under $400.00 dollars for ya’. If you’ll remember, I rarely buy one over that amount, 'cause I suck pretty much. And my wife always says… (what does she say, y’all?)…
Also you can pay over time
And this isn’t spam, nor am I paid for writing this!
Fender’s factory is now open for tours. Anyone near LA?
(There have been some guitar related threads recently. Please feel free to link them in here. I’ve been sick.)
Aaand GFS has released two new models. Ibanez-inspired, looks like. The 880 is severe, but the 890 looks fantastique. Reverse headstock, transparent color, full binding, fancy inlays for style, 24 frets, nasty humbuckers, set neck, and a Floyd Rose (not a licensed one, a Floyd Rose) for sound and playing.
The only improvement I could think of would be coil splitting.
I like the amberburst. Look at the necks on those things. Slim!
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention: I was very unimpressed by the GFS Strat body that I mentioned buying a page or two ago. It’s light, sure, but it’s very crudely made; the proportions are off, it’s really a pretty poor attempt at a Strat shape, and the finish on the one I received is much less attractive than the one shown on their page.
It’d require a fair bit of work to make it work with the neck I have, and it’d still look like crap, so I’m sticking with the body I have now until such time as I get a good replacement. The GFS one I’ll just write off as a lesson and donate it to a guy I know who builds guitars; he might be able to make something out of it or at least use the wood for something. (I’d get him to build me something but it’d cost way more than I’m willing to spend at this point.)
Probably what I’ll eventually do with my partscaster is get a matching body/neck from Warmoth when/if I feel like spending a bunch of money and transfer the hardware across. At the moment I’ll just make do with what I have.
Sorry you had to deal with that Shakester. It suggests to me that the sell their factory seconds…which they seem to have a lot of, given the webpage sales linked to in this thread over the years…
After months of practice I’m am beginning to dominate the barre chords. One problem I still have is changing between root 6 and root 5 barres. And the problem is moving the index finger from barring all 6 to barring 5 strings. Is there a really good reason why I can’t barre all six strings when playing a root 5 and just not hitting the low E string when I strum?
Do what works. While I was learning, I was trying to improve every dimension of my technique - picking specific strings, fretting specific strings and string groups, muting other strings with my fretting and/or picking hand/palm, etc., etc. Eventually a little bit of everything comes into place and the chords sound better - now, as to which factors contribute the most? No clue
In fact, I will go so far as to say that sometimes, when playing an A-shaped barre chord, I just barre the full 6 strings and just try to “sell” the added 5th sounding on the low E string - don’t ask me how, but the more you play, the more you can make that stuff work. It adds a nice growl on the bottom end, which is good for opening up your sound on songs with big-choruses…
That’s pretty good advice. When I saw the question I went and had a look at myself playing, and what stands out is how little my left hand is moving when I play. The only reason my index finger moves when changing from fifth to sixth string barre chords is because my other fingers are moving.
Here’s a video of me playing where you can see my left pretty well. The chorus is fifth string barre chord, followed by a sixth string barre chord, followed by a ninth (which I slide up and down):
I just took a look at your video. As I am primarily a drummer and not much of a guitarist (just trying to get started), I was totally blown away by your work, and would like to tell you I’d be proud to provide your back-beat anytime and anywhere.
I don’t know what you see as a problem (again just a guitar player wanna-be), but all I see is some very smooth work both on vocals AND on strings!
I had problems with B7 also until I started using the fingering that left out the little finger on the high E string when I practiced 12 bar blues using E7, A7 and B7. Once I had that nailed, the full 4 finger version came around nicely and I could use it easily in the key of E major.
OK, got the Hendrix version down. Actually it is very simple strum and easy chord changes up and down the neck. Sounds really cool on the Casino’s P90s with a little delay and some distortion.
