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  1. 12 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    It's an old story. Back in the day Fayetteville, NC was known as "Little Saigon" and "Fayettenam" for a reason. And the NCO club would be full of those chicks hustling strange dick while their old man was deployed. Same thing with the girls from Subic and the bases on the West Coast. "No money, no honey". Never forget.

    Fayettenam is located in Arkansas.

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  2. 1 hour ago, RayDog said:

    Girls on the internet are most likely scammers or whores. You need to meet them in person, so don't waste your time with internet girls unless you are already near their city and want to set up face to face dates and have sex with them.

    That and most guys who start out meeting girls on the internet sell themselves short and go with girls that are older, fatter, and/or uglier than they could get meeting in person.

    Oh, I buy American.  But there are a few old sailors at work with girls that came from over there. They are mostly irritating and waiting for the old sailors to die.

  3. 11 hours ago, hullabelew said:

    A lot of people glue down the floating bridge as well. Most also suggest putting a roller bridge to help the Bigsby.

     

    Was going to replace the nut and saddle when I have the setup done. That is after I get my acoustic back.

     

    As far as the bridge, my bridge is pinned.  Why would I glue a secured bridge?  I'm not being a cunt.  I am honestly asking.

  4. On 6/15/2019 at 6:00 PM, DougO said:

    And this is somewhat tempting.

     

     

    I just bought a 5420t. I suck as a player.  I'll just toss that out there right off.  But I can comment on build to a degree.  The factory strings wouldn't stay in tune at all. I replaced them with #10 flat wound D'Addarios.  There was a plating problem with the chrome on my front pickup volume knob. Gretsch sent a new one quickly.

    But on the left side, where the head stock meets the neck, the binding was sanded through to bare wood then the polyurethane was applied and the guitar was finished and shipped out like that. I don't think anything would be done about that.  Nobody will ever see it.  But I do.

     

  5. 22 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    In Jimbo We Trust? I mean I thought In Fran We Trust kind of worked because Fran is one syllable. In Jimbo We Trust doesn't work at all.

    Do they equate all their head coaches with God or has it just been Fran and Jimbo?

    Nah, I'm pretty certain they trusted in that drunk dude also.

  6. 3 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    you know what would go well with that is one in a brilliant orange color, I know where you can get one cheap-- no scratches

     

    I thought about the orange.  I like it a lot.  But that green one gave me a chubby.  

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  7. Impulse purchases are fun.  Went to the local guitar shop for lighter stings for my acoustic today.  I purchased way over my skill level. They had a Aspen green Gretsch 5420t hanging on the wall.  I wanted it.  It had a huge scratch on the back. Tomorrow I pick up my new Aspen green Gretsch, a non display model without the scratch.  Is this going to be Porn worthy?

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  8. 2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    I assume you're playing G with your middle finger on the big E string.  I'm tempted to not mention this (since you should learn how to easily move in and out of that formation) but there are a lot of times if I'm doing G and C next to each other that I play G with my ring finger on the big E.  Ring finger on the E string, middle finger on the A string, and pinky on the high e.  Switch to the C by moving your ring and middle fingers down one, dropping the index on the b string, and lifting the pinky.  Or leave it in a place and you've got a fun C chord with a high G.

    You are correct.  and the proper C out of that is a stretch.  However, I can play that little cheater C all day and night back and forth from G.  I was however wanting to get the normal C down. Its not just G that I cant move from to the C.  Its all chords.  But I did practice normal C and G back and forth for about 3 hours tonight.  I have cut transition time in half that way.  just doing it over and over again.

     

    Probably a dumb ass question.  But is repetition usually the answer to everything with guitar technique, at least this early on in learning? 

     

    Super awesome of you guys to take some time and answer this for me.

  9. Beginner help needed again.  Yes I suck.  But have made huge strides in the last couple of weeks.  I'm able to switch between A, D, E, A minor, E minor, & D minor relatively easy to the clip of about 60 changes a minute. Yes I miss my chord some times.  But the more I practice, the better it gets. I've been getting in about 30 - 45 minutes a night on days I work. That's 3 or 4 nights a week.  On days off I practice anywhere from 2 to 8 hours.  Taking small breaks for the red hot needles in my left hand fingers to go out.

     

    My problem now is chord shapes and changes between C & G.  I keep moving and putting down fingers one at a time.  It causes a moment of pause when I do it.  I know this isn't correct.  I am trying to do "air chords". Making shapes above the strings before I put my fingers down.  This is fucking impossible. 

    Would playing a C over and over be better for this? For example: C strum, lift my fingers about a 1/2 inch off of the strings, then put them right back on C. Rinse and repeat until the fingers in my left hand cramp. 

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  10. On 5/21/2019 at 2:29 PM, Celery Man said:

    You should learn the basic chords, and I think you should do that by learning the bones of some songs that use them and playing along.  You mentioned Townes.  He's frustrating because he doesn't care about time signatures and he does that fingerpicking stuff that's hard, but try starting with this.

    we're not going to do it exactly like he's doing it here (where he's not exactly sliding down to a D, or some of the little moving parts), because this is about getting comfortable with some shapes and moving around.

    Make a D chord, but slide it up the neck so that your ring finger is on the the 8th fret (so, the top four strings are 0787)  That's Chord 1, we'll call it G(D)

    Chord 2 is a D.  So you're just sliding down to a regular D without changing the shape of your fingers.

    Chord 3 is an A

    then back to D

    we're also going to be using the regular G chord. I'm using 320033 here

    Play along with Townes as he does that first part - you can just strum it at first but then pick the notes like he's doing if you feel confident.

    G(D) | D | G(D) | D | D | A | G | D 

    that's the verse

    Chorus (which starts with "well you're soft as glass") is going to use a regular G chord

    G | D | G | A | D | A | G | D

     

    and that's basically the two parts of that song.  try and get that.

     

    I think we've had "what you're learning to play on guitar" threads in Music, but they've never quite gotten traction.  Guitar Pr0n thread is kinda a catchall, but i'd be into contributing to a more specific thread on learning songs.  The fun thing about guitar is that when you get the basics down, learning new stuff isn't typically that hard (not like tackling a new Debussy piece or something on piano) and it's also the best way to inch forward.

     

    ok I'm not 1000% certain that there's not some middle part that I'm missing here, but try picking that out and getting those changes down

    and for those playing along - the first D in that intro part (after G(D) ) is actually 0775 on the top four strings.  And on the A you're getting that little melody by pulling off with your index finger and playing 2 on the A string.

    Really glad you posted, I used to lurk the guitar thread on the old site and particularly enjoyed your posts about music in general.

     

    I'll give that a go. I am happy to hear what you said about Townes as well. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't recognize time at all.  Like things somehow sounded great all over the place.  I don't know another way to say that.

     

    As far as what I have been doing, practicing changes between e, d, a, e minor, d minor, and full g while down strumming 4/4.  Extremely basic stuff.  When my fretting hand needs a break. I practice keeping 4/4 with my thumb on open strings E|A|E|D. After this becomes automatic, I add in E|A|E|D(G).  I'm now trying to work toward getting this down E|A(B)|E|D(G).   

  11. On 5/15/2019 at 6:37 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    Esteban 

    Thank you sir, Most helpful.

    On 5/16/2019 at 9:51 AM, VABuckeye said:

    Justin Guitar 

    On 5/15/2019 at 7:02 PM, retread said:

    Justin Guitar 

     

    This was most helpful. I walked away from 1 hour of his site with more than i had gained in my free month of fender and the subsequent 2 paid months. 

     

    One last thing and I will ditch this thread forever. The pron thread is well, full of guitar pron.  Without reading all 107 pages of it, do they discuss technique in there? Yes I am that lazy.

  12. 2 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

    Can you switch between A, D and E?  If you're using the Justin Guitar fingering your first finger stays on the 3rd string for the chord transitions.  Once that finger gets the memory the other fingers seemed to learn their placement easier when changing chords.  D to G is just dropping finger 3 down a string and moving fingers 1 and 2 up to the top.   This is a whole month of experience talking so take that information as you will.

    I have barely tapped into the fender lessons.  But they are terrible.  It doesn't really talk about changes using pivots or anything. it just shows the chord then says practice changing with me.... blah blah.

    But tonight I'm going to look at the Justin Guitar ones.

  13. 2 hours ago, Deej said:

    If you only have one guitar before the year is up, you're doing it wrong. 

    If I can learn to switch from full g to c and back while keeping 4/4 time I will buy another. Until I get that basic concept down, I'm stuck with just a fender acoustic.  But, I have my eyes on a Gretsch. It will be my reward for learning something new.

  14. 19 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

    My advice is to take that piece of shit back and get a bass then get funky. 

    Also, starting on acoustic is tough. I'd start on electric and once you're pretty good and built your finger strength and calluses up then get an acoustic. 

    Too late. Bought an acoustic so I'm going to o be playing acoustic.

  15. 14 minutes ago, retread said:

    +1. Don't pay for lessons unless you just really have to have that teacher. There are a ton of tutorials on youtube.

    I don't play as much as I used to, but I think this guy is pretty good for basic => advanced:

    https://www.justinguitar.com/site-map-and-lesson-structure

    IMO, don't get caught up in chord charts in the beginning. It can be overwhelming.  

    What are examples of some songs that you'd like to play?

    Mostly 50's - late 70's country and rockabilly.  I'm not dead set in any specific songs right now.  But my goal would be to be able to play things like "Don't take it too bad" Townes van Zandt.  I'm not super concerned if I have to learn three blind mice and hot crossed buns to get there.

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