megametal7
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What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?
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megametal7
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Played with that TD-Y all day yesterday, diving into some Division Bell tones. Started learning the “Poles Apart” solo and every few minutes I’d stop and grin. These tones were always so out of reach before, in the sense that none of the gear I was using for my own music would work for them.
There’s been a bit of a rejuvenation in learning/playing as a result of hitting these nostalgia points. When I got my first guitar The Division Bell was all I was listening to, nonstop before and after I got the guitar. Listening closely to learn the nuances in the solo brought me right back to being 11 and hanging onto every note I heard.
It’s also made me realize how thankful I am to have started playing pre-YouTube days when the only choice was to develop your ear and listening skills. You can always tell when someone learned something from a tab instead of learning it by ear, they almost always leave the nuances behind. Tabbing out Gilmour solos with all the tiny ass bends and articulations can only go so far.
There’s been a bit of a rejuvenation in learning/playing as a result of hitting these nostalgia points. When I got my first guitar The Division Bell was all I was listening to, nonstop before and after I got the guitar. Listening closely to learn the nuances in the solo brought me right back to being 11 and hanging onto every note I heard.
It’s also made me realize how thankful I am to have started playing pre-YouTube days when the only choice was to develop your ear and listening skills. You can always tell when someone learned something from a tab instead of learning it by ear, they almost always leave the nuances behind. Tabbing out Gilmour solos with all the tiny ass bends and articulations can only go so far.
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Ok, after playing with it some more I am going to do a 180 and force myself to keep
the Dreamcatcher in. I can experiment with dialing in some heavier tones, adjusting
the pickup height, and pole pieces.
It really is fun as fuck to play into an Engl, EVH Stealth, or JVM.
Too easy to default to my tried and true ways and get stuck in my own stuckness. This
is a healthy push in a different direction than I normally go.
Yeah I hear you, I always put PAF humbuckers in my guitars. It's hard to mix things up sometimes. Last I tried a ceramic was with the Duncan Custom and I think I swapped that out to an alnico 5 pretty quickly.
I do think those Transition pickups could be a good middle ground and I'd be curious to try them again.
Picked up my McCarty 594 which I think has 9.5's and it felt way too slinky and wimpy. Gotta put 10's on that next.
It's weird that they don't really sell boxes of strings anymore. When I was a kid you'd always get boxes of strings to save money and because we were always breaking them. Now you can get 3-packs sometimes, but never boxes. Feels weird to buy a bunch of individual packs.
Sounds good! I'm really thinking of picking the Slate drums and Trigger up while they are on sale.
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Jarick
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I bought it from Sweatwaller® for $70 off.
I ended up just grabbing it after I posted lol
Both Slate Drums and Trigger were $49 each, so why not? Maybe it's inspiring?
I've been wanting to remix an old project of mine when I was the drummer, and I recorded the drums in my parents garage. It sounds okay but I think mixing in some samples would really make it sound really good.
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I learned the "Poles Apart" solo, now I'm just practicing it. There's a fucking 2.5 step bend starting on the 12th fret B note up to an E. Jeeezus Fooking Christ man, I might have to raise my action just to get enough fingermeat under the string to push it up that far consistently. So much tone greatness in this one, barely distorted Tube Driver, a shitload of compression, rotary speakers and a shitload of dynamics.
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Are you sure he didn't slide up a fret or two after he started the bend to get the full 2.5 steps? I have seen that done.
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Certainly possible and that's how I'm going to end up doing it because I'm not gonna botch the note and it's a nightmare bending up to that point. He does the same thing in the "Another Brick" solo, but he's definitely bending up to it in that one.
megametal7
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Sounds great dude.
2011 Kitchen Sink mod BE/HBE/C45/FAT/SAT/GAIN CUT.
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Did a loooong overdue restringing on the semis today
unix-guy
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Routed for and installed a battery box in the back of my Fender Jazz Special Bass.
The guy I got it from many years ago replaced the stock bridge with a BaddAss and the stock pickups with EMGs, but just shoved the 9V in the control cavity where it really doesn't fit and it's a PITA to get a new one in.
I've also ordered a TRS jack so that I can wire it so the battery gets disconnected when the cable isn't plugged in.
I really like this bass: P-bass body, J-bass neck, P/J pickups.
Edit:
Also, apparently this bass was popularized by Duff McKagan... I'm not really a Guns fan but I get why he liked them.
Don't know the exact year - 84-87, MIJ (Fujigen).
The guy I got it from many years ago replaced the stock bridge with a BaddAss and the stock pickups with EMGs, but just shoved the 9V in the control cavity where it really doesn't fit and it's a PITA to get a new one in.
I've also ordered a TRS jack so that I can wire it so the battery gets disconnected when the cable isn't plugged in.
I really like this bass: P-bass body, J-bass neck, P/J pickups.
Edit:
Also, apparently this bass was popularized by Duff McKagan... I'm not really a Guns fan but I get why he liked them.
Don't know the exact year - 84-87, MIJ (Fujigen).
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megametal7
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practiced sweeps with metronome low bpm ( felt like a slow death ) lol
then learned new riffs... ( metllica) surprise surprise...
then i got tired and put on playlist and Iced earth came on Travel in Stygian.... i covered this song long time ago and since i was holding a guitar i had a go again to see if i remembered it.... once i started playing i realised what a hard work is this song especially for right hand.
anyway here is little clip from that jam.
then learned new riffs... ( metllica) surprise surprise...
then i got tired and put on playlist and Iced earth came on Travel in Stygian.... i covered this song long time ago and since i was holding a guitar i had a go again to see if i remembered it.... once i started playing i realised what a hard work is this song especially for right hand.
anyway here is little clip from that jam.
