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What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?
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mercifulfuzziness
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Bronchitis always felt better with..
Spaced Out Ace
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I installed and wired up speakers in a 412 cabinet I got yesterday. I got to play it some yesterday evening, but played some more this afternoon. It sounds pretty damn awesome. Apparently Celestion Vintage 30 speakers have been made in the UK the past year or two, so those plus the two G12H-30 70tth Anniversary are UK made and sound great together.
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Work on what motivates you to pick up the guitar. It's hard to want to pick it up (unless you're TSJMajesty) when you're going to sit down and run scales, but learning the main lick of a song might be the thing that gets it in your hands after a long day of work and kids.
It's good to get some stuff under your fingers are far as learning the notes even if you're not nailing it when you go to play it, it's still learned information and you can use them as progress markers. Those pull-offs/hammer-ons within chords Hendrix does can be tricky, but if you learn the notes and noodle with it the pieces start to fit as time goes on.
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Umm, that was probably how it started?!Bronchitis always felt better with..
mercifulfuzziness
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Umm, that was probably how it started?!
Haha I used to smoke a joint whenever I had it. It really helped. But yes.. probably.
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Geez, how many times have you gotten it?
mercifulfuzziness
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In my teenage years I had it a couple of times a year. Pretty heavily also. Acfter that it became a sometimes-thing.
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Can't that lead to scarring of the lungs?
mercifulfuzziness
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Bronchitis? Not sure, probably. But I started working out really hard, went into the marines and never had it again.
It was a combination of being a fat kid living a bad lifestyle.
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Today? Nothing so far, but tonight I've got a rehearsal with one of the bands I play with that is breaking in a new drummer.
Yesterday I went in to Manhattan and did a 6 hour rehearsal for a show I'm doing at the end of the month, which is a night of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains! The other guitar player and I are playing both sets, but we're using different rhythm sections for each set and there will be several guest singers.
This is the fourth show I'll be doing with the F Bomb collective - I did a Bowie night last year, and a Guns N' Roses night and a 70s 'AM Gold' night 2 years ago. These shows are a lot of fun, and this one coming up is pretty challenging - but the first rehearsal sounded real good. We've got one more rehearsal next week, and then the show on the 24th. Really looking forward to this one.
Yesterday I went in to Manhattan and did a 6 hour rehearsal for a show I'm doing at the end of the month, which is a night of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains! The other guitar player and I are playing both sets, but we're using different rhythm sections for each set and there will be several guest singers.
This is the fourth show I'll be doing with the F Bomb collective - I did a Bowie night last year, and a Guns N' Roses night and a 70s 'AM Gold' night 2 years ago. These shows are a lot of fun, and this one coming up is pretty challenging - but the first rehearsal sounded real good. We've got one more rehearsal next week, and then the show on the 24th. Really looking forward to this one.
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Sweet! That sounds like a total blast!
How many axes are you having to take to nail all them whacked out Soundgarden tunings?
makeitstop
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Sweet! That sounds like a total blast!
How many axes are you having to take to nail all them whacked out Soundgarden tunings?
Only three, surprisingly - and one of them is tuned to Eb for the Alice in chains stuff, so I'm doing all the Soundgarden on two guitars!
Most of Soundgarden's stuff is either in standard tuning or Drop D. The only song that I had to bring for a weird tuning was for 'Burden in my Hand,' which is tuned to CGCGGE. 'Pretty Noose' also uses that tuning, but I worked it out with standard tuning and the other guitar player plays it in the lower tuning. Sounds big.
'The Day I tried to Live' is tuned to EEBBBE, but again, I worked it out in Drop D.
mercifulfuzziness
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First steps into "Foxey Lady". Added the Arbiter® FuzzFace to get a bit closer to the sound. I find the high E a bit out of place for some reason. But I am not out of tune.. so maybe it is what it is.
It's a good practice song, especially since one string wrong..and you F it all up.
It's a good practice song, especially since one string wrong..and you F it all up.
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Recorded today's entry for this week's Do Something Challenge with a wrist sprain from yesterday's skateboarding fall.
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It was a productive weekend in the studio, I managed to re-work that older song into something I don’t hate. Turned into a kitchen sink production, having a clean studio where things aren’t a pain in the ass to setup in a short amount of time definitely aids in that. There’s real amps into a load box, real amps into real cabs, the AxeFX, AxeFX into real cabs, acoustic stuff, Strats, Les Pauls, DADGAD and standard tunings, definitely not my normal metal stuff by any stretch.
mercifulfuzziness
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Along the watchtower. I am really bad at those embellishments. Making bar chords has been no problem for some time now and to be in that triad way of doing bar chords is cool to have pinky and ring finger "unlocked", but man i've got a lot to learn in that department!!
It also feels really good to be released of my GAS. I can honestly say I don't feel the need to buy anything at the moment. You guys kicked that out of me.
It also feels really good to be released of my GAS. I can honestly say I don't feel the need to buy anything at the moment. You guys kicked that out of me.
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Working today on getting this up to speed (120bpm) and clean
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