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Which is the nicest?
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JiveTurkey
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Does anyone else find it strange that @Orvillain is asking for recommendation for something that is the nicest? That seems strange to me 
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Does anyone else find it strange that @Orvillain is asking for recommendation for something that is the nicest? That seems strange to me
jellodog
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Does anyone else find it strange that @Orvillain is asking for recommendation for something that is the nicest? That seems strange to me
It must be so he can buy the one we love and post a video of him setting fire to it, whilst we can do nothing but look on in horror.
Only reasonable explanation I can think of.
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Does anyone else find it strange that @Orvillain is asking for recommendation for something that is the nicest? That seems strange to me
Like I said, Edgelord is shopping for a 3 bedroom 2 bath home in the 'Burbs.
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On looks alone...
Of those choices, I'd first narrow it down by nixing the blue ones. I don't care for how the lower cut-away looks, with the body wood showing (and the fugly glue joint being painfully obvious on the last one, due to the shades of the wood.) On the others, that part is painted dark, which looks much better to me.
I wouldn't want a floyd, and I also prefer the colors of the brown one the best, but I'd switch out the white rings and switch knob to black. But I'd have to learn a bit more about their feature set, and play a few to see how I get along with the control layout. I'm not a fan of any of the PU selector locations, especially after being a LP player for so long. Which is probably another way of saying, Just give me a McCarty 594. Which apparently they don't make in an SE lefty.
Of those choices, I'd first narrow it down by nixing the blue ones. I don't care for how the lower cut-away looks, with the body wood showing (and the fugly glue joint being painfully obvious on the last one, due to the shades of the wood.) On the others, that part is painted dark, which looks much better to me.
I wouldn't want a floyd, and I also prefer the colors of the brown one the best, but I'd switch out the white rings and switch knob to black. But I'd have to learn a bit more about their feature set, and play a few to see how I get along with the control layout. I'm not a fan of any of the PU selector locations, especially after being a LP player for so long. Which is probably another way of saying, Just give me a McCarty 594. Which apparently they don't make in an SE lefty.
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Does anyone else find it strange that @Orvillain is asking for recommendation for something that is the nicest? That seems strange to me
If he is truly interested in nicest, we need to ditch these SEs and start discussing at minimum 10 top Core options, if not wood library, artist pack, or dare I say Private Stock
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Just given the color, it's got to be the one on the left. Guitar pr0n is so yesteryears...
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Fuck that, they need to fix that shit. Just play guitar right.
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Speaking as a left-handed person playing right handed, I've always felt that we have an unfair advantage on the fretboard if playing in standard orientation. So I dunno.
Wait a minute...
What if... the apparantly "lefty guitarists" are actually right-handed players that are gaming the system like me!?
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I feel like Paul Reed Smith watched some EVH and Vai vids in the 80's and went "Ah, you guys who use whammy bars....fuck you. Have fun reaching this selector switch going into your little sweep picks, Steve. Gonna call you 'no-selector switch sweepin Steve' now!"
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Speaking as a left-handed person playing right handed, I've always felt that we have an unfair advantage on the fretboard if playing in standard orientation. So I dunno.
Wait a minute...
What if... the apparantly "lefty guitarists" are actually right-handed players that are gaming the system like me!?
I’m also left handed and play right - i wonder how many righties ever try to learn a left handed instrument?
I had another buddy that was left handed and also learned initially on right handed instruments but then switched to left handed and he did say that he was able to play faster palm muting and picking in general when he switched.
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Yeah, my right hand picking and rhythm isn't so good. So that kinda ruins "cheat mode" somewhat
Hmm.
I was about to say, "which proves that there are no shortcuts in life", but then I remembered what I discovered that time we went to IKEA.
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Sascha Franck
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Re: left handed folks playing right handed guitars
I once (many years ago) had two left handed students, both playing right handed. As both of them weren't exactly all too experienced at that time, I told them to think about switching. One guy did, the other didn't.
The guy who did borrowed a lefty axe and very quickly made it to the same level he was on before. Unfortunately, he's now only playing rarely, but when I accidentally met him somewhen last year, he still told me he was pretty grateful for my advice.
The other guy became a professional player and a pretty good friend of mine, and he's still telling me how he at least sort of regrets not having switched (it's way too late now and admittedly, for him it might've been too late back then already, he was a lot better than the other dude).
Whatever, I think that in general the picking hand needs to work subconsciously because to actually create the music in our head, we need the fingering hand. Which is why our strong hand is better suited to pick because we can just sort of leave it alone, following our fingering hand automatically, whereas the latter is under constant conscious control anyway.
However (and that's something one could possibly ask Michael Angelo Batio about, because he's probably able to play both ways equally well), there might be other advances of playing the "wrong" way. At least on paper I could imagine our strong hand to be vastly better suited by nature to play, say, legato lines or complexed chord structures. Unfortunately, neither of my two former students is able to answer this.
Are there any "late switchers" around here?
I once (many years ago) had two left handed students, both playing right handed. As both of them weren't exactly all too experienced at that time, I told them to think about switching. One guy did, the other didn't.
The guy who did borrowed a lefty axe and very quickly made it to the same level he was on before. Unfortunately, he's now only playing rarely, but when I accidentally met him somewhen last year, he still told me he was pretty grateful for my advice.
The other guy became a professional player and a pretty good friend of mine, and he's still telling me how he at least sort of regrets not having switched (it's way too late now and admittedly, for him it might've been too late back then already, he was a lot better than the other dude).
Whatever, I think that in general the picking hand needs to work subconsciously because to actually create the music in our head, we need the fingering hand. Which is why our strong hand is better suited to pick because we can just sort of leave it alone, following our fingering hand automatically, whereas the latter is under constant conscious control anyway.
However (and that's something one could possibly ask Michael Angelo Batio about, because he's probably able to play both ways equally well), there might be other advances of playing the "wrong" way. At least on paper I could imagine our strong hand to be vastly better suited by nature to play, say, legato lines or complexed chord structures. Unfortunately, neither of my two former students is able to answer this.
Are there any "late switchers" around here?
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That's some good points about which way to play when you're new. I would weigh in, heavily, the vastly-better selection of right-handed guitars than left, if the choice isn't obvious.
And I never thought too much about the legato aspect, but I really have to work on my finger strength and evenness-of-notes, when it comes to my legato stuff. (Right-handed player, playing right-handed guitars.)
And I still can't comprehend how major league baseball players can hit both ways, some equally well.
And I never thought too much about the legato aspect, but I really have to work on my finger strength and evenness-of-notes, when it comes to my legato stuff. (Right-handed player, playing right-handed guitars.)
And I still can't comprehend how major league baseball players can hit both ways, some equally well.
