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2007-08-02 14:05:58

Tone_Obsession94 wrote:

Drop D is pretty sweet. If you really want to screw around with tunings try open G. The tuning of the strings is as follows:
DGDGBD
If you tune it this way when you strum all the open strings the result will be a triad(chord). This is absolutely awesome, because then when playing just a barre chord you will always get a good sounding chord. Like, if you barre chord the second fret, a full step above the open strings, your result is an A chord. Then the fourth is a B. The fifth is a C. The seventh is a D. The ninth is a E. The tenth is an F. And the 12th brings you back to your G chord only an octave higher. Hope this helped.
Tone Obbsession

Wow, I'll have to try that in place of Drop-D modal.

Dm

2007-08-02 13:49:03

Agile.
(http://www.rondomusic.net)
Beats Michael Kelly, PRS and Epiohone in quality, tone and price...Hands down.

I just bought one of their AL-2000 silverburst customs.
http://www.agileguitarforum.com/viewthread.php?tid=3354

Dm

2007-07-26 19:40:37

On acoustic, the style that you want to play will factor heavily into what you should learn.
I play rock and gospel on electric guitar so I learned mostly power chords and the minor pentatonic scale. I don't know much beyond that. I don't know basic chords or barre chords hardly. I don't know scales outside of the minor pentatonic and I don't know how to change keys.

I don't know much....but I know I love playing what I do know.

=]
Dm

2007-07-26 19:38:30

I change mine when they are visibly worn.
Sometimes I change them if I can't get the guitar to intonate correctly. That is a sign of dead strings.
Also, I change the strings everytime I get a new guitar.

Dm

2007-07-26 17:15:21

My Agile Silverburst Les Paul Custom (Reon).
*love*

http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … tarij3.jpg

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Dm

2007-07-26 17:09:51

Find a song....
A song that makes you feel alive.
Then learn to play it by listening to it and playing the notes you hear.
Master it!
Make it yours!
Add your own flavor to it!
Then play it for others.

By the time you stop to think and realize where you are...you will realize that you are officially a music maker!

(PS: This is how I started out last october. I just kept at it and now I'm playing for my church band.)

=]
Dm

2007-07-26 16:58:07

DOH!!! I forgot to talk about my actual latest purchase!!!
http://www.comfortstrapp.com/products.htm

The Comfort Strapp!!!

I bought the one for a Bass Guitar since my Silverburst weighs so much. Last night I practiced some Zakk Wylde riffs and for the first time, my back didn't wind up hurting and I didn't feel the burnign urge to sit down either. It's super comfortable.

=]
Dm

2007-07-26 11:15:21

Ah, the beauty of my guitar...

Those lovely hips on my silverburst LP...
Her long silky neck...makes you wanna just kiss all up and down it...
Her beauty of a horn-curve...just a slight show of sensuous curve...
Following that sweet smooth line of curves around the body with the edge of my finger...
Touching the strings and listening to the beautiful sounds she makes as I work my fingers up and down her neck oh so lightly...
Tightening my grip and raising her pitch until she screams...
Together, we play into the night...
making beautiful rapturous music as we wrap deeper and deeper into each other...
Bodies touching...
Souls touching...
Metal, wood and flesh becoming one in the beauty of life...

It's love we're making.

Dm

2007-07-25 13:37:18

(0)==#paranormal guitar wrote:

Apparantely, you can fit your own killswitch on a Les Paul or anything similiar for about 50p if you do it yourself!

Hehehehehe...

Dm

2007-07-25 12:48:21

Ah, the beauty of my guitar...

Those lovely hips on my silverburst LP...
Her long silky neck...makes you wanna just kiss all up and down it...
Her beauty of a horn-curve...just a slight show of sensuous curve...
Following that sweet smooth line of curves around the body with the edge of my finger...
Touching the strings and listening to the beautiful sounds she makes as I work my fingers up and down her neck oh so lightly...
Tightening my grip and raising her pitch until she screams...
Together, we play into the night...
making beautiful rapturous music as we wrap deeper and deeper into each other...
Bodies touching...
Souls touching...
Metal, wood and flesh becoming one in the beauty of life...

It's love we're making.

Dm

2007-07-25 12:36:40

Yeah man. Last night reminded me of how I felt after a great skating run.
That feeling when every trick you do just lines up perfectly and there's no stops, trips or breaks in the flow.
When you are riding the ramp and you get to the top and lean into a bio360 and watch the world go topsy-turvy and then you feel the ramp back under your feet and you didn't even try to land it.

Ahhhhhh man, it's beautiful!!!! This is what living is all about!!!!

=]
Dm

2007-07-25 11:04:19

Good Morning,

I went to Guitar Center last night to practice with the keyboardist/drummer from my church band. MAN-O-MAN did we have a BLAST!!! He was on the electronic drums and I jacked in my guitar and ran the rhythm pickup for that jazzy sound and we JAMMED!!!

I realize now that improvization is all soul and what you feel. I didn't have any songs planned or any rhythms in mind...I just let my mind relax and then my fingers relaxed and they just followed the sounds. Searching them out like a man in love following a path of rose petals to his lover's bedroom.

It was the most enlightening and beautiful experience that I've had playing the guitar. It was like letting out something that had been growing in me for so long that was just love and peaceful and awesome in every way.
At one point we even had a few people come over and watch/listen to us play.

I FELT LIKE A SUPERSTAR!!!

But, all good things must come to an end and after about 3 hours of jamming in the drum demo area, the staff came to move us along to another area. So we said thanks for letting us jam for as long as they did and we moved on to the Keyboard demo area and did it all over again with the keyboard and my guitar. Hehehehe...

I picked up this new guitar strap that has like an inch of padding on it. It is soooooo comfortable, but it cost 31 dollars!!! The wife flipped about it but I think that it was worth it for the comfort of hauling a 12 pound guitar around on my neck.

Well, I hope everyone has a great day. Take care and keep on rockin!!!

=]
Dm

2007-07-24 16:28:31

jaygordon75 wrote:

There's several possible reasons for tuning down half a step. Here's some of them:
When playing a lot of church stuff that's written in flats I can play along in a guitar friendlier chord.

That's the one for me.

Dm

2007-07-23 17:35:02

I started out using a Dunlop .46 & .77 nylon pick and then discovered the Dunlop Jazz-3 pick. That pick is ultra accurate but it's very very hard. When you are strumming, it's not the best pick because when you hold it loose to strum it has a tendency to get caught up on the strings and moved around in your fingers. With the bigger and more flexible picks you can go from accurate picking to strumming by just changing your grip on the pick and letting more of it stickout from between your fingers.

So now I'm just sticking to the bigger, more flexible picks until I know the fretboard better and can use the Jazz-3 to it's full ability.

Dm

2007-07-23 17:22:49

I play in "Drop-D Modal" or Double Drop-D.
The tunings are:

D A d g b d

It makes playing easier for me, you usage may vary.

Good luck,
Dm

2007-07-17 19:29:37

Most guitars do not come with a killswitch. You will have to modify any guitar you buy to make the 3-way switch a killswitch on one of the poles.

Same for a 5-way switch.

Hope you're good with electronics....hehe. Though, an easy way to do it would be to snip the wires off of one of the switch poles (Whichever pickup you're never going to use again)

Dm

2007-07-16 12:36:12

Um, You can close this topic if you wish.

I got a new guitar and shaved down the bottom of the nut on the new guitar to lower the action.
It's buttery perfect.

Dm

2007-07-16 12:34:44

Wow, that MK Guitar looks smoooooth.
Congrats on deciding on the new axe!!

=]
Dm

2007-07-16 12:33:28

showmaster~fender wrote:

i play mostly the rythem electric in my churchs youth band. i find that if there is not two guitars then the one should play in standerd tuning. and yes i have alot of the same problems but only in the slow songs as my guitar does not do as well with softer music most of the time. just remimber that God has you in your place for a reason do not give up. your only there because he wants you to be there so just worship him and he will take care of the rest. you may also try playing with your mids turned up higher and your lows and highs turned down as because the highs and the lows are taken up by the vocies- the highs, and the lows- the bass and the bass drum.

Thank you for the encouragement. I played perfectly yesterday!! I kept up with the band and had my amp loud enough that everyone could hear me. The new silverburst is actually a lot louder than the old yamaha I used. I had the amp to about 3/4 full volume and everyone in the church could hear me. It was GREAT!!!
I blessed the other guitar player in the church with my old guitar. He said that he is saving up for a Jackson guitar that costs 800 dollars and that he wouldn't have the money for it until next summer. I told him to just use my old guitar till he gets his dream guitar. He was very happy.

Double Drop-D isn't that bad for playing with the band. I feel so comfortable with it, though I've had to change up a couple of the standard chords fingerings to sound the same with my tuning. It's okay though, not that hard to figure out on the fly, usually I'm just dropping the usage of the top string or placing the fingering 2 frets down.

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Dm

2007-07-14 23:16:27

bootleger wrote:

You took the right steps on correcting your action. The nut could have been rectified also by filing the nut where the strings sit in deeper for the same effect. The reason being that some people will sand the top of the nut and not the bottom changing the radius of the nut in relation of the finger board radius (12 degree on LP types) but it worked out for you. Care must also be taken when relieving stress on the truss rod, they can be over tightened and snap in the neck channel causing a major repair for BIG dollars (usually about the cost of the guitar unless it is an actual Gibson LP their cost is HUGE!)
But as I mentioned you took care of it and it worked out for you. You are also correct in saying that the weight of your new guitar is because of the mahogany construction which relates to more sustain. With that smoother action you know play faster and notice the mistakes more which with pratice and familiarity of the new guitar will go away.
Bootlegger.

Thank you. I took care not to turn the truss rod too much. Half a turn was all it took. The nut-job was easier than I thought it would be. I am going to perform the same nut-job on the First Act guitar and give it the setup that it desperately needs. Maybe one day i'll even replace the pickups, switch and potentiometers with quality equipment.

YES!! The lower action makes everything sooooo much easier. And clearer too! In time I will get better, this guitar is teaching me so much about my playing that I didn't know before.

=]
Dm

2007-07-14 15:07:04

Hello everyone,

I received my AL2000 silverburst the other day after finding out about the Agile guitars while researching the history behind silverburst guitars. I never thought I would ever be able to afford a guitar like this. the modern day remakes of the silverburst Les Paul are over 2000 dollars and the ones made back in the 80s go for over 5000. it's rediculous how much Gibson charges for their guitars!! I tried out a couple of Les Pauls in the Music Center where I live and I couldn't even afford their low-end products.

But now I have my dream guitar!!! I have been through two other guitars that just didn't work out for me. The first was a "First Act" that the wife got for me last october. But that walmart guitar was so...fake. It had the worst electronics I've ever experienced. The thing would pick up static, hum and signals from the tv from over 10 feet away. I could listen to the television through the guitar!! After a while I had to stop playing it and get something better.
So...I went to the Pawn shop and picked up a Yamaha EG112-C2 for 80 dollars. It served me well and I learned everything on it, but it just wasn't....perfect...ya know? I am passing the Yamaha along to one of my brothers-in-christ in church so that he doesn't have to hold out until he has the money to buy his Jackson guitar.

So I got my Agile AL-2000 and I couldn't be happier!! The fretboard was dry when I got it, so when the strings came off I oiled it up with some lemon oil and put some Ernie Ball Strings on it. Once it was strung with "Heavy-bottom, skinny-top" strings I noticed the action was too high. After adjusting the truss rod and bridge and the action still being too high, I took the strings back off and removed the nut. I shaved it down on some sandpaper and effectively lowered the action to where I needed it. Plays like a beauty and the action is spot-on.

The pickup selector switch became very...spotty. Sometimes I would go from rhythm to treble and there would be no signal. So it got ripped out and checked. The solder points on the switch were not high quality, so I took out the soldering iron and cleaned up what I could. The switch works perfectly now.
Less crackling and static too.

This guitar is so much heavier than my yamaha though. I am going to have to work out or something to heft this thing around when I play. It's made from solid mahogany and I can believe it because this thing sustains like nothing I've ever experienced before. It's INSANE!!! It holds a note for almost 35 seconds from the time you pluck it. I will have to play better from now on because this guitar is sooooo clear and powerful that it brings out every little mistake I make. I couldn't hear them with the other two guitars. So I guess it really is true that a quality instrument WILL force you to become a better player!!

Thank God I finally have my dream guitar.
I would post pics but my camera died over a year ago.
Instead, I will post pics of the guitar that another AL-2000 silverburst owner uploaded.

=]
Dm

2007-07-05 17:36:45

cytania wrote:

It was a hit for 'Mousse T and Tom Jones' a few years ago, at least in the UK. Good fun bit of disco. The strums go with the words well .

Thank you. I will have to look them up.

Does anyone have any info or advice on my original post?

Dm

2007-07-05 11:30:15

cytania wrote:

What you may be missing is that barre chord songs should be pitched around the middle of the guitar and when you're making them you should find a way to 'bounce' from change to change. The idea should be not to hold a static barre chord with a single vice like hold.
A good barre chord funker is 'Sexbomb' you can vamp it as a simple D to A funky shuffle but a quick dose of E makes it zing (clean sound, roll off the treble).
I'm also working on 'All Day And All OF The Night' but have found the Chordie versions to be over-simplified. It's F-shape barre up and down the neck F>G G>F A#. The trick is in strumming at the right point in the move and loosening the barre when you can. Will post more when I have the chorus figured (been watching alot of black and white Kinks videos on You Tube, it's hard though - camera is nearly always on Ray).

Holy....cow....

I just read what you wrote and I'm sitting here with my mouth open. =o
I don't quite understand all of it....but I understand the part about the barre chord songs being pitched around the middle of the guitar. I play in "Drop-D Modal" so I use 1-finger barre chords all over the place, not just the middle of the guitar neck.
(geez, it's really showing that I need to get lessons )
Do you know who sings this song "Sexbomb"? I would like to listen to it while reading the tabs for the song, if possible.

Thank you,
Dm

2007-07-05 11:25:47

jonahc7 wrote:

i have the amp that your talking about but it is not the greatest.

Can you explain please?

Dm

2007-07-05 10:59:29

Greetings,

My efforts have been focused lately on getting my guitar setup spot-on. I have lowered my action at the bridge and adjusted my truss rod to get very low action on my strings.

The problem now is that when I play hard I get a lot of fret buzz. I cannot seem to find a happy compromise between:

1. Having low string action/height + Fret buzz when playing hard.
and
2. Having medium string action/height + sore left hand from holding barre chords on high strings.

Is there something I'm missing?
When I go to these guitar shops and try the guitars there they are all set up perfectly and play wonderfully without any fret buzz and they have low low LOW action. It looks like my choices are only to either, Get stronger....or shell out 2000 dollars for one of the high-quality guitars.

But I firmly believe that there's some way to get my 80 dollar Yamaha to have string action like the 2000 dollar guitars do.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Dm

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738 Reply by Detman101 2007-07-24 16:28:31

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741 Reply by Detman101 2007-07-17 19:29:37

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742 Reply by Detman101 2007-07-16 12:36:12

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