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The key to soloing is knowing scales. "Robot head" is simply one of five common scale patterns. It's generally associated with the G chord form, so anywhere you're playing that shape you should be OK using that pattern.
Theory, folks. You can't really get away from it.
Well I use an old four track recorder as an interface plugging the guitar, mircophone and keyboard into it. Then I connect the four track directly into the computer audio in on the sound card.
I don't use the four track to record the tracks as Audacity records the input from the four track onto one track. Then I play the recorded track while recording another track. The most tracks I have recorded this way is three but I don't think theres a limit to the number of tracks you can record this way.
It's made the old 4track tape recorder redundant.
That's genius. I've got an old Sony Mini-Disk recorder that is pretty much useless (go ahead and find minidisks these days). Until now.
Now I have grand plans...
Well, I'm a proponent of tube amps, so for any amp that's not a tube, my answer is "Not as good as a comparable tube amp." Watt for watt, a tube is going to be louder, and sound better at high volumes than a solid state amp. You can pick up a 10 or 12 watt tube for about the same price as the Spider III.
Having said that, I do like the Line6 product lines in general. Every Line 6 gizmo I've dealt with has been pretty well made and rugged, and while no modeling amp sounds as good as a tube, their amps do sound good. The do modeling really well, so I don't think you'll have any problem with this amp.
I think you're going to be shocked at how loud a 15 watt amp really is when it's sitting in your living room.
I think having the forum software allow or disallow image linking on a per account basis is the best idea. New posters have to have 10 posts or something before they can link to images.
Keeps the pr0n spammers at bay, and allows the real users of the forum to link images in.
that would be a good idea Jerome, but i do not know if that would be possible, that is a question for Per.
Ken
How are you using Audacity as a recorder? I use to to do all our mixing, but we use a multi-track recorder to get the tracks, and then transfer them to Audacity.
I would like some dissertation on the spelling of shit vs shite.
Been banging out a ton of original stuff with the band. Personally, I've been working on bluegrass spirituals.
The Dot has a floating bridge, so it needs little adjustment.
I have that done for me, anyway. Except on Frankentar. I do all that work myself.
The ability to post images has been removed due to abuse by porn spammers.
We hates them.
"Hi Edna, how the ~#%* are you? Haven't seen you in ~#%*ing ages! You need to get your skinny wrinkled A## self to ~#%*ing Church more often, 8!tcH!"
Sounds like dinner at my house.
pjl364,
Funny you posted this and I did not read it before I went to my guitar lesson yesterday. The same thoughe hit me during the lesson. I was always behind on the chord changes even though the instructor is playing the song slowly, I still could not keep up and it was fustrating. Then a light went on and I started the change right before it was neccessary and bam I was keeping up. I have now marked some of my song tabs with a red chord one syllable/word before the change and I start the change when I get to the red chord so I am ready when I need to actually change. Great tip, wish I had read it sooner.
After a while it will become second nature. You'll know intuitively in a song when you should change the chord.
I clean them when I put new strings on them. It makes it easy to polish the bridge and nut, and get the pups all shiny again.
Everyone I meet in Dublin says I sound like I'm from Texas.
Go half way around the world to get insulted. 
I have never seen a higher concentration of pretty girls than in that fair city, though.
I play both, and generally speaking, it's easier to go from bass to guitar. Bass is a more difficult instrument. We have a moment in our set where we switch instruments for a bit. Our drummer picks up a bass, I pick up a guitar, our rhythm dude picks up a banjo, etc... It takes a bit for my fingers to switch modes, but after a few minutes of flexing and warmup, they're off of bass and into guitar mode.
I know bass players that don't play the guitar, and won't because they think it's hard. But it's not.
My Mam Always said,
God Jerome what kind of company are you keeping here in Dublin!
Irish women taught me all the bad words I know!
It's scandalous!
Fáilte Jerome!
Emm! What about a good strong womans verse. Irish Woman love to use this word when riled!
Bean an Tíg!
In all honesty, my sweet, I had you in mind when I sat down to write it. I'd hoped to have it done by the time I get over there next (next week, BTW) but it doesn't look like the muse is going to be on time.
Dang muse.
I have "The Bollox Song" mid course right now. It's intent is to be sung as a duet by an Irishman or Englishman, and an American.
I'm also giving an honorable mention to "wanker." It is also extraordinarily useful.
Shouldn't even post this, bad form I know, but I'll just barre my A with my ring finger--just bend it at the first joint and for me, the fit is perfect. Then I just slide that up to get my various A form barre chords.
That's not bad form. That's good form. You can move that thing all over the neck really quickly.
This system is incredibly useful *IF YOU KNOW YOUR SCALES.* It allows you to transpose into any key immediately. It is also very popular with jazz players. It is also very popular with me.
I will make absolutely 0 sense to anyone who doesn't understand their scales, and how they relate to chords, though.
Here is a scale, in any key.
I ii iii IV V vi vii7
Plug in your notes, and there you go.
In C major, for example.
C Dm Em F G Am Bdim7 C
Scales. Learn 'em. Know 'em. Live 'em.
SouthPaw has it right. If you can afford to drop $2500 on a guitar, you can afford to not drop it, too. Go play a bunch of guitars under that point, and buy the one that you like the most, irrespective of price.
I've got a super cheap Yamaha (made by Yamaha) that cost like $100. It's a fantastic guitar. I've also played $4500 San Joses that made me weep with desire. But not that much desire.
Shawn Lane
Jimmy Paige
Andres Segovia
Eddie Van Halen
Jimi Hendrix
And no offense, but Kirk Hammet is an absolutely lousy guitar player. Really.
Thats cool. Like I said the guitar is older than me by a far shot, I wasn't even born in the same decade that guitar was made. To me it has a rather high action, but i will deal with it for now. I can get barre chords to ring out but it takes me a minute or 2 to get it set up, and by the time I get it ringing right, my finger feels as if it is about to fall off my hand. O.o
I know right now barre chords and as odd as it is, A are going to be my downfalls for a little while. For the A chord I can;t seem to cram my sausage fingers in there with enough pressure on all 3 to get it ringing out right. I am hoping that with the addition of my electric my luck will change a little, and of course allot of practice >:)
You can barre the A chord completely with two fingers.
You use the index finger to barre the B, G and D strings.
The question isn't how many chords do you know, but how many you can find on the fretboard. I can fret C major five different ways on a 12 fret guitar. Same with A, G, E, and D. So how many chords is that? Is that five chords, or twenty five chords?
Guitar chord forum - chordie → Posts by jerome.oneil
