Questions tagged [guitar]
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Guitar warmup exercices, which strategy is better to avoid excessive fret wear?
For lead guitar, one comon exercice for warmup is pinky drills like this:
E|-3-4-3-4-2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-3-2-1------|
A|--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|
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Is there a tactile equivalent of fretboard markers for partially-sighted guitarists?
I was listening to In Touch last night (the BBC Radio 4 programme for partially-sighted listeners).
It mentioned that a particular amp manufacturer (Victory) had produced a guitar amp with braille ...
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How important is posture/position when playing guitar?
Different ways of holding the guitar and striving for an optimum position for holding the instrument are encouraged in different styles of guitar playing. Perhaps the most obvious contrast is between ...
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Are guitar tuning buttons generally interchangeable?
I have a Tanglewood Discovery DBT (steel strings, parlour-size) guitar and I need to replace the tuning buttons.
One has just crumbled and the others will follow soon enough. They're made of soft-...
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Is C3 b13 in relation to the E chord?
In terms of compound degrees, if B2 is 5 in relation to the E chord, then is C3 b13?
I'm asking because I'm not sure. On a guitar fretboard, it would look odd: the lowest note on the 6th string would ...
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What are the electrical specifications of the buttons and volume controls on a MIDI guitar?
Guitars with hexaphonic pickups and 13-pin sockets typically feature a volume control, and two switches, available at pins 8, 10, 11 of the socket. I wonder if one could extract cables from these pins ...
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Smooth buzzy distorted guitar tone
What software/hardware am I using?
Kramer Pacer Carrera Guitar with a Seymour Duncan SB (bridge) pickup. Volume and tone set to 10.
AXE I/O Solo Interface
Ableton Live
Neural DSP: Archetype Gojira X
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Is there a name for this unusual chord progression found in various performances of Edelweiss?
I tried looking this up on Gemini AI, specifically inputting the chord progressions as
I, bVII7, IV (6-3), minIV I(6-4) 7V I
According to what it said, it appeared to use accidentals/borrowed chords, ...
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End let ring for one string
I’m playing a guitar and wanted to format a piece that has let ring for the whole of the intro, but since I would have to take my finger off some strings to play other notes, those notes would stop ...
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How accurate are recordings when it comes to standard concert pitch?
While practicing guitar, I’ve noticed that some songs seem slightly off even when my tuner is set to standard pitch.
I’ve checked a few recordings and it feels like they might be slightly sharp or ...
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Finger management when playing multiple voices on guitar
Lately I have been practising playing multiple melodies at once on the guitar. It can sound quite nice but I would like to get some tips on how to do it. So far I have mostly been improvising ...
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Is the Focusrite Scarlett good for my use case?
I have a very specific audio setup, and I can't seem to find anything online that looks similar.
My setup:
Sony Integrated Stereo Amplifier TA-FE510R (Hi-Fi speaker amp that is not a guitar amp) link
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What is a voice leading (Guitar notation)
I’m studying guitar writing from the Arranging 1 Workbook by Bob Doezema.
While going through the different writing techniques, I came across one in particular that confused me.
I’m not sure if it ...
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Guitar + Piano accompaning voices
I'm playing for an uncommon situation: Accompanying a simple small choir and a piano. I'm playing a hollow body guitar. The technical level of the choir and pianist is simple, so the comping needs to ...
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What are some ways I could go about accurately imitating McCoy Tyner’s piano approach on the guitar?
I devised a tuning (CGDABE) that allows me to use the low strings like a drone (which McCoy would stab occasionally with his left hand for the 5ths in the bass) while playing what he’d normally do in ...
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