The Guitar Thread

[Willie71]

You might find this interesting, there is a fretting system to compensate for this, but it causes problems playing with regularity tunes instruments.

[Willie71]

[felltoearth]

Dead Can Dance have decamped from Ireland to France and are selling their church studio.

https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/hi ... ice-116267

[Animavore]

Never mind the Hotel California solo, which I'm not saying isn't difficult, but the hardest thing I've had to learn so far is Eagle-Eyed Cherry's Save Tonight. Sure you can just play the correct rhythm with the chords and it won't sound too bad. It's adding in the flairs to make it sound like the recording that's busting my noodle.
It's only 4 chords.

[Animavore]

A lovely 8-string, multiscale guitar from Cort just came on the market. Lots of bang for your buck.


https://www.gear4music.ie/Guitar-and-Ba ... Burst/2ZC6

As much as I'd love an 8-string Aristides I think this is more in my price range.

Only problem...




...Colour wise it's like the one I already have. Hopefully they have more styles by the time I actually buy an 8-string later in the year. I'd love this art style with purples, oranges, and reds.

[Animavore]

One for pedal fans.

[Willie71]

A lovely 8-string, multiscale guitar from Cort just came on the market. Lots of bang for your buck.


https://www.gear4music.ie/Guitar-and-Ba ... Burst/2ZC6

As much as I'd love an 8-string Aristides I think this is more in my price range.

Only problem...




...Colour wise it's like the one I already have. Hopefully they have more styles by the time I actually buy an 8-string later in the year. I'd love this art style with purples, oranges, and reds.

I’ve got a couple of multi scale guitars and basses in the planning stage. I probably won’t get to them until fall/winter though.

[Animavore]

I'm getting one of these some day.

https://www.kemper-amps.com/profiler/overview

[Willie71]

These are going to be some of my favorite guitars! The maple was planted by my uncle in 1962/63. It was dying off. My uncle passed away a bit over a year ago, but my nephew bought the house from the estate. I’m making at least three guitars out of this once it cures.

The top 6 pieces are popular planted by my dad in 1977/78. They are reaching the end of their life, so I’ve been harvesting the wood for a few years for firewood. There is often tight curly figure in the wood, and the top pieces are crotch wood probably big enough for a one piece body.

A1EB9207-669B-4C59-9327-6EB8475551D9 by Wjkrywko, on Flickr

790D384B-7241-49D6-87E8-2F09F4F6551C by Wjkrywko, on Flickr

[Animavore]

Nice!

[felltoearth]

By the looks of the bark, Sugar Maple?

[Willie71]

By the looks of the bark, Sugar Maple?

Yes, sugar maple. Lots of spalting at the trunk, a lot of fiddleback curl, and I think I see some quilting. The trunk was four trunks that grew into one. There is possibly a nice crotch piece there, assuming checking is minimal. I’ll be talking to some experts on drying to see if it’s safe to speed up the drying with a passive solar kiln. The poplar is baron poplar. With the minerals in my soil, I get a lot of rainbow poplar. I also get a lot of curl in the poplar. I will use poplar as a substitute for basswood, my favorite tonewood (when used with a 1/4” maple cap, and ebony fretboard.) Very totally neutral. I prefer basswood, but this wood can be quite pretty with the right selection.

[Willie71]

The bottom knife in this pic is the rainbow poplar. It was starting to spalt. (The knives look pretty rough, but that was 2013, just after I started making knives, I got better lol!)

IMG_5736 by Wjkrywko, on Flickr

[Animavore]

A small update on my own progress. I learnt my first tune by ear last week and did two more.

Currently learning Time in a Bottle. Not by ear.

[Willie71]

A small update on my own progress. I learnt my first tune by ear last week and did two more.

Currently learning Time in a Bottle. Not by ear.

Ear training is what separates hobbyists from musicians, imho. Knowing some theory is helpful too. My brother in law, who is incredibly dyslexic, never learned to read music, is unbelievable at learning by ear. He can pick up any instrument, and within a couple hours, play songs on it. He doesn’t know any real theory, just that “if it sounds good, it’s correct.” He was playing a song he wrote, and when he switched to one chord in a breakdown, I automatically played a minor. He stopped me and asked why I thought to do that there, as it sounded great. I showed him that he had these two chords, in Major, making the key ‘x”, and therefore, that last one should be a minor, based on theory. We were pretty tipsy at the time, and he said he needed me to teach him that.

Then you learn nirvana, and they use chords that don’t fit the key. Theory helps, but not always.

[Animavore]

It was learning scales was how I got the first tune. I watched a lesson by Guthrie Govan and described the major scale as the Happy Birthday scale. I immediately assumed the tune could be teased out of the scale amd it took just 30 seconds or so.

Then on the jazz course I'm doing I had to do Autumn Leaves and Blue Bossa by ear. I was told the key and once again I could use the scales to get the tune.

[Animavore]

My first attempt at recording a tune.

https://soundcloud.com/tom-byrne-514661 ... up/s-cMG06

Vocals; Chris Cornell
Bass; Ben Shepard
Drums; Matt Cameron
Guitars; all me.

This backing track site is a boon. https://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/

[Animavore]

I just discovered the 'Jewish' scale. I think I've found my favourite scale. Hindu scale is spicy too.

[Animavore]

I've ordered my Cort KX508MS but it's sold out everywhere and will have to wait a month.

A neat thing about 8-strings dawned on me yesterday. If I tune to dropped E I'll have lots of tunings with a capo. The E will take me as low as some Mesuggah and Periphery. A capo on the 5th and 7th frets will give me the dropped A and B commonly used by Slipknot. On the 8th fret I've got the dropped C favoured by the likes of Mastodon, Gojira, and SOAD. I can even capo fret 4 on 7 strings to give me that common half step tuning.

Also look forward to being my own bassist on finger picking tunes.

Will post pics when I get it.

[Animavore]

Change of plans. I saw this ESP guitar, worth over €1,500 for a bargain €500 in an Anderton's sale and ordered it and cancelled the other one.

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And isn't a similar colour to my Ibanez. :{D