if it's before the chord change I doubt it would be a palm mute, unless i'm just visualizing it wrong in my head, that would just be muting it with your non-pick hand while it's in transition maybe?
I guess, but not to play reggae. Jack Johnson does it in a lot of his songs iirc. I'm getting thrown off when I try to do it in songs that have a chord change every 2 beats
Iirc, they tell you to get the strumming pattern down first and then get the muting down. I'm sure if it's a quick strumming pattern it can be cumbersome to go from muting to fretting.
What would make you lose your shit more at a bar when drunk? November Rain Welcome to the Jungle Paradise City Sweet Child O Mine
We already play enough super weird shit that we can play whatever. If you were at a bar, which one would you like to see?
Trying to learn guitar right now. Can't for the life of me play a G7 chord without muting at least one of the strings. What do
Personally I would like to see November Rain because SCOM is overplayed as hell, and it's a better song but agree with redav the "crowd favorite" for your average bar goer would definitely be SCOM
Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is practice the ever loving shit out of it. Move on to some other stuff intermittently so you don't lose interest, but the only way to clean it up is to do it a million times.
november rain is on the list of songs to learn on piano. i still know all the slash solos by heart from playing them so much in middle school. didn't really have the dexterity for the solo at the end but the other ones I could probably still play today without practice
I've got it down better now, it sounds good when I play it by itself but it still takes too long to get my fingers in position switching from other chords. Playing guitar is really challenging but fun. I'm a lot better with the single string notes and can play some simple songs.
G7 like a C but with the 2/3 fingers moved up to the E/A string instead of A/D or G7 bar chord that just removes your pinky from the D string? 1st one is easy you just need to practice having "more bend in your fingers" for lack of a better phrase... like wrap your hand further underneath the neck so you have more finger to work with on the string side of the fret. jesus that sounds retarded and talking about technique is hard AF to explain... 2nd try: muting on this kind of chord probably comes from your fingers being too flat instead of pushing down on the string from straight up at a more steep angle. rotating your hand further down around the neck gives you a better angle. Can achieve this easily by shortening the hell out of your guitar strap and having the guitar a lot higher up on your body. Once I got serious about playing (and was no longer in middle school) I started strapping that shit up real high instead of the whole grunge look of having the guitar hang down real low bc it looks cooler 2nd one you gotta have a skrong grip.
You can also angle your fingers towards strings they can touch without effecting the sounding. Like if you use your index finger on the B string you can favor toward the high E and it won't matter if you touch it.
Also might want to check what kind of guitar you have or one you get in the future. I like les Paul style guitars because I'm 6'6 and have longer but bigger fingers and the kneck on LP style guitars is typically wider
I think there was a discussion on here before about MPCs. looked around a bit last night and settled on the Akai MPC Element. only $150 and looks to have most of what I'm looking for... unless someone with more experience with these (will be my first one) wants to point me towards one with more functionality and preferably not more than ~$250 tops Edit: actually looks like it would be dumb not to upgrade to the MPC studio for ~$75 more Has anyone ever posted anything made personally on an MPC ITT? Maybe something that the majority of people say until the sit down with one in front of them but... it doesn't seem THAT tough to make a pretty dope mix with one of these if you have a good ear for random/not widely known song samples
Music/MIDI Production Center It's the square boards with the 4x4 / 8x8 square buttons on them. You upload/record sounds/effects/etc in programmable sets that assigns one to each button: ie - you could have a "bass set" where each square is a bass sound. Do sets for drums/percussion and such. Then for actually making music you would just find a song or part of a song "a sample" that you wanna build a beat around and upload it as a set couple of short examples in youtube videos
Oh yeah. I have no idea how those things work but I like the music ppl make with them and they look super cool like some kind of space equipment with all the lights
I think just learning how to use the damn thing is half the battle. from what i've read there are "keygroups" aka Button Sets you can download that have the majority of your basic sets for beats/drums/percussion/etc. it's just learning the software to be able to make your own sets from songs you hear or stuff you've written. Like I've got melodies for songs that I've written on piano that I'd just need to get from there to the buttons... the beat part would be easy. GF also has a really nice turntable and a solid collection of 50s-70s motown, jazz, blues, etc that could be tight and from what I've seen you just plug the turntable's output into your laptop and it will record the sample and you put it on the buttons from there. This guy seems to be one of the more popular MPC folks out there. he's fast... and you can see at 1:37 he switches from one Set to the next.
Don't really have any desire to make dubstep or like house DJ music but making remixes of old jazz or blues with cool beats would be fun for fucking around. Aside from that songwriting gets a whole new dimension when you can just add in effect like that (I'm sure you can probably do this in recording software but being able to play it with your hands like this is easier than on a computer)
the amount of money you had to spend in the old days on sampling was incredibly expensive. Fairlights, Kurzweil, and Synclavier would go 65k-200K. A shitty ensoniq would be 3k or emulator 8k. The quality of what you can get now for a couple hundred bucks is ridiculous. On top of that, there are apps that do the same thing. Absolutely blows my mind.
Akai MPC came in yesterday. Unfortunately I'm about to go to Philly for 4 days then immediately to Denver for 4 more so I'll have to wait a little while before getting into using it
Oldest Lank (best guitarist of the three of us and is in a hard rock group in BHam) is starting a side project acoustic trio with a guy from his band and a chick that sings pretty good. Had to get a badass acoustic for starters... sold his mesa boogie mark V amp and got a beautiful piece of work: Martin Special Edition GPC Aura GT Grand Performance. Read up on the Aura Preamp system and that is legit incredible... Basically take a sonic thumbprint of how specific guitar sounds when mic'd up with several vintage mics and then build that into the guitars preamp and lets you blend that sound in with the DI output sound from the guitar to PA. basically it sounds like you have a perfectly mic'd guitar and not a "plugged in" acoustic-electric. NEATO SCIENCE fuck I'm jealous of that purchase http://www.guitarcenter.com/Martin/...nce-Acoustic-Electric-Guitar-1393862843916.gc
That's pretty bad ass. The pickups inside acoustic guitars usually suck dick but a mic'd acoustic is like sex.
Translation: I paid money for this and will prob fuck with it 3 times before it begins collecting dust
Sorry I missed this. I was the one that brought this up earlier in the thread. I've been dabbling around with the maschine mk2 after years of curiosity and desire to jump into the waters. What I've found is that the "good ear" is trickier than I imagined it would be, particularly when, as is the case for me, you latch on to something you like but in your head modify it in a way that is actually prohibitively difficult to pull off. The other thing I would suggest is that for anything you work on, make yourself happy with your drums first, before anything else.
It serves that kind of purpose - the drunk/stoned late night bro's trying to make beats and shit for fun and maybe accidentally make something tight once in a blue moon. But also makes producing music so much easier as far as adding percussion and random samples in songs. I've got a dozen or so songs that have guitar/piano parts but I need the sides to go with the meat to make it a meal.
Dorky but useful youtube channel for writers of music I am not a music writer and I suck ass at anything beyond extremely basic music thing and chord progression https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw
Any piano players? Looking to get a digital piano for learning purposes. I don't know how to read music and never had an instrument before, so definitely looking at the low-end price range because 1) I'm leaning and 2) I have no idea if I'll even stick with it. I could very well have just wasted my money by this time next year, so no sense in forking out for something a little nicer at this point.
was looking for this thread yesterday (well I was thinking about looking for it). Listened to music for 8 hours on Sunday and reaffirmed my thoughts on Trent Reznor being a next level writer/producer. Hurt is incredible (so Is Cash's version).
Never heard of it. Cliffs. I never actually buy anything but when I think about it I just peruse Craigslist
excellent acoustic guitars. They've been quality for decades. It's almost hard to get a shitty one. That said, I wouldn't buy anything I hadn't played first unless I got it cheap. Although, Unless the neck is torqued or there is some hidden damage to the body, you could likely get it adjusted to your liking. We used to carry the line at the music store where I worked a million years ago. It looks like a D-28. ~1800
also, brute forced my way through playing that rosana solo eHo. I was making mistakes with my right hand. Learned it two ways, the way lukather did it (from a video he did in the 80s walking through it), and the way I did it which had one less slide note and one more picked note. The latter was more challenging for me. Like using a driver in golf, I refuse to put it down until I can hit it straight. I fell pretty proud of myself.
Greatly appreciate that information. I don't play, but I like to collect, or flip, if I can get things cheap enough.