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There's no reason not to try an effect if you want to. Sure, some kind of effect might mask some bad habits (reverb and delay might sort off mess your timing), but distortion for example is almost like playing another instrument, and if you're into punk/rock, the sooner you try it the better. You will have to figure out ways to mute the strings and reduce ...
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Practice your guitar in bed at night, with the lights off, and try to find the same note over and over consistently. This will help map your physical muscle memory to your guitar.
Secondly, take the chord you know the best, like an Am or EMaj or CMaj usually. Finger this chord to the best of your abilities without looking, only by feel. Strum it a few ...
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A really good example might be Steve Vai - he is a master of the long, fast move or slide to a specific fret.
With my current band, I wear a very restrictive mask with laser diodes shining out the eye holes, so my vision is extremely curtailed.
To manage moves up and down my fretboard I use three techniques:
a rapid slide (muted or unmuted) lets you ...
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If you look at blind guitarist Raul Midon, you can tell is counting fret with his finger very rapidly when he has to do big jumps. For smaller jumps, just feel where you have to go in relation to the previous chord.
I've also heard that French songwriter and guitarist George Brassens use to...saw marks into the back of the neck to have tactile points of ...
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There are many websites with specific picking exercises, but you don't really need them. What you do need is to decide on a set of notes, and play along with a metronome to help you learn timing. Starting off slowly and bringing the speed up as you can pay each arpeggio exercise perfectly is the way to do this.
An example exercise is this one from ...
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Probably the best place to start is the Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 or TS808 (there's also the cheaper, but discontinued TS7). The TubeScreamer is a classic and many, many guitarists still use it (or a clone of it) today, including some of the payers of the bands you listed.
It is characterized by a mid-boost which makes the guitar stand out a little more in ...
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You could add a switch which adds a higher capacitance in parallel with C3. Label its off position "low cut". The low value of C3 is what is rolling off bass response. Elsewhere, note how 10X bigger 22 nF couplers are used.
It is usual for guitar amps to roll off bass. Fairly aggressive bass roll off is needed, in particular, to achieve "chunky" distortion ...
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According to product specifications on the Aria company web site for the current MAC Presto model,
Controls:
Volume (CTS) x1
Tone (CTS) x1
5-Way PU selector SW x1
Series / Parallel / Tap Mini SW x2
I interpret this to mean that the two switches are:
1) a switch to change the pickups from wired-in-series to wired-in-parallel and
2) a coil-tap switch ...
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i have to agree with @Chipsgoumerde, a reference point is always very helpful when picking (if pick or finger) the simplest reference is (as mentioned) the pinky.
i once also was only comfortable with my hand in the air, right now i rest my full right side of my hand on the bridge, if single-picking and my pinkie, ringfinger and middle-finger on strings 1,2 ...
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