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May 9	comment	Learning how to be a good rhythm guitarist before becoming a lead guitarist, where to start? Also, while you can throw chords together in all sorts of ways, be aware that popular music tends to use a few well-worn patterns. Look up "Axis of Awesome" on YouTube and you'll see now many songs are made up of root, fourth fifth and minor sixth.
May 9	comment	Learning how to be a good rhythm guitarist before becoming a lead guitarist, where to start? Barre chords are the shortcut here. Even more to the point, "power". Root and fifth to start. The third gives you major and minor, and eventually you'll get to sevenths and sixths and ninths and thirteenths and diminished and augmented, but if you do the low two strings of barre chords, that'll get you the basics of finding out the chord structure.
May 7	comment	String configuration on a bass guitar I was just about to bring up the low-string saddle question. I'd also wonder if the B string would fit through the E string's hole. Otherwise, yeah, it should work.
Apr 22	comment	Playing the hawaiian steel guitar. I have covered much of this previously (see music.stackexchange.com/questions/2009/…) but the key is that your ears don't know good intonation yet, so get an electronic tuner, tune to C7 tuning and play along with tuned accompaniment, such as a piano or the radio. Go to Brad's Page of Steel [ well.com/~wellvis/steel.html ] to learn more.
Apr 17	comment	Wireless Transmitter Alternative Plus, wasn't there a frequency change to push instrument wireless off the old ranges?
Apr 16	comment	Mute other side of String When Tapping (2-hand tapping style) It was Greg Howe who sold me on using a scrunchie. He usually plays an orange guitar (about the color of the "Add Comment" button) and has an orange scrunchie, to match.
Apr 11	comment	Delay / Distortion pedals for electric violin with bridge sensor (Schertler)? I'm in agreement with Dr. Mayhem, but want to add: You won't get the U2/Pink Floyd sound with delay on a violin, because your instrument is all about the sustain, but with say a 300-400ms delay, you can approach the big rock, echo off the back of the the arena sound. And, with distortion, few people use as much as you think they do, so start with the pedal set low, then build to what you need, instead of starting with it dimed. Good luck.
Mar 19	comment	Lead Guitar : How to get faster Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
Mar 11	comment	Finding a balance point learning to pick a guitar at a right angle? If you don't think my answer is helpful, that's fine. But I don't think either of the people I reference are particularly blues players. My take is my take -- there's no benefit to the pick angle you're trying to develop -- but if you make it work for you, so be it.
Mar 10	comment	What methods are there to determine when a violin string should be replaced? Usable for players of other string instruments
Mar 10	comment	Finding a balance point learning to pick a guitar at a right angle? I don't see parallel as that great an idea, but understand it better than perpendicular. My take still stands. Work on your arm but keep your pick angle.
Mar 8	comment	Finding a balance point learning to pick a guitar at a right angle? Are you talking about pick orientation or arm movement? I'm finding it hard to understand what the question actually is.
Feb 26	comment	Guitar chords high on the neck So, we're in violent agreement. Cool.
Feb 26	comment	Guitar chords high on the neck Freddie Green chords are one note, two ghost notes and a bunch of thump, and it works well in context. "Power chords" are root-fifth or root-fifth-octave, to get rid of the third, so the soloist can decide whether it's major or minor, or just so the combination of distortion and the major third doesn't sound bad. "A chord in music is any harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(music) I've been playing for nearly 30 years. I have an idea how much is 2 notes, not 3.
Feb 26	comment	Guitar chords high on the neck Welcome. I'm confused by your commenting that the fifth-to-eighth frets are pretty high on the neck. Traditionally, get counting starts at the nut (and some guitars have a zero feet next to the nut) so the eighth feet isn't that far up to me. Are you counting from the sound hole?
Feb 19	comment	How to decide whether my guitar is really bad I think "too wide or too narrow" is subjective to your uses, while bad intonation or ease of tuning are more objective. There are instruments that are lousy for all uses.
Feb 10	comment	Is there any alternative to using capo? I understand this is how Joni Mitchell plays these days, using the box to switch between the outstanding number of tunings she uses, although then it would be "alternative to alternate tunings" instead.
Feb 8	comment	Blues or not to Blues Nope. You'll pick it up. First step is knowing the backup part and then you start thinking about lead. But I'll try to clarify things.
Feb 7	comment	Are there any benefits of using a Capo? Keeps you from having to learn more chord shapes. But really, ringing open strings is reason enough.
Feb 7	comment	Guitar practice - general techniques I think that "What are some good warm-up exercises for guitar players" would be a good stand-alone question.