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| bio | website | magnificentnose.com |
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| location | New Jersey | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
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Acoustic guitar player; here's my band's site with links to our music: Baroque & Hungry. Come visit! Buy our stuff, if you like!
Blog posts about music:
- Getting a Beginner Guitar
- The 12-String Bluebird - my $200 parking-lot find
- Flat Guitars (or Why I Break Strings)
- Mille goes Under the Knife - installing a pickup in a parlor-sized acoustic guitar
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Mar 11 |
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Need Help in Starting to Learn Guitars? @Sankar - I've used this as the basis for a longer article, more here if you're interested. |
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Mar 10 |
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What are some harmonic options for layering guitar lines while recording? Not answerable in its current form, not without knowing more about this song. |
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Mar 10 |
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What are the advantages of learning to play on your own versus learning from a teacher? @holms - It sounds to me like you haven't met any good teachers. I learned piano from a teacher who was inflexible, and I ended up teaching myself to play. However, several years later, I learned guitar from two excellent teachers. |
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Mar 10 |
answered | Need Help in Starting to Learn Guitars? |
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Mar 5 |
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Can I build an EBow myself? You might also get answers at the Electronics SE site. |
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Mar 5 |
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Will hanging a guitar by its headstock damage it? A guitar that's left in its case and is in excellent shape is a far worse problem than a guitar that's played and loved, but is a little worse for wear because it's left out. You can always rotate which guitars are on the wall and which are in their cases in the closet. |
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Feb 16 |
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How to record the sound of an acoustic guitar with a magnetic pickup? Is it important to you that the recording sound like a guitar, or is the sound produced by the pickup sufficient for your purposes? |
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Feb 16 |
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How do I properly stretch my newly strung strings? I agree. String the guitar, pull them away from the fretboard a bit to make certain they're firmly attached to the posts, then strum away for a while; that'll stretch 'em out. |
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Feb 10 |
answered | My guitar goes out of tune at a higher pitch rather than lower, is that normal? |
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Feb 9 |
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Any advice for a novice composer? Why is this community wiki? It is possible to write a single answer to this. |
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Feb 7 |
answered | Will learning to play another instrument help me to become a better guitarist? |
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Feb 3 |
answered | Any advice for a novice composer? |
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Jan 29 |
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How do you know what beat to emphasize based on the time signature? When talking about 5/4, let's not forget Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War. |
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Jan 29 |
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What is the difference between a “Riff” and a “Melody”? I agree with AttilaNYC, hostility towards the questioner doesn't help. No question is too basic, and the point of StackExchange is to supply reliable information. |
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Jan 29 |
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Are there any books or videos out there that teach you SLOWLY and do not focus on learning TABS? Best of luck learning guitar, but this question could be clearer. Any musical instrument is going to take work to learn, and frankly, this question is making it sound like someone who wants to play guitar but doesn't want to do the work. (Apologies if this sounds confrontational, it's not my intent.) Is it that you simply want to learn guitar without learning the underlying music theory? If so, that's certainly a legitimate question. (Also, guitar tab is itself a guitar-specific shortcut, as opposed to the much-less-intuitive musical notation.) |
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Jan 26 |
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Acoustic guitar - how to wind strings on the tuning posts I had one of those winders years ago, but lost it in a move. Nice explanation, and it seems clear to me. |
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Jan 26 |
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Why do tube-based guitar amplifiers sound so good? Music theory has nothing to do with electronics. |
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Jan 22 |
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What is the difference between upstrokes and downstrokes while strumming a guitar? @Tin Man - have clarified my answer. |
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Jan 21 |
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How do I choose my first guitar for self-learning? Good answer, but -1 for netspeak, bad grammar and typos. |
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Jan 21 |
answered | What is the difference between upstrokes and downstrokes while strumming a guitar? |
