yossarian

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Product Manager by day, Cook and Guitarist by night.

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Apr 29	awarded	Teacher
Apr 29	comment	How can I toughen up my fingertips? @matthew, I find 30 minutes is usually enough time. Might depend on how thick your calluses are though.
Apr 29	answered	How can I toughen up my fingertips?
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Apr 20	comment	What kind of effects make this Korn sound? It's unlikely that they are playing detuned guitars. Korn paved the way for 7 strings in metal, so what you're probably hearing is a low B string. Of course, any normal axe needs some serious detuning.
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? Thinking about why I'd use my pinky a bit further, I'm more likely to use my pinky on a progression like 9 - 10 - 12, because using my ring finger feels like a stretch. However, if the progression was 9 - 11 - 12, then that feels more natural to use my middle / ring fingers. At that point the fingering would depend on the context of the line. (Sorry to go all comment happy on you here, btw)
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? I appreciate your update of the answer, but I still think your finger numbers are wrong. If that's how you refer to them, cool, but no one else does. I'd just remove the numbers altogether and use the terms index, middle, ring, pinky. Otherwise it's confusing to anyone that thinks in terms of the standard counting (even with the clarification).
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? Using the pinky is almost certainly more "correct". I'd bet any jazz or classical player would use their pinky. However, Clapton never seems to use his. He'd probably use the fingering you've suggested, so there you go. In general, it's a playing style thing. If you have a style, play it that way. However, since the OP couldn't figure out how to finger this themselves, I'd advocate the "correct" way of doing it.
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? In general, I think it's easier when playing 3 notes to a string to use the "one finger per fret" rule (although, I'll use my ring finger while playing a 3 fret stretch on a blues scale). However, in this particular case, I'd use the pinky because I think the string skip would be a stretch using the ring finger. It also creates a smaller stretch between the 8th and 12th.
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? In fact, I think your numbering scheme is pretty non-standard. A quick perusal of English guitar sites shows the index being referred to as 1 (check any chord chart).
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? Ah. Yes, that's not standard US fingering. Index is 1st. Also, given your update, -1 because you should be using your index, middle, and pinky (not ring). ;)
Apr 15	comment	What would the guitar sound like if I used only strings of the same weight? Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is close to this mono-tuning, B-D-D-D-D-D.
Apr 15	comment	how I must put my fingers for this tablature? -1. Why would you use your 3rd finger for the 10th fret when using your 1st for the 9th. That makes no sense at all. You're cramming your 2nd finger out of the way and introducing an unnecessary stretch between 3rd and 4th finger. I hope you misread the tab.
Apr 15	answered	how I must put my fingers for this tablature?
Apr 12	comment	new strings always relaxing. how do I speed up this process? I do not think this is a duplicate. While the answer is covered in a different question, the question itself is different. The question linked above already assumes the answer to this question. A new user searching for this question would not find the link above. And if they did, they wouldn't necessarily realize that it was their answer.
Apr 12	comment	What to check when buying a new guitar? @leonine, personally, in that price range, I'd get a Vox amp and a PRS se guitar. That's a little over your budget (Total $650 - $800), but would be a very nice set up that could grow with you for 5-6 years.
Apr 12	comment	What to check when buying a new guitar? @leonine, Yes, it really does warrant a separate question. It's generally encouraged here to split up multi-part questions in to individual questions so that each can get a definitive answer and in order to help people searching in the future.
Apr 11	comment	What to check when buying a new guitar? I think the line 6 is one of the worst "clean" sounds I've ever heard on an amp. It's terrible. The distortion is passable for the price. But I think it's totally worth spending a little more and getting a Vox that will last you for a lot longer.
Apr 11	comment	What to check when buying a new guitar? -1 because I hate the Line 6 stuff and I think intonation and action aren't relevant as those are fixable issues. The rest of the advice is right on target though.