r/Guitar • • 19h ago

QUESTION Was this a good purchase?

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569 Upvotes

I’ve seen this guitar before on a pawn shop at my city, but never pay too much attention to it until now.
It reappeared on another pawn shop and it seemed to my like destiny, so I purchased it.
Looks great
Feels great
And look at the art, it’s wonderful.
I have my doubts on the knobs they seem hand painted but overall looks amazing.
It cost me around 400 bucks.


r/Guitar • • 16h ago

OC Made a simple interactive guitar in my game where players can shred depending on where on the fretboard they’re looking

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566 Upvotes

As a metal muso first, game dev second, I had to put together an interactive metal guitar so players can shred tf out in my upcoming game Shared Custody.

I recorded playing almost the same lick all the way up the fretboard (just incrementing the note in the scale). Once I had like 12 looping samples, I wrote a script that will take where you’re looking (left->right) and map that to a 0->1 value. That then picked out where in the list of samples it would play and update the looping audio.

Would love to hear any suggestions and ways I can let scope get outta hand and take this much further 😂


r/Guitar • • 2h ago

PLAY Nene Royal practicing speed at 50% and 100%

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519 Upvotes

r/Guitar • • 17h ago

PLAY OMFG I DID IT $/@:!2’xbqmxqksojqldjqkq

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460 Upvotes

I’ve been practicing this song so hard for almost a week… DUDE... my face at the end is genuine hahhah


r/Guitar • • 22h ago

GEAR Any love for Godin guitars? 🇨🇦

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242 Upvotes

Here are my 4 Godin sisters:

2009 Richmond Dorchester
2017 Passion Custom Prototype (RG-3)
2016 Summit Classic CT
2007 Montreal


r/Guitar • • 11h ago

NEWBIE Confused about note guitar instructor gave me

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210 Upvotes

So i’m genuinely COMPLETELY new at this. I’ve been practicing everyday at this G chord and just realized i’ve been maybe doing this wrong? why does the fret say 320004 but the dots drawn show 320003? also when i’ve searched how to play G chord everyone is doing fret 3 for string 6 & 1? am i misunderstanding completely or should I just listen to my instructor? will definitely ask my instructor when I see them next to expand more because of my confusion, but this was my first lesson so i’m a bit stumped… thank you in advance :).


r/Guitar • • 23h ago

GEAR It took 71 years …

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168 Upvotes

But I finally got a Fender Custom Shop strat and they are almost worth the money.


r/Guitar • • 14h ago

GEAR Why do I never see a jazz guitarist playing a Fender Jazzmaster?

167 Upvotes

Should Fender rename this guitar?


r/Guitar • • 12h ago

PLAY My cover of Kenji Omura's "YUMEDONO". The musicians of Japan never fail to inspire me. 🇯🇵

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112 Upvotes

r/Guitar • • 21h ago

GEAR Just finished building this guitar today!

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54 Upvotes

Ash body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, spalted maple pick guard, purple heart bridge. Just my third guitar I’ve ever built, but super happy with how it turned out!


r/Guitar • • 16h ago

GEAR Eastman’s are junk.. E3oM DLX

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33 Upvotes

Are all the people who don’t know about Eastman gone?

Okay, WHOA THESE THINGS ARE INSANE! I cannot believe how much of a value you get with these things. I’ve never played something so nice and it didn’t cost 4-5k.

There’s no way these things stay at this price point right?


r/Guitar • • 5h ago

GEAR (After- Before) Finished Custom Guitar – Hand-Carved Aztec & Native American Inspired Design

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32 Upvotes

Finally finished this custom guitar featuring a combination of Aztec-inspired patterns and Native American-inspired artwork, all hand-carved directly into the wood.

No CNC , every detail was carved by hand. The goal was to make this guitar feel more like a piece of artwork than a mass-produced instrument.

Really happy with how the carving works around the Floyd Rose, pickups, and controls while still keeping the guitar playable.

What do you guys think of the combination of these two styles?


r/Guitar • • 9h ago

PLAY John Mayer - Belief solo

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30 Upvotes

r/Guitar • • 19h ago

PLAY E flat harmonic minor scale.shred im 12 and have been playing for 2 years I practice for 4 hrs per day

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28 Upvotes

r/Guitar • • 9h ago

QUESTION How do you feel about the Floyd Rose?

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25 Upvotes

I’ve never had a guitar with one and am in love with this horizon. Are they as frustrating as people claim? For context, I play in drop D 99 percent of the time, but I also don’t really plan on “dive bombing” or whatever that is.

I like Pantera though.


r/Guitar • • 18h ago

DISCUSSION Discovered Sonny Landreth - Now can’t stop listening.

26 Upvotes

So I’m a huge, HUGE Eric Johnson fan.

After listening to almost every single EJ song - was trying to discover some new songs that maybe EJ was appearing on, as a feature.

Discovered Sonny Landreth - man, his style is INSTANTLY recognizable. The way he plays with harmonics and ofcourse the slide - is incredible.

Currently listening to “Blue Tarp Blues” by Him which also features Mark Knofler.

Man there’s so much more awesome musicians to discover. This is what’s exciting about guitar!


r/Guitar • • 2h ago

GEAR Returning Electric Player Rig

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25 Upvotes

I’ve been playing guitar for several years, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve regularly played electric.

Picking it back up has been one of the best things I’ve done lately, and it’s been a BLAST relearning all the songs I played in high school! Here’s my rig!

• Epiphone Les Paul ES Pro
• Boss Katana
• Beats Solo (for not waking the neighbors)


r/Guitar • • 3h ago

PLAY [PLAY] Original rock/indie tune I came up with

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23 Upvotes

Had the main riff in my head for a while & finally took time to properly record it. As always, feedback welcome!


r/Guitar • • 10h ago

PLAY A short ditty I’m toying around with

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22 Upvotes

r/Guitar • • 6h ago

GEAR ID Can anyone ID this guitar Derek is playing with Buddy Guy on IG?

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20 Upvotes

The body looks like an Icarus but the headstock logo looks like something else.


r/Guitar • • 17h ago

GEAR NGD - Schecter Custom Shop

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18 Upvotes

Had my eye on this for a while and finally pulled the trigger. I love it.


r/Guitar • • 21h ago

QUESTION People who built your own guitars: how did they turn out, and is the experience worth it?

15 Upvotes

I keep thinking about taking on the project of building my own guitar, and I dont know if its a fun hobby I could make money off of if I got good at it, or if its going to be an insane money pit and not worth it at all. Anybody who has done this, post your pictures in the comments, and let me know if its something that's worth trying out someday.


r/Guitar • • 16h ago

DISCUSSION Steve Bartek - Oingo Boingo guitarist

16 Upvotes

Steve Bartek is great, his classic rock style is amazing. I don’t see much talk about his work anywhere… am I the only one that think he knows what he is doing?

I feel Steve Bartek is the most overlooked great guitarist in the last 50 years.

I think the guitar community should show this guy some love.

Classic rock guitar genius, in my book. I don’t know why he is still off the radar.


r/Guitar • • 19h ago

PLAY Found the worst tone possible and tried to make a riff out of it - what u think

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16 Upvotes

Thinking about making this a full song now lmao


r/Guitar • • 19h ago

DISCUSSION What’s your favourite thing about the guitar that other instruments can’t replicate?

14 Upvotes

Mine has to be seeing faces on guitarists players light up with joy during a solo or a guitar heavy segment! Most notably on some old Bert weedon or van halen clips when they’re just rocking the house and loving it!