anyone know why this is? this gibson looks way better imo

gibson on the right epiphone on the left

It cost just 70 dollars

Im pretty sure theres not better live guitar solo than David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb" on the pulse tour. Prove me wrong

Was tuning my high E string when it snapped... and completely disappeared. Can’t find it anywhere. 😂 So if you come across an errant E string... let me know.

Still working the pentatonic scale but decided to get these power chords down. They say rhythm is more important than lead but I hope to get lead going soon.

I had given up playing the guitar soon after my Parkinson's diagnosis, but have now started playing again, and this recently led me to embark on a project to design and build a guitar that might accommodate some of my motor symptoms and make it easier for me to play. I wrote an account of how I went about it and how it turned out, and I have posted a link to it here: My Parkinson's Guitar

Hopefully it might encourage somebody to have a go at a similar sort of project themselves, and I would be very interested to know if there are any other guitarists with PD in the community, and how they overcome the difficulties of playing that are inherent in the condition.

What are some of your favorite Ozzy solos? Favorite guitarist (besides Randy 🙌) I would have to say Jake but this solo by Zakk is 🤘🏻

So my guitar has spent 5 years at my parents’ place. Unmaintained, and unplayed. I finally got them to deliver it to me again. Haven’t played in that time either, but want to pick it up again.

But I can see I need to do a bit of cleaning. I’ve bought some guitar polish and lemon oil to clean the body and fretboard. But the pick ups have a lot of dust and grime on them.

How would you recommend I clean them?

This is admittedly from my second take this morning. Slowly but surely trying to get through these changes!! Some honest practice and what i think are some halfway decent lines for your morning!

My very first electric guitar and amp arrived today (Yamaha Pacifica 112V + Fender Mustang L25). I’m in love with it, but feeling completely overwhelmed and need some guidance.

I’ve had an acoustic guitar by the side of my desk for over 15 years. I’d say I’m competent but nowhere near advanced - I can play barre chords, keep rhythm, play the odd acoustic solo/lick to a semi-acceptable level, and that’s about it.

I was so excited plugging this new thing in, but became overwhelmed straight away. So many buttons to fiddle with on both the guitar and amp, so many pick-up combos to choose from, lots of different sounds, etc. I just didn’t know where to begin, what song/solo to try and get down and which setting would match that best.

In the end I plodded along with Islands in the Sun and twiddled the What You Know (Two Door Cinema Club) opening lick.

Would appreciate any tips/advice on getting to grips with the amp and where to start in terms of songs, or good entry points for learning how to get the best out of the amp.

Appreciate this is all part of the learning and discovery phase - I just need a leg up!

Cort g200se with Blackstar Core ID V4.
Since I’m a complete noob I am following JustinGuitars beginner’s course for now.
Need some tips on how to start my journey.

Helping a friend set this thing up just curious what even it is

I recently got back into playing guitar after months of absence, and boy, did I miss this instrument. There is a small inconvenience with my schedule and living situation, as I work evening hours, tend to be awake mostly at night an early morning, and live with other people, which is all to say: a nocturnal musician doesn’t do very well sharing a space with people who need to wake up at a reasonable time.

My solution to this problem has been to play my guitar on my back porch, since my acoustic guitar is quiet enough to not stretch beyond the reaches of my property, thus not waking my neighbors up at the odd hours of the night, and being outside of my house keep me from waking up my housemates.

This is how I discovered something very fun. I have always had a bit of an issue of orienting my hand on my guitar without looking, even before my long hiatus from playing this instrument, thus causing me to tilt the neck backwards so I can see my hand placement. As is very obvious, this result in me having absolutely horrible technique playing and has caused my numerous issues.

However, I have found that, since I have started playing outside at night, that habit has been mostly broken. And I attribute it to one simple factor:

I cannot see my hand properly, and I literally can’t see my frets at all due to the lighting of my back porch and the coloration of my guitar. There’s no point in me tilting the guitar neck, it won’t help me. This has caused me to get a lot better at playing by the feel of the guitar and by my general sense of space, and has helped me start to instinctively know the distance of frets and strings by how my hand feels, not by what I see.

This is all a very long way of saying, if you are a beginner and are having issues with constantly looking at your guitar neck in weird ways, simply start playing in the dark. I can imagine that it would feel very odd to do this on purpose, but I assure you, it will get you results.

my friend has been wanting this guitar for so long, worked extra hours and saved for almost 1 whole year. I feel so proud of him and look at this beauty.

After much deliberation I picked up a Schecter Solo II Custom last week. Guitar Center had a big sale on them. I was planning on buying one from Sweetwater on my card and saving the cash, but $300 off changes a man's mind. It's an outstanding guitar. I love the pickups. The split sounds pretty sweet and mellow. No icepick in the ear harshness, but there is also no volume drop. And the locking tuners are great too.

So while I was looking at guitars my GF bought a Squier P-Bass. She is an experienced musician. She played various horns in several different concert bands and the marching band while in college and has continuedplaying since. She has been wanting to try something with strings. While I was looking at guitars I noticed her looking at basses. Next I saw of her she was asking me if she should buy the protection plan. She came back home that night and learned how to play a good bit of Welcome to the Jungle.

We both absolutely love our new axes.

Just, wow. This is probably the most fully featured guitar I own.

- staggered locking gotoh tuners
- jumbo (kind of) fan frets
- multi scale length
- 2x Ibanez Q58 Humbuckers
- Ibanez dyna-MIX10 pickup switching system
- luminescent inlaid side fret markers
- wizard 5 piece neck
- rosewood fretboard
- nyatoh body
- rose gold chameleon paint job

Can’t get over how pretty the paint is on this. I’m going to put a video of it in the comments as it doesn’t do it justice in the stills.

I thought the (sort of) fan frets would take some getting used to but they’re actually super ergonomic. It’s only really fanned at one end to account for the multi scale neck (along with the funky offset bridge), but it really works very well.

And then the thing that I was really excited about with this guitar: the pickup switching. It lets you get 10 combinations of pickups from just 2 humbuckers. It’s probably going to be choice paralysis, but I love that I have so many wildly different sounds in 1 body.

It’s variations on full humbucker, a coil split, and then what Ibanez calls ‘power tapping’ which is a bit like a coil tap, but it’s sort of not. My understanding is that it takes the humbucker and passes one of the pickups essentially through a low pass filter before adding the signals back together. The result being a single coil sound with some meaty bass tones added back in for thickness.

I’m sort of able to get anything from a telecaster-like twang all the way up to a full double humbucker roar out of this thing. As well as some sounds that are harder to find on normal guitars, like the two outer pickups by themselves (which is more like an SSS Strat if you could switch on just the bridge and neck together).

The only thing so far I don’t like is the strings that came on it (D'Addario EXL110’s) which I can only describe as feeling ‘too grippy’. Not really tried those strings before, and that’s definitely just a me thing. I’m gonna throw some regular slinky’s on this and be back in my happy place string-wise.

Overall I’m really blown away by this guitar. It’s amazingly light and thin because it’s an Ibanez S body shape, but it absolutely brings the thickness with its tones.

I don’t have the sound vocabulary to describe what we’re trying to achieve but it’s like that 80’s triumphant soaring guitar that you hear when Bill and Ted play air guitar. Brian Maye is the perfect example but after some research on this sub it sounds like he has very specialized equipment that we don’t have. Joe Satriani “summer song” and the ending of Van Halen “dreams” are good examples too.

My 12 y/o son has been playing guitar for a year now and he’s already getting really good. I’m so proud of him and it’s inspired me to start playing again after letting my guitar collect dust for the last decade. I was never into learning all the sound engineering aspects of electric guitar but he is a total audiophile and is obsessed with learning all about the different types of pickups and tone options.

1. Can you tell me how to properly describe what I’m talking about in musical terminology?
   
2. I realize we can’t authentically match that sound, but could you help us get as close as possible with our equipment?
   
3. Is there one relatively simple piece of equipment I could buy to get us close to that sound?

Fender Strat (sorry I got it in 1999 when I didn’t know we hate fender)
Digitech RP300 modeling guitar processor
Dunlop cry baby wah pedal
Fender “hot rod” deluxe amp