Any guitar players on TW?

I use anything I can find, but I have a paid app called Songsterr that's pretty handy a lot of the time. It's not very expensive and their support is awesome.

 

Truthfully, I really don't play much anymore, but the handful of songs I did try to learn from tabs, the tabs always seemed to be "wrong". Aside from tabs sometimes flat out being wrong, often times they were right, but not right for me - meaning oftentimes I watched YouTube videos and found 'better' ways to play the same thing.
I'm most definitely not saying shy away from tabs; keep using them. But definitely venture over to youtube and train your ears/eyes too, without tabs. Both are useful skills, but I never found any tab site that was worth paying for when theres so many other free resources out there already.

 

Youtube can be hit/miss as far as accuracy to the original songs. I usually check Marty Music first. He's a great teacher. Also, Justin Guitar is pretty good too. I learned Brothers in Arms watching him. I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for a few hundred views of that video.

 

I've been using Justin guitar for lessons. He's pretty good. i just don't watch them enough.
I did get a bunch of Marty music lessons for free but haven't had a chance to look at any yet.

 

I think Justin is, overall, better than Marty. Marty is good but sometimes glosses over a few things that are difficult and could use more detail.

 

was debating buying a buddy's Les Paul, but then i dug out my Eclipses and (again) came to the conclusion that the black ESP is the best single-cut type guitar i've ever had.

 

on the note of practicing, Stringjoy put out a 30 day guitar challenge on their YouTube channel. good info on techniques and a fun refresher course that opened me up to different ways of thinking about things.

day one: https://youtu.be/xX30OHXfNN4?si=9-kETIX0PiGLvYzf

 

Starting to like the sound of closed back cabs vs open. I got a 10" celestion creamback in a closed cab, sounds awesome. I keep going to it now.

 

I was futzin around with the pedal array, and was less than excited with tones coming from the Peavey C50 212 I was going through. So, on a whim I plugged up the C30 112 and hooked it in to an open back Peavey 410 ext cab. It sounded amazing! the Nobels, and a Boss TR-2 makes for such a large and warm sound. I just kept playin and smilin for about 2 hours. Experiment! the sound you get is dramatically affected by all items in the chain. Hammer ons in Maj7 chords were made for Tremolo!

 

What is the girl saying on the black guitar?

 

It's not pretty. Basically made it out of spare parts to see if it works. It's a attenuator that can work for 4 and 8ohm speakers.

You can push your amp hard and not let the entire neighborhood know your favorite Black Sabbath riff.

Really handy little device.

 

I picked up a Boss GE-7. If you leave the EQ flat and drop the gain slider below unity, it does nearly the same. Tubes are still getting the goods but the output is lessened by nearly 20dB if you so chose. It does a pretty good job of boosting in the other direction, too.

 

Picked this rack up. Converted it to hold 4. Pretty happy with it.

 

naked and famous. it's a denim jean brand.

 

Well, I decided it's time to make a strat.

 

Always have liked Les Paul's, but I recently made a Telecaster and that just makes me want a Stratocaster. I like the bolt on necks. You have an issue, just shim it. Done.

 

I assume, you build the bodies and purchase the necks?

 

Found this picture the other day, thought you guys might like it.

 

Holy Smokes those are beautiful. Just discovered this thread and glad to see your post!
Here is a VERY old photo of when I first got my ESP approximately 2012. Great instrument and has been my designated *the one thing I will grab in a fire* since then ! Cheers