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This is a good thing to do...but let me add that imho you should be totally capable of tuning your guitar without an electronic tuner as well. I can usually tune a guitar to concert pitch without an electronic tuner OR any other note reference point. This way your EAR gets tuned in..trust me its better in the long term. But to start with use a tuner to build your EAR...I stil use a tuner live though to save the audiances ears as you can tune up silently.

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Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
I was wondering whilst I am here how do you play this bit of tab that is out of latter part of stairway to heaven. The two notes that are played at the same time, and by the looks of it one is a bend. It just does not make sense maybe because of where the lines are that state to do the bend are on the B string when I thought that the string to do the bend on was the G string and leave the B string in situ. Or do you pull the B string down or something to bend it. I know I should try and play it and see what it sounds like but I am nowhere near that point yet. Sorry my scanner is shite.

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BigonaBianchi

Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
well maybe i'm fick or sumpfink but that looks odd to me...

I think the bend line indicators are supposed to be on the G string and leave the b string notes unbent...so you hit both strings at the same time (g&B) and only bend up the G string...so on the first strike you bend only the g string up a full tone from the 5th fret C note > D whilst playing the b string D note 'normally'.

Basically i think you are right and the tab is wrong misleading.
 

BigonaBianchi

Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j-_9se1ciU&feature=related


I havent actually checked out the stairway solo at that point...but the technique I think that tab is trying to get you to play is similar to what i play in the solo I play in deep purples burn...it's jus t ashort sharp burst mid solo but the bit i refer to starts at 5:14 in the above video...hope thta gives you a feel for what that technique should sound like.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
whats your name on youtube then?

Mine is greenshredman

View: YouTube link
Now that's just showing off! :thumbsup:

I'm still at the before-I-want-to-post-a-'before'-video stage! I'm not going to embarrass myself by posting videos of how crap my playing is until I've got some more recent ones showing how much I've improved! My plan is to pick one moderately difficult classical guitar piece and one moderately difficult fingerstyle acoustic piece and record my progress learning them.

I'll probably give myself a few months to make some decent progress and post several videos on YouTube in one go, and start posting regular updates as I improve from then on.

All I want to be able to do is to enjoy playing at home, and maybe occasionally take my guitar to the open mic nights at local pubs.

My problem with learning the guitar has always been that I get very impatient and rush ahead without getting the basics right. I try to do stuff that is too difficult, get disheartened and then don't touch a guitar for a couple of years. By then, I've forgotten pretty much everything and have to start again.

I'll probably finally succeed at an advanced age, about 6 months before my hearing packs up, and/or I develop severe arthritis in my hands! :whistle:
 

MichaelM

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I know nothing about the subject but one if my favourite guitarists, Nils Lofgren, offers tuition on his website. Just google the name.

This whole song is pretty awesome, but the solo at the end gives me goosebumps:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FgwO1ysNM
 

Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j-_9se1ciU&feature=related


I havent actually checked out the stairway solo at that point...but the technique I think that tab is trying to get you to play is similar to what i play in the solo I play in deep purples burn...it's jus t ashort sharp burst mid solo but the bit i refer to starts at 5:14 in the above video...hope thta gives you a feel for what that technique should sound like.


Cheers for the advice again mate, nice video and I understand what you mean about the technique. Some great playing by the way, and your singing ain't bad on that Whitesfake video also. Nice RG by the way.
 

BigonaBianchi

Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
Ta..the RG is one of th epre Gem's from the start of th e80's..I had th eneck replaced when the old one warped in the spanish heat, then replaced the pups with dimarzios and added a purple mirror plate and truss cover..plays better than any gem I ever played.

...not sure the world is ready for my singing just yet but cheers anyway!:laugh:
 

Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
Just one last piece of advice BigonaBianchi, I was woondering do you have any idea what the neck relief should be on a superstrat RG copy? I guess it is possibly a personal thing but I was going to check mine with some feeler gauges as it has not been setup for ages. Although as I mentioned before the last one it had included a fret dress. I have looked on the net and it is not that clear to me. I am not going to start messing with it, although I have adjusted them before on other guitars. I take it that you use a capo on the first fret and then fret the guitar where the neck meets the body, I just cannot remember which fret you use the feeler gauge at. I would take it for a setup but the guy that usually does it takes ages, although he is very good but works shifts and fits it in when he can. This was not a problem when I had 2 guitars but I flogged my other electric.
 

BigonaBianchi

Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
If the fret dress was good then unless you have been playing excessively hard your frets will be ok.

When you say an RG copy...it's not an ibanez then? I doubt that matters to much. I assume it has 24 frets still?

Neck relief is all about feel, and is to my mind less about the numbers nad guages and more about how it feels to play, and every player is different.

But to try to answer your question how about using the standard ibanez factory set up specs as a guide if you really want to get into guages and numbers etc?

Go here, scroll down and click on the Ibanez factory set up

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Neck_relief,_building_and_repair/a-famoussetups.html

This should help as well:

http://www.ibanezrules.com/tech/setup/action.htm

have you got any fret buzz? or dead notes? play every note on the guitar and listen carefully. If it was set up and you havent messed with it I'd be surprised, unless the neck has been left in the heat or something.

While you are at it check your intonation:
Play an F chord and keeping the barre shape slide it right up the neck strumming on each fret shift. Does it go out of tune as you go up the neck? It shouldnt.

Play the open strings and comapre them to the harmonic note played on each string at the 12th fret and the fretted note on each string at the 12th fret. They should all be th esame.
 

Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
Thanks for the reply again mate. No the guitar is not on Ibanez, it is a Maverick and yes it has 24 frets. A british brand that was made in Korea or something. They went bust, but it was not really a cheap guitar they used to sell for around £450 when new. I say RG copy because it is more or less the same shape but it has a set neck and has no trem. It has a little bit of fret buzz but the action is very low and it only happens when I strum fairly hard. I need to check all the other stuff that you have mentioned. I originally got it's frets dressed as it was choking whilst bending. This was several years ago though. Having said that I gave up playing for the best part of 2 years when my daughter was born. It has not been anywhere near heat, just stored in a hiscox hard case in a closet.
 

PaulSB

Squire
This whole song is pretty awesome, but the solo at the end gives me goosebumps:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FgwO1ysNM


I've been listening to and watching Nils since the mid 70s. He is in my view one of the world's finest, and certainly the most under recognised, rock guitarists of the last 40 years.

If you get the chance to catch him on a solo tour don't pass up the opportunity. Sheer magic.
 
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