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Kuroyume

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  1. Prioritize. Remember that in a few years you'll need to work for a living. That's all I'm sayin'. *Other very good responses here as well!
  2. If you purchased it from a legit store (like there are many nonlegit stores) and have the receipt (which I ALWAYS keep, duh) it usually (but no always) has the serial number on the receipt. Any inference to theft is then mitigated by evidence (the receipt). The receipt itself, if it doesn't have the serial number, is probably enough though. Your response should be leveled on that information being available so that none of the so-called 'Hey, that was stolen from me' can be perpetrated. As others mentioned, give them a partial and see if that is satisfactory (for Fender, the first three or four alphanumerics are usually enough to completely identify the make and year/location of manufacturing). If that is not enough then I'd question their motives.
  3. We're into mystical territory here. Yeah, the OP was meant as a play on concept. People get soooo overheated about whether the finish is nitro or poly, the finish is 0.000001 mm or 0.000002 mm thick, this wood or that, this pickup or that, this pot or that, this wire gauge or that, this fret or that, this string gauge or that. OMG! While there are definitely particulars about a guitar which make it act/sound/play one way or another, the archetypal bottom-line is the player of said guitar. In my opinion, a great guitar player could take a Sears balsa-wood acoustic with a tragically warped neck and no resonance or sustain and somehow make the sounds eminating from it be interesting. The rest is minutia. And, a resounding "NO!", tone isn't in the fingers. Tone is a specific thing in music (and we, as musicians, should be cognizant of its technical meaning). If anything, quality, emotion, feeling, interest is in the player. I will relate a real story from my jaded youth. When I was in High School and (believe it or not!) wasn't a guitar player, I had several friends and acquaintences who were. One was a punk dude who probably had the first piercings that I ever saw. He was raw and interesting and very emotional. Not a bad musician but more angst then talent. Another was someone who later became a friend who was just that good. He would bring a Strat and Pignose to school and sit outside playing Hendrix and such without effort. He was the person who taught me to solder and setup guitars as well as with whom I participated in enjoying and deconstructing Yngwie when he first hit the scene. Neither rich - just middle or lower class. But to end the parable, there was the friend who was a rich kid who got whatever he wanted. He had the snazziest gear (can't remember what it was, sorrily). It was the most expensive stuff that his parents could get - a full stack and the most technical guitar at the time (early 1980s). He was, wow, {censored} (even for me who wasn't a guitarist yet, remember). It was all basic (probably just started lessons - because his parents could do that) and chaotic. The best equipment that money could buy (and that we drooled over) didn't make him a better player. Skill isn't in the tools but in the devotion to mastering them. The guitar looks good because the person playing it provides the impetus which makes it sound great (ignoring 'tone').
  4. ... everybody posting can not even get invited to the Grammys or a post party, but Taylor Swift did. And I feel quite good about that. I would rather be a good, confident, happy musician and never see a Grammy (or the post party - oooh) then sell out to the unwashed masses who don't know that they're listening to the same song structures over and over and over and over and over and spending all that money on it. Someone said this is like complaining about what people eat. What if they are eating feces? That is what most popular music these days is: shovel the {censored} into the ears and out pops money and fame. They can keep the crap and I'll keep my money.
  5. In 1964 many people thought The Beatles were a joke. I Want To Hold You Hand with it's cookie cutter lyrics. People thought a pop band's shelf live was 1 year 2 at best. There's your problem. If you knew your Beatles history then you'd realize that before they became the Lads from Liverpool, they were the Greasers from Germany. That is where they learned their chops - from skiffle to real blues and rock'n'roll chops. When they signed up to record, they were forced to change their image (hair, clothes, attitude), their drummer (Pete Best to Ringo Starr), and their music (for the time being). While it was still their music, it was intentionally poppy for popular appeal (duh). They followed that up in only a few years with their real musical genius. While they were being poppy at first, they had the musical skills to back up deeper music. That is rare for pop bands and rare for them today it seems
  6. There is NO comparison between Swift and any others you have mentioned above. Yes, she has written songs, and plays guitar (a Taylor, no less...) - good for her. So does Michelle Branch, who came out firing hot with her song "Everywhere" when she was 18 (a MUCH better song than ANYTHING TS has done)...anyone heard from MB lately ??? Bottom line is, with Madonna, Jagger, Springsteen, Townshend, et, al that you mentioned above, they had SOMETHING DIFFERENT that people realized very quickly. They were revolutionary. They changed music and made their mark...TS is a product of a HUGE marketing push by desperate record company folks who are DYING to get their next pop tart out there. And the fact that she's being pushed as a country artist is such a big joke that even Shania Twain has to be laughing... +100 Thank you for making the response that I would have made - but well worded. If I see/hear one more poppy singer strummin' an acoostic like they can actually 'play' a guitar and write good music (because, yeah, there are more than three chords and some of them AREN'T FRICKING MAJOR CHORDS!!!!!) (sorry, once you go theory, you never go back) then I'm going to play death metal 24/7 as loud as possible over it.
  7. Never. Why? No, I'm not acting suspicious, officer. Hey, I have rights. (and here they are)
  8. kinda like how jimi played with his teeth, but lower Owwww. Owwww.
  9. this is true, it's defnitely more work to flip the pick sideways in your hand, but once it is sideways, you will hit the pinch harmonics infinitely more easily than if the pick is held the normal way. at the very least, it's helpful to practice "sideways" until you get the hang of how it's supposed to work, then you can focus on learning to do it with the pick the normal way I cannot contest that. And, to another poster, you can definitely push the technique into the fretboard.
  10. Some guitars do it better than others... This is definitely true and I've encountered it often. Some guitars are easy to coax out harmonics while others are not. Some are more responsive to certain harmonics while others are not. To me, it seems that it might be related to the overall qualities of the guitar itself. Since we're talking about artificially produced harmonics, the results would depend upon the acoustic (vibratory and feedback) qualities of the guitar (and in this I include electrical pickup acoustics). What I'm saying is that the harmonics are there but the quality is dependent upon how loud and sustaining they are. I'm definitely capable of doing pinch harmonics on an acoustic guitar (even a classical) but the quality differs. Electric guitars are typically easier to coax them out. For instance, the neck pickup of a Fender Stratocaster isn't as amenable to natural harmonics as the bridge pickup. Why is that? It can't simply be bad 'pickup reception'. I can do better on other guitars using the neck pickup. It must be some combination of variables. Maybe the Hello Kitty Strat is the key after all!
  11. try turning the pick sideways in your hand so that you actually hit the string with the side/shoulder of the pick. it makes it a lot easier to do the glancing thumb thing (that's the way Billy G does it) While this makes achieving pinch harmonics easier, I feel that this adds unnecessary complexity to the technique which distracts from and makes more difficult the process. I stopped using it many years ago. The 'glancing thumb' works with fewer complexities but just requires more practice to 'perfect'. As I wrote in another thread, glancing the thumb is more a matter of slight changes in picking attack than concentrating on getting the thumb to glance the string (as the slight changes naturally do that for you). In most ways I hate to say it: you'll know it when you 'see' it - then you'll be able to use it almost unrestricted.
  12. Listening to music is very important to me. I couldn't live without it. It was there when I was really young (Beatles like "Love me do") and has cradelled me since. My family wasn't musical (as in musicians) and I admit that I'm not ever going to be professional at it but I love being able to play (a musical instrument) guitar so much that even if it remains a hobby until death I will enjoy it.
  13. Music is a distant third for me, behind looking at porn and arguing on the internet. Your time is up. A: I told you once. M: No you haven't. A: Yes I have. M: When? A: Just now. M: No you didn't. A: Yes I did. M: You didn't A: I did! M: You didn't! A: I'm telling you I did! M: You did not!! :poke:
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