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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Mnementh on 06 May 2005, 11:56
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So I'm thinking of celebrating my pay raise with an electric guitar. I haven't played in close to 15 years. I'm not looking for anything fancy, I don't want to spend too much, basically going to teach myself to noodle out some Phish tunes.
Also, I'm a bit on the tone deaf side (making this an adventure) and can't tune a guitar worth shit, so I need suggestions for a tuner.
Give me your thoughts.
Questions, Comments, Snide Remarks?
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Well, we really do need to know your budget for this one.
Also, electric tuners are evil. Tone deaf or not, you might not have a tuner as you step on stage and realise that your guitar is tune-fucked.
Ear is the way. (tuning forks are also a definate yesyes)
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Well, I've no real intention to play on stage, and I've a poem planned for future marraige proposals, so this is for sheer personal pleasure.
I'd say between 150 to 200 USD. Also, I have short, fat fingers.
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The problem with cheap guitars is that the quality varies so much. Most of them are awful but every now and again you can find a pretty decent guitar. the only problem is, you'd have to know a bit about guitars to be able to tell which ones are good.
If you're not bothered about how it sounds, or becoming a good guitarist, I'd say just pick one that you like the look of.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=47073&item=7320483976&rd=1
Well, I'd say this one looks a bit nifty. I quite fancy it myself. It's humbuckered, has volume, tone-ige and with a free hardcase to boot it seems like quite a nice little buy.
Hell of a shipping cost though...
(remember, Ebay is your friend)
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Ebay has it's pluses and minuses.
- no instant gratification, more reasonable voices in my head will probably stop me from impulse buying
+ I lack motivation to go to a store and sales resistence. Ebay eliminates these.
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The tuner of some awesomeness is a Qwiktune Chromatic tuner. Tunes to anything and it's about £20. Personally I have developed burning hatred towards mine, but it's a nifty little thing.
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Check out Squier, or maybe Epiphone.
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The problem with tuners is they make your instrument out of tune.
Not really a problem with guitars, since guitars can't actually play in tune.
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I personally started out with a pitch pipe and nowadays my ear, but eh.
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I got my Dean guitar (performer E) for 220$. It's still one of the best guitars I've played. You probably won't find one for under 200 though.
EDIT: silly me, just realized you said electric. sorry, I know nothing about electric
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Ibanez makes some decent $200ish axes.
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What s your prob lem with electuc tuners? What did the ever do to you?DISCRIMINATOR! just because they're not as twangy as tyhe fork-based runing machines!
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Alcohol again, Khar?
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did a band who were not tankard once do a soing called 'alchohol' about their discovery of said toxin and the joy it cuased them,? I remeber it had a line likje 'when i discorvert alchohol' but with less druinken typos caused by the inhibition of my brainial fucntions.
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Yeah... you're pissed
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What s your prob lem with electuc tuners? What did the ever do to you?DISCRIMINATOR! just because they're not as twangy as tyhe fork-based runing machines!
They use Equal Temperament (as do guitars), not Just Intonation. Just Intonation is the only thing that's actually in tune
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SHUSH! others may not hafe noticed!
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Too late. Some nice mentalhead sold me a starter pack. It'll do me for now.
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Hurrah!
And blindsuperhero, you should realise that i'm far too addlet
to know what temperament and all that is.
So why do I still know what floccinoccinihilipilification and honorificabilitudinatatibus mean? gah!
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i like my Ibanez sz, i think it is much sweet. a song tha was easy for me to learn was Modest Mouses 3rd planet
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The problem with cheap guitars is that the quality varies so much. Most of them are awful but every now and again you can find a pretty decent guitar. the only problem is, you'd have to know a bit about guitars to be able to tell which ones are good.
If you're not bothered about how it sounds, or becoming a good guitarist, I'd say just pick one that you like the look of.
Too late now, but my advice in reference to this would be to get a friend or family member who knows their guitars to come with you and help.
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screw learning songs. I've remembed three chords from guitar lessons 15 years ago. I don't know which ones they are, but I can play them quickly in succession. I'm gonna go get a duck cut and start a pop punk band!
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I'm calling drums!
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Anyone have a bass? I don't play bass, so it makes me all the more qualified to join your punk band.
Anyways, I play an old DanElectro 56-U2 that I bought for 70 dollars at a garage sale and it works wonders. I love it. I mean, how can you not argue with a 200 dollar guitar for 70 bucks?
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Fiona is on bass.
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And we're a trio. No quartets, no quintets. We're like McLusky, only we suck out loud.
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Fine, can I be like Sid Vicious and say I wrote all your songs for you even though I don't join until after the last album?
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Hell no. I wrote the damn songs
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Ooh - punk band! I bags being the Malcolm McLaren-esque manager: "You know none of these kids had any notion of forming a band before I brought them all together. When I first met Chuck he was just a grotty, skinny little kid. He spat in my eye, I thought it was genius even though nobody else saw it. And then I invented rap."
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I invented punk, but only because I stole it from Napoleon who stole it from me.
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qwiktone electronic tuners are great but just being able to ear tune is way better...or harmonically tune the guitar...i had an electronic tuner to begin with and now i struggle to tune by ear when its batteries die...so being flexible is really the way to go
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Haha we own.
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Our band is called Not Val Kilmer and we own you all.
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Just as long as you remember that it was all my idea. At least, that's what I'll be telling people.
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Can I join as keyboard player when you "go heavy" on your third album?
Uh, anyway, yeah, I recommend learning how to tune by ear. Eventually your ear learns what a proper E sounds like (or D or C, depending on how low you tune), and you tune your guitar from there.
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Third album? Nah mate, there's gonna be one album, then a shambolic overseas tour, and then I'm gonna run off with all the money.
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A guy can dream.
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You can be in the reunion tour in 20 years time. The one that I'll have no part of, because they'll all be too busy slagging me off, even though if it wasn't for me none of them would have ever met each other, let alone formed a band, and I made them what they are today, and . . . And . . . And did I tell you I invented rap?!
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to learn the most comon chords, go to www.tabheaven.com. on the side bar is a chords link. it gives you a really convenient and easy to use chords chart. from there go to www.thetabworld.com and find your favorite band. look for either tabs of them, or chords of them and start playin. ive been playin accoustic/classical guitar for about 3 months and i can play most any song from chords. and most guitar rifts since they follow scales