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unsolicited advice, feel free to ignore!:

I’d advise against the right arm pressure thing, it’s pretty easy to press too hard and make the chord go sharp that way. also in ~15 years of playing guitar I’ve never had to play an F bar chord. if you’re doing cowboy chord stuff where it’d even make sense to play that F shape it’s usually easier to just do the thumb wrap-around thing.

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you need one for don’t fear the reaper and my hands are too small to thumb wrap ;_;

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I don’t really do the arm pressure thing now, it was mostly a crutch while my hand strength built up or whatever

my hands are tiny so thumb wrap around is rly hard but that’s a good call, i should practice

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kurt cobain spec’d the jag-stang with us in mind, let’s believe this

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Somehow it’s easier for me to form an F barre than the thumbed F, I have long stupid hands. I also like the sound better. So I keep playing the barre even though all guitarists are like “no don’t do that”

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I’m practicing the 5 string F now (muted low E string) and it feels like a nice middle ground

I do have to look into those short-scale offsets huh…

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it’s actually pretty hard to just shop for not so much scale length but nut width - Fender still make plenty of shortscales but they’re still like 42mm at the nut, a problem
think the narrowest they currently vend is the squier paranormal supersonic at 40mm (24" scale)

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it might also help to look for necks with a smaller radius. iirc the fender vintera ones are 7.25", could make things easier.

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eastwood make all kinds of fun repros, but they also do a warren ellis mustang thing that’s 23" scale and about 40mm at the nut, i’d try one of these

see also one of their mosrite clones that’s a mere 38mm at nut

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I’ve always been a fan of just playing the bottom 4 strings of barre chords. Before I got good at them I just did that and sometimes it’s just better to play less strings on any chord or hit the bottom strings on the change and then add the other strings later in the measure.

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ghost what are you up to can we collab on some shit one of these days please

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Hey this is really beautiful

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Okay this made my breath catch in my throat and I almost cried, it’s so good

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new improvisation just for you Mikey https://meauxdal.neocities.org/

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Been on a little break from making recordings. Busy at work. Quit Twitter. Reconsidering how I do online in general…

Really starting to miss playing live and seeing other performers too. Things might get going again in June where I’m at so that might be cool.

If you have some prompts or tracks that need some guitar work let me know. Might help me get going.

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i will drop you a line. every time you post something here it’s a major vibe for me

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If I win the Mega-Millions can you be my personal Chamber Musician or something, I will buy you All The Shit

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ooo that warren ellis stang is a beauty, it’s like a duo-stang or something.
what string gauge do you all play? i’m thinking about switching to 8’s, I have a couple sets I bought to try out.anyways maybe this is more for the guitar center thread

i’ve been trying to learn fingerstyle recently and really struggling in a way i just don’t with pick, i think because it’s just so new to me. got down an arrangement of happy birthday (mostly) and trying to learn jeff buckley’s “hallelujah”. getting better at those changes to/from F

C, Am, C, Am, F, G, C, G
C, F-G-Am, F, G, E, Am,,
F,,, Am,,,, F,,,, C, G, C, G
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8s all day
i’ve tried pretty much everything from that to 13s and i like an easier life
action can be a bit of a prick with a light gauge but if you feel better you ultimately sound better

srv was a weird homophobe in a reddit hat, fuck that guy

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