Not much going on, just remembering how horrible the 90's were by watching Spawn.
Of practice. Of dedication! Of dry skin.
lidryem:
Dedication is all!
Did my guitar finger exercises, some scales, a couple chords, a little "Suspicious Minds" on Rocksmith and then listened to some music while I caught up on all the recent sets,. What an exciting way to end my day.
Because I have no self control, the other day I ordered a digital effects pedal and failed to notice that it did not come with a patch cable. So the pedal came a few days ago and today the cable I ordered came in and I was able to try it out tonight. Lots of effects. And some are very loud and crunchy.
I like.
for playing guitar with my small hands. From North Korea, believe it or not!
So one thing that is really lacking in Rocksmith is the teaching scales and exercises. So I found some short videos that are pretty clear (compared to others I've looked at), at how to start with some Pentatonic scales, and also finger exercises. After about 30 minutes, the constant stretching to hit the 6th string (it's must be called "E" because when I try to...
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So, new strings for the guitar came on Odin's Day, going with D'Addrio EXP110 strings. Hopefully I won't have another broken string in less than a week.
romanastral:
Fun times. I used to play Blue Steel 10s until recently. Now back down to 9s because I recently bought a few guitars and they came with 9s (and I'm very lazy). May your strings last several months!
taowulf:
Right now I would like more than a week!
Is it wrong to want sets with hats? Bowlers, top hats but not fedoras, hipsters have ruined those. Maybe a trilby.
romanastral:
No. I prefer bottoms off first, you like hats. The world would be boring if we all wanted the same thing.
taowulf:
Bottoms off are great, and the best part is...they could still be wearing a hat! Brilliant!
Yeah, so I might just blog about my attempts to learn to play the guitar. It started last week when a friend of mine posted on FB his Rocksmith achievement of 10 songs mastered. Then the Steam Summer sale started and Rocksmith 2014 went on sale. I went back and forth for a few days, looked at 2nd hand guitars (last one I owned, I...
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