The Official Guitar Thread

Clip ons are so good

I've never had luck with an app

gStrings is a great tuner app.

I ordered a clip on but ill try gstrings until it gets here, thanks

Snark's are cheap and reliable afaik. I want to get a tuner pedal eventually, or some sort of MFX pedal with it built in.

I managed to practice 70 hours last month. This month isn't starting great since I've already skipped a day, but I'm going to try to focus on fretboard/theory/scale memorization and ear training. I have a hard time with intervals, but I'm finding I can pick out simple melodies fairly easy. I don't want to get hung up on note positions, repetitive scales and progressions, but I think it would do me some good to know them without having to think about it.

This really is an amazing time to learn guitar or any musical instrument. I can go on youtube and learn bits of most songs I loved as a kid in half an hour. And the more I practice every day, the less trouble I have learning new things, so it's encouraging.

sukik said:

Snark's are cheap and reliable afaik.

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Seconding the Snark. I've had one for years and it's extremely reliable.

Yeah forgot my multi effects pedal has a tuner in it, never used it.

jooka said:

It is pretty amazing what info you can get a hold of these days. When I was a kid it was pretty much magazine articles, hanging out in music shops until they kick you out. I got super lucky with a high school music teacher who was fucking great, wrote his own musicals for the choir/drama dept. We won state madrigals a few years in a row but the best thing he ever did for me was I was his teachers aid all through high school which he spent teaching me music theory. My junior/senior years I was running a jazz band before school started and he was always around to help us. He basically got me into Berklee.

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Yeah I had a great band teacher, I have no idea how I would have learned without them back in the day, youtube is amazing now, fucking kids are lucky. I also have noticed over the last few years how much easier it is to learn now that I'm older, young me would get so discouraged when he didn't see loads of progress quickly, old me knows it is a process and takes forever to get good at things, old me also understands it is a hobby and supposed to be fun and ill never be or need to be as good as a professional

Alex said:

Seconding the Snark. I've had one for years and it's extremely reliable.

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Awesome I ordered a Snark, one of my struggles I think is the double strings, I tune g1, then tune g2 and 1 is off again and then once they both seem in tune I play them together and that isn't in tune, need alot more practice with this.

I have found with a bunch of tuners that by the time I get through all the strings the guitar doesn't sound in tune. I basically just tune the low E and then use harmonics for the rest. works like a charm. Back in the day it was a tuning fork for low E.

use a Snark as well. It kind of broke so I need to get a new one

Depends if you guys have a floating trem. Everyone has their methods but I usually tune 6th string, then 1st, then 5th, etc.

I just go through low to high a few times until it's in tune on my guitar with a tremelo. The others I don't have much problem with after a put some pencil graphite in the nut/ bridge string slots and started using the locking string wrap. I was surprised to find that even my cheapo Harley bentons stay in tune from day to day unless there are crazy temperature swings.

Upgrading tuners is also an upgrade a lot of people forget about. I'm very used to my Floyd rose and the pain in the ass it can be. They also ordered locking tuners on this kiesel, but I've used them without Floyd's and they're awesome.

I thought about getting them on my Gibson but it feels sacrilegious

Damn dude. I'd never own a PRS, but I admire the way they look and sound. You can tell they bleed quality.