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re: Guitarists of the OT
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:30 am to Upperaltiger06
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:30 am to Upperaltiger06
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People usually start with a cheap acoustic. Usually Yamaha. I think it’s a bad idea because they amount of pressure you have to use to fret it makes your fingers sore and it’s hard to practice consistently.
I'm in a fantasy football league and we had our in person draft yesterday. There's a guy in the league that I don't know that well who is a professional guitar player, he plays in a pretty well known NOLA cover band. I asked him about the Fender FA 125 that I bought. He said that there are many, many better guitars, but also many worse guitars. But at the price I bought it for, it's a pretty good deal that affords me the opportunity to get started and upgrading in the future. I asked him about the playability of the guitar and he told me to call him and go his house and he would tweak the guitar to improve the playability, he mentioned most probably changing the strings.
An interesting thing he said was: an accomplished player could make a terrible guitar sound decent, and an unaccomplished player could made a $5k guitar sound terrible.
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Posted on 8/27/23 at 11:47 am to doublecutter
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An interesting thing he said was: an accomplished player could make a terrible guitar sound decent, and an unaccomplished player could made a $5k guitar sound terrible.
This has some truth to it.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 5:02 pm to doublecutter
Its probably a lot better guitar than what I started out with 35 years ago. Mine didn't even have the dot markers on the right frets.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 8:05 am to doublecutter
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An interesting thing he said was: an accomplished player could make a terrible guitar sound decent, and an unaccomplished player could made a $5k guitar sound terrible.
absolutely the truth.
number one tip is to learn how to set up your guitar or bring it in to a luthier and have it done. a proper set up will make it light-years easier to play, and can make a <$500 sound just about perfect. nothing will frustrate you more than your action (string height/gap between strings and fretboard) being too high or having an improperly adjusted intonation.
I highly recommend avoiding guitar center unless you're one of the lucky ones who lives near one with a quality luthier. if you want to purchase from a big box store, Sweetwater is by far the best. their engineers will work with you to set it up exactly the way you want it. my last guitar from them came to me with the nut replacement, string gauges, and specific tuning I wanted for it, and it was set up perfectly.
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