Musician's Thread

Ibanez SDGR 505 (I think, it doesn't have the label on it anymore but that sounds about right), with a new set of active pick ups. Bass is about ~900 retail and the pick ups are about 200.

 

That's a 5 string right? I used to have either a 405 or 505 (can't remember which, but it was 5 string) I really, really liked it.

 

Be careful with that evanescence song. Its in drop D and a bunch of power chords. Nice melody though.

Folk artists are good to listen to as well. They tend to play chords more traditionally and simply than some of the harder rock you might hear.

 

I don't mean to hijack this thread however this is one of my favorite topics and I love teaching friends to play the guitar. I generally try to find an artist and mimic the sound or style that they use. In doing this, you learn A LOT of chords and strumming patterns. You might find that rhythmic strumming is a lot harder than it seems.

When I was trying to improve my skills, I listened to "Live at Luther College", the live Dave and Tim cd from 1998. My goal was to try and fill the room with sound and not have any strings buzz.

This one is a great one to try and mimic. The rhythm is pretty straightforward and the verses are just 2 different chords.(G and F#))

 

Black finish on body, neck and head stock and the fret board is a dark red wood that has been finished (not sure what kind of wood it's made of). It's sounds amazing, just as good as my five string Peavey Cirius. The condition is absolutely immaculate. Not a scratch, dent or anything on it. The frets are hardly worn down and I checked the necks condition and it didn't need any adjustments. The guy I got from hardly played the sucker and it was sitting in his garage for a couple of years.

I brought my amp with me, as I wanted to hear it with the way I've got it setup and it's a really cool, crisp sounding bass. I played without the amp and it has that great full sound to the string and body.

I honestly couldn't say no to the deal.

I have the four string version. I honestly cannot remember for the life of me if it's the 405, 505 or 508 and I cannot find the emails that I had which stated what it is. I suppose I could go look up the serial numbers as they're printed on the head stock.

Buying second hand is awesome. There are so many people out there who buy instruments, play them for a month or a week and forget about them. You can find really amazing deals if you're willing to wade through the bullshit.

Edit: I found the email for the sale. It's the Ibaneze SR800, usually sells retail about $900-1300 (cannot find firm numbers).

 

That's the problem though: I am willing to wade through the bullshit, but don't know enough to adequately test something like that. I had bought my Ibanez 5 string through Ebay, and other than it needing a new 9-volt, it was fantastic. I lucked out with a good seller. Checking craigslist and stuff around here though, you have people who think their Fender is a collector's item or you have something that someone represents as gold but is actually garbage.

 

I laughed at one guy who was selling a pretty shitty starter bass by Fender for like 700 bucks. It normally retails about 300, at most. He insisted that because it was a Fender bass that it was the bees knees; I did some research into it and it turned out to be worth no more than 100. He still has it posted Kijiji and it's been almost four months.

That said Kijiji is really good for finding good stuff. I don't know what it is about craigslist but I have had nothing but bad experiences with it in the last year.

 

I got my new Tusq bridge pins today. I put them in, but I can't get them all to be flush like the old, shitty plastic pins were. How vital is that?

 

Well I've got them all in and I've been playing the shit out of it, and nothing is budging, so I guess it's ok. My e string was a bit loose originally, but it worked itself to wherever it was supposed to be.

I still suck at the guitar, but it's not the guitar's fault at this point.

 

It's still there today - awesome. You can record what you "play" on it, then the playback box displays an url. We should start a thread with people recording licks. I'm having trouble getting in and out of the strings without double-strumming, but I know there are some talented folks here.

 

Edit: Posted recorded clip from Google but probably shouldn't start spamming the thread, maybe better for the drunk thread if anything.

 

So I just brought the piece of shit drum kit that I'm holding for a friend home. I want to get my brother interested/started in playing drums, enough so that he can start taking lessons in the future. You guys got any advice? I can play drums at a moderate level (just from fucking around on them during band practices), so I can at least show him the basics, but is there anything out there on the internet or the like that I can show him so he can at least start from a decent place?

 

Went and grabbed a capo tonight. Gave it a try on what I figured would be an easy, slow John Mayer song (Comfortable).

It's not nearly as easy as I thought it would be.

 

This video encompasses everything I love about Youtube guitar players. I give you the Engrish version of Eric Clapton's "Blues Power":

 

I like YouTube because you can find stuff like this:



Incredible.

 

I printed out the tabs of "Crash" by Dave Matthews and practiced it for about 10 minutes. My wife walked in and said, "Hey, you're playing 'Crash' by Dave Matthews Band!"

Felt pretty damn awesome to have her immediately recognize the song I was playing. Of course, it was sloooooow but it sounded right. Pretty proud of myself.

 

That can be a fairly tough beginner song with the moving bass line, so kudos to you. #41 has a similar strumming pattern as crash does. Also a great one to play.