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Originally Posted by dmcummins
.... my fingers are hurting....
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Yup. Ends of the fingers, right? The solution is playing more. Guys who play acoustic regularly sometimes have finger callouses that phlebotomists cannot pierce.
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Originally Posted by LWJ
...take a blues class. Guitar and The Blues are like salt and pepper. They simply go together. ...learn to improvise..... lame Folk song.
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Blues is basically the father of modern popular music. Uniquely American. Gave rise to Jazz, Country, etc. If you can pllay 1-4-5 chords, then you already know thousands of songs. Add the 2 and 6 chords, and you know thousands more. Plus....blues is fun to play. Listen to some Delbert Clinton. You're welcome.
But I would not agree that folk is lame. Playing guitar, you will develop some style and preference. Some guys just want to play lead....wailing, screaming, successions of single notes and string stretching. Poor bastids. Others focus on rhythm guitar. If you do this, then you can play songs. Folk-type stuff lends itself to open mic performance.
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Originally Posted by unclebilly
.... It’s addicting.
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Yes it is. Really a joy.
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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
.... Airyware Tuner .... clip on tuner does any better... I find the tuning on the guitar changes as you play a while- warms up or something.
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Polytune (TC Electronic). You're welcome.
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Originally Posted by LWJ
.... It will need a grounded power cord. Trust me on this. ...
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Some of the older stuff have the "death cap" which can allow the ground to become energized if it fails. The "hot" circuit is actually connected to the neutral circuit, believe it or not. Some of the (DC) voltages in tube amps are much higher than the 120 volts (AC) coming from your wall. Any competent tube amp tech can identify this in about two seconds and can fix it in about three minutes.
You'll pay a "bench fee."
My path is different from yours. I am a gigging bass player whose career is likely about over. Partly because live bands in nightclubs are not common these days, and partly because of arthritis at the basses of my thumbs, near the wrist. I am grateful though, to music. While wearing clothes, the funnest thing is to stand on a stage playing music for a hundred or a thousand deliriously happy people dancing their asses off. SO much fun.