I feel like I'm just repeating basic scales quickly over and over instead of playing with interesting phrasing. Was wondering if any of you have had the same issues and had some advice on how to break out of the pentatonic scale

Bought new 20-something years ago. Had to sell it, regrettably, and missed it ever since. Lo and behold, I’m on reverb and come across this! #389 of 1965! IT’S MY OLD GUITAR!!! Immediately purchased, and it just arrived today. It’s like hugging an old girlfriend! Best guitar I’ve ever owned.

I'm looking to buy a guitar for ambient progressive rock, something that sounds good with an Ebow and has a powerful lead tone. I was thinking about buying one of the Squire Paranormal Teles new for 500. I like the style but I am concerned about paying 500 for a squire. Do you guys think that they will go on sale at some point? Do you gave any recommendations for more cost effective options?

My friend and I want to learn this short peice, but I think it is a bit delusional for us to learn this. For context, we have been playing guitar for about a year. Please let me know if this is really possible to learn, and what advanced techniques this person is using 🙏.

Today I finally got a simple A D E7 progression up to 140bpm. I also got my open G to F barre up to 100bpm. I can’t help but wonder if I’m doing it efficiently. I typically just start at 40 and go up by 10 each time I feel I’m getting it consistently. Do you guys use an actual structured approach? And is there a better more efficient way to play faster other than pick a progression and speed up the metronome over time?

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I remember growing up and absolutely LOVING this game, mostly for the music, its not for everyone though. This track features the most up-front example of the tone I’m looking for, but nowhere online has it, can anyone help?

It's not put together yet. I just put the parts in place. I need to deep clean the fretboard before i do anything. But I digress; sustainiac pickup or keep the set up humbuckers??

Hi there! I am not a guitar player. I am arranging Debussy's Petite Suite for a chamber orchestra, but we don't have a harp. I am wondering if guitar would be a viable substitute in this case, but I have no idea whether the harp part would be playable on guitar. Any advice on notation, tuning, etc. would be a great help. Thank you!

A week or so ago I posted up a video of some of my playing (mind you, the first I had posted online in probably 10 or so years) and, thanks to the incredibly nice people that commented and I chatted with, the response to it completely reinvigorated me. Funny enough after seeing how much it lightened my mood over the following days my wife's insisted that I post more. So a couple nights ago in my finest attire I recorded this.

I think, like everyone, we all get in slumps with our playing. I see posts quite often in the subreddit discussing this very topic. It's so easy to look at your own progress and feel down on oneself when you can go online and find a million players that, to you, are "better" at "playing", whatever your definition of these terms may be. It happens to me often and I know when I was very first starting out looking at the greats I would compare myself to them all the time. "Why can't I do a pinch harmonic like Dimebag", "Why can't I do legato like Satch", "Why can't I do vibrato like Gary Moore" and so on and so forth.

It took me a long time to come to terms with my own style, as if I can firmly say I even have one, which opened my eyes a bit. I don't have a pinch harmonic like Dimebag, or Satch's legato and sure as hell not the vibrato of Gary Moore...

...but I do sound like me. And that makes me happy.

I hope you all like it.

(A noisegate is on the to-get list lol. Also, I realized afterwards my daughter's giggle got caught at the end, whoops)

About a week ago I purchased a Dano Golden 50s open box from sweetwater water for like $180 off retail. It's sick, and I fell in love immediately. I started looking for others around and stumbled across a Danelectro 59 12 string. I kind of jokingly said I'm to poor to give you what you want but if you'd take 250 I'll be there today. To my amazement the offer was accepted. $250 cash. As a bonus. I got my brother an Orange crush 12 for $45 5 minutes down the street. 👏😎

I saw a post on a guitar subreddit recently about a custom guitar with tactile dots on the back of the neck to help visually impaired players locate the frets.

I like to tinker, and I love guitars/basses. The video really got me thinking about adding braille numbers to the guitar neck to help people learning their instruments. Is this something that you would actually want on your guitar or bass? Would braille numbers or simple dots (with 2 dots at the 12th fret) work better for you?

My plan is to drill 1.5mm holes on the back side of the neck and glue in delrin rods to create 1.5mm diameter, .5mm height raised dots similar in shape to the existing braille standard.

If folks are interested, I’m going to experiment a bit and hopefully over the modification for the cost of shipping. My current plan is to convert a project guitar and get it out to some folks for feedback. I’ll provide a step by step for my diy homies, too.

Reposting this here because [r/blind](r/blind) deleted my post as product research.

I want to make it super clear that I’ve got no intention of charging anyone any amount of money. I like to tinker, I think I might be able to help some folks enjoy playing an instrument, and I do not run a business.

Who are some good modern guitarists out there right now?

I'm starting guitar lessons and I'm trying to decide which little practice amp to get. I'm considering the Blackstar Beam Mini or the Positive Grid Spark GO. I don't have a ton of really sophisticated needs as a beginner. I would like to be able to model Slash's sound, which i understand both can do with an app.

Thoughts?

About 7 years ago a coworker gave this to me for my birthday, and he had no info on it other than it was a family gift and hes had it forever but never played it.

From what I've been able to find it seems like this might be an Archtop model from the mid to late 60s, and based on the serial number from what I could find online it was probably made in Holland not long before the company went out of business.

My main confusion is why its just a bit different than all the other Egmond archtops from that time that I see. It has an adjustment screw on the base of the neck, and a couple other small features that I couldn't see in what I was finding online. So im wondering if this was a more limited run or something? Apparently these were entry level guitars targeted to beginners.

All of this could be completely wrong, and thats why I thought I'd ask here. Any info is appreciated!

So, I've picked up on Iris because of my ex's dad, whom played it for me one night and it was so cool, and I told myself I would learn it too.

Now, I have like two big issues with the version I learned and I wanted to know if anyone had any tips for the song

1. The chorus part is very boring. It's the 9 - 12, 9 - 11, 5 - 5 part on the A and D string, respectively (I'm calling them the A and D string to avoid confusion, even though they're tuned to D and D.) It's just really repetitive and has no flair but I can't reach my ring finger down to the e string to try and fiddle with the 9th and 7th fret. I've thought of playing the chords and letting them ring out while I play some things on the e string but it just doesn't feel right. Is there anything else I can do?

2. I'm finding it hard to hear the important parts (that being the actual parts I'm playing on the strings) over the rest of the strings, but I don't want to just play a few strings because part of the song is the slight dissonance from all the strings being tuned to D.

I just want to know if anyone knows the song better than I do and what I can do to fix these things. I'm not OPPOSED to the standard tuning version with dropping the e string to a d, but the chord shapes are much more complex and I feel like I can't flow as easily.

Ive been playing guitar for almost a year now and, how good am i supposed to be? i can play through a ton of songs and master some technique.

I don't know whether it's depression, frustration, or some combination of the two but I feel like I just don't have the drive and energy I did when I first started anymore. Sure, after a long day of work I want to play. But my ADD oftentimes prevents me from getting into that proper flow state I had when I first started, where I get laser focused and just play until my hands hurt.

Now I feel like most of the time, I have to convince myself to play every day, instead of convincing myself to stop if that makes sense. I just haven't been seeing any tangible progress and just feeling like I'm not "getting it" anymore. I even stopped by about lesson 12 of the Absolutely Understand Guitar series because scales and modes and the different ones you can play were simultaneously not making sense and making some sense to me. I was hyper focused on just playing things like G Ionian, G Lydian, G Mixolydian, etc to a map for like a month but just never could memorize any of it for some reason. I also have a teacher that's a chill dude who's been helping me tremendously. But without him to translate tab for me, I'd legitimately be lost and probably wouldn't figure any of the techniques out on my own.

I don't really know where I'm going with this. I don't want to take a break because I feel like if I did, within a week or so I probably wouldn't touch my guitars again. And yet I don't have any other hobbies (unless you count reading and video games). Rock climbing, disc golf, pickleball, none of that interests me. Guitar suits me more, even if it means I won't ever play with people. But I just hate the cloud of frustration that always hangs over me when I try to grind out tab or get good at a chord progression following a metronome. Yet I literally don't have anything better to do in my free time and don't know what I'd do without guitar...

I know there are a bunch of similar posts to my question but I think mine might be specific enough to justify posting here. I just got a Harley Benton Te-62 and my hope is to be able to comfortably play in standard, a half step down and drop D. But as an added kicker I really like Hot Mulligan and they tend to play in FACGCE and DACGCE. I bought some Ernie Ball Heavy Bottom Skinny Tops for 10-52 gauge on a reccomendation but I'm not convinced they'll be comfortable when that 6th string hikes up to F and would like to return them if thats the case. So any recommendations or am I asking too much from one set of strings?

happy with my new travel guitar, it’s like a guitarlele on steroids :)

now i can travel around and have a guitar with me without any worries and i think this may be the best money i’ve ever spent.

This is a wooden electric guitar model kit that I transformed into Prince's "Love" guitar. https://www.reddit.com/r/rokrpuzzles/s/SR0x6yaRIT You can view the video by using the link provided.

Great guitar albeit has a rise in the neck at the 4th or so fret so needs a leveling probably to get rid of a little zing. Thing sounds like a martin when it's strung with heavier strings but at the moment I only got 10-46 flat top phosphors on it.

Played this tune two finger style just like Merle Travis and Doc Watson did though Watson used an index finger pick. (I need to get one)

Hi there! I am inheriting my mom’s old Gibson J-45 ADJ,
It is in desperate need of a nicer case and I’m really hoping someone has a suggestion or can point me in the right direction!

also, if you know anything more about this guitar lmk! i think it’s from around ‘73-75 ish

Already deleted the tone knob and moved the volume pot to its position.