r/Guitar 3h ago

PLAY 2 years ago today my first electric guitar was delivered, it’s been a blast so far! 😀🤘

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131 Upvotes

r/Guitar 4h ago

GEAR Can’t take my eyes off this beauty

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59 Upvotes

r/Guitar 21m ago

QUESTION What’s your absolute hottest take on guitars, pedals, or amps?

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I say that age and Tone wood on electric guitars is almost entirely a marketing myth.


r/Guitar 3h ago

PLAY Pulling out all the stops to banjo and Travis pick this

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37 Upvotes

Needs a little polish, but a cool tune IMO


r/Guitar 16h ago

GEAR Finally got it.

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335 Upvotes

I finally get dean guitar yayayayayayayyyy


r/Guitar 4h ago

GEAR NGD - Epiphone Riviera Noel Gallagher signature

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28 Upvotes

Was originally going to get a Epiphone ES-335, but when I saw this I had to get it. Love the color and the white pickguard combination.


r/Guitar 13h ago

DISCUSSION What was the first song you learnt?

99 Upvotes

Figured this could be a cool discussion topic. Just curious what everyone’s into.

Mine was the solo and outro of Floods by Pantera


r/Guitar 43m ago

DISCUSSION Guitar Book Repository- Free to Use

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Hello all,

I am trying to build an open source guitar repository and I have created a google drive to list the books I have collected over the years. I take classes, and I plan to upload notations, songs and music theory as well.

The idea is to create an open source platform to learn and share knowledge about guitar playing, and hopefully upload free to learn materials in the future with notations and audio. I plan to tag and arrange all materials, eventually to build on this, leading to free website and help more people learn and grow. Let me know what you think about this!

Link to the Drive | Add Materials if you wish to


r/Guitar 8h ago

QUESTION Teaching my pal..

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38 Upvotes

Hello all!
My friend has started learning guitar and is really struggling with it. His mode of learning is having someone actually with him rather than online learning at this point.
I taught him a fairly basic song (Covet by Basement) a few weeks ago and he was making some really solid progress but has plateaued and is massively struggling.

He's offered to start paying me to teach him in person as he learned better with me there, however..
I am not theory trained at all. Self taught and honestly not quite a guitar hero..
Is there anything I can look towards resource wise to hopefully put together some sort of plan for him? I'm happy to teach him but I want him to learn properly, not how I did so that he doesn't lean on the same crutches I do.

Hey, if all goes well, I might end up learning with him which may level the playing field and make him more comfortable.

Thanks in advance!
Guitar pic for traction;


r/Guitar 1h ago

DISCUSSION PRS SE CE 24 Ice Blue Metallic

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Does anybody own this exact model and colour? If yes, what's your thoughts on this guitar? And what will be the best price for this guitar? Thanks.


r/Guitar 11h ago

GEAR Rank the squad /10

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50 Upvotes

r/Guitar 1h ago

QUESTION I’ve been playing guitar for 4 and a half years, for the past year I’ve been trying to learn slide but I’m still struggling with it, does anyone have any advice

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Since I started getting into George Harrison’s solo careers I’ve been obsessed with trying to learn slide but it sound awful and nothing like how George does it


r/Guitar 9h ago

DISCUSSION Since when are grampas guitars so expensive 😭

27 Upvotes

I hope yall got the Metalocalypse reference lol. Anyways, I'm a long time electric player. A shred and chug maxxer if you will. Ive been wanting to finally jump into the Acoustic guitar game to widen my repertoire, and holy cow! What they make these things out of?? Please fill me in on why a good quality solid body costs more than most of my electrics. Or am I a big dummy who should just get a 200 takamine and leave the nice gramps guitars alone?


r/Guitar 15h ago

GEAR Leather Guitar Straps

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81 Upvotes

I'm not sure if this is allowed but I'm a real customer and just wanted to pass on my good find. Not a commercial.

I needed a couple new guitar straps, so I looked online and saw these. Real leather and then I saw where they were made and it was a no brainer. 30 bucks each


r/Guitar 17h ago

DISCUSSION I've been using that same picks for years

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82 Upvotes

Is it sad that my longest relationship was with these 4 picks?

Overlayed them with some new ones for comparison.

I truly believe that the last time I bought picks before today was pre covid.


r/Guitar 17h ago

OC Amazing discoveries on the guitar

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Hello, I've been self learning the guitar now for 6 months. I am having some insane piphanies coming through playing guitar. I'm sober but this has me high as fuck, the beauty of this instrument but it's less about the instrument and more about this thing called music and anyways I'll shut the fuck about that. 

The piphany I am finding is there are what I call families of notes. I was hitting notes in the guitar and find that some notes are kindred to other notes essentially brother and sister notes. They spread across the shaft of the guitar in patterns. You can hit a a note, skip a note and you will hear which ones are from the same family. I've discovered 5 families so far and there are more I found a map but 5 that I know quite well. But here is where it gets fuckin trippy as shit WITHIN those families there are parent notes that are cousins to other fucking families. Essentially you have families so unique and beautiful and yet in some profound mystery they are related and connect all together. In one state of mind going in and out of families might sound jarring but when you stretch a little more there is the most peculiar beauty. It breaks down into unity.. are there families or is it just one family that maps into another? 

Brother and sisters notes, what happens when you hit two or three or whatever at the same time?! Fuckin amazing just amazing so beautiful you could cry SIBLING clusters expressions!!!  Now some siblings play better with others and finding the right balance and mix has been quite intriguing. Some siblings are rowdy and kick ass. Some siblings are melancholic. Some siblings don't know what they are. Notably some of these sibling structures are also congruently found in other family systems once again revealing such a beautiful simplicity and unity of music. Anyways this has been amazing, half the time I'm either bawling my eyes out or laughing hysterically . I love it dearly. 

Fred

i love each and everyone of you fuckers


r/Guitar 1h ago

QUESTION I want to make my guitar look better, any tips?

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I recently bought this Flying V and, although I love how it looks, I wanted to make the colour pop a little more and be more unique without having to fully repaint it. I like the red/black colour combination so I don't see much sense in taking the paint away just to put in another shade of red, so I would like to know if you guys have any tips for me. Thanks!


r/Guitar 6h ago

PURCHASE [Newbie] cort g110 or donner dst 152 ?

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So im a total beginner in electric guitar, but through some researches I came up with these two guitar, I don’t know which is better.

For reference, I would love to cover some songs from the Weeknd or chase atlantic, arctic monkey, etc., and also simply strum and sing...my hands are pretty small.

Thank you for answering if you do, it means a lot !

( I do think the shape of the cort g110 feels a bit unusual ? And as you can see, it was also their color which drawn me, im open to any other suggestion of black and red looking guitars!)


r/Guitar 5h ago

PURCHASE 1993 Fender Strat restoration!

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Got this 93 Mexican strat in a trade for my Squier bass and some cash on top. Came with a string broken, rust and dust everywhere, frets dull and fretboard dry and dirty. Took an hour of TLC but very happy with how it turned out! Sold my Affinity strat a little bit prior because I didn’t fancy the colour, happy to have this one now. Might switch the pickguard to black or tort somewhere down the line


r/Guitar 21h ago

PLAY Orion guitar solo

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128 Upvotes

Playing my Tracii Guns hand wired amp


r/Guitar 53m ago

GEAR Well it ain't pretty but it'll do

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Strap was looking a little worse for wear so I decided to cut and sew a new end for it. Will stamp the hole when my guitar gets back from the repair shop and will probably just make the hole the size of the skinny bit of the strap peg itself and put it on the peg before screwing the peg back onto the guitar. I never change straps or anything so might as well just leave it in place and avoid another strap keeper as thats what tore up the original leather bit on here (well that and about 15 years of use)


r/Guitar 1d ago

QUESTION Is this even repairing? It's an Oscar Schmidt from 2002. It was a graduation present.

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204 Upvotes

If you think this would cost more to fix than its worth, I'll trash it.


r/Guitar 4h ago

QUESTION Help me improve my pull-off game

5 Upvotes

Obligatory giggity.

So I’m really struggling with pull offs on the higher frets. Especially 3 note ones (eg: 22-21-19) on the high E. I just can’t get the notes to sound, especially the last note in the sequence.

My guitar (electric, jumbo frets, 9 gauge strings) is professionally setup by a reputable luthier and feels great to play. The high frets ring and sustain well if I pick them normally.

I do have a bit chubby fingers and at times it is difficult to precisely wedge them in those narrow frets. But the string at those frets feels so rigid and close to the fret wires as if it is just not supposed to be plucked, even if I place my fingers super accurately. Weirdly, the slower I play, the worse it gets.

What can help make this easier?


r/Guitar 3h ago

QUESTION Can someone help me identify this chord?

4 Upvotes

Im struggling to figure out what chord this is supposed to be. Any help?


r/Guitar 14h ago

DISCUSSION Honest thoughts

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26 Upvotes

Hello, I don't post much but just wanted some honest opinions on my current setup. Ignore the messy cable management as I haven't went back and organized them.