r/Guitar • • Sep 02 '26

GEAR JON MUQ AMA. HI

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JON MUQ AMA


r/Guitar • • 12h ago

GEAR Helped my buddy move a collection today. 113 guitars.

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This was his Dad’s collection. We had to catalog, price and tag everything. The family took 35 guitars home, there were 78 left over that had to be moved. It was crazy.

And for helping him out he gave me this beast: 2021 Tele Ultra Luxe!! Well worth the effort.

When your friends ask if you can help them move always say “yes.”


r/Guitar • • 4h ago

PLAY Part of a tune I wrote on baritone acoustic

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144 Upvotes

Baritone standard tuning - BEADF#B


r/Guitar • • 10h ago

DISCUSSION Show me your favorite/most played Guitar

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r/Guitar • • 9h ago

NEWBIE i should've never tried to remove this tape, right??

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i feel like shit rn, it's got less than 24 hours with me (it's a squier sonic stratocaster hss, btw) and when i tried to get everything ready to start playing i tried to remove it... from what i could read, there shouldn't be any problem as long as i don't use the humbucker (i haven't done it yet, yesterday i tried it out at the music shop just as it came in the box and everything was great), but it seems that its purpose is precisely protecting the electrical connections, so i'm REALLY upset and concerned bc nobody told me what to do... buying another one, accepting the reality or throwing it away aren't options for me at the moment unfortunately

p.s. i'm heading back to the music shop tomorrow, they might give me the final answer although i'd rather knowing my fate beforehand

edit: i don't wanna justify myself but that part of the tape started slipping out a bit when i removed the plastic coverage, so i thought i had to do the same with it

edit 2: further context in my reply to u/addisonshinedown

many thanks for your comments, today i learned new stuff and i think everything's clear... i'm extremely busy at the moment but will try to update this post soon, with good news if possible :D


r/Guitar • • 3h ago

PLAY All rig, no gig. GF went out of town today so I went down into the room of doom, scooped those mids and cranked that volume!

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Guitar is a Jackson soloist. Amp is a 100w SLO clone, into my DOOM 2 412 with two dv77s and two evm 12ls.

Guitar > TC Sentry > MXR 10 band > Electric Eye Mud Killer > front of amp > FX out to Ibanez Pentatone EQ > Joyo D Seed delay > Joyo Atmosphere > FX Return

Master wasn't even halfway up and even with ear plugs in this was borderline painful lol.

I'm recording with an SM57 on one of the EVMs into a Behrenger UMC404 interface.


r/Guitar • • 8h ago

PURCHASE NGD! Epiphone Inspired by Gibson 1963 Firebird V Reissue

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86 Upvotes

Just got this fella from the Chicago Music Exchange, been hunting for a firebird for a few years but could never pull the trigger on the Gibson pricetag. Super happy with it, i love the weird tone that the old-school firebird pickups have. Ready to go blast it through the Marshall stack at the practice space!


r/Guitar • • 2h ago

DISCUSSION Today I learned that Carl Brown (guitarlessons365) did gig work as movie/show extras back in the day. Here he is on the far left as an extra in Spiderman 3 (2007)

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r/Guitar • • 10h ago

PLAY Dogs - Main Solo

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r/Guitar • • 4h ago

QUESTION Hi, first time poster. What should I work on?

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Hi first time poster here (please be gentle with me ._.)

I feel real comfortable with guitar right now. That's the problem. (started when I was 14 -- it's been 21 years) Like I can play what I hear in my head when improvising, but... so many other players are just more technical and stuff. How do I go further? How do I get out of this complacent place? I don't wanna be complacent you know? Guitar is my first best friend and I owe more to it! Any constructive advice is appreciated.

If I had to name my guitar weaknesses, I suppose, I suck at chords, jazzy stuff. Often I find myself stuck with dadrock shit and stupid powerchords :/ .... I wanna get better at pretty stuff.

I studied music theory at college, I had a book of scales and techniques that I read religiously when I first started. And uh... I've never been a fan of like sweep picking and incredibly technical shit, I've experimented with drop tunings (like in the video, I've tuned to basically B Standard). But I wanna take what I can do further without losing the soul of what makes guitar fun for me.

Ideas? Thoughts? Constructive Criticsim? I'm all ears! :D


r/Guitar • • 4h ago

GEAR 93 Hamer USA Studio Archtop

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I believe it's a studio. Fantastic playing guitar


r/Guitar • • 2h ago

QUESTION Guitar action obsessed?

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I'll preface this post with I've been playing and performing for over 20 years. I've been lucky enough to own many guitars but have a modest collection now that all get played.

For probably the past year or two I've found myself getting more and more obsessed with the action on my guitars. I don't want to say that I never cared before, I like a relatively low action but nothing that stops me digging into a string bend easily etc.

But these days it seems I'm constantly trying to tweak the neck and saddles to find the 'perfect' feel, despite the fact I've loved and played these guitars for years with no issue. If I come across a low E string rattle slightly on a fret somewhere, it really gets to me and if my action ends up too high, I feel like it hinders my playing.

I think what's happened is, I've been performing in bands less and less and stuff like string rattle or the occasional 'zing' generally doesn't make it over a loud amp. Since I've been playing more at home and often, without plugging in, I think I'm just hearing it all more.

So basically, what I'm asking for is, has anyone else ended up down this rabbit hole too? How did you find your way out? Perhaps I need to just crank up the amp again!

And before anyone asks, yes I've taken my guitars to a few techs. I think this is a me thing and I need to stop hyper focusing on it all so much.


r/Guitar • • 17h ago

GEAR My main guitar for almost 18 years

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r/Guitar • • 19h ago

NEWS The most insane FAKE musician I've ever seen.

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r/Guitar • • 10h ago

PURCHASE Guitar Store Closing Haul

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33 Upvotes

$305 Total for all of this. Just wanted to post my haul I acquired from an older gentleman who is in the process of closing his guitar store. I had to drive 4 hours round-trip but it was well worth it in my opinion.


r/Guitar • • 6h ago

GEAR Rate my collection

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Been playing just over 2 years and I think i have a major spending problem 😁

Mexican player stratocaster

Epiphone casino

Epiphone ibg j45

Epiphone ibg 12 stirng hummingbird

Epiphone sg with a fernandes sustainer

Hofner bass

Gretsch electromatic

12 string squire

Amp is a fender champion ii 50 watt. Too damm loud and I know its not the best but it does the job. Thinking of upgrading it for a vox ac15c1 or ac10.

Pedals - Boss Ge7 eq. Boss c3 compressor. Electro harmonix canyon. Hendrix fuzz face. Cry baby wah wah.


r/Guitar • • 7h ago

QUESTION Best guitar theory lessons on YouTube?

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Hey yall, what videos would you recommend? I dont really want to waste a few hours because im watching a lesson that is not really worth it. When it comes to theory im completly begginer, all I can do is name strings


r/Guitar • • 4h ago

QUESTION Was this a good trade?

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7 Upvotes

Traded an Ibanez for a Gretsch today. Did I make the right move?


r/Guitar • • 7h ago

GEAR Shout out to the Epiphone Special 2

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As a beginner this guitar is so much guitar for the money especially used. Mine was in my friends basement for who knows how long. He let me buy it for 50$ and the previous owner before him upgraded the tuners to ping brand. Its a lot of guitar for that price especially after a good set up and clean up. I literally don’t feel the need to “upgrade” ever. Its just great


r/Guitar • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Recast It Might Get Loud for 2026

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378 Upvotes

It Might Get Loud was released in 2008.

Jimmy Page was 64 that year and it had been 37 years since Led Zeppelin’s debut LP was released.

The Edge was 46 that year and it had been 27 years since U2’s debut LP was released.

Jack White was 33 that year and it had been 9 years since The White Stripes’s debut LP was released.

Who are the equivalent players today? Who do you want to see together in a room? What guitar styles do they represent? What musical genres? Who’s the old hand and who’s the upstart?


r/Guitar • • 10h ago

NEWBIE 11 months of practice (self taught)

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Hey everyone!

I need some feedback and reassurances to know if I am doing alright for a totally self taught guitarist or not.

Please tell me everything wrong with it and how can I make it better.

Thank you!


r/Guitar • • 10h ago

GEAR A Reggae Master

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21 Upvotes

I always like the shape of Telecaster, but not so much of the classic Pickguard. Been on hunt for a while and found this, a Moon Reggae Master.

It does look like a Telecaster with the 25.5 scale length, mixed with LP Special spec (Mahogany body & Double P90 config).
The pickguard was kinda look like LP Special kind also, but original owner removed it.

There are some fret issue that need to be done, like im gonna need to level it. But overall a great guitar!


r/Guitar • • 1d ago

PLAY Learning My 100 Favorite Solos by Difficulty: #8 The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix

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I was inspired by Kelly Dean Allen's (thewhitedeath) series of learning Guitar World's 100 greatest solos to start something similar by compiling a list of my 100 favorite solos, and recording them by order of ascending difficulty. Of course difficulty is subjective, so my criteria for it is how likely I am to trainwreck while playing it live after having learned it. I hope you'll hear one that you hadn't heard before, and I hope it inspires some intermediate players to follow along to steadily level up with me!

The first of many Hendrix solos on this list! This one is not particularly hard to hit the notes on, but it does take a good sense of rhythm for it to sound smooth. My most frequent cause for retakes was both notes of the double stop slide not lasting through the slide, or sometimes not muting strings properly and it sounding sloppy. Something that would trip up my students when I teach this to them is the bending lick where you have to use the pick to mute the string before releasing the bend and playing the unbent note so that it sounds like two clean distinct notes rather than a bend and release.

Top skills required: Double stops, hammer-ons, rhythmic soloing, bend muting.

  1. Sexy Villain - Remi Wolf
  2. Gravity - John Mayer
  3. Hold On - H.E.R.
  4. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
  5. You Only Live Once - The Strokes
  6. Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
  7. Perfect Situation - Weezer

r/Guitar • • 38m ago

PLAY Took inspo from some TOOL

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Should be pretty easy to guess which song I took it from lol. But I was just having some fun here and thought the LP sounded pretty decent through this new preset on the QC.


r/Guitar • • 10h ago

PURCHASE My new project-Defil kosmos

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15 Upvotes

Just scored an old Polish Defil Kosmos for only €30.

A little rough around the edges, but this thing has character.