I don’t know why but I’ve been having a really strong urge to learn guitar lately.
I went to Guitar Center yesterday, and played a whole bunch of them to see what felt comfortable. I really liked the feel of a used 2009 MIM Fender Strat in Olympic White. Only problem is it was beat to heck, I mean in really bad shape, and they wanted an arm and a leg for it considering the condition it was in. I left the store empty handed, but could not get the feel of that neck out of my head.
So today I was browsing Offer-Up, and the exact same guitar (but a 2008) pops up. But this one was in pristine like new condition, like it just came out of the box. The seller was just around the corner from me, the price was right, so I went to check it out. It felt just like the one I played in the store, so it came home with me.
I still can’t believe the condition of this thing, especially it being 13 years old.
Anyways, not sure where this is going to go, but now I need to find a good online guitar course.
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Seriously though, I have always wanted to do this but know there is no time and no way, hope you do great with it. Cool looking axe.
Ha ha! Turn in your man card! The strings feel so small!
Yes I’m concerned with starting something else as well. We’ll see how it goes.
The guitar feels and sounds great but needs a setup. Watching setup videos now.
I have a guitar that someone gifted to me a couple years ago. It’s mainly been fluff for my stands. I even bought a guitar primer book and new strings for it, but they are collecting dust just as the guitar is. I just don’t have the desire. Bass and piano are enough for me.
It definitely did for me, improved my bass dexterity noticeably. So many fingers in such tiny frets. There’s a reason you learn the A Major chord so early
On the other hand, things that guitarists find to be difficult to reach - those will be easy peasy for you after bass. C Major? No problem! (Well ok slight problem, it’s clunky, but the reach is not the issue)
That’s a blatant lie sir. It’s been longer than 6 weeks for me and my fingers still throbbing. Although I catch myself bitching less, lol.
Like everything else, when you are learning something new you usually doing it too hard. I feel like I’m trying to turn a spaghetti strings in to a fettuccine strings.
A) Congratualtions!
2) That looks amazing. Nice find!
Tertius) I heartily second the Justin Sandercoe recommendation. He’s a good teacher
iv) If, at some point, you decide to upgrade pickups, the Lindy Fralin Vintage Hots sound great. I have them in my ‘68 reissue Strat and can’t say enough good about them
Also, barre chords - ouch. I had thought that my fingers were strong from bass. That was a rude awakening. So much harder than anything I have done on bass, including basic chords. Like 10x harder
I like my EMG(simply because that’s the only one I know, lol) especially for Strats I’ve been collecting them and play the 3 songs I know every time I pick it up, lol. I have all the the 20’s pickguard set the DG20, SL20,and VG20 all are awesome.
When i started playing guitar again about 4 years ago, i spent a long time just playing barre chords yes i don’t think there’s anything on bass which requires all that much strength.
