Im still utterly rubbish at working songs out by ear.
Got the first half of the solo down for Fool for your loving yesterday.
I broke it down into 3 sections then 3 sections again and practiced each one until I had it down and didnt have to think about it.
awesome! Classic song!!
Get Guitar Pro (there’s even an iOS version if you have an iPad). I’m sure there are guitar pro tab files for it freely available
I’m currently simultaneously working on the solos on Dream Theater’s As I Am and Nevermore’s This Sacrament.
Know the solos by heart. Can play them, just need to get up full speed and get the sections clean and polished.
Takes time and dedication but so worth it!
Well, for me it is.
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so this is going for a set up on Friday. Its unplayable as strngs are so high and i cannot seem to adjust it. Im alsi having locking tuners added.
Shot in the dark but might need a neck shim.
Shame they leave the factory like that, but then a £10k Martin is the same.
I have to admit that I’m put off by Telecasters because of the inherently hideous headstock. However, it took me years to realise that there’s probably not a better sounding guitar out there for everything that is based on blues.
A couple of years ago, I discovered a heavy metal band named Sonja (only one album so far, unfortunately, but it’s a beast of an album), and their sound is based on a Thinline Telecaster run through Mesa Dual Rectifier - I’m still astounded by how sharp and sonorous it is at the same time because Telecasters aren’t that present in music that I listen to, let alone those with a hollow or chambered body.
Please let us know what it’s like when you have it set up.
Yeah i cant complain - the guitar and bag was £150!
I think Harley Benton make a superb guitar for real cheap but I always spend a bit extra by taking it to an expert for set up, fret check and always add locking tuners - so its worth the extra £100.
Hopefully when luthier is finished it will fill like a £800+ Fender strat for about £250!
Will do. Yeah Im not a fan of the headstock but the neck feels nice so Im hoping an expert set up makes this real playable.
It’s not the same but I have to brag about how I dared to adjust the neck on my Schecter E-1 on the weekend during the self-performed setup. 
I should really be more brave with this stuff because it made the guitar so much more comfortable and playable that I’m now reluctant to take it to a professional luthier (but mainly because I can’t be bothered).
I left the action slightly higher than on my other two guitars and I didn’t want to change the strings just yet because I wanted to see how stable the tuning and intonation would be after a few days (friends told me that neck adjustment sometimes takes hours to set in). So far, so good. Bought Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom sets for all of them, hopefully I’ll get to change them in a few days.
I hated the neck on my thinline. The guitar was great bar that.
Always a good idea to invest in the set up too. A lesson for me there, or at least learning how to do it myself.
That Hondo of mine needs a little work to be honest.
A tad of inspiration this week.
I’ve struggled to know what notes to hit while soloing so I’m in that common spot of sounding shite spewing pentatonics everywhere.
So I happened to come across a few clips of how Mark Knopfler plays some of his most iconic solos and its given me a bit of a poke. So I’m slowly going through Brothers in Arms by ear. I refuse to look at any tabs for it, just the chords as the Spark app brings them up. And I’m slowly slowly seeing the relationship between the notes and chords for each lick. Its proving to be a great lesson so far.
Otherwise I seriously need to sort the electrics on my guitar. A good set up wouldnt go amiss either.
Can anyone recommend me some good exercises for two notes per string patterns? I’ve been practicing some alternate picking patterns for three notes per string for weeks and when I tried to learn some Judas Priest solos, it turned out I completely suck at them because they were mostly written using two notes per string blues scale.
Anything by BB King?
Albert King too perhaps.
Sorry just thinking of who played that way and kinda wrote the playbook on it.
I’m all ears! Being your average metalhead, I rely a lot on exercises provided by Ben Eller (who’s a fantastic YouTube teacher if you ask me), though I don’t think he provided any exercises on two note per string patterns - which is bread and butter of rock and metal guitar players. As you can see, it’s the basics that I lack and that severely impedes my progress.
Another would be David Gilmour. A lot of pentatonics, clever bends and the like. Pretty sure from memory that Another Brick in the Wall solo is all one and 2 notes per string the odd slide to make the odd 3 note one.
Comfortably Numb too, Mother, Hey you and so on.
Update…guitar is done…I just havent got round to picking up it up as the guy has been away and ive not been about…but ill have it back by Monday week at the latest. Pics to follow.
