Oh I'm sure I'll be looking to you for advice for a good long while going forward, you are getting rid of me that easy. I'd be willing to get I won't find anyone with more experience. Only 2 hours left until its supposed to arrive.
I'm living vicariously through you! (I replied to your comment on the site. I don't actually have reply notifications enabled, I don't think. I might, but few people comment and I've not bothered installing a plugin to facilitate that. Jetpack might do it. I dunno...)
It's great that you're excited and you'll have a better experience with it because the guitar is new and should be very playable.
Hopefully, you keep that excitement. There's a reason that not everyone plays guitar and that many guitar players don't play it well. It's 'cause it's work. It's not very easy (except for the limited subset of the population that is a virtuoso) but it's attainable for pretty much anyone willing to put the work in.
You'll probably want some pedals (and my initial advice would be some combination board that handles many effects) and you'll probably want a new amplifier.
You don't need either. You can play, practice, and learn well enough with just this kit. Otherwise, I'd have not suggested it. But, you'll find yourself wanting those things. When that time comes, I can help.
Also, I've never sold a guitar. I'm a unicorn in those regards. Every guitarist that has played a while has also sold a guitar, except for me. I've given some away, but I've never sold any.
But, I've sold tons of effects pedals, amps, stands, etc... I might be able to dig out a decent amp and offer it to you at a good price. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I buy all sorts of used gear and have tons and tons of guitar-related material, from amps to music stands. It's kinda embarrassing how much gear I have.
It's not just in my house, either. There's some in my garage, up on the second floor. There's also a ton of it that's in storage in a storage unit. Initially, I replaced much of my gear when I sold and retired. The older stuff stayed in storage. However, I've added significantly to it since then. So, there's a lot of gear in the storage units and I keep telling myself that I'm going to go through it and get rid of some of it.
Like I said, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. When you start looking for an amp, and you most certainly will, that'll be a big step for you. I can see this potentially turning into a series of articles, actually. We shall see!
I am excited and I do appreciate the offer really all the offers like I said I wouldn’t be here without these interactions, I’m sure I’ll be looking for all that type of stuff before I know it and I’ll definitely be asking lots of questions about all of it. I’m hoping to be able to play a scale before the day is over.
One of the videos in the playlist embedded in the article has the Natural Scale. That's the one you want to start with.
You play the whole notes in sequence and use alternate picking.
He (and some others) do it backwards from what I do. When I write things down, the first string I write is the low-E (or the fattest of the six strings). It's the one on the top. For some reason, some people start with the high-E, or the string at the bottom. I have no idea why.
I'm sure this will eat the formatting:
E string: 0 1 3
A string: 0 2 3
D string: 0 2 3
G string: 0 2
B string: 0 1 3
E string: 0 1 3
Yeah, it eats the formatting. I want to place those on a new line, not a new paragraph. Code and quote make them all on one line. I don't want an empty line between them.
That's pretty horrible, really.
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