Guitar criticisms that you really don't get or understand.
- Thread starter Flamencology
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Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Yep. One of very few things I agree with Howie on.
If you're going to be strumming, play a fucking acoustic.
Again, it's a technique issue. Use your wrist, not your elbow and/or shoulder.
BATCAT
Monkey With Tools
It's specifically one thing- doing like, surf-ey or new wav-ey stuff, especially double-stops or chords where you're favoring the high string and palm-muting all six strings. I have not really found a way to position my hand where I'm not bumping my knuckles into the volume. It's tolerable for a minute or two, but if you're doing a lot of that kind of muted playing for me at least it soon grows pretty annoying.
cuffdc
chicken n waffles
Look at what this hack did, moving a perfectly good volume knob.
Cocaine will make you do weird things.
BATCAT
Monkey With Tools
I'm not talking about strumming- I'm talking about playing whilst muting all six strings. (see above)
Dexter Inferno
Serious error
Exactly.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I would suggest not playing a Strat then, but honestly if I was trying hit that knob while strumming I'm not sure how I would do it.
I have this problem
. I just screw the middle pickup right down to get round it though.
BATCAT
Monkey With Tools
Imagine being a long-fingered person playing a whole bunch of rhythmic chording stuff where you mute the g, b, and high e strings. It doesn't seem like a big deal until you play something like that over and over again- then that volume control starts to seem more and more bothersome. It also just made it not fun to write stuff with that kind of muted chording. Maybe it doesn't seem like a dealbreaker to some but when you have a Tele or Jag you can pick up and not have that issue those other guitars start looking more and more appealing.
BATCAT
Monkey With Tools
I don't know how to state more clearly that the issue has absolutely nothing to do with "strumming" and relates to knuckle position while muting all six strings, in particular g/b/high e.
And yeah, it was a factor in ditching my Strat. (not the main one, but still...)
Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
The middle pickup in the way thing applies to me as well. My hands are just the right size to have my pick directly above the middle pup.
But I'm trying Ringo, I'm tryin' real hard.
But I'm trying Ringo, I'm tryin' real hard.
sonik
Motor City Madman
Yes if that was the case it would indeed be annoying.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
So you are hitting the middle pickup with your pick?
+1
So you are hitting the middle pickup with your pick?
Yes. Well, until I screwed it right down.
Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
So you are hitting the middle pickup with your pick?
Not always, by usual picking it doesn't go down that far to touch the pickup. But at times where I'm really trying to get some picking dynamics (for somereason when I'm trying to cop some Billy Gibbons feel) I really dig into it and "SMACK" there it is messin with my groove.
