Your next guitar revisited

[vurt]

whats wrong with the porch?

[Forgotten]

whats wrong with the porch?

It's not as spacious as the Ferrari...

[Bombadil]

[Forgotten]

[AnX]

still weighing up my options...

[Bombadil]

I canceled it. I don't feel comfortable spending that money right now. And I don't need another guitar. I just don't feel like playing the 'it's ok, but for x+ more, I could get this' game. Also, I don't feel like going through the hassle of shipping it back if I don't want it. I'll revisit the decision at a later time, but right now, no.

[The Noodlist]

Came a cross a brand called Doodad Guitars - sub €500 prices.
http://www.doodadguitars.nl/

[tapper mike]

I canceled it. I don't feel comfortable spending that money right now. And I don't need another guitar. I just don't feel like playing the 'it's ok, but for x+ more, I could get this' game. Also, I don't feel like going through the hassle of shipping it back if I don't want it. I'll revisit the decision at a later time, but right now, no.

Smart move, Bills are always around the corner while guitars are around the world.

It's funny. In my misspent youth. I had nothing, needed little and wanted nothing. Any day regardless of what it threw at me was a good day to be alive and the only thing I had going was to be alive. Occasionally I long for those days.

[Hewitt Huntwork]

Last week Eastwood had flash sales on two models I've always wanted but chemo has left me with nerve damage and I can't play. I'm cancer free and my hands are 50% better than when chemo ended in December. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to play again someday. But buying guitars when you can't play is a whole other disease!

And I used my inability to play as an excuse to buy a Kordbot.

[Uncle E]

Last week Eastwood had flash sales on two models I've always wanted but chemo has left me with nerve damage and I can't play. I'm cancer free and my hands are 50% better than when chemo ended in December. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to play again someday. But buying guitars when you can't play is a whole other disease!

I'm sorry to hear that! Maybe now would be a good time to pick up slide or, on the other end of the spectrum, work on techniques that require a tremendous amount of repetition, such as in flamenco. A gypsy taught me a form of rasgueado where flick your pinky down, strum your index finger down using a down picking motion, and strum your thumb up using an up picking motion. I did those in quarter notes at around 60bpm - incredibly slow! - for 6 months, then one day it all clicked together and it's now my fastest picking technique. I use it on electric, too.

Are you good at sight reading? Open a song you've never played in the real book and play it through non-stop at 50bpm, 60bpm, and 70bpm. Just move on to the next note if you flub, you can get it right on the next pass. After the third pass, you'll be able to play it accurately at full speed.

[vurt]

can we at least have a for being cancer free now

[Uncle E]

[Erisian]

The epitome of good taste

[fairlyclose]

Last week Eastwood had flash sales on two models I've always wanted but chemo has left me with nerve damage and I can't play. I'm cancer free and my hands are 50% better than when chemo ended in December. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to play again someday. But buying guitars when you can't play is a whole other disease!

I'm sorry to hear that! Maybe now would be a good time to pick up slide or, on the other end of the spectrum, work on techniques that require a tremendous amount of repetition, such as in flamenco. A gypsy taught me a form of rasgueado where flick your pinky down, strum your index finger down using a down picking motion, and strum your thumb up using an up picking motion. I did those in quarter notes at around 60bpm - incredibly slow! - for 6 months, then one day it all clicked together and it's now my fastest picking technique. I use it on electric, too.

Are you good at sight reading? Open a song you've never played in the real book and play it through non-stop at 50bpm, 60bpm, and 70bpm. Just move on to the next note if you flub, you can get it right on the next pass. After the third pass, you'll be able to play it accurately at full speed.

nice to be cancer free - Arthritis did it for me for guitar ( or as far as I used to be able to play) but I can still play drones Which is where my Jackson DK2S sustainiac guitar comes in handy - I dont think they are made any more but are quite a good guitar

[revvy]

Last week Eastwood had flash sales on two models I've always wanted but chemo has left me with nerve damage and I can't play. I'm cancer free and my hands are 50% better than when chemo ended in December. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to play again someday. But buying guitars when you can't play is a whole other disease!

I'm sorry to hear that! Maybe now would be a good time to pick up slide or, on the other end of the spectrum, work on techniques that require a tremendous amount of repetition, such as in flamenco. A gypsy taught me a form of rasgueado where flick your pinky down, strum your index finger down using a down picking motion, and strum your thumb up using an up picking motion. I did those in quarter notes at around 60bpm - incredibly slow! - for 6 months, then one day it all clicked together and it's now my fastest picking technique. I use it on electric, too.

Are you good at sight reading? Open a song you've never played in the real book and play it through non-stop at 50bpm, 60bpm, and 70bpm. Just move on to the next note if you flub, you can get it right on the next pass. After the third pass, you'll be able to play it accurately at full speed.

nice to be cancer free - Arthritis did it for me for guitar ( or as far as I used to be able to play) but I can still play drones Which is where my Jackson DK2S sustainiac guitar comes in handy - I dont think they are made any more but are quite a good guitar

Guitars are not the only fruit:)

HH: definitely treat yourself to something nice, guitar or otherwise. Take care.