WELL,,,, Sean ! Its About Time You Played a Honestly true song ! However, (Despite All that Get UP) UR Still Channeling Song Man " Christopher CROSS" ol west
Started playing guitar at 16, am 60 now. I will never forget learning that A shape bar chord and how freaking painful it was. My guitar teacher insisted on the high E ringing out. F That! I quit lessons after only 3 weeks. Have never bothered with the high E. As you said, who gives A. My love for guitar has never changed, I still learn new things today. Just learned another way to do it right now. God bless brother. My advice is the same. Play what you love and stay away from torturer guitar teachers. They destroy more students by using the same rules for everyone. We are all different, our hands are all different. You can’t teach everyone the same. We need to find our own way, and our own way of playing. Don’t kill your self or destroy your hands, we only have two of them. ❤
I'm playing an acoustic without a pick and I'm struggling so hard to get palm muting right. The nails of my thumb and my index finger are basically forming a pick for strumming, but my fingers are too close to the board, and my palm is not anchored for palm muting to be effective. I should just start playing using a pick I guess, but then I have to give up other things I know from finger style picking.
If someone is getting buzzing when tuning down it doesn't mean the guitar is cheap, it just needs the truss rod adjusted. The truss rod balances the tension on the strings. So, if you reduce the tension by downtuning, you'll need to make a small adjustment to the truss rod as the neck will be too straight. Shouldn't be necessary for only a half step down, unless you've also changed to lighter gauge strings.
I just fret using all four fingers. It limits my pinky being handy to get more passing tones, but people using one finger always blew my mind and I refuse to try lol
Wood and carbon fiber? No, don't do it! They behave differently, and you might kill everyone. Sorry, I've watched too many documentaries about the Titan tragedy.
Hi Sean. Another great vid. I agree, I have a 514ce, gig with it and love and a D-18 that is simply gorgeous and I keep it at home. I also have that damned binding issue (I should fix that.) You mentioned your Taylor action. Could you post what your setup is? Or even do a vid on your setups? I do enjoy your style.
Wouldn't any type of wood, whether it's solid or laminate, still have to be properly humidified? I'm not sure if this would be able to endure environmental changes like a true carbon or carbon composite guitar. It seems kinda like the worst of both worlds in that respect. As far as how the guitar looks and sounds, it seems good for the price. I'm just not sold on it being a good carbon fiber guitar for the purposes you where you need one.
? This Donner, okay in car heat? I used the link in your description- it said mahogany sides and back... I am a traveler too, & wood like a carbon fiber traveling friend and this guitars $250 price point is AOK IMHO. But if its not trunk capable, I'll keep looking. Sounds great in your hands. Love the channel. Thanks
I've watched, dare i say, thousands of your videos...i have been impressed with everything you have done on guitar...but that smooth, desicant pack out the sound hole to the palm move you pulled...wow! The bar just got raised!
Oh buddy, I went to a Taylor event this last weekend and of course they were pushing the Vclass bracing models. I said my 814ce is X class and nobody has ever asked me at a gig whether it was V or X. I didnt make any friends when I said V was a bit of marketing hype, and a few people spent a lot of time trying to convince me I was wrong about improved engineering benefits. Like you said, maybe it matters for recording but not a gig in a loud bar.
Who is Elliot Smith, should I know him? I have a Yamaha LL11-e bought new in 2001, with an external pre-amp, blending piezo and mic pickups. Great playing and sounding guitar. I've never felt the need to buy another acoustic since I got it, unlike electrics where I have a roomful.
