Started playing guitar in january. Spent the first month strumming half random grips and changing tunings to see what i could hear different. So much fun. Incredible how fast i've progressed just doing what i want. NOT learning any famous songs. Just tinkering
The capo tip!!!!! Sounds crazy but it is so true! Gibson LG-2 2017. Felt like something wasn’t clicking/sounding right until I capoed the 4th fret and my guitar is a booming box of soul!
Tip #3. Different strings. Another simple trick: new strings. Most of us leave the strings way to long. It's a bother and it's expensive. But every time I play new strings, even the same ones as were on already, I'm overwhelmed by the tone. It's a whole new guitar. I'm trying to get used to buying multiple strings at a time and keeping them on hand. I've also found a time to change strings that doesn't interfere with my playing. In a couple of minutes, I can set up a string-changing station in front of the TV and get a string change done while still enjoying sports, or a movie, or a documentary.
Thanks Tony, I appreciate the instruction, I discovered what you shared about picking in different places in close to the saddle then over the sound hole and further up the fret board. I like it
Bonus tip: There is a product out there called a Tonerite. It's a small box that you plug into the wall and when placed on the guitar down on the nut, it will simulate years and years of playing. It vibrates the strings and the soundboard (the flat piece of wood on the top of the body) and loosens up the fibers in the wood. If you do three days of treatments (there is a schedule of intensity and duration) when you pick it up and strum it for the first time, you will be totally amazed at what it sounds like. They're only a hundred bucks or so but will make your $300 Fender sound like a $10,000 Martin (well, you know what I mean)
I agree about the capo. I have a 2010 Martin 000-28 standard. It comes to life with the capo on the second fret on standard turning. For some weird reason. But its been good, as I've had to re-learn songs to suit it. Great Vid Tony. 🤘
Thank you for Guitar education Sir.I am learning so I can start learning to playing.I will be 71 soon and I might retire in few years.God bless you and thank you Sir.
The capo trick is straightforward, but amazing... I prefer playing 2nd, 3rd, and 5th frets mainly, although I've got some awesome sounds from the 7th... also, the capo can align my guitar to match my voice as well...
I tried my capo at the 5th fret, If you ignore the low E and A strings you can do the exact same fingering as you would on ukulele. The "G" string would be an octave lower than uke but it works.
Great video Tony! Is there an acoustic guitar with deep base sound you might recommend? How about some easy to play strings with a deep bass feel? Thanks!
It's so amazing how much better a hand made guitar sounds. There is such a gap in quality, and I'll tell you something people don't know. A handmade guitar,you can play like an electric ,(I don't mean the sound ) With even a high quality acoustic guitar you are limited in how you play them. They're very tight and stiff. Now imagine a handmade accoustic guitar that sounds so beautiful ,you can bend notes easy ( but I don't not flimsy ) It is just shaped to play like a dream. My handmade accoustic sounds so amazing.Imagine a tone better than a Martin.The tone projects.You can hear a clean tone , with the bass notes resonating out very clean ( they don't just get lost in the mix. ) Also the best quality accoustic just are to stiff and tight.You can't play solos like a electric. You might be thinking "we'll I don't want to play like an electric, I want to sound like an acoustic player "... However that's the beauty of a handmade guitar, it's like something that's never been heard yet. Like another species of animal that's been discovered. Imagine playing an acoustic that's very punchy that projects outward but you can play notes smooth and it sounds almost like a tube amp ,the more you press on the tone the more you get natural resonating tone but you need to have someone hand make and pick out your wood, and shape it for you to do what you want Have you ever laid in bed and imagined you playing a guitar the way you want ,? well that's the thing, it plays just like how you would dream a guitar would play and sound. You're not limited by an electric guitar or you're not imited by an acoustic guitar ,cuz electric guitars have limitations too, they don't sound as good as an acoustic. My guitar cost $10,000 . When I plug it in people don't know what's going on ,they're like " is that a electric he's playing in a clean amp or is that an acoustic ? They say "That's the best guitar I've ever heard" they don't say that's the best acoustic, or the best electric ,they just use the definition of a guitar . When you plug it in, they say " that is the best guitar they've ever heard " because you can play just like an electric, and you can play just like a accoustic. For example you can play Blackbird by the Beatles so beautiful or Black mountain side by Led Zeppelin but then you can play shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd all the guitar soloingDavid Gilmore's doing and it sound beautiful too ( now imagine that.).
The type of pick is a great easy way to change the sound of your guitar, and also change the way you play, because the feel is different. I find that lighter picks make acoustic guitars less boomy and more sparkly, great for strumming, especially fast strumming, and situations when you want the guitar to fill a narrower sonic space, such as to avoid duplicating bass or keyboard frequencies. Heavier picks make guitars sound fatter, louder and more solid, with more bass, great for flat picking, or switching between chords and single notes.
I have the crappiest starter peavy guitar so I play with my finger to make it not sound so stringy. Tried adjusting the truss rod. As a complete armature Idk, but it sounds like it sounds less tinny sounding when the truss rod is adjusted, but since you didn’t mention it in your video, maybe it doesn’t affect the sound much
Open tunings are great. I need to buy a new slide, my buddy knocked over my bone one on accident and it broke in half. I guess I'm just gonna get a brass one haha
I have a Martin D, and it really hates the E note, either player ok the 4th or 5th string, it literally dies and it booms like the wood won’t vibrate to that frequency. But everywhere else it sounds awesome! Ugh. Any ideas what it might be? I’ve had it adjusted a few times and it just hates that note.
Is it like you're hitting a dead note? When you say it's been looked at do you mean a professional has had it in their workshop, cos if you have you shouldn't have dead notes.
@@VaughnFelixMusic it sounds like uneven frets or fret wear, but guitar centre would have noticed that so it does seem odd, unless it's been subject to sudden changes in humidity recently? Either way a proper luthier should be able to diagnose it straight away.
