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Bet they don't do it
Me too but I just thought it was something interesting worth mentioning.
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I wouldn't hold your breath. Matt was in Los Angeles earlier this week. Doubt he'd trek back just for that.
Who knows. He'd have to fly back to Europe to go to Germany next week anyway. Anything is possible!
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Doing it like heyjackk said works for me. Kind of have your wrist pointing away from the guitar and bend your hand back toward it and pick with your wrist, if that makes sense. Can sort of see it in thisDon't need to fan your fingers out really, unless you find it easier.
For muting I cover most of the strings with my first finger to mute the ones I don't want (almost like barring them). If it's an octave or whatever on any string higher than the low E I use my middle finger to mute the lower strings.
Yeah I already picked up on the muting with the middle finger.
So you're saying have my wrist less parallel with the strings and more perpendicular towards the sky/away from me? I just found a couple of videos on YouTube which said to hold the pick looser and strum lighter/dig in less and combining all these things I think I made some progress. <Also James covered this before I finished my reply>.
I think my pick attack in general is quite hard anyway as I have to have 2 mm action at the last fret on the low E to stop fret buzz. On the high E it's nearer 1.6 mm. The relief is about 0.3 mm at the ninth fret when fretting first and last frets. My set up is the "low" settings mentioned here: http://www.ibanezrules.com/tech/setup/action.htm . Honestly I'd prefer the "standard low" which is 1.6 mm for the E string but I get some buzz especially when bending ie the SMBH bend.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the guitar or the setup I think it's genuinely my fault. Maybe I should try to really soften up my attack and dig in less or maybe I'm making the buzz a bigger thing it really is. I think this is a bad habit from watching Matt too much since to me it looks like he really attacks his guitar but then again he must be doing something right to be able to tremolo strum or whatever like a maniac.
Another thing I noticed is that I'm struggling/straining to reach high up the fret board for example when playing stuff like...
G 3 3 3
D X X X
A 1 1 1
... I can think of several reasons for this but not sure which one(s) is(are) the problem.
1) I snapped my left wrist 10 years ago. Although I'm pretty sure it healed perfectly.
2) I have pretty small hands / fingers. But then again like the wrist thing I should be work to work around this.
3) My strap is set too low. I had it up quite high but it put more strain on my shoulder. So I lowered it to about what I think is average with the bridge directly over my crotch.
4) I'm playing with the neck too horizontal. Perhaps I should even lengthen the strap a bit more?
5) I'm straining my wrist to keep my fingers perpendicular which is causing me to strain my forearm to make it more perpendicular to the neck.
With reference to 5 I could try bringing my elbow in towards me bringing my forearm more parallel with the neck. However this collapses my hand a bit against the fretboard so I'm fretting more with the side of my finger especially on the A string, is this bad?
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Ohh so you mean just octaves, but not like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1f3homF44Q
Not that it makes a difference with the right hand. He's still strumming the same way as on the stockholm syndrome verses or psycho solo, but muting strings at certain points with his left hand.
That's what I have trouble with. You have to mute some strings the entire time, and others need to be muted only sometimes (if that makes sense)
But with the SS verses or psycho solo, you don't have to do anything fancy with your left hand. Only slide up or down.
Only advice I can give is to do it slowly at first until you can cleanly play at a louder higher speed consistently.
as for the whole strumming hand being in a fist, it might be. Seems like that might put more tension on your wrist. I was a bit like that at first, but found it a bit easier to just let the three other fingers hang freely or whatever
I find that I have to make a conscious effort to try and make my other 3 fingers fan out and if I don't they begin to curl/retract.
When I pick I tend to keep the pick at a neutral angle I think but when I strum, which I can only really down downward at the moment, I tend to angle the pick upwards to decrease the resistance. Then this really messes me up when I need to try and strum back up since the pick is at the wrong angle. I think I often loosen my grip on the pick when strumming so my fingers end up nearer the top of the pick.
Should I be trying to encourage myself to strum at a neutral angle as well as a matter of habit?
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Like octaves? i.e.
G-9
D-x
A-7 ?
It's kinda hard to explain but the way that I find easiest is like how Matt B does it where you use your wrist a lot. He kinda holds his pick between his thumb, index finger and middle finger and then picks from his wrist. You can kinda see him doing it whenever he does the slide in Knights of Cydonia and the Psycho octave run. Can kinda see what I mean here https://youtu.be/PG0QLxGclAM?t=4m29s
Yeah anything like Psycho or Stockholm Syndrome etc. Comes up a lot.
I think the main thing is that I have trouble doing the strumming alternately but I'm fine at alternate picking on one string. My muting is a bit inconsistent too so sometimes the pick gets caught up or the notes aren't clear.
I tend to keep my strumming hand in more of a fist than Matt and a lot of others who are more able to fan their fingers out. Is this part of the problem possibly?
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They're playing Paris on Saturday aren't they? Or is it next month?
It's during Euro 2016 which doesn't start for another 2 weeks. So they're not booked to play anything this weekend and could be one of the surprise acts.
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Noob question: How do I go about doing that ridiculous tremolo picking over strings (ie A and G with D muted) that features in a few muse songs? I'm able to do it on one string at the mo.
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#amptech
you're going to like this one Jaicen.
No words.
w t f
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Someone on reddit mentioned that the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Exeter this weekend has 3 surprise acts. Even though they played the Norwich one last year can we really rule Muse playing out since it's Exeter? The Berlin gig isn't until next Friday June 3rd so it's possible.
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Pretty sure it's a TSL 60
Yeah that looks like it for sure!
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11:32. Didn't know he had a Marshall head on stage at all that tour.
Is it just me or does that look like a JVM? (Two rows of knobs).
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PSA: The venue isn't allowing ANY bags or photography equipment in.
I think that's in line with the restrictions at the football matches themselves.
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That would be helpful for a strings issue, but this is a SWITCH issue
Pfft the first part of the quote included the strings issue!
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No and no. It's only a 3 way toggle to change between the pickups
I used GHS fast fret on my last set of strings and felt it kept them nicer for longer. Try something like that maybe.
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maybe try these. They're MB approved after all.
http://www.ernieball.com/products/electric-guitar-strings/1739/rps-10-slinky-nickel-wound
(Apparently that guy is EB's president)
I've got a couple of sets ordered to see if there's much of a difference. Going to put them on the copper to see how they handle abuse, as that one took a while to break in last time.
I use these but they're not coated. Just the unwound strings are reinforced. Don't really know if they're any better than the regular ones.
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Still obsessed with their good material. I have muse riffs playing in my head most of the time.
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Invincible is a lot better than the later stuff. At least it has good guitar.
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Woah, who's that seller that we should avoid?
I'm thinking of getting a couple packs of EB 10's and single 60's strings. I do like the 4th and 5th strings in regular size better than in a 10-52 set
Oh it was literally just a random seller on eBay. I'm guessing they bought a bunch of strings a while ago but no longer needed them.
It's OK I got a refund then managed to get 10 sets of .010 .013 0.17 for the same price to go with the wound strings that were unaffected.
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Ordered 10 packs of Ernie Ball RPS off a guy on eBay. Parcel arrived wet and the first three packs of strings that were in unsealed plastic sleeves had rusty unwound strings. Then I opened the rest which were in the sealed foil packs and they all had the same problem!
Totally bizarre that even the sealed strings were affected, has anyone else ever had the same problem?
I've got a refund now and I get to keep all the strings. Do you think the wound strings will be usable in the future seeing as they seem unaffected but are unsealed? Might be able to save money in the future by buying unwound strings instead of packs.
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So what setlist will they be likely to play when it will be filmed?
Last night's Milan gig was filmed so you can check that setlist. They might well play something different if they are filming Berlin though.
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Bristol airport will almost definitely have flights. No need to specifically go from Exeter.
Eurostar is from London, not worth the bother.
Yeah Bristol or even Southampton are viable options for airports too.
Heck even Heathrow or Gatwick (and possibly others) are almost equally well linked to Exeter via train as Bristol and Southampton.
I travel from where I live near Gatwick to Plymouth quite often to visit my girlfriend which takes about 4 hours 45 minutes. From just Gatwick to Exeter would be nearer 3 hours or 3 hours 30 minutes I expect
I imagine if you considered multiple airports for inbound and outbound flights you'd find something which meant you didn't need a hotel in Paris.
Eurostar would probably be no better than than flying on cost/time basis, although there may well be more scope for travelling back after the gig at night and it's still pretty well linked to Exeter.
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Hmm need to check if Exeter airport can fly me there. I know they don't have flights coming from the US, but I imagine Paris would be different
Can you afford coming down to Exeter? Looks like we're going to have quite the meet up.
You can bring the ukuleles for the Muse covers we're going to play outside of Mansons. I've got the crash cymbals and tambourines covered.
No he's right.
I had a quick look and looks like they do fly to Paris but I expect there are limited flights per day and the timetable probably changes depending on season as it's a small airport.
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DEFECTOR no joke
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damn, nearly three years ago now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRncmYnpvIE
If you listen closely, at some point during this video, you can hear @dickmovedom breaking his finger.
anyone going to glastonbury or that eiffel tower thing?
I've thought about the second one since I'm in the UK during that time and don't have to leave for another couple of days, but 1) I have no idea what it's like to get over there and 2) already have a night out with the ladz planned.
Shouldn't be difficult as a lot of airports probably fly to Paris. Even Exeter Airport.
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I read an article somewhere a while ago describing the account of a group of lads who tried/managed to get in by scaling the fence. Was quite funny but sounded pretty risky.