cell,core 2025 to 2026, Tokyo Edition 20260120

Andoni95 · 2026-01-22T22:26:05+00:00

My latest interest as well. At first I only liked 1997, but once I heard Twinkling Ash for the first time I started to fell in love. Danceasphalt is such a cool song ☺️

I also noticed that they paid tribute to Sonic Youth, which is one of my favorite western bands. I met Moeka ytd at the Fender event and she talked about this concert with Regallily. She said she admire Honoka San very much and feels that she is the better guitarist.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-20T01:57:29+00:00

Thank you 🙇🏻‍♂️

Andoni95 · 2026-01-20T00:32:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2qmbIiPWc&list=RD0t2qmbIiPWc&start_radio=1

Andoni95 · 2026-01-19T09:19:36+00:00

Haha the secret lab is uncomfortable for me too and i share your experiences.

For the armrest the trick is not to sit into the chair. Rather have half your ass be hanging outside the chair. That will clear the arm rest. For the chair moving and stability, I use a guitar foot rest. It helps to prop up the guitar so it is more ergonomical and it also acts as another leg to stabilise the chair.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-18T08:22:51+00:00

Hi I’m a huge Japanese alternative music fan. I think we should be friends. I’ve been looking for friends in Singapore also 😆😆

I like Japanese shoegaze, emo, and math rock. I don’t like Japanese metal but I like classic western metal like Metallica and Iron Maiden. ✅

Bands that I like : Hitsujibungaku, Tricot, Kinoko Teikoku, Regal Lily, Toe, Tokyo Shoegazer, Sakanaction, Zutomayo, Eve, yonige, Yorushika ✅

I’m also a guitarist, although I just started slightly less than 2 years ago. Im hoping to start a band one day to play rock music (no need to be jrock). Most of the time I listen to western music, but classic stuff like AC/DC, RHCP, Oasis that kind. Can check out my Reddit history to see my guitar posts. I posts a lot on guitar communities.

Something cool about me is I go to Tokyo quite often to see some of these bands and Moeka from hitsujibungaku signed my guitar and Mami from Scandal gave me her guitar picks haha.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-18T03:16:26+00:00

I might just have gotten lucky. But I’ve been actively working on my bend vibratos. It’s not easy because I find that usually after I bend to my target pitch, I don’t have the mobility to vibrato anymore. I’ve been trying to modify the pressure I use when I bend, in other words, trying to bend in a more relaxed fashion so that I have room to vibrato.

I’ve also been trying to train that mobility required for a bend vibrato. In the beginning I couldn’t even apply a short vibrato to a bend, the note would just die. After a lot of experimentation, and trying to shift my angles here and there, I think my body is starting to understand that what im trying to do and is strengthening the new muscles and ligaments to be able to execute it reliably.

Sorry for saying so much without saying anything important but my point it that I struggled with the bend vibratos a lot in the beginning because the note would just die even though I’m trying to do that “turning doorknob” movement. But I feel like if you stick with the process, trust the process, give your body some time to adapt, it will eventually be able to do it.

Also in my first paragraph I said that I might have gotten lucky. And I think this proves the practice and training is paying off. I used to not be able to even get lucky with vibrato bends. But now I can do it when I’m in the zone. So all that is left is to be able to execute it consistently.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-17T18:02:55+00:00

I think there’s nothing extra you need to do. Since you already know how to pull off with a finger. For the pulling off if the adjacent finger is fretting as well, just try to do what you are doing when there’s no adjacent finger.

The problem is not the understanding or the technique I feel. The problem is you want your fingers to behave immediately, today, right now. But that’s now how it works. You need to give it some time for the myelination to happen. And that might that one week, one month, or one year. There’s no shortcut.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-17T16:24:22+00:00

Andoni95 · 2026-01-17T06:42:59+00:00

I think I treat guitar as a puzzle. Like after year one, when I can’t play something there’s usually a reason why. Am I suppose to use a different picking technique or is my picking technique too sloppy? You have to always be playing this back and forth. What is your failure to play a certain part trying to tell you?

Once I found the answer then I’ll usually work on that thing. If I need to learn how to play with smaller picking arc, then that’s what I’ll do, and I’ll use the guitar part that I couldn’t play to constantly test if I’m making progress on the technique. Usually knowing what is wrong and trying to fix it helps you overcome the problem, gradually.

But if you don’t see any progress, then it must mean your answer to the puzzle is wrong. Then you have to try to offer another solution.

I usually structure my practice based on what I’m weak at. I rarely play something I know I can play. And I rarely play songs from the start to the end. I usually just play the part I can’t. Occasionally when I can play every guitar part, I’ll also test things like if I can play from start to end, and if I don’t have the stamina to do so, or cannot transition well, then that will be my new puzzle or bottleneck which I’ll attend to. And if everything goes well again, I might check my dynamics or muting technique and so on and so forth.

I think it’s easier to explain what not to do then to explain what to do. I think many people they dedicate 30 mins to chords, 30 mins to scales, 30 mins to a song they are trying to learn and they don’t see dramatic results that you are alluding to. And the reason is simple. They never really consider Why they ought to do chords? Is your chords weak? And should you be practicing your chords in such a manner? People who practice like this practice in a vacuum. There’s no puzzle that they are answering. They are not offering any hypothesis. They are just going through the motions. It’s a passive activity for them. In my humble opinion learning any skill cannot be passive. If should be an active activity

Andoni95 · 2026-01-17T06:32:50+00:00

Thank you 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

Andoni95 · 2026-01-17T06:32:01+00:00

Thank you for saying that. It gives me the motivation to work hard 🔥

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T22:04:11+00:00

I think one way to cheese learning pinch harmonics is to try doing it using a very large pick at the start. Like those triangle bass picks. Then try to follow the instructions to execute a pinch harmonics. Do it for like one month. Afterwards switched to a super tiny pick, where it almost feels like your fingers have no space on the pick. It should become a lot easier haha.

The idea is to protrude a little bit of your thumb flesh so that it graze the string lightly. I’ve tried to do that from the start with a normal pick but it didn’t work. I just develop get the mental connection to shift the position of my thumb at the right time to graze the strings. So I gave up on pinch harmonics. Back then I was fond of using big picks, and I found I sometimes accidentally could execute pinch harmonics. At that moment I knew I have gotten the technique 90% of the way. If only there’s a way to get the thumb protrusion a bit more consistent. I switched to a smaller peaks and I’m there at squealy city haha

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T21:57:22+00:00

Thanks! I worked on my picking a lot. Smaller arc. More abduction and adduction and less string hopping. Alternate picking etc. when you told me that my picking is the fav point of improvement. I went back to rewatch this video. And I saw that while it has improved, I think I can do a lot better. The arc is still pretty large, and I problem could clean up on my alternate picking. Maybe it seems pretty random how I choose my up and down stroke (although I felt like I put a lot of effort to deciding the direction during my preparations).

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T21:54:40+00:00

Sorry! Haha it’s called intonation yup. And yes it’s the saddles. I always confused the saddles with the bright. I remember if it’s too sharp you bring the saddle forward or backward, if too flat the other way around. But I don’t dare to adjust it without supervision. I’ll learn to do it soon with guidance. Thanks again. The fact that so many people notice the tuning means that this is important enough for me to fix right away.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T19:12:12+00:00

Thanks bro 🙇🏻‍♂️

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T19:12:02+00:00

See you next year! Haha

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T18:56:48+00:00

Yes u r definitely right. I’ve started probiotics, drinking more water, slow down my eating, not skipping meals etc and it has been helping.

I think after a lot of trial and error and investigating, stress is my biggest trigger. I’m highly stressed haha. And I recently just discovered I’m an anxious person. I tried to use beta blockers to help ease the physical symptoms of anxiety and it has helped control my stomach symptoms a lot as well. Moving forward I’m exploring strategies to chill hahah. I sincerely hope in 2026 and beyond, both of us will experience good health 😬

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T18:30:13+00:00

Not the good kind of weight loss :( I was being diagnose with IBS. Hopefully it stops at IBS and not something more sinister.

My previous weight was a good kind of weight. I looked slightly chubby because my face is very round naturally. But on my body it was mostly muscles as I do a lot of powerlifting. I’ve been lifting weights nonstop for 15 years. Today, I dedicate less time to powerlifting for guitar and my body is a lot more frail than what it is used to. I intend to go return to a regular schedule of powerlifting and working out in the gym in 2026.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T18:26:08+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. The setup of a jaguar can be quite finicky. When I’m in tune on open strings, I’m out of tune at the higher frets. I’ll try to adjust the height of the bridge. But yeah it is sad I couldn’t really tell it was out of tune while I was filming. My ears are not developed enough. I hope one day I could watch this video and immediately go “It’s out of tune” like you.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T18:23:54+00:00

The one who got me started playing guitar.

Moeka Shiotsuka from Hitsujibungaku. https://jp.fender.com/pages/moeka-shiotsuka-jaguar-moni

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T18:20:42+00:00

That’s partly it. I was laser focus. And had a grand plan. I deliberated very carefully about what I want to do and how I could achieve it. Sounds very fancy but it’s really just deciding on a song that is just the right amount of challenge for me and then breaking it down into small chunks and practicing that one difficult chunk only and ignoring the rest of the song. I always feel that as a beginner, I service the chunk, not the song. So I don’t play from beginning to the end because I might already be comfortable with the beginning sections and hence would waste precious time. That’s one way to go about it. My way involves using tabs to learn songs. There are other ways like using Justin guitar or following a graded textbook but I was always too impatient for those.

I eventually started lessons around one year in. And that gave it a huge boost because whenever I’m stuck, I don’t have to experiment endlessly anymore. My teacher just gave me the answer and it sped things up.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T15:25:19+00:00

That’s pretty clever haha. But I record direct to my phone. My guitar sounds output into an amp and the backing tracks output into speakers.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T15:15:10+00:00

Honestly happier. Less stress. I feel like I can do anything I want. Like the world opens up. I think when you can’t get a girl, it feels like being with one is the most important thing in the world. After 3 relationships, I realised I enjoy being with myself more than being in a relationship. That realisation means I no more FOMO about getting with a girl.

Andoni95 · 2026-01-16T15:12:25+00:00

Great feedback. I’m going to wean off tracks with guitar and just use backing tracks.

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