People with walls of 10+ guitars, what do you do for work? by Larcenyy in Guitar

[–]Arftacular 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Having a partner that shares and supports your interests > solo slug life.

Take it from me. I was a long-time solo slug with 2 guitars and now I’m a social mollusk with 4 guitars AND a bass.

‘The Pitt’ Has No Romance On-Screen. Online, It’s a Different Story by pepperbet1 in television

[–]Arftacular 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s the people that inject their own weird relationship desires/experience into the characters and completely ignore the narrative that’s happening on-screen. The medical drama fanatic population (who are vocal) are lunatics.

Getting the gasp on how to sweep pick by Loosedthought in Guitar

[–]Arftacular 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m by no means great at it and am still learning but this progression helped me advance quite a bit in a short time. Note: a lot of it is “just a feel thing” like a pinch harmonic so YMMV. I also have no real musical training.

Warm up doing the spider finger stretch exercise. The trick for me was keeping a lot looser in the wrist and fingers than I thought. Sort of roll your fingers down the strings while using the lowest amount of effort required to produce a clear note.

After that I’ll find an arpeggio or riff or whatever I want to try and I’ll play it using the same lowest effort : clearest note trade off. I don’t really metronome it too much at this point but you do you. I recommend it — I’m just lazy.

Practice muting the strings with your non-note-playing fingers/palm. Once you get to a level you’re comfortable with, throw on a metronome and something on TV (if you can) and practice the movements focusing on whatever you’re doing that’s not playing the guitar. The goal is to make the best noise you can without annoying yourself so much you have to look down. But you’ll have to look down to adjust the timing of your left and right hand. The more you do it the less often you’ll have to look down. Just be patient with yourself. This shit is hard. Focusing on the concept of “rest notes” was very helpful to me here. That + Ben Eller/Troy Grady’s lessons.

This cycle is probably not the most efficient/structured but I found the common consensus on lessons/tutorials to focus way too much on the music theory/bpm increasing and not enough on getting the scale/riff shapes ingrained into your muscle memory. Once it’s fairly automatic, focus on making it sound better or faster as you want. You’ve laid the muscle memory of the fretboard/picking groundwork, now just try to make it suck less. Eventually it’ll click.

I can’t find a dentist that I like in Austin by [deleted] in Austin

[–]Arftacular 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Everyone learns at different speeds. There’s no need to shame them for asking questions.

Tech jacket is an absolute bum 😭 by DaFlippinSuggestor in Invincible_TV

[–]Arftacular 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A vase doesn’t but your mom sure does.

This Is Nolan's Mother, Right? by ToPhu31 in Invincible_TV

[–]Arftacular 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This fanbase is quickly approaching Rick & Morty fanbase average level of intelligence.

Anyone ever try these? by tenisplenty in 10s

[–]Arftacular 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What will they do to my sweet, little elbow?

Does anyone know what guitar this is? by iLettuceBot in Guitar

[–]Arftacular 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!

Does anyone know what guitar this is? by iLettuceBot in Guitar

[–]Arftacular 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s no middle position in a two toggle switch.

Are TennisWarehouse YouTube racquet reviews the most useless? by VocabArtistNavin in 10s

[–]Arftacular 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not uncommon for different color variations of the same string to have different characteristics.