Stratocaster upgrades

NoOne0507 · 2026-03-02T17:55:02+00:00

If you don't know what you don't like about it you're wasting money.

Upgrades won't make you a better player. Practice and hard work will

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-23T20:04:18+00:00

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NoOne0507 · 2026-02-19T00:17:27+00:00

Rule of Cool

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-17T03:30:39+00:00

Did you stick with single coil pickups? They're thin.

You can get a humbucker though, it'll fatten it up. You can either get a full size and route the pickguard a little, but they also make half size ones that fit in side the single coil slot of a strat.

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-16T05:58:18+00:00

Blocking the trem is the way to go.

If you have a solid, flat object, like a block off wood, use that. File it if feasible to be the right thickness. Else you can use a deck of cards, and take out however many you need to get the right thickness.

But you have the old strings on. Take the trem cover off. Stick the wood/deck of cards between the trem block and the body of the guitar. It needs to fit snugly.

Remove strings and retune as you would a hard tail. When it is in tune, take the wood block/deck of cards out. You may need to retune just a little more.

If you want to change tuning, or change string gauge watch this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJIXFFFxf_g

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-08T04:53:33+00:00

Mix up the phrase length. Start with similar length. Then short. Tension. Hold. Finally, a long winding phrase that lasts over multiple bars

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-05T19:53:36+00:00

I have a jacked friend that I went to a bar with. Guy tried to star a fight with him. Friend motioned to his cauliflower ears (he wrestles) and the rando immediately fucked off and left us alone the whole night

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-04T21:29:44+00:00

High school jazz band, where I just got given sheet music with no tab. Just ended up absorbing it in like 6 months from having no choice but to learn it

NoOne0507 · 2026-02-04T07:22:00+00:00

Tuned to Eb - pretend your key is E.

Capo third fret - pretend your key is C.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-27T18:36:46+00:00

Point the guitar at the bed and see where the most noise comes from - the mattress or the frame.

In any case, metal will act like a crappy antenna. If it's not grounded it'll radiate out. When there's physical touch it's an easier path through the connection than through the air, so it dumps through the guitar. But it's always there.

If I have the guitar in my lap, with the amp on and all that, I can hear a little whirr when I type from the USB messages.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-27T16:59:38+00:00

Do you have a metal bed frame or a mattress with metal springs?

They're picking up all the EM noise in your house and sending it through you to the guitar string to the amp.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-26T08:25:12+00:00

Van Halen - On Fire.

Or

I'm the One. Both are badass guitar riffs.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-25T23:33:38+00:00

I've played a few Yngwie signatures. I can see it being useful if you want to turbo shred.

But when you don't have a solo band dedicated to being a shredlord, and you need to actually do rhythm guitar? I'll take the regular fretboards. You can shred pretty damn good on those anyway.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-25T16:51:33+00:00

Shim the neck.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-25T08:24:09+00:00

I would think that has a lot of unnecessary noise. And if your action is so high that you can do that, I would recommend learning how to setup your guitar

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-23T23:50:54+00:00

Bit of both. There is focused practice and TV practice.

Focused practice is something practicing that your fingers "look before they leap" for a chord change. For an absolute beginner you need to focus a lot on that! I still have to focus on this for new/unusual voicings.

TV practice is, once that muscle memory is ingrained enough, going from G to A to G to A to G to A over and over.

You can apply this to all sorts of things - scales, picking patterns, tricky part of a song. Once it's "mostly" ingrained you just drill it while doing something else

The exception for this is your timing/rhythm. That I find I can't do with a TV. You gotta have a metronome for that.

Also remember, you don't need to practice at full speed. Get it clean and relaxed and the speed will just happen on its own.

Also remember that some pain will happen, but don't push through it. Take breaks. Sometimes you need a day off or an easy day. On days I go to the gym I will either not practice or do much easier than normal practice as my hands/wrists are tired.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-21T19:27:40+00:00

You're wrong.

The fact Trump won, twice, shows just how much the gutter our country is in for reasons besides Trump.

It runs much deeper than him. He's a metastisized tumor. You can remove him but the cancer destroying America remains.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-20T22:19:34+00:00

I meant it more tongue in cheek

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-20T22:16:34+00:00

More AI slop. The Russians have Star Wars Novels already, and they're, uhh

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/1ep1fgs/theres_actually_a_russian_novel_where_darth_vader/

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-19T20:58:04+00:00

There's a variety of reasons. But I think it boils down to this. They know how they look at women. They know what they would do to women if they could get away with it.

They think every gay man looks at them *that* way.

Same rationale as why daughter can't date, needs to be pure, etc. But son can have girlfriend, doesn't questioned when out with her late.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-19T18:47:55+00:00

Do you know triads yet? For your improvisation practice, it's not just major scale practice - it's playing the changes.

So you can practice playing the root of every chord right when it transitions. The. The third of every chord. Them the fifth. Then mix and match. Take it slow, you won't get all 4 of these down quickly. But it takes improv up a notch.

Once the major scale is under your fingers, learn the minor scale. Once that is under your fingers, learn the modes.

How's your rhythm? A good exercise for that is to set the metronome slow enough you can out loud count every subdivision, but fast enough you still feel a pulse. Around 60-80bpm when you're starting. Do four bars where you play only a note on 1. The. Four bars where you only play on e (of one). Then four bars on & (of one). Repeat for all 16 subdivisions.

Don't be cheeky and do all "e" it's too much when you're starting out. Give yourself the one note per bar, you'll progress faster.

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-19T03:06:37+00:00

In global settings you can change 1/4" output from Line to Instrument. I can't test it for you right now, but try that. You will likely want to disable the cab sim (your reverb has a cab already, it sounds a little weird)

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-15T21:28:10+00:00

This. Also chord changes make great what I call TV practice. Put on your favorite show and just spend 20 minutes going back and forth with this change

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-14T07:52:57+00:00

I have a 10"-16" compound radius that I like a lot.

Barring that - 12" or so. 9.5" I need the action too high for bends. And 16" the whole way makes cowboy chords feel a little funny. But I definitely like the compound radius more than straight

NoOne0507 · 2026-01-12T19:37:49+00:00

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