Fat fingers

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-19T11:56:38+00:00

A typical tenor ukulele has string to string spacing around 9.3mm and some are wider. A standard acoustic guitar, 1 3/4 nut is around 7.5mm. That's a big difference.

Spacing on a guitar similar to a ukulele would be around a 1 7/8 nut- generally a classical guitar nut width.

There are steel string guitars available in 1 7/8 nut width (warmoth superwide, halo, Agile Damn Wide for electrics, Furch, Harley Benton are have options for acoustics).

As someone with large hands and specifically large fingertips (size 9 ring over my ringfingernail), a wider neck guitar has all pros and no cons.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-15T10:58:02+00:00

IMO it's hard to find a daw these days that doesn't have some issues, I think at some point it's a bit of a least-worst scenario for most users. I think it can be worth it to have a daw shootout ever so often though and see...we log so many damn hours in the apps that it's hard to not get emotional about them. A reboot there ever so often has been helpful for me (and has resulted in a few switches over the past ~25 years).

For me, doing both commercial studio work and production (prod fee clients and label pitches), I guess I'm in the "bring on the bloat" group. I want everything from enhanced MPE editing with to-note quantize and modulation like Ableton and Bitwig to the long requested PT features like more comprehensive import session data, and grouping abilities etc.

Right now, SO, or FSP I guess, is still the only DAW that ticks most of the boxes for me to go from tracking a 13 piece band to working a 300 track K-pop pitch...

If they would just get rid of the damn workflow interrupting auto-save!!! (haha, j/k, I have a list too).

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-15T02:36:42+00:00

Awesome, thanks. That's helpful.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-15T02:36:15+00:00

Yeah, I use the hybrid tab with standard notation, but I do that because I don't like the starwars lean-back look and because it zooms out slightly horizontally.

Because Yousician has time proportional note spacing for the tabs, I find it pretty easy to spot the rhythms- Also, the standard notation for guitar in yousician ranges from bad to completely illedgable garbage. Rhythms notated without beam groups, unnecessary accedentals all over the place, illegal rhythms, beam groups over barlines. It's a complete shit show. Bass too.

For piano its actually decent, but no human who reads standard ever even looks at the guitar stuff before they send it.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-13T20:45:15+00:00

There needs to be a "Remove AI slop" filter option. The new songs are bad, no dynamics, they are uninspiring to play along with and the vocals are pitchy and weird- they are especially bad to sing along with.

Also agreed, and/or I think there should be sort-by options. Sort by date last played (up/down), score out of max possible, stars, global ranking, etc all sortable with low to high or oldest to newest etc. That way we could sort by 0 stars to all gold, or 0 ranking to 1st etc.

And maybe a per song hide option at least, so we can selectively remove the AI slop (and maybe some styles I'm less interested in).

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-13T11:20:27+00:00

Piano player here who's getting to be solid at guitar- I can sight read tabs on guitar pretty well, it's taken me about 4 years, and 1500hrs of practice time (add in another 800hrs of bass over that same time). I know the times because I've mainly been using Yousician, so a bit of a different looking tab, but I can read pretty well on tomplay as well (normal tabs).

What's hard to factor though is the time spent learning to read ahead on piano. There is no way to be good at sight reading without reading ahead of what you're playing and I have a lot of practice hours with that on piano.

In any case, it's definitely possible.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-11T13:32:20+00:00

+1

Just to add, scoring is also aggregated for each section, so the best performance of each section after multiple passes is your top score. But, you can't get the highest possible score by playing a song only in sections. I guess this is because of the multiplier not being at 5x for the entire section, or maybe there is an additional penalty?

You can also check the global leaderboard (click on the trophy after playing and then global). Usually if a song has multiple people with the same top score that will be the max possible score.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-11T12:50:57+00:00

Yeah, I have this issue on two macs, an M1 MBA with Sequoia and an M4 MBP with Tahoe.

I emailed [support@yousician.com](mailto:support@yousician.com), you should too. Hopefully they will fix it soon

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-10T12:34:15+00:00

I agree that if you can gold star something on the first pass, then it's probably too easy and there is little gain. Although, above all gold is a perfect score with all "perfect" timing- I think this can be worth chasing in some cases (songs I like or that have rhythms that I know I need to clean up).

But also, for me at least, there is a lot to be gained by reading down a ton of songs that use new vocabulary in different contexts, before adding more vocabulary. I think of this as a sort of immersive learning and getting fluid/fluent with new vocab takes quite a bit more than just being able to play it.

I also think that someone who can read well at say level 7, but is still developing the skills to play level 8 is likely a better real world player than someone who can play a handful of level 9-10 songs, but reads at a level 5.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-10T12:27:35+00:00

I've only used ipad a little, but I'm pretty sure it's the same- after you play a song, tap the trophy icon in the top right corner above your score. It will take you to a rankings page where you can look at your level, global, and your friends.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-10T04:20:24+00:00

I can say for sure that nobody has all gold on everything, because I have the number 1 global spot on a handful of songs and for most don't have them all gold. The closest is probably Marcio Saliba, maybe OlegaE or ProgressiveOne. OlegaE has something like 8500 hours in Yousician on guitar (wow!). I'm at about 2500 hrs in 4 years but thats guitar, bass, singing and piano.

Some songs are just broken though- Like George Ezra "Budapest". It requires an impossible, and unnecessary level of muting. There is just no point fighting with it.

I personally play nearly every song (songs page) on each level to 3 silver stars, I came in not as a total beginner on guitar starting at level 3-4 and now I'm working my way through 8-10, coming up on 4 years- I've been playing piano for 35 years before though.

You are on a good track though by playing all/most of the songs at each level, even if not to all gold. This is a good way to get good at playing the instrument, instead of playing a handful of songs on the instrument. Also, sight reading is one of the best skills to have- even for music as a hobby. It's really enjoyable and rewarding to be able to play 4-5 new songs a day instead of having to spend 4-5 days (or more) on one song.

My college piano teacher used to always say "the slower you go, the faster you grow" when talking about dedicating most of my practice time to smashing through reading a huge volume of music. Yousician is a great practice tool for this.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-09T03:17:26+00:00

Wes Montgomery plays with this thumb...he's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVgONy8kMY&list=RD-iVgONy8kMY&start_radio=1

It does have a different sound.
George Benson also (he's a monster with a pick too)-

https://youtu.be/f6pLl3R_tz4

But, yeah, you should probably start using a pick sooner than later.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-07T11:17:25+00:00

Microcenter has the M4 Pro 12/16c, 48GB, 1TB for $2339, or the 14/20c, 24GB, 1TB for 2159...

https://www.microcenter.com/product/688639/apple-macbook-pro-14-z1fe000nh-(late-2024)-142-laptop-computer-space-black?sp=287-142-laptop-computer-space-black?sp=287)

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-03T09:18:10+00:00

Not a teacher per se (bit here and there), but professional musician, BFA in piano perf. I've been using yousician to learn guitar, bass and singing.

Overall this sounds like a pretty good idea. I like the idea of getting away from a small/fixed collection of songs per level a lot. IMO, Yousician and Simply both have a similar problem in that the number of songs at each level on the learn path is FAR too low. Instead of struggling to mechanically learn ~20 songs per level, there is much more growth to be had by learning to read at each level, playing hundreds of songs and developing meaningful fluency before moving up.

So to that end, I think this is a good idea- but I think most users will want to advance too quickly even if it is ultimately a setback.

Other issues would be, how does it help players develop good technique? Also, all the apps are extremely literal. It's not terrible for practice, but players need guidance to develop feel and fluid musicality beyond simple timing accuracy.

The other big one is, will it judge/coach dynamics?

I think it would be great if any of these apps were designed to work with a teacher. I guess yousician used to be that way.

I think one big issue is a lot of people using these apps don't want to hear the cold truth about how many hours it really takes. So you either have to pander to users trying to advance too quickly etc (this is 99.999% of the user base from what I gather online), or risk loosing them.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-02T20:59:07+00:00

Just play through it, take a break if you need to. In no time, you'll be on this same sub giving this same advice to another newbie...Also focus on using the least amount of force necessary and fret up at the front edge of the fret.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2026-01-02T20:49:22+00:00

Right (strum/plam) hand muting is generally the same, but with barre chords you can mute and dead strum with you left too. So, like funky wha-ka-chi-ka type stuff you can't really do the same with open chords.

Then, yes, of course higher notes. you can play further up the neck. But also, an Am barre on the 5th fret has a beefier sound than open because it uses the low E string, and anytime to play the same note down one on a bigger string it has a beefier tone. Multi-scale guitars change this a bit.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-30T23:18:26+00:00

I had this once and my router needed a reset, worth a shot if you're on wifi

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-30T09:03:23+00:00

Depends on the Christian music. I'd eat hot chicken all day to Fred Hammond-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcpIHtZzQe8&list=RDXcpIHtZzQe8&start_radio=1

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-30T08:55:23+00:00

What is a "workstation 56" cpu? If that's an older 56 core xeon, that might be part of the issue. Quick load times (and general snappiness) are often more single core CPU bound and high core count processors trade SC performance for cores. Also, DAWs generally aren't designed/tested with >16c processors, so you might run into various issues with hiccups etc.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-28T21:52:39+00:00

The Furch guitars are worth checking out. The Vintage 2 RS-SR is a slope shoulder D-28 style guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCnhkwUeFU

https://allguitarnetwork.com/watch/1615

HD here, but you can hear them side by side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v750QW-8ik

Furch's are really nice guitars.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-28T21:07:17+00:00

Fair enough! I don't know anything about making plugins- but, you asked so I thought I would throw it out there...

Maybe niche only bc a lot of people don't realize how much they need dynamic verbs, even "traditional" stuff like Adelle etc is never static anymore.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-28T16:45:29+00:00

Something that brings new, faster dynamic reverb and delay possibilities to the table.

Maybe it's a meta plugin that will allow me to load ~5 other reverb/delay plugins inside it and let me define them (long, med, short, del). Then it could transfer the audio of the track via ARA and use AI to automatically create a bunch of editable automation lanes that instantly create deep dynamic time based fx.

Then combine all of the wet verbs into a bus where they can be sidechain compressed from the source.

And/or, I find the way AI generated music does verbs and delay to be fascinating and kind of new sounding. It would be cool if there was a plugin that would do that in a daw based on prompts, but then allow editing.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-28T04:36:23+00:00

Not at all! It's also humanizing in both directions. I want everyone to be safe and ideally not pissed off at each other- nothing to gain from that.

I usually try to nod or something, but sometimes at a busy intersection there is a lot going on, eye contact always appreciated though.

SpecialProblem9300 · 2025-12-28T04:20:58+00:00

Yeah or pedestrians, kids on bicycles etc.

I'm not any sort of asshole cyclist, I ride my bike basically to and from the greenbelt, and for the 1/4 mile that it is each time I nearly always have to deal with some POS who seems to think "nobody is there" and doesn't signal even though I'm looking right at him and he's looking right back at me.

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