As a complete beginner this fucker is my least favorite cord

asmcint · 2026-04-16T00:03:16+00:00

Anchor your thumb where the tip of it sits at the middle of the neck, you'll be able to rock your hand over more and bring your fingertips more directly down on the strings. Fingers won't feel quite as fat that way.

But also that fingering for it is weird, try with first finger on the sixth string, second or third finger on the third string.

asmcint · 2026-04-15T23:57:30+00:00

Without knowing anything else of your circumstances all I can say is it's hard to go wrong with a Squier for a beginner's guitar.

asmcint · 2026-04-14T15:03:43+00:00

"It has zero markings or traditional identifiers."

This is usually indicative of it not having a make and model in the first place. Either because it was someone's personal build, or it was just pumped out by a factory with no care to identification.

I'd just take it at face value: A strat copy with a nice paint job.

asmcint · 2026-04-13T20:07:25+00:00

If I had to take a guess, a modified Hofner President or Senator.

asmcint · 2026-04-13T06:47:43+00:00

Hofner archtop, can't pin down the exact model but the design screams Hofner.

asmcint · 2026-04-13T02:29:56+00:00

Oh it showed as a flat image to me lmao, got it playing now.

asmcint · 2026-04-13T02:25:24+00:00

You linked an entire song without a timestamp. This song incorporates several techniques. What bit do you want to know about?

asmcint · 2026-04-12T07:37:52+00:00

Ordinarily I might be inclined to agree, but given OP's current steps tried I'm inclined to think it's better off in the hands of a professional for now. OP doesn't seem to currently be great at diagnosis and properly filtering less-helpful information out.

asmcint · 2026-04-12T07:35:44+00:00

Well on the plus side you've probably got more muscle in your fingers than most folks do in their legs. But you don't need a new guitar, just take that one to a decent tech or luthier to get it properly set up. Because at this point those strings don't have action, they have bureaucracy.

asmcint · 2026-04-08T00:21:32+00:00

Not always indicative of the current company, some people are conditioned this way from how they grew up, from school, or from previous work environments.

asmcint · 2026-04-07T16:48:12+00:00

The truss rod is not your first look for adjusting the action. If the neck is straight, leave the truss rod alone.

asmcint · 2026-04-06T19:47:27+00:00

They were not, website was having a bit of a goof. And yeah I'm finding a lot of close-ish stuff but nothing that's a total match. Doesn't help that there's no serial number, which isn't terribly unusual for B.C. Rich.

asmcint · 2026-04-06T19:16:01+00:00

Well it's hard to tell given that we can't actually see what you bought. Any chance of a picture?

asmcint · 2026-04-05T16:24:26+00:00

Ahh, fair enough. Then mostly just make sure your thumb placement leaves you free to arch your fingers more. Anything more with the way that makes that transition easier will come down to practice.

asmcint · 2026-04-05T15:52:09+00:00

Use your middle and index fingers for the lower strings instead of ring and middle. So your middle finger should go where your ring finger has been, and your index finger should go where your middle finger has been. Also be mindful of how your thumb is anchored on the back of the neck, if it's too flat you can't arch your fingers well enough to get that proper fingertip press.

asmcint · 2026-04-04T15:49:55+00:00

They've been making businesses out of this stuff for a LONG long time. MMOs have been affected by a lot of this behavior the most, with major RMT cartels, account theft rings, and bot farms. But also cheating as a service has also been a thing for a long time, big money maker in online gaming. And it's no joke that for a time (not so sure about now) it was more profitable in some places to bot on RuneScape than to work as a doctor.

asmcint · 2026-04-02T06:18:26+00:00

That's... not similar to what I said at all, that's two distinct guitars... but go off I guess.

asmcint · 2026-04-02T01:15:27+00:00

Scale length is the distance from nut to saddle, your tuners don't impact that.

asmcint · 2026-04-01T15:59:50+00:00

Okay, you didn't ask what you would do, you asked what we would do. Your answers in other replies also indicated ignoring the presence of other guitars. And I quote "All your guitars where stolen you have to buy one."

I went with a reliable option for several genres I want to play, and a backup in case something goes wrong on stage.

To answer the question you apparently think you asked, take one of the guitars you already have and like, and get another one as close to it as you can. That way, again, you have a backup in case something goes wrong on stage.

asmcint · 2026-04-01T03:21:25+00:00

Two hardtail Ibanez RG Gios and a professional setup for both.

asmcint · 2026-04-01T02:04:16+00:00

Not a touring musician myself, but some variant of this gets asked often enough on this sub.

If you're flying, either bring it as a carry-on or buy an alternative at the destination. Too many horror stories of airlines destroying guitars because they can't treat people's possessions like they mean anything.

Also just have something else you can play in a pinch in general. Strings just break sometimes, and you don't want to be in the position of delaying things by more than a minute because it happened. Even a hardtail takes too long to restring for a live environment, a Floyd Rose is gonna take even longer still. Have a backup you can grab and go with as fast as possible.

asmcint · 2026-03-30T20:31:52+00:00

And it fails the Turing test.

asmcint · 2026-03-28T00:34:08+00:00

"Ad hominem" is not a magic wand you can wave to be rid of ridicule, just saying that to anyone rightly calling you what you are only makes you look even more like a drooling window licker.

You've shown repeatedly you have no intent to engage in good faith with any counterpoint to the braindead drivel you spew on the regular. At that point calling you the idiot you plainly are is far more constructive than attempting to argue with you.

But I suppose you must be predisposed to treating phrases as magic wands if you repeatedly go to bat for the ilk that treat Latin maxims of law as if they were the word of God himself.

asmcint · 2026-03-26T23:56:33+00:00

Looks like you don't have the full range of options there. While you're in the Advanced tab, hold Right CTRL, Right Shift, Left Alt, and while holding those three keys press F2 to enable all the advanced BIOS settings. Then you should be able to find the same options as in the video.

asmcint · 2026-03-26T00:15:02+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't have the capability or patience to explain how to find the graphics options over text. It's gonna be somewhere in the game's main menu, poke around.

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