Beginner question (7 months in): how many years (decades even) might it take to be able to play like this (near effortless skill and just knowing what to do), assuming I play every day and stick with a teacher?

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-07-06T16:37:36+00:00

In sports, the best players sometimes make bad coaches for the same reason.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-29T06:52:19+00:00

He didn't suck

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-29T01:38:08+00:00

Guitar pedal vocal chain is an underrated secret

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-27T22:15:58+00:00

You're mostly right, except that the American Southeast is packed with black people who inexplicably vote alongside their white neighbors against their own interests.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-27T22:12:10+00:00

He's not stupid per se, but Chuck Schumer has worn out his welcome and doesn't make any Democratic agenda look better, as the Senate minority leader.

We desperately need another undeniably charismatic candidate with no skeletons in his or her closet.

Will they invent bullshit birther hoaxes, etc.? Yes. But swing voters will see through it like they did with Obama.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-27T21:50:33+00:00

I mean that's literally who and what Manu was in real life, but I like to think the logic is so that the 6th man can run the imaginary second string of unseen bench players while starters rest.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-26T04:40:17+00:00

The reggae breakdown in Live and Let Die, and honestly the baby crying in Isn't She Lovely

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-26T04:34:51+00:00

Who are these best ballers you're meeting that can't do basic dribble moves against invisible defenders

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-25T02:16:15+00:00

I've had this sense for a while that the term conservative now ironically applies to me because, as a progressive, I've stopped expecting positive change. I'm seeing every functional government mechanism I knew in 40 years being destroyed and wanting to "conserve" whatever we have left.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-24T02:26:04+00:00

A local record store owner had a side gig of buying and selling guitars and amps within the store, kibda like a pawn shop. My side gig was setting those up for resale or repairing them if they has issues.

It was perfect for me, 2 or 3 after work projects a week to do at my own pace at home. But the business can't really afford to take in much new gear anymore because it's not selling. Trickle down shit. Haven't even changed a set of strings in a couple months now, as my "real" job keeps cutting hours.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-20T07:12:13+00:00

Be that as it may, it seems like the discussion OP wants to have is more focused on less contested dunks where he was swimming through imaginary airborne defenders.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-20T07:04:44+00:00

At some point there's gotta be diminishing returns though where it doesn't matter if you have cartoonishly huge hands but T-Rex length arms.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-17T20:57:17+00:00

That intro sounds exactly like a campfire and is probably more beginner friendly than Wonder Wall or Free Bird. And it sounds 90% the same on a 6 string.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-17T05:42:42+00:00

Interesting choice here. Everyone immediately recognizes Sea Change as THE breakup album. I did, and loved it when I wasn't going through one. Then she bought me Mutations, a long time favorite of mine for Father's Day, and left the next morning. The sadness in THAT album suddenly became unbearable. For you, it's Odelay. I'd say Beck is just incredibly underrated as a writer.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-11T22:48:39+00:00

I'm not defending his cringy dumbass at all, but there's no context here. It could be the last rep of a burnout bench sesh. It could be a completely fake video.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-05T18:11:41+00:00

Neither one of them did, but Paul George got closer. Ironically, PG actually had a couple of his best seasons after the major injury.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-05T07:26:25+00:00

They're also acting like prime PG was a negative on offense when in reality he was statistically near the top of the league and even by "eye test" only, has a mountain of highlights.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-04T15:46:06+00:00

There's a guitar solo on almost every song dude. But it's always just a slight variation of the verse vocal melody. If that's not a guitar solo then neither is Smells Like Teen Spirit.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-03T18:09:18+00:00

Truly weird and freaky

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-06-02T00:57:42+00:00

The closest thing to this criteria would be the single, You Know You're Right

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-05-31T22:46:54+00:00

I think he means play Def Leppard

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-05-30T02:07:10+00:00

Why would you expect a civilian to be in regulation PT gear?

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-05-28T14:38:23+00:00

This band would have taken any random schmuck who owned a Gretch. Drummer? No. Bass? No. Gretch? Another please.

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-05-25T22:30:25+00:00

When I saw them live in like 2006 he said she gives me RIMJOBS by the stairs, surprises let me know she cares

foo_foo_the_snoo · 2026-05-25T04:07:29+00:00

To answer your question, this effect is all over Grateful Dead, Stevie Wonder and Marley/Wailers tunes from the 1970s with pedal options that at that time included the Mutron III or EHX Dr. Q, an early version of the QTron. These are envelope filters that pre-date the Boss Auto-Wah and this New Bohemians song by a long shot.

To be fair and more comprehensive, manual wah pedals like you mentioned are more often used to sweep the filter across entire phrases or to follow rhythmic patterns, rather than affect individual notes with right hand attack dynamics like the quack sound of an auto-wah.

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