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Not much recently, my children have very different taste from me :/
as a journeyman guitarist, would you say that after 3 years of no progress, that one should just give up, that one simply lacks the genes for it?
I wouldn't give up because one can't form any given chord. There's always power chords, movable dyads and cowboy chords to work with.
That said, if nylon strings were too stiff for comfort I'd imagine a steel-stringed electric wouldn't be to pleasant to play.
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Not much recently, my children have very different taste from me :/
as a journeyman guitarist, would you say that after 3 years of no progress, that one should just give up, that one simply lacks the genes for it?
I wouldn't give up because one can't form any given chord. There's always power chords, movable dyads and cowboy chords to work with.
That said, if nylon strings were too stiff for comfort I'd imagine a steel-stringed electric wouldn't be to pleasant to play.
what would you say is the magic stuff about a baritone uke [IMHO 2/3 of a tenor guitar in an alto form] that is so much easier?
03 Nov 2020, 3:49 am
I don't know but ukulele has this magic about it - my brother owns one and I found out, whatever you play, it just sounds right
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Not much recently, my children have very different taste from me :/
as a journeyman guitarist, would you say that after 3 years of no progress, that one should just give up, that one simply lacks the genes for it?
I wouldn't give up because one can't form any given chord. There's always power chords, movable dyads and cowboy chords to work with.
That said, if nylon strings were too stiff for comfort I'd imagine a steel-stringed electric wouldn't be to pleasant to play.
what would you say is the magic stuff about a baritone uke [IMHO 2/3 of a tenor guitar in an alto form] that is so much easier?
Short scale and nylon strings. The nylon strings don't hold much tension; acoustic bronze strings or electric steel strings hold a lot more tension. That's why truss rods are more common on guitars intended to use them compared to a guitar intended to only ever be strung with nylon strings.
What are they typically tuned to? EADGBe is typical for guitar, but I'm not sure how the lowest note on a baritone uke compares.
My ORM has pretty light string tension considering the huge strings I use because I keep all my guitars tuned to C# instead of E. Again, it's that it has a relatively short scale compared to a most guitars (24" vs. 25.5").
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^^^BTW thank you 
for the advice about "cowboy chords" as that is new to me. 
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03 Nov 2020, 4:21 am
for the advice about "cowboy chords" as that is new to me. You're welcome. Generally they're not the 'preferred' voicing but they're still a version of said chord. Besides, if you were to play with someone else, having them play the 'standard' voicing while you play an alternate will sound bigger than if you both played the same chords all the same way.
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for the advice about "cowboy chords" as that is new to me. You're welcome. Generally they're not the 'preferred' voicing but they're still a version of said chord. Besides, if you were to play with someone else, having them play the 'standard' voicing while you play an alternate will sound bigger than if you both played the same chords all the same way.
i hope sometime before i die i meet another equally inept guitarist to share some simple tunes with.
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for the advice about "cowboy chords" as that is new to me. You're welcome. Generally they're not the 'preferred' voicing but they're still a version of said chord. Besides, if you were to play with someone else, having them play the 'standard' voicing while you play an alternate will sound bigger than if you both played the same chords all the same way.
i hope sometime before i die i meet another equally inept guitarist to share some simple tunes with.
I've always been a fan of this approach.
03 Nov 2020, 4:39 am
Punk rock?
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03 Nov 2020, 4:48 am
Most certainly. NoFX taught me how to write for two guitars.
Although mine is deeply influenced by the different extreme metal I listen to, so it's closer to powerviolence or grindcore than pop-punk.
