Crusoe

I've been trying to learn this for about a week and a half. I was having trouble with the little descending run in the chorus, so decided to use the metronome. The song is at 138bpm, so I decided to start at half speed and work my way up. It was going well and I was able to play the piece at almost full speed, but something still didn't seem right. I then realised that the notes I was playing were eighths but I needed to be playing sixteenths . Oh well, I'll just have to keep working at it.

Can you give us an example of the chords you are playing? If you play an open E chord you will finger fret 2 on the A and D strings and fret 1 on the G string. You will strum all six strings to play the chord. If you play an open A, you will finger fret 2 on the D, G and B strings. You will only strum the A, D, G, B and E strings, missing the thickest (E) string.

I'll not talk about the mixing, because I wouldn't know what I'm talking about. The song itself, the playing and the vocals all sound really good. I could imagine this being played on the radio. Well done.

Welcome to the site Alan. The finger pain will go as the callouses form and you'll get there with the co-ordination. Just take your time and enjoy it.

Yeah, I do the slow start and build my speed up thing. I suppose I should clarify that what I meant was, even with parts that I can play, if I am too tense, I will have more trouble playing them. My playing won't be as fluid.

Rookie error Frank. You should have used duct tape, not sellotape.

Welcome Tom!

Can you post some pictures to show the condition?

Would you offer to someone starting to play guitar? Whilst I've had a guitar for about 20 years, I never got beyond strumming a few chords and playing very simple songs,jntil I got an electric guitar a year ago. I've struggled with fast position and chord changes until I remembered something from karate training. Relax. If you are tense you can't move quickly. If my arms and hands are tense I find it difficult to pick and change hand position.

Like ezbass says, string choice will be down to personal preference. I have a set of 9-42 Ernie Ball Super Slinkys on my Harley Benton TE-20 and D'Addarrio 10-52s on my Ibanez AS-73.

Nice looking little amp and it should be more than enough for home use. Do you know what strings are on the guitar?

I should probably try some different picks. I've just been using some free Thomann ones that I got with my Harley Benton.

Just had a look on the Gray Guitars website and yup, there's a video of Justin playing one. There's also one of Chris Buck.

Looks and sounds great. I may be wrong, but I think I've seen Justin Sandercoe playing one of these.

Like you say, it's probably a fuzz or distortion pedal of some sort going into a wah.

I wonder how you would go about stringing it... Stagg S-FS285S Guitar : Amazon.co.uk: Musical Instruments & DJ

If I had the money spare, I'd bite your arm off for it.

Hey there! Good to see you here.

I'm not really sure. There's a lot of feedback, seems to be a lot of echo and probably reverb as well.

I have a TE-20. I'm still very much a beginner, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a really good wee guitar. It stays in tune pretty well and sounds fine. I'm sure better pickups would make it sound better and more expensive tuners would feel better to use, but it works as is.

Do you ever find yourself noodling on the guitar and suddenly recognise what you are playing as a famous tune. Yesterday, I was sitting playing and suddenly realised I was playing part of the Grange Hill theme tune.

I'm not sure how to get the sound, but can anyone tell me how to get my hair to look like William Reid's?

I've never played a high end model, but have an Ibanez AS73. It is comparable in weight to my Harley Benton TE-20. I love the sound on it and it gets good reviews.

Welcome Rabb!

I love that colour