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Post subject: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:43 pm
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Just a quick hello to everyone...Im 56..grew up in the 70s music-wise...I'm disabled with RA for the past 13 years...and want to learn how to play guitar before I take my dirt-nap! Peace!!!


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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:46 pm
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Welcome. Best wishes with your guitar playing.

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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:54 pm
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Welcome! Do you have a guitar yet?

If so, post some pics, we'd love to see it.

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Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 8:59 pm
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Drop some quarters in the jukebox, pull up a stool, and buy us a round.

(I prefer Glenlivets)

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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:21 pm
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Welcome.
With RA, you might want to look into getting a lighter guitar. Chambered guitars are great - they're not as big as most hollowbodies, but still lighter weight than most solidbodies.
Also, go for thin strings. The thinnest you can get. It won't make you sound thin, but can save you from some real pain.

At least a couple of the most famous electric guitar players in the world have arthritis. So don't let that stop you. There may be things that will be harder to do, like big stretches or hammer-ons, but that doesn't mean you can't compensate by doing other stuff really well.


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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:35 pm
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Klowenst wrote:
Welcome! Do you have a guitar yet?

If so, post some pics, we'd love to see it.


I will post some soon...right now I have a Fender Modern Player Telecaster in the honey oak finish...pine body..maple fingerboard...neck pickup is a Tele pickup...middle pickup a Strat pickup...bridge pickup a double humbucker with a single coil switch...and a 5 position switch aside from that...kerfed nice on back to go against body..good action...really like it to learn on...running it thru a Mustang IV v.2 2x12 150w amp with an MS4 footswitch.


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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:38 pm
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arth1 wrote:
Welcome.
With RA, you might want to look into getting a lighter guitar. Chambered guitars are great - they're not as big as most hollowbodies, but still lighter weight than most solidbodies.
Also, go for thin strings. The thinnest you can get. It won't make you sound thin, but can save you from some real pain.

At least a couple of the most famous electric guitar players in the world have arthritis. So don't let that stop you. There may be things that will be harder to do, like big stretches or hammer-ons, but that doesn't mean you can't compensate by doing other stuff really well.


Thanks for the advice...the hardest part for me thusfar is the gmajor...and anything to do with Barre chords...but I'm still very early in all of this.


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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:15 pm
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Plaswaff wrote:
Thanks for the advice...the hardest part for me thusfar is the gmajor...and anything to do with Barre chords...but I'm still very early in all of this.

Cheat! You'll be in good company if you do.

Thumb on third fret, holding down the E string and muting the A string. Middle finger on third fret holding down the E string (or both the E and B if you feel that sounds better). That's a perfectly good G.

Heck, you don't even have to be that fancy. A single finger on the thin E string (1st string) on either of the third, seventh or tenth fret, and strumming just the top four strings will do.

Half chords and only playing some of the strings is perfectly acceptable, and especially useful as you learn how to do chords further down the fretboard. Which you do want, because it's much easier to push down the strings around the 7th-9th fret than up near the nut, and the stretches are much shorter too.


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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 7:39 am
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arth1 wrote:
Plaswaff wrote:
Thanks for the advice...the hardest part for me thusfar is the gmajor...and anything to do with Barre chords...but I'm still very early in all of this.

Cheat! You'll be in good company if you do.

Thumb on third fret, holding down the E string and muting the A string. Middle finger on third fret holding down the E string (or both the E and B if you feel that sounds better). That's a perfectly good G.

Heck, you don't even have to be that fancy. A single finger on the thin E string (1st string) on either of the third, seventh or tenth fret, and strumming just the top four strings will do.

Half chords and only playing some of the strings is perfectly acceptable, and especially useful as you learn how to do chords further down the fretboard. Which you do want, because it's much easier to push down the strings around the 7th-9th fret than up near the nut, and the stretches are much shorter too.



Now that you mention it I think Mellencamp plays his GMajor like that...he is always hanging his thumb over the top


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Post subject: Re: Greetings!
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 7:42 am
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Klowenst wrote:
Welcome! Do you have a guitar yet?

If so, post some pics, we'd love to see it.


How do you post pictures here?


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