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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:38 pm
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I'm just curious. I've done everything the manual says to do, I've looked on the internet etc... yet, when I hit the strings they still buzz around the fret I'm holding down. Is this normal or what?


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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:10 pm
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IgnorantMunky wrote:
I'm just curious. I've done everything the manual says to do, I've looked on the internet etc... yet, when I hit the strings they still buzz around the fret I'm holding down. Is this normal or what?


Have a tech check it out, sounds like a high fret.

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High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


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ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


Glad you addressed attack. Newer players of certain genre's can have a tendency to really beat their guitar because it looks cool. They haven't learned finesse yet. They just get those strings bouncing all over the place.

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ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


Glad you addressed attack. Newer players of certain genre's can have a tendency to really beat their guitar because it looks cool. They haven't learned finesse yet. They just get those strings bouncing all over the place.

You mean guys who emulate the Kinks and The Who? Or the Sex Pistols and Zombies? Or do you mean Kiss and Twisted Sister? Metallica and Nirvana? Or Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb of God? Or do You mean "Kids Today!" :wink:

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FirstMeasure wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


Glad you addressed attack. Newer players of certain genre's can have a tendency to really beat their guitar because it looks cool. They haven't learned finesse yet. They just get those strings bouncing all over the place.

You mean guys who emulate the Kinks and The Who? Or the Sex Pistols and Zombies? Or do you mean Kiss and Twisted Sister? Metallica and Nirvana? Or Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb of God? Or do You mean "Kids Today!" :wink:


Oh no, not just kids today. Kids yesterday too! Me included! There are ways for agressive attack that don't sound all nasty and buzzy. It just takes time to get the techiques down. All I was tryin to point out was fret buzz isn't always a guitar problem and that it can be a player problem. I remember trying to do the windmill as kid and it sounded nasty, caused bleeding.

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cryingstrat wrote:
FirstMeasure wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


Glad you addressed attack. Newer players of certain genre's can have a tendency to really beat their guitar because it looks cool. They haven't learned finesse yet. They just get those strings bouncing all over the place.

You mean guys who emulate the Kinks and The Who? Or the Sex Pistols and Zombies? Or do you mean Kiss and Twisted Sister? Metallica and Nirvana? Or Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb of God? Or do You mean "Kids Today!" :wink:


Oh no, not just kids today. Kids yesterday too! Me included! There are ways for agressive attack that don't sound all nasty and buzzy. It just takes time to get the techiques down. All I was tryin to point out was fret buzz isn't always a guitar problem and that it can be a player problem. I remember trying to do the windmill as kid and it sounded nasty, caused bleeding.

I'm with you on that, new players tend to blame the instrument for stuff that practice will fix. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to compare Avenged Sevenfold and The Kinks. I also should have mentioned SRV fans like myself that only picked up on his aggessive stuff in the begining.

I was lucky enough to have a Dad that cared enough to let me know, without a doubt, it was me, and not the guitar :lol:

Oh yeah, I tried a widmill once :oops: Smashed my thumb on the neck so hard it was bruised for a couple days. And I think I remember knocking something off the table at the same time.

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FirstMeasure wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
FirstMeasure wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
High fret, or extremely low action, and a really aggressive pick attack.


Glad you addressed attack. Newer players of certain genre's can have a tendency to really beat their guitar because it looks cool. They haven't learned finesse yet. They just get those strings bouncing all over the place.

You mean guys who emulate the Kinks and The Who? Or the Sex Pistols and Zombies? Or do you mean Kiss and Twisted Sister? Metallica and Nirvana? Or Avenged Sevenfold and Lamb of God? Or do You mean "Kids Today!" :wink:


Oh no, not just kids today. Kids yesterday too! Me included! There are ways for agressive attack that don't sound all nasty and buzzy. It just takes time to get the techiques down. All I was tryin to point out was fret buzz isn't always a guitar problem and that it can be a player problem. I remember trying to do the windmill as kid and it sounded nasty, caused bleeding.

I'm with you on that, new players tend to blame the instrument for stuff that practice will fix. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to compare Avenged Sevenfold and The Kinks. I also should have mentioned SRV fans like myself that only picked up on his aggessive stuff in the begining.

I was lucky enough to have a Dad that cared enough to let me know, without a doubt, it was me, and not the guitar :lol:

Oh yeah, I tried a widmill once :oops: Smashed my thumb on the neck so hard it was bruised for a couple days. And I think I remember knocking something off the table at the same time.


Trying the windmill I hit the strings wrong and ripped off a chunk o'flesh from my index finger between the nail and knuckle.

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That's the worst spot to loose flesh :o Ouch! I wounder how much pain and damage Pete Townsend's imitators caused?

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FirstMeasure wrote:
That's the worst spot to loose flesh :o Ouch! I wounder how much pain and damage Pete Townsend's imitators caused?


Even Pete couldn't do it right all the time. From Wikipedia:

Windmill
Made famous by The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend.[1] Townshend claimed he first saw it performed by Keith Richards while warming up for a concert, and after the concert Pete asked Keith if he could use the move, Keith had no recollection of doing it. The windmill involves holding the guitar in a chord position while rotating the picking arm quickly and hitting the strings, thereby striking the chord. Townshend performed the windmill with such force that at a show in Tacoma, Washington in 1989, he actually drove the guitar's tremolo bar through his picking hand and needed to be rushed to the hospital.

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cryingstrat wrote:
FirstMeasure wrote:
That's the worst spot to loose flesh :o Ouch! I wounder how much pain and damage Pete Townsend's imitators caused?


Even Pete couldn't do it right all the time. From Wikipedia:

Windmill
Made famous by The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend.[1] Townshend claimed he first saw it performed by Keith Richards while warming up for a concert, and after the concert Pete asked Keith if he could use the move, Keith had no recollection of doing it. The windmill involves holding the guitar in a chord position while rotating the picking arm quickly and hitting the strings, thereby striking the chord. Townshend performed the windmill with such force that at a show in Tacoma, Washington in 1989, he actually drove the guitar's tremolo bar through his picking hand and needed to be rushed to the hospital.

I heard about that when it happened, but Iwas never sure if it really happened! Man, That had to hurt! Hey! that's right about when I hurt myself with my windmill. Right after I got my strat in '89 :D

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