In fairness you rarely see Cellists or Pianists making youtube videos where they hammer up and down scales as fast as they possibly can.Originally Posted by Jeztone
Who give a toss if someone else doesn't like them! I like at least one guitar with one, but I wouldn't have one on my main guitar
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I play pretty much exclusively metal and I don't really get on with them. I find you have to pay too much attention to how hard you palm mute to avoid detuning and unison bends are just an arse. Plus additonal string breakage.
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i dunno about the youtube thing, but certainly most classical music has a pretty heavy "virtuoso" content. I hate the way a certain type of guitar player acts like only guitar players are guilty of the "show-off" gene. Most musicians are. And classical composers were perfectly happy to write for those virtuosos. Shred isn't something new.
What is an "OEM ping floyd"?
Show off yes, but I think electric guitar is the instrument in which non musical technique for techniques sake wanking is most prevalent.
I dunno. listen to some paganinni or something like that and it's pretty technique-for-the-sake-of-technique stuff. most concertos-for-specific-instruments are, too.
plus i mean it's fairly subjective whether something is musical or not. i agree that just playing fast for the sake of it and paying no attention to sounding "musical" sounds horrible- but plenty of the players who I see that accusation levelled at, to me, are pretty musical, too. I mean... look at malmsteen. he's frequently criticised for just wanking. but his vibrato is killer. better than a lot of the players who are considered to be "feel" players. if you ask me, vibrato is tied in pretty closely with feeling.
I agree with you on Paganini. Just bought a CD of his stuff the other day and a lot is very similar to guitar widdling.
It's a licensed (or non-licensed) Floyd that's badly made and the strings go 'ping' when you use it. Most are cheap alloy and wear out very quickly.
I like the Edge Pro one on my JS1000...it's a bit lower profile than the standard Edge or a Floyd and that really works for me, in terms of hand position. Unison bends are a bit more tricky...you need to bend both strings to keep the pitch right but I find I do this pretty naturally after a while. And you kind of need to do the same thing with any trem...just not as much.
As far as re-tuning goes...it does take me longer to re-tune and re-string the JS than my non-Floyd guitar. But not by a massive amount. And I would never gig with just the JS. Just in case.
I went to see The Darkness once and Justin broke a string on his Ibby in the middle of a solo. It made a fantastically discordant twaaAAAAaaaangggg and he had to run offstage and grab another guitar. That said, the gig we played last weekend, the other guitarist broke a string on his strat and it had a similar effect. He had no backup, so he grabbed my JS and promptly tried to tune it by turning the tuning pegs at the headstock. All manner of confusion ensued.
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