Can a guitar be too easy to play?
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Re: Can a guitar be too easy to play?
i dont know
when i play, i like to have a little struggle with the guitar. for instance, i have 10-46 on my les paul right now, with medium action. im going to raise the action and put 11-52 or 11-48 on it sometime soon. i simply like high tension, and high action. much better tone, and it just feels better.
now, on a trem quitar(floyd rose) im gonna put 10's on it and have high action set.
high action rules!!!
but anyways, guitars that are too easy to play(low action, light strings) often feel like crap and sound like crap acoustically. and i like it to sound great both ways
i dont know
when i play, i like to have a little struggle with the guitar. for instance, i have 10-46 on my les paul right now, with medium action. im going to raise the action and put 11-52 or 11-48 on it sometime soon. i simply like high tension, and high action. much better tone, and it just feels better.
now, on a trem quitar(floyd rose) im gonna put 10's on it and have high action set.
high action rules!!!
but anyways, guitars that are too easy to play(low action, light strings) often feel like crap and sound like crap acoustically. and i like it to sound great both ways
Re: Can a guitar be too easy to play?
I played a 76 Les Paul for a few years and it has a huge fat neck to it! Thicker then most others for that era..... After a few years i started to get lumps on my wrist and i was in a lot of pain...... we found that the angle i was holding my wrist on to get around that neck was causing strain on my tentons and i had growths start to pop up.. I almost had my wrist operated on but when i was told i should switch guitars it may help i built a cheap strat out of parts found on the wall of a few music stores...... Cheap neck and a cheap body... was not a great guitar but at least it helped my wrist.... After a while i found it worked well and i only play the Les Paul for short periods here and there. A song or two.
After getting the trouble with my wrists i started to look for a thin neck guitar... Hated Ibanez guitars but the necks felt good so i was needing something like that. I ended up finding a Jackson Dinky that had an extremely thin neck. I had won $1000 from a lottery and bought a real Floyd Original and had the Jackson refreted and the neck was re-radiused to fit the new Floyd as the Jackson was a 16inch and the real Floyd is a 12-ish... After the refret the neck is the thinest neck i have ever played on. It is THIN! I still use that guitar alot and bought another one as a back up. Over the years my wrists are good and i have bought many more guitars that have a lot more tone then those thin neck Jacksons.... I find a Clapton style V Neck is perfect for me and the extra wood helps tone, but i still use those Jacksons for the ease of playing them.
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I played a 76 Les Paul for a few years and it has a huge fat neck to it! Thicker then most others for that era..... After a few years i started to get lumps on my wrist and i was in a lot of pain...... we found that the angle i was holding my wrist on to get around that neck was causing strain on my tentons and i had growths start to pop up.. I almost had my wrist operated on but when i was told i should switch guitars it may help i built a cheap strat out of parts found on the wall of a few music stores...... Cheap neck and a cheap body... was not a great guitar but at least it helped my wrist.... After a while i found it worked well and i only play the Les Paul for short periods here and there. A song or two.
After getting the trouble with my wrists i started to look for a thin neck guitar... Hated Ibanez guitars but the necks felt good so i was needing something like that. I ended up finding a Jackson Dinky that had an extremely thin neck. I had won $1000 from a lottery and bought a real Floyd Original and had the Jackson refreted and the neck was re-radiused to fit the new Floyd as the Jackson was a 16inch and the real Floyd is a 12-ish... After the refret the neck is the thinest neck i have ever played on. It is THIN! I still use that guitar alot and bought another one as a back up. Over the years my wrists are good and i have bought many more guitars that have a lot more tone then those thin neck Jacksons.... I find a Clapton style V Neck is perfect for me and the extra wood helps tone, but i still use those Jacksons for the ease of playing them.
WhoFan
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Re: Can a guitar be too easy to play?
LOL :laugh2:
Simon_F said:
LOL :laugh2:
Re: Can a guitar be too easy to play?
I like a guitar that's "easy to play" in the sense that I don't have to work around obstacles that get in my way of playing. For instace, I don't like chunky heels and I don't like excessive shoulder on the neck. Wide nuts are irritating and low action with SMALL frets is flat-out annoying. I like a guitar that works WITH me, and doesn't inhibit my style.
Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouettes practically play themselves... I LOVE those guitars and I finally got on on ebay a few days ago!
The only thing I thought of when I thought about somethign that was "too easy" to play was that Yngwie Strat with the scalloped board. It didn't put up ANY resistance on bends and vibrato so as a result it was easy to push notes and even whole chords out of tune just by holding them down too hard, and with bends it seemed impossible NOT to overshoot the mark of the note you're aiming at and before you know it you've pushed the high e up to the point where it's nicking the A string!
I like a little bit of "resistance" so that it provides stability and control but I don't like the guitar to be too yielding or put up too much of a fight. I know with scalloped boards you have to adjust your style to compensate for the ease of playing but I just didn't like it a whole lot.
I like a guitar that's "easy to play" in the sense that I don't have to work around obstacles that get in my way of playing. For instace, I don't like chunky heels and I don't like excessive shoulder on the neck. Wide nuts are irritating and low action with SMALL frets is flat-out annoying. I like a guitar that works WITH me, and doesn't inhibit my style.
Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouettes practically play themselves... I LOVE those guitars and I finally got on on ebay a few days ago!
The only thing I thought of when I thought about somethign that was "too easy" to play was that Yngwie Strat with the scalloped board. It didn't put up ANY resistance on bends and vibrato so as a result it was easy to push notes and even whole chords out of tune just by holding them down too hard, and with bends it seemed impossible NOT to overshoot the mark of the note you're aiming at and before you know it you've pushed the high e up to the point where it's nicking the A string!
I like a little bit of "resistance" so that it provides stability and control but I don't like the guitar to be too yielding or put up too much of a fight. I know with scalloped boards you have to adjust your style to compensate for the ease of playing but I just didn't like it a whole lot.
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