| I have a GUITAR! (The icon is for my first string.) |
 I have a GUITAR! (The icon is for my first string.)
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Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 06:41 pm 
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Sooo, this morning my guitar arrived. (Was coming via post, because I got it from the internet.) It is awesome and beautiful, but I've already had to replace the first string because I broke it.
See, the digital tuner doesn't work very well if the string is waaaay out. And by very well I mean "pretty much at all". It works great if you've got the string somewhere in the vicinity of right, but not if, for example, you have a brand new guitar with all the strings WAY out of tune.
With the help of the internet (finding a site with mp3s of the correct notes), I got the sixth string into rough tune, then correct tune via digital tuner, and then was able to tune subsequent strings to the previous one. Which was awesome. Of course, by the time I got the first string tuned correctly, the sixth was starting to go out, because brand new strings are like that. I am resisting the urge to spend the whole evening tuning my guitar.
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I bought an "interactive Guitar Bible" at Barnes & Noble this past Sunday, intending it for Seth (who is lousy at learning/practicing). But now I'm thinking that I just might use it for myself. We've got plenty of guitars around this joint, that's for sure!
I am afraid that my hands are too small to play (I can barely play an octave on the piano, and after about 10 attempts, my hand cramps up), which is why I'd LOVE to learn mandolin. But we don't have one of those, and it's quite different from playing guitar (open tuning and all), so I think I'll try learning guitar first...
I didn't know until yesterday that most stringed instruments have two sets of tuning pegs. ( ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) velithya is a cellist, and she was explaining it to me.) Small hands should be no impediment to playing guitar; the stretches are a LOT smaller than an octave on a piano. If anything it could well be an advantage for close-in chord fingering. Failing that, hey, 3/4 size guitars exist for a reason! :D
Best thing is just to get a chromatic tuner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_tuner) designed for tuning anything, it'll spit out what note you're at, the exact frequency, how far off the note you are, etc. Also makes drop tuning easier, as you can use it to find any note. They are more expensive than purpose-built EADGBE guitar tuners, though.
(The one in the picture on Wikipedia is the EXACT same one I have O_o)
My guitar is electric-acoustic, the digital tuner I have is built into the preamp. So, cool idea, but for the time being I'll be fine with the digital tuner and a pitch-pipe my cellist friend has lent me. :)
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April 2nd, 2009 11:26 am (UTC) |
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R,
New toys - don't look at me like that! :-) - work that way for people, it seems. When I got my first laptop, several all-nighters were involved.
M.
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