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Sorry if you thought I was being insulting - that surely wasn't my intent. But I still don't see the need for an amp to work on timing. A metronome should do it - you can buy one or nearly any phone app for guitars will have one. Loopers can help with timing, but mostly getting a smooth transition between the end and beginning of the measure so it'll loop smoothly - you can be totally off on every beat between the stop-start place and the looper won't help you with that.
Hey, if you want an amp, and a DI, and all of the stuff, knock yourself out, but I really don't see the need for your stated situation. |
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Your question is great. You've helped a lot of people with the great answers that have be given. Feel happy youre in the group, AGF People.
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Thanks for the replies guys... all of them!!! lol... as the young people say.
The 'need' for electrics was just so that I could play back what I was doing and hear it objectively, rather than thinking it was as good as I think it sounds in my head. Timing is one thing - sure, I appreciate that a simple metronome can deal with that. But surely musicality is only something you can hear in the 'third person' as it were... by playing back a recording or video, no? Maybe I'm odd, but if I rely on just listening as I'm playing, it always sounds fine (just like I always sound like James Taylor when I'm singing to myself!), whereas when I've used a looper before, it's made me realise the reality is different. The other thing about 'electrics' is that there are some fun tools around to make practice a little more interesting, especially for a 'Billy No Mates' player like me (joking... I have friends, honest, I do, really.... ). |
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Thanks Mercy - I appreciate that.
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Most days I use a strap and a music stand. It sounds like you might enjoy a metronome app for your phone.
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I know you said you didn't want to get involved with a computer but why not find some easy songs on Youtube and play along? I learned to play 55 years ago by playing along with The Kingston Trio on an album on my record player. Youtube is easier.
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I usually play my acoustics without an amp at home. But, but, but...when you play through an amp you really hear all the little subtle mistakes. Fingers slightly mute an adjacent string, missed notes on a string, missed passing notes, missed base lines...they are all amplified and painfully appear.
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I guess I inhabit the vicious circle that is masochism and perfectionism, because finding all the subtle (and not so subtle) mistakes is what I figured to be a good thing.
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Quite in the same boat...
I could not work with a metronome by myself. Found a teacher to help with technique and had to work the rhythm : Learned to tap my foot and follow a metronome. I do not see tabbed tune the same way now that I can read rhythm on the staff. A teached really helped !
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Buy a Fishman Loudbox Mini or the Artist if you want to spend extra. Hook up your Ditto Looper and have at it. |
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I think you're shooting yourself in the foot by avoiding a computer.
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