jfrey wrote:What's the deal with pickguards? I have been wondering about this for years. I don't really get what they're for. I don't think I have ever touched a pickguard with a pick while playing so....
you do hit them even if you don't realize it, they are (on some guitars) where everything is mounted, and some guitars just look plain weird without them.
I don't know. I don't see how I could hit it without realizing it. And I hold my pick like this:
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So the length of exposed pick is less than the distance from the strings to the pickguard. And I only move my pick maybe a few millimeters past a string when I pick it.
I get the look thing though. Most guitars would probably look weird without it.
When I use picks I use the big triangle ones, I tend to get a little...
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when they started putting pickguards on guitars it was before solidbody guitars were invented, and the purpose was to keep you from wearing a hole in the top of the guitar with your pick like Willie Nelson. on solidbody guitars with arched tops like Les Pauls they serve to keep your arm/wrist strokes aligned straight across the strings by giving the hand/fingers/pick something to bounce off of/line up with; they also serve to perch your little finger on when you're fingerpicking or doing the pick-and-fingers routine and need to anchor your right hand. and as folks noted above, they also keep you from catching your pick under the strings on the upstroke and getting doinked up in the pickups.
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jfrey wrote:What's the deal with pickguards? I have been wondering about this for years. I don't really get what they're for. I don't think I have ever touched a pickguard with a pick while playing so....
you do hit them even if you don't realize it, they are (on some guitars) where everything is mounted, and some guitars just look plain weird without them.
I don't know. I don't see how I could hit it without realizing it. And I hold my pick like this:
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So the length of exposed pick is less than the distance from the strings to the pickguard. And I only move my pick maybe a few millimeters past a string when I pick it.
Good god! Do you play aggressively? Because if I think held my pick like that, I think my fingers would be torn up at the end of a set. Which I admit speaks more about my technique than yours.
bigchiefbc wrote:Good god! Do you play aggressively? Because if I think held my pick like that, I think my fingers would be torn up at the end of a set. Which I admit speaks more about my technique than yours.
Most of the stuff I play is like Scale the Summit, Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, etc.
When I'm not playing things like that I play stuff that is usually very slow, and light, sometimes minimalist, and delicate. Think 3 Libras by A Perfect Circle (maybe less than this really - lighter), or stuff off of Constellations by Balmorhea. Somewhere in the range between those styles.
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i was thinking that if i played with a lot of fuzz most of the time that kind of technique would help to control the signal...in fact now that i think about it i tend to damp down on the pick or use my fingertips when i have the Great Wall or the Tone Reaper on.
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this dude my friend knows got shot over the weekend. the bullet went through his ass/back and came out his penis.
i mean getting shot sucks a lot, but i can't help but sort of silently chuckle
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i dunno, i'm assuming it was through the side because it entered through the back. the angle required to go down the urethra would be sooo crazy and cause tons of internal damage, i think. this dude is going to be pretty okay, from what i've heard.
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