Guitar!

Mar 04, 2009 00:35

I've taken to the guitar nicely; I'll zone out and play for two hours without really realizing. I didn't really expect to drive into it this mercilessly and I'm glad I did, I just never thought I was the sort of person to get so into music. The piano is inaccessible and doesn't travel well and it's so stuck in its delicious rigmarole that new ( Read more... )

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qwertyexpress March 4 2009, 04:56:11 UTC
Props to you for being able to pick up on the guitar so easily. I tried once, but it was too foreign for me to make much progress.

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mllineback March 5 2009, 05:48:56 UTC
Sounds like your guitar needs a set up. Raising the action on an acoustic is best accomplished by adjusting the curvature of the neck. Your guitar should have a "truss rod" that can be tightened or loosened to either increase or decrease the curve of the neck.

Fussing with the truss rod is a balancing act as changing the neck's curve could cause fret buzz someplace else. It's possible that your frets need to be leveled or that you may have a high fret.

The truss rod adjustment isn't expensive nor hard to do yourself, but I'd probably just take it someplace since it does take some doing to do your self. It shouldn't be too expensive...maybe $30.

Otherwise you could also try a lighter gauge string, but that'll also cost you some bass and volume on your playing.

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wynterstar March 6 2009, 20:35:57 UTC
Thank you.

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