yeouch

anyone got any tips for unobtrusive knuckle protection?
yeah, you heard me right...

I was noodling away on my geetar, and during a particularly frantic bit of shredding, I shredded my knuckles on the strings. Stings like a mofo.

Now my nice white scratchplate has flecks of blood all over it....

Ha - I heard Pete Townshend (of the Who) lost fingernails on a regular basis when playing live - just got a bit carried away!!! I personally use a plectrum - keeps my fingers out the way.

Basically - if yer gonna go nutz - expect pain to follow shortly!

JE

excellent master

i got a tab for the red hot chili peppers song 'under the bridge' and at the top of it, it says 2nd fret capo. and i have no idea wat the **** capo is. so if any of you can help my out by tellin me wat it is, that would be appreciated

Dear sicnug (cool name by the way), a capo is a piece of hardware you'll have to buy at the local music store. They're real cheap--less than $10 I think. It's just a clip-type thing that you attach to whatever fret indicated by yer instructions (in this case, 2nd), and then you play away like normal, treating the capo like the end of the neck. Put it right in the middle of the fret. It changes the key because you're basically playing the chords a few frets higher than usual. The neat thing is, you can put the capo wherever you want and experiment. Heck, put the thing up on the 10th fret and go crazy! Sometimes just putting it on strings 1-5 gives a nice effect, too. Hope this helps.

while this thread is still being used, I got another quickie...

My high E keeps making a "plink" sound. At least Its sorta like that, sorta like a squeal. It might just be my pick against the plastic scratchplate, I dunno.
But if it's not, am I gonna end up with snappage, and how can I prevent it?

I mean, I've had this piece o crap guitar 7 months without it needing so much as a tuning up...

Does it happen when you play any particular note or is it whenever you play anything on that string (even open)? The action of that string may be too low for the guitar which would cause the string to touch the edge of the neck, the bridge, or the pickups and cause a plinking sound. You can try to raise the bridge up a little bit to see if that fixes the problem, but if you do this you will also have to reset the intonation of the guitar.

on closer inspection, I think it was just my pick striking the scratchplate. It certainly seems a bit blunt.

Still, if it isn't, I'll know whan the string snaps, won't I?

:)

yeah.

jimi hendrix played with so heavy strings when he played sometimes his fingers bled. someone told me that, and now i play with light strings.