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Daz
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Post subject: Problem...
 Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 09:08 AM
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When I play, sometimes when I take my finger off of a string to get to another, the string that I've just came off sounds, quite loudly aswell. For example, if I were playing the alternate picking excercise #1 from this site; when I take my 3rd finger off the 15 on B and then hit the 12 on the high E with my first, the B string sounds.
Would changing my action solve this? Stuff like that happens all the time when I play and it is really starting to annoy me.
I changed my action a while ago because quite a few people told me that it was a bit (i don't know whether to use 'high/low' so I'll just say it's a bit loose). So I 'tightened' it (still don't know proper terminology) and it played the way I wanted it to for a while. But after a week or so the strings started making a rattling sound. So I was going to change it again, but I had lost my alan keys. So I took it to the shop, so atleast then they could do it properly if I didn't before. But when they changed it the strings still rattled after a while. So they changed it back to how it was.
The rattling sounded like it was coming from the head. I took it to the guitar shop about that problem a while ago, but they just said a part of the jack was loose or something and they took it out, which didn't really fix that specific problem.
So, is it my action, or is my guitar just that crappy?
Meh, thank god I might be getting a new one soon.... |
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bhuether
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Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 10:34 AM
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Avoiding string noise is definately a difficult skill to acquire. I tend to use my picking hand to muffle strings. Or sometimes the placement of my fret fingers helps too. That helps me avoid string noise about 90% of the time. It is really tough to put into words how I do it. If you lived near Munich I could show you!
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Daz
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Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 01:47 PM
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Yeh, sometimes I stop the strings from sounding, but I do it subconsciously, and I just tried to do it while paying attention but it doesn't really work. I need to video myself or something to see what I do.  I'd like to see how you do it too, any chance of some pictures or a short video?
Also, do you think I should try changing my action again? The reason why I ask this is that my acoustic's strings are alot closer to the frets than on my electric. And I don't seem to get the string sounding problem that I'm getting on my electric.
And on my electric, as I mentioned before, some of the strings have a rattling sound that is coming from the head. Would you be able to hazard a guess as to what's causing that? Because I'm still pretty much a beginner and don't know much. |
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daveasdf
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Posted: May 25, 2004 - 06:09 AM
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| Hey, just takes practice. Gotta hate that response but it's true. Just work at not making extraneous noise and it'll come eventually. No real trick, just trial and error. Crappy as that may sound. |
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stjohn1299
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Posted: Oct 15, 2004 - 11:03 PM
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it's possible one or more of the tuners has either loose parts or is not functioning right....had this problem once, and tightened all the nuts holding the tuners to the peghead, and that seemed to fix it. Play with all of your tuners and see if they either have a loose part or something that seems like it might not be working right.
Also, does your electric have either 2-string retainers or the single bar retainer, like what's on guitars with locking nuts? |
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