Guitar Confusion - Setup
NoSkill
Apr 10 2009, 09:21 PM
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Hi Folks,

I've done some great reading here. I'm just getting back to playing after a long break and picked up my early 90's Jackson Slinky and played. I always liked playing it, as it was comfortable for me. About 5 years ago, I heard a friend play a Fernandes 7 string with sustainer pickups. I ended up buying one from mail order. (I know, I know,) but I live in a rural area with no access to it.

Well, by the time I got the Fernandes, I had stopped playing due to frustration, family, my kids, etc.

Here's where I get confused. I've always admired guitar players who seem like their fretting hand is barely grasping the neck. They look so soft in their left hand, just easy and almost effortless. One of my favorite guitar players is Rik Emmett and I just was amazed at how "soft," his left hand is.

Watching a friend of mine play, he has the same, VERY soft left hand. Effortless. My left hand feels like I'm trying to take a lug nut off my truck with a pair of pliers....

This afternoon, I took that Fernandes out of the case. After tuning the double locking Floyd to Eb, (about an hour **groan**) I started to play a lesson that I was working on...this guitar plays like butter. I find I'm hardly using any fret pressure and the notes and tone are better than I've ever heard out of my playing.

I have a "hard," left hand with all three of my American Strats and my Jackson...with this Fernandes, I'm holding the guitar like I think I should....

I can only tell you experts the symptoms, I have no idea what affects this. I play with #11 high E's in all the guitars and have them tuned standard or to Eb. The Fernandes just plays so beautifully...the others play like I'm in a bar fight.

I'm going to maybe make some video to demonstrate but would love to get into a dialog with things to compare.

Thank you very much.

Probably too confusing of a description now that I re-read this... rolleyes.gif

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- NoSkill   Guitar Confusion - Setup   Apr 10 2009, 09:21 PM
- - Roadside   It´s probably, as you said the fretboard, which m...   Apr 11 2009, 10:39 AM
|- - Muris Varajic   Could be something with sting tension too since yo...   Apr 11 2009, 11:04 AM
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- - NoSkill   Would there be any advantage of taking the Fernand...   Apr 11 2009, 04:41 PM
|- - Ivan Milenkovic   QUOTE (NoSkill @ Apr 11 2009, 05:41 PM) W...   Apr 11 2009, 10:08 PM
|- - NoSkill   I'm not sure of the exact gauge on the Strat b...   Apr 12 2009, 04:29 AM
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- - Gwazi   just throwing this out there, could it be the stri...   Apr 11 2009, 06:30 PM
|- - NoSkill   Gwazi, I don't think you have misread it. The...   Apr 11 2009, 08:24 PM
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- - Ivan Milenkovic   What kind of pickups do you have on Strat and Fern...   Apr 12 2009, 05:23 PM
|- - NoSkill   The strat has S-S-S, the Jackson (little better) h...   Apr 13 2009, 03:55 AM
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- - Ivan Milenkovic   It seems that the pickups play important role ther...   Apr 13 2009, 01:16 PM
- - NoSkill   Thanks, Ivan. I'm going to try and lower the ...   Apr 13 2009, 04:36 PM
- - kjutte   If I were ever to start over, I would use .08s unt...   Apr 16 2009, 02:05 AM
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