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As new condition Fender Player Series II Telecaster HH With Fender gig bag Purchased new in 2025 but I’m returning to bass only collection only

Orange Supercrush 100 combo 1 x12 100w twin channel amp as new condition with cover and Orange Footswitch collection from Suffolk

It's a 12", I think it's a skill issue more than anything. Thank you.

What is the fingerboard radius on the guitar you play? Radii of 10" or less often lead to strings choking on bends. 12" or more should be fine though.

Plenty of Youtube videos on the subject; here's one... Here's another ... Hope this helps. Ignore the 'choice of string gauge' stuff, you'll want 10-48 gauge, really. Others will be along too, soon...

Haha sorry I play electric usually with quite a bit of gain, I've wanted to try picking up some very basic solos and lead part just from songs I like, at the moment I'm attempting to learn Paranoid by Black Sabbath as I'd heard it's a good place to start in that genre. A lot of the time when I have to bend or vibrato I find I'll manage to get the next string across to ring out. I'd assumed it would be usual to start with but wanted some technique pointers just to get me headed in the right direction. Thank you.

Good evening, @Jensen, and ... ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. A little patience; others will be along to help you. Meanwhile, could you please specify if you play acoustic or electric guitar, and in what song you want to be getting this 'bend' effect..? That'll help with suggesting solutions. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm relatively new to guitar and music in general (only playing about a year) and have gotten to a comfortable point with rhythm guitar, but now I'm actually trying to learn lead I find any time I try to bend and release I always manage to get a string to sound out which just makes everything a bit clunky. I know I'm rushing everything a bit but I'm just wondering if this is normal or I'm just particularly heavy handed and how I could get this to quiet down. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you all.

I’m selling my pedals. All in great condition, all working fine although I don’t have the boxes for any of them and I don’t have power supplies for them (they all take standard 9v centre-negative PSUs). We have; EHX Oceans 11 (reverb) T Rex Replay (delay) EHX Soul Food (drive) Zoom A1four (acoustic multi FX) Morley Distortion Wah (combined wah and distortion) Price above is for the job lot collected from sunny Cleethorpes. If you want them posted please add another tenner. PLEASE NOTE: I’d really prefer to sell the whole lot in one go so at this stage I’ll see whether there’s any takers for the bundle before I offer to sell them individually. Thanks for looking, please PM with any questions

Absolutely, it's about selling dreams...as in 'buy this and get closer to living the dream'...whatever that dream is.

You could get a Fender Standard for that budget, or my local guitar shop has a Fender Player II Fender Player II Stratocaster, Rosewood Fingerboard, Polar White – Matchetts Music

I would recommend PRS SE Swamp ASH Fender Tele Player II with humbuckers

Mostly thirds.

All change again !! I've been trying out the Hotone Ampero products, surprisingly very good !!

I know this post was years ago but just by a miracle is this still available by any chance

Yep! Therein lie the important chord tones, which will add flavour to your soloing.

so use the bar chords of a song almost like scale shapes?

Welcome. And HNGD (Happy New Guitar Day). "Played it 'til my fingers bled"

Have you ever thought of taking the Fusion to a guitar tech to set up? Maybe they can get the neck closer to the way you want it. I'm surprised that the AS53 doesn't stay in tune. I have an AS73 and it stays in tune pretty well - just the occasional slight tweak needed. I would imagine it has the same hardware as the AS53.

Look at barre chord shapes and use those notes as a guide to what to play, then experiment with different positions up and down the neck. Then, if you're brave, try it with inversions and THEN with modes. See how far you can push things without it sounding irrelevant.

A common mistake is for folk to stick to the minor pentatonic when improvising, whether the key or chord is major or minor. Try and make sure you’re complimenting the chord by emphasising the 3rd note. A lot of players tend to play through the scales from one end to the other. Stand out from the crowd by making some interesting, intervalic jumps (Carl Verheyen is the king of this, check him out). Don’t be in a hurry to show your chops too early, build to a crescendo and release (the solo from Stairway is a great example of this).

Hi guys, I've recently decided to start learning how to properly improvise on the guitar. I'm a massive fan of the licks, techniques and melodic sounds from Thin Lizzy (mainly Gary and Scott) and Led Zeppelin. does anyone have and starting point suggestions, I'm not a complete beginner as I have got 95% of crazy train down and a few Thin Lizzy songs like Waiting for an alibi and Dancing in the moonlight etc, I know of a few pentatonic scale shapes and the bare basics of minor third harmonies (I think?). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PRS SE CE24

I've currently got three budget electric guitars. I've never cared about getting anything fancy as a player as I believe you should be able to shred any guitar. They're all playable these days. But I don't want three electrics. So I'm looking to consolidate down to one really decent guitar. Somewhere in the £500-700 range. Something I can depend on for a decade or two. My three guitars now are: 1 - Harley Benton Fusion Tele (which looks gorgeous and has a tremolo). I love it. It never goes out of tune ever but it's a bit clunky to play. I've never been able to get the neck perfect. 2- Ibanez AS53. Gorgeous but doesn't stay in tune very well. No trem. 3 - Ibanez RGsomething or other. Nice and shreddy but heavy and no trem. I'm looking for something that looks good (so no Strats), has a trem (pref. non locking nuts) and good for everything from shred to jazz. Any ideas? I'm drawn to the EVH guitars but they do have locking nuts on the trem ones.

OK I think I've reached the end of the road with this one. Or at least I've gone as far as I can... The Ernie Ball VP Jr arrived and works great although there isn't enough space on the already quite generous pedal board for it. Over the weekend, I also discovered someone selling Eventide Pitchfactor for about 230 quid online and so pulled the trigger because it does Eventide Harmoniser detune. So that has replaced the TC Electronic 3rd Dimension. And a second Pigtronix Echolution arrived as well but I may have actually over cooked it a little because just one can handle stereo AND both the RV500 reverb AND the pitchfactor have delay as well...hmmm. Slight buyers remorse perhaps. The only thing left in the set up is another pair of Loudster power amps which I'm in no hurry to buy right now given the Marshall power amp does the job adequately for practice purposes. I'll post a pic of the actual pedalboard once I've finished the re-wiring. Now I should probably go and learn some songs...