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If you love it stick with it! Start with a pick, get a teacher, develop the fine motor skills in your hands

Thanks, me too. I like the sustain and harmonic richness

Hey thank you for the heads up - it's not my tab, but I'll look into it!

You're welcome!

Thank you! I hope to make more videos soon

Well I am half-slavic... but I assure you the resemblance must be coincidental!

@@patienthands 😁😁 very nice cover. Thanks for making it, I like it

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Thank you! I'm working on a solo guitar record...

@@patienthands Awesome, I'll subscribe to be aware :)

D'addario EJ17s. For action I have no idea. Not too low bc I like to downtune and I play hard with my thumb so I need space for the strings to vibrate

Thank ye!

My brother in christ, the source material was a youtube to mp3 rip 😅 Thank you, though! I am honestly not convinced that Mark even gets the records mastered...

@@patienthands What's funny is that John Golden also mastered a lot of the earlier albums from Low - which all sound impeccable. Perhaps because those were cut direct from analog tape mixes. Who knows!

I don't have a way to check at the moment, but I think Mark plays it in a C# tuning, then puts a capo a full step up. So, Eb. If I recall, I play it here in D

Thank you!

Right? I blind A/B tested it with some solid body Martins in the store when I bought it, and preferred this one. Now I play a custom Halcyon from Vancouver, but this was my main guitar for five years.

are you playing with a radiused capo? Look down your fretboard and check out the curvature. Classical guitar capos will be flat. What it sounds like is probably too much tension on the capo in the centre. Otherwise, could be a bad fret. Or just general intonation issues, but if your other frets are fine them in not sure.

this happens to me as well. never figured out how to fix it

I always play Zavarez hard tension or extra hard tension strings. They have slightly textured trebles, which makes the guitar sound like a guitar, and not a plonky kids ukelele. Seriously, those strings resuscitated my interest in classical guitar.

Here I am using the second finger, but nowadays I use the third. I don't think there is any principled reason to use either, just do what is most comfortable and or sounds the best.

Hi Simon, this is not a long-term solution to the problem but would it help you watched the video at 0.75x speed? Also, '6-5-2...' are the string numbers, yeah? Not the frets. 6 is the lowest string (by pitch), 2 is the highest. So the picking pattern is 6-5-2-1-4.

That's the 'glue', as it were

Thanks! Although I may have to redo it: the base file I used was just a youtube to mp3 rip, and listening back to it now the cymbals sound really degraded...

there's a tab in the description

Do you know how to read tablature? It's an alternative to traditional music reading. Basically, the 6th to 1st strings are depicted horizontally, and then the numbers, e.g. "7" indicate the fret position on that string. One advantage of tablature is that since we're in an alternate tuning here, it's much more intuitive to read than the same piece would be on a traditional score. Since in the latter case the musician would have to adjust their mental map of the fretboard to account for the different tuning.

Thank you!

goy tuning?

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Hahaha, many thanks, Jesse. Toss a coin to your minstrel?

Woah, no way! Sorry I'm seeing this so late, but can you link me to it?

No, that isn't normal. Unless you happen to be self-oscillating the filter (resonance past 3 o'clock). I would email Paul at SynthTech about it.

@@patienthands I was hearing a hiss with the filter completely open (no res), had to send it back. Quite gutted because its a cool filter and i'd waited a while for stock

@@kiunthmo You were certain it wasn't a power issue? I hope it can get resolved or you get a replacement!

Nice. This was got me into playing classical again

Keep up the good fight! Let me know when you get it ;)

Thank you!

You're welcome, Anna

Thanks!

Hey Simon, do you want me to do a cover, or a tutorial? Thanks

@@patienthands Somebody posted this: "Shortly put, it's in drop D, and you basically have to keep a normal D major position while going for the bass notes in the low e string, frets 0 2 4 5" I can't make up anything of it... can you help out?

@@simonyoung6880 I assume by 'normal D position' they mean , 2nd fret 1st string, 3rd fret 2nd string, 2nd fret 3rd string, the rest open. Keep in mind if you're in drop D, your 'low e string' is not an 'e string' at all, it's a D string. That's why we use numbers instead. So, if you keep the shape above, you just play on the 6th string, open, then frets, 2, 4, 5 (notes: D, E, F#, G, or scale degrees 1, 2, 3, 4, respectively). Does that help? [Edited for accuracy]

@@patienthands I got the tuning to Drop D, but I figured a D Major position would be 2nd fret 1st and 3rd string + 3rd fret 2nd string, like that's a regular D Major right? This is what rings out with the positions you mentioned: D(open) - C - E - G - B(open) - F#. I'm confused. I really can't hear out the 6th string (low D) in the recording at all. Way too low for my amateur ears...

@@simonyoung6880 No no, you're right, my apologies.

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Probably not for a while, but don't let that hold you back. You can always play simpler versions of the more difficult material. Best of luck!

Thank you, Joey :)