When Should A Beginner Upgrade Their Guitar? (VIDEO)
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Vintage V100 for me is a great alternative for Les Paul
Here's my take. Whenever you want to upgrade and you can afford it, do it! What do you buy though? Pick out what guitarist you aspire to play like and look at what they play and buy something similar to them. Hopefully the next time you feel the gear itch you'll have improved enough and researched enough to understand what will work best for you. Bonus tip If you're a beginner you should be paying more attention to what guitar the rhythm guitar player plays. You can play leads on it, but you're gonna need some mileage under your belt before you can handle a Jackson soloist with a Floyd rose.
Depends what guitar you start out with!!! Im still playing my first guitar , 82 les Paul costume
I have to show this to my parents. Six years and I am still on the 50 dollar starter pack
i can see 2 Satriani's white medium picks on your desk, i used them and you ?
To me the time to upgrade is when you want a different sound. I would always say just buy another guitar rather than sell the old one as you hardly ever get much for them and will often wish you still had them. Another thing to ask is 'can I make my current guitar better'. A change of pickups or even a good setup can sometimes change 'it's not quite what I want' to 'this is what I need'.
lol I bought a cheap guitar kit and got it 5 days ago. Yes it is a Strat knock off. I already ordered some mini rail humbucker's. I think it will be fun upgrading it myself and it will help me get into it. Next year I will buy a better guitar if I stay with it. These videos you guy's put out are so much help. I got a better cable and raised the pickup's up closer to the string's and I got this cheap guitar and amp sounding kinda good lol At least I got the static crackling sound to stop lol. Oh and I am just leaving the tremolo off. It takes it way out of tune when I use it.
Hi Robert, quick question, what is the riff that you are playing at the time marker 0.50 seconds into the video?
Thanks for your time.
JC
epiphone and PRS both have mid range guitars with coil split/coil tapping so you can get single coil and humbucker sounds out of the same guitar. there might be other companies doing this now, but those are the two that I am aware of
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Oh yeahhhhhh. Snap into it. 🤘
Personally I don't consider humbuckers instead of single coils to be an upgrade… they're just different. It's like you've been drawing/painting with black pencil, ink or paint for 3 years and you want to add more colours. Just go buy some new paint… This doesn't mean that you have to throw away your black stuff: just expand the arsenal.
When I bought my first Les Paul I saw no reason at all why I should get rid of my Strat.
I would have sold it, if it were bad, but it isn't.
Of course I bought that Les Paul used, so that financially I could keep my Strat. As a matter of fact I paid more for the MIJ Fender Strat than for the (used MIK Epi) Les Paul.
"Don't settle"
YES.
First guitar was a Hondo and I still have it! Second was a Strat I picked up at a estate sale for 50 bucks in 83. Since then I been prowling pawn shops and flea markets and garage sales for 30 years. Found ALOT of great instruments for dirt cheap and still have every one of them
I started on a Yamaha Strat copy, wasn't putting out what I wanted to hear. Went into a guitar shop and played a Squier Affinity Tele… Fell in love with it and play hours on hours with it. I think I need a break for a day so I don't exhaust myself 😂
Lol, I still mainly use my squire affinity! I just swapped the electronics to a single humbucker and painted it black. Love the thing, I'll never get rid of it 🙂
This is long and boring, so skip it if you want. At 13 (1967) I got my first guitar, a piece of crap Sear&Roebuck Silvertone acoustic (probably worth a mint 50+ years later). Never learned anything on it, though. Maybe a couple of chords. Fast forward 8 years later and I bought a new '75 Gibson Marauder electric for maybe $150 (worth over a grand now, sigh). I learned enough to play rhythm in a couple of terrible garage bands. Then I got married and guitars went out of my life for decades. When I got the itch back 25 years later, I decided to start small and work my way up, given my previous "dedication" to the instrument, so I bought a Fender Squier Stagemaster for about the same $150. Played a while then, again, put the thing away for 17 years. It was too much guitar for my abilities. THEN I found these videos from Robert, Braun, Agnessi and a few others. I traded the Stagemaster for a MIM strat and some cash. LOVED it! But, like you Robert, I needed humbuckers in my life so I added an Epi ES-335! And a MIM tele. And a USA strat pro. I've been playing almost daily for about a year (and still stink) and am loving it. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that starting low and slow is a great learning tool every guitarist should take advantage of. Work things out the way Robert suggests and you will enjoy your music all the more…
A cheap guitar is like a cheap car, you get what you pay for.
What is that riff @ :49? I've heard that song a million times but my mind has gone blank.