You should change them every month. That's what I've been told, but I always go much longer, due to lack of motivation to change and lack of access to new strings.

It does happen to you. It happens to all strings over time no matter what. You'd think that over all these years they would've invented somekind of ever-lasting string. :(

The pulse thing could come from the strings breaking down, but if it happens on the same string at the same fret every time than you should raise the action a little.

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]I'm writing cards full of festive cheer and saw an awful "play"

Yourself?[/QUOTE]
[sarcasm=size200]sounds cool[/sarcasm]
only messing.


[quote=tc][quote=Axe]What's popping[/quote]
Nothing man, listening to some really good BM. Youz? [/quote]
not much really.

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]Distortion hides dull strings pretty well. I play a lot of clean stuff as well as distorted, so I notice. I can also tell because the strings will get a harder feel when they go dull and they sound very muffled when you play without an amp.

I wish I was in a band. :([/QUOTE]
If you didn't live thousands of miles away, I'd have you in my band without hesitation

NP-Dream Theater-Lie.

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]

I wish I was in a band. :([/QUOTE]

How long have you been playing guitar? If it's been more than a year and a half (dedicated playing) then you could probably find yourself a good rhythm part in an amateur band.

I've been playing bass for about a year and four months and I just play with a friend of mine who is a drummer and my little brother (who is an electric guitar prodigy. He's been playing all of about 8 months now and can play most of Randy Rhoad's version of Paranoid.)

EDIT: toaster, it all depends on the gauge. I keep my heavy gauge bass strings on for a good couple months at a time, but it all depends.

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]You should change them every month. That's what I've been told, but I always go much longer, due to lack of motivation to change and lack of access to new strings.

It does happen to you. It happens to all strings over time no matter what. You'd think that over all these years they would've invented somekind of ever-lasting string. :(

The pulse thing could come from the strings breaking down, but if it happens on the same string at the same fret every time than you should raise the action a little.[/QUOTE]

I do change them once a month, so maybe I just avoid those problems altogether. :) I wouldn't if I had a tremolo, but a string change takes me maybe 15 minutes with my guitar.

[QUOTE=Axe][sarcasm=size200]sounds cool[/sarcasm]
only messing.



not much really.[/QUOTE]
You changed your name back? Why? Cool man, holly all good and well?

[QUOTE=FuryInArt]How long have you been playing guitar? If it's been more than a year and a half (dedicated playing) then you could probably find yourself a good rhythm part in an amateur band.

I've been playing bass for about a year and four months and I just play with a friend of mine who is a drummer and my little brother (who is an electric guitar prodigy. He's been playing all of about 8 months now and can play most of Randy Rhoad's version of Paranoid.)

EDIT: toaster, it all depends on the gauge. I keep my heavy gauge bass strings on for a good couple months at a time, but it all depends.[/QUOTE]
I was in a band once. Then we broke up because everyone had completely different tastes in music.

Bands suck.

[QUOTE=toaster135]Bands suck.[/QUOTE]
Not if everyone gets along.

I've had the same strings for a really long time, a year probably.. I rarely play that guitar though. I just changed the guitar strings on the guitar I use more often. I need a band..

[QUOTE=Deconstruction]I was in a band once. Then we broke up because everyone had completely different tastes in music.[/QUOTE]

That's why I'm not in a permanent band, just a group of guys who like to get together and play around. Our trio plays everything from Ozzy to Terror to The Black Dahlia Murder to Metallica. (The drummer likes hardcore, my kid brother guitarist likes classic metal and old metallica, and I'm more into death and black.)

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]If you didn't live thousands of miles away, I'd have you in my band without hesitation.[/QUOTE]
I we weren’t thousands of miles away, I would join your band. I’d like to play with a great R&M regular, especially one who likes ***-kicking metal. :)

[QUOTE=toaster135]I do change them once a month, so maybe I just avoid those problems altogether. :) I wouldn't if I had a tremolo, but a string change takes me maybe 15 minutes with my guitar.[/QUOTE]
That could be it then. My guitar has a Floyd Rose and I usually let the strings go too long, so after a while they get noticeably worn.

[QUOTE=FuryInArt]How long have you been playing guitar? If it's been more than a year and a half (dedicated playing) then you could probably find yourself a good rhythm part in an amateur band.[/QUOTE]
Over two years. The problem isn’t that I’m not good enough to play anything, since I’m better than just about every musician I know around my age. The problem is that there are very very few musicians here, least of all ones who listen to metal like I do.

[QUOTE=FuryInArt]That's why I'm not in a permanent band, just a group of guys who like to get together and play around. Our trio plays everything from Ozzy to Terror to The Black Dahlia Murder to Metallica. (The drummer likes hardcore, my kid brother guitarist likes classic metal and old metallica, and I'm more into death and black.)[/QUOTE]
Yay! Death and Black. Play some Mayhem.

For a band to be successful you either have to be very good friends, people who get along well and compromise, or one person has to be the "leader" and write everything.

All my bands have sucked. :(

[QUOTE=toaster135]For a band to be successful you either have to be very good friends, people who get along well and compromise, or one person has to be the "leader" and write everything.

All my bands have sucked. :([/QUOTE]
ya, i know. Though some leaders are power hungry.

[QUOTE=Deconstruction]ya, i know. Though some leaders are power hungry.[/QUOTE]
Or some leaders can't play for sh[SIZE=2]i[/SIZE]t and only seem capable of ripping off famous bands.

I'm still bitter from the first and only band I've ever been in years ago.

I know how you feel. My old bassist/singer wanted to be the leader, couldn't play/sing/write worth a damn, and loved Metallica, Lamb of God, and SF.. that was the extent of his music knowledge. We just broke up, and I now find that his other band gets a friggin bar gig.

[QUOTE=Deconstruction]Yay! Death and Black. Play some Mayhem.[/QUOTE]

*Plays View From A Nihil*

The Mayhem bass parts, mostly, aren't too exciting. Quick, but not too exciting.

*Plays Cowboys From Hell instead*

What can I say? Golden Age of bass playing passed by a long time ago.

[QUOTE]I we weren’t thousands of miles away, I would join your band. I’d like to play with a great R&M regular, especially one who likes ***-kicking metal. [/QUOTE]
I should really have that as my Location :p

NP-Blind Guardian-The curse of feanor

[QUOTE=toaster135]I know how you feel. My old bassist/singer wanted to be the leader, couldn't play/sing/write worth a damn, and loved Metallica, Lamb of God, and SF.. that was the extent of his music knowledge. We just broke up, and I now find that his other band gets a friggin bar gig.[/QUOTE]
Agh, that sucks. But at least that guy was into reasonably difficult music. The band I was in was nothing but Nirvana ripoffs.

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]I should really have that as my Location :p

NP-Blind Guardian-The curse of feanor[/QUOTE]
:) \m/

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]Or some leaders can't play for sh[SIZE=2]i[/SIZE]t and only seem capable of ripping off famous bands.

I'm still bitter from the first and only band I've ever been in years ago.[/QUOTE]My first and only band didn't have a leader.. They wanted me to be the leader and write songs and everything for them. I didn't want to do that so I quit. Plus, they were really annoying and wanted to practice/hang out every day.. at my house.

Hey everyone

I'm caught between two bands, both of which want to start getting more serious...

NP: Sonata Arctica - Fade to Black

I'd probably try to be the leader in any band I was in. Either that, or I'd have to percieve that the rest of the band was innovative and exciting and on the exact same level as me in terms of the ebb and flow of the original music we'd create, because I'm extremely specific about the kinds of dynamics I like, but I also hate dictating, because I hate bossing others around.

I can technically write for every single instrument, though. My songs are always compositions for ensemble, generally, and I always like my drum parts. Heh.

EDIT: Although, toaster, I have to say, you've got some serious chops. I bet you and I would work well in a band together.

I try to be a leader in my band, but it's tough. It's usually the singer gets what the singer wants and I'm not the singer, just a some rhythm/mostly lead guitar player.

Except in my first band we took all of our repetitive songs and made them interesting. That's good! :D

It sounds mean, but really you have to boss people around to achieve exactly what you want in a band. If you're okay with having your material be different from what you want, then you should allow your band members to put in material. I'm sure many bands do this and benefit from it.. but I wouldn't want to be in one of those bands. Chances are I'd hate my own music.

I have yet to write a riff or something that I like. Every once in a while I'll think up something amazing, but I always seem to forget the good stuff as soon as it comes up.

[QUOTE=ShadowsFallen]Agh, that sucks. But at least that guy was into reasonably difficult music. The band I was in was nothing but Nirvana ripoffs.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, my old lead guitarist was a Kurt Cobain freak as well. Since he couldn't play guitar worth a damn, I asked if I could have a bass solo once in a while.

He said "WTF is a bass solo?"

[QUOTE=toaster135]It sounds mean, but really you have to boss people around to achieve exactly what you want in a band. If you're okay with having your material be different from what you want, then you should allow your band members to put in material. I'm sure many bands do this and benefit from it.. but I wouldn't want to be in one of those bands. Chances are I'd hate my own music.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. I'm really demanding. I'm really good at bringing new elements to other people's music, though, because I know a lot of theory and know my musical options. But pretty much any original I bring in, I wouldn't want to have changed very much.

EDIT: :lol: @ the Cobain fan above. That's musical sadness in a sentence.

[QUOTE=Cain]Yeah. I'm really demanding. I'm really good at bringing new elements to other people's music, though, because I know a lot of theory and know my musical options. But pretty much any original I bring in, I wouldn't want to have changed very much.[/QUOTE]

It's necessary. If someone isn't demanding nothing will ever get done. You'll all be sitting there in a circle asking each other "So what do you want to do?"

For Xmas my dad wants me to burn him a huge mix cd. He likes my kind of music and so I'm getting a lot of new music on my computer :D

Given that I write only the lyrics in songs, and Can't play other instruments, bar my minimal drum skills, I have to rely on my band to write stuff, and that's not getting anywhere.

They don't want responsibility, and it sucks, I'm not playing covers all my life.

They say it's "your band" and any important decisions should be made by me,
NP-manic street preachers- I'm not working.