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  1. ikwtif
    I highly doubt it would be great for learning, how are you even going to see the notes come in on your fretboard with your guitar vertical? It's not going to be good for your neck, that's for sure. I can't see VR being usefull for an instrument to be honest. You have to realise VR will have some serious latency issues too.
  2. ikwtif
    So..I assume there are several other people with this problem and I don't think there is any thread dedicated to this? I might put one up with some general guidance later on when I get time for it because I think RS really fails in the "teaching" part if you barely have any experience in music/playing.
  3. ikwtif
    First off, don't expect to be a great player after 6 months, specially depending on what you actually practiced. What did you mainly do during those 6 months? And was it the first time you did anything related to an instrument?
  4. ikwtif
    It's a bit off-topic, but if you want a good practical vs theory practice, I suggest learning intervals on the guitar together with triads (basically the same thing). It's going to help you make more sense for how chords are constructed. Also, if you learn a scale position (best to start with the major scale). Learn the positions by starting from different fingering positions. If you have the root on the 6th low E string, start practicing the scale from the root note with different fingers. If that makes sense. As an example http://live4guitar.com/img/content/articles/pedja_simovic/harmony_and_theory_part3/major_scale_patterns.jpg If you practice position I. Start from the root with your pinky (so you basically play position V starting with your pinky on the root). Then you shift down and start on the root with your middle finger (playing position I), then shift down again and start on the root with your index finger (playing a combination of position I and position II). If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll give you a better picture with how the scales work if you do this. It's a very good excercice in my opinion to get used to using different fingers and connecting shapes. To connect it to your slide. It will help you to play a scale after the slide from whatever finger you end up on the 9th fret and give you more freedom. I also recommend checking out http://chordacus.com/ for scales and chords
  5. ikwtif
    I think this is actually one of my main gripes with RockSmith. No feature to actually see the whole tabs ingame (still think riffrepeater is useless, or anyway, not a good fleshed out feature, specially if you use it on less than normal speed to learn something), or a way to see the chord progression, or even the key a song is in. For a "game" that profiles itself to teach, there are more than enough features that could have been made way better for that in my opinion. But to actually answer the question, I'm nearing 200 hours ingame and I can read the chart fine unless there's a complicated solo. Of if the rythm/fingering is complicated and it's a fast song, it might take me a bit to actually figure it out. Or well, adjust to the fast chord changes. Wich has more to do with me being slow in them instead of not able to read it. Most trouble I have is defenitly with solo's tough.
  6. ikwtif
    Not sure what you mean. Just the height? Just set them whatever you are comfortable with, there is no "right way". I suggest watching the vid I linked earlier, it's not for the same bridge, but he explains the idea behind it and gives some general measurements you can use to start from. If you understand the concept it doesn't really matter what bridge you have to set the action since it's all based on the same principle. If you go too low, you'l get string buzz and bends that stop early, if you go to high it's mostly just uncomfortable to play and the notes will go slightly sharp on the middle of the fretboard because you extend the strings too much by fretting them. Just set them to a height that is most comfortable to you while slightly following the curve of the fretboard (like explained in the video)
  7. ikwtif
    I assume you mean your finger goes under/hit the D string while bending the G string? Probably lowering your D string a bit should fix that then.
  8. ikwtif
    If it's only on bending the strings then I'm fairly certain it means your action is too low (strings too close to the neck). Just heighten your saddles a bit until the bending feels more comfortable. You mean something like this right? https://youtu.be/1dEZxBykRto?t=450
  9. ikwtif
    You can't just straight up "copy" a setup, too many variables usually, and if you don't know what problem is you are trying to solve you can actually make it worse. So maybe you should list the problem(s) first and then we can work from there.
  10. ikwtif
    On the Edit Arrangement tab; "Tone Selector". Set only the "Base" section to the tone you want to use. Everything else should be empty, so remove the tone from "Tone A" so it's emty like the other ones. That should solve it. Everything else looks fine to me. Don't forget to tag PS3 because it's tagged for PC on the screenshot. Unlikely, but might be that the creator made a tone change in the tab file, but I don't think that's the case since "Base" and "Tone A" are the same tone. But if it still breaks, check the file in EOF for it and remove it.
  11. ikwtif
    It's entirely up to you, but I'm not sure why you would give up playing guitar entirely because of that? I assume you'll still listen to music, watch tv? So what's the difference in actually playing music or just listening to music? I find it very strange you would throw away 4 years of playing music, something you clearly enjoy and put a lot of time and effort in.
  12. ikwtif
    Just noticed the pictures in a previous post, don't think they loaded for me before. Seems like your bridge saddles are all at the same height. Usually the saddles for D and G strings should be the highest with the others slightly lower. You want something like this Since you don't have a floating bridge, I still think you tuned the lowE an octave too high, no idea why it would snap otherwhise.
  13. ikwtif
    Well, you might be tuning it an octave too high then, even tough it's a used one that snapped, I don't think a lowE string can just snap that easily unless it's a faulty string in the first place or you are putting way too much tension on it.
  14. ikwtif
    If you have a floating bridge (wich I assume you have), while tuning, it will raise and the tension on the strings will even out more, so they go flat again and you have to keep retuning until you get it balanced. I'm guessing that's what happening. I don't see why the low E would have far greater tension than the other strings, you can try to losen the screw on the back that's connected to the springs that pull on your bridge on the side of the low E string a bit, maybe that helps. But I'm not really sure if that's the real problem tough. And I'm confused, are you saying your low E actually broke because of the tensions? Or that you are just afraid it will break? And to be sure, we are talking about the thickest E string here right? Or are you referring to the high E string? Because I don't see the low E ever breaking from tension, unless you are tuning an octave too high, wich would surprise me. So I have a feeling you are actually talking about the high E (thinest E string) If you are unsure, just detune everything until your bridge hits the body of the guitar and retune all strings simultaniously again
  15. ikwtif
    Yeah I know most of how to set it up properly and the many factors, I just tought it was strange the intonation completely changed after a few days. I would have expected it to change up to the next day, like you said, not a few days later. Guess I'll just redo the complete setup again. Like you said, to many facters to know what caused it. I have .10 strings, I think the guitar had originally had .09 strings on but I also added an extra spring on the bridge when I changed gauge so I don't think that should be a problem. I don't know if you watched the video I added to the first post? But to me it seems like his bridge is also not horizontal anymore after the setup, so I'm wondering if it's even possible to keep horizontal with that method. I might just descide to keep the bridge locked to the body for now so I have an easier time and less variables to work with until I'm more comfortable with it.
  16. ikwtif
    I tought you can't really get it perfectly parallel with this method anyway (even tough it was way over) Unless you are supposed to change the springs on the back to counter the tension, or I'm just doing it horribly wrong. since it's based on the interval. But I already have 3 springs pulling on the bridge so I don't see how I would even be able to fix that issue. I got it flatter by raising the anchors of the bridge tough even tough that's probably not the right way to do it. I also seemed to have no problem with the intonation, wich completely changed after a few days for some reason so I'll redo the setup again when I put new strings I guess, or maybe sooner. Because I must have done something wrong since shifting the saddles changed the intonation very little and I just can't get it right around the 5th frets either with the notes being off on G and B string by 10 cents. Very annoying. Specially because everything was fine when I did the setup. Everything just seem to be shifted after a couple of days
  17. ikwtif
    Not sure what you pay for a complete setup, but I paid around €60 for it (first and) last time I believe (wich was a few years ago), in my opinion that's way too much for what you can basically do yourself in 1 hour depending how comfortable you are with it. But even when you are slow with it, it's a good learning experience and I highly recommend doing it yourself. As for the neck relief, I don't see why hitting an open string would cause a problem and fretting the string not. I would expect at least the first frets to buzz too if the relief is the problem. But I was never able to download the video.. You can also easily see if it's a pickup problem if you see the string vibrate strongly when you hit it. And like others said, be carefull with the truss rod.
  18. ikwtif
    Doesn't sound like a neck problem. Try lowering your pickups
  19. ikwtif
    Already did it by now. Wasn't too bad :D Quick question tough, is it normal the bridge is way over being horizontal to the body after doing this? Anyone know?
  20. ikwtif
    I'm planning on redoing my whole floating bridge setup again because I need to for intonation anyway and I want to set up the floating bridge for intervals. I'll be mostly just following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7luUzgDwwcs&feature=iv&src_vid=1dEZxBykRto&annotation_id=annotation_189335671 But my question is, in what order should I do everything, since I'll be checking action height, intonation etc again too. Do I do these things best before setting up the tremolo intervals, or afterwards? Or does it even matter? Also, is it better to just set all the saddles in a standard position to start off? And completely start off the setup from there or do I just adjust what I have now? This is the bridge I will be setting up http://www.fake58.co.uk/images/SB_5310-002%20Wilkinson%20VS100.jpg
  21. ikwtif
    I see, thanks. That was something along the lines I tought it would do.
  22. ikwtif
    @@raynebc Is there an info thread somewhere for handshapes? Because I don't seem able to find anything. Are the handshapes just to group notes played from the same chord? Like an arpeggio but not with the whole chord shown at the start?
  23. ikwtif
    I see, I'll have to look into handshapes then, don't think I ever used those before. Thanks for the suggestion
  24. ikwtif
    I'd suggest trying it on a different pc. I think your cpu is under the recommended requirements so wouldn't surprise me if that's causing the issue. Or maybe the gpu if you have integrated graphics, because that's a laptop right? So maybe playing RS on lower settings might help You also might want to make sure it's not in power saving mode while playing.
  25. ikwtif
    On what kind of PC are you running this? Have you tried the same on a different one? Having no problems during tuning but while playing a song (and all the other things you tried) makes me believe your PC might not be able to handle the game during intensive parts and has problems detecting notes because of it. Have you tried running RS on lower settings?
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