PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
Well, get up and do something.
"Tone is in the hands" part 2
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Green Craig
Senior Stratmaster
Aaaaaand we've reached the point in the discussion where we're discussing the discussion itself and not the content of the original thread/post.
El Gobernador
fezz parka
Lol. Like most threads here, it's for people who never got in the game. Benchriders and armchair quarterbackers calling plays they can't do themselves.
All hat...no cattle.
All hat...no cattle.
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PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
El Gobernador
fezz parka
Nate D
Most Honored Senior Member
Reading through this thread makes me realize how badly I need to trim my toenails.
LedZepconcertvet
Strat-Talker
Used it damn well, too.
My acoustic guitar doesn't have a tone knob and I'm able to change it's tone with my hands. Those same acoustic tone-shaping techniques work well on a Strat.
dirocyn
Most Honored Senior Member
And every acoustic guitar sounds just exactly like every other acoustic guitar, right?
By saying tone is in the fingers, I personally have never said there are no other contributions to tone. I have only said that skilled fingers are the best source for affecting tone and that is the spirit of the statement, "tone is in the fingers". I also am one using the more strict definition of tone that excludes reverb, echo, distortion and other shapers of sound waves as they are "characteristics of sound" to be considered along with, but separate from each other and another "characteristic of sound" known as tone.
PonyB
Senior Stratmaster
The other great modifier for acoustic tone is pick choice- material and thickness affect tone greatly IME.
mad axe man
Senior Stratmaster
since tone is in your hands will you sell me your eminence red fangs?
dirocyn
Most Honored Senior Member
Right. Tone is in the hands, if you are limiting "tone" to one incorrect definition of the word, while trollishly refusing to admit that the correct definitions are correct.
Moses on a crutch! This thread should have breathed its last long hence.
I said it in the first thread and I’ll repeat myself: if you don’t know what “tone is in the fingers” means, then your journey as a guitarist is not complete.
I said it in the first thread and I’ll repeat myself: if you don’t know what “tone is in the fingers” means, then your journey as a guitarist is not complete.
Hanson
Senior Stratmaster
OMG it lives on!
Nice try, but check it out yourself. Play close to the bridge with your picking hand. You will acheive a thinner tone featuring treble frequencies. Moving your picking hand closer to the neck will decrease those treble frequencies and approach more lower frequency tones. There is nothing incorrect about describing those hand and finger movements as affecting tone. Regarding other definitions of tone, understand that I previously posted that there can indeed exist other perfectly legitimate definitions of tone just as there exist legitimate geometries defined where parallel lines meet. You are one refusing to accept that skilled finger's and hands can affect tone. Some of us believe that they have the best affect on tone
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rolandson
Dr. Stratster
Late to the party...I've a note from my doctor...
It's a thing of some. Covering for a lack of talent by blaming the equipment. The reciprocal follows; it's all in the equipment.
I looked at the image on the OP. I was impressed.
The fellow in the picture clearly knows how to finger a Bb chord while looking angry. Perhaps it is because someone stuck bottle caps to his ears.
That must be painful.
But I wasn't compelled to listen.
Demonstrating a lack of comprehension or training by shouting as loud as possible, the internet equivalent of ignorance couched as bravado, suggests a visit to tales of Billy Goats...all three of them.
Autotune has a fan.
It's a thing of some. Covering for a lack of talent by blaming the equipment. The reciprocal follows; it's all in the equipment.
I looked at the image on the OP. I was impressed.
The fellow in the picture clearly knows how to finger a Bb chord while looking angry. Perhaps it is because someone stuck bottle caps to his ears.
That must be painful.
But I wasn't compelled to listen.
Demonstrating a lack of comprehension or training by shouting as loud as possible, the internet equivalent of ignorance couched as bravado, suggests a visit to tales of Billy Goats...all three of them.
Autotune has a fan.
El Gobernador
fezz parka
No. I will sell you my Andy Griffith DVD collection so you can watch Goober whenever you want.since tone is in your hands will you sell me your eminence red fangs?
They don't listen Jim.
They don't get it.
They never will.
Seems that people are pretending not to know what it means at this point.
dirocyn
Most Honored Senior Member
Nice try yourself. I've been well aware of the difference in brightness you get picking closer or further from the bridge since...oh, about the first month of playing, which would have been back in 1988. Turns out we have yet another place where we use the language differently; I don't consider picking closer to the bridge to be a "skill." It's just part of playing the guitar, and something any novice can do.
Also, I never said that tone was ALL in the gear. Back at the beginning of this thread, I said:
The tone is produced by both the technique and the gear. Some kinds of sounds require particular types of gear.
And you can try it yourself too: Pick up your Strat and strum a G chord, unplugged. Then plug in your amp and strum a G chord. Odds are it sounds very different. The gear changes the sound. Try it, you'll see.
