Okay, I’m a mediocre guitarist, and I’ve heard about getting a guitar "set up" several times, but I have no idea what it is.
Anyone care to enlighten me? How helpful is this thing anyways?
It’s an acoustic.
Setting up a guitar is adjusting the intonation so the guitar stays in tune all the way up the neck. This is an electric guitar thing so it does not apply to you with an acoustic. Hope this was helpful.
I want to know what would be a good setup for a lead death metal guitar type setup. I can mix and match the neck and bridge pickups between all of these:
-EMG 81’s
-EMG 85’s
-Duncan Dime Bucker
-Duncan invader
-Duncan LIVEWIRE metal pickup
Keep in mind that single coil & humbucking pickups usually have a great difference in volume. In other words, if you mix them and switch in mid-song you’ll get a noticible boost or drop in volume. You didn’t mention what kind of guitar these were going in but let me say, you CAN’T go wrong with Duncan’s pickups. EMGs are prone to some problems that you may find you don’t want to live with.
I’ve hoping to be able to play an musical instrument for a very long time but for some reason that I cant do it as i like. well,now, i can have the chance to play some. but i found i have no idea about music because i never learn any about it…so where can i start from? and which one of bass and guitar is easier for me to start with? thank you so much!
If you learn guitar first, then bass is incredibly easy to learn afterwards.
If you want to start out with playing cover chords of popular songs, try http://www.youtube.com/user/yourguitarsage
But just learn some basic chord shapes, and how they are supposed to fit together, and practice a lot!
(and make sure you have a guitar :] )
Because I already know how to play the flute, and I know how to read music (for the treble clef). I am learning the guitar and although I am just learning the chords for now, I would soon like to know how to play melodies. Do I have to learn tab, a completely different method than I am used to, or does the sheet music written in the treble clef work just as well?
In my opinion, i find that tab ends up very easy to learn, however in your case reading from the treble clef in sheet music should be fine 
Only downside is you just have to remember what note is on what fret. But it is definately just as good to use standard sheet music
All I want is the guitar tabs to Ouran High School Host Club. (: thanksss =D
go to this site…
http://josh.agarrado.net/music/anime/
just click "O"
& you’ll find Ouran High at the last part
^_~
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I’ve got a Big Muff distortion pedal and a Digitech Whammy octave shifter and I basically want to know how to hook it up, like the order. Like: Amp>cable to DW>cable to BM>cable to guitar? I’m trying to emulate the Jack White sound as best I can, that’s the pedals he uses, even got his guitar, but which way would I lose the least signal?
Your signal path is backward but good. You’d go guitar to BM to DW to amplifier and of course there are cables between all of that so you’d need 3 cables. The only tough choice is whether to run the Muff or Whammy first, on the one hand you might want one to effect the other but not the other way around. Confused? Me too. I would run the guitar into the distortion first and then into the whammy that way the you can distort the sound of the guitar but it wont get all wonky on you after its processed by the whammy. > that might not produce your desired effect. You should experiment though. Maybe the whammy first might be cool.
My simplified suggestion: Guitar > Muff > Whammy > Amp
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