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As mentioned in last week's Wellness Wednesday thread, one of my new year's resolutions was to write and record an album this year. To that end, I committed to spending roughly an hour practising guitar every day in January.
For the album I released this time last year, I recorded the guitars using a detuned standard electric guitar, for which I had a special nut cut so that I could put heavy gauge strings on it. On the advice of the luthier who cut the nut for me, for this album I've instead bought myself a baritone guitar: an electric guitar with an unusually long neck and scale length, allowing the player to tune down to lower ranges while maintaining string tension, essentially the missing link between a standard electric guitar and a bass guitar.
Much of my guitar practice has been spent just getting used to the longer scale length of this guitar when compared to a typical electric guitar. I thought a good way of getting the hang of it would be to learn some songs written for a baritone guitar, and it popped into my head that Carcass, a band I listened to a lot as a teenager, used baritone guitars. For the last few days I've been trying to master this song. Hoo boy can these lads play fast: the "playback speed" feature in YouTube is a godsend. I figure once I can play the rhythm guitar for this song cleanly, I can say I've mastered the baritone guitar.
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