Guitarist forums?
Guitarist forums?
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FredAstaire

Original Poster:

2,419 posts

236 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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I'm coming back to guitar. Back in the day the best guitar forum was associated with Guitarist magazine. It doesn't seem to exist now.

What's a good forum for guitarists nowadays?

Thanks

HighwayToHull

8,411 posts

202 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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My Les Paul or Strat Talk, depending on your leanings.

Hanslow

834 posts

269 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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rsbmw

3,466 posts

129 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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The fretboard is my choice

oddball1313

1,450 posts

147 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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I can’t stand the fretboard, populated by a load of fascist ‘know it alls’,

anonymous-user

78 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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FredAstaire said:
I'm coming back to guitar. Back in the day the best guitar forum was associated with Guitarist magazine. It doesn't seem to exist now.

What's a good forum for guitarists nowadays?

Thanks
justinguitar

cherryowen

12,385 posts

228 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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Hanslow said:
Never heard of it, but just had a look.

I may not join the forum, but some of the links to other stuff looks really interesting.



gazza285

10,872 posts

232 months

Friday 5th November 2021
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The Gear Page.
My Les Paul.
TDPRI.
Ultimate Guitar.

I use them extremely sparsely, there are high levels of fkwittery on display on all of them. My favourites have to be the many threads on My Les Paul about the finish on the artificially aged Murphy Labs guitars flaking off, they like the artificial aging, but do not want the real aging...

OldSkoolRS

7,085 posts

203 months

Sunday 7th November 2021
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Like a lot of forums, they can end up encouraging just buying more gear rather than concentrating on the main purpose of your hobby. Not that I can talk being a member of various ones like TDPRi, Strat-talk, My Les Paul and others...

What I've found is more useful is to search on Youtube for 'how to play xxx' and then from that I've discovered various online teachers. Some work better for me than others, but you might prefer different ones to me. I like Justin Guitar, Paul Davids and Marty Schwartz, plus there are some tutorial bits on the Andertons Youtube (or maybe I just found links from there, can't remember now).

I usually try a few if I'm trying to learn a new song/solo as there are always variations on how to play something and I find sometimes it just seems to click into place with a different tutor than the previous song I learnt.

FredAstaire

Original Poster:

2,419 posts

236 months

Sunday 7th November 2021
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Back in the day the guitarist magazine forum was very pistonheads like - not brand specific, off topic stuff etc. that’s what I’m looking for now really. But I don’t think it exists.


cherryowen

12,385 posts

228 months

Sunday 7th November 2021
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cherryowen said:
Hanslow said:
Never heard of it, but just had a look.

I may not join the forum, but some of the links to other stuff looks really interesting.
I've signed up.

Had a browse across all sub-fora, and it's pretty friendly with lots of interesting input with all things guitar. Hopefully, my first post on there helps identifying a mystery chord (I reckoned it was F9 in the 8th position)

dojo

741 posts

159 months

Monday 8th November 2021
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There are also some guitar servers on Discord. (JarvisGuitar for example)

Stan the Bat

9,726 posts

236 months

Monday 8th November 2021
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Tupe

100 posts

55 months

Tuesday 9th November 2021
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Acoustic guitar forum...... encourages a wide and diverse conversation.....
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/