Annoying the neighbours
Damn. We live in a thin walled appartment building, and while practicing for the last half hour I’ve noticed that the neighbours on the other side of the wall have turned up their stereo louder than ever, obviously to drown me out. Fair enough, I’d want to drown me out too.
So, either I don’t practice for long at weekends (during the week I can practice in the mornings while they are at work, one of the joys of working at home…), or … there is always another option … You can plug headphones into electric guitars right?
Would rather stay acoustic for now, but am pretty worried about the neighbours eating into practice time… and these things are pretty cheap!
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Comment from Gary
Date: November 6, 2007, 12:03 am
Get the right cable (Griffin GarageBand Guitar Cable) and you can plug your guitar into your Mac Book and wear your iPod headphones. There are also a variety of synthesised amp/speaker combinations that you can select - cheaper than buying FX pedals
Comment from jon hundt
Date: November 6, 2007, 6:23 pm
about the electric guitar - if you can afford one, go for it! I prefer a Fender Telecaster, you can get decent imitations from Miziekhaus Thomann in Germany ( http://www.thomann.de/de/t-modelle.html ) for almost nothing. But - don’t worry about the headphones and amps and computers. Just strum the unamplified electric. I have been doing that for 30+ years. You could always buy a hollow-body electric for a little more volume.
about learning - YouTube has zillions of videos, there are innumerable learn-the-guitar websites. I think you could go crazy trying to sort through it all. I still recommend a simple song book or two from your favorite artists. I think it might help you focus on the guitar if you walk away from that computer every once in a while. You can lay the song book on the table and try some chords out while you have a cup of coffee…
Comment from admin
Date: November 6, 2007, 8:03 pm
Gary - good idea, I already tried to write a song with garage band, but gave up as I couldn’t change between chords quick enough yet and recording them one by one seemed silly.
Jon - Yes, getting the guitar away from the computer is a good idea! I have a song book now and an working painfully on blowing in the wind 
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