My first guitar teacher told me that someday I'd start to notice that you can't get all strings perfectly in tune. At that point, he said, you'll know you're getting somewhere on the guitar.
With an ordinary fretted guitar, you can sort of perfectly tune it to what you play but not perfectly tune it in a global sense.
That’s an issue with tuning instruments in general, and why pianos are generally slightly out of tune as a compromise.
As you get used to a particular guitar and strings, as you train your ear, you can also learn to work around the imperfections by adjusting how you hold down the strings (even with a fretted guitar, you can slightly repitch a string by holding it differently).
Classical guitarists are used to pushing nylon strings into consonance by compressing the string either towards the nut or the bridge. Not so easy with steel, where players will just preemptively retune to whatever chords are most prominent in the song.
I play with generally lighter strings. 8.5-40 mighty slinky fender scale. I noticed when I switched my fingers pay much more attention to pressure, and being in tune with microbends.
Been thinking of going a bit lighter recently, and also getting a classical.
Get obsessed over the perfect tuning. Blame the imperfections on the quality of the guitar. Don't play until you get a better guitar. Repeat until you give up. Then actually start playing the damn thing.
Yes exactly. Although I didn't buy a new guitar, but a dozen tuners. It finally clicked when I got one that was "real time" enough to see how the tuning shifts from high to low. This was before smartphones could do it.
Doesn't help that most tuners are still dog slow, none of the beginners courses properly tell you how the guitar actually works, or what a "chord" really is. They're all just "play this and don't worry about it". To be fair it does get you going.
I imagine this varies regionally (I'm in Eastern Canada), but we keep running into limited availability issues.
I'd consider myself in the early(ish) part of the mass-market adoption curve. I'm not an early adopter (I don't have an EV yet), but I'm interested and keeping an eye on them.
We're ready to purchase an EV, but I'm not ready to pay to get on a waiting list for a vehicle I can't see or test-drive.
Until I can go to a few dealerships and see/drive the low/mid-priced EV models, it's going to be difficult to make the decision to spend $40,000 to $60,000.
I found it strange how little chargers there are in eastern Canada last time I went. In the US West Coast, smallish towns have one or two Tesla supercharger. I rented a Tesla in Quebec last summer and the supercharger stations were quite far apart and very busy. Something doesn't add up.
I remember a science radio program from years ago (might have been https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks) summing up an explanation of how soap works with the summary: "Soap makes water wetter."
It's obviously an over-simplification for the purposes of education, but it works, as it has stuck with me.
Under Resources at the bottom you can download a 9MB File (aay1950_movie_s1.mp4) of movie S1, but it only shows an animation of a disc running on blue, green, and red springs...
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