It just sounds muffled and doesn’t stand out and sound the way it feels and plays. It’s a Korean sparkle top from the 90s and the build on it is amazing, but man the sound out any amp is dull. I can get it to sound good using a pod go tweaking a bunch, but would like to know if anyone else has encountered this and swapped pickups to something that sounds a little more crispy?
I just started actually learning the notes after picking the guitar up again at 35 (played a little when I was a teenager. Basic chords) I have a firm grasp of the very basics but never learned why I was doing the things I was doing and just memorized tab when I learned a song. Can play Barre chords but never learned what they actually were just that they were what the tab called for.
I’m fast enough to solo a little and sound half decent but I need to have the knowledge of root notes and why I’m landing. So I need to learn the fretboard. I have been following videos online and have a book on mastering this but I’m struggling with note commitment to memory. It all just turns into patterns which I think is just a habit from playing tabs.
Am I overthinking and need to just sit and say them out loud over and over while practicing stuff like the picture? Or does someone have a trick to memorizing notes so I can actually structure things correctly?