strum bar fix idea

[fiddolbrfrho]

i can't stand the strum bar on the strat. not for the lack of 'clickiness' so much as the shape of it. my fingers get caught on the lip and it makes it harder to strum fast using the flicking technique that i am accustomed to.

well it just occurred to me how easily this could be fixed without voiding the warranty. all you would need is a small piece of plastic shaped like a GH strum bar, which fits over the strat's strum bar.

IMO this would be a very simple and cheap way for someone to make some money, selling such a strum bar mod on the net. i know i would buy one!

[shadebug]

play with a plectrum

[Highlandlassie1]

Sand off the lip.

[shadebug]

Seems a bit extreme, seriously though, he's a full strummer, which I always hate to see because it just looks shoddy, but it happens. The thing is that the RB strummer has the ledge to simulate a real string so isn't conducive to slipping off the strum bar (though my friends stil do it)

The thing is that that string simulation now makes it far more suited to plectra, which a full strummer should like

[fiddolbrfrho]

Sand off the lip.

i had thought of that, but i don't want to sacrifice the warranty. :(

[fiddolbrfrho]

Seems a bit extreme, seriously though, he's a full strummer, which I always hate to see because it just looks shoddy, but it happens. The thing is that the RB strummer has the ledge to simulate a real string so isn't conducive to slipping off the strum bar (though my friends stil do it)

The thing is that that string simulation now makes it far more suited to plectra, which a full strummer should like

yeah i get it, but the way i have always played GH games is to flick the strum bar with my thumb for most notes, except the REALLY fast notes, for those i hold it between my fingers like you describe.

but i can alt strum pretty fast by flicking it with my thumb (i FC'd 3's & 7's in GH3 on expert, using only my thumb).

i'm just so used to it that it's very difficult for me to re-learn to do it another way, i'd much rather just stick with what i know because i'm very good with that technique.

[shadebug]

use a finger plectrum then, it's like a plectrum attached to a thimble