Sunday Update: My Favorite Guitar Gadgets & I Lost The Bet
Hey there. Tomas Michaud here, if you haven't already guessed I lost the bet. I bet that
in 10 weeks I could double my guitar fingerpicking speed of my two fingers. I got really close
but not quite there. I just couldn't do it in that time frame so being the good sport
that I am, here I am in my video (0:27).
My idea was that if I set a consequence that would be really embarrassing for me that I
would make the extra effort to achieve that goal and in fact I've made more progress and
I probably would have made up otherwise. I got really close just not quite there in fact
I don't get complete lost. I'm gonna keep practicing and I'm pretty confident I'll get
it in the next 10 weeks but I'm not gonna bet on it so with that out of the way I'm
going to share with you in this video some of my favourite gadgets, you're gonna love
this and I'll be right back in a little less compromising guitar.
Hey there, welcome back and thanks again for showing the few moments of humiliation with
me.
My first favourite gadget is a METRONOME. It's the Matrix MR -- 800 Electronic Metronome.
Now most of you who know me for a while know I really believe in using Metronome as part
of my guitar practice and I tried many different Metronomes. This one is my favourite so far
now close to the second is a large mechanical one that I like but this is my favourite.
It's a wonderful Metronome in a very reasonable prize. I like that it's very easy for me to
dial in the number that I want. It has a nice motion. Can you see that? The light.. I like
to feel the motion, kinda like a mechanical Metronome and it has a good loud click. Now,
I've read a lot of reviews that said the click is too loud and it is a little too loud for
me but I'm gonna show you how to solve it, very easily. I take a little sticker you see
right here is the speaker, can you see that? I just take a little sticker and stick it
on the speaker. Now the sticker is small that some of the holes are covered and that works
perfect for me. Now, if it was a little loud I get a bigger sticker and cover more holes
or less holes depending on the sound that I want -- all of 10 seconds is well worth
it. I think this call in the area of 30 bucks online so if you don't have a Metronome, this
is a great one. For me, I like to have a couple of Metronomes in different places so this
is one of my Metronomes.
My second gadget, my favourite gadget that I wanna show you it's called a GUITAR DOCK
made by the company D'Addario sometimes it goes by planet waves also they're kind of
in a transition. They were calling their accessories planet waves but now they're changing everything
over to D'Addario which is actually the parent company, D'Addario. It's a guitar stand. I
know it doesn't look like one but it worked quite well. It's a great second guitar stand.
I have my favourite guitar stand, the Hercules and this one just allows me to put that guitar
in place where I could put big guitar stand. So the way it works is this back part clips
on an edge either a table. If it's a table, it's gonna go like that or on a side, it goes
like that... that's how I put it in my studio and I have it set up against a little door,
a small door and I put it like that so I'll just put my guitar right into this little
soft things. This soft thing kinda hold a guitar and if it set like this, it will go
all the way in. You do have to be careful when you pull the guitar out by the way. You
can turn the guitar to the side as you pull it out. You try to put this thing that can
hold it in which is a good thing in a sense that it won't let your guitar fall over you
easily, it called the GUITAR DOCK , it says D'Addario right there. I think it's in the
area of 30 bucks also and for me it's all worth it.
The last gadget I wanna show off for today is a TUNER, it's called a KORG CLIPON TUNER.
Now, I guess you can tell I like my gadgets. I put it on the guitar so you could see how
it sets. When I'm tuning, it actually comes out like this and I can see the screen from
here and when I'm done I just fold it back so it's kinda not in my face. It's a small
tuner, Clipon it senses the vibration to the guitar neck. I don't need a speaker and for
that reason, it's not sensitive to outside noises. It's a chromatic tuner so it's checking
all the notes and I'm looking for the ones that I need for the guitar, the six strings.
Also what I like about it is its very small and it doesn't stick out of my guitar so it's
not as obvious when I'm not tuning the guitar. It uses one of those little nickel size batteries
that used to be a problem for me until I just went online and ordered like a dozen and stock
them on my drawer. They're cheap. It's just a hassle to go on and find them at the Drug
store so now that I have them it's not a problem and (5:40) pretty well but I don't worry I
have an extra battery in my guitar case if I need it. It's my only tuner. I have a lot
of tuners but I certainly would recommend this tuner specially if you're looking for
a first or second tuner.
So that's it for this week. I hope you enjoyed my favourite gadgets. I'll find some more
for a future updates. I love gadgets so that's not a hard one. If you haven't already gotten
it, I've created a gift for you it's called "10 Secrets To Playing Awesome Guitar", it's
an infographic and I had an artist help me make it into a beautiful art form. You can
get it below and it's absolutely free. I look forward to seeing you hopefully next week.
Bye for now.