Depending on who you ask, the most important part is different, but I’ve heard different people say that each part affect your sound vastly. From the strings, which are sometimes made by the same manufacturing company even for different brands to the distance where you pick the strings from the tail.

But the most important part of all of this is that there is not a ‘correct’ sound there are only different sounds. Unless you want the exact sound someone else is making, whatever sound you make (as long as it’s in tune of course) is ‘correct’, just different.

So stop worrying about the specific for a guitar and play a bunch then buy the one you like. And if you can’t play anything, buy a $50 guitar in the classified or borrow a friend’s guitar to try it out.

What do I mean? Sales and bundles. Look at what Valve has done with Steam. Valve does basically 4 things with products to make them sell better.

1. 10% off on pre-orders or new products. Little bit of a discount for new items let’s them stand apart from older products and gives a little incentive to buy them.
2. 4 for 3 package deals or buy 4, get 25% off. Link people together, get more sales from people who sometimes wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.
3. Multiple product bundles. Things like a discography or similar artists for a larger discount.
4. HUGE HOLIDAY SALES! Steam has holiday sales so popular people complain about buying things just because they are so cheap, even if they have no intention of playing it.

The point of all these sales? To sell people things they might not want, but in such a convincing way that they can’t help but do it. Another part of all these sales is to only do them on whole albums, selling all the filler songs that are generally lackluster.

The differences between music and games is actually better for music sales as well. People become bored of music much sooner than they become bored of games. People don’t (usually, minus one old roommate) become obsessed with music and not listen to anything else like they do with games.

Many people have vast libraries of music. Thousands of songs. You can’t expect people to pay $0.99 at a time to spend a thousands of dollars on a library of that size.

So that’s it. You now have direct control over the price of items. The cost of selling an item has gone significantly down. (transport, packaging, materials? hah!)

Use it.

First band, as my friend very appropriately put it, was viking drone metal. Deathmarch was just bleh… Boring. Almost invariable from the shitty Metallica interludes between band changes. From Hamilton. *Hamilton*! Very repetitive, very screamy, exactly what I hate about music.

The second band, 3, was better. MUCH better. 2 drummers, 2 guitarists and a bass. They brought 7 guitars in total out on stage. That’s a lot of guitars. And the music was amazing. I really need to look into these guys some more because they played a very nice show. One drummer stopped his symbols with his mouth. Repeatedly.

And Opeth… Beautiful beautiful Opeth. Mikael started off by saying “You’re all fucking retarded… so it looks like we’re in good company.” Best moment of the night. Seeing Opeth live is even better than listening to it right now. They are certainly a band that does live well. Really fucking well.

And now my calves hurt, from standing for about 9 hours. Totally worth it.