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Bon Jovi Mar 19, 2015 @ 12:35pm
¿Does Rocksmith work with a 1/4 size guitar?
I would like to buy a mini guitar for a four years old child. I dont know if a little guitar (1/4 size guitar) works with Rocksmith. Is it posible to tune it in Rocksmith?. Is there reciprocation about the number of the frets?
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grimlog Mar 19, 2015 @ 1:07pm 
Those aren't in standard E-tuning (iirc A-D-G-C-E-A?) - I don't think it will work out of the box. You could add a pitchshifter though, that shifts this tuning down to Standard-E.
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No|Yes Mar 19, 2015 @ 1:26pm 
As long as it has 6 strings and 24 frets, should be fine.
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grimlog Mar 19, 2015 @ 1:35pm 
Originally posted by No|Yes:
As long as it has 6 strings and 24 frets, should be fine.

By your definition my LP does not work with RS (does not have 24 frets), but a Balalaika with 6 strings (E-E-A, each with Octave added) would.
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MTZIGG Mar 19, 2015 @ 3:41pm 
I play with a !/4 scale fender squire and a luna 3/4 scale guitar all the time so yes it will work and its fun..The squire has 21 frets and the luna 24


Edit : the neces and nefew play them also 4 and 5 years old . and i made a mistake The 3/4 is a Luguna not Luna i got it at a yard sale for 15 bucks dont know how much new. It plays really nice and is well crafted. Better choice in my opinion its small and they have many years to grow in to it
Last edited by MTZIGG; Mar 19, 2015 @ 4:28pm
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GuitarDan Mar 19, 2015 @ 4:01pm 
Originally posted by Bon Jovi:
I would like to buy a mini guitar for a four years old child. I dont know if a little guitar (1/4 size guitar) works with Rocksmith. Is it posible to tune it in Rocksmith?. Is there reciprocation about the number of the frets?
What guitar are you looking at? You need to be able to tune it to EADGBe otherwise your in trouble.
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DeathJohnson Mar 20, 2015 @ 6:07am 
24 frets isn't really a requirement for Rocksmith, it feels like less than 1% of the songs use frets above 21, but if you want to play every song on full difficulty, you would have to get one with 24 at some point.
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helomech Mar 20, 2015 @ 7:21am 
Got a small fender squire that my youngest son plays, no issues. Few notes get into te highest frets so the short scale is not much of an issue.
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Bon Jovi Mar 21, 2015 @ 9:16am 
Ok. Many thanks.
Could you suggest me a 1/2 scale guitar?
I dont find 1/2 scale Fender Squier. I think that Squier only mades the 3/4 scale.
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GuitarDan Mar 21, 2015 @ 4:36pm 
Originally posted by Bon Jovi:
Ok. Many thanks.
Could you suggest me a 1/2 scale guitar?
I dont find 1/2 scale Fender Squier. I think that Squier only mades the 3/4 scale.
We have a 1/2 size and I can tell you it doesn't work with RS.
The smallest Squire is a 3/4 we have one of those as well and that works fine.
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MTZIGG Mar 22, 2015 @ 9:25am 
They are called mini strats for squire

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Search/Default.aspx?internal=1&browser=&fsrc=squier+mini+strat&src=squier+mini+strat&source=4WWRWXGB&kwid=a4562b4a1ebb4f01a38c55936ace8cee&gclid=CIb68PSvvMQCFdcSgQodoHMAHA
Last edited by MTZIGG; Mar 22, 2015 @ 9:26am
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Bon Jovi Mar 23, 2015 @ 6:09am 
We have a 1/2 size and I can tell you it doesn't work with RS.The smallest Squire is a 3/4 we have one of those as well and that works fine.


The 3/4 scale guitar works because there are packs for sale "RS + 3/4 guitar".
In theory with a 1/2 scale it would must work. Because if you tune the small guitar like a normal size guitar, the frecuency and them the musical note, is proportional to the distance from the bridge to the fret, in both. That is to say, for example, if you play the first string in fret 3 the note is the same in 1/2, 3/4, 1/1 guitar, if all three are equally tuned.

This is in theory, but I don't know in practice...


Sorry for my english.
Last edited by Bon Jovi; Mar 23, 2015 @ 6:17am
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GuitarDan Mar 23, 2015 @ 12:29pm 
Originally posted by Bon Jovi:
We have a 1/2 size and I can tell you it doesn't work with RS.The smallest Squire is a 3/4 we have one of those as well and that works fine.


The 3/4 scale guitar works because there are packs for sale "RS + 3/4 guitar".
In theory with a 1/2 scale it would must work. Because if you tune the small guitar like a normal size guitar, the frecuency and them the musical note, is proportional to the distance from the bridge to the fret, in both. That is to say, for example, if you play the first string in fret 3 the note is the same in 1/2, 3/4, 1/1 guitar, if all three are equally tuned.



Sorry for my english.
Yes in theory it should work. However with guitars that small you generally can't tune them to Standard tuning.
Last edited by GuitarDan; Mar 23, 2015 @ 2:20pm
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grimlog Mar 23, 2015 @ 1:14pm 
Originally posted by Bon Jovi:
In theory with a 1/2 scale it would must work. Because if you tune the small guitar like a normal size guitar

And there's the problem. Because of the short strings it's usually not possible to tune them that low, if you use normal strength strings You'd need quite thick strings to achieve this. Try tuning your normal sized guitar an octave lower with your standard strings.
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MTZIGG Mar 23, 2015 @ 1:17pm 
Well I stand corrected. I just assumed that the squire was 1/2 scale it is much small than the 3/4
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Bon Jovi Mar 24, 2015 @ 3:01pm 
If I use quite thick strings, it's need to apply them more force to obtain the same tension (and then the same tune). I think that this implicates that the strings would not flagging.
Do you think that this works?
Do you see some problem in this configuration?
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