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Today, 01:45 PM
That would be interesting - my guess is there would not be much chronological difference in this chart across Beethoven's output- the chord to chord...
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Today, 01:34 PM
Actually the Oktava is exactly the one I was using in this video and I have recently bought the new Focusrite Scarlett, I love this setup but I’m...
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Today, 01:30 PM
Youll get as many opinions on mics as you would on guitars. The Oktava MK 012 is much beloved by classical guitarists and I have used it on archtops...
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Today, 01:21 PM
They were using up Epiphone stock.
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Today, 01:16 PM
Oh, right, it is a real piece for two buttocks. Well played, sir. Perfect timing.
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Today, 01:13 PM
Actually when I relax my face falls into what looks like a scowl. Drives my wife crazy because she thinks I'm mad about something. So I guess I need...
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Today, 01:12 PM
Here is Steven Mackey performing "Deal". Bill Frisell performed it live several times in the mid-90's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCizOhH9fnc
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Today, 01:11 PM
I know guitarists are divided between lookers and non-lookers, and I've always been a looker but I have played this so much I imagine I could do...
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Today, 01:10 PM
Great Balls Of Fire!
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Today, 01:02 PM
Yes, it's definitely a laminate. The 3 plies of wood are visible in the side of the unbound F-hole.
There is a Reverb listing right now (no...
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Today, 01:00 PM
I saw that also. The archtops that are currently for sale are the last of them. There are a few in the US on the Sadowsky site.
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Today, 12:59 PM
I don’t know HOW I would play it, butt I wouldn’t play it half assed. The important thing is to not get too anal about it.
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Today, 12:58 PM
Mad at theory, mad at JC, mad at the guitar.
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Today, 12:56 PM
speaking of Sadowsky i got an email a couple days ago saying hes getting out of the archtop biz.
"After 20 wonderful years, I have decided to...
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Today, 12:51 PM
New dooberries
https://youtu.be/j92-7zvOyhY?si=Ijct19J14TvV-Ehi
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Today, 12:49 PM
Selling a Tower RE 2x8.
As new.
499,00 Euro.
Feel free to ask questions.
Best,
lapideus
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Today, 12:47 PM
Thank you so much, I will try both!
Really nice sound and playing :)
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Today, 12:42 PM
I had suggested to Lawson to try to play a take without looking at the fingerboard.
I thought that I would put my money where my mouth is, and...
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Today, 12:39 PM
When I get stressed playing the guitar I pucker up my lips like a fish :grumpy: Instinctively when that happens I move my head towards the guitar...
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Today, 12:36 PM
Didn’t most all of the classic laminates have mahogany as a substrate? Curious if anyone knows how that layering of rosewood actually added to the...
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Today, 12:35 PM
Oh I was going to add. If you are committed to the close mic approach, I think an archtop sounds better with the mic pointed at the body instead of...
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Today, 12:29 PM
I'm not even joking. I am working on relaxing my thinking scowl into a smile. If I don't look like I'm enjoying myself play, why should I expect...
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Today, 12:29 PM
The late producer Teo Macero (of Columbia Records) and jazz. A few albums Teo Macero produced from Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Thelonious Monk.
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Today, 12:25 PM
Joking aside, being relaxed is crucial for this shit. Maybe not as relaxed as jazznylon practically laying down, but yeah, relaxed.
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Today, 12:23 PM
Another thing I'm working on is relaxing my forehead and raising the edges of my mouth in a smile. So I might look like I'm enjoying myself and not...
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Today, 12:18 PM
Dont most people complain about this most of the time?
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Today, 12:09 PM
Modelers, even the fancy ones, just aren't that hard.
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Today, 12:05 PM
Personally I was more reminded of a Belgian comedian called Urbanus van A(n*s) :doh:
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Today, 11:57 AM
My first electric guitar was one of these:
I got it in high school for $75, and sold it after about a year for $100 (I guess that answers the...
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Today, 11:55 AM
Assuming the body is a Zephyr Deluxe, it would be laminate.
Based on the info on Jim’s site, the neck was made between 1946 and 1954. In 1954 Epi...
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Today, 11:53 AM
This is cool! I’d be interested to see a comparison between early, mid and late LVB.
And between him and others.
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Today, 11:51 AM
I have seen complaints in several forums online but not even close to those for Kenny G. So I agree that there is a double standard.
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Today, 11:44 AM
Agreed, that thing is flippin' SWEET.
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Today, 11:42 AM
I agree with the forum consensus that this is an original Gibson factory-assembled guitar using Epi neck, body, and a mix of Gibson and Epi leftover...
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Today, 11:32 AM
Demonstrated on piano at 1:15 here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5pGS0OJyu8
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Today, 11:25 AM
Good idea. I will try also. I think it might help for improving the "muscle memory" of the fingers. Lawson mentioned that "muscle memory" in one of...
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Today, 11:25 AM
I'm confused, how is that not a winner?
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Today, 11:21 AM
Open to sensible offers. I am based in West Wales now if you wanted to come see/try it.
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Today, 11:13 AM
They can't all be winners. This guitar demonstrates what happens when 40s, 50s and 60s Epiphone parts are force-fit then hit with a bandsaw:
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Today, 11:10 AM
Reading this thread pains me.
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Today, 11:00 AM
To my ears, Beethoven does the IV-V-I more than his predecessors, but even then ii is more common. Everyone gets taught that IV is somehow more...
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Today, 10:57 AM
In my experience, there are certain fingerings that are better suited to certain kinds of styles, lines, or concepts.
Both "three note per string"...
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Today, 10:57 AM
Man I love a good chart. And this is a GREAT chart.
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Today, 10:53 AM
Interesting!
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Today, 10:49 AM
So you got a Fake Real Book. Which is a Fakebook. So a Fake fakebook is a real book?
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Today, 10:44 AM
The outside looks weird - the cover is just white rather than parchment, and the spiral binding is different. And the pages on the inside are just...
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Today, 10:40 AM
Your sound is always good. You have some great guitars and amps. Whatever set-up that you play through has a nice jazz tone to my ear.
I have...
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Today, 10:34 AM
How can you tell? :smile-new:
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Today, 10:30 AM
Thank you. Someone is going to very happy with this one.
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Today, 10:30 AM
Stumbled across this study of the chord transition frequencies in the Beethoven String Quartets, which can be assumed to be fairly representative of...
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Today, 10:29 AM
I think MAYBE jim777 posted this just for the sake of humor?
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Today, 10:20 AM
Beautiful.
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Today, 10:14 AM
... I am confused. If you are not already on top of the piano when playing, where are you sitting?
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Today, 10:04 AM
I think your mic placement one way of recording an archtop. It’s pretty common today to close mic the two sound sources. Personally I prefer the...
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Today, 09:53 AM
That is a totally cool guitar. I love it.
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Today, 09:45 AM
https://youtu.be/Qp5R0EWUhOU
This is a clip of the whole tune, slow, at 170 or so. I have tried an experiment, to play the song exclusively on my...
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Today, 09:39 AM
I think ”Gibson assembled” would be more accurate.
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Today, 09:25 AM
I'm posting! I'm posting! But nothing's happening.
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Today, 09:23 AM
He's asking $4500.
That's a lot. What you get is an instrument that is built perfectly with the finest woods. Alternatively you could get...
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Today, 09:21 AM
Hi guys, I am doing some attempts with my new microphone, here you can hear it blended with the direct out of my Fender Tonemaster. What do you think...
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Today, 09:18 AM
For what it’s worth.
problem: I’m having trouble playing the whole tune.
solution: ah, see that’s why you should play the whole tune.
Eh?
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Today, 09:14 AM
Wake up, this is relevant!
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Today, 09:13 AM
I mean, even more than that …
I think any good sight reader will tell you that part of sight reading is the skill of sight reading. Being able to...
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Today, 09:09 AM
Yeah I think solos and bebop tunes are the best way in, I just think there are things in that vocabulary that are really unintuitive on guitar.
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Today, 09:00 AM
I'm waiting for the FM9 to drop in price to somewhere below a grand. :) I'm curious as to which comes first - that or grandchildren! :smile-new:
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Today, 09:00 AM
Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm thinking Gibson made also. It has been refretted, but you can see remnants of the original fret nibs. Below are...
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Today, 08:49 AM
Sometimes by individual shapes and sometimes grouped with other shapes if they form a context, like with the diagram I made of maj7 going up the...
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Today, 08:49 AM
Same, I've never heard the fan in my Mark IV combo.
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Today, 08:41 AM
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....
Somebody wake me up when this gets back to folks posting their playing of Donna Lee.
Sorry, feeling grumpy today....
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Today, 08:24 AM
Oh c'mon, everybody knows what he means. It's like the difference between typing accurately, and typing poetry ....
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Today, 08:22 AM
Beautiful. How much would I pay for one of those?
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Today, 08:10 AM
Been scratching my head a little over this thread and am realising that in a lot of famous pairings, like Gene Ammons v Sonny Stitt, or Sonny Rollins...
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Today, 08:06 AM
Here is Chuck's tele hollow general information.
The 20th Anniversary ones are special. "These are semi-hollow Teles that sound fabulous and...
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Today, 08:02 AM
Sweet guitar.
That sort of truss rod cover was used by some NY-era Epis. If you look throughFelix Wiedler’s site, you’ll see scattered examples.
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Today, 07:47 AM
I got one or two of his Heritage built Gretsches. I have three total but only one or two came from Randy. The others came from the Gretsch family....
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Today, 07:42 AM
Kirk Fletcher is a good guy. A great blues player with jazz chops also. Here is an interview with another joyous musician/guitar historian/ and all...
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Today, 07:26 AM
George Golla and Don Burrows. George is way under recognized for his beautiful playing and together with Burrows, there was an amazing chemistry.
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Today, 06:41 AM
It looks to me like there’s a weird truss rod cover on it, hiding the truss rod nut.
I can’t be 100% certain, but it looks like the frets have...
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Today, 06:27 AM
It doesn't appear from the pics to have a nylon nut, which Gibson used from very late 50s through early ( at least) 60s - that one looks like aged...
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Today, 06:26 AM
That is a beauty. Nice pics and thanks for sharing it. Congrats and happy, NGD.
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Today, 06:24 AM
All the Epiphone Les Paul Customs I've had were quite amazing guitars.
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Today, 04:22 AM
These two are gone already. The 1959 es175td and the 1990 L4ces.
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Today, 03:59 AM
The volume 1 copy they sent me is counterfeit lol.
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Today, 03:52 AM
Is it out taking a walk? Not unaccompanied I hope!
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Today, 02:42 AM
I am also a very happy owner of an Epiphone:
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Today, 02:04 AM
I like the way you think :cool: Thinking outside the box like this will give you a point of difference for sure. Totally valid approach to just be...
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Today, 01:48 AM
For me, I found learning Parker heads or solos didn't really help to make me think like Parker. Sure, you break down the lines into modular units,...
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Today, 01:42 AM
Hammertone.... could not agree more. my long-time luthier still comments on a hardtail build we did yrs ago.... maybe the best Strat I have ever...
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Today, 01:40 AM
Lovely! I'm a big fan of the hardtail strat. It really sits nicely in the space between a typical trem-equipped strat and a tele. I've put together a...
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Today, 01:33 AM
'65 Strat - $2,900
Fender CS '65 Strat
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Today, 01:21 AM
Constructing chord scales can lead one to a similar conclusion, and it's a good way to organize them. How do you organize them mentally, by their...
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Today, 12:54 AM
My original reply on this topic was to AllanAllen's comment: "I'm struggling to put all the pieces together and keep tempo. It's like playing 4...
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Today, 12:45 AM
I'm starting to come to that conclusion myself. Thank you so much :).
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Today, 12:08 AM
No experience with the Emperor ii pro, but as i am currently looking for something hollow or semi-hollow myself, i had a look at current production...
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Yesterday, 11:48 PM
i'm very tech savvy, but when it comes to music i like things simple and for me that is knobs and WYSIWYG. a good amp or two, depending on needs, a...
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Yesterday, 11:19 PM
Another joyous player and all round nice guy is blues guitarist Kirk Fletcher. Check him out on his you tube channel.
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Yesterday, 11:11 PM
No lie.
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Yesterday, 11:11 PM
Yeah see above. Lots of bebop tunes, but there are also some things that turn up in bebop tunes (turns and those swept arpeggios) that I think took...
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Yesterday, 11:10 PM
Yeah super tricky. This is sort of what I use the bop heads for. I don't slur into every downbeat and I sort of think an efficient left hand...
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Yesterday, 11:00 PM
The name sounds like some sort of mystical alchemist of guitar making, all by itself.
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Yesterday, 10:59 PM
By working this out, I began to notice things, such as how stacked fourths resemble a min7#5, and all of the other harmonic synonyms.
But the...
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Yesterday, 10:58 PM
Neil Young uses a fan in his famous Fender tweed Deluxe, which his tech says is basically always on the cusp of melting, so the fan is essential. I...
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
And for quartal harmony, also. (The grey and black alternating patterns are just to differentiate the voicings as they move up the neck).
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Yesterday, 10:53 PM
Learn bebop heads, especially Charlie Parker tunes. They force you out of position playing and into awkward fingerings. I have not done enough of...
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Yesterday, 10:47 PM
Mike and Leni both radiate joy when they are playing. Even Mike's near career-ending injuries don't seem to have damped his spirits. Even though...
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Yesterday, 10:47 PM
When I worked this out, I found that there are 33 possible voicings.
To use this chart, I began working out where the voicings lay...
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Yesterday, 10:35 PM
Every couple of years, I will invent a system for deriving harmonic or melodic content, and then relearn an aspect of music-making on the guitar....
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Yesterday, 10:35 PM
People also do it to make the treble strings a bit slinkier for bends due to the extra string length.
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Yesterday, 10:31 PM
Some people do that due to short bass side strings not reaching the tuners.
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Yesterday, 10:13 PM
Looks like a nice Epi, but someone switched the Freqensator tailpiece sections so the bass side is on the treble side and vice versa. It would drive...
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Yesterday, 10:10 PM
For whatever it’s worth, I had a lesson with Peter Bernstein where he was like …. Your swing on this one measure of this one part of this one tune is...
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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
^^^^^^^^^
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Yesterday, 10:06 PM
And classical musicians who play difficult pieces exceptionally expressively didn’t learn to do that by sight reading them.
Practice with your...
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Yesterday, 10:00 PM
They've got most of the guitars listed and described in the auction, and you can even bid if you register.
Randy really loves German archtops, and...
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Yesterday, 08:50 PM
My experience is that most Boogie amps have fans. I am a big Boogie fan and so I am use to using a fan.
Compared to the volume of the amp, I...
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Yesterday, 07:49 PM
Theory #2 imo, though that's the first Epi I've seen w a black heel stinger.
Blue lined case, control knobs, mini PAFs and the aforementioned lack...
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Yesterday, 07:30 PM
It appears to me to be an early production Gibson/Epiphone. The neck and maybe body appear to me to be leftover NY Epi parts, although the neck...
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Yesterday, 07:11 PM
I've had tube amps with and without fans... in general, I like the added durability(?) a fan can add... even tho it also adds weight. Given a...
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Yesterday, 06:59 PM
My Mesa Blue Angel came with a fan. Although that is the only amp I have with a fan.
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
To answer this in detail would be a story too long-winding for a guitar forum.
The Germans (initially some cleric people like monks) settled in and...
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
Was thinking more factory and boutique. And I don't know of many hand carved guitars coming from factories or boutique manufacturers in the US. ...
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Yesterday, 06:18 PM
Skip, two thoughts come to mind. I don’t know if either is helpful:
1. Putting the time into finding your joy might be useful. Don’t think...
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Yesterday, 05:45 PM
I agree. Stern and his wife both seem like happy, positive people. I am not really a fan of eithers playing, but I love to watch them play. Their...
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Yesterday, 05:34 PM
@Ol’ Fret stated “It is clear to me that nowadays not many people, not even in Germany, are likely to know what these conditions actually looked...
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Yesterday, 05:20 PM
Pretty, but can't compete in the JOY dept. with the Stern's video! I don't even listen to Stern (I'm not much of a bebop fan), but I watch every...
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
You know who loves those short sweeps on guitar... Oscar Moore.
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Yesterday, 05:02 PM
Here is a clip for a show with three jazz bands in the year 1937 at the Haag in the Netherlands.
First up are “The Giggers”. Looks like the...
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Yesterday, 04:55 PM
I’ve always found 1) very hard to lock in rhythmically. Thanks for reminding me to practice that
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Yesterday, 04:48 PM
<< I apologize if I sounded like it was a competition. >>
No need at all to apologize! (Don't worry, this is certainly not the place to discuss...
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Yesterday, 04:35 PM
Are implying Skip is one of those aliens with a 2nd brain, or accusing him of split personality? ;)
AND YOU SHALL HAVE FUN, DANGIT!
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Yesterday, 04:28 PM
All fair points. I think it is a tad long, the lettering is a tad too big, the black on white doesn't sit too well with the cream, gold of the...
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Yesterday, 04:26 PM
Maybe view your brains, your mind as your asset, not "yourself". Rule it with iron fist!
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
the way i see it you only need one a good acoustic, but maybe we want to play an electric so now we need two.
maybe i want something with humbuckers...
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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
Well, it's good to do both, but musicians I've known who can play a piece well the first time they see (sight read) it didn't develop that skill by...
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Yesterday, 04:18 PM
It’s so important to acknowledge the absolute diametrical opposition between learning music and sightreading. I wish I was better at both!
Sent...
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Yesterday, 04:13 PM
I just picked up this vintage Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent (or perhaps “Deluxe Electric”). I initially thought it was a pre-Gibson model that had...
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