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Can any of you tel-evangelists tell me what the audible difference is between a stock tele played through the neck pickup and a stock (hardtail)...

rpjazzguitar: when I say they're repeating, I mean that after one octave or twelve frets, they repeat. Sorry if that threw you for a loop. ...

Having been a student of Charlie Banacos for three years, what you suggest is nothing like how he taught me. He would play II V I in the key of C on...

Sam has a great point. I find myself working on my rhythm and time more and more these days. Rhythm, time, articulation, and dynamics. Those...

Sonic Youth might have made them cool, but Kurt Co ain made them marketable. My favorite Thurston Moore quote: "Before Guns n Roses, you could...

R. Kelly, sack of shit human, made some outstanding music.

Hi, K, If I ever put a group together again vs. solo playing, it will be a guitar trio: guitar, preferably acoustic bass, and Latina vocalist....

Right now, I think the price of a vintage L5 is boosted by a lot of old guys, like me, who grew up idolizing Wes. Forty years hence, the Wes...

I’ve had three in my personal possession and played others. I find his woodworking to be good, but tone wise the guitars have been hit or miss. I...

We traded a baby grand for a Yamaha digital last year cause our piano tuner was a nut, and we got tired of paying him. Surprisingly the piano sold...

There may actually be some phase shift based on frequency also involved in cable capacitance. I suspect that this may not be a significant thing....

Beyond basic reliability, guitar cables are all about capacitance. The Monster Jazz was a relatively high capacitance cable, with the expected...

Sorry about the Strat joke ;) Anyway, I really didn't seriously consider that option here. John A and Hep took care of the overdriven stuff :) ...

I put a Barcus Berry piezo—BB pretty much perfected the modern instrument piezo—on one of my Archies. I didn’t really like the result much, so went...

They were indeed considered not worth much in the late 70’s. But the Talking Heads, Television and Elvis Costello preceded Sonic Youth by a few...

subsequent question why are we guitar players so in thrall to the past .... ? all these old guitars all these guitars made to look old...

I already mentioned this R Kelly story elsewhere. My former BIL—still a good friend who donated a kidney to my daughter—is a journalist in Chicago...

So while I'm learning the tune itself, I thought I'd go ahead and take a stab at improvising. This is pretty spontaneous, i.e. unpremeditated, ie. I...

Sound wise what flats are they comparable to?

Welcome! Nice to have someone else jump on board. Look forward to your insights and experiences!

At the risk of beating the horse beyond reason, what I'm trying to do is think of a melody and play it. I don't want the geometry of the guitar to be...

The OP 's trying to learn the fretboard, and you seem to already know it. So, we're talking about two different stages . Reg's assertion, from having...

Hello, I would like to join this group. It was with great surprise that I realized studying Super Chops in 20 weeks that on altered chords the scale...

Hi Sam, you're right, it's a essencial part of the practicing to get inside the rhythm section and keep the changes working. It's quite a job be in...

Find a mechanical Taktell used. Much more enjoyable than electronic ones imo.

Yotam and Jack are both excellent. I do like Comins GCS-1(SE). I nearly bought a spruce 1SE a few years ago but held off. At this point I'd...

thanks s....so NOT d'addario! as they always use colored ball ends..even on their oem ie. fender/fmic strings i stand by labella or ghs...always...

No, the ball ends don't have colors.

any answer as to ball end color? cheers

See post #12

Jack Wilkins told me he'd buy one if he could afford it.

I wonder Well I think Shadow od the Sun put it well, so I'm going by what he said? I'm assuming he understood the OP lol. If I see an E...

A local guitar shop has started stocking d’Andrea picks. I bought one in shell celluloid and two in Formula Delrex, for testing. Early results are...

This is how I want to be able to play when I grow up!

Jazzmasters and Jaguars were found in junk shops, in the 1980s. Sonic Youth found them there, and made them hip.

Man, this is great. Grant is just flat out my favorite player.

I confess that I still don't understand the OP. If you already know where all the notes on the fretboard are, instantaneously, would you still...

Thanks. Works for me.

Epiphone Emperor w McCarty pickup

anyone know who the manufacturer is?

Well I think this relates to discrete separation between note knowledge and fingering; which relates to my misgivings about the approach in the OP.

What is he playing on that wonderful video?

I played one for half an hour once. Blew me away. Wish I had one!

Just to amplify the point. Suppose the first two notes you want to play are G (same pitch as the open string) and B (a third up). So, I might put...

He's certainly respected as being one of the "greats" out there, so you can't go wrong (if you can afford it!). What do you have now, and what are...

The combination of an audio processor like the Audio Sprockets Tonedexter and a piezo pickup (Fishman makes an archtop piezo bridge) is supposed to...

I sent the PM2 back, auditioned an ES165 that I liked, but had a few issues (plus a seller that was just a horrible person) and I found a PM-100 a...

My prediction is vintage instruments, without exception, will continue to get older 1 year at a time.

"Price check on aisle 9!" $900 shipped PPal within the CONUS.

Amen, brother! :encouragement:

Still am! And that tune sure is right up my street. Have been a bit busy the last couple of days with giving lessons and some other unexpected and...

id love to here the results of your comparison. These are the 2 heads I’m considering and I will get a TOOB metro to go with it

I haven’t played every builder’s instruments, obviously, and I know there are a lot of great builders including those you named. I just have a thing...

We are analogue people.We were raised to value things, like cars and guitars.The rising generation is digital. Everything they have is virtual. They...

hello. would you say the ToneMaster has a significantly better sound? It’s not a dealbreaker if it does as the TOOB is a 6.5 cab with a Bass head and...

You beat me to it rpjazzguitar. I learned sight reading in positions, but now I think perhaps the most important thing is knowing where the notes...

I read all the time, playing in horn bands with the guitar voiced as a horn, big bands, and groups playing originals and other stuff that I've never...

i like this later period grant green stuff...he took a couple of years off and came back in '69...and then stretched it further to funk in the...

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I think I detect 4 strikes of the E string. Feels like an eighth on upbeat and then 3. Can't decide if it's a triplet or 3 sixteenths. Slowed down...

I am totally with you. :)

Hey, its only been a day! Hep, I liked that, right from the volume swells...which aren't as easy on a thinline IIRC:) Gets a little...

You’re welcome.

sounds great, whos the teacher?

I believe that sight reading support was very important for Leavitt's fingerings as well. Aaron Shearer has at least one and perhaps two 4th...

Thanks for your thoughts Matt. There are other stretch fingerings that are not Leavitt's so I can't agree that a person would end up where he did....

Thanks a lot. The bass part recorded by great bass player Pawel Puszczalo. Jazzingly Kris

I have owned a Seventy Seven Albatross and it was a superb guitar. The quality was outstanding. It sounded great and played great. The only issue...

Leon White in his book Styles for the Studio (1976) showed the same seven patterns but utilizing primarily 4th finger stretches. He has claimed on...

I took delivery of one of their archtop resomax bridges recently (standard height). It's complete junk. Meant to be flexible enough to conform to the...

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Here’s a great Bream masterclass on the VL Preludes. I love how he can just change a few details and it transforms the music. All these masterclasses...

Oh that's great, for sure go try it out! Don't let my experience discourage you from doing that! It sounds like some others like the guitars, so...

Night Train was high on the song list of my first combo, "The Martians" which I formed with another trumpet player and a clarinet player one summer...

Five bills or point seven large for a year of jazz guitar lessons? How many Popiel Veg-o-Matics does that work out to? :numbness: Uh - I think...

Bream tells an amusing story about Villa Lobos on the DVD ‘My life in music’. He had just finished recording the preludes and etudes, when he got an...

Interesting dissonant, chordal progression juxtaposed to the vocalist's tonal melody line. Are you playing the bass lines? ...

My experience with Epiphone is that they are pretty inconsistent. It's a used guitar being sold locally so if I really want to go any further I can...

"By appointment of Her Majesty The Queen." Sendt fra min SM-T810 med Tapatalk

Ok. CAGED isn't a "method" or "system", just as EGBDF isn't a "method". It wasn't designed by single person. It's the natural result of the way notes...

This is the clearest explanation I've seen. I'm still unclear what "repeating reference points" are. What is repeating about them? I can tell...

I get the Bill Collings pedigree, but others such as Buscarino, Megas, Comins, are unbelivable guitars sonically. There also is a Tom Bills Nature...

Tommo - You were the blues guy during lockdown. I'd have thought this tune was up your street. Aren't you going to do anything with it? Only...

or old or badly put on strings!... cheers ps- i liked the casino coupes i've tried...slightly scaled down for comfort but with that same...

just put some desiccant packs in the box

This is where I get in trouble with them being more than tools,LOL ! But I definitely am not into vintage thing other than specific Archtops...

Thanks, Jim! I just found a stash of pencils for lubrication.

my first thought exactly!...strictly for the intent of making music, a 100$ squier tele can be quite effective..don't even need a mim or usa...

I played one at our local music store over a year ago. I too thought it was a cool concept and really wanted to like it. No such luck. It did not...

I purchased the DB 90 a couple months ago. Right after I got it I developed some pain in my side due to being out of shape! It's getting better so I...

Son or brother, he's good.

You're still likely to get quack from piezo. Maybe a clip-on saxophone condensor mike would get you there?

some real greats right there!! just watched a documentary on ornette coleman..he said when he first arrived in nyc, king curtis picked him up in...

Whenever I hear that a guitar doesn't stay in tune I assume it's probably the nut.

In my opinion it's partly physical, but also very mental. I think it has a lot to do with how one chooses to think about and visual it. Firstly,...

I have one and like it a lot. As I'm obsessed by gear weight and compactness, it ticks many boxes. (I also have an EPI 339 Pro as my main speaker...

Right. Just a smaller Casino: fully hollow. That's a really attractive concept to me and there's a used one that was just listed here in Dartmouth...

339 size, but almost fully hollow like the full size casino. No solid centre piece like a 339/335.

Isn't the Dot full sized? The Coupe version of the Casino is 339 sized so it's 10% smaller than a normal Casino.

I certainly concede the main point behind these systems, that the nature of the guitar makes it easier to see relative interval relationships rather...

Much appreciated Kris :thrasher:

That peghead shape was copied from Benedetto's early 7-string head. Not quite identical, but very close.

Week 13. Day 6. I must say I am very happy to be through the modal phase. Today was good. Last night was better. I continued to focus on my feel and...

Hi, J, Many guitarists have mentioned in previous discussions that it is a good guitar for the money and would be a perfect guitar when you...

Hi Anton, Great feelings in intro over piano chords.Very nice powerfull playing.Great thinline Tele sound. Best Kris

Good luck, D in your performance! I'm sure you have made some interesting discoveries in the music over the last 30 years. No one is writing music...

I should add I'm testing the sleeve/tip using a 6ft cord inserted in the guitar. The cord has a resistance of .3 ohms, not kilOhms. The leads...

Hi, M, You're truly a Blue-eyed soul brother! Love King Curtis! When I played in small R@B/Soul groups(guitar, bass, drums, plus sax) in...

Thank you Kris for the track, it's a lot of fun and perfect for what I had in mind :smile-new:

A lot of 7 string peg heads are odd, like the extra peg head (and string) were just grafted on to a 6-string. It's a classic example of what's known...

Aretha with King Curtis, Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott, and Bernard Purdie

All going well Covid-wise, I'll perform the Five Preludes next month - I have played them for thirty years, so I hope I'll pass Marinero's stern...

It probably bends a little more because it's a heavier, thicker string. But I really see no big difference.

"I used to play that prelude " Grahambop, Hi, G, The "Five Preludes" of Villa Lobos are the essential soup du jour for intermediate-advanced...

insightful..... this def has an 'art' element to it. one could argue a Squire Tele would do the job (set up properly of course). but...

King Curtis sings the blues. (He also plays guitar on this album. So does Al Casey and Mac Pierce.)

M -- You're not locked-in rhythmically. For example, the third phrase of the "A" section is always late. And as your solo starts I can feel the...