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Nothing wrong with composing ideas beforehand, but in my experience, trying to remember them and reproduce them in the heat of battle goes wrong for...

Yes that looks like mine also and it is not blond but somewhat a pink glimmer. Not much depends how you hold it in the light and the abalone shell...

I've had four budget-to-mid-priced Ibanez guitars with Super 58s. They've all sounded just great. The current AFJ-91 from 2014 has neck PU stamped S...

Actually some players are on the record for saying that they thought about their shopping lists when they improvised. Those players were from an era...

No. I think in terms of „where’s that going“.

I'm always aware of the chord I'm on, the chord I'm going to, and the form. But enough about me, turns out Rich Perry also thinks about the chords, ...

I have a gig bag made by company called Music Area. The model is called Wind 30. It’s a fantastic bag, as good as a Mono M80, and it was only $110....

I’m not mad at theory. I’m mad at 19th century Germans.

If you look at the serial numbers, they are not the same. The expensive set Have a 'J' in the serial number, while the cheaper ones have a 'C'. I...

In negative harmony all the things you are NOT https://youtu.be/xDzcLkc1pJo Short Facts about negative Harmony, harmonic concept by Ernst Levy

Seems to me that every time the video guy begins to prescribe towards the right direction, he turns off and drops it; overall he wants to...

That's it! Thanks, PK

https://youtu.be/26wwBHI1h_k I add « well »cause it can be played with negative harmony ( it becomes :all the things you are not :smile-new: )

I just did this (without reference to anything else). Be honest, it'll make me millions as film music :-) Fm7b5 - E7b5 - Cm6 - Bm6#5 Dm7b5 -...

When I was first exposed to a musician who, in the context of a room full of loud instruments, could tell who played a wrong chord, what the wrong...

It might be ‘All The Thangs’ in the Music of Jerry Bergonzi book here (it’s not in the standards reharm book). Jerry made these tunes freely...

I have a '93 La Grand in Chablis. No desire to sell it at this time, sorry. It's definitely pinkish, not orange. Although the color can seem to...

I am a Gibson / Campellone guy. This guitar is too small for me. I was given sound advice from Stringswinger (Marco). Wait till Roger stops making...

Roughly from 6-16 years. They get bored of solf, some quit the school because of that.

I don't care. The odd tritone in the right place maybe but extreme reharms usually just mess it up. I've yet to find a reharm that grabs the ear ...

Freddie Runduist! What a great, great player. There were a number of inspiring players on the Chicago scene playing equally inspiring luthier-built...

I admire your attention to detail! I went the other route: ebony buttons. They match the naked fret-board, but they don't match the tail piece or the...

Exactly my style of guitar. Love it. Wish I had the funds!

I couldn’t find it on the website. Sold?

Not in every case. That would make this guitar worth about $3,000. I'd ecstatically pay that.

Looks great Vinnie! Are you enjoying the guitar? Mine is one of my favorites.

And not only are their rationale and motivations obscure, but so were / are the archtops themselves. During that 2000's R/I era, I recall a member...

When I was growing up, my parents didn't want me to have anything to do with guitar. In grade school one year I had to play violin in the orchestra...

It now matches the tuners. I also replaced the nickel input jack with a gold one.

In 1938 my friend Ed was living in Chicago and working as a dancer in the WLS Barn Dance radio show. (I guess the dancers were for the live audience...

You also have to consider the headstock angle, especially for softer cases or those with fairly rigid neck support. There are many reports in...

Ah ok thx S

Such great talent coming out of Asia, but do think the child prodigy marketing machine is not healthy, ideally we would not hear her until age 17 or...

The video said to think in descriptive terms beyond only the names such as in number or this is a minor 2-5 or this is a backdoor 2-5 etc. Which is...

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I have an exl1 made in Korea before they had various models . I like it. Great neck. I had to some things to it after I bought it. After I set...

All this goes to show is that Gibson, at any one particular point in the time/space continuum, will do whatever it wants when building archtops. The...

Cool, I was messing with Bm7 instead of Dm7 and had the F# in the bass so it's fun to see this.

My 1981 GB10 shows no sign of binding rot with its 42nd birthday coming up. However, there is a chemical interaction between the binding and the poly...

Whatever Tigran is doing here. I like that https://youtu.be/4Eo8CiILKnw I started transcribing but forgot. Will get back to it.

I didn’t really ever have a thing like a “sound in your head” and set off searching the world over to find it. I just stumbled along trial and error...

This may not be what you’re looking for, but the original sheet music doesn’t have a Bdim7 in bar 32. It’s a sparse voicing on piano, arguably Em7b5....

Today here it's going from 0 to mid 20's in a few hours. Crazy.

I read or heard somewhere recently that PU leather isn't ignifuge like real leather is, rather the contrary. Something I'd double-check personally!

Be careful to check the length. Some archtops are a tad longer than acoustic cases, because of the rounder lower bout and often a longer headstock...

There's the classic bebop half step ii-V's F-7/Bb-7/E-7 A7/Ebm7 Ab7/Db/D-7 G7/C/C then B-7 E7/Bbm7 Eb7 on the next 8 I recall a Jerry...

I met the late great Chicago jazz/studio guitarist Fred Rundquist for the first time on January 30th, 1979. I went up to Chicago to buy a used Bill...

Yes it's not structurally stiff .... As to wear , I've had mine for maybe 8 years And it's still going great .... A bargain

Beautiful Mark, May I ask what your signal chain is ? S

I did own a ES135 once at the same time as a ES175. The much newer 135 was heavy in terms of weight and feel when compared to the vintage 175. Some...

Wow, excellent price for that! shreddin'

A couple of thoughts… D’Angelico makes 2 versions of the EXL-1 (and most of their other models): Premier and Excels. The Excels are made in Korea...

Great to see this Aaron Cowles video - thanks for posting it - very interesting. From what I understand, Aaron was instrumental (pun intended - lol)...

I think the Premier EXL-1 has a current MSRP of $1100, and there are many used ones out there for $6-700 (including a few at GC). A new basic Godin...

If you remove the patina, you reduce the value to collectors by 50% or so. :rolleyes:

FWIW there are several models(quality ) of EXL-1..... from different builds (countries) .The one you tried is actually an entry level ( all Premier...

I think these probably were made with the Chet Atkins market in mind. That was also exactly why my buyer wanted this one. It’s a nice, x-braced...

If you ever watched Antique Roadshow you'd know that the Keno brother's are not happy about this:grumpy:

Very beautiful sound Mark, not to mention your virtuosity. I had the opportunity for years - during the free time of endocrinology congresses all...

I didn’t read this post that I’m quoting, but a nonetheless object to it on moral grounds. Or was that coffee grounds?

No, you don’t have to. For example you can simplify it and think of it as V-i, ii-i, or just as i. Each of those ways has implications for the...

Vinny, Nice to see you adding your own touches. The tail pc looks like polished jewlery....quite striking and beautiful. Hope your enjoying...

Are you looking for a 17" only?

What age kids are we talking about? I’m a fan of classical education, including the Trivium: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric. The Grammar stage is...

https://youtu.be/8Hl1f5-SBXY

One day !

its never stopped me before

me neither, do we have to?

Really nice!!

I didn’t watch the OP and don’t intend to. But I’ll comment anyway!! errr… that was it

Thanks for all the thoughts and ideas. I was not clear enough in my question I believe. First I start by the premise that is OK to work on...

The problem with describing the improvisation process is that the only way for people to understand what you are saying is if they already know the...

Hmmm how can you not think about the chord changes? In Autumn Leaves don’t you need to think “here comes the minor ii-V-i now?

You and that guitar were a perfect match. Keep each other warm! It certainly warmed me:

Sing them some written music, it's pretty impressive. Show them how easily you can play rhythm in rock songs if you can read the kicks, compared to...

You are going to need to change that pickup cover. That's some shine!

Two previous posts Hirofumi Asaba’s ES-350 Hirofumi asaba good to see him getting some appreciation cheers

My experience fwiw is that I basically learned this on the bandstand. Couldn’t take charts home etc.

I really enjoy it actually, despite what I said. I feel the limit is my imagination to some extent, but I really need to get them to play some notes...

I'm there too. It's the pub gig of teaching :highly_amused: Btw I'm big on ear training with my students. At the school and with my private...

Yeah, this idea of progressive musical development is something that’s more associated with the 19th-20th century. the ‘classical’ music from the...

for me, the only thing what matters is the final audio result. I mean, how it sounds. The player has the conception, how he want to formulate,...

Wow... I hope you will report this build step by step on the forum. Good build

Looks great! How do you like the sound of the Borys?

Whoaa!! Next level. I didn't pick that up. Nice work man!

First of all, a musician should have good ears. That is why it is worth practicing ear training. You have to hear the music.And this is even more...

Yeah, I agree with this. It's about how to think about chord changes when improvising and that the answer is not to think, but trust your ears. In...

They all haves their quirks and peculiarities! Guitar has nothing in common with saxophone. Tone production and intonation and inflection are a...

I'f found someone who's ok to exchange my Es339 for a Es135 in natural with humbuckers. This video of this young lady kind of convinced me that the...

It looks great Vinny. I like the original look too but nothing like a shiny gold tailpiece! Doug

I had it gold plated by Advanced Plating. They do all the tailpieces for Gibson. :smile-new:

Perhaps, as others have suggested, the two can be intertwined. In some music cultures, I’m thinking African, West and South Asian musics, originality...

That's not the nut, it's the poly those guitars are finished. The Fujigen poly is relatively thin (and it doesn't impede vibration the way the...

Yes please post a picture.

Would sunrise orange do?

I like both the before and the after.

Geez, I've seen so many antiqued ones I'm used to them.

I saw someone ask about your budget for the bag but didn't see a reply. If you're looking to spend top $ for a beautiful leather gig bag then check...

Glad to hear you're getting happy with it Vin! I actually really like the un-polished on mine. But I tend towards low bling. No fretboard inlays,...