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Today, 08:44 AM
Have you considered a Positive Grid Spark Go? I have been traveling with one for a while and it is perfect for hotel room practice. It also doubles...
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Today, 08:44 AM
Over 1700 views and no comment..... :grumpy:
So I just say THANK-YOU for your GREAT WORK.
Grazie mille!
Ettore
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Today, 08:40 AM
Accent patterns. Jack Z recently made a great post about groups of threes, and a not-so-well-known guy on YouTube Benny G did something similar - I...
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Today, 08:32 AM
Twiddles m8
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 08:28 AM
So I’m going to do a little follow up on the turns next, maybe two. Then what would be of interest?
The things I’ve made some material on:
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Today, 08:09 AM
I'm happy with this sound.
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Today, 08:01 AM
Actually, I don't think the melody and feel for the tune is improved in any way by making it minor. Bobby, the OP, has made a very good job of the...
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Today, 07:55 AM
What a lovely, old-school GASB evening.
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Today, 07:54 AM
PRS has 2 models I think are soooo freaking cool, the original Mira and Starla.
Now they glossed up the Starrla and put a damn Bigsby on it....
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Today, 07:42 AM
So generally speaking it seems the high strings need to be tamed (not boosted) whatever the pickup. This suggests there is a problem with the OP's...
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Today, 07:42 AM
Price drop bump. I’ll probably keep it at this price over the weekend and if it doesn’t sell, I’m gonna keep it.
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Today, 07:41 AM
Thanks. And yes, the lower end ones can be great. It's amazing how much extra you pay for binding and a nicer looking piece of wood and/or shinier...
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Today, 07:38 AM
Price drop bump.
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Today, 07:26 AM
Here’s another example of how things have changed. I never knew in what year my 175 was made. Nobody cared back then because it was a tool - a...
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Today, 07:26 AM
I'm not sure about measure #10:
C# is not present, so no A "major" as such major.
There's G# and there's no G, so no "dorian" as such minor.
I'd...
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Today, 07:21 AM
Good (and no wonder) that they provide the streams for free!
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Today, 07:11 AM
I don't see Bernie's Tune like that. I look at it the same way I look at a minor blues turnaround: F7 E7 Am. In Bernie's, E7 comes as Bm7b5 E7. So to...
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Today, 07:03 AM
If you need to perform with a keyboard in addition to a grand piano ur wack. :P
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Today, 06:30 AM
LOL yeah people are so whiney
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Today, 05:53 AM
This is not The Gear Page.
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Today, 05:49 AM
IMO, such amps are attempts at FRFR (full range flat response). The Henriksen amps seem to me to be in this family.
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Today, 05:43 AM
Are you saying Ford/VW cars are the equivalent to Gibson/Fender guitars?
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Today, 05:26 AM
I think it is commendable, but neither a Gibson nor an Epiphone.
I nearly bought one — oddly enough from a town in the North Island of New...
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Today, 04:43 AM
You CAN do it in major (we have permission)
C7 - F7 - C7 - C7alt
F7 - F#o - F7 - %
G7 - % - C7 - %
The minor one's a bit weird, of course,...
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Today, 03:40 AM
Hermeto Pascoal "played" living pigs on Slaves Mass (1977).
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Today, 03:23 AM
Josh,
Enjoy this beautiful guitar. Again, thanks for your business.
Hope the Benedetto will arrive soon!
Will make sure to enjoy this weekend...
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Today, 03:21 AM
This is not a minstrel show ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLF1tauHoIQ
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Today, 02:22 AM
Well, now, that is just a beautiful guitar. What a warm, friendly color!
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Today, 02:17 AM
The Levin is likely a very nice guitar. They were well-regarded in their heyday, mainly in Europe. My wife has a Levin mandolin that is a wonderful...
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Today, 02:14 AM
The KC series has four inputs. Ch 1 is mic/line, meaning there's a preamp in Ch1 and not in the other channels. So it will be louder if you plug into...
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Today, 02:07 AM
It's the hunter, not the bow...
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Today, 02:02 AM
I went to college in Winona 77-81 and lived/worked in La Crosse 83-88. Used to go to the blues night jam at Pearl Street initially, then it was at...
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Today, 01:58 AM
No country instruments, no wind instruments, and marimba sounds too minstrel. I would never choose that over vibes.
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Today, 01:38 AM
Congrats. May she inspire your playing for many years to come.
I have a 2017 Studio. These lower level Lesters are fine guitars.
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Today, 01:36 AM
Marimbas are more affordable, wood rather than metal, and they can be amplified if you wish.
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Today, 01:15 AM
Nup
Nup
Nup
Lil student vibraphone at 1:44. It's 3k with tax and shipping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UpC73XwS_I
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Today, 01:05 AM
Oh man, they're so ugly I can't even speak about them. Scary, too. Like that Hitchcock movie.
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Today, 01:04 AM
Almost right,you forgot to say how awful the bird inlays on the neck look.
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Today, 12:50 AM
... After not having had a Gibson of any flavor for many years, I just today bought a Les Paul. So I guess now that I'm back in Tribe G, I'm...
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Today, 12:39 AM
I've been kind of hunting for a LP with P90s off and on for a while, especially a goldtop (that Julian Lage Emily video definitely put a bee in my...
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Today, 12:37 AM
All this bantering reminds me that I have that volume and didn't look at it much, but will now. Mick includes a lovely small watercolor he painted...
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Today, 12:28 AM
When I was young, I went to a country fair. There was a band and a guy had a little pig he held under his arm and as the little guy squealed, he...
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Today, 12:26 AM
My first try devolved into blues-dad minor pentatonic tomfoolery after I kicked on the OD and invoked the spirit of Dickey Betts...fun, but not...
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Today, 12:17 AM
I've been wanting a saxophone recently....
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Today, 12:04 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7n-uFMmk4
Pretty cool
Nice playing and singing
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Yesterday, 11:27 PM
Maybe a nice pedal steel guitar?
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Yesterday, 11:18 PM
if it's the Leavitt books u're after, you can find them on archive.org or z-lib
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
Doesn't sound harsh to me at all.
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Yesterday, 10:45 PM
Last year I was in the 99th percentile for Chet Baker and Ahmad Jamal listeners. I heard a lot of good music that year
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Yesterday, 10:41 PM
Sounds like
1 Dm
2 Dm
3 Gm/D
4 Gm/D
5 C#dim/D
6 C#dim/D | Dm
7 Dm
8 Dm
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Yesterday, 10:16 PM
Indeed, though there are stories of him going on vacation to maybe Brazil and not touching the guitar for a month, only show up in Tokyo to meet up...
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Yesterday, 10:13 PM
that show just concluded with James Churillo is the BEST one I have heard in this series. These mofos SWUNG so hard and played so melodically. It...
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Yesterday, 09:56 PM
Lawson,
Thanks for sharing your experiences with the great one with us.
This truly is a great place. People like you make it that way.
I always...
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Yesterday, 09:54 PM
Yes. Walkin had two available a couple months ago. I bought one and shipped it to the US. The other one just sold. There is a thread about it in...
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Yesterday, 09:43 PM
Diatonic IV to vii a la Autumn leaves.
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM
I’ve been playing my Tele through a Roland keyboard amp, KC something or other, at the music school. 4-channel, maybe a 12” speaker? Not very...
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Yesterday, 09:41 PM
dunno … just didn’t quite settle into it
*shrugs*
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Yesterday, 09:29 PM
For perspective, I'm about 320k of Grant Green's monthly listens
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Yesterday, 09:03 PM
Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone who studies from A Modern Method for Guitar has PDF copies of the volumes or of the complete volume of all three...
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Yesterday, 08:58 PM
One million Spotify streams pays 3-5000$ usually. Artists get from 14-20% up to 50% of that if they have a really good contract, write their stuff...
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Yesterday, 08:53 PM
Isn't OP the same guy who's trying to sell a 1917 Style O?
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Yesterday, 08:39 PM
If you are partial to a '34 L10, I get it (as I have a '34 L5). That being said, there is a wide variety of jazz as you well know and unless you...
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Yesterday, 08:11 PM
$25 (+ $5 booking fee) per person for bar seating.
$35 (+ $5 dollar booking fee) per person for table seating.
+ a $20 minimum spend per person.
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Yesterday, 08:08 PM
“Most popular jazz” is a funny phrase these days.
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Yesterday, 07:55 PM
A Squier Classic Vibe Tele is a great buy IMO. (I’ve never had one, but have a CV Fender Jazz Bass.)
If you’re the least bit handy, get parts from...
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Yesterday, 07:49 PM
Ah I lived in the Driftless region for 10 years in LaCrosse, WI. I never fly fished there unfortunately…
These days we go to Lanesboro and fish...
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Yesterday, 07:38 PM
I hear what you describe "quack" in Strat neck pickup as scooped tone with little bass (which is a beautiful tone). To my ears, the characteristic...
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Yesterday, 07:36 PM
No but he is a guitarist and is one of the most streamed actively touring guitarists out there.
(Note I am not including Benson, who doesn’t tour...
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Yesterday, 07:32 PM
Yes with RE Nighthawk with either my ‘36 L-5 or Holo, where I am looking for an acoustic sound with an Ischell or AT-831b.
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Yesterday, 07:05 PM
Nice ax. I think the 57 would sound great in it and tame the inherent Eastman brightness.
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Yesterday, 06:56 PM
I’m interested in the swap. I’m not a fan of mine through an amp. Love the acoustic response though.
I should have known better, I never met a...
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
I'm hoping I like how it sounds better once I swap the stock SDSL for a 57 or the Fralin Pure I got recently. Wondering if the 57 will be less clear...
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
Is there a cover charge and a table minimum? Just wondering how it works.
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Yesterday, 06:52 PM
I sold my digital organ so I only have my $600 Yamaha P-125 digital piano. Looking at other instruments to get. :smile-new:
Better digital piano...
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Yesterday, 06:50 PM
As others stated, the list above is a dream list for many players!
This is kinda like saying, "Why buy anything other than a Ford/VW?!" (top...
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Yesterday, 06:43 PM
Super cool, congratulations on the sweet find!
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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
^ Lol why ehh?
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Yesterday, 06:23 PM
Hi Tonnie,
Another beautiful guitar has arrived, so another set of strings to stretch. Again, thanks so much for making this possible. Hope you...
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Yesterday, 06:03 PM
Great stuff, unique music, look forward to hearing more!
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Yesterday, 05:52 PM
I think it's more that strat neck pickups have a particular sort of resonant bit hint of "quack" to them that teles don't have, whereas teles have...
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Yesterday, 05:41 PM
<< Why do people buy these? What's wrong with traditional Gibson or Epiphone archtops????? Why would anyone buy anything else? >>
There's...
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Yesterday, 05:16 PM
My childhood was spent in Philadelphia and Atlantic City/Ventnor. I miss those Jersey Tomatoes ( along with the Hoagies, Cheesesteaks, water ices,...
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Yesterday, 05:05 PM
Also worth mentioning that sometimes people like to collect.
Why buy the bottle of wine that no one else has heard of, but that you know to be...
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Yesterday, 04:57 PM
I play a Comins GCS-1. I'm often asked what it is.
Feels great and produces the sound I want. I like the looks too - Gibsons don't come in that...
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Yesterday, 04:57 PM
More importantly, if you are into sans pickup playing are you joining us for the summer of Rhythm guitar?
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Yesterday, 04:56 PM
I can only speak to the Seventy Seven because it’s the only one on that list I’ve actually tried (I have one). Phenomenal build quality and...
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Yesterday, 04:55 PM
Still working on it.
Do we think that's weird? I guess it is lesser known.
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
Ahhhh, fog is lifting...
Thank you for your time typing this up. Starting to make sense now.
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Yesterday, 04:53 PM
Did you buy that Levin?
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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
My favorite right now is my '35 L10.
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Yesterday, 04:50 PM
I'm just going to address two of those: the Sand and the Novax.
Kirk Sand was one of the most respected small builders of all time. He pioneered...
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
Jazz guitar since the 1950s has been a primarily electric guitar venture.
The "alternative brands" you mention come in all different styles.
...
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Yesterday, 04:33 PM
From reading your question and listening to the clips, I would say the real reason you're asking that question is because there is some kind of...
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Yesterday, 04:31 PM
Which is to say:
You have no idea how “on topic” you are.
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Yesterday, 04:30 PM
I guess I'd have to play one to appreciate or understand.
I was hoping to hear..."Gibson doesn't offer anything with Walnut back or, I like a...
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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
Should we better say Chis Mirabella uses the same principle Artur Lang used already in the past? :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
If anyone gives you any of these guitars and you don't want them,i'll gladly take them off your hands especially the Elferink since there is a 3 ...
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Yesterday, 04:14 PM
Oh baby you just opened a can.
Yeah I’ve been super interested in Arban’s for a while. I borrowed a copy from a friend and adapted a bunch of...
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Those are all really highly regarded guitars you named there.
Gibson's not the be all end all. Nothing wrong with them mind you...but there are...
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Yesterday, 04:08 PM
Like the 175, the real Jersey beefsteak tomato is another sweet classic that’s no longer readily available. As much as I hate sounding like my...
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Yesterday, 04:07 PM
Squier Jaguar
Surf Green
Alnico Single-Coil
24 Inch Scale
Try playing sitting with a Jaguar, it's a great off-set body shape to play...
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Yesterday, 03:59 PM
Different sound, different feel, different sizes, different prices. People that play are usually looking for inspiration, Gibson is only one avenue.
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Yesterday, 03:50 PM
Tonight
29 May 2024
James Chirillo is this week's guest.
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Yesterday, 03:46 PM
I think tele neck pickups have fatter cleans. Once you get some grit going, Strat neck pickups give you a lot more useable tone, whereas teles kind...
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Yesterday, 03:46 PM
Sounds good! You certainly don't need my advice!
Sound is good. Time is good. Playing has plenty of melodicism. I like what you're doing!
But,...
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Yesterday, 03:42 PM
Any other chord root tritone motion common enough to mention?
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Yesterday, 03:42 PM
To me it sounds like a 2-step cadence (F Bb7) that doesn't resolve (to C, because that's the one resolution my ear is used to) but instead goes to a...
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
I don’t think this is accurate. Strats get a rap for being thin but that’s because of the out of phase in between positions. A strat neck pickup...
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Yesterday, 03:40 PM
Many Lang guitars have these split soundholes.
Artur Lang trying one of his guitars.
Almost the same model except the cutaway.
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Yesterday, 03:36 PM
A few shots from my visit to Birdland last week for Guitar Night.
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Yesterday, 03:35 PM
From first couple pages of For Sale section here:
Novax
Frans Elferink
Seventy Seven Hawk Jazz Deep
LHT
Tom Painter
Moffra Mithra
Kirk Sand
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Yesterday, 03:29 PM
Hmmm, that’s interesting. And yes, that’s surf green.
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Yesterday, 03:26 PM
Can you give an example?
Some well respected archtop builders are not household names outside the jazz world...
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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
A little off-topic from guitar technique: Clifford Brown is known to have studied the Arban method a lot which might explain some ornamentation...
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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
The Player Plus Nashville Tele is worth a look.
Alder body, maple neck
12" radius fingerboard, pau ferro or maple available (vintage spec is...
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Yesterday, 03:24 PM
You have a Koa JH?
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Yesterday, 03:21 PM
I'm sure there are good reasons but, it's not obvious to me. Can someone shed some light on this for me?
I drop in on the For Sale section...
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
I'd say one of each :)
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Yesterday, 03:19 PM
Good for you. How much? Tell her it's an investment. Which, it prolly is a good place to park your money.
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Yesterday, 03:07 PM
Billy Strings isn't jazz though.
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Yesterday, 03:05 PM
I love a strat, but if you are coming from archtops and gibsons, it's not the easiest to adjust to. I also love teles. I think teles are a little...
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Yesterday, 03:04 PM
The Mickey Baker book made me the hack I am today, lol.
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Yesterday, 03:03 PM
I love this guy.
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Yesterday, 03:02 PM
Well, the first book provides sets of chords that have lots of color to them, but not necessarily the specific color or extensions a player would...
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Yesterday, 03:00 PM
I went with the Reverend Pete Anderson Eastsider T guitar. I just liked the specs better than what I was seeing on the Fender Models. Fender makes...
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Not exclusively. I thought you were asking a different question.
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Yeah if you want the in between jangles and single coils then just get a strat.
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Yesterday, 02:41 PM
Bill Kirchen put in the bolt inserts described above. He might actually have been the first person to do it and talk about it.
If you're traveling...
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Yesterday, 02:40 PM
I found it interesting that while Bruno scoffs at some kinds of terminology, he has no problem with naming the notes and chords he demonstrates, or...
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Yesterday, 02:36 PM
No offense to Wes, but I have to think most of those are algorithm-generated playlists (e.g., "Relaxing Instrumental Jazz). I can't imagine the vast...
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Yesterday, 02:33 PM
I Love Strats (and I have three of them) and have tried Teles (I could never bond with a Tele or a 335). I would suggest a MIM (made in Mexico)...
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
Sure is - after a patient 3 year wait!
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Yesterday, 02:20 PM
Um, there's the trouble with early attempts that people get kinda more comfortable with one certain thing.
Most often starting from a certain beat,...
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Yesterday, 02:17 PM
Scale length. I have an L-5 and like the 25 1/2" scale, so the same scale on a Tele was nice. YMMV.
If you prefer single coil pups, the "jumbo...
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Yesterday, 02:16 PM
I like it
I will say only the textbooks are the records.
Listen carefully, steal and apply. Learn tunes. You’ll be fine.
Sent from my...
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Yesterday, 02:11 PM
The best way to get out of diatonic playing is both transcribing or analyzing music for ideas; but also working out the raw material to be able to...
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Yesterday, 02:10 PM
Does he use the “drop 2” / Mel Bay approach?
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Yesterday, 02:02 PM
Ah yes i see what you mean. ?
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