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Well I don’t think. I play them. 1 3 5 on every chord all over the neck in half notes through a tune. That’s the basic skeleton. You can make music...

No, I'm not a begginer. I would say I'm intermediate. I play changes but ... mainly with scales (chord - scales, not key center approach). I've been...

Well if fusion is your bag I may not be the best person to ask. I haven’t spent so much time studying that music. but there are a lot triads in...

Christianm77 thank you for the explanation. Now I understand your point of view. Yes, I'm interested in more fusion sounds and I know people...

Not much of a jazz-fusion guitar fan here but I enjoyed your approach nonetheless, John! And thanks to everyone who took time to listen to my clip...

You’ll hear lines that focus for example on the first five notes of the minor scale 1-2-b3-4-5, the diminished tetrachord 1-b9-#9-9 on dominant...

To invoke a meme - Yes.

There is a "range of excitement" that includes this: Upward movements are more exciting than downward movements. Larger movement increments are...

After testing a few other speakers I settled for these Pyles in my Twin Reverb because they sounded best! So maybe not exciting in terms of value,...

I bought a gig bag from a member of this forum, who I later heard on a radio talk show, playing in a popular Broadway show that he played the oud in....

John Coltrane was quoted as saying, "We'd all sound like Getz, if we could", in the book Coltrane on Coltrane.

Great player. I caught him live at Bechet's, a club in NYC.

I fell in love with oud back in the '80s, largely through Munir Bashir. I found a decent Turkish style oud at the Music Inn in NYC and had some...

Never seen those position markers on either an L-48 or an L-50...... or on any Gibson for that matter. Replaced fretboard? Custom order? Also the...

Congrats! Looks like a find. Sorry to digress a bit, but the Epi headstock inlay has always intrigued me. It's quite complicated, yet very common...

I wasn't familiar with Charles Altura, but I listened to some of his clips. Very modern sounding, very fluid. It's a style I know precious little...

A few months later I stumbled onto another one in a bargain bin?? Absolute bargain I reckon.

Thanks Docsteve for a nice answer. I think you've hit the point. Yes, I want to make and play music, not act apreggios (that's not an end in itself)....

Hello, I'm hoping to revive this old thread because I would like some input on this guitar. I've attached pictures. It's listed as a 1940's Gibson...

I started playing oud recently-got a Godin Multioud Encore just before Christmas-although I've always loved the sound. The MultiOud plays really well...

Steve Holst has gotten in on the Green Deal as well.

Color-blind jokes aside, it actually is quite wickedly cool. Very distinctive. Some guitars are just born to be green. :cool: Congrats on the...

Hi, jazzkritter. Thanks for the advice. Can you share a link for the right stuff to get? I did a quick search and some of the Deoxit product out...

I think Emerald Green is gorgeous.

2003 Triggs Blue Diamond (I don't think it was ever blue):

I have a one-track mind, but it’s not about guitars... Well maybe that would be the second thing I think about.

Mark Campellone has done a few as well. Here's one from 2015:

Here's Michael Greenfield's Montreux in green - one of the first green archtops, I think:

not to sidetrack this nice 000 thread! but yamaha made some nice acoustics in the 70's...they were martin inspired early on...all the players used...

Well I expect it will move fast. Price has dropped from $12,000 to just $115. I mean, who can resist it at this price?

Cool buy! 60's Japanese guitars are very cool indeed. I always say, Ibanez, MANN, Greco, Firstman -- when only a Fujigen-Gakki will do! ...

"You deserve it..." I second that, & congratulations! :cool: Ah, the satisfaction that is a Martin. I think that all of their stuff is...

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Music Lesson: I know the basic things about the piano. The notes. The white ones — the black ones. The black ones...

Nice to see a bunch of folks here dig the shape. Michael, I have a Recording King parlor...very fun guitar. Not an every day guitar, but well made...

beautiful!...your acoustic playing & tone matches your mind wanderings/improvs better than i ever would have imagined! just check and doublecheck...

Bump, would love to make a nice deal for a forum member, make me an offer!

Did you pre-pay? 50% down deposit? What are his terms? Sounds like I should get started now if I want one while I'm still alive. :eek:

Any other pics of the 150? Maybe some close-ups?

I've got a 000-18 that's perfect for me - great for fingerstyle which is about all I play. I've heard folks say they work real well for flat picking,...

Piano was a adult beginning piano book, don't remember the title. For theory there was no text book just my notes and handouts.

I love the Martin 000 design and have had a few in my keep over the years. Suits my finger picking style just fine. As it happens I also bought a...

I sometimes work with a big guy who plays upright. After one gig he drove up to me to talk while I was loading my stuff into my SUV and I noticed he...

Mr B, Can I trouble you for a video? Happy for you bro. Joe D

Here goes. I did a few choruses and picked the one with the least flubs. Cool tune—never heard it before. beatrice - YouTube

Still have my prewar 000-21. It's only the 2nd flattop I've ever owned besides my 1st guitar, a $99 Yamaha in the 70s, but w today's prices you'd...

I has a great sound. I didn’t expect it to be this loud. Not as loud as an all-wood dreadnought, but maybe only 15% less loud that my old Seagull S6...

Hi All: Still here. I'm a bit behind everyone; I just finished Week 5 at 108. I'm keeping up the steady 8th notes and beginning to find melodic...

I love my Martin 00016SGTNE Custom. It is the best playing flat top I have ever had. I found it used and it had apparently been played hard. There...

000s are great! I’ve got an old one, a ‘36 00018 that my stepdad bought in ‘39 for $25. He said that was a lot of money back then.

Oh, so all mahogany with an ebony board? That sounds awesome.

I bought a Martin last month myself,but went for a Single 0 sized. I found a deal on a Custom Shop 12-fret 0-15 with ebony fingerboard and bridge....

Thank you! I sold my Taylor some time back and was missing a decent, comfortable flat top with a pretty big sound. Can't believe it took me this long...

Thanks, what books did you use in the piano / theory classes?

I would imagine the profit margin is much better on these guitars than it was selling an L5 at around that price.

Thank you brother. Yeah, I was thinking the same. I played all 4 yesterday. I was thinking.. Now, I like long scale. And the GB100 stays.. It’s funny...

Naa.. Its straight up like my peartness self.. I hear you bro. And I sense exactly what you hear when I am playing, but I can’t actually hear...

Sounds about right.

you deserve it bud...school teacher! 000's are nice! comfy but vibrant enjoy cheers

That's a lot of dough for a piece of firewood.

The circled numerals indicate the string that particular note is played on, 1= high E, 4=D for example. The numerals on top of the note indicates the...

Those JH models are just 150 units in total Finding 150 people with 10k to burn is doable .. finding more probably not. Reviews are stellar

I'd like to know too. It is some sort of position hint notation but it is not clear what help he's trying to offer...

hah i get it!...but that's really not true...as picks (of all designs) have been around far longer than the internet...they do matter, and they all...

Forgive my ignorance, but I assume the numbers above the notes are fingering suggestions? What about the circled numbers below the notes?

It is actually the sense of swing and the rhythmic elasticity that Pres brought to the game (extending what he'd learned from Armstrong) that was so...

I was reading Iverson earlier today, an essay on Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" (Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman). Shades of...

Well they do have the semi hollow models and ES-350T. Looks like the Epiphone offerings are limited too. No Emperor, Broadway or ES-175 models :(....

and even prez really had 2 distinct era's of sound...his younger basie days and his post WWII agony tone...he even held the horn differently... ...

JD, you could make a cigar box with strings sound good. There is no doubt that guitars from Japan and Korea are sounding great these days. That...

I traded one of my guitars with a Glissentar and tried playing classical Turkish melodies with it. I find it more familiar than oud because of the...

There's a pick for that: I bought the one with the saying "Don't expect too fast." (They're Pickboy 1.00 mm picks.)

the low notes are solid...but lush is harder to define or capture!...the recording is low end tight and clean, super well done...but the guitar and...

Thank you Neatomic. I tested the recording on 3 very “reference” type headphones by Sennheiser - hd650, hd700 and momentum 2 wireless and I was very...

Here you've got changes and notes. You can also see one way to employ some of the options I've been outlining. Look at what you make, your choices,...

That sounds great. I definitely don't want to just noodle! Thanks as always, JBN!!

Interesting. I am just glad none of my kids wanted to play upright bass. Or Tuba. Otherwise I would have needed to get a bigger vehicle.

is the bridge saddle tilting on the base posts under tension?....sometimes the saddle bends toward the headstock side...ever so slightly, but it will...

Yes. One note per beat to focus your flow and melodic direction. Once you can feel a good relationship with the harmony, and once you have the pacing...

Imagine writing an article describing Prez and Hawk and not talking about their very different sense of swing. Prez is far more modern in this...

C74 you are right buddy. It’s a very playable guitar. The neck is perfect. But it requires frequent adjustment of the bridge height. I havent...

In case this helps Bars 1-2 are basically the same thing as bars 3-4 except one starts with Cm and the other with Gm. Bar 5 is similar to bar 1...

007, Thank you very much. I think I only recorded this song once before. But this one sounds infinitely better. Not because of the guitar. Because of...

Mike and Steve Cardenas (24 Jan) -- amazing!!! :eagerness:

Not as exciting as I hoped but it was free so whatever. Thanks for the responses.

Love Ed Bickert's playing .. I have a couple of records of his outstanding playing. Keep an eye out for them

I don't agree with everything he says, but it is well written and a good read - especially if you're familiar with the artists and their work.

I have a 1997 X-700 exactly the same as this. Great guitar. Bought it at Walkin' Guitars in Tokyo in a shop that sells nothing but Vintage & new...

more niceness Joe D...it doesn't have some of the low end lushness that some of your other guitars had...a bit more one dimensional...but still, a...

I visited my luthier Rob at Kalamazoo Guitar Company today. http://www.kalamazooguitarcompany.com/index.html His website doesn't tell much about...

Just to clarify... you're suggesting not playing steady triplets from the drop of the first beat, but starting with quarter notes and then using...