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Very early in my electric guitar journey I almost bought a Firebird (which sounded great), but the downside was obvious even to clueless teenage me,...

A friend who knows KB personally, told me that was legit, so I too contributed.

I hope your attitude has improved since the summer. GLWTS.

That's Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, one of the founders of Incognito and still with the band now. He ended this session with a similar speech.

I'm kind of lucky, I guess. I've never really had much GAS. When I was starting out on the guitar, back in the seventies, I lusted after a Strat. I...

I have 21 guitars ranging in value from a low of say $700 (A Warmoth partscaster Strat) to a high of say $18,000 (A Non cut D'Angelico Excel). They...

That Swatch looks kind of cool though. When I was briefly interested in one of the new D'A semi-hollows, which I thought looked really neat and well...

Hello. There are some valid points made in the video. The only way to be able to come to the conclusions mentioned though, one would have had to...

On a big bass amp it sounds "good", a lot of bottom ends. Acoustically it sounds like this. https://youtu.be/2tQgnbNITOs Blended with the piezo...

Never mind, see that you posted it.

Can you elaborate on this a bit or give an example? I'm trying to come up with more of these. Thanks

I guess there's been no update since the controversial gofundme a few years ago. I contributed, hope he really needed it.

Regarding point #1: I can assure you that owning and gigging with a "valuable" 1990 Benedetto Cremona does not suck at all. What I find ironic is...

I saw Tal Farlow with Red Norvo (and Monty Budwick on bass), that same year at Donte's in North Hollowood. It was great seeing them play many of...

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I hope you received it.

Great sound and great solo playing!!!

There's not much point in doing the Flintstones, the head is much too simple.

Too right. Master of chromatic perfection :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRkKfvvkoc

On playing on forms, check out Roni Ben Hurr’s BH on Minor Blues and Rhythm Changes on Mike’s Master Classes. Good stuff.

i've had both. I like the 200 a lot better. I was kind of shocked at how prone to feedback the 300 was. I had an LGB-30 and actually liked the sound...

heres one, in NY Just a moment...

Adding a price reduction bump

I like Keith’s vids. Yeah I had a Firebird late 80’s….it escapes me now why I had to have one back then :) Those mini humbuckers did have a unique...

Met on every beat is the ticket for me right now, so that's what I'm doing. Up tempos aren't a goal of mine for playing solo piano, only medium up....

I definitely put the click on every beat... sometimes usually. It depends what I'm working on. When I'm working on sight reading I will put the click...

That's probably the action of the hasher you're hearing, giving you an output "signal" that isn't a nicely continuous 9V but something between that...

There's no danger of that - I feel constrained at present to using a plectrum as fingerstyle on relatively thin strings feels rather difficult. On...

You might try the metronome on 1 and 3 too. 2 and 4 is cool but doesn’t really help you feel in bigger chunks because that 1 is always implied. ...

Thanks for all the inputs! I ended up pulling the trigger on a DV Mark Little Jazz 12” and it did well. I surpose the Bose with some...

Pretty certain that the rules will be different for US companies outsourcing their manufacturing to the People's Factury Republic and for companies...

Good morning! In case anyone needs to hear some solo guitar musings, I’ll put this out into the wind like those seeds seeking hospitable earth to...

Is anybody not singing all those BH exercises?

Whenever I see what carries "His" name nowadays I always wonder "what if today's Ferraris were electric, no-permit vehicles", and then I remember...

Those piezos need to be matched with an ultra high frequency input to retain the bass frequencies. At least 10 Megaohms.

Don't forget that the neck of the LGB 300 is maple and the GB 200 is mahogany/maple/mahogany

I tried the semi hollow from this company. They were very interesting, but I already had an Ibanez AS-200.. :-) Best Kris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GcZ-gujCM4&list=PL7-zwhqvyoridE7jrsPiLOImLKef4l3tx&index=2

The reason why one wouldn’t think of the locrian is that we’ve learned all our stuff on the dominant and minor scales. Which is the stuff that...

Yes, but Pat Metheny is a jazz musician....and very active. Not everyone realizes how technically difficult things he plays on the guitar. He just...

I’m a standard stan all day, but there’s a few players I know who play bass excellently and guitar really well too and they use P4 like all the bass...

If he is still the Original one: What I liked most about him was that he ended the show with a speech about the world needing more love. They left...

Congrats and enjoy!

It's needless to say, but we like in others what we see in ourselves. If I'm working on things I am drawn to, like a late 1950's swing sense and a...

Saw that - no info on gear there... but he plays other guitars besides the 335 there.

I have indeed! When I first started trying out guitar playing I did tune that way, reasoning that I only wanted to play jazz so the lack of standard...

All the newer D angelicos i've played have been good guitars. My one concern would be the guitar sounding thin, without much low mids and having too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQcWbRU0Gj8

Pat Metheny is a giant of the guitar and a simply brilliant musician. Over 40 years ago I loved his music and the sound of the guitar. He had a...

I hadn’t heard of him, but apparently he’s based in London. Here’s his youtube channel: Charlie Allen - YouTube

I’ll be up for Miss Ann. Cool head and I don’t really know anything like it, so it would be good for me. It’s not really bebop anymore at that point,...

At the end of the 1980s I was in the USA and I could have bought such a guitar for $500... I regret it very much.

Congrats!

Possibly. The UK VAT is 20% vs. zero for US direct orders under USD 800 from abroad. Finland's (Infland, the Great State of Taxes) VAT is 25.5% and...

I suspect that Miss Ann would be too hard for most people, with it's big interval leaps and such it's practically a picking exercise.

Seems like an arcane association to me, I would just think of it as G Locrian since that's what it is (with nat. 6th added = the 3rd of C7) and Gm7b5...

Nah, it wasn't the KK (it was spelled Keystone Korner as in Keystone Kops because there was a police station across the street from it. :nonchalance:...

Beautiful! Just the photos make me want to play. Congrats!

There's also this one which we've discussed before but don't know exactly what it is. Probably a custom L-5 w extra deep cutaway and 2 extra frets,...

I notice often that BH students "sound like jazz." Lots of other jazz pedagogy doesn't seem to result in students that sound like jazz.

I never cared for Bright Size Life very much, myself; it just feels sort of frenetic and the songs sound disorganized to me, but I suppose that's...

Soon you’ll be paying UK prices…

I suspect that the talk of tariffs on China is a bargaining device to force the Chinese to be more even handed in their dealings with America. I am...

I imagine that club was the Keystone Corner. I saw Tal Farlow at that club in 1976 with Red Norvo.

Now that I've been in BH class I understand the wisdom of viewing it this way, rather than translating it into a base scale. Something about it that...

I play harmonic major for Caravan and it seems to work out pretty well. The BH concepts are over my head.

Getting complex just thinking of it. At least part of Quilter stuff comes from China. Apart from electronics and instruments, most Celestions and...

When I was much younger I suffered under the bizarre delusion that Kenny had just ordinary chops, nothing special. Then one night I saw him with his...

KB also owned a custom L-5 with the CC p/u. Here he is pictured with it for a Gibson ad.

Here is KB with his custom L-7 he let WM borrow, along with his Fender Deluxe amplifier for WM’s first record. This is an article out of VG magazine...

This next topic on the agenda is horizontal (up/down the fingerboard) vs. vertical (across the fingerboard) fingering of scales and phrases. The pdf...

My bottleneck is technical skills. So what I mean by targeting is being able to play solo fluently in med and med up tempos without my hands seizing...

Could be? I can’t tell if it has a cutaway or not. Aren’t those usually single pickup? I guess that would be a modification lol

I think that's a modified L-7 he borrowed from Kenny Burrell.

I don’t know, maybe buy used?

What do you mean when you say “target” those tempos? What are you doing to work on it?

Indeed I would! And Joe played the right chords too.

Almost all electronics is assembled in China. Certainly true for most pedals. I have been wondering the same thing myself.

What an absolutely beautiful sounding and looking guitar.

Beautiful Campellone. I have the low-bling standard version with almost exactly the same color natural finish. (Noticed you’re in Naples. We...

He's got his own sound, a distinct vibe, the whole ECM sensibility. If you haven't found a connection and you are into a more of a Blue Note sound,...

My plan is to take 120. Then 160. Then I'll be good. I'm already happy with my slow and slow med playing. I love chilling in tempos where I can BH...

So far I think it sounds fantastic. I am in Florida right now and all my other guitars are back home up north, so I can’t compare it to them yet....

Flintstones? Why not Ren and Stimpy? :highly_amused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5NfgKPVZ2g

Yes for both. The pedal is similar to the Barnyard pedal. Doug

I think it's great.

No hat. I am weirded out just a little. But I really, really like the tone he's getting more than I usually did before.

I just ordered the Cioks SOL. Who knows, maybe I'll end up adding a *second* pedal to my signal chain. I don't think I can legally play straight...

Sorry to be a pest but I sent a follow up email. Have one last question.

Oh that’s cool. You can slow it down too.

Yes, it can work. But do you want the path from the 120v hot conductor to ground to go through your guitar strings in case of a malfunction? You...

I know, but nothing about tone in that thread. and, yes very little difference but the 300 sounds thin to me

that’s why I asked. no way to compare these two guitar by myself. I would buy a gb200 but it is no longer available. you can only have a lgb300...

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