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I’m so excited about this! I keep hoping for another recording of Inchworm. I tracked down a bootleg with Dolphy on bass clarinet and it was way less...

Clean. The ‘standard’ one, not the Variation (which is more treble-forward). And after a couple weeks with it, the tone on my Eastman is moving...

Amberburst:

Cheers Ozoro .. Good manners and common courtesy are just about things of the past these days ,I try to ' fly the flag ' for these important things....

I had wondered, too if one week is enough time for everybody to go through each exercise. I'm approaching it as just going through each one and...

I wonder what Pat was using on his Super 400.

So far, I've found exactly one thing of value in this endeavor: the "drop-n" process is an easy and mechanical way to systematically expose all the...

In the big band, the guitar chart requires a few things that aren't so easy. You have to read written-out rhythms, which are on the staff. As you...

Congrats on finding the one PW album everyone agrees is his worst.

I have never found this to be true.

Ok. I'm sure you'll agree that an electromagnetic PU doesn't pick up the acoustic sound of a guitar unless it's microphonic, but if you think you...

Wow! What a beauty!

Pat Martino used a 12 set, but changed the first string to 15, which made it very close to the second string (17). I tried once using 15 and 19 on...

I thought that was drummers, but maybe that has something to do with my intense personal body odour

Yes. Benson does this too. It’s not so much of an issue going up, but coming down it can be a challenge with certain combinations - even numbers...

Mark’s amber burst is very similar to Gibson’s viceroy brown on the Tal Farlow IMO

Yeah, today I ordered some bbq, thought I was ordering from the restaurant's site directly and it turns out it was doordash's interface to the...

Wow 15 on top is some pretty stiff wire for sure! I can’t imagine going past a 13 at most! And I use 11-50 on electrics mostly and 12-53 on my...

That’s how Door Dash and Uber Eats get you. Grats on the progress.

Oh wow. Crazy story. Thanks for your efforts. Do you mean that there's only one copy?

I'm one of those pussies who has tuned down a half step for the last 30 years. In fact I'm such a weakling that I switched from strats with 11 gauge...

Not for me. My hand never moves near there. In fact, my hand never really moves much at all.

Thanks, Christian. Here's another I found on youtube. If I follow all of this correctly, it all seems to be related to the motion of skipping...

I'm not a fan of light strings, but have one thing to say about 40lbs of string tension: oouuuch

I haven't touched a joanna in years, but it's still easier (clearer) for me to map things out on a keyboard and I prefer to get a given tune I may...

I use the Boomers on most of my electric solidbodies; I use their White Bronze strings on my squareneck resonator (with a Lace magnetic pickup), and...

Before Mick died, it was taken from him with the promise that this person would find a publisher. That person has since disappeared and refused to...

Sure. I have two archtops that, although they've got magnetic pickups on them, are built and hand tuned lighter than a heavier topped Gibson. The...

To quote Ralph Cramden, "hammana hammana hammana..." That's a serious, serious jazz guitar.

GuyBoden gave some sage advice here. It depends not only upon the tune you are playing, but also upon the guitar you are playing. Some guitars just...

Sorry, but could you explain what that even means (beyond the fact that any sound we hear is by definition acoustic) :cool::redface-new:

Yes, I began using their Nickel Rockers Rollerwound because they bring out the acoustic quality of my guitar. I don't like rounds for the squeak and...

I have done a few FWIW. This is more gypsy jazz oriented, there are other ways to rest stroke pick (such as Benson style, like Tony Rice or more...

I wondered the same thing. But I regularly play 2 guitars and only one has the problem. So, is it the interaction between a change in body chemistry...

I think they were on DC music as well. Dan Wilson is making me want to pick more of my notes at the moment. And get a guitar/Rhodes/drums trio....

i like a mustang , but i wonder why they put the switch right there doesnt it get in the way there ?

If you’re on Instagram, Dan Wilson and Cecil Alexander have both recently done “how I pick” slow mo things and talk about their test stroke. It’s in...

Well I don't have to be right. I just prefer to work on music and non guitar stuff always throws up interesting challenges. Plus I don't have time to...

I’ve been doing this kinda thing , upping the top two strings a guage or two , on a base set of TI jazz flats 13 set , for a few years all good ,...

Can anyone suggest a how-to video for rest strokes? I know the definition and I can hear in Gypsy jazz the excellent articulation. But, I'm...

I don't know if the observations are correct. I do think it's an interesting idea. But, I'm still left wondering, assuming for the moment that it...

And yet....

Yeah the last show I saw before we left the city was Kurt at the Vanguard, this time last year. It was his first visit back to New York since COVID...

I'm mostly joking, not trying to rain on your parade. I prefer the sound and feel of looser strings so that's what worked for me. I tuned down a...

I spend some time every day doing a few scale/arpeggio exercises, some time practising the Donna Lee head and about ten minutes a day of the Presto...

incredible looking guitar ….

Without the trem and the very weird switching they are really nice guitars, especially for those of us who can no longer maintain denial about our...

Wow such a clean example! GLWTS!

Interesting how much influence the Gibson L-5 has had over the years on the music that so many of us revere and enjoy! Almost as interesting is...

You're welcome.

I am learning many details with your analysis. I have analyzed the exercise more briefly, for example in the fifth line I have indicated "sequence",...

Which reminds me, I'm selling one just like this from the Citizenk74 collection, just haven't put together an ad yet. It presents as a new guitar and...

Haha, what a pussy.

26-2 killed my technique. I had to rebuild lol.

Does not look like Amberburst to me.

Yeah baby. That’s the ticket. Twenty minutes a day over here. I’m not an etudes guy either but the bebop heads are where it’s at. I have a list I go...

I used the 1810'a they went from .12, 16 24 30 42 54. The double wound was similiar to half rounds as such but still a completely wound string. for...

In my experience if it’s fast enough that you really have to get concerned with Troy Grady’s mechanics stuff, it’s likely to fast to be truly...

Hi… Excellent analysis, congratulations. I confess to have been a bit lost in some notes, and my analysis is more light than yours. In the...

Fret wire is LMI's FW57110. At .110X.057" it's considerably larger than original wire, which I find to be quite fatiguing. I installed the same wire...

Agree with daverepair regarding the neck. I have smallish hands, but the full (C-shape?) neck of my 1950 Devon is just right. I also have a ‘58...

New frets look slightly larger than original, which is a plus in my book. I'm guessing 6105? very clean and well rounded fret ends.

Congrats!

killer

I just bought a 1965 ES-125TC and received it a couple of days ago. I am nearly overwhelmed by how nice it is. It was either a closet queen or like...

Hello edpirie. Glad to have you participate. You could be right. It certainly could be seen that way. I might be reading too much into...

Here’s a video I made for a friend who was like What the ever-loving **** are you talking about. EDIT: I got a lot of these patterns from...

Jim Hall was the last of the really great jazz guitarists to click with me, but once he did I was in! He plays more like a modern player than any of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3-zH_bX_8

Actually I meant kind of the opposite! Because of how much I use a left hand slur, I think it’s pretty natural for me to skip strokes. And I slur...

clean peanut! GLWTS

Amber burst on the Special :)

I'm the opposite; deliberately aligning to beat-stroke (just thinking about it) scrambles my brain. My up and down strokes are even in force, level,...

Ok, this is going to sound like the kind of crazy stuff that turns me off to most internet guitar groups... As I've gotten older my guitars have...

I could watch him play all day. He never runs out of ideas, and they flow so seamlessly. His fingers look so gentle, like they're floating on top...

They struggle to place it into perspective... Without perspective, one cannot see the depth of the garden. The spent suffer from blase' and ennui....

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The Lenny Breau was good. This is just a bit of fun. Stream Undecided 2 by ragman | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Thats very nice to hear, and nice to give the forum feedback. Though I was not part of the conversation or advice group, all too often is the forum...

These were also my favorite for my Soloway Gosling (Jim recommended them) but they are discontinued. I bought a few leftover sets from online sellers...

All of this applies to me... and yes, the notion of diverging from the beat-stroke alignment i.e. playing an upstroke on the downbeat and vice versa,...

haha, you're not the first person to say that. It certainly makes me appreciate the simpler things in life. Right now, i'm going stir crazy because I...

I don’t know Jack I think the back surgery made you sound better :smile-new:

Yeah, I think it's good to be as flexible as possible with one's technique so that this filters through to one's improvising. I know that even with a...

I don't use rest stroke. In fact, I devoted quite a lot of time to economy of motion in my pick movements. I also aim to pick softly and with a...

Pasquale with Frank Vignola and Jimmy Bruno Frank Vignola's Guitar Night with guest guitarists Jimmy Bruno and Pasquale Grasso, May 31, 2023 -...

I like 11 - 54 for most things standard tuning wise, totally feel based, outside of how easy it is to chug on I don't think there's really a ...

I use rest stroke when ever I need a note to be louder and/or fuller than what I would get with a fee stroke, usually in a particularly ...

I visited the GHS factory years ago and was surprised to learn that they make the strings for many of the high end boutique string companies. There...

Thanks for the analysis - I found this helpful. I see this more simply as an enclosure around the E. Any thoughts on the F#7 arpeggio at...

I honestly wasn't sure, so I watched some videos of myself on YouTube. Apparently, I do, occasionally, when playing slower, bluesy stuff in...

when I started beginner classical guitar I was taught free stroke only. Which is kind of at variance to most methods I’ve seen. So I never developed...

They're about the only company I know who make (good, affordable) phosphor-bronze wound nylon strings

you can change the pick angle by using the fingers and thumb which is necessary I find for descending cross picking. My technique was really having...

This thread reminds me of a famous quote: ”Time on the instrument” - Pierre

Yes, correct. Nut measures 1.62" = 1 5/8". This was a common spec historically, also on some high end Gibsons. Later in the 60's the Kalamazoo-made...

That Tony Rice video is interesting, too. His thumb really wiggles around. I hold the pick with my thumb tip and it also wiggles around (but that is...

im all free strokes, fingers or pick.

Yeah I’ve been yammering on about this a lot elsewhere, but I’ve been really interested in weird picking stuff. I’m an “alternate picker” I...

I thought about the potential effect of imbalanced tension. But considering the angle of the strings, headstock design, how closely strings converge...

When I was studying classical guitar there was a move away from rest stroke. The consensus with some more modern players was that the sound of a rest...

Bear in mind that Adam Rogers said ‘if you can play it fast you’ve played it before’ i think trying to improvise freely and fast is perhaps...

Indeed. I think once you've 'unlocked' so to speak a double-escape motion, that is the hard part done to some extent, while with rest-stroke picking...

Another difference between the Epiphones and a Gibson: both eras of Epiphone(NYC, and Kalamazoo) likely have an 1-5/8” nut width. For those made in...

'Impressions' on soprano. Judging from this it would appear this release doesn't suffer from having the drums too loud, which was the case with the A...

Notice how Molly changes picking stance between strumming and flat picking compare to Tony Rice https://youtu.be/9JFgC3Ub10E tony as I...

It sounds interesting to me, even if my case would be 12-50 with 13 on top. Does that mean you buy two sets and the rest goes into the trash? Thanks!

I play a '65 Century. Compared to an ES-125 thinline, the most obvious difference is: The Century is long scale (25.5" was standard on Epiphone...

Coincidence, yesterday I was checking out some of her videos with Troy Grady. One of the reasons it's hard (for me) to play double-escape like Molly...

Well, yeah, it is a promise to buy ... and then they allow the "buyer" to pull out for no reason, no cause, and with no penalty! :doh: Great for...

My Mesa Rosette has Mic in as well as DI out for both channels . It doubles duty at the Cafe I work out for most musicians , a true workhorse and...

I was under the impression that once your offer is made you are promising to pay for it. Sure why not a fee for reneging? They have a selling 5%...

Yes: stock it is designed to sound like a tweed Bassman, on both channels. The Ultimate Blues tone capsule is a Super Reverb on the clean channel...

Thanks for that, very helpful, I wasn't aware of the Epi Registry site. It explains why this is a full body with P90 as everything I'd found about...

Julian was known for mixing mics with the pickup's sound when he used the Manzer. Here's a post about that "I've seen Julian play a couple of...

It doesn't work for nylons, but for folk acoustics the TC Body Rez works wonders to make piezos sound good. I've heard using impulse responses...

My guitar has that setup for a very long time now (more than 10 years) and it's been fine ever since. If your guitar can handle a regular 12 or 13...

I feel I should mention the fact that Charles MacPherson said that he and Barry talked about learning heads by ear, but not solos. otoh Barry...

im a bad businessman

According to the NY Epiphone Registry, if the serial number is 68090, it’s a 1954 Century. The photo there is of the same guitar. The pickup,...

You guys are gonna blow up ur guitars lol. I found tuning down worked better for me than using giant strings to get fat tone. I initially intended...

-a master top plate was hand carved; -casts were made of the inner and outer surfaces of the plate; -a very cool, old machine was used to...

You can learn something from each version. A TUNE with positive energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjR8FobT8k