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Thanks, John. I may have gotten ahead of myself with the up-tempo version, instead of the slower, ballad-like chord melody version I started with. ...

Thank you so much. The playing -- like me -- is a work in progress.

I may just do that.

Your commentary is well taken. My intention was to pose a "desert island" question. And as I mentioned in my OP, I find Wes (and Trane) to require...

Thanks fellas. Something about my tele makes me play a certain way. I'm trying to convince myself it's less "Ripping Fris off" and more that Bill...

Epiphone introduces the Ltd. Ed. ES-335 PRO, a new take on the legendary semi-hollowbody archtop with all the classic ES-335 features, but now with...

I apologize if this is out of line, but I have owned a number of Blue Chip Jazz 50 and 60 picks (fantastic picks!) and I have one question: Why does...

For me, and every lefty I've known who also plays guitar ... "right handed" guitars are simply vastly easier as right hand plucking patterns were...

Of course. That’s what practice is for. Getting it down then allow your deeper mind to express it in real time playing situations. Sent from my...

I was reading liner notes by Don DeMichael from Wes' Fingerpickin' CD (Wes' first as a leader- 1957): Below is the part relevant to your post and...

Having someone else paying for studio time....:redface-new:

I use a krivo (the micro manouche model) and absolutely love it. My guitar actually has a fair amount of clearance underneath the strings but went...

first post...i'd assume he has new streamliner...grovers 102-18 IMHO, the stock tuners suck bad, so in searching for info about replacements I...

Another JGO happy ending! Congratulations, and play it in good health! :encouragement:

I believe you've been dismissive of the Mickey Baker book in other posts. (I might have you mixed up with somebody else.) I was wondering if you...

listened a few times...real nice mr. b...has a decidedly frisell like vibe...(a good thing to me!) volume gets a little hot towards end, but...

Yes! There is no better way to remind oneself what is required to play jazz on the guitar than to switch hands (if you play right handed flip it over...

I've watched those rig rundown vids from Premier Guitar. And search for "jazz guitar workshop" or something like that occasionally to check if...

There's a thread on these from 2014. No personal experience, but coming from Matsumoku and Terada, with L-5 level appointments, they must be fine...

I don't use my Soundcloud very often, so here's an attempt...right into GarageBand, tele...sounds ok...let me know what you think. I think I'll do...

All the likes! :listening_headphone

Lovely! :listening_headphone

Your tone sounds good to me. It is warm and clean, with healthy upper-midrange clarity. Very nice! :listening_headphone

Yep, because there's a big difference between the ones made in the 50s & 60s, and the current ones. The ones made in the 50s and 60s, used Waverly...

Yes of course. But invoking memory, like one does in a spelling bee or playing jeopardy or taking a multiple choice test - ain't it. There's no...

Musical memory is super important. Improv isn’t always totally new stuff. It’s more taking parts of lines memorized and reconnecting them in unique...

That sounds good to me. John

Beautiful tune, beautiful take.

You got me thinking about doing the blender. The Mojotones use a Gibson-style braided shield over an insulated center conductor, but I think it’s...

This song has always been a favorite of mine. As always, wonderful treatment.

Real Streamliner from the '50s or newer Streamliner?

I feel relaxed now, did not destroy my economy, but i had to save with other things. I am not in debt, and never was, but it was kinda hard.:pride:

I need help with this book.... /QUOTE] Have you tried contacting the publisher? Contact them with a picture documenting the missing pages, explain...

I have zero experience with L5 or other instruments mentioned in this thread. But I installed a new tailpiece to my ES-175 VOS 1PU and it was a...

OK. Well I guess I would sum up my thoughts on the topic as follows. Cheers. Baseline factors. A solid facility on one’s instrument –...

I’ve never heard or played through a Quilter that I liked. Sterile. And yeah I’ve heard all the nice things about them. Go tubes. Even for jazz. ...

Based on the photo of your guitar, it looks like a 1940s Gibson L-30. I still think the deArmonds are too thick for it. String clearance between...

Here's what Julian Lage says about playing a Tele vs an acoustic guitar in the Guitar Player article, "Julian Lage on the Lure of the Telecaster". ...

The engagement level is the "what". And as I said earlier - this is so obvious that we don't even think about it. Your "Uh yeah" helps making my...

Cheers, Sam. I'm already a member, but haven't been there for years. I'll pay it a visit soon.

Thanks. We are always in search of that elusive "Jazz tone..."

Cool, cool story. Loved reading about it here and on your blog!

Rob, although I usually refrain from pumping another forum it's worth noting the dedicated EUB topic on the TalkBass.com double bass board. I...

Awesome stuff, thanks!

Nah, but we could dissect your "hypothesis" (being kind here) if you'd like. It might be an interesting discussion, at least for those who are...

Hi Dennis. Thanks for jumping in! I agree with you that since many lefties play right handed, the number of actual lefty guitar players is lower than...

Uh yeah, memory, like all cognition, is engaged when one improvises. How could it not be? And so what?

Silly question when you can have 'em both actually but if I couldn't I'd choose Kenny (I mean Burrell, Rob! :highly_amused:) for his always great...

PAUL DESMOND (Feeling Blue) - YouTube

neither of them..just too much Guitar.. but i could listen to this for hrs....below

Yes, I did. Great fun for half an hour, and then...I got bored.

Actually now that I think about this a bit more, the horn IS a natural lefty instrument!

Tough to pick and when Wes is on he manages to be the best. At the same time I can get a bit too much of his octave stuff. I enjoy his single lines...

Interesting thread. For a starter, I searched and the answer was 10-15% of the world's population is left-handed. ( True / false? - - don't...

I completely (but respectfully) disagree. On both instruments you place the fingers of one hand on specific spots on the fingerboard, and with the...

Sounds fine to me.

Yes! There have been articles written that emphasize how the left hand is more important.

As a lefty, I played violin as a child right handed. But when I took up guitar, I restrung it to play left handed. To each their own and there are...

Checked out your stuff on YouTube. Very nice and nice jazzy tone on the acoustic.

There's a lot to it, involving multiple components. One of the simpler ways the breakdown study is to work on what you would needin order to play...

Lol. Definitely do the recording of the tune!

Maybe I should marry one! ?

Teles are VERY touch responsive...they can go from a whisper to a scream just based on touch.

funny you say that: after reading all the comments here I made a concerted effort to focus on a light touch, and it seems to have made a difference....

Sounds great to me. No buzzing or fretting out. You could certainly go a little higher so you can dig in more, if that's your thing, but from these...

That's pretty strange, but whatever....

If I had to pick one it would be Wes. Fortunately I don't have to....

Does that action seem indecently high to anyone? :abnormal:

Maybe yea. But Wes is in another league for me, all I can say.

I have fingernails for the acoustic, so I may have to lose those to get the proper touch with the Tele. I use a pick, too. I added to my original...

So as a fingerstyle acoustic player do you pluck hard to get loud volume? If so, that technique will need to be adjusted for playing a tele with...

Added first direct-to-Garageband effort using Lollar CC neck pick-up through Apogee Duet (no EQ, effects, nothing - just wanted opinions on the clean...

Maybe this is a bit harsh...

Thanks, DB! No matter if he owned it or not, I'm sure he ran a few of his great lines on it during the photo shoot! :smile-new:

Beautiful guitar! Here's Nate Lopez -- a long-time Novax player, and all-around nice guy -- playing his LHT:

YUP! I'm lefty also and at first picking up a git it was totally natural as a lefty to play with it and always assumed it was made for a left handed...

:smile-new: Wow, that's a serious case! Congrats on your recovery!

EQ... Sigh a fact often overlooked or ignored by players that pigeonhole gits as "one trick ponies" :-)

They're the Schallers with the 2 adjustment screws, don't know the model. They sound great, maybe a little dark for some, but hey, the amp has a...

I snapped this pic at a LGS, the owner had it commissioned by a local artist.

Sounds like someone has spent a little too much time in those Hollywood hills? :hippie:

I can tell by your confident tone here, and on other threads, that you are a pro jazz guitarist, so I'm quite interested to read your thoughts about...

Looking forward to it!

You should kick him out of the house and trade his stupid planks for a nice acoustic archtop with a 12th-fret neck-join and no cut-away, to really...

By the way, with help of a French guitarist who sent me an article on this particular guitar, the mystery has been solved completely! I'll have to...

Sorry, but the owner does not want to share this type of information. Can't help you there Wintermoon. DB

Okay, I'll allow it this time, but once you start preaching Aura Buffing (so it picks up Omega Waves from Guardian Archtops) or dancing around...

I'm not a brain scientist but luckily probably no one here is:) Memory in the brain.. say we have a billion cells of memory in the brain (there is...

You are right about GAS I awakened first i had collected 66 guitars and bass guitars. I don`t no longer feel that i must soon get that and that...

Raise your strings, naturally I don`t mean to underestimate you since you are able to change the pickup in your guitar...sometimes people are...

Hand capabilities required by violin are more equal than guitar. Some say it even leads to musical benefits if a left handed musician plays on a...

Wes, all the way! Kenny who?

Midnight Blue and Satin Doll. As short those solos are, I can listen them zillion times since decades. However there is no way I can mention same...

I read somewhere that Grant green used a flatwound .014 set. Just try google to find out more. My 330 has D'Addario Chromes .012 for now. Feels very...

I have a Reissue '59 330 and I prefer the shorter neck just for comfort. On a 335 or similar the first frets are a bit far away. The downside is that...

Have you tried a bass ukulele? Astonishingly jazzy sound, light touch and takes next to no space.

None. Edit: Oops, I thought you meant Kenny G again! KB: any time he plays a blues, I'm in heaven.

I have one, not being used, in storage at my daughter's house; unfortunately her house is in Australia!

The greats we celebrate here possess and express what I think of as 'ineffable musicality.' I can not productively go beyond that, 'cept maybe to...

Low action is a preference based on your personal touch. Tommy Emmanuel has low action for his fingerstyle. I would venture a guess that most jazz...

Loved the one album I had of Eddie Duran. It was "Ginza", released on Concord, a guitar friendly label if ever there was one. I heard a couple...

A quick thought about symphony orchestras and left handed string players. The structure of the orchestra and layout of the players isn't conducive...

Tilting is good but in my experience over 50% of the stages are built so that the amp on the floor makes the room hum excessively. At least here in...

Thank you for answering, Jeff! I tried averything you say -- batteries, adapter... and it sounded kind of 'stuck' - I can't say for sure but it...

Interesting problem. The cause may be in several places. It may be the pickups. It may be the pots, humbuckers need 500 kohm pots instead of...

Many guys have both acoustic and electric upright set up exactly the same.

You have my permission to do so.

Two of the Beatles were left-handed (Paul and Ringo), and Charlie Chaplin played left handed violin. But to get back to part of Woody's question,...

we shouldn't have any worse problems....:pride::smile-new:shreddin'

Maybe I thought it was a jazz version because of where it was posted, but alas...:)

Well, nobody knows what kind of music Jimi would be playing today or if? He was only 3 years in the big game. Burning not like a handle on two ends,...

There are a lot of well-known guitarists playing "right handed" instruments. Duane Allman and Phil Lesh spring to mind; also Robert Fripp, Mark...

Exactly. If you really want to learn it, there are no shortcuts. You ear is the most valuable asset in jazz.

I have a reissue DeArmond RC1100. It’s fairly thin, but you also need to leave some space between the top of the poles and the strings. I think you’d...

rNeil, I know you're left-handed, but do you play the guitar left or right handed?

I consider myself left-handed (for finger work) but right-armed (for large motion). Standard guitars always seemed natural to me. Maybe that’s why I...

Thanks for the suggestions. Yeap, Fretboard Journal is good. Im mostly interested in watch guitars. Dont know, its hard to find good stuff...

I'm a lefty. Which of course means I've mastered a lot of ambidextrous abilities. What has always amazed me is the guitar, as originally designed,...

Left-handed violins: https://www.connollymusic.com/stringovation/left-handed-violinist-what-you-need-to-know Danny W.

Here it is. It was my dad’s. He bought it in the 60’s.

I've had two teles only, a G&L Bluesboy semi hollow, which was great... but wasn't my favorite for a 'jazz' tone.... but it was a great guitar then...

what are the humbuckers in the guitar? what are the strings in question? realize that you may just not be a humbucker person... i don't seem to...

Beato’s also has some episodes on the “philosophy” of music (what makes this song great) and the business side of music. Rhett Shull, who partners...

OK, I bought a new guitar, it has humbuckers, not P90's. I want opinions from someone who has remedied the uneven response on the humbuckers. I am...

'Super Wood' Still no blue jokes?

Wade's is pretty cool, but the business hours are a little weird for me (especially during the weekday - since I often don't start my commute home...

Actually I live in Greenfield, just off of '894. Yeah, Cream City can be kind of toxic to my finances. Yes, definitely! Wade’s has actually been...

Thanks! :) Actually I live in Greenfield, just off of '894. Yeah, Cream City can be kind of toxic to my finances. :o Thanks! :) ...