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Today, 11:14 AM
From a musicians point of view the biggest problem with SS fret wire is that it shortens the lifetime of the strings much faster than nickel or EVO...
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Today, 11:13 AM
Whatever you do, keep playing BossaNova. It’s the greatest music of my lifetime and worth cherishing!
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Today, 11:11 AM
I fly often with instruments. My policy is hope for the best but plan for the worst. I carry my guitar in a Hiscox case (it's been a real road...
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Today, 11:10 AM
I have not. I assumed it was a laminate top, believe I saw it described as such in older Reverb listings?
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Today, 10:49 AM
That's the blonde 18" Special ;) The red 18" Special is/was absolutely pristine :smile-new:
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Today, 10:40 AM
More or less agree with everything you wrote in regards to gigging but I have def gotten gigs based on youtube/facebook videos. The number of likes...
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Today, 10:37 AM
C# jam blues
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Today, 10:34 AM
Thank you. I'll contact them.
Looking at their Contact page, I found an awesome easter egg.
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Today, 10:30 AM
yes it was. Have you taken the pickups out? Some older sites say it's a solid top.
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Today, 10:29 AM
Looks like the same guitar, assuming yours was also 16"?
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Today, 10:25 AM
Yea... so my point about Dewey Square...
Anyway... the melody implies and uses extensions and altered chord tones... sort of.
I mean yes you...
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Today, 10:25 AM
AA, what tune do you want to do next?
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Today, 10:25 AM
I’d call Henriksen ASAP and ask. They’ve given me sound answers to all my questions since I first contacted them during Covid to check on the status...
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Today, 10:24 AM
Hi, Gents.
Would you include a 9th on that chord and why?
Possible choices:
Natural 9th. An odd choice but the melody emphasises it...
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Today, 10:22 AM
Sure. These were what we played, not necessarily in this order:
1. Tenor Madness
2. I Cant Give You Anything But Love
3. Minor Swing
4. Autumn...
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Today, 10:17 AM
Both. I keep this piece of paper on my desk with the circle written on it and move a game piece around it each day. So I do most of my stuff that day...
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Today, 10:17 AM
There was nobody like Joe Diorio, the way he played but also the way he could explain things.
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Today, 09:57 AM
apparently the label on mine said BGW-400 even though the truss rod cover said 700
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Today, 09:55 AM
Thank you very much for your answers. OK, I'll order a wooden bridge.
would you please give me a tip on exactly which one you use? One probably...
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Today, 09:50 AM
Yeeaaahhhh... Things have changed a little in the states since 1999. Basically, everything is smaller, more expensive and the entire service...
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Today, 09:45 AM
Good morning Ed.
The only question you asked that I can definitively answer is “Anyway does yours have the TS Switch?” My guitar when original had...
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Today, 09:41 AM
Yea... great to see your having fun... and improving
Best Reg
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Today, 09:41 AM
Totally agreed on the listening, thank you for bringing this up.
I listen to selected playlists on Spotify perhaps an hour a day while driving,...
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Today, 09:32 AM
Good quality but....unfortunately too short video of Joe Diorio, one of my idols and an immense Artist. We all miss you, Maestro Joe.
ettore
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Today, 09:23 AM
Just curious, are you doing the circle fifths (CGD...) or fourths(CFBb...)?
I always did the fourths because I think of the flats as jazz keys,...
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Today, 09:21 AM
It looks the same but for the finish? But I can't find any documentation online.
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Today, 09:15 AM
I've been using my looper wrong. What a great way to practice bass on the guitar. Thanks for that idea!
For what it's worth, that sounds like a...
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Today, 09:09 AM
Quite the contrary! I'm very happy to see it's working for you! Care to share a setlist? I always like to see what other people are doing.
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Today, 09:08 AM
:encouragement:
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Today, 09:06 AM
My sister-in-law dropped her iphone in the toilet here while visiting. Would not turn on. We let it dry for a day and it was fine. Don't know if...
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Today, 09:03 AM
Need advice.
I wont go into details but at an outdoor gig last night, a gust of wind blew the tent's side-wall over my Bud so it was now on the...
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Today, 09:00 AM
yes you're right. I went back and looked at a closeup photo of the one I previously owned and it was a 700.
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Today, 08:39 AM
I wouldn’t craft a tone/gear specifically for bossa nova. I’d focus on meshing well with the singer musically and providing the rhythm and harmony...
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Today, 08:25 AM
Hey thanks for all your replies: they are all great help.
I am so glad I discovered Nelson Faria: probably the tone I am looking for is the one in...
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Today, 08:17 AM
Thanks for all the thoughtful responses. I’m definitely making the 11 hour drive!
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Today, 08:12 AM
Vinny’s experience is painful testimony of the risk of shipping guitars(the repairs are simply remarkable!). I have shipped several guitars always...
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Today, 08:04 AM
Im walking everything through the circle of fifths, and it works out that I only have enough days in my summer for 5.5 passes passes through the...
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Today, 07:59 AM
What I posted isn't fusion. It's Bossa nova, on an electric guitar (actually, ALSO on a nylon stringed guitar)
Granted, the electric guitar has...
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Today, 07:59 AM
I can't help but be a bit dubious about the no-wear-at-all idea under the plain wire trebles. That remains a case of steel/iron rubbing against...
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Today, 07:55 AM
Charlie Byrd went nylon string and had great results for Bossa. Maybe try one of those in your arsenal. The Chet Atkins model I believe is electric....
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Today, 07:52 AM
Indeed it is mostly in the touch.
https://youtu.be/XR9cE3U4se4?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/stvUyRvwBoY?feature=shared
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Today, 07:51 AM
Anyone have any thoughts, questions, concerns or otherwise?
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Today, 07:44 AM
Would you accompany a singer with a fusion solo?
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Today, 07:40 AM
URL?
Tnx.
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Today, 07:37 AM
Or not. There's a part in that video where I finally realised where mine must have gotten her term musique de singe from shreddin'
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Today, 07:34 AM
He's looking for "electric tone"... not sure it matters whether there is a singer or not.
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Today, 07:32 AM
Is that another crack running along the fingerboard and down to the PU hole?
On flattops and CGs in particular such cracks are often the result of...
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Today, 07:31 AM
What the OP wants is accompanying a singer ...
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Today, 07:24 AM
Or fly in, ride the dog home? (I guess we're all assuming the OP is in the US?)
Do you think (or know) that there's a rule for cabin crew that...
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Today, 06:39 AM
you can learn the notes from a book
but you can’t learn the feel and vibe
swinging , funky , blue , bouncy
etc etc
you have to listen and...
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Today, 06:36 AM
Here's an entire album of Bossa nova (with great tone!) being played on a strat, by a "shredder" LOL
Well this is one song, but it is an entire...
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Today, 06:31 AM
Those hours cannot be counted but you're right, it's a process of immersion. People who have the music around them, by design or by circumstance, can...
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Today, 06:27 AM
Dave Stryker?
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Today, 06:18 AM
What does the " (half the circle) "? I didn't quite understand that.
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Today, 06:04 AM
There are plenty of famous telecaster straight-ahead jazz players (not fusion, jazz-rock etc... but more traditional jazz, bebop style, hard-bob...
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Today, 06:02 AM
Hi folks, thank you very much for all the answers and comments. I feel I really got something form them...
The new "SUMMER OF RHYTHM … CHANGES?"...
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Today, 05:53 AM
Best wishes for a speedy recovery Rob. Your posts have been some of the most informative and intelligent. Get well and get home.
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Today, 05:53 AM
A lot of jazz masters say that active listening time should be at least half of the practice time for a beginner (my source are the many...
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Today, 05:33 AM
Frankly, it all looked real enough to me.
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Today, 05:27 AM
Price Drop, from £3000 to £2500.
There are minor cosmetic finish and binding cracks on the back of the neck and headstock. Hence the very, very...
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Today, 05:04 AM
That’s why I got this. Cheap, great looks, name and sound, fits in the overhead compartment.
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Today, 05:02 AM
Hello everyone and sorry for my English.
I see and listen to various performances (especially on YouTube) of young Jazz guitarists.
I have to say...
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Today, 04:32 AM
In my opinion a good Bossa Nova sound is more in the touch, chords and rythm approach, than in the guitar used. Jim Hall had a superb Bossa Nova feel...
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Today, 04:29 AM
I only fly with a telecaster with the neck taken off or with my Aria Sinsonido that fits in the overhead bin on top of the suitcases.
For a big...
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Today, 04:27 AM
Another tiny step... Another gig. But a proper one this time. We used the archtops rather than the gypsy guitars, though, because we needed to be...
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Today, 04:05 AM
If you wanna make sure it stays safe and arrives whole with all its parts: Hardcase and buy it a seat.
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Today, 04:03 AM
I presume Christian means charts like those on Steve Swallow's website - Arise, Her Eyes - etc.
Steve Swallow Lead Sheets
Carla Bley Lead Sheets
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Today, 04:01 AM
Yeah for some charts that’s right. Piano staff, symbols in the middle. Afaik those are the ones that are from the composers lead sheets, many of...
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Today, 04:00 AM
I don’t see that notation as standard but I would get used to it quickly I think
It’s wild to me that quartal harmony is basically a cliche in...
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Today, 03:36 AM
What is that? Like the original real book?
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Today, 03:22 AM
I think this whole album is full of very lovely tones
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Today, 03:12 AM
Listen to decent bossa nova players and try to find out what are the characteristics of that music and the role of the guitar. There is a...
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Today, 03:08 AM
No
Chord symbol use is normative. This is the normative use of the ‘5’.
Although maybe you suffer a cognitive break every time someone asks...
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Today, 03:05 AM
In May, I participated in 5 jam sessions at 3 venues. I used the Tears nylon string electric all month, through venue backline amps (JC-120, JC-40,...
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Today, 03:04 AM
Best wishes from me, too, Rob. Get well soon!
Derek
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Today, 03:04 AM
After being forced to check in with luggage my first electric guitar (a Welson SG copy) and picking it up with its neck snapped in two at the other...
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Today, 02:56 AM
In seriousness, I do actually support the writing of charts in a format that the musicians you’re working with can actually read.
The two staff...
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Today, 02:52 AM
Figures are for n00bs
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Today, 02:37 AM
Sending healing energy your way, Rob!!
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Today, 01:57 AM
As I mentioned, I'm thinking in terms of standard chord symbols, like you'd see on "Real Book" type lead sheets, a la the OP's original question: the...
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Today, 01:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPTTKFj0rk
Do you hear this as good bossa nova tone?
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Today, 12:42 AM
Yes. Maegan says she is a huge student of vintage instruments; I can imagine she’s seen this.
She’s also into mandolins, and her guitar cutaway...
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Today, 12:10 AM
I am trying to get a decent bossanova tone with my steel string electric guitars. My arsenal includes: archtop, telecaster, and flattop. Any...
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Yesterday, 11:13 PM
Rob, Sending healing thoughts your way. You have been an inspiration to me and so many other people on this forum and in other corners of the...
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
An just to round things out :smile-new:, my old AG75 (old tail piece, I replaced bridge with rosewood) seems to have something in between... a...
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Yesterday, 10:39 PM
I have been playing guitar for over 50 years and always thought power chords are what went from the wall plug to the amplifier.
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Yesterday, 10:24 PM
I didn't realize he was getting rid of guitars...hope all is well.
Chicago traffic is bad, but I've driven in LA.
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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
Yup. And wow, I had no idea about his talents. Say what you want but I don't think there's a Mime who could out do him! :numbness:
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Yesterday, 10:01 PM
Hi guys - got the crack in the top repaired - there's a cross brace in there (between the two main braces) that became partially detached - got that...
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Yesterday, 09:25 PM
Actually, i went to the music store that bought his guitars, I did not have time to stop to see Mike. Traffic in Chicago worst in nation. Had I had...
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
Reminds me of early 1920’s Epiphone models. Like this one for example;
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Yesterday, 09:19 PM
Hi Jack, I ran a search just now for a Barrington BGW800 and got a 'Classical Electric,' a different beast by the looks of it. I did however see a...
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Yesterday, 08:56 PM
I always loved that guitar. Wish I would have own you were going, would have had you say hi to Big Mike for me.
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Yesterday, 08:35 PM
Rob, you’re such a positive force! Sending good thoughts your way. Feel better!
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Yesterday, 08:32 PM
There are big advantages to ss frets. They don't wear, and bends are silky and smooth. So ss frets will never need to be refretted. Refretting...
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Yesterday, 08:31 PM
I don’t remember the last time I was on a flight that wasn’t “completely full”, as they always announce.
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Yesterday, 08:22 PM
The floater for the continental. Great condition 70s DArmond RC1100.
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Yesterday, 08:20 PM
That's an interesting option. I've never tried a wammy pedal. Thanks so much!!!
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Yesterday, 08:08 PM
Are the tops different Jack? What was the top on yours? Otherwise all I can think of is the finish. BTW, this is identical to the guitar that I...
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Yesterday, 07:32 PM
@Archie that's a pretty great experience!
@OP, if you don't buy a seat for the guitar, getting to the gate super early and being VERY nice,...
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Yesterday, 07:30 PM
Mittens are way harder! :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 07:25 PM
Consider a Whammy Pedal or the Bigsby bender pedal and never go out of tune,Lol! Love the Purple Color as well!
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Yesterday, 07:24 PM
see florentine VS venetian thread :-) I don't like birds or C shaped Flo's.
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Yesterday, 07:20 PM
Jim Hall
Johnny Smith
Jimmy Raney
Ed Bickert
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Yesterday, 07:20 PM
The rule of 3rds
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Yesterday, 07:13 PM
Michael, is that you?? is a great band name, dibs!
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Yesterday, 07:10 PM
Don't like the sound or the feel, I like guitars that are not bright. If I was into metal I would consider them.
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Yesterday, 07:09 PM
Rob ~
Just returning from a week off-the-grid and find this news about your health condition. I am saddened to hear this has come about, and I...
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Yesterday, 06:51 PM
The cutaway on that beautiful Sweet 16 is more the shape of what you see on a 335 - a tighter bend than the average L5 style cutaway, so I can see...
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
File under the old “spice of life” adage:)
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Yesterday, 06:43 PM
They are the same.
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