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I saw that about a week ago, and it really opened my eyes on how to arrange something for oneself. In my defense, I'm not a jazzer, so alot of this...

The cheap way is to wire the guitar in stereo then for mono use a short cord you can loop on your strap with a stereo plug inserted that leads to a...

I thought of another way to define a standard. Whatever wedding bands play must be standards (or a bar band). They have to play (though rarely if...

Here's a link. They are rugged and look good. Tone Ninja | Unique and High quality guitar tuner buttons I only saw wooden buttons, but not...

I enjoyed it. His joy in the song comes through. I don't need to be bowled-over every time and that song has never struck me as something Pat...

See post #4. And what is a "Maj6 Dim scale"? I've never heard of that. A Barry Harris coined name? Anyway, I believe we established that it...

As Christian wrote: watch. If we would not, there would not make sense the performer look to the audience meaningfully when an "interesting" note...

I was playing with a blind musician who heard and played much better than other musicians.

I haven't tried them, thanks for the suggestion, I'll contact them.

I do admit. It is scary btw. On classical concerts I used to do the experiment, if I think this is a really deeep and meeaningful perfrmance, I close...

What this is about? Sound defeat.:grumpy:

I like this Godin better! Play live . . . Marinero

Apparently the house has now been sold. If it really WAS haunted by JB, I’d have been tempted to sell up and buy it myself!

Of course! What are CDs? :-)

what about Cds? Musicians like to look at the covers ...I know it.:smile-new:

I mean to I don't think it's necessarily a good thing NOT to copy players... I spent some time copying Django and learning those licks. But I was...

Hi, C, Break out the *Ripple . . . light some incense . . . and let's burn one! ...

Ok. But what about Django style...? Gypsy Jazz musicians use the Django language. I think they are copying the master's licks ...?

Don't know, how long it's on the market, but seems to be perfect for the task.

Yeah. I think that's it. Chord scales should be called harmonic palettes or colour pitch sets or something, really. But there is a historical...

TBH if there are visuals I reckon EVERYONE listens with their eyes. Not everyone admits it or is aware of it.

Not really in my case. I liked certain players, but there was a whole slew of them. I'm not saying it's good thing necessarily

Hi, DJ, Nothing special here with JP that an intermediate Bossa Player couldn't play . . . and, someone needs to tell him he needs to tune his...

I really do not know what to think about this, confusing

I would say one of the Ibanez's might be your thing?

I'd go with the second definition. Countdown, Maiden Voyage etc aren't GASB tunes but they are jazz standards. Well, most concepts do not have a...

As much as I respect and admire John Pizzarelli for his playing, singing , his humor and general care for the genre THIS is not really reaching me...

Yes. One of the Gruhn era designs I believe.

Also, I'm most comfortable when I play with fingers, so maybe Joe Pass style? I am getting myself a Roland Cube 20 from 1982, in the orange box. ...

Well, I am new to jazz, I play classical, so I don't really have many references yet. I think something approximating the sound of Barney Kessel...

Yeah that's an interesting question partly because I don't really know what a jazz standard isn't, if that makes any sense. For instance, is a...

JMO the Godin is better made and better sounding acoustically than any of those. Electrified, YMMV—I like the Joe Pass, especially with good pickups....

I was waiting for someone suggesting that you file down your fingers. I have a G&L solid body with a 1 3/4" nut. The neck is slightly wider at...

I have a 1950’s L5CES with the same staple pickups. I agree that they are finnicky but I think this may also be related to the old-style wiring...

Check out the suppliers for gun/knife handles- they sell ebony blanks large enough to be glued together for a pickguard.

Well it always seems to me with some classical guitar music too, you get so many numbers, numerals and so on, you may as well tab it out...

I wish I was more like you, haha! It's like, I can know a tune really well, but put a chord chart in front of me and I will stare at it.

What sort of sound do you want? Any guitarists whose tone you like in particular?

I've had the chance to buy this '56 Super-400 a couple of years ago, sold via ebay by a guy in Dorset/GB . We agreed on € 7000,- (app. US $ 8300.00)...

Johnny Smith is a very different sound than a L-5!

This is a very important point IMO. I often hear people say they like a 1 3/4” nut for fingerstyle playing. Whenever I hear that, I always think that...

I dislike any string squeak and my playing style was producing string squeak with all type of strings except flat wounds. Recently I found a half...

One question - very difficult: Do you listen to music or do you watch music?

It depends on what you want. This thread was supposed to be about the acoustic version. Those other guitars are not acoustic archtops. To really...

Some years ago I bought several Russian 6P3S tubes in matched quads and duos. They are still in my Twin and my Blues Deluxe because unlike all other...

How does a song become a standard? I think it needs to be played by numerous ensembles for many years. This creates a two fold problem. I suspect the...

I'm looking to get an inexpensive second hand archtop as an alternative to my ESP telecaster, just because I'm intrigued. So, as an introduction to...

Even the most subtle changes of spacing will be noticeable when you're playing. I don't recommend it. You may feel the difference of a wider spacing...

I have been observing this phenomenon for a long time. But it's growing fast. :pcguru:

thanks for the reference. Seems a bit expensive and TBH, i'm not crazy about the look of an unbound black pickguard on a gibson with binding. But I...

ibanez doesn't make pickups. The pickups they were buying from dimarzio changed. Dimarzio used to make those pickups with alnico magnets but switched...

They are on the heavy side. I would urge you to play one before you decide whether it's right for you. Ibanez makes a lot of guitars and you can't...

Wow, that's a HUGE change to make to a model... like night and day. Strange Ibanez would do that.

TOM does not come with slots. I suspect yours is slotted wrong if the strings are too close together.

Haven't you heard? Making everything controversial is the new hobby. Because everybody has to have a problem with everything. Complaint and outrage...

I really respect hard work, and talent, but I can't help imagining, John Cleese doing this as a Monty Python sketch, in that context this would be...

I would prefer Jimmy Page, who is btw the "originator" the "feeling", (around 1975) almost half century ago. It would be great to focus nowadays more...

How do you know all this? I'm sure there will be people who have a completely different opinion.Marcin has hit a very large audience, maybe it works...

If it can help, in terms of pure sound, I have tested an audio recording on youtube between this Fender Solid State and the valve one. I can hear...

Also it is important to distinguish between covering a tune in the jazz style vs using the tune as a vehicle for jazz improvisation. Many of the jazz...

Hang on - I thought that stereo jacks had been around for ages doing exactly that. What did I miss? Gesendet von iPad mit Tapatalk

But I don't think any of them has become a jazz standard, no?

Life is but a dream ?

Cannot agree. There are lots of Beatles songs that can be covered profitably by jazz musicians: "Yesterday," "Here, There and Everywhere," "Eleanor...

Yes, there are occasional performances of modern hits in the jazz style. But since this thread is about there not being any new jazz standards, do...

"Fender Custom Shop Relic Stratocaster played in two songs on 'Piety Street'..." -this is from an interview with John Scofield.

I am sure we have all experienced jazz bands playing pop songs, and the vague sense of discomfort they cause. I am sure we all know, in a very real...

Maybe you should think about the qualification 'circus act' a bit more. It has nothing to do with taste. It has to do with why people stop and take...

You gotta stop smokin’ that stuff, man.

Have you tried contacting Vintage Guitars, SWEDEN - Instruments for sale.. They sometimes have spare Kjells for sale.

Thanx to all of you for your input. This is what Fishman writes about the Powerchip Features: "Fishman-designed piezo volume control...

I couldn't wake Mark. I'm practicing all the time - even in my sleep.:smile-new:

Well that doesn’t really work, because it’s quite obvious they haven’t listened to anything recent, so how would they know? its not like I’m Mr...

I think straight-ahead jazz would not survive without standards. They hold it together, maintaining links with the past and among the community of...

Thank you guys for taking all the time to response me, yes, i know about Mark`s work, i played only one of them and it seem to me a better guitar...

They apparently do custom as well as 335. Black Ebony | ES-335 Custom Parts

How can us civilians get a pickup like that??

OR... This thread = people who are surprised that there are no songs written later than the 1950s so they listen to jazz from the 1950s. ...

Looks like you forgot to wake up Mark. No biggie, though, he seems to play just fine in his sleep. :cool::highly_amused:

Fortunately they don't offer a case for my phone.

Nice! Gave up trying to use Reaper for video, found it very awkward & pokey. Check out Shotcut: Shotcut - Home

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Yep, Candyrat is swarming with technically adept guitarists, but Antoine stands with only a few others (IMO of course) in creating interesting...

Thanks everyone. None of the videos were what I was thinking of. I could have sworn he was in a video where he did his own thing. Either I dreamed...

Mark Campellone is your guy if you want a Gibson type archtop. And there are usually a few for sale if you do some looking.

The string spacing at the bridge, is as much(or more) the result of the neck width at the neck body joint, as the width of the nut. Scale length is a...

Thanks, yes indeed!!

Presuming all pieces were thoroughly kiln or air dried before storage, temperature will not be as critical as moisture content. A few weeks in the...

Thank you, have fun!

Hi guys, there's now also a lesson showing how to play this arpeggio exercise :) Hope it helps!

The obvious solution is you just get Mark Campellone to build you a guitar with 1 3/4 neck width or find one. You don’t lose anything and in fact...

Nice find! Most parlor instruments seem to be 25.5 scale. This is perfect for a Gibson scale player. Enjoy!

My thoughts exactly

If the ends of the frets stop inside the neck binding, then yes, a refret will level the binding and the tang of the new frets will be notched so...

Really, you never had the urge to get into the head of your fav players and copy their licks, to see how they do it? So how did you learn, just...

I'm glad I checked out this thread, albeit a bit late; Eleonora is an excellent guitarist and poster Stevebol here is a damn genius with words. Talk...

No affiliation, but Wagner has a great description of the relationships between temperature, relative humidity, and equilibrium moisture content...

The latest pics from Mijail Kharash. It is beginning to to seem like a real guitar now, not just an abstract idea. While I can’t wait to receive...

Yeah ... She is great and sure .. no need to get offended .. but it's the internet and sometimes you just get carried away .. and at pther times just...

Yea, how did this happen... But to be fair, she's got a lot of love on this forum, as she should have. It was just one guy, basically a troll, with...

Another blindfold test involving a Fender Tonemaster (Deluxe): Valve Vs Solid State - Can a Blindfolded Chappers Tell Which Amp is Which? - YouTube

Hi! Maybe this one:about 6:30 in..Sco definitely plays a solo that has everyone's attn.. and Larry Carlton follows his solo on his Valley Arts...

Ronstuff, you certainly seem to know your way around this tune. Nicely played. Regarding whether you should use your Archtop, Semi-Hollowbody or...

I saw snow blower in your post and my mind jumped to the much worse things that could have happened. That said serious burns are no joke and quite...

Really? .. That is actually quite unusual .. I spent a lot of time ghosting Mark Knopfler around 15-16 .. Then did that same with Andy Summers a year...

It's a great documentary... You can see our band and myself very briefly towards the end when they were showing the opening of his club Birdland in...

all of you shreddin'

The wider nut doesn't necessarily translate into much additional width at the bridge, which is where you'd pluck the strings. The string spread on...

Cause many don't actually say what you did. They say what he is doing isn't music ... or call him a circus act .. or claim that he ain't no Chet...

very interesting post

Yes, I think so. Probably for additional string tension, though I’m not an expert.