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Soul Train was must-watch TV at my house on Saturday afternoons.* I tuned in for the great music - the visuals were a bonus. :cool: * The kids...

This is a good example. I look at the notes and pick an area where they're playable. It wouldn't occur to me to think about a fingering pattern. ...

many guitar pots have a tolerance spec of +/- 20%...even premiums may have 10%... so using better +/- 10%, a 250k pot could be 275K, and a 300k...

Jeff: Not similar construction. The 446 model has a carved spruce top over a hollowed-out mahogany body, and is completely hollow. The 336/356 models...

That looks, color aside, like my '55/'78 "reissue. If so, it's a one-piece mahogany body and one-piece neck and P-90s. A very comfortable and...

I really enjoyed your post Dr jeff. I had forgotten that Jaco was on that tour also, and it was the first time i'd heard a fretless bass played like...

Thank you Stefan....I was about to question the Guild Franz inclusions in the P-90 list too. Guild's Franz pickups do resemble Gibson P-90's, but...

track 8 is sublime

Right on! :) Glad you liked it, big thanks for listening - I'm a big fan of your videos too, always great stuff!

I don't know any details...Pat had a history of one-off collaborations, with David Bowie and Ornette Coleman for instance. I don't But Joni did...

Cool .. So apart from establish beloved players like Sco and Metheny and newcomers like Elenora Strino ... You also dislike the playing of your...

They do clean perfectly well and have served me in a pinch like when I’m touring and there’s no house amp at the venue (I also like them for warming...

I hear there's a Diatonics Anonymous 12-tone program that might help a lot of people here.

I always like some good dancing. One of my regrets is that I can't dance. If I were out there on the dance floor, I'd make Elaine look like a good...

There is zero way any person serves on a Navy ship these days without 2 MMR doses. Plus about a dozen other vaccines.

Thanks! Concerning the Guilds: the Franz pkups look like P90‘s but they’re different beasts!

Step dancing, a Chicago tradition.

Oh, Kenny's a blues master too, but he didn't make it into this video.

300K is not very far from 250K, and is Gibson's way of being different. The 300K just let a little bit more treble through. If it were mine, I...

Well, I stopped when you were pleased with my comment that it sounds great through a Princeton, so I assumed.... See? :smile-new: And...

Bear in mind that all strings will eventually go bad, even ones in sealed envelopes. So don't plan on building a reserve for years, a few months is...

Fixed it for ya.:smile-new:

I bought a box of pure nickel round 13's. I do like TIs, but I the price helps me overcome any reservations that I might have had! Thanks for the...

Oh I stupidly practiced that without the Eb in the pickup so I would actually in context instinctively use 3 1 2 1 / 1 for Eb Db Ab Eb Db, (but that...

Why are we alive?

Have to type that I miss Kenny, but Wes all day (yes, I'm biased. Can't help it.). Honorable mention goes to PM and JP.

Lovely! GLWTS!

Yeah that’s absolutely fine with separate fingers. I use 3 2 1 / 1 instinctively but I might practice 3231 to eliminate the slide But it’s not...

So beautiful

very nice..felt the peace cheers

Lovely improvisation. Really dig the mandala animation! :encouragement:

Well, I asked around and nobody was in the market right now. Sorry, piedaddy. I don’t you’ll have a hard time selling it, though, it’s a real beauty.

All of those tracks are well known to me. Here is another: a blues that really swings. (and thus that make it less "blues"?). Barney...

TTT. Quick search on Reverb shows no ES models available - new or used.

For me, it's the Joe Pass cut. I mean they are all good, and all of them exhibit aspects I really dig. But the Pass cut just transcends. The Raney...

From Cosmic Gumbo 28-June-2020:

Just play 3 of the 4 notes. Life is too short.

looks cool, but what is that? Just a tiny power strip?

It is maybe 3rd time you mention this. I wonder why trying to eliminate anything which actually can be useful/ Let us say you thoroughly untrain...

Haunting - and lovely! Thank you for posting this! :encouragement:

If you need AC outlets on a board, not hard. (link points to a small AC adapter on Amazon in spite of forum SW bug): Sorry! Something went wrong! ...

Definitely a level of quality higher than Gibson. The Savannah Benedetto 16B I owned had the nicest finish I've ever seen in person. This is a...

yes! I saw that and then I went to YouTube… And saw the demo from pro guitar shop. That is just a great sound. I have been very happy. It can go from...

”So you like the mahogany 175 better than the RI? I actually had the same experience.” Better...? Rather ’different’. They are both great...

Amen, brother!

There you go, cool black folks show them stupid, clumsy white posers how to do it :-)

Yes, the height adjustment is familiar for me. As I wrote in the #1 mail, I can’t get the pu’s so close to the strings to match the volume of my...

I think the tone is fine, but the sustain is more significant than that from a carved, acoustic archtop. If you've been on the archtop...

That's a perfect situation, you would definitely be good to go with his blessing. If the guitar doesn't work out for you I am sure someone on here...

Just gorgeous. GLWTS - I am assuming this will move quick. One day I will have an L5...

Dan Wilson sure did from a 446 (similar construction, but single cutaway), but he has moved on to a Benedetto now.

Further diagnostic steps: If you have an Ohm meter, you can put the pickup selector in the FB position and measure the resistance between the...

They do sound very different, I like both sounds but traded a ES-175 for a Bravo and have not regretted it!

So, getting back to Billie's original quote--I have a friend who is a very accomplished CG. Early in his career as a young phenom, he played at...

Isn’t that what Julian Lage uses?

JHS morning glory v4 is a great low to medium gain OD. Might be versatile for low to medium gain fusion? It sounds great to me...

I think a few people on the forum could do to check out those Wall of Sound IR’s; they probably sound very complicated but they are super easy to use...

Somebody . . . quick! . . . light some incense! Just kidding, Kris. This is quite a departure from your previous music. Have a great day! ...

Thanks all. I did consider the Strymon power supply, but I *need* that courtesy outlet for the EHX hum debugger for my buzzy house. Superego looks...

B for the upright bass, C for Cello, G for viola, V for Violin, and U for the harp guitar gibson made much more than just guitars, albeit mostly...

Sounds great. Bring it on! :smile-new:

Congrats! May she inspire your playing for many years to come. Having owned a few vintage Epiphone archtops, I can say that a vintage Epi is up there...

Well now I can tell you haven’t been reading my posts haha Google ‘Impulse Response’ if you aren’t familiar with IR’s. The speaker emulation...

I will certainly try to do a recording this week.

So tempting!

In case I missed it.... Gibson ES 330-L

This may be of interest Improvising Melodic Phrases On Nica's Dream Vamp with Triads || Jazz Guitar Lessons Daily 38 - YouTube

I daresay this week's jam will be very much a blues...not a 12 bar form, but very much a blues. There's probably better examples of Grant playing...

Well, an archtop is physically larger like an acoustic, so that changes the feel of playing it substantially. Unless you have a Byrdland, with its...

Nice Fried Bananas:). Great sound and playing!

Great playing! Made me feel hungry...

I don't necessarily disagree, but I use a slightly different filter. I develop all the variations to certain degree , trusting that personal...

Ha ha. Yes. Lack of time is greatly clarifying. I have basically boiled down to anything I can't do while watching TV quietly isn't Paired down...

thanks all - -very helpful comments - i don't want to be hiding poor technique, lack of skill etc behind my gear -a bad workman blames his tools. ...

Really enjoyed that. Great job!

Oh yeah that’s lovely. Campanelas. Plenty of that in the classical pieces I’m learning interestingly. IIRC Jimmy Wyble (and Sid Jacobs) was an...

How about Late Lamented ?

Starting out I learned scale fingerings out of the Leavitt #1 and Sal Salvador Single String books. There was lots of overlap and if I remember...

Ive been working a lot on classical guitar lately and the process of achieving the baseline - being able to play a piece effortlessly at tempo - does...

Yeah, I think no that’s right. so there’s a fair amount to talk about here, but the important thing is that the fingering must reflect the phrasing. ...

Yeah. I guess the part I found difficult mostly was the halfstep rules, especially the sequence presented: single key, adding a scale degree at a...

I will send you a PM.

out of interest , how much did you get for the 302s ? I’m looking out for one in red myself thanks

WAIT, you aren't plugging it into an amp? What are you plugging into? a DI or computer? It's a pedal meant to be plugged into an amp, it's not an...

I'll but a pedal or a note in the bass to mark the time, a kind of counterpoint with the voices in the higher or middle registers. So there's a note,...

Just to offer an alternative for discussion. To go from a Cmaj to Cmelmin, I know that it's the same scale except for E > Eb. I know where every...

Surprised they don't get *more* attention. JV from Archtop has said they're the best kept secret in arch tops and Fisch & Fred's book (in particular...

The scale is standard Gibson 24.75" but I guess you mean it's 'long neck' with the 19th fret neck joint instead of the 16th fret neck joint of the...

I love it! Would have been even better with an f-hole.... :-)

Cooper ES-330 Casino:

Another advantage of one octave scale mapping is that if you want to change for instance a major scale into a melodic minor, all you need to do is...

It’s not that hard (at least the improvisation stuff) but the way the guitar is conventionally mapped is not helpful. I don’t think Reg’s positions...

actually since experimenting with it yesterday I think it probably sounds best into some sort of amp or amp sim. It sounds good without, but I think...

Eastman T64

Honestly I didn't follow all the drive pedals that were released in the last 20 years. That's because I always come back to my RAT from the 90s. I...

Ha! Interesting, thanks for getting that together. Strangely, Grant is the one I wouldn't take out of those. I felt like this was supposed to be...

I'm surprised no one has said this - a Jaguar has a 24" scale, which gives it a substantially different feel from other guitars due to the lower...

Good question

You know what would probably sound awesome in tele neck position? A johnny smith. I emailed Lollar once to ask if they'd do a custom johnny smith...

I would want a Firebird neck pickup for jazz. It’s brighter than a normal humbucker and gives more clarity from string to string.

Now we're talkin'!

A great group, but nobody plays a blues like Grant.

Week 13. Day 3. I'm glad my questions about steady 8th note triplets could inspire JBN. :) Thanks for the videos. I watched them. Definitely some...

How 'bout the MMR vaccine? Just heard something about it today. A prophylaxis perhaps? Something about that Navy ship that went to New York. ...

how is it compared to PRS silver sky?

Thank you all for weighing in. I went ahead and made the trade and I’m satisfied it will be at worst a very suitable stop-gap until my solid body is...

Week 13. Day 3 I wound up watching those drumming vids and it's like looking beneath the waves after having lived in a beach house; it's humbling...

Well, there's: Monteleone, Bob made Benedetto guitars, Buscarino guitars

The thing about vintage guitars, or vintage anything, is that the value varies from influences beyond your control. It is kind of a faddish pursuit....

That is a rare Fender Jaguar for sure! :wink-new: Threads like this always give me an excuse to post these, just to illustrate how versatile a...

I think a hotter pickup actually works better for jazz. You just need to roll the volume back on it. Pickup height makes a difference also, as...

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=269-MD-CD 7 CDs of pure joy... Worth every penny.

If you haven't checked him out already, go to YouTube and search for Ed Bickert who got an amazing tone playing jazz on the Telecaster. In my...

Well heck if we going there how about Molly and Lindsay on Lindsay's back porch... https://youtu.be/aqxbY9IHFNo

for that kinda $cratch, i'd look into a toru nittono cheers

. Thanks!

I personally found the Barry Harris material to be SUPER difficult on a technical level for guitar. Started once and quit. Then, a year and a...

I was looking for a decent cover of at least one of Joni's songs. In vain, of course. Well, there was this young'un singing into her phone at home...

that desmond album with eb ^ is on the mosaic boxset...it was only available on vinyl for decades...it was originally released on the obscure-...

Some nice stuff there grahambop, especially at around 1'45 where you decided to grab the steering wheel. @Jeff, I would certainly post another...

Fantastic! GLWTS!

wow , that’s some beautiful playing from EB is there any more from that session available ? what a divine comper Ed was ....

Hard to predict. How about the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer. I got one when it first came out. I programmed bass lines with which to jam along back...