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03-23-2024, 03:29 AM
What do you guys think about this? Peter Farrell attacks Chase Maddox for being wrong about the «secret of the 2-chords»:
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03-24-2024, 09:24 AM
I have searched a Gibson ES125 for over a decade. They are very rare here in Finland, maybe one in a public sale in 2-5 years. So some have been...
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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
I haven't played my archtop guitars in weeks. For some reason, one day I pulled down my 1964 Hagstrom I... yes the one with the read vinyl back and...
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03-22-2024, 05:55 AM
Is this seller on to something? Jay Wolfe said weeks back that the archtop market is "dead." I'm glad I'm not a retailer, even though it sometimes...
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Today, 11:11 AM
I'm trying to choose a pickup for my 7 string 335. I play jazz and want a warm dark round sound. I was chatting with a guy at Seymour Duncan and he...
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03-22-2024, 03:13 PM
1995 Campellone Special Series | New Arrivals, Used Electric Guitars | Wildwood Guitars
(no affiliation...)
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03-25-2024, 11:20 AM
in case you missed it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaGvQPfIkLU
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Yesterday, 10:47 AM
I like the idea of playing along with records but it's something I haven't really done much. I can see that being a good way to practice comping as...
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03-26-2024, 09:51 PM
I want to darken my sound. Playing a Seymour Duncan 59 in an Eastman carved Jazz Elite 16 - 7. Ordered a B7 I will probably put in it.
I was...
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03-23-2024, 11:17 AM
How you ever been really blown away by an 'inexpensive' guitar?
First off, I realize that 'inexpensive' varies by person so I'm not assigning...
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03-25-2024, 02:03 PM
Just kidding. Props to Christian for creating a great thread with lots of interesting points of view.
When I studied with Pat, he specifically...
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03-25-2024, 02:40 PM
I'm looking to buy an acoustic archtop and I'm looking at a Peerless Martin Taylor Virtuoso or an Eastman 605 ce. I can't try either, so I'd value...
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03-22-2024, 09:33 PM
Perhaps I am overlearning from the particularly rough recording session last night, but I feel that I need a different approach to playing these...
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Yesterday, 03:22 AM
I suppose this is an addendum to the "Synchronisation" thread, although I think it involves separate issues...
For simplicity, let's just say a...
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03-24-2024, 10:25 PM
I'm thinking about a new amp. I hear enthusiasm about all three of these for jazz but I haven't heard them. Rich Severson (sp?) who reviews archtops...
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Yesterday, 04:39 AM
Good morning everyone. Is there anyone who can help me with the harmonic analysis of stablemates and in any case with the improvisational approach of...
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03-24-2024, 10:57 PM
Maybe just need to vent, so here goes......
Been gigging steady since 1970 - bands (mostly country and classic rock - no jazz around here), oldies...
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03-25-2024, 10:04 PM
Could someone tell me whether an ES 175 from 1995 has a thin or thick neck? As I get older (70) I am developing a bad case of arthritis at the base...
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03-23-2024, 09:30 AM
Hello,
Haven’t posted here recently that much. Anyway here’s my latest experiment. I noticed that my single note lines were much more fluent while...
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03-25-2024, 05:46 PM
I'm honored to have been entrusted with the care and feeding of Jazzkritter's trio of mongrel amps. All 3 are products of his fertile imagination,...
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03-24-2024, 01:54 PM
Hi all.
I’d be really grateful for any advice.
I currently record using a Scarlett 212 and SGear but am really not happy with the results. I'm...
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03-26-2024, 07:36 AM
In the past when I have played in duos I have always played my guitar into an amp. No other effects or speakers.
However one duo that I was in...
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03-24-2024, 03:18 PM
https://youtu.be/0mqS01ePzr8
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03-23-2024, 02:20 AM
(4) Rachel Maclean's Deepfake "DUCK" | ARTISTS' PROJECTS - YouTube
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03-23-2024, 03:27 PM
Is there a Bela Fleck of the ukelele?
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03-25-2024, 08:13 PM
Great guitar, perfect condition . Reducing my guitars. Original case .asking. $. 7900.00 or best offer .non- gigging, home only guitar. 2nd owner....
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Yesterday, 09:22 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/neoclassical-metal-wouldn-t-have-happened-if-i-hadn-t-heard-selling-england-by-the-pound-genesis-tony-banks-is-yn...
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Today, 01:45 PM
My day job is increasingly grating on me and more and more I'm considering trying to do something with music. I'm not so naive as to believe I could...
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03-23-2024, 12:21 PM
hi there ,
can anyone recommend a good
supplier of wire , Pots etc etc
in the UK
I have an intermittent fault with
my Af120 I cannot for...
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03-24-2024, 03:02 AM
Ron recently started playing guitars by a luthier in Los Angeles. There is a YouTube video quite long where the luthier and Ron discuss the guitars....
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Today, 08:40 AM
I am super intrigued by humbucker Jaguars but the stock humbucker model (Kurt Cobain) seems to be loaded with very distortion oriented pickups.
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03-24-2024, 10:26 AM
Hi!
I love using this down-down-up picking pattern. It reminds little bit like some fast delay effect. You can take simply just 5 chord (power...
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03-26-2024, 11:35 AM
https://youtu.be/hVCI79QbQBU?si=eeTiQzCOfio90gFX
It may sound a bit unhinged, but sharing the “out of control” first takes opens a window that’s...
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Today, 10:50 AM
Incredible Gibson Tal Farlow guitar -- one of the most beautiful examples I have seen -- great flame maple figuring front, back and sides -- and back...
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03-23-2024, 02:16 PM
I bought 2 sets of DR Black Beauties coated acoustic strings for an acoustic archtop. After just a few days the black coating started flaking off...
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Yesterday, 08:46 AM
Hey. Im bit confused about the movability of shapes in guitar. I know you can move all closed chords all around. Can one do that with scales as well?...
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03-25-2024, 05:13 PM
A few years ago I got this amp super cheap at a flea market, but liked it so much, that it soon became my main amp.
It's an older Ibanez...
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03-26-2024, 04:59 PM
I heard from my friend Marc at Guitars N Jazz here in NJ that he is working on a 1996 Borys that he will list for sale on the GNJ website very soon. ...
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03-24-2024, 10:16 AM
Hi
I have the opportunity of buying a Furch A17 21SF archtop guitar for 1500 €. OR he will agree to exchange guitar with my Ibanez Artstar AS200...
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03-23-2024, 09:11 AM
Is the Fender Squire Mustang with a whammy bar a good quality whammy bar? If not I was thinking of getting a whammy pedal. Is a whammy pedal as good...
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Yesterday, 12:12 PM
"Waltz Op. 69, No. 2 was composed by Frédéric Chopin for solo piano in the year 1829 at the age of 19. It is one of several works that the composer...
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Yesterday, 09:00 AM
I currently have an Ibanez PM35 which I acquired around a month or so ago that I am quite happy with. It sounds and feels good but the one gripe I do...
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03-23-2024, 11:58 AM
Hello everyone!
I want to buy my first semi-hollow guitar. I want it to be suitable for jazz as I am more and more leaning toward this music. I...
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03-25-2024, 08:36 PM
Like new , mint condition, if interested , call Ray in Florida or email
rcpl49@aol.com or phone 561-866-5949
$1800.00
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03-23-2024, 04:14 PM
I've been using my DV Mark EG250 head sitting on top of my Dock Block 12HD, but I just got a Quilter OD 202 to drop into the BD. The 1 in / 1 out...
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03-25-2024, 03:21 PM
Speedy but with purpose and so in the pocket!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdgSZxu-64k
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03-23-2024, 02:14 PM
NGD and very happy with this stunner
Ibanez AS80
I need to get all that grime off the fingerboard now...
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03-25-2024, 08:34 PM
Ray 551-866-5949
Quilter MicroPro Mach 2 (HD) 12”speaker 2022 | Reverb
$875.00
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03-26-2024, 03:48 PM
Asking $650 (including shipping)
I built this guitar a few years ago when I was my Ed Bickert phase. The soldering and pickup installation was...
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03-25-2024, 05:17 PM
Hi all, my lengthy absense from here, (health).
saw this 20 m ago and thought the REAL JAZZ GUITARS & AMPS seem to be disapearing ie all the Big...
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03-22-2024, 10:59 AM
https://youtu.be/cC59J5cTc9Y?si=haa55g0Va3EW_EDd
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03-24-2024, 12:37 PM
I bought this tele new in 2014, the year this model was first made. It has seen very little play time as I'm mostly an acoustic guitar player. I...
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03-25-2024, 02:24 PM
I just consigned my Eastman AR371ce at Dave's Guitar Madison WI store. They are going to be selling it for $695 which I think will go quickly. I just...
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Today, 04:54 PM
I balked on the Wildwood Deluxe from last week- just not drawn to the floating pickup (acoustic) tone entirely. This one may fly very soon, but...
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03-22-2024, 02:42 PM
Stephane Wrembel will be releasing his Triptych series of albums in April, and has released the first song (and first single) today. The series of...
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Today, 03:24 PM
RAEZER'S EDGE CENTAURI HYBRID 1X12 OPEN-BACK COMBO
This one can be yours now for $1,000 shipped PP F/F or plus fees. You will NOT be disappointed!...
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Today, 02:19 PM
Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love dim chords
https://youtu.be/bAAWlzeKGRU?si=llLt2D3wDMIV1A13
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03-25-2024, 01:56 PM
G7b9 Pentatonic scale and some 2-1-2 legato variations over G7 and AbMaj7!
This scale was featured in my first book, Sheets of Sound for Guitar....
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Today, 08:15 PM
In the acoustic flat picking world many of us use a larger triangle shape pick (see below) with a thickness of 1.25mm and up. But when playing...
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Today, 09:37 PM
Chord patterns...
As far as I understand Regspeak, you basically got two kinds...those right in the tunes and those that are implied...or can be...
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Today, 09:31 PM
I’ve gotten more compliments on my sound with my Blu 10 than anything else. Even with a very cheap solid body!
I just ordered a Bud 6 for the...
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Today, 09:28 PM
Correction, I said that the SS deluxe cherry baritone had humbuckers. It has the same P 90s as the maple natural. The cherry is mahogany, laminate...
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Today, 09:28 PM
That is a beaut!
You are a long way from Dave…probably best you don’t live near there, this might become habit-forming.
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Today, 09:26 PM
I like playing the same songs with different guitars. I’m planning on using my Gretsch for an upcoming gig of mainly RNB and 70s/80s songs, but...
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Today, 09:24 PM
When you fingerpick, especially if you use nails, NEVER open a car door or lift a toilet seat with the picking hand, NEVER play frisbee, basketball...
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Today, 09:04 PM
This reveals another gap in my knowledge. How are chord patterns crafted?
I know about a few devices:
1. different inversions
2. harmonized...
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Today, 09:04 PM
The sheets of sound comparison makes sense, he's hugely into Coltrane. But more so the harmonic stuff, rhythmically he's often pretty locked into 8th...
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Today, 08:13 PM
Holy Moley! That's a fascinating story, and it all checks out in the book about him I'm reading. He was treated as God in DC, so it doesn't surprise...
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Today, 07:52 PM
Dang. Yeah that’s super hip.
I really enjoy these sounds and I’ve heard him talk before about similar things with triads, like chaining together...
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Today, 07:35 PM
When N is the number of guitars you have, for any value of N:
N+1 = the number of guitars you need, and N+2 = too many guitars.
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Today, 07:32 PM
Here's laminated spruce top, lam maple back & sides, 5-piece maple neck, and ebony board in 175-sized object
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Today, 07:28 PM
Sort of. If a single chord becomes a chord pattern, then the question becomes what types of chord patterns work well in that harmonic context. The...
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Today, 07:20 PM
Can we take a break for a few minutes? I gotta clean the drool off my computer. :typing:
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Today, 07:16 PM
Even the heaviest baritone sets (eg 16-70) generally seem to come with a plain 2nd string (tuned to F# or E ?) of max. 22 gauge, the exception being...
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Today, 07:15 PM
No mirrors in your house, Jimmy?
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Today, 06:59 PM
So, the idea is that the chart says, say Cmaj7, but somebody is going to play Cmaj7, A7, D7 (or is it Dm7), G7. So, the avoid note in C is an F,...
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Today, 06:54 PM
Joe Pass was a fan of Danny Gatton, I hadn't heard of him before he mentioned him (right after Gatton's first album was released).
Re: the topic...
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Today, 06:44 PM
I got the most from a book called Inside Outside by Reese Markevich a long time ago. I don't know where you could find it now. It's OOP.
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Today, 06:31 PM
WTH? What am I supposed to do now with my outrage that it was taken off?:doh:
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Today, 06:30 PM
Yes, I used to hear him around DC in various jazz clubs. While he was well known for the country/chickin' pickin' thing, he seemed to prefer playing...
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Today, 06:25 PM
Bumping a great guitar!
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Today, 06:17 PM
Interesting to see other people's settings on their Bud 6. A lot depends on the guitar, of course – I have different settings for different archtops.
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Today, 06:14 PM
It does indeed sound like Yiorgis' low string is a B.
So with half-Nashville style tuning, from low to high:
B: heavy E string tuned down to...
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Today, 06:05 PM
Wow! After hearing some of the great stuff he did with Buddy Emmons on the "Redneck Jazz" videos on You Tube, I started reading his biography,...
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Today, 05:57 PM
Leroy Aiello in New Jersey just binds them.
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Today, 05:50 PM
I recently picked up a D’Angelico EX-DC that was made in Korea in 2018. I am extremely happy with this guitar. Top quality all the way around…and...
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Today, 05:41 PM
Ok I was looking back at it and found a juicy one in measures 7-8 of chorus 4 haha
So you can diatonically sub the VI minor over I major (cf all...
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Today, 05:29 PM
Thx. The amp was a Peavey Classic 20 played thru a lil 8 inch open back cab. The guitar was a warmoth hardtail strat.
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Today, 05:28 PM
Well then have fun coming to your conclusions hypothetically rather than empirically. :P
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Today, 05:27 PM
Some of the examples - #2, the descending run at the end of #3 and #4 im as sure about as I am anything in this crazy world.
But I’ll be...
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Today, 05:26 PM
That was a nice warm tone. That's a Strat? What amp are you using?
Thanks for posting.
PD
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Today, 05:23 PM
That's max bright for the guitar lol. I set up the controls to have some upper range and still be able to chirp a tad but while being smoky. If you...
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Today, 05:20 PM
What the heck, I'll reanimate this thread. About 1 month ago I decided to look into getting a baritone guitar. I discovered the D'Angelico Deluxe SS...
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Today, 05:18 PM
Ok, I would not consider that a full, warm, round tone. At all. But others might think differently, and take your advice into consideration.
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Today, 05:14 PM
What was that? This is some of my crappy playing of a vamp, I'm a B3 player, not a guitarist. This is with an 100k volume pot full up, and the no...
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Today, 05:06 PM
And I am still able to use the socket. Ha ha.
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Today, 05:05 PM
Sorry I did not know how to change the orientation of the shot.
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Today, 05:03 PM
Here it is. Works a treat.
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Today, 04:59 PM
This is the gatton/CC Pickup that he installed...
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Today, 04:57 PM
it was fun, scary, humbling and humiliating in several ways.
First of all, his following were as rabid as a political rally. I was subbing for his...
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Today, 04:52 PM
Thank you for all the examples, Christian.
At first look, all of those lines could be played by playing the notes on different strings rather than...
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Today, 04:48 PM
Hey jzucker, I did a search on Danny Gatton, and you said in a thread that you played with him. What was that like?
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Today, 04:42 PM
:pride:
Playing with three fingers comes from a misunderstanding of the mechanics of the hand leading to a lack of hope for the fourth finger. The...
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Today, 04:39 PM
Yiorgos' tuning is really nothing like Gambale's (which I'm not initially drawn to). It seems more like Pat Metheny's half/pseudo/whatever Nashville...
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Today, 04:28 PM
I also have a Henriksen JazzAmp 112, and I do think it sounds really great! But I also had a JazzAmp 110 for a while, and I didn't like it nearly as...
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Today, 04:19 PM
Burny MIC Model, looked great but the sound was not for my taste.
My Hohner MIK really sounds better.
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Today, 04:19 PM
He is, and he gives credit to other makers where it is due. And he is a nice guy to deal with. Thorough, reputable, very fairly priced, and has a...
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Today, 04:10 PM
Yeah, on my part I'm a huge fan of eq pedals :) They solve many problems for cheap.
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Today, 04:08 PM
Ruger, I'm not the OP. I'm not seeking help, and if I was it certainty wouldn't be from that specific poster. I just think that when you regularly do...
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Today, 04:04 PM
I tend to agree, it works better on some guitars than others. So that brings you to lower the resistance value of the volume pot, or start trying...
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Today, 04:01 PM
100%. As has been said, the "different magnet" thing only really applies if all else stays the same... which is exactly what you can do with those...
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Today, 04:00 PM
ok, you need to drop this one now. He's tried to help you... you DID come here looking for advice from people with more experience than you, right?...
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Today, 03:47 PM
Be careful with the UA stuff.
I bought the Apollo Twin (solo) and discovered that it's only powerful enough to run 3 basic effects at once.
You...
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Today, 03:42 PM
I've often found the turn the tone pot trick to be a "jazz shortcut" that produces more mud than any anything else.
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Today, 03:40 PM
Interesting post.
I have a 10 percent overwound Biltoft HS-90 that I bought with all the sets of magnets he has available. The best combo I found...
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Today, 03:39 PM
Any clips that show your warm, dark, round tone?
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Today, 03:38 PM
Or even, "turn your tone pot down". I get it. But when people are first beginning this "learning journey" of music gear mods and tweaks, sometimes...
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Today, 03:38 PM
Too many.
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Today, 03:32 PM
Oh and here's a genuine 4nps pattern from Allan. Not all that common - Allan was mostly a 3nps player - but cool when he does it
Again, this is a...
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Today, 03:30 PM
OK, these are fingerings I'm fairly confident of.These fingerings were reconstructed by ear, but if you listen carefully you can hear when Allan is...
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Today, 03:28 PM
What do you mean might? I've tried it, so I know it is that simple. Again with the obstinance. :P
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Today, 03:28 PM
Oh, I don't know, one guitarist gives another the finger, which leads to thinking about other ways to give someone the bird, which leads to thinking...
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Today, 03:26 PM
That might give you a dark sound, not necessarily warm and round. Again, I (and many others) wish it was that simple.
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Today, 03:26 PM
Yes that is on the money. It's not awful, but it's not great. I think for lots of jazz guitarists, it's really about the notes and the chords. Like...
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Today, 03:24 PM
The obstinance is just strange to me. 'I want a warm, dark, round sound.' Ok, wire in a $5 200k volume pot. Job done. But they will not do it lol.
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Today, 03:20 PM
Ok. So watch Derryl’s hands very closely at 0:15 and you’ll see it
https://youtu.be/PnkQQjuFFbE?si=RKXauFoJnzsLmZQo
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Today, 03:20 PM
Why the hostility? Everyone is on their own "tone journey", and yes sometimes trying it for yourself is the only way to know. And there's nothing...
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Today, 03:16 PM
Easier to carry one amp that has a 12 inch speaker I think. I have an ext cab with a 12 inch, I use it for super big rooms with a Fender Twin.
If...
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Today, 03:16 PM
No not really
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Today, 03:15 PM
Sure. The big stretch lick from city Nights is the most crazed example, but there’s quite a few in the solo I’ve transcribed - lots of stretch dim...
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Today, 03:12 PM
Lines =/= voicings
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