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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.

Look on the bright side. Your life as a criminal has just begun. :) Sorry, I hope you can heal up in good shape soon.

some people put a new nut w/ slot spacings cut slightly wider. or you can get lucky like forum member ThatRhythmMan and myself and be lucky enough...

My experience with transcription is love/hate. I have to listen better to transcribe. It's time consuming and hurts my brain after a short while. ...

I played the notated example in the previous post. Then I saw your post and had to go back to see that, yes, there was tab. That there was tab...

Tab has its uses. There is a book out of Guinga compositions done entirely in standard notation. It has numbers and circled numbers to guide...

"Why is that controversial?" Good question. We live in a different time than Beethoven. Anyone can write a comment quickly. People are sitting in...

Thank you so much everyone for your kind, informative, and thoughtful replies! I will be taking my new guitar to a luthier to get it all set up this...

I didn’t really copy anyone when I was a teenager. I don’t think it really occurred to me.

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Are the boards in question A) Piled in separate layers ("on sticks") so that airflow is available to both faces and both edges, and has this been...

Check out AF155’s if you are looking for a non-floating pickup version. I snagged mine awhile back for an insane price. For some reason these don’t...

Ah, my bad. Never mind. Turns out I can't count (at least not as high as 22)

The Fender tube amps use a tone stack circuit (looks like three legs of a ladder) where legs correspond to the treble, middle, and bass control...

Maybe get people to take this quiz, then get back with the results What's Your Emotional Age? | HowStuffWorks

See a doc to find out if it's serious. OUCH!!!

I played that album a lot. Probably my last favorite Costello album. (Well "Trust", but I didn't listen to it as much.) I used to know every word to...

And this one ?

I love it when there's a gap between the neck and the neck pickup. :grumpy: ^^^ :smile-new: ^^^ best pickin spot!

I don’t understand the acrimony and hurt feelings in this thread. Yes, this young man’s finger dexterity and fretboard knowledge is near super human....

JJs are affordable, widely available and sound good enough for me. but I don't have no Fender TR.

from my initial impression it will be a lot easier to get the original Dubois text, albeit in French (or Italian) though it may not matter too much. ...

who?

Don’t worry. I know who Hendrix is.

One can also observe that a Flamenco guitar's headstock tilts backwards at a slightly greater angle than a classical's. What's the reason for that,...

Had a student who got an L-7 all acoustic with a D'Armond floater. It had a feel, sound and vibe unmatched by anything I've played. Soulful and SO...

<< my hands are thick and I could never play the picolo, violin, or ukelele, for example, at an artist level. My hands are too big. Many small...

Am I the only person who finds tab incredibly distracting? I can't stop staring at someone's fingerings and I get distracted from the music. I think...

No, a 175 has a 20-fret neck. The pickup is in the same spot as where it would be on a 22-fret neck (e.g., on a 335 or LP), but there's a gap...

In reference to the truss rod cover company you noted.. they also had this phone case which I was compelled to purchase. ...

I don't think I'd trust that a set of tubes were really NOS unless I opened the time capsule myself. Maybe carbon dating would convince me if that...

Not to pick on you specifically but the pickup placement thing is often brought up, and I never quite understood it. Doesn't the neck pickup on for...

Wow. Wow. Love...

That is Stunning! I can imagine how exquisitely it sounds and plays! I have a '44 non-cut that is incredible. Gibson got it right when building the...

My exact thoughts!:eagerness:

Not a concern for me. shreddin' :dontknow::sorry:

can you write your eq setting?

correct

Hi sgosnell and Sam, Thanks very much for your thoughts -- all excellent points. I knew there was a way to do this without my plumber's...

Looked like they shaved them a little. Carter Vintage said that someone probably ordered one with a pickup, and rather than a ground up custom...

I think it sounds pretty good in the demo. And reading their promo blurb, they seem to have made some effort to give it a better clean tone than...

The quality is impressive.

Here's a link. They are rugged and look good. Tone Ninja | Unique and High quality guitar tuner buttons TN-BTNE14 604776393092 $41.95

Hi Darren. Primarily, there are a few things: Flamencos tend to have lower action and a golpeadore (pickguard that is usually clear on modern...

If you had said Circus act in this time when Jimi was alive, you'd have problems.:smile-new: He was the god of the guitar.

You took my comment to yourself too much. What I meant was that my copying was poor quality and I wanted to play like Jimi. I didn't have a good...

Circus act: Jimi Hendrix Playing Guitar With His Teeth - YouTube :smile-new: Most impressive. Not so much the teeth and neck stuff, but...

Yeah that bothers me aswell but we can kinda guess why they would do that as they don't have any guitars with a 22 fret neck as of now. We shall see...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY I tried to play like Jimi too ... it was at school. A long time ago. I had very bad equipment and a...

well it’s a big subject but I’ll try and summarise how it’s changing my thinking. Basically, it’s all intervals, which means there’s no concept of...

it’s true, I’ve got the setup in place now that this video was just as easy as it used to be in the days of point and shoot with an iPhone.

replaced neck for sure as gitman points out but tuners are correct for '56

Very limited market for Archtops and if the neck was replaced etc. They are asking way to much. But I'm sure Norm Harris is aiming at collectors and...

Solo guitarist...no band...wow:smile-new:

geez Woody, isn't this the second hand injury as of late?

looks great and probably sounds too, did they cut the braces for the pickup?

Wow, that's a great find. What a wonderful jazz guitar.

Mark, sorry for ignorance, but what is difference between a flamenco guitar and a Classical?

yes, and at that speed Bumblebee works over any and all changes, so in addition to being the World’s Fastest Guitarist™ , he is also now the World’s...

I spent a significant chunk of my teenage years trying to play like Jimi Hendrix. I like to think some of that still influences my jazz playing.

Keeping the original rosewood bridge in the (original) case! The bridge had been sanded down over time to no radius at all...completely flat. It...

You dont have to, but why wouldn't you? I copied Jimi a lot, or tried to anyway, back in the day. I learn from many players of all genres, and...

These things are all relative.

^ hah, too funny!

This shop is known for premium prices. The guitar looks nice. There are very few of these in the UK, and even fewer (no others) for sale. The nearest...

Just beautiful! Congratulations, and play it in good health! :encouragement:

Mark, You're quick at video recording.wow.

I see no one has posted about this for a while. Just thought I'd say Chris has been on a roll lately, doing a bunch more excellent videos on Barry...

thanks Kris, this was the first notes of the morning, just woke up and rolled the record button. Posted without listening to more than just a few...

If you like Jimi Hendrix, for example, do you have to copy him, his technique or whatever? I love hearing Jimi play but never copied his playing.It...

I think it's at least in part because so many guitar players begin as self-taught and develop a lot of very bad habits that create limitations and...

I think this is very useful in small group settings where being able to do this behind a soloist or behind the head is a very effective difference...

WOW....a real stunner. A big Congrats.

:welcome: Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. No snark. This is thought-provoking material. Kudos! :cool:

24 frets is a deal-breaker for a lot of jazz players. I had a 24-fret guitar, and would never buy another. It puts the neck pickup too far back...

This is very creative playing. Marcin is an innovator. It is a very musical personality. And all those who have a bad attitude towards him lose a...

You dont even make sense dude. In jazz we always add extra chords and rhythm to standards, it's kind of... expected? Sure, if you like this...

Again good for you ! Does it look like they'd removed the top, ( or back ? ) to do the p/u install ? I don't seem to remember seeing it on ...

Yes Mark...considerably lighter than Booboo!

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Price drop to $900. If you have any desire for a reasonably priced flamenco guitar that plays and sounds great, you should check this out. It is...

It actually sat on Reverb for a year, over priced with photos and a description that didn’t do it justice. I kind of had to guess as to whether or...

'Parallel' looks nice but it's not necessarily the ideal setting to even out the string volumes. Many folks like more space on the bass strings. ...

I'm pretty new to creating chord sheets, but I'm currently using ForteNotation software. It is easy and user-friendly. I tried a free version first...

There's your snag. A stereo plug has a hot tip, a second hot-spot on the barrel and a third ground contact on the barrel. A mono plug has a hot...

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Good for you ! Wow ! I sure wish there were more of those '50's-'60's L-7's around w/Gibson-installed p/u's. Where / how in the world did you...

It’s a WesMo without the bling, and probably considerably lighter.

Gorgeous!

So what she played was music .. but adding a bit of harmony and rhythm to that makes it no longer music (from the OP) Paganini&#39;s Caprice no. 24 on...

Maybe. You have to be careful. but I think rhythm has more universal aspects than harmony.

well the chaconne originally being vamp based, highly rhythmic music from the ‘New World’; not to mention tango and bolero later on. Classical music...

I like the mood of this piece. Great playing!

One thing I've noticed with the Golden Gate pick is that I can get the same angle both ways. That is, when I'm using it in more of a Benson grip...

Ok. I understood... sorry

Ok. It is also known that social media helps to popularize music and artists. Before Covid, it was similar ... unless I'm wrong. ok...Maybe there...

Hi, G, I have the ability to learn any musical instrument to functionality. However, my hands are thick and I could never play the picolo,...

ISTM that everything is oversimplified - baroque musicians ‘swung’ 8ths and for syncopation to exist you need a meter, which traditional African...

Yeah, they don't have a 350-year history of colonising and enslaving other peoples to fall back on.

Ha. I took a jazz appreciation course in college around 1975, and our first test included a variety of Africa drum rhythms which we had to identify....

This! America's Got Talent is what you think as plastic, manufactured pop culture. Stay away from Talent Shows kids. Kris, youtube is full of...

Do you distinguish between melodic counterpoint and harmonic counterpoint? Do you have different approaches for them? Sometimes people say...

Typical Reverb fantasy prices and the whole Reverb attitude. I personally would not want the guitar if it presents these issues and changes and no...

I don’t disagree with the other assessments. I will say that I think key center focus and the way you approached this is exactly what spawns smooth...

I disagree. IMO, we learn to use the tools we have regardless the form they present themselves to us, overcoming the form is at issue. Why are...