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Today, 05:19 AM
In a word no, not for the fast stuff, 16th triplets at 120 and so on. And even for the slower stuff, it doesn't sound like Allan.
So it depends on...
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Today, 05:19 AM
Great. I have both so will try that :smile-new:
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Today, 05:06 AM
I have both in my Heritage H535 LTD the neck is AlNiCo 5 , the Bridge 2 . both seymour duncans . Great combo as the warmer 2 softens the bridge a...
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Today, 04:57 AM
This is worth watching...
The Case of the Three Sided Dream (2014) - IMDb
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Today, 04:54 AM
John, can you say what pickups the aA2 and the A5 were?
For example, a Seymour Duncan 59 or?
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Today, 04:42 AM
So, Christian, without delving into Allan's phrasing, which of course is important because it affects how the lines will be fingered, I would...
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Today, 04:34 AM
So do I. No clue how that will work without any further explanation. Also the out of focus picture makes it hard to understand.
Sorry to say that,...
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Today, 03:27 AM
Really nice !! What a good player !! I've seen his other videos with a similar Indonesian model
Mine will be shipped on Monday :)
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Today, 03:10 AM
I would not call it a warm rounded tone either. It sounds like a guitar directly into mixing console with no preamps or anything and all EQ flat. ...
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Today, 03:03 AM
He most certainly is in my house. There will never be another.
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Today, 03:01 AM
Great sound here. Playing isn’t too shabby either… I have some doubt if it’s really the first time he played it. The action seems to be much lower...
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Today, 02:35 AM
This is some footage of one of his jazz gigs at a Holiday Inn. They subbed for Murph and the Magictones when they hit the road w the Blues...
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Today, 02:27 AM
I've never used anything other than a Fender 358 Medium. (don't know how many millimetres thick that is). I must be a weirdo since I've never given...
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Today, 02:09 AM
Rahsaan was acclaimed by jazz aficionados.
Saw him at Keystone Korner in San Francisco, he was a one man horn section, played lead and...
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Today, 01:59 AM
And the 358 is a tiny pick. It is also the pick I keep going back to. I consider the Jazz III to be on the large side; I use it as a template to cut...
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Today, 01:39 AM
Damn, that's interesting. Did he ever mention which jazz pianists he liked or was influenced by? The guy played some real hip stuff on the jazz...
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Today, 12:29 AM
Anything larger than a 358 shape feels cumbersome to me. It's like trying to eat with a shovel.
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Today, 12:26 AM
I used Ninjam several times and had no noticeable latency.
Cockos Incorporated | NINJAM
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Today, 12:19 AM
If I remember correctly Reaper had an app called ReaJam… it seemed to work ok. I have not thought about that in years. I have no memory if the...
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Today, 12:18 AM
It was a downbeat awards show cohosted by Quincy and Chick
a true mold breaker, there certainly will never be another RRK......
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Yesterday, 11:40 PM
I realize I may sound immodest, like a total douchebag, but…unlike most of you, I admit I’m gifted, genetically inclined, “talented”, whatever you...
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Yesterday, 11:39 PM
Lest we forget.
Is that Chick Corea not doing anything?
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Yesterday, 11:34 PM
Great musician, try this one....
https://youtu.be/tiI2ZHmxPPo?si=wHz5N-vkY3TNh3yj
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Yesterday, 11:10 PM
Sure, lots of practice and hard work narrows the gap, but a player with natural talent, who also does the work, will always have an "edge". I know...
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Yesterday, 11:05 PM
I've never understood why this guy isn't acclaimed.
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Yesterday, 11:01 PM
Wes was playing Tenor guitar from his early teens...
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Yesterday, 10:58 PM
Although this post is mostly off topic, I do agree that playing things LOUD in an exaggerated way is a great way to gain dynamic facility,...
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Yesterday, 10:48 PM
I play finger style guitar in a duo with a female singer. I use a tube amp with an SM57 mic draped over it. The mic goes into the PA so the sound of...
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Yesterday, 10:26 PM
As the old saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat. Whatever gets the job done. I'm having trouble visualizing how that works, though.
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Yesterday, 10:23 PM
It is back! It should be bookmarked by anyone who cares about playing guitar.
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Yesterday, 10:21 PM
Recently discovered an interesting online app called "LALAL.AI" which actually removes things from an mp3 file giving you a great track to practice...
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
A quick check of reverb does indeed show some go for a lot more than $2,400 ;)
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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
Thanks for sharing! I did run across that thumbnail a few times, and I have to admit, the sheer YouTube-ness of it had prevented me from clicking on...
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Yesterday, 10:05 PM
This is the maniac you were trying to replace. Apparently he was the organist with Roy Buchanan in the 70s.
I saw Roy Buchanan around this time at...
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Yesterday, 10:01 PM
Oh yeah, of course, that's all priced in. What I meant was scatting and playing the melody while also playing the chords underneath. Having a bit of...
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Yesterday, 09:53 PM
Actually it wasn't Dick Heintze - who i briefly studied piano with. I'm thinking it was don or billy hancock or something like that. The brunch was...
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 09:27 PM
Horrid
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 07:15 PM
No mirrors in your house, Jimmy?
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 06:31 PM
WTH? What am I supposed to do now with my outrage that it was taken off?:doh:
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 06:25 PM
Bumping a great guitar!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:57 PM
Leroy Aiello in New Jersey just binds them.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:28 PM
Well then have fun coming to your conclusions hypothetically rather than empirically. :P
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:06 PM
And I am still able to use the socket. Ha ha.
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Yesterday, 05:05 PM
Sorry I did not know how to change the orientation of the shot.
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Yesterday, 05:03 PM
Here it is. Works a treat.
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Yesterday, 04:59 PM
This is the gatton/CC Pickup that he installed...
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:39 PM
Any clips that show your warm, dark, round tone?
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:38 PM
Too many.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:24 PM
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:16 PM
No not really
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:12 PM
Lines =/= voicings
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Yesterday, 03:08 PM
^ There's this thing called communication where the person tone seeking says what they want to achieve, and the veteran says well I'd recommend you...
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Yesterday, 03:07 PM
Anyway, one question is the term avoid note always applicable? This is a modal piece in 3/4:
BbM7#11 - % - % - %
GbM7#11 - % - % - %
F7#11 - %
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Yesterday, 03:05 PM
I don't have enough frets on my guitar to transpose this scale pattern to all keys unless I change it.
Similar lines? 9-10 bars of 8th notes...
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Yesterday, 03:02 PM
Yeah not sure Adam uses rest strokes either … the sound just punches, which is awesome.
and yikes …. I’ve seen some little things of him talking...
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Yesterday, 03:02 PM
I'm not sure it's that simple. I found what works for me, it might help others, but it might not. Tone is very personal... By that logic anyone would...
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Yesterday, 03:01 PM
A3? Nah... it's still unmistakably pole magnet/telecaster sounding. Bar magnets (P90s) are a whole 'nuther thing. (Plus, with a P90 you've got a...
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Yesterday, 02:57 PM
You can quit being obstinate and listen to people who effing know what they're talking about because they teched heavily for years!
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Yesterday, 02:55 PM
I think what Reg means is using I VI II V as a chord pattern when we have, for example, a static I maj chord (aka back-cycling). I that case it...
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Yesterday, 02:49 PM
I know, I said that earlier.
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Yesterday, 02:48 PM
speaking on a 60s model it really depends Tom, originality, etc but less than 15 that's for sure, especially a post '65 model.
there was a super...
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Yesterday, 02:45 PM
I lean toward thinking top and pickup had more of an effect than B/S species, with the caveat that I haven't had anywhere near as many 175's in my...
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Yesterday, 02:44 PM
There was an earlier thread on the TF price increase months back. What should these be going for today? They appeared to have nearly doubled in price...
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Yesterday, 02:43 PM
I hope I'm not discouraging you, gear can be a fun road but also expensive and frustrating - it took me a while to get the gear for the sound I had...
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Yesterday, 02:42 PM
Practice tips from California-based Dobro & pedal steel guitar master Pete Grant. Pete address the slow-to-fast notion at the end .......
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Yesterday, 02:40 PM
"An original from the 60s is probably 30k or more"
um no, less than 1/2 that in reality. but glwts anyway....
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Yesterday, 02:40 PM
So I basically fell into it...ran into the guy who ran the music shop I took lessons at as a kid (he was playing the piano at an Italian restaurant),...
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Yesterday, 02:39 PM
Ah ah, I don't understand it either.
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Yesterday, 02:38 PM
Yes. I couldn't understand why the previous owner chose the way they did.
I would have thought the pickup winder would have suggested it wasnt a...
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Yesterday, 02:35 PM
before the advent of the internet you could make some money teaching nothing else matters to teenagers. with youtube, not so much anymore. who's...
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Yesterday, 02:35 PM
Congrats :smile-new: I think you will be very happy with it.
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Yesterday, 02:30 PM
Funny how this thread ended up discussing fingerings instead of the first post.. :focus:
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
There's also top thickness. I often wonder why my '89 175 (lam mahogany) sounded so different. The obvious answer is the mahogony but it's not...
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Yesterday, 02:23 PM
^ A bit of bunk info in that post. Tal started at 22, and CC died at 25.
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Yesterday, 02:23 PM
Jon, glad you posted this. I think it would be in your best interest to offer a lower price here than on Reverb. You will still make out better here...
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Yesterday, 02:22 PM
Just got Moises….. where has it been all my life?
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Yesterday, 02:19 PM
That's very common on Les Paul users, A5 on the neck, A2 on the bridge.
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Yesterday, 02:19 PM
Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love dim chords
https://youtu.be/bAAWlzeKGRU?si=llLt2D3wDMIV1A13
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