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Today, 02:35 PM
Dang, why did you post that pic? Another guitar to lust after...beautiful.
I think these (Italia Torino) are a bit more than $300 though. Do you...
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Today, 02:32 PM
Hello. Yes. The T -Bar or T-Bridge. Made from cast aluminum. Here are a couple of pics of Nationals T-Bar.
The T-Bar has always been made...
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Today, 02:24 PM
Here's my edition. I guess it was a typo on yours.
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Today, 02:24 PM
Several small shop owners I know have had their ups and downs with Gibson. No one says that dealing with them is fun.
Even Dave's...
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Today, 02:20 PM
i just looked at three of my strat and one ofthe teles and they all say made in USA but they not new i think the tele is maybe ten years old its the...
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Today, 02:10 PM
That was fascinating. Both sounded really nice. I was going back and forth and just by coincidence got them lined up at the same spot so the...
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Today, 02:09 PM
Agree, this a great resource. The longevity of this thread attests to that.
For the harmonization theory and triads, standard chords, I use Hal...
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Today, 02:04 PM
That makes sense! F dim triad?
Picture of my book below.
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Today, 02:01 PM
Of course, yet apparently no one made a replacement cover plate without the hand rest, or one that's screwed on?
I don't know how much the...
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Today, 01:58 PM
Tbf, the Bud Powell reading is better than almost all music
https://youtu.be/pK9P4z7GKYc?si=L2jVImmdncnK6uzI
Rachmaninov meets Tatum meets...
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Today, 01:54 PM
There’s honour in making your own mistakes though.
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Today, 01:52 PM
Oh, o.k., no doubt a forum website restriction, you'll have to reduce them in size to post them upright.
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Today, 01:49 PM
My stance is that if I tried to learn everything by ear, that would mean either I would be playing everything wrong, way more wrong than learning it...
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Today, 01:47 PM
It’s a more unusual sound. For straightahead gigs I lean into the D harmonic minor tonality, or as Barry would have it C7 to the third of A7 (root of...
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Today, 01:42 PM
But play the A Bb triad pair over the first chord (doesn’t matter which one). It’s niiiiiice
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Today, 01:40 PM
I was half joking? But I like the sounds.
But to me what makes it sound like you’ve done a modern is when you have a derpy derp major triad in...
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Today, 01:38 PM
Thank you Christian. Fact is, it's not a chord I've tried to incorporate into my playing, just behind the times I guess....
"EDIT; can anyone...
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Today, 01:34 PM
If you go to the Fender web site and zoom in on the back of the headstock pictures they say "Corona, California."
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Today, 01:31 PM
I'd really love to hear that.
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Today, 01:31 PM
It reminds me of the great beer drinking culture. At one time Germany, Belgium, and some parts of Europe the center of great original beers. That has...
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Today, 01:29 PM
Too many musicians and not enough young people who value music enough to pay for it creates a problem for working musicians. Just as too many cheap,...
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Today, 01:28 PM
I mean at the time they said it was too dissonant to start a tune with
9 x 8 7 9 x
but that’s what young wrote. which was unsual at the time....
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Today, 01:23 PM
At the risk of being on topic, this sounds useful, I know zilch about Linux though.
GitHub - veltzer/openbook: OpenBook is an open source Jazz...
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Today, 01:22 PM
My Gibson guitars have Asian made tuners and Canadian made cases.
My Fender guitars have Asian made tuners and Asian made cases.
The Pots on...
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Today, 01:21 PM
The joke is that if you could play most of a Bbmaj7#11#9, then it would look an awful lot like Bbo(maj7)
All the alternate changes are coming from...
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Today, 01:18 PM
Oh - this bad boy
I like how even the cover tells you off
‘Every musician SHOULD know’. Don’t know them? You aren’t EVEN a musician.
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Today, 01:17 PM
?? - I can't think of a way to voice a chord with three semitones in it on the guitar (A/Bb, E/F, C#/D)
P.S. - Probably the only possibility: ...
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Today, 01:15 PM
He sure does. I didn’t know there was a controversy about that first chord until I saw some Mike Moreno video a few years ago. I learned it from the...
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Today, 01:14 PM
thats a fact
around here the giggs pay less the half of what i was getting 30, 40 years ago.
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Today, 01:12 PM
That makes it worse! But thanks for the correction :)
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Today, 01:11 PM
AFIAK the only jazz musicians Barry had unqualified admiration for were Bud and Bird (Bird recorded with the original changes on With Strings.) So...
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Today, 01:09 PM
It's not a state (CA) law, it's a federal law: Made in USA | Federal Trade Commission
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Today, 01:07 PM
The M-1's cover plate is a single unit with the T-shaped saddle cover* welded to the cover plate, which in turn is secured by lots of screws (16, I...
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Today, 01:07 PM
Chicago is now another world. I used to love to go to the City 40 years ago and see the guitar stores. Do you remember Wooden Music. Went to my first...
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Today, 01:05 PM
Thanks for this. I've been waffling about just soldering the 57 into the Emperor's original harness. With two handsome hollowbodies plus the ES125 in...
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Today, 01:04 PM
It's high time you were up in this debate.
'Bud Powell and Barry Harris played Bb dim7. But most jazz artists since the time of Miles Davis play...
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Today, 01:01 PM
I like the idea of learning jazz being more like learning Allman Brothers when I was in a high school jam band than like learning Villa Lobos when I...
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Today, 12:59 PM
Well the good news is there more guitars available both new and used,cheap and bespoke than at any time in history. The real problem is there not a...
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Today, 12:56 PM
57 Classics will work fine and while you’re in there, replace the pots, caps, jack, and switch with better stuff. You could even wire it up 50s...
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Today, 12:56 PM
The case against is that it’s not how the music was really learned or played.
I don’t have anything against fake books at all and most normal...
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Today, 12:52 PM
The phat cat sounds like a cool idea for the Zephyr. The 57 Classic arrived today and I was thinking about putting that in the Emperor and using the...
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Today, 12:50 PM
And it seems to me that "Made in Japan" guitars are going down the same path as "Made in the USA" guitars.
When I look into an affordable...
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Today, 12:47 PM
Real books are fine, the burn your real book crowd is just parroting guys from 50 years ago when every bridge either went IV iv ii V(Ellington), iii...
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Today, 12:41 PM
Yikes!
Sounds to me like another instance of good intentions paving the road to heck. California seems to be good at that.
Maybe Fender...
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Today, 12:39 PM
It’s not as great a difference as it used to be either… when I was shopping it was around 2000gbp for a Japanese semi hollow and 2500-2700gbp for a...
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Today, 12:38 PM
The best advice I got for learning from recordings that use multiple instruments was to listen to the bass line. Youtube seems to have nearly...
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Today, 12:35 PM
Ok here it is the original 1000 no polepieces and the reissue again no polepieces. Here is the specs
Reissue on Gibson 1938. This guitar is set up...
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Today, 12:33 PM
test... complete
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Today, 12:32 PM
Well if you colonials will insist on using surnames as given names, this exact confusion will arise.
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Today, 12:31 PM
I guess "typical" GC shoppers don't look for Super 400's!!! You guys are so lucky.
I bought my L5 CES at the NYC store.
Tbeltrans: I agree...
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Today, 12:29 PM
Since we are discussing the gig bags of noted guitarists, I thought I would provide one of my favorite stories from Steve Wallace about Ed Bickert...
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Today, 12:23 PM
Oh how could I forget All By Myself - the greatest verse in popular music stolen directly from the Rach-meister. It sees DOWR and Mars and raises it...
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Today, 12:21 PM
Yeah, anything south of I-80 is basically Missouri:)
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Today, 12:20 PM
I find GC to still be a decent online shopping experience.
I've been using mostly Mark Bass products for my bass gigs and GC is the only US...
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Today, 12:14 PM
Contrary to election results and news echo chambers. I've found that if you get about 15 miles away from Chicago, Illinois is hard MAGA. Not sure...
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Today, 12:13 PM
I will add that I do have a couple of other books that have been very helpful for me:
- Robert Conti "Assembly Line" and "The Formula" along with...
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Today, 12:10 PM
The second inversion m7b5 or first inversion m6 is hugely underrated.
I like the original Fmaj7 Am7b5/Eb D7(#11) D7 sooo much more than Fmaj7...
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Today, 12:03 PM
It’s flipping Rachmaninov or sumfink
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Today, 12:01 PM
It's like all downward chromatic bass movement. Super dramatic.
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Today, 11:58 AM
Are you referring to Chord Etude no. 2 on page 72? The chord on beat 3 of bar 8 has an F, Ab and B.
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Today, 11:58 AM
I love the way that Tim hacks around with these things. He's almost perfectly answered the question I was thinking about when this thread began...
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Today, 11:58 AM
I like it when it goes Bm Em7b5/Bb D/A the best
I also like that it goes Gm6 Dm with no A7
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Today, 11:57 AM
Well I rather think of that as vanilla. Sure, it’ll work, but why not have Bbmaj7#11#9 instead?
Or for that matter a Bbo7(maj7) - oh wait….
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Today, 11:56 AM
Yep. Thats what I said.
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Today, 11:54 AM
I had a thought it was Miles, but he also said Davis in the post. I'm easily confused.
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Today, 11:50 AM
Well, just do the interval of the diatonic target note up or down a half step.
Or use mechanical voicings/barry stuff. So dim7/minor 3rd. Sounds...
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Today, 11:48 AM
Sgo, you found out exactly what I was hearing. The 1000 is smoother than the 1100 and I really need to post my using it on my 1938 L5. I bought the...
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Today, 11:48 AM
Flory should be a household name.
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Today, 11:46 AM
The original changes are so fucking cool.
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Today, 11:43 AM
I would use the same flavor of the chord it's going to. Jazz is about what's coming next, not where you were. If it's a chromatic on the way to a...
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Today, 11:36 AM
Here's a few more practice licks from Bars 5-8, transposed into C Major changes.
I'm trying to create licks, whilst learning the tune.
Maybe,...
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Today, 11:36 AM
we were talking about harmonizing chromatic passing notes with the thirds and sixths.
nevermind.
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Today, 11:30 AM
I just bought a reissue 1000, and I'm loving it after less than a day. It's well balanced across monel strings, and sounds slightly smoother overall...
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Today, 11:25 AM
I doubt Gibson's prices being higher than comparable quality Japanese guitars has much to do with differences in labor costs in Japan and the US. It...
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Today, 11:21 AM
And don't forget Chris Flory.
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Today, 11:18 AM
Call me unacceptable and irresponsible - I like BbM7#11 (tonic lydian chord).
Colorado Cook Book has an Em7 in the first bar.
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Today, 11:16 AM
Yeah, it's just that some people treat them as the definitive answer, and don't research the songs they're learning...with today's technology and...
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Today, 11:06 AM
I am glad to read this from you, Jeff. I always enjoy your playing and take heart much of your posts. The "burn your real books" stuff sometimes...
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Today, 11:06 AM
i dont know this for a fact but i was told years ago that the USA fenders where simply assybled in the USA and that only the Custom shop guitars...
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Today, 11:04 AM
Beautiful instrument and quite the find!
I have seen/heard/read on occasion that GC no longer carries the breadth and scope of stock they carried...
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Today, 10:48 AM
Not just US. It’s increasingly difficult to qualify as a Yamaha dealer. Which is a shame because I recommend Yamaha to beginners.
Sent from my...
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Today, 10:45 AM
I also got this from GC. Brand new never played, previously owned by a collector. Got it for $9500.
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Today, 10:44 AM
What am I being asked again?
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Today, 10:42 AM
The acceptable answers are
1) C#m7b5
2) Dbo7(addb13)
3) Eo7
For various reasons. You’ll get points for any of them.
You could also say...
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Today, 10:38 AM
Yes v bad. U r bad. You have been reported.
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Today, 10:36 AM
If the bass is thinking Db, I like
Dbm6#5
Db Bb E A
9x8910x
If the bass is thinking E, I like to
substitute this shift for first chord
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Today, 10:36 AM
Nonsense, if I did that what I do if I wanted to practice sight reading obscure Denny Zeitlin tunes?
I’m a big fan of the old real book. I just...
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Today, 10:27 AM
The approach... "learning how to play jazz tunes, in a jazz style with out learning the Skills to do so approach",
leads to ... Not being able...
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Today, 10:23 AM
That was a nickname for Miles, so named for his sometimes Jekyll and Hyde temperament (exacerbated later on in his life by his addiction to pain ...
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Today, 10:17 AM
The Prince of Darkness! You know, the Chameleon. The Man in the Green Shirt, man.
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Today, 10:05 AM
Who is the Prince of Darkness? What are you talking about? Why did the guy who played Tiny's Con need you to transcribe it? I'm so confused....
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Today, 09:57 AM
50% of it is, yes.
No musical talent, huh?
Well, as Groucho Marx once said: "Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a...
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Today, 09:52 AM
I like Jonathon Doyle's playing a lot. I'm not sure if he's still based out of Austin, because I haven't heard much about him lately. He's done...
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Today, 09:48 AM
Especially among players who knew each other, played the same gigs, and were part of the same musical moment and movement. How could they not have...
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Today, 09:47 AM
I really appreciated this post and its insight. Thank you!
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Today, 09:34 AM
and that's the end of the story.
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Today, 08:59 AM
I like Gibson's carved CES models. Nobody makes guitars in that particular style that I know of (heavily built, carved, high end electric archtops)....
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Today, 08:54 AM
That would be very sad for US manufacturing. I have no way to tell what's really going on, and if regulations and labor are mostly to blame, but I...
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Today, 08:32 AM
All but 1 of my 17 guitars were under $2200, and the overwhelming majority are Japanese. Japanese guitars are well priced and extremely consistent....
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Today, 08:21 AM
Thanks.
But as a note, in lick 1 I think the resolution would be at the c# (3rd of A), not at the following e.
In lick 2 the resolution would be in...
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Today, 08:03 AM
I don't know. Some of the US manufacturers treat their dealers pretty badly. For example PRS won't let their dealers advertise discount prices but...
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Today, 07:49 AM
We have been in S. Florida for nearly 7 years now. Like millions of others all over the country, we're staying put with low interest mortgage rate...
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Today, 07:34 AM
I agree. What he actually said was:
But he also references jazz. We're not (presumably) talking about playing Careless Love or Amazing Grace...
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Today, 07:23 AM
Our own Campus5 is wasn't actually around in the 20s/30s yet but it's easy to forget that, and he often plays a tricone :cool:
I think it's...
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Today, 07:19 AM
I guess six of one in that instance … how about something like All of Me, if we’re sticking to the first few pages in the real book
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Today, 07:12 AM
Here's a few practice licks from Bars 1-5, transposed into C Major changes.
I'm trying to create practice licks, whilst learning the tune.
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Today, 07:05 AM
To be a bit pedantic, there are no Made in USA Fenders anymore. (Certainly electrics.) Fenders just say "Corona CA" these days because they have too...
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Today, 06:59 AM
Some maybe but I don't buy it as a general rule. At most what they want is to have an instrument played by an idol (or because (they think) it has...
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Today, 06:46 AM
Even if it's real, would it be able to compete with a luthier-built, carved archtop in its intended application?
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Today, 06:43 AM
If you watch Casino Guitars or Phil McKnight YT channels you might have your answer. I think what you saw was the result of the dealer arrangements...
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Today, 06:42 AM
Just to clarify the obvious…if you buy a single course you can access it forever.
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Today, 06:34 AM
Point being it’s effectively chord stabs and not really what the OP is asking about.
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Today, 06:33 AM
E half dim. Is that bad?
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Today, 06:30 AM
Well, there’s another thread that was recently started, “gig bag for a Barney Kessel”! It was really just a silly play on that. Since we see guitars...
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Today, 06:13 AM
In fact, what we are actually seeing is a cratering of wages in real terms. US made guitars are no more expensive than they ever were.
Sent...
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Today, 06:10 AM
Non sweatshop labour is expensive.
Aside from the Boomers who want to be Clapton or whatever, Japan is considered the premium manufacturer by...
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Today, 06:00 AM
I don't have one minute to post on this thread.
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Today, 05:29 AM
Firstly, he said "serious musician" which I interpret as "someone who has been playing long enough to know what they want/don't want in a guitar and...
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Today, 05:17 AM
What do they say the first chord in Stella is? Just to be controversial :-)
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Today, 04:55 AM
I saw that clip the other day and, given the circumstances, Lee was the obvious person to fix the problem. I was more amazed at the other clip from...
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Today, 04:50 AM
It takes only 5 min to write an e-mail to Gibson Customer Service. At least here in Europe they answer in a couple of days.
No, I don’t have 5...
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Today, 04:49 AM
I like the GFS Lil Killers, but not the hottest version. Aside from that, I really like a DiMarzio SDS-1 in the bridge of my Strats.
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Today, 04:39 AM
Tim Lerch has had a DeArmond Rhythm Chief pu in his tele.
For Those Looking for Different Tele Neck Pickup Tone
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Today, 04:35 AM
Tarrega springs to mind as the most likely candidate, although I didn’t know this specific story. Anyway wikipedia had the answer:
From the later...
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Today, 04:31 AM
This is what he said:
I don't think he is saying that serious musicians never ever want or use 300USD guitars. I think he is saying that serious...
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Today, 04:31 AM
800 plus shipping. Grab yourself a nice Aria. :)
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Today, 04:26 AM
I’m confused on ragman’s behalf. The melody is E minor at that point? You’d use harmonic or melodic minor as required.
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Today, 04:24 AM
Some people call shells 1-3 or 1-7 I notice…
I call 3-7s guide tones? But some people use the term for something else.
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Today, 04:16 AM
Again the porous border between improvisation and composition….
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Today, 03:34 AM
Recommended reading: Why insurance companies are pulling out of California and Florida
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Today, 03:29 AM
American guitars are sold worldwide at premium prices, because guitarists want to buy a piece of America. If a music store does not sell Fender and...
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Today, 03:23 AM
He doesn't play an instrument but he likes music. He looks relaxed and soothed when I'm playing.
Yeah there are hella Real Books. Hopefully...
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Today, 02:48 AM
Raise the baseline and compete with real stores, rather than lowering margins to compete with online retailers. I think we will see more of this...
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Today, 02:47 AM
Fender has these US made guitars listed at $1400
American Performer Stratocaster(R) | Electric Guitars
American Performer Telecaster(R) |...
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Today, 02:35 AM
You can still buy an American made Strat or Tele for $1800
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Today, 02:30 AM
o.k., guess I was off on the low-end prices of Gibsons, but still, the great majority of them sell for $1700 and up.
The lowest priced Fender...
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Today, 02:14 AM
What instrument does your dog play?
I didn't even know there were 6 real books... where did you buy them? Looks like they're on sale now at Amazon.
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Today, 02:03 AM
Why is the gig bag only showcased and not the guitar?
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Today, 12:58 AM
Their website says 43" interior, so is yours a different model or are they wrong? Id like to know cause I was considering one.
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Today, 12:31 AM
The dog had the right idea - internalize those songs. :pride:
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