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Today, 09:22 AM
Yeah, there's the improvisational nature, the need to be able to balance things going on at the same time, and then of course, lots of skills and...
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Today, 09:20 AM
Me too - somebody's got to say it, right? ;)
In fact, it seems musicianship often goes with good skills in the kitchen (just 2 names that come to...
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Today, 09:18 AM
Hello @deacon Mark. I apologize if my posts looked like a high jack of your thread. I wasn’t trying to sell anybody on Halvorson’s or Okazaki’s...
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Today, 09:18 AM
I’ll send one over later.
it’s not spectacular as yet. More utilitarian.
I also need more space to put it.
As with all shops, space is a...
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Today, 09:12 AM
The real answer to your question is just spend hours swapping and testing pickups because your rig and playing style differs from mine. It's all...
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Today, 09:07 AM
Of course, that's an (app)laudable attitude too, though even in smaller countries you may end up buying less locally than if you shopped just across...
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Today, 09:05 AM
It has been my experience that being aware of other changes just complicates starting the song when you try discussing the variants with the band...
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Today, 09:02 AM
Following...I have utmost respect for bakers. An Art and a SCIENCE.
I'm a damn good cook...but I am NO baker.
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Today, 08:42 AM
Selling higher end archtops locally is difficult. I sold an Eastman AR880CE for a pretty big loss a while back (had some bills). Someone near me has...
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Today, 08:32 AM
I grew up having slices of (whole-wheat) bread for breakfast and lunch, and have never felt like giving up that heritage after moving to France....
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Today, 08:13 AM
True, Stochelo uses the point too, but in genera many of the younger gypsy jazzers use the shoulder of a 1.5 or 2mm Dunlop unless it's someone who's...
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Today, 07:56 AM
Hmm... do you think it makes more sense to use the underwound on the Zephyr because it's bassier with the deeper body and I'd prefer to tame that a...
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Today, 07:11 AM
IMHO that's a pretty hot deal. Good luck!
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Today, 07:05 AM
Hmmm. Or could depend on the local market. I got my ES-175 for that price just a couple of months ago, because there's a little to no market in my...
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Today, 05:47 AM
Inexpensive Artec MHPA95: AlNiCo bar magnet - Neck:#43/7.2k
9mm thick + cable.
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Today, 05:24 AM
im in London..my Concorde ticket booked...
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Today, 05:05 AM
That's what I'm saying; Tone is in the case. Papa's got a brand new bag.
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Today, 05:02 AM
He wasn't listed to appear, but I'm always happy to see and hear him!
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Today, 04:08 AM
Rather thoughtless; no wonder his wife was unhappy.
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Today, 04:06 AM
Me too, generally speaking, but not always. That thread about the Footprints bridge is a good case in point. It was obviously far easier to play the...
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Today, 03:40 AM
Yes but there will always be a market in any country for high-quality locally-made guitars. I don't have any numbers but I'm guessing Benedetto has...
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Today, 02:48 AM
Thank you very much, Cunamara! The knobs are basic ones, but I thought they looked nice: Alnicov 4 Pcs Electric Guitar Volume Volume Tone Control...
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Today, 02:41 AM
I have a Fender Precision bass that I bought about 14 years ago that says "Made in USA."
I have a Fender Jazz bass I bought in 2022 that says...
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Today, 02:23 AM
I grew up in SFL so I don't know many details about the North FL scene, but I do know FSU in Tallahassee has a pretty good jazz program. If I'm not...
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Today, 02:08 AM
Could be a total scam for all I know. Just saw it on Facebook so thought I would throw it out there in case someone lives nearby. $2500 means the...
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Today, 01:48 AM
The video I posted above suggests that it was common practice for Gretsch to use a long flat-head screw to tighten the neck joint, this was then...
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Today, 01:32 AM
I don't have 15 more seconds to post on this thread. Mark Campellone has built a few archtops exactly like what you describe - heavily built, carved,...
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Today, 01:29 AM
I don't have 15 seconds to post on this thread.
The answer is yes.
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Today, 01:15 AM
Epiphone usually have crap pots and switches. I'd pull all that out while I was installing the new pickups and save yourself the headache down the...
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Today, 12:55 AM
I have a 1997 Lonestar Strat which is Made in USA so I don't know what year they changed. Some models may still qualify for Made in USA.
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Today, 12:29 AM
I bought it on Yahoo Auctions Japan for about 35,000 Yen which is about $US250. All up, delivered to my house in Sydney, I spent about $US420
It's...
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Yesterday, 10:00 PM
Some feel nationalist pride over good guitars being made in their country. That's OK. If it works for wine and cheese and watches, should work for...
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Yesterday, 09:55 PM
Bloomfield was known to carry his Tele with no case or cover……through snow.
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Yesterday, 08:44 PM
Quite surprised not any mention of Benedetto Guitars in Savannah, GA. I don't recall the word "affordable" in the OP.
A real American success...
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Yesterday, 08:32 PM
I'm not dogmatic about always playing accurate to the recordings. So I happily play the Real Book changes to most tunes. Although I do try to...
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Yesterday, 08:17 PM
Not aware at all.
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Yesterday, 08:10 PM
I think Mike Bloomfield showed up at a session with his tele in a garbage bag.
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Yesterday, 08:09 PM
And here I thought he didn't use a gig bag at all, just tossed the guitar into the trunk of his car. The Tele looks like it.
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Yesterday, 07:57 PM
I meant the debate about the first chord of Stella. As you can see, it carries on for lots more posts. It may be an eggheads delight but we should...
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Yesterday, 07:45 PM
This might make the decision easier!
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Yesterday, 07:28 PM
It certainly delivers. There is nothing else at this moment that allows such synchronization with the video recorder relatively far from the mic, and...
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM
Interesting guitar but not something I would like. I am sure it sounds and works great. The 1000 are the best really no question in my opinion. Also,...
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Yesterday, 07:07 PM
So even good paying gigs pay the same as 25 years ago. And that’s not a livable wage any longer. Well it was hardly livable back then as well, Lol!
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
Testing 123. All I did was turn it on.
#Testing #audigolabs #imrprovisacao #ucdavisarboretum | Instagram
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Yesterday, 06:16 PM
Thanks! Been lurking for years on and off but never posted.
Lately I'm returning to the sounds of my youth and am playing my archtops more and...
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Yesterday, 06:11 PM
Good video. Having worked in the auto industry for a good long time, and having been in many, many plants of all sizes and levels of technology, it...
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Yesterday, 05:54 PM
There are no original PAFs there.
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Yesterday, 05:50 PM
:welcome:
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
Wonder if they peaked under the hood on the 59 to see if those are PAFs. If so that would be a deal
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
Heeey, was on a trip this past weekend sorry for not replying sooner.
The last 3 strings (E,A,D) are ever so slighty sharper in the 12th fret,...
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Yesterday, 05:13 PM
Aaron didn't write it, he just sightread it in the studio. He was a child prodigy who could sightread anything. Guys tell me that they used to hear...
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Yesterday, 04:47 PM
I couldn’t possibly comment
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
Yamaha absolutely kill at everything they do. Their student models are rock solid. I recommend their student half size classicals for students and...
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Yesterday, 04:24 PM
So, BbmM7/F is the nasty girlfriend chord?
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Yesterday, 04:23 PM
Actually I may be thinking about this for an archtop. It's a long story and it ay or may not happen but it's a real possibility. (And yes, I have...
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Yesterday, 03:31 PM
Practicality personified. Yeah, he could have left the old bag in the back of the amp, but then the new bag is taking up space on stage somewhere.
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Yesterday, 03:21 PM
I just like the guy more and more.
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Yesterday, 03:09 PM
The one I did had similar type plug but on the back of the guitar. That was a screw that screw down into the joint of the dovetail. My guess could be...
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Yesterday, 02:59 PM
Also the vibe I get is that the proper electric session players go for PRS (because they intonate really well apparently) and Suhr. Suhr is another...
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Thanks for your perspective. Do you think that there is a plug in the heel of the neck in the pic above that might be covering a screw? Or maybe a...
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Yesterday, 02:54 PM
Looking at the offerings on Reverb...OMFG. The cheapest 6124 is $1500, and even some described as Very Good have horrible binding deterioration,...
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Yesterday, 02:45 PM
Also there’s MusicMan, you use some Big Names and an American made high end line. It’s not all the big two.
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Yesterday, 02:44 PM
Jim you would love it if you like big darker sound or at least different, given the type of guitars you play. The Barker actually has Dadarrio...
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Yesterday, 02:44 PM
I've always grabbed every fakebook that came my way and recommend that anyone who plays out so the same. They have their flaws, some of which are...
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Yesterday, 02:43 PM
Well, you also have the body and neck makers like warmoth and several others in the us that seem well established.
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Yesterday, 02:42 PM
The kids do seem to be into PRS and Keisel atm - which, correct me if I’m wrong - but building guitars in the US? Keisel do a good deal and are great...
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Yesterday, 02:39 PM
Hey folks,
I have a 1977 ES-175 that I'd like to get a replacement rosewood bridge base for a Faber ABR1 TOM bridge.
I realize there are a...
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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 after the videos.
The T-Bar has always...
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
Here's my edition. I guess it was a typo on yours.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
That makes sense! F dim triad?
Picture of my book below.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 01:54 PM
There’s honour in making your own mistakes though.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
I'd really love to hear that.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 01:12 PM
That makes it worse! But thanks for the correction :)
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 12:33 PM
test... complete
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Yesterday, 12:32 PM
Well if you colonials will insist on using surnames as given names, this exact confusion will arise.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 12:21 PM
Yeah, anything south of I-80 is basically Missouri:)
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 12:03 PM
It’s flipping Rachmaninov or sumfink
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Yesterday, 12:01 PM
It's like all downward chromatic bass movement. Super dramatic.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 11:56 AM
Yep. Thats what I said.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 11:48 AM
Flory should be a household name.
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Yesterday, 11:46 AM
The original changes are so fucking cool.
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