From The Bandstand

Help me find Rattle on archtop

NGD - Slamann Super 400 with CC pick up

Genzler Acoustic Array Pro vs Henriksen Bud 10

What beats an L5?

Humbucher height?

https://youtu.be/iTp-a8Tp4uw?si=Pf4DdoSIVJ7qTTIG

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

Sorry you missed out. I got one while I worked at Ibanez and had literally the pick of any guitar to take home on Purchase Day. The PM20 is as close to a perfect work horse as I'd ever find. It's...

Ibanez PM20 - buy or no buy?

If it's for classical musicians, who should be no strangers to analysis (Schenkerian etc), then most aspects of the Jazz language obviously can be deconstructed (harmony, substitutions, melodic line...

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Hips square, above the knee line, heart over the hips, head above the heart, arms relaxed and reaching beneath the neck without twisting the back. This is the recommended body position for...

Posture when seated with guitar, what works for you?

My sofa is not a “sink in” type. When you sit on it, you are sitting ON it rather than in it. I can sit on it and play a song or two for company. But recently I’m using the Brandenburg concertos as...

Posture when seated with guitar, what works for you?

A Strat that sounds like an L5? :smile-new:

What beats an L5?

Sometimes your nose itches, and something has to be done about it.

Jimmy Bruno: His Right Hand Technique

At the descriptive level, yes; the Greeks had Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. In jazz these way be thought to manifest as Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Allure, respectively. At the...

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Today was a travel day so I read about 150 pages of Lego Bricks in various airports today. Love it. This obviously doesn’t qualify as “working through it” because I haven’t been able to do the...

Conrad Cork's "Harmony with LEGO Bricks"

I hadn't played this since I listed it but broke it out today and it's really the most L5-like of anything I've owned since an L5-CES...Nice to have in smaller package.

$4500 - 1997 Gibson L4-CES (maple back/sides) REDUCED

As long as were keeping it in the family prozzis 575 is sitting at a steal 16" all carved loud enough for practice and stunning plugged in under 3k, just sayin...

What beats an L5?

Since you’re the owner of an L5 Studio I hoped you would have chimed in since he asked about the merits of an L5 Studio.

What beats an L5?

I've sold a total of 3 guitars, as well as I remember. One I bought as an investment to sell for profit, and that worked well. I don't expect to come across another deal like that. The other two I...

No more Gibson archtops ?

Most of the players in the military bands already have degrees before they enter the bands. I have several friends I went to North Texas with who were in the top AF and Army bands.

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

I don't know how it's possible to have good posture sitting on a sofa and playing guitar. I like a firm chair, or an office chair without arms. I tend to sit in an office chair, because that's what...

Posture when seated with guitar, what works for you?

Analyzing

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Biting the bullet on an ES-175

Came up with an epic tip for improv

What beats an L5?

No more Gibson archtops ?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Developing your own style/sound

Thumb pain

Groove comes and goes..

On Wes and improvisation (Octaves content)

Crazy Assholes--Don't Be A Dick

Stage setups for larger venues