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The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

Need advice installing TI Bensons

Spalt Totem

Sunday Family Photo

Cherokee excerpt at 325 BPM with slant picking,...

I observe the same thing, but Wes may not be the right example for encouraging three fingered technique with using a pick. He is an excellent example of planning ahead... I get the sense that Wes'...

Bebop Technique

No idea if ed plays those on his tele, but I bought a set for one of my WesMos based on Ed's endorsement. Best flatwound I've ever played.

Henriksen Bud sounding killer

It's Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial start of Summer, so here we go...feel free to join in, and tag me @RhythmGuitarNation1 (I decided Shorts was too short, so I created a new YouTube channel) ...

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

I mean… this is heavy metal guitar… right? Am I on the same planet? Everyone here knows about Randy Rhoads and Zack Wylde, Right? What am I missing?

Bebop Technique

One of my jam session mates here in Japan, a young up and coming guitarist, walked into our monthly jam with one of these a couple months ago. It’s now his main squeeze. What a beautiful instrument,...

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

Thank you so much for your passionate dedication and for sharing your treasure with us. That’s what JGO is all about!

Jimmy Raney - May 24, 1989 - WFPL Radio - Louisville, Kentucky

Just out of curiosity I searched "Brazilian Rosewood Bridge" on Reverb and got this Just a moment... Most listings are in the US - a few old bridges, a few newer PRSs and other guitars. The bridges...

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Beautiful guitar. Gibson lawyers sent Steve a letter telling him to stop making his headstock shaped similar to theirs. Not sure exactly, but I played an early version of his last week that was a...

Andersen Metro Special (1997) w/ Calton Case

That's a beaut Telephone! Is that the one you brought down from 12th Fret in Toronto? Did that all work out well? I only mention it as I think it's a bit of an over-looked resource for States-side...

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

What you say about the 60's is true Prince. I was 15 in '69. I had been listening to Birth of Cool, Giant Steps, Blue Train, some Django, some Wes and so on. Then I heard Nefertitti and it really...

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Well, if I needed help learning to improvise, I wouldn't buy the book after reading that in the forward. It's like saying, "this is a really inefficient means to learn to improvise." Actually,...

Official Barry Harris Thread

I want to install a set of TI Benson 12's on a little Ibanez guitar with a wraparound tailpiece. I think the ball-end wraps will clear the saddles. I doubt I'll be able to get enough turns at the...

Need advice installing TI Bensons

Ken Parker addressed the overhanging top and back of violins and other stringed instruments including guitars in his video on his nylon string guitar discussed elsewhere on the forum. He says it...

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

I guess it's supposed to look hip, like the torn blue jeans that are sold? I always thought they looked silly.

SNL staff guitarist?

This is the original intro to the tune from the play, which apparently is not at all popular with musicians, because I only found this one rendition of it on YouTube (but I didn't spend much time...

Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Bebop Technique

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Chord melody problem

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Cure for a weak high E string?

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Wynton vs Herbie 1985