The Builder's Bench

A duet piece for guitar and cello

Replacement Speaker [newbie advice please)

Anyone else use Genius Jamtracks?

Warm Up exercises

Cheap floating humbuckers

I was fortunate enough to own 3 L5’s. A blonde CES, a sunburst Wesmo, and a sunburst CES. All I can say is, their build quality was second to none, and their tone smokey as it gets. I should have...

What beats an L5?

Eminence Beta is the speaker used in Mambo amps and is what I'd recommend.

Replacement Speaker [newbie advice please)

Fred’s taking a nod from Miles Davis. Space is just as important too. Let the music breathe.

Slaman Super 400 with CC pickup

Skip warming up play a melody. I warm up practicing tunes bebop in particular. Play changes to a tune bottom line is practice what you are going to play and play slow enough to not make mistakes.

Warm Up exercises

I can’t wait to see those non cutaways completed!:drum:

The New Campellone fall batch

"clean, warm, loverly ... ", loud enough and cheap ... That's going to be hard to improve on.

Replacement Speaker [newbie advice please)

I like the CS ES-335 reissues. The inherent sound of those instruments is richer with harmonics or something. Think it is the woods and construction. Similar thing with the ES-175 '59 VOS reissue....

Like-New Gibson ES-335s

The Notated Lick Compendium. A thread for posting and storing notated licks. Another classic Lick:

The Notated Lick Compendium.

why not just post the photos in the forum ad?

Benedetto custom Limoncello "Ben-Bino"

i tried it and to me it's horrible. When it encounters an Fm7 chord, it doesn't seem to know that it can use Fm9, Fm11, doesn't seem to recognize situations where it can use Fm6 or FmMaj7. Doesn't...

Anyone else use Genius Jamtracks?

The R word, in this case. I don't really care who you feel you need to "put in their place," you can think of another way or my opinion of you will reflect your lack of imagination (and...

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Thanks guys! Forgot to mention that I will include a custom black pickguard that I had made in an effort to get away from the BB King Lucille look, not that theres anything wrong with that! Heres...

Gibson ES-359 (mini 335) Ebony

Assuming you're not BSing do people think you're undercutting-downsizing? It's just you and a singer while others need bigger combos? It's too bad for them. I don't have the chops to play the gigs...

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Quite possible. It's the pesky dim chord syndrome again. Maybe, as you say, he treated it like an A7 but I can't say I noticed any real clash with what he played, quite the contrary. You certainly...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

I think you really need to define "offensive" here. I don't think you can put someone who's being unreasonable in his/her place while remaining polite. They'll need some shaking up, a proverbial slap...

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

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

Analysing jazz vocabulary

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

Developing your own style/sound

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

The New Campellone fall batch

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Emily Remler

The Notated Lick Compendium.

Help me find Rattle on archtop