The Builder's Bench

16" 1920s/30s L5

Amp Covers

Chet Baker - Time After Time guitar solo

1993 MINT Gibson L-5 Wes Montgomery James...

Andy Summers Plays Jazz

Excellent. I will judge them in the balance and find them wanting.

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

I keep trying to remember to look at mine when I go home, and I forget. I will check out my ZR and see how it compares to yours. For some reason I recollect thinking the bridge was a bit high, but...

Epiphone Zephyr Regent

Covering the Quilter: Folded flat: I made the one for the Champion 20 first, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. At the time it didn’t come with a cover and the only ones I could find that fit cost...

Amp Covers

Yeah this makes sense. Honestly it’s a bit like what I tell myself I do already. I think what I’m reminding myself of here is just that I don’t do it as faithfully as I like to think. And for an...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

It is not. Young people are terrible and ruining language obvs

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Sometimes when transcribing, I don’t like a note someone played in a phrase, I’m sure it was a slight mistake or fingering error (usually this would be in a fast solo). So I change it to what I...

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

Would love to see a pic of that ^^ Just ordered one from Custom Amp Covers only because they came up first in a google search and half the price of a Tuki. We shall see.

Amp Covers

Also see the thread regarding writing down rhythms. You don't have to write stuff down, and reading stuff is good for reading, but has nothing to do with transcription/ear-learning as an activity. ...

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

Thanks nshsi, as posted I'm aware of them and I've heard only positive comments. Their website is very detailed unlike Lecover which could use some work. A standard Studio Slips Twin Reverb cover w...

Amp Covers

Just a moment... This doesn't "beat" an L5 of course but for the money you get pretty darn close in terms of the acoustic sound as far as I can tell (and as close as you want in the electric...

What beats an L5?

Yeah, that’s the one that I was thinking of. It’s in my library but nothing has come up on my random play in a long time. I think his real forte is more of an avant garde type of thing.

Andy Summers Plays Jazz

I've made a couple out of duct tape -- one for a Fender Champion 20 and the other for a Quilter Aviator Cub. They came out surprisingly well -- a bit stiffer than cloth, but still foldable and are...

Amp Covers

I saw them in about 1976, or so. We were in the 12th row, or there about. I really dug it. They had the revolving stage thing going. One of our friends got so drunk he passed out the entire show....

Andy Summers Plays Jazz

I would say A MILLION TIMES YES! In fact, Bruce Forman has a whole thing where he thinks that slight mistakes actually helped people form their own style. In the olden days people couldn't listen...

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

Summers put out a an album of Monk tunes called "Green Chimneys" in 1998. SFAIK, that's his only straightahead record. ...

Andy Summers Plays Jazz

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

The New Campellone fall batch

Developing your own style/sound

Thumb pain

Stage setups for larger venues

Emily Remler

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

The Notated Lick Compendium.

Like-New Gibson ES-335s