The Builder's Bench

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 5) - Mr PC

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

Pleasantly surprised at the Katana 50 for a clean...

Pürbach 14 (Andy Bartosh)

Sounds good, Larson, but I was expecting a Count Basie ending as you suggested. :)

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Experience varies. I owned a GBJSA. It was built well, but the finish was extremely thick. Patrick also had the same experience. Electrically both sounded wonderful. I took the finish off the...

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

Surf's Up ! ' Now were the vertical stripes standard w/ option for horizontal or ? '

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

For a year? 1948 maybe? They put inlays of then 125, whatever’s it apart is the bout at 16” rather than 17” like the 150 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

"Heritage's quality control is notoriously bad," Sorry Archie, but thats complete BS! After the management change and letting go of their original and best people (same thing at gibson) they did...

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

I owned two of the Westerly made Guild Benedetto Artist Awards and after trying to like them (for too long), I let them both go. One was "very good" acoustically, the other was "fair" acoustically....

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

The triangle does two things. - indicates the three is major unless otherwise specified with a preceding "-", "m", or "mi". - locally and temporarily contravenes the unique symbol convention...

Modes arranged in a musical sequence

[QUOTE=Llewlyn;1343777]Thanks again guys. @caue amaral: thank you for posting your video! I like the sound that you get in Agua de Beber: can you tell me more about your setup? The comment that...

Good guitar tone for electric bossanova

Not quite done with my first pass through the circle of fifths, but we're doing the beach next week, so I figured I'd drop this in a little early. I'll just do whatever key I feel like for these,...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

I like it a lot. If I'm using a background track, I just unplug the microphone line and plug the backing track into that channel.

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Isn't that an ES135? I don't remember inlays on a 125; surely they have dot markers..? A quite rare guitar; a UK forum member I know had one a few years ago

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

Yes, this could be very true. I do know one or two other forum members who had issues with Guild JS guitars in particular the finish was heavy and suffocating the guitar's ability to respond. ...

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

I wish you the best. I broke my left (fret side) clavicle in April 2001 in a bike accident. There are still times when it feels uncomfortable, but mostly as a result of a poor sleeping position. ...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Thanks for the fantastic info :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

[QUOTE=lawson-stone;1343918]Thank You. The amp is mic'd with a Bluebird "Blue" microphone, and the direct is via a Bugera PS1 Power Soak. I send the audio inputs to an old PreSonus AudioBox iTwo to...

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Campellone PSA

L-5 Repair by Mark Campellone

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Florentine vs Venetian: which one is better?

Learning to play with a singer

How bad is this?

I don't know how to go about learning jazz anymore

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?