The Builder's Bench

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

A little help explaining shielding with archtop...

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

Amazing Practice Tool! Track Splitter!

Let's hear it for Al Schackman

How about Bb | Cm | Dm | Cm Dm | Eb | Dm | Cm You can do 7-6 on each chord Bbmaj7 Bb6 | Cm7 Cm6 | Dm7 Dm6* | Cm7 Cm6 * not a diatonic chord, but it gives you the G7 sound

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

I have used a multimeter checking ground. Doing a connectivity test I get sound when touching a metal tuning post and the grounding sleeve of the guitar cable. I'm fairly certain ground is...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Thx for the input everyone. Latin kind of bugs me, so no I would no worry about doing a deep dive with the different authentic grooves. I just try and do a decent bossa and call it a day. I hate...

What are the essential grooves for jazz?

Pics would be helpful. Not because it would help me put a date on your guitar, I just think Peerless Jazz City's are great looking guitars:)

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

That's not what I have experienced. I've played instruments with ungrounded strings (I know they were, because I built them) which were noisy when not being touched, but quiet when I touched the...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Welcome to the forum and please do a NGD when your beauty arrives.

Honeyblonde/Espresso Bravo Question

Honestly, one of my favourite guitars in the Gibson line up. Ever. And because they have a solid carved top, in the hands of a real player, they will just get better over time. They got everything...

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

Well, yes. In that the spike around 2 kHZ is reduced considerably. But because that can let you open up the tone control a little bit more, the sound is perhaps rounder than darker.

Telecaster Love Thread, No Archtops Allowed

None of my guitars have ever checked, so I have no advice to offer except that I think this adds to the charm of vintage instruments along with fading, ambering, etc. I don't know if I would feel...

Lacquer Finish Checking

It was, I was quite surprised. But a lot of them, maybe the majority, prefered Eb - Eo.

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

Have you tried a nice bottle of wine, a bouquet of flowers and complementing it on its shoes?

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

Tim Lerch demonstrates--and names--the techniques I aspire to in backing a singer. Very specific. I think it's not irrelevant that (despite his limited pipes) he really knows his way around a song. I...

Learning to play with a singer

The strings are grounded, if the noise goes away when he touches them. So we already know that. It's remotely possible that the ground connection between the cover of the pickup and the wiring has...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

What an interesting coincidence

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

Perhaps not, but Eddie's set was reportedly .015 to .070-something!

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

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

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

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

AI music, yikes, it's improving fast

How bad is this?