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John Stowell Trio

Larry Carlton destroys audience with four notes

My Foolish Heart - Jeff Arnold Jazz Ballads Book,...

Soloway Swan-like solid-body stratocaster guitar

I'm too preoccupied working on other heads old and new, but I'm hoping the panel will accept my humble submission recorded a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v40BUza9CQY

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You’ve obviously got to work on being more dimwitted

Fretting Hand Technique: Control Flying Fingers with this Exercise!

That is one sweet looking LP Custom. If that is yours, congratulations. If it sounds as good as it looks it is a keeper most definitely.

What makes a sunburst good?

It was supposed to be so dimwitted that the sarcasm would come across. Sometimes the jokes on me I guess.

Fretting Hand Technique: Control Flying Fingers with this Exercise!

Not sure you would consider them “starter“ chord solos, but the Jimmy Bruno and Jonathan Stout courses on DC Music School are chock full of chord solos. You get to see and hear them play it and...

Starter Chord Solo to Learn ?

Real Book has F and I hear F. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWpXFXXc4x4

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I've never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing this. I rather like it in a weird way. I think that green is a difficult color for guitars. You'd have to go with a much darker green...

What makes a sunburst good?

as do I

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44sec to 119sec sounds better to my ears.

Three finger less ergonomic?

I have had this problem for over 10 years, I'm 76 and I still gig. I recognized it with Larry's video. It hindered my playing to the point where at times I couldn't play. It was my fretting hand by...

Sire H7F

And up ....

Gibson L-5C ,1957

Go get it : it's beautiful, sounds and plays superb, it's RARE and the price is absolutely reasonable !

Steven Andersen "Streamline"

Bring it on over here Allan: Dexterity

Bebop heads: no. 4

I’ve always played it as an F.

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I did do this one before I went away. I think there’s a difference but it’s quite subtle. Can one tell which is which? Stream Test by Christianm77 | Listen online for free on SoundCloud (Hope...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Three finger less ergonomic?

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

three fingers technique

Body and Soul at a local session

Inside the guitar

Unheard nice songs

Worst Budget Archtops?

Anyone selling a 175T?

What makes a sunburst good?

Bebop heads: no. 4

What do you think about putting a P90 in a Telecaster?

Swapping between chord work and single note soloing

Guitar Slurs for bebop