The Builder's Bench

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the...

60's Ampeg reverb pedal???

2000 Solomon Phoenix 17inch Archtop

$5499 - 1966 Koontz "Jazz Classic" Nylon...

Fretting or Picking Hand - Which Do You Find More...

If you've wondered how Allan Holdsworth approached recording the songs on "None Too Soon". Devil Take the Hindmost, The Otherworldly Music of Allan Holdsworth: 21: With a Heart in My Song, None...

My video on Allan Holdsworth (finally)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKv9A-HV-Mc

Great Examples of a Good Jazz Guitar Tone

Oh I don't know, I see quite a bit of poor left hand technique even in some very accomplished players. Here's a horror from my YouTube feed. (TBF the camera angle is probably making it look...

Fretting or Picking Hand - Which Do You Find More Difficult?

On an electric guitar, there is most certainly a difference. But, If you are playing through a ton of distortion, almost nothing matters that much. It’s all on the verge of being squashed into a...

String gauge and output/tone

First of all my playing hasn't improved exponentially haha. I would say I'm not sure at my core I'm playing differently to the way I did ten years ago. But if I had to say the one thing that I...

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the shed.

this might sound harsh to say, but it certainly closer to the truth than not. Guys who refuse to work on SS amps, at least old ones like a poly, aren’t real service technicians. there are guys...

Fuzzy Polytone sound?

just about every polytone Schematic is posted free numerous places online. Just Google polytone schematic. there may be some oddball models, or perhaps some of the newer amps, that would be...

Fuzzy Polytone sound?

If I could only do one thing, and wanted to get the most from my time, I’d play rhythm changes. There just a ton of raw material in there to work on, and if you do it musically, it’s directly...

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the shed.

Modes

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the shed.

Repeatedly playing exercises, over and over and over again. I'm talking about many, many hours, days, weeks, months of repeatedly playing the same ideas until they appeared in my playing. ...

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the shed.

If I don't bother my picking hand, it does not bother me. If I ignore my fretting hand, it demands attention.

Fretting or Picking Hand - Which Do You Find More Difficult?

Every time I notice something bad about my sound, it's the picking hand. Every time I think of something I need to master on the fingerboard, it's the fretting hand. So I guess it's the head in...

Fretting or Picking Hand - Which Do You Find More Difficult?

Besides listening to more records, tunes, lines, etc. what has been that one thing that you've physically practised that has improved your overall playing exponentially? If we apply the Pareto...

Your biggest bang-for-the-buck thing to do in the shed.

I'm waiting for the OP's recordings. Actually, if you read what he says, it already looks as though he's fairly confident about covering altered sounds so it should be quite interesting.

Altered chord question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKuQj47NBs&list=RDEMgU1jNcYkTfs1RJzwx9oPHg&index=6

Great Examples of a Good Jazz Guitar Tone

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Pitfalls of Patterns

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

Luna 200 Combo, Quilter Aviator Cub, Or Blu 6?

Fretting or Picking Hand - Which Do You Find More Difficult?

2022 Borys B-120

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

Chunking, does it work for Jazz improv?

Altered chord question

Which kind of chords to learn next

UK jazz guitar dealers