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Baker, from what I remember, I haven't looked at that book in a long time, was another no-nonsense plug and play approach. He gives a bunch of riffs, vamps, real world situations... With learning...
I've had a Fender Strat and a Yamaha Strat copy. There are lots of obvious differences. One that was less obvious was the fingerboard radius. The Fender is 9.5. The Yamaha is, I think, 14. I...
You play much better than me so I can't possibly be giving out any advice... ..having said so, I noticed("Exactly Like You") that while everything was nice and sharp, you target the 1.st degree of...
The solo guitar stuff is in Mikey Baker's second book.
Honestly not very. I could probably go around once more with different stuff but to keep going with on the spot stuff, no. I think thats what im wanting is more vocabulary which actually outlines...
My first teacher, back in the 60's was a big band player from the 30s to the 50s. He called them "muted string chords". A and B strings were muted in these voicings. After cowboy chords they were the...
All I can tell you is that, as primarily an archtop player these days, I frequently play my telecaster and only rarely my strat. Odd, because the strat was one of my main gigging guitars back in the...
Is the reason the Mickey Baker book doesn’t go into these chords because he’s only thinking of the guitar as an ensemble instrument?
I took it more that labeling things drop 2 and shell is academic and it's not useful to wade through on the bandstand. Personally, I don't see the harm learning the labels now that they are widely...
Understood. That '61 175N would be around 15k today :shocked: $2.29 for what I'm assuming is a hot house tomato? Just don't put it in the fridge. I wait all summer for them, up until a few yrs ago...
As much as I respect Bruno, I nearly stopped when he claimed that shell voicings aren't really chords and that those who promote them "never played a jazz gig in their life." I first learned shell...
I am actually very familiar with all of the chords presented in that Mel Bay system. Back in the late 60s, with the aid of a teacher, I literally went through the whole book and all of the...
No. Tele single coils sound fatter than Strat pickups. Strats have that scooped and thin but sweet thing going on. Think funk rhythm guitar.
Do the Tele and Strat neck pu’s sound similar? How about the bridge pu’s?
Absolutely sounds proficient. To many, that's the goal to just become proficient. You have that down already. It would be just where you want to go from here. What do you want to improve on? 2...
Itching for a Fender, which one?
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