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Nails it for me. Helps to have realistic expectations given those limitations, too. Which I really don't, for myself, but that's my personality.
Orchestra size guitars are the best flat top acoustics! Enjoy!
Hey! I resemble that remark! (Not entirely joking; I rarely give any sort of technique advice because my own is pretty limited, but sometimes I do say stuff that I should probably leave to people who...
So do you think every guitar player who is a graduate of a jazz program can read that well? I mean according to your binary definition of read vs can't read?
The LJ gets my vote. It does really grow on you. I have a nice custom tube amp that gets very little use since the LJ came to play.
"There is no such thing as you can sight read or you can't. It's all relative to the situation." rpjazzguitar No, RP . . . it's not relative to the situation. You can read music or you can't....
Came back from the store with this sweety a couple of days ago. Guild OM-120! All solid mahogny, made in China (like alot of other great guitars are nowdays) and plays like a dream. The finish is so...
Thanks. Just for the sake of discussion, I'll say what I recall about what I was thinking. I tried focusing on chord tones in earlier takes and I thought it sounded too simplistic. I tried it...
You're kidding, right? That's a matter of survival if you're going to set foot in California. I just want to go and recharge for a couple days but it takes some planning. I was thinking Huntington...
Yea Rick... you have a very realistic approach, I really like it. ( I also like your playing). The tempo thing, well most talk is just good old BS. Right, I mean the best way to learn how to do...
Pair of U87's in figure 8 array off axis about 4 feet in front in a wood room if you want to capture the reflected sound of the air in the room (recommended). That's what I've had good luck with....
The SM81 works well with classical guitars (a friend of mine has one and gets good results with it). John
I know, right? Original 20s banjoists AFAIK played a diversity of instruments and tunings. To me Johnny St Cyr almost sounded like a guitarist in his soloing approach... I remember transcribing one...
New Guild Day! (flat top content)
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