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Thanks Jim. Just to clarify - the one he has IS his own. He will be getting another custom one soon.
Being classically trained, I pay a lot of attention to my fingernails. The bad thing is that on steel strings, the strings tend to roughen the edges of the nails and frail them. I use glass files and...
No, no, but maybe I should have spelled it maniaque to remain in style with the rethoric searching-for suggestion that was actually meant to imply tongue-in-cheekness. You were talking about...
It's easiest if you play the notes Eb-F-Eb (to D) as a trill (quick hammer-on/pull-off).
Actually, the part of Peter's thesis that no one, on or off line, would accept is the idea of "copyist etiquette" - that's an oxymoron.
Possibly. But this is a killer record (sorry for the off-topic): https://www.amazon.com/Moan-You-Moaners/dp/B015L1RE6A?dplnkId=fab52f8e-1f20-4cf1-9f0a-cffa25e5f579&nodl=1
I think the word you're looking for is "obsessive", not "maniac". We inhabit a world where many players think that the particular chemical coat used to protect some dead wood object without...
I could play it up to speed strictly with down-strokes but I'd have to practice it because it is contrary to what I normally do. To play fast, I've found it's more efficient to pick in the direction...
All good. It's C minor The accompaniment is pretty ambiguous but on a quick listen I think there's only C, D and F in the voicing. There's no A or Bb or Eb. Was getting a 7sus vibe initially but...
I simply use the very tip of my fingers, backed by nails that are just long enough to catch a bit of the string if I want a bit more bite - and in that case there's no need for them to be glass...
These days I generally play with a thumbpick (Herco flatpick style tortoiseshell or Fred Kelly Bumblebee) and index/middle/ring fingernails. I found I have to keep my nails quite short because they...
I have a Comins GCS-1 ES and an Ibanez LGB30. Both spruce tops with maple back and sides. I would recommend the Ibanez, being a true hollowbody, it's got that classic jazzbox tone and also sounds...
Well done everyone who can play the A section at a reasonable speed. I'm still struggling to get bar 6 correct, this could take me all week. See below, I'm struggling getting this to sound...
I can only conclude that this site doesn't have a smilie that corresponds to your caressing style of playing ;)
Wet glass filing
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