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...
Definitely single coil. That’s sorta the point. Just to mess around with that sound. I have always used humbuckers and have a few of those. I do like those “in between” sounds of the 5-way, so I...
Ed Bickert and Jim Hall on Paul Desmond records too.
yes the cost of the ones I've seen are around 3k to 5k, that's what's kept me from buying one. I used to have a Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul and I found that I ended up leaving it in the case a...
I'm afraid that's only half the battle, my friend. To me, "readily available" means affordable. If the cost of living had stayed the same and the pay scale for gigs had kept pace with the cost of...
A tele would give you the least culture shock assuming that you are coming from archtops and/or Gibson style guitars and pickups. Strats and Jazzmasters have more distinct sounds. But then maybe...
Yes, it will be very different. I'm going to stick with a few really beloved guitars and 2-3 amps. I know what I like to play, I know what people pay me to play, and they're mostly the same thing, so...
Itching for a Fender, which one?
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