Composition

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

Old Ibanez new Pots?

Looping Lines for Jazz Guitar (with Free PDF)

Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

My experience is that you can setup the action on an archtop to be as low or the same as a solid body guitar. (After fret levelling and polish.) But, an archtop sounds better acoustically with a...

How does your Atchtop play compared to SB?

celestion gold

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

That triad is pretty fantastic, isn't it?

Anyone tune all 6 strings to 4ths?

Experimental/free etc music

I like those sweeps, or 16th note clusters. That's trick I'd like to get down.

Well You Needn’t from a recent gig

The best speaker I have found for my tastes in a Princeton (and indeed many other amps) is the Webers 10A125. The alnico speaker has a certain squishy thing going on with a lovely, sweet high end...

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

If you ever decide to sell the G&l Asat, let me know. I would be very happy to purchase it. -Charley

G&L ASAT Deluxe Semi-Hollow

I have a '78 Ibanez FA-100 I bought after having gone through 2 Gibson 175s in the late 80's. I got it for a Yes cover band gig and love it to death. I've never had an issue with the binding, though...

Late 1970s Ibanez hollow-body quality?

I recall Mick Goodrick being asked about P4 tuning. His response "I considered it, there are certainly benefits to the symmetry, but ultimately there was too much meat on that triad (D-G-B strings)...

Anyone tune all 6 strings to 4ths?

I'd like to put a speaker in my Princeton Reverb ('79 maybe?) that is better equipped to handle the output from the Benedetto PAF in my Ibanez AF120. I know this is not what Princetons are born to...

Fender Princeton Reverb speaker choice...

+1! + there was a time when I dived deep into it and that was my main "listening-diet". I've never played total free sets live but it does happen that I insert sudden bursts of free improv while...

Experimental/free etc music

Pots can be wired in multiple ways and still work, more or less. But different wiring methods affects the tone and volume differently. Some people like having the tone changed when the volume is...

Old Ibanez new Pots?

I personally haven't had good luck with Gibson 335s, and usually ended up playing Ibanezes instead, which is in the ballpark but not a 335. However, I recently got a Tokai that fixed that, and if I...

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

Mine was directly inspired by your blonde Jazz Special. I wasn't in a position to buy the two times your instrument came for up for sale. Yours was made when Trenier was in New York. I wonder if...

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Planning on continuing to check in with this stuff. I’ve been doing tritone substitutions lately. Using pretty simple embellishments of the line itself, I’ve been running the dominant/bebop scale...

David Baker Bebop Scales — Barry Harris half-steps

The official mad-at-JC thread

What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

One octave scales - VIDEO

Experimental/free etc music

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

... But does it Jazz ??

Tonex One vs. TC Combo Deluxe '65

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

12 Hour Practice - Thoughts?

What Archtop Guitars have no binding?