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Comins concert 7-string $4500

death of the USA made guitars

Guitar repairman/restoration and jazz guitarist...

Picking exercise

George Benson, Lee Ritenour secretly played part...

Gibson ES-195. Came in black or in Gertsch Orange. It's a thinline ES-175 with a Trini headstock and a Bigsby (easy replaced with a standard tailpiece if desired). Has single coil pickups that fit...

Gibson Thin line Guitar Models

Yes, mostly basic melodic patterns, each one classified by its initial note - root, 3rd, 5th etc - and recombined with others of the same type in a modular fashion both up a chosen string set and...

Learning Melodic Cells

Yep, which is why you should be able to work a bit of it in tandem. :P I posted my rendition on page 5. Sorry, I can't participate with working it out on guitar because I'm a pianist. I guess I'm...

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

Yes, as I suggested, they carry what they know will sell. They don't want to be using up store space on expensive guitars that will sit there for weeks or months. That's why Gibson has their more...

death of the USA made guitars

I've found that the standard air guitar fingerings work well for them. :)

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

:smile-new: I know what you mean, I often used to come up with stuff I could never play at a speed anyone would want to hear unless I pulled a Les Paul, i.e., recorded it and sped up the recording....

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

LOL just finding one in my neck of the woods isnt so easy. i was chating with a friend and he said he ended up doing mail order for his last fender. as for gibson i dont know of a gibson dealer...

death of the USA made guitars

Here we go for 9-14. measures 13-14 are another candidate for favorite lick in Donna Lee. https://youtu.be/QJkkETQRqM4?si=wLwSd0H0YyiYWEJo (another quality thumbnail, by the way)

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

What I see is a thread with a Gibson Johnny Smith that is priced right and another member has intruded on the thread to bring attention to three guitars that are either marketed incorrectly or priced...

Gibson Johnny Smith- 1972 in Teaburst (PRICE DROPPED TO $6K)...

Soloing on Donna Lee is the easy part:)

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

Yeah. Please do. if there are other arguments between members, that should be taken privately or in a different part of the forum.

Gibson Johnny Smith- 1972 in Teaburst (PRICE DROPPED TO $6K)...

What happened? Someone fill me in. Did Fender or Gibson stop making guitars?

death of the USA made guitars

I like those elegant terminations of the F holes.

Comins concert 7-string $4500

Baby steps sir, baby steps for many of us. We're always lectured to about "learn the melody" and that's what we're doing at this juncture. Feel free to post your own guitar fingerings for the...

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

I was able to get a nice used Super 400 from GC. It was at one of their Houston stores. They shipped it to a Tucson GC and I was able to check it out before committing to the purchase. I...

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

Heritage now offering the H-575 as part of their Core Collection Series

Inversions

Grant Green, What is This Thing

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

2012 Gibson ES-175 thoughts

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

Tone Master Twin at 5W (attenuator) is loud enough for loud gigs

"Why Do The World's Best Guitarists Play On the Round Corner?"

Playing live and getting the best sound from the guitar

Is the Bud 6 Really That Good?

Holy ****, my (musical) ears are bad

Looking for a "jazz box"