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That’s exactly why I’m remaking it :) I wanted to do a series of archtops that could have been vastly improved (in the publics eye) if not for one or two alterations. I was going to call it the...
Player here, no building experience. I saw an Eastman non-cut 805 listed as a lefty. Other than the nut and saddle, what would make it left-handed? Are the two sides of the top carved differently?...
Yeah I'm a grown adult with job / kids ... have a group of friends since HS that I play music with but obviously don't have as much time as I used to. Regarding reading ... my main goals is that...
Thanks everyone! A lot of great ideas in this thread!
Oh dang. I didn’t think about that. Not a bad idea. Read them in third position. Go through again in fifth, etc.
My recommendation is How to Play Bebop vol 2 by David Baker. It's a compendium of turnarounds in the key of C. So you build vocabulary while you develop some basic reading skills. After working my...
Here's Howard Roberts sight reading book (out of print) that I posted in another thread: What is the best Scale System to use when reading music?
Nothing when I reread it. I was really stuck in thinking only about music students.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that he plays mostly 2 note chords, I'm just challenging myself to do it.
Bought a guitar from Ric, and will vouch that his packing and shipping were very well done, and he was very conservative with the way he described the condition. When I got the guitar, it looked...
This is a fun album: Gatemouth actually opened for my band once long ago in the Bay Area. Must have been filling in an off night. He rolled in about a half hour before the gig, killed it, and...
This fleshes out the 3 things a bit. I think it's pretty solid:
Thread revival. Just got the Blu and used it for about an hour, trying various settings. I'm a long term Little Jazz user. I bought the Blu in the hope that it would sound better than the...
Left-Handed Non-Cut Carve?
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