For the organ trio (Funk-Jazz) it has to be a hollowbody – I use either my Ibanez GB10 or Gibson ES 330. Looking forward to bring my newly acquired GB200 into the circulation when gigging starts again. All these are strung with .012 flatwounds for the punchy tone. For anything else (Funk, Blues, Rockabilly) I prefer a telecaster – mostly my two homegrown telecasters made from parts - strung with .010 roundwounds for the twangy riffs.
For daily practicing and occasional gigs, my 74 Gibson Johnny Smith and 98 Wes Mo, depending on the gig. The last couple of days, it's been my 68 L7c. Been using that one to teach with as well because its light and loud enough so doesn't need amp.
I like to use different guitars depending upon what I am working on.
Well it has been years since I played for anyone but me. My wife comes from a rock and roll background and her criticism of my inability to play the hits of her day made me give up for years, then I thought, F** it, I am doing this for me. Mainly these days I play an Ibanez SJ300, good solid acoustic response, works well with either the Yamaha or Line 6 amps. But then sometimes I pull out the Eastrman AR371CE, a good guitar but needs a great setup, then again I might grab the Eastman AR503CE and when I do I really wonder why I have not had it fully set up. Light, responsive and with a great acoustic voice.
The problem is that I am a really bad musician, only capable of producing good music when teamed with the "band in my mind"; as long as they are on [imaginary] song all is well.
But doing what I do gives me pleasure and more than anything else it keeps me wanting to start each day by breathing again!
More than this it is one thing that stops my chronic PTSD and depression overwhelming me. I am the last of the "stick" I served with in 78/79 and I still want to keep going for some unknown reason; guitar helps!
I have been playing my Memphis EL300 (Matsumoku) and my Strat and Tele for many months now. However, it's time to rotate the stock, so lately I've been playing the Polytone Improv II that I bought five years back from Hammertone. It's a super guitar and a very worthy replacement for my old Gibson ES-335.
It covers many bases and gets a very warm, jazz tone on the neck pickup through my Polytone Mini Brute II. The guitar currently has 10-46 Ernie Ball rounds on it, which sound great. (Yep, that's Hammertone's chair.)
I've recently gotten more into amp sims so with each one it's like I'm being reintroduced to my guitars, so I like to rotate them to keep that sense of magic and discovery alive. I'm getting the best tones I've ever gotten now and it's very exciting.
That said, it's still the same old elitist Sheraton that it's always been. It just sounds amazing for recording, with so many cool tones in there. It's what a guitar sounds and feels like to me.
Also extremely popular these days is a newcomer: the yairi dym60hd. Red spruce over 50 year old Honduran mahogany. It's very, very special. It might just become the #1 acoustic, which is really saying something. Songs just pour out of the thing; I come up with another new doodle almost everytime I pick it up.
I'm finding the same thing to be true. I find a guitar with so many specs I love and then I ask for neck specs (or look them up) only to see tons of people saying such and such guitar has a thin...
I don't think you have to learn anything, you just need to play something. If it sounds good, that's good enough. Everybody's so frightened of everything!
Last night I wrote out a very diatonic AABA progression in C and noodled over it a few times without really thinking, just as it came out. Fact is, I never hit a single avoid note. No F's over C, or...
LaBella Jazz Flats on all my electrics. Man, I love a good flat wound string and will never go back to roundwounds. Better, more even sounding chords and still plenty of snap off the LaBellas on the...
As far as how to play it, the A section is basically a bunch of ii-Vs which move around (with a lot of those chromatic little shifts that Benny likes). So chunk it into ii-Vs and work on it like...
Stablemates is not on Moanin’, perhaps you were thinking of Along Came Betty which is on the album.
Incidentally I recently got the Sher Music Benny Golson songbook (which says it uses Benny’s own...
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Well, the first thing I was ever aware of was show tunes, which my mother played at home – early Rodgers & Hammerstein stuff. And I heard a lot of hymns at school. Then...
My awful confession does involve banjos.... In my defense it started innocently playing with finger picking my ancient (WW1 ?) tenor. My rationalization was it is good finger stretching exercise for...
Thanks man, I'm not consciously using rest strokes if that's what I'm doing haha.
I should dig back into this one and analyze it, I'm can't remember what polytonal subs he's using here. In general...
You're getting awfully hung up on the specific word "lick" but my guess is that Jack used that word primarily to make a little fun at Christian's video.
They are, after all, somewhat in dialogue.
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