Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

$8500 - 2010 Moffa Maestro Virtuoso Archtop Black...

A really nice pickup in a cheap guitar

It all begins with “Preparations”

Gibson LeGrand Missing Split Diamond Inlay

The Moon Song, Johnny Mandell

I don’t know —- it’s a kind of classical fingering. I tend toward big jumps like this to keep position fingerings consistent. Almost always I’ll choose something like that over a smoother motion that...

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

But don't forget it's not a stage show. You need to show it's in a thriving pub environment as well as having the jazz trio.

How to promote yourself and social media etc :)

Well, you'll have to shift somewhere, won't you? Here's a symmetrical fingering that I prefer.

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

I'm guessing you missed the short-lived Fender promo: Buy a dozen of their custom shop hats, get a free custom shop guitar. It didn't last long, they quickly realized it was not a cost effective...

Baldness

I'm thinking the Improvisation subforum folder would be best, Jack, since hopefully that's how we apply your ideas. I believe it's a fairly typical shredder fingering approach, a la Gambale,...

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

Ah well, agree to disagree on that one.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Never realized that the forum has an invisible ink option, could be useful when you don't really want people to reply to your comment. :anonymous: You must first be able to recognize the...

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

The operative words being "at length" and "fun" A 125-post discussion of triplets is not my idea of fun.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

I see.... the trouble started when you left the relative safety of the melodic minor scale, never do that! :wink-new: Here's a similar lick in F melodic minor, which is commonly used for...

The Notated Lick Compendium

I've become a pretty good sight reader but it took taking up piano ?. My guitar sight reading skills still need some work but I've found that I'm a much better piano player than guitar player anyway...

I need help sight reading on guitar

I'm always hesitant to tell another musician to turn down. Maybe I don't need to be, since, when I do ask, they usually respond well, but that refers to regular colleagues, not people I just met at...

I think I'm a sensitive little snowflake of a player.

Offers considered

Campellone 17” Thin-bodied Archtop

The guy who took care of me was at Bond Audio, I think the “parent” company(?)

D'Angelico (New) Cust Service - Yay!

It depends on the year. AF Artcore necks by year, scale length, width at nut, width at last fret, thickness at 1st fret, thickness at 12th fret, radius: 2004 628mm/ 24¾"

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Just out of curiosity, what is the neck like on the AF55?

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Baldness

Fake Instagram Guitar

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

On smaller speakers...

More Ed Bickert

Moving from bedroom to stage...

Music In My Head

2022 Borys B-120

Some thoughts while working on a guitar