Other Guitar Styles / Instruments

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

Satin Doll

Languedoc (ie trey anastasio’s) guitars

Great Guitars of a Jazz - Tal Farlow- Charlie...

Mick Goodrick's Almanac of Guitar Voice Leading...

There are no pitfalls specific to lowering floating pickups*. How low you can go depends on the same factors as with other types of adjustable bridge (nut condition, fret condition, neck condition,...

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

I play solely fingerstyle but I still do think that picks have a place in this world at the very least in terms of tone production. Listen to this guy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjxyVqcaGqw ...

It may be time for me to give up my search for the perfect pick.

With guitar, everything is a mess at first. Like a proper mess. Like messy kitchen.. or worse. Kitchen after moving to a new house. And when getting more into it, it's not like you'd clean up the...

Know my music on sax, now need a routine for guitar

Cal Collins

That phred looks decent. I remember seeing him say that all the clones of his guitar sucked but I’d bet these are quality instruments. I wonder who does the production? Peerless?

Languedoc (ie trey anastasio’s) guitars

Just slowly lower it until it plays comfortably w out string buzz and you should be ok, though it may require some adjustment once it settles in.

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

[FONT=&quot] I'm in there most days and have played with more jazz players than I can remember so anything possible. However mines a 65 JS and same avatar i use here is in Jam Kazam and its...

Has anyone tested Jamkazam? (online playing)

A piano player I used to play with who knew him, said he was known as a string player. He could play any instrument with strings-banjo, mandolin, violin etc... bluegrass.

Cal Collins

Good day JGF! Let me preface this by typing that I've never setup a guitar with a floating bridge, so I'm a little apprehensive even before I start. I use Thomastik 12s or 13s flats on my WesMo...

WesMo Setup How Low Can I Go?

Eric Gale is one of my heroes.

"Mister Magic" a la Chet Atkins

Don’t tell a shamisen player that picks don’t matter. I had the pleasure of hearing and talking with a master shamisen player in Tokyo several years ago. He told me his “pick” (they have their...

It may be time for me to give up my search for the perfect pick.

Setting-up my own guitars is something I've wanted to do for years and last year, I finally decided that I would learn. I've done some of the things others have mentioned here; StewMac, YouTube,...

Guitar Setup like a Boss

Agree. Perhaps a photo of the back of the neck where it merges with the headstock would help explain the rather odd-looking area around the nut?

Gibson L-50

Week 8. Day 1 of "ATTYA" at 71 bpm. Wow, this is challenging! I'm not even focusing on the triplets too much. Like JBN suggested, I'm trying to outline the chords first then use triplets for various...

Howard Roberts Super Chops: study group for a tune based practice routine

QC on plain string gauges is low, in my experience. I've been checking the sizes of a bunch of plain strings recently, with a decent micrometer and multiple measurements along the string length, and...

Are all plain strings the same?

Jgbe virtual jam, round 1

RIP Gibson Archtop guitar

Some very cool new amps coming from Fender.

2003 Epiphone Emperor Regent Video added

Your Gibson L-5 Choice

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

Green Heritage JS?

Is this a fake Gibson?

New Ibanez Thinline Hollowbodies

Retail therapy...bought a Martin 000

Thinline acoustic archtop?

1988 Gibson ES-175–woohoo!

Steve Holst be Da Man!