Other Guitar Styles / Instruments

Mooer Micro Looper vs. Ditto TC Electronic

Cal Collins

Guitarist Biographies

Sunday Flowers. Acoustic improv and nature...

Japanese MANN Howard Roberts guitar (Ibanez 2453...

Well, at the risk of looking like a prima donna, and with apologies to those who liked them, I've decided all my previous versions of this tune are rubbish so I've deleted them. Here's a nice...

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

Happy owner of a 000-28 Shenandoah model here. Made and bought in 1984, Martin's first attempt at reaching to the less affluent customers. Came with a built in 332 Martin Thinline piezo - luckily...

Retail therapy...bought a Martin 000

Pat Metheny - Lesson on Improvisation - YouTube how to get started playing changes - YouTube Sweat the basics. Without that it’s all a house of cards.

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Ok. Thank You. I will try.

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Well there’s no thinking. You just play them. There’s no clever concept; just 1 3 5 on every chord all over the neck in half notes through a tune. That’s the basic skeleton. You can make music...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

No, I'm not a begginer. I would say I'm intermediate. I play changes but ... mainly with scales (chord - scales, not key center approach). I've been working on Stella recently and playing a few...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Well if fusion is your bag I may not be the best person to ask. I haven’t spent so much time studying that music. but there are a lot triads in Metheny, Scofield and Scott Henderson. Also use of...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Christianm77 thank you for the explanation. Now I understand your point of view. Yes, I'm interested in more fusion sounds and I know people think more of a chord-scale approach in this genre....

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

Not much of a jazz-fusion guitar fan here but I enjoyed your approach nonetheless, John! And thanks to everyone who took time to listen to my clip and comment.

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

I used to own Ditto (small one) and loved .. then I did not use it for a long time and when needed some cash sold it. Now I seem to use looper more (I use one on delay FX station but want a separate...

Mooer Micro Looper vs. Ditto TC Electronic

You’ll hear lines that focus for example on the first five notes of the minor scale 1-2-b3-4-5, the diminished tetrachord 1-b9-#9-9 on dominant chords, The pentatonic outline thing 1-2-3-5 is...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

To invoke a meme - Yes.

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

There is a "range of excitement" that includes this: Upward movements are more exciting than downward movements. Larger movement increments are more exciting than smaller increments. So for...

Scales/Arpeggios dillema

After testing a few other speakers I settled for these Pyles in my Twin Reverb because they sounded best! So maybe not exciting in terms of value, but an underrated speaker imho!

Can someone ID this speaker?

I bought a gig bag from a member of this forum, who I later heard on a radio talk show, playing in a popular Broadway show that he played the oud in. He was improvising brilliantly on the thing, and...

Does anyone here play Oud as well as guitar?

Jgbe virtual jam, round 1

RIP Gibson Archtop guitar

Some very cool new amps coming from Fender.

Your Gibson L-5 Choice

2003 Epiphone Emperor Regent Video added

Jgbe Virtual Jam, Round 2

Is this a fake Gibson?

Green Heritage JS?

New Ibanez Thinline Hollowbodies

I built a Champ!

Thinline acoustic archtop?

1988 Gibson ES-175–woohoo!

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