The inside outside thing is a bad analogy, because there is tons of vocabulary and there are tons of great players who spend time playing “inside” so you can learn the way people play by learning to...
I had a mahogany/spruce Heritage Eagle (2002) and sent the pickup assembly up to Kent to wind me one of his PAF pickups and he also changed the 250 ohm pots to 500. It sounded fantastic to me,...
Well, one theory for "whats art.. all about" is that you got your perfect model, but create something that is different from that, and art is the tension that this created by that expectation and...
I don’t know of any. I think there were JBL speakers in Standel amps from the beginning, and the recent ones carry rebuilt originals. So that Ovation-labeled speaker is almost certainly a...
Yeah exactly.
If you slow down the solos of great players, what you find is that they swing inconsistently, which is part of how they get their lines to 'speak'. By inconsistent I mean not always...
I've been focusing on improving my sense of time and developing a solid grip on swing feel.
Most advice I've come across suggests learning it from great players—transcribing and imitating their...
I bought the Kwikplug system for my Gretsch, because I was trying a bunch of different pickups, but then got tired of working on the guitar (because it's SUCH a PITA) rather than playing it, so I...
I recently got a used Washburn HB15CTS that I have to return. It has a lot of issues that either can't be fixed, or it's not worth my time and money to fix. Bad neck angle, uneven frets that would...
Thoughts on triplet-swing.
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