The Players

Playing live and getting the best sound from the...

Nervous NGD x2

Bill Frisell - Moon River on 1958 Bigsby

StewMac Alnico II Neck Gold Humbucker $70

Shift Line Twin MkIIIs tube preamp/DI/headphone...

"volume power is not an indicator of a fine sound archtop.” - Volume is an indicator of a well wade acoustic guitar. A balanced range of frequencies denotes the tone and ‘fine sound’, that I think...

Incoming 1968 Gibson Johnny Smith

Is that significant? I haven't paid attention to exactly where threads are posted - in which subforum - and have not seen any threads moved because they were posted in the "wrong" subforum. ...

Who's Your Favorite Bass Player?

Thanks! That squeak on the wound strings is something I dislike about playing nylon strings.

Nylon Stringed Electrics?

Is that wall behind where you are playing ceramic tile? Could that have weir reflective properties and effect how you were hearing yourself?

Playing live and getting the best sound from the guitar

I'm in. I already know the tune, but would love to work along with you all thinking about how to play it best. We're posting clips for each segment?

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

This is kind of an open-ended discussion--just throwing it out there for opinions. For our recent show in a smallish club--50 in the audience--I took along my Gretsch G6117 reissue and Fishman...

Playing live and getting the best sound from the guitar

Very true, context is important...if there's no bass player, I'm playing a lot more roots...

Inversions

Nothing quite like that in the charts I'm seeing. I wonder if the arranger wrote in backbeats or something, or if the chart would just have slashes.

Inversions

I'd second this. Try to play a 16" 2.5-2.75" depth guitar and a 17" over 3" depth guitar if you can, even if it is not the exact models. While the difference in measurements appears very small, they...

Benedetto Bravo Deluxe or Gibson WesMo Crimson

I owned two Guild-Benedetto Artist Award guitars, both made in Westerly. The first one was very quiet acoustically and frankly was a bit underwhelming. I sold that one on EBay. The second one was...

Incoming 1968 Gibson Johnny Smith

Gotta be! The seller did say in an earlier post that he has a lot of sevens, and many of those now posted look like wonderful guitars. With 6 sevens in my rack, my needs are narrow and well...

Used Frans Elferink "Moderne" 7-string 18" inch body

Are you only seeing intermediate level guitar players that are playing with just another intermediate level guitar players? I ask this because for years I only used 6th and 5th string root...

Inversions

?The Amos? 'n Andy Show?

Television

After messing with it for a few minutes during lunch that seems to make the most sense.

Bebop heads: Donna Lee

I think the style dictates everything. The Freddie style is an old way of playing..I love it, but of course it's not what you're going to hear in a modern style big band... Like even though...

Inversions

How to play over Min7b5 (half diminished) chords, Gibson 175, FractalAudio

Anyone handled the new Epis?

Who's Your Favorite Bass Player?

Aint Misbehavin chord meldy theory help

Incoming 1968 Gibson Johnny Smith

Nylon Stringed Electrics?

Dorian b5 and Mixolydian b9 scales. Why not?

What are your rules when having to criticise?

Benedetto Bravo Deluxe or Gibson WesMo Crimson

New appreciation for Steely Dan

Ibanez GB10 vs Gibson L4CES over Doxy - which do you like better?

Help, this theory question is blowing my mind

Passing chord C --> Em7