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D'Angelico is a higher end guitar and it'll cost you less in the long run. Once you get more experience if you move onto another jazz box, you can sell D'Angelico for the same price or more. JP is...
True. As one who struggles to play even moderately fast, I've learned that playing fast is a different kind of playing than playing slow. If I choose a fingering and picking pattern at, say, 140,...
Thanks for the responses! At this point, I’m going to keep it as it is. This is the BEST guitar I have ever played, it’s perfect, beautifully resonant, with the high ends like a flat top, to go with...
Ha! True that on my photo. Now if the guitar in your link is ostentatious rubbish, I am a edel kitsch fan. It resembles art deco on steroids. Good stuff.
The guitar in your illustration has a flat back. Wouldn't the "pressure point" be less with an arched back?
I don’t like the shape of the original but much prefer celluloid over black plastic for a nice guitar. The new one is interesting but I don’t think it is right for the guitar. I see the reference...
I just bought an Epi SG Standard 61. A great guitar and affordable.
Even the holes where the knobs sit have tiny scratches on it (switched to CTS pots) and are at different heights. I have to talk to him and get this off my chest. The bridge pickup has faulty...
Perhaps use two mandolin pickups :-) TAP Man-R Mandolin Pickup – Thomann UK
the scratches were completely avoidable …. I would now walk away if I were you He doesn’t have the basic knowledge and skills to do this work ….
So I've been working on some technical exercises for some students with the general theory being that a lot of very idiomatic bebop stuff was developed in a bit of a guitar vacuum, and consequently...
The Krivo micro PAF can be mounted with putty without having to put any holes in the neck/guard, but unfortunately there's no 8 string model. Maybe something similar could be done if you can source a...
Another good reason to start by learning classical technique first? FWIW, I once mentioned some of the speed exercise topics from here on another forum with a good share of advanced classical...
Bebop Technique
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