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I hear you. i had a Korean made Epi ES 175 that cost £500. Wonderful playability and feel, well made, didn’t need any work. I’m a hack, but every really good guitarist who played that thing...
It could also be just pointing out the 3rd of Bb7 on the first beat, followed by a chromatic run down from the 9th of Bb7 to the b7, with this nice flipping of a and bflat around beat 3 of m13....
Gibson knockoffs are all around these days. Epiphones, Sire, Yamaha, even Harley Benton.. A Gibson is a very luxury item, but an Epiphone with a bit of work is just as good to play music. Which is...
About two years ago I applied to my local GC. When I went in for the interview, I explained to them that I'm a huge gear nerd and I love helping people with purchases. I have a ton of experience...
It’s mentioned here and there’s a photo of Joe holding the pick:
I like GC, and mostly for the return policy. I've never had any hassle with a return. At my local GC the staff members are musicians. They don't necessarily know much about the products, but I...
Thank you for the reply. I would love to learn how to read standard notation. Do you have any books you recommend to learn? I am an old dog at 53 but I can learn.
Yup - he said it made him feel closer to the strings.
It's not rocket science, just harmonize those scales in 3rds and 4ths (6ths are nice too) and practice them. And see the attached files on chord patterns I wrote - I'm half way to a book.
No, Joe had said in a number of interviews that he broke his picks to make them smaller, he said it was just a habit he developed.
"it would be hard to top Randy Vincent's A Cellular Approach." Sounds like a molecular biology textbook.... I guess everyone knows that Randy was Julian Lage's teacher? Both were Sonoma County, CA...
I'd never heard that but if it's true, it may have been unintentional, because Joe used to stick the pick in his mouth when he switched to playing fingerstyle (the pick came out for single line...
If you listen to jazz or analyze it transcribed, you see that all it is is short motifs developed or sequenced and longer ideas. So if you want to be fluent in jazz melody, that's what you have to...
Handling an "old" Epi and new Gibsons
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