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I agree. Hence my amusement at that B natural over a long stretch of F major. Tune. Use those ears, baby.
Why is learning by ear a good idea instead of using someone else’s transcription in your view? Is it because it teaches you stuff? I assume so, but I’m curious what you think.
AA: The reason jazz is unique is that musicians play the changes eloquently. Dicking around in the scale of the tonal center is really tacky imo. Using the scale of the tonal center is important to...
Julian Lage put some bolts into his telecaster neck mount to make it easy to disassemble the guitar for travel. Explanation at the link below: Julian Lage shares pro tip for traveling with a...
Modes are stupid in this context. It’s a swing tune, it’s C. Also, is the ii V in the tune or just the realbook?
Different finish, but my one and only is a 16 VOS as well. Done buying, done looking. Swear I spent more money A/B - ing strings, mainly because they all sounded good to me on this guitar, but once...
The question wasn't addressed to me, but why let that stop me from jumping in? :rolleyes: IME, the polepieces need to be adjusted more or less as follows to make the strings sound balanced to me. ...
Some might say the same of the guy playing Lydian for four measures over a swing tune. I kid I kid I kid. But for real, the practical difference is “do you play B or Bb” and most soloists on...
Superb quality guitars. I have a hollow Les-Paul shaped one and it's in regular rotation.
Lovely guitar. That is a very nice burst.
While I get the point, and to a large part agree, some of these emulations (and the hardware itself) have a curve you would never come up with on a digital eq. For instance a Massive Passive is...
I think a lot of folks are trying too hard.
That just sounds so great. TK has a sound vision all his own. He had it already fully formed when I met him almost 30 years ago and I still hear the same thing today: remarkable clarity but with...
Some years ago I bought a new Danelectro 12 string electric that was shipped that way from the US to UK. It was the cheapest way to post. Strings were cellotaped to the neck. The 4 neck screws were...
I have added various useful specifications above for the first three of the Roger guitars shown. Mittenwald and later Rogers were standardized with -24 3/4" scale lengths; -17" wide / 21"...
Another Recording of my TK Smith Special
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