Just a guess but I think it could be a kind of mineral streak that showed over a period of time, maybe accelerated by the wood being bookmatch cut and exposed to air when the guitar was being built....
So what’s a chord pattern?
Do you mean identifying things like I vi ii V.
Or are you talking about changing two bars of D into something like
|Dmaj7 D6 |Em A13|
or both?
I sometimes see one chord written directly above another chord - in big band charts.
I think that the guitar is best off playing the lower chord in those situations, but that's just based on a...
Consider the following:
C6 = Cmaj triad with a major sixth = C E G A
What happens when we take the same notes and put A on the bottom? A C E G = A-7
The context - what the listener hears -...
The Bellson book does not have any melody. It's all one note, afaik.
So, it isolates rhythm. Didn't work well for me, but others swear by it.
The book I recommended, Rhythms Complete is less...
In this particular instance I want DGCF only. Writing Dm11 means somebody might play E and A. Also, I think calling it an 11 rather than a 4 might lead somebody to put the G on top.
If I were...
and of course we have chord charts in Roman Numbers
I7 ii7 iii7 IV7 V7 vi7 viio7
Back when I was doing some studio work,,I always had to make sure what chord names really meant.
Most of the...
Yes, I guess so. It will also depend on the height of the saddle itself. The point I'm making though is that it's become apparent that a lot of people (not necessarily me included) don't like these...
I recently tried an S2 Single Cut 594, which I guess is supposed to be as close to a Les Paul as PRS gets. I'd say it felt and played a bit differently. Despite the way they pitch it as...
Yes, it does work better with vocals. If you want to know how the pros comp behind a singer, try doing what I did: use it on Fitzgerald & Pass...Again Moises cuts out the vocal almost totally and...
Fret size your choice
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