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***OFFICIAL*** Guitar Guys Thread -- all axes, all the time (1 Viewer)
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bigbottom
Footballguy
Beautiful!!! Let us know how it plays once you get it. But you sold the SG? I've sold one guitar my entire life. I get too attached to them once I own them. Still have my first electric guitar purchased in 1984.
I need to put a light polycrylic finish on the body before assembling and haven't gotten around to it yet. Also still toying with ideas on the electronics.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Heritage usese solid wood. Even the premium Gibsons use plywood. Seems like an easy choice to me since the price of the high end models is very close.
Otis
Footballguy
Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
If you ever want a handmade axe, my buddy does amazing work.Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
Otis
Footballguy
Nice. I'd love to retire early and build custom guitars.Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazingIf you ever want a handmade axe, my buddy does amazing work.>
Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Totally. We have a lot of lutheirs here in Northern Cali.Nice. I'd love to retire early and build custom guitars.Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazingIf you ever want a handmade axe, my buddy does amazing work.>>
Love those Seeet 16s. The Super Eagles are pretty awesome too.I can't say enough about Heritage. My Sweet 16 is beautiful. I bet that Scofield model sounds amazing
Britney Spears
guest speaker
IN.I will definitely be challenged to keep up, but I'll give it a go.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Apple Jack
Footballguy
Anybody else with a Taylor get the stain from the inside of the case? Such bull####. I really hate them at this point.
bigbottom
Footballguy
I have a Taylor. No idea what you're talking about.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
I noticed a stain on the top of my guitar and assumed it came from one of the many latenight booze sessions at my place after I closed the bar and had people over. I couldn't get it off and just lived with it for a few years now. Finally out of curiosity I googled how to clean it and came up with a bunch of results from people with Taylors explaining exactly what happened to me, and that it's from the inside of the case somehow. It almost looks like a water stain, but it isn't. Or if you're familiar with what fungus on greens look like on a golf course...same look, just greyish.
And you and your family are in my thoughts, GB.
bigbottom
Footballguy
Thanks. Geez, that sucks. It's a Taylor case, I presume? That's weird (and completely frustrating, I imagine).
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Exactly what I was thinking. And maybe we do two weeks per tune instead of just one to give us more time with each?
Otis
Footballguy
A couple other great resources I stumbled across for learning the jazz standards.
Here are backing tracks, so you can practice playing the melody and improving over it:
http://www.ralphpatt.com/Backing.html
Here are basic chord structures for each song:
http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html
Not idea as the chord structure is super basic and doesn't include tabs, and we also don't have tabs for the melodies themselves. But we should be able to find all of that stuff on a song-by-song basis as we go forward, and these may just be helpful backup tools.
Here are backing tracks, so you can practice playing the melody and improving over it:
http://www.ralphpatt.com/Backing.html
Here are basic chord structures for each song:
http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html
Not idea as the chord structure is super basic and doesn't include tabs, and we also don't have tabs for the melodies themselves. But we should be able to find all of that stuff on a song-by-song basis as we go forward, and these may just be helpful backup tools.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
This is a cool idea. I'm
ing to follow along, but I am an uber novice. I will be watching and try to use the sources to see what I can do. I'd love to teach myself how to play, so I'm giving this a shot (in the background).
E Street Brat
Footballguy
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Two weeks is better for me if that works.Otis said:
Abraham
Footballguy
I've owned bc rich, Jackson, carvin, charvellle, Kramer, ibanez and a slew of metal types of guitars. I like the build quality of ESP most of the lot but that might just be personal preference. The biggest thing IMO is to make sure the pickup holes are a tight fit with the pickups. Some of them - especially Kramer - had a slew of guitars where it looks like the saw was drunk when cutting. Hard to explain but the ESP I have had always felt better put together. That said, if you want a metal guitar with an Un orthodox shape the Jackson Kelly or Robyn machete are excellent choices.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Thanks for the info. I had it in my head that ESP made better guitars, but I had little evidence to back that up.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I've heard little about the Cavallo other than it's the guy that used to be with Dean. That is one sweet looking guitar, though.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
E Street Brat
Footballguy
Have we picked a tune yet?
saintsfan
Footballguy
Been playing bass for years. Own a Mexican Fender Jazz Bass and I play that one most of the time and a Hofner 500/1 1963 reissue.
Recently, however, I wanted to get back into playing guitar, so I got an Epiphone EJ-160. I love it. Love the way it looks. Love the way it feels. Don't have an amp for it because I haven't really gotten that far where I need one, but if I were to buy an amp, BB, which one would you recommend for that guitar?? We're talking playing mostly classic rock and playing mostly rhythm guitar. I'm not going to be playing anything much bigger than a gymnasium or occasionally a small festival. I want something solid with good tone that won't necessarily break the bank, but has decent power. In the future, when I buy a solid body electric, I would probably go Fender's way. Probably a Strat.
What do you think???
edit: One more thing, because I've mostly played bass the last 20 years, I am having a hard time with a pick. It just feels like a foreign object to me, so I've mostly been playing with my fingers. Don't know if that changes your answer, but I thought for full disclosure, I would let you know.
Recently, however, I wanted to get back into playing guitar, so I got an Epiphone EJ-160. I love it. Love the way it looks. Love the way it feels. Don't have an amp for it because I haven't really gotten that far where I need one, but if I were to buy an amp, BB, which one would you recommend for that guitar?? We're talking playing mostly classic rock and playing mostly rhythm guitar. I'm not going to be playing anything much bigger than a gymnasium or occasionally a small festival. I want something solid with good tone that won't necessarily break the bank, but has decent power. In the future, when I buy a solid body electric, I would probably go Fender's way. Probably a Strat.
What do you think???
edit: One more thing, because I've mostly played bass the last 20 years, I am having a hard time with a pick. It just feels like a foreign object to me, so I've mostly been playing with my fingers. Don't know if that changes your answer, but I thought for full disclosure, I would let you know.
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bigbottom
Footballguy
Hey saintsfan: Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about amps for acoustics. That's a whole world of complexity I've avoided thus far. I just use the house PA for all our performances or our rehearsal PA for practice coupled with an LR Baggs para acoustic DI/Preamp.
I did just recently purchase a Bose L1 compact for acoustic solo/duo performances and it sounds amazing with incredible feedback control (it's placed behind you so you use it as both a compact PA and a monitor). I know a number of acoustic artists use L1 systems on stage.
Good luck!
I did just recently purchase a Bose L1 compact for acoustic solo/duo performances and it sounds amazing with incredible feedback control (it's placed behind you so you use it as both a compact PA and a monitor). I know a number of acoustic artists use L1 systems on stage.
Good luck!
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OC Zed
Footballguy
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Is this actually going to happen? Here's a Soundgarden song I picked up recently:
Edit: the song speed is slowed down about 1/4 to 1/2 speed.
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bigbottom
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Okay, I think we're going to do this, seems like we have enough interest.
I was going to go straight jazz standard, because that's what I love these days and it seems to be the most typical teaching tool, but in order to have what I think will be some more widespread interest here, I'm going to go with something that I think may appeal more to the masses and have a little bit of something for everyone, and it's got a simple chord progression, and it's one we all probably know.
For the first tune, I select:
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Chord Progression (The first one listed here is accurate, not the second)
A version of the tab/solo (Haven't confirmed it's the best/most accurate)
(there are probably better ones)Git 'er done, rockers.
Otis
Footballguy
Also, it's in the key of Dm and is a standard 12 bar blues format, so you can use about a million different scales to improv over this bad boy. Most or all of Santana's soloing is based on a standard D blues/ pentatonic scale with some major notes mixed in (F major scale, I think?).
Frim Wiki (which suggests it is the mi7 chords contrary to my post above--but that doesn't sound as correct to me. Anyone?):
While the song follows the same general structure of Peter Green's version, also set in common time, in D minor and using the same melody and lyrics, it is considerably different, with a slightly altered chord pattern (Dm7– Am7–Dm7–Gm7–Dm7–Am7–Dm7), occasionally mixing between the Dorian and Aeolian modes, especially in the song's intro. A curious blend of blues, rock, jazz, 3/2 afro-Cuban son clave, and "Latin" polyrhythms, Santana's arrangement added conga, timbales and other percussion, in addition to organ and piano, to make complex polyrhythms that give the song a "voodoo" feel distinct from the original.[1]
Frim Wiki (which suggests it is the mi7 chords contrary to my post above--but that doesn't sound as correct to me. Anyone?):
While the song follows the same general structure of Peter Green's version, also set in common time, in D minor and using the same melody and lyrics, it is considerably different, with a slightly altered chord pattern (Dm7– Am7–Dm7–Gm7–Dm7–Am7–Dm7), occasionally mixing between the Dorian and Aeolian modes, especially in the song's intro. A curious blend of blues, rock, jazz, 3/2 afro-Cuban son clave, and "Latin" polyrhythms, Santana's arrangement added conga, timbales and other percussion, in addition to organ and piano, to make complex polyrhythms that give the song a "voodoo" feel distinct from the original.[1]
Otis
Footballguy
More tab and lesson here:
http://guitaralliance.com/riff-o-matic/black_magic_woman/black_magic_woman_ver2%5B1%5D.ptb
http://guitaralliance.com/riff-o-matic/black_magic_woman/black_magic_woman_ver2%5B1%5D.ptb
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Abraham
Footballguy
Walked in to a music store today that I used to frequent years and years ago. man, if I weren't married with a kid I would probably have a "new guitar every month" problem. Things that were so expensive back when I was in college seem more reasonable now. $500 for a Fender Tele of some sort....$299 for a used, gorgeous red flame Ibanez double-cutaway hollow body. Cool stuff for thsoe of you still buying and playing.
E Street Brat
Footballguy
First Im not a lead guy, and a novice rythmist at best.
The tab sounds right but the first part is tabbed in the wrong position,
from the video I watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaKnRUfh_5I
The 8/6 [g f ] pull off should be on an 3-1 on the E string
And the 797 [DED] bend on the g string should be a on the b string 3rd fret.
the next part is a A G F E shown on the E and B Strings But the video shows Carlos playnd it on the A String. Frets 12 10 8 7
Next is a G F E D again on the E and B Stings But again he plays it on the A String Frets 10 8 7 5
thats all I got for now
Britney Spears
guest speaker
Glad we could start with an easy one.
bigbottom
Footballguy
Fellow guitar guys: Here's what I was doing this past Saturday night. Before you ask, yes, that's a leather vest, and no, I'm not a pretty man.
ETA: Blurry dance floor shot
ETA: Blurry dance floor shot
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jdoggydogg
Footballguy
mad sweeney
Footballguy
bigbottom
Footballguy
I have no idea what this means.Oh, and by the way, that Marshall is a fridge stocked with beer. My favorite piece of stage gear.
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Reaper
Footballguy
Finally pulled the trigger on a 2004 American Telecaster on Ebay - lucked out, the thing is a beauty and is a player....
$585 plus shipping... Gotta get a pic of this thing up - Cherry red sparkle!!!!
Bought a Pocket POD this weekend to add to my Headphone "Jam Hub" system... Not happening as often as I hoped but I can have ppl over and jam while wife and kid sleep..... Roland Drum kit rocks as well!!!!
bigbottom
Footballguy
That is a great deal! Please post pics.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Really need to get off my lazy ### and plug in. While I can hamfist my way through this on my acoustic, I just can't get a true feel for it.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
I've seen those. awesome
Otis
Footballguy
I'm jealous of BB's use of his time. Big firm partner, family man, and a rocker on the weekends. Well played, sir.
You >> Otis
