Skip to content
tinsmith
@tinsmith
Prominent Member
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
Topics: 29 / Replies: 801
Reply
Re: Martin factory behind the scenes tour

We used to get a deal buying it from the factory.....That's gone I believe.....Too bad, I always wanted to go and getting a deal would seal it....

7 years ago
Reply
Re: Scales

Start off with the pentatonic blues scale shapes, which is the minor pentatonic with a few extra "blue" notes added...

8 years ago
Reply
Re: first gutiar advice

Maybe you acquired some nylon jobbies??

9 years ago
Reply
Re: first gutiar advice

I find Snarling Dog Brain picks (nylon) or Jim Dunlop (nylon) picks easy...They don't spin around & the knurls keep them in place.

9 years ago
Reply
Re: Thinking of taking up violin

How about mandolin instead.....The same tuning as a violin.....You could relate more easily...It is also backwards guitar, kinda......Look at the tuni...

9 years ago
Reply
Re: strat neck height

Have you seen this??You probably need a straight edge or a good eye to check the neck for straight...

9 years ago
Reply
Re: DADGAD

I find I can use it for slapping, tapping harmonics. raking the strings as well as just making rhythmic moves just pressing down sharply on the fret b...

11 years ago
Reply
Re: Questions about plat picking

I hold it like a 45 degree angle & kinda of "slice" the strings......for what it's worth.....

11 years ago
Reply
Re: Leslie/B3 sound on guitar

I believe this what the people that can afford it get...

11 years ago
Reply
Re: Modes and Chords

Noteboat is the guy you want to talk to....I understand what I know about modes...but I can't understand him...maybe I'm not listening correctly. Mayb...

11 years ago
Reply
Re: Do you remember

I happened to notice a "Singing for Dummies" book & had given it a thought, being vocally impaired. If Dylan & Neil Young can do it, so can I....

11 years ago
Forum
Reply
Re: Resonators?

I have a Jay Turser, but it seriously needs to be amplied....You could almost just use a guitar, except it does sound a bit like one thru the piezio.....

11 years ago
Reply
Re: Mixolydian/Ionian/Lydian vs Dorian/Aeolian/Phrygian

super-locrian exists so one can play like John McLaughlin playing Birds of Fire.

11 years ago
Page 1 / 56