Spalted Beech top and ‘Skinny mids’ pickups
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New song ‘Way Down’ and my first video
New song ‘Way Down’ and my first video.
As its too cold to work on the guitars in the workshop and I am waiting for paint, which is taking ages due to the weather. I have spent a few days working with new video software (Filmora X) and a song I wrote awhile back which is a slow blues.
A Telecaster or Stratocaster for Jazz ?
So the question is which one has the better Jazz sound given the choice of guitar /pickups ? It is of course generally excepted that you a have to play Jazz on semi acoustics but I beg to differ. What do you think ?
Its snowing and freezing in Scotland some Jazz guitar to warm up to ?
So I started with learning a Jazz classic ‘The A Train’ just the melody line, but then you have t solo over the chord progression. That is when it starts to get difficult especially if your used to Blues and Country guitar.
Checking pickups and capacitors
This is just a quick and simple post about measuring the K value of pickups and capacitance (uF) of capacitors in guitar circuits.