Check out this video I did for those of you who struggle with reading charts.
Showing posts with label squire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squire. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Cool Tool - The "African" Guitar
Bought a used Squier Tele for $119 and turned it into an "African" guitar. Same tuning, just put a skinny string (.009-.012) in place of the fourth string.
Tuning - E, A, D (up octave), G, B, E
Just the D string is changed.
Voicings played in the video...
xx5555 - Am7 (Ukulele tuning)
xx0212 - D7, xx4535 - D7, xx7778 - D7, xx10111010 - D7
x5423x - D, x10978 - G, x1211912x - A
xx0232 - D, xx0433 - G, xx0655 - A4
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Recent R&B Session...
Some of the guitars were my $99 Squire...
And beware, I just picked up an $89 used Squire, it's already appearing on some tracks.
And beware, I just picked up an $89 used Squire, it's already appearing on some tracks.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Bone Tone
Several years ago I was sitting in a pit band playing acoustic next to Bob Sobo, an excellent player, who was playing electric. After the first sound check and rehearsal the house engineer came up to me and said of my Taylor acoustic, "that's the best sounding acoustic guitar I've ever heard." Before I could agree with him Bob chimed in, "It's the Injun not the arrows."
It took me a second to get the axion. I'd never heard it. What Bob was saying was something I never would've said myself for fear of sounding egotistical. That it wasn't the instrument, it was the hands that wielded it. The hands that had played a million G chords and at least as many C, D, E and A chords. Hands that had been guided and directed by teachers, producers, artists and composers for 30 years. Hands that had played on thousands of tracks.
Unintentionally proving this point one weekend I played my $99 Squire Strat at church for fun. Several people came up to me to ask what new instrument I was playing. All were amazed at how good this cheap Chinese made electric sounded. Myself included. What friend even came up to me and jokingly said, "I hate you!"
Another friend of mine, who had a real job, always had better gear than me, had me play his Tom Anderson guitar. He had changed the pick-ups for the third time trying to get that "tone." As I played it I thought, "this sounds sweet!" Just as he said, "it sounds good when you play it." It's not the gear.
How many of your favorite guitarists played sub-par instruments? Especially old school guys. The blues greats.
All this goes to say, you can buy more gear to improve your sound. Or it may be something as cost effective as practicing more. Playing out more. I don't think that there is a surgeon that can give you "bone tone".
Squier® by Fender® MINITM, Black
Taylor Guitars 814ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric Guitar
It took me a second to get the axion. I'd never heard it. What Bob was saying was something I never would've said myself for fear of sounding egotistical. That it wasn't the instrument, it was the hands that wielded it. The hands that had played a million G chords and at least as many C, D, E and A chords. Hands that had been guided and directed by teachers, producers, artists and composers for 30 years. Hands that had played on thousands of tracks.
Unintentionally proving this point one weekend I played my $99 Squire Strat at church for fun. Several people came up to me to ask what new instrument I was playing. All were amazed at how good this cheap Chinese made electric sounded. Myself included. What friend even came up to me and jokingly said, "I hate you!"
Another friend of mine, who had a real job, always had better gear than me, had me play his Tom Anderson guitar. He had changed the pick-ups for the third time trying to get that "tone." As I played it I thought, "this sounds sweet!" Just as he said, "it sounds good when you play it." It's not the gear.
How many of your favorite guitarists played sub-par instruments? Especially old school guys. The blues greats.
All this goes to say, you can buy more gear to improve your sound. Or it may be something as cost effective as practicing more. Playing out more. I don't think that there is a surgeon that can give you "bone tone".
Squier® by Fender® MINITM, Black
Taylor Guitars 814ce Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric Guitar
Monday, March 7, 2011
Cheap Guitar God - $99 Squire Strat
I want to pick up an Epi LP too at some point to string up high-strung and leave it that way.
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