It happens quite a bit and I never get tired of it, in fact, I **love it** when I’m hanging in my studio and people bring unusual guitars to share with me! Today, my friend Kevin came in with an Old Growth Redwood Telecaster. It’s a fairly new guitar and one that I had never even heard of. She’s beautiful isn’t she? The wood is soft. I feel like I could dig my fingernail right into the wood leaving a permanent divit. It sounds darker than an average tele, but it won’t be mistaken for anything other than a Telecaster.Continue readingCool Guitar Came by the Studio II
Cool Guitar Came to Visit the Studio Today
It’s a semi-regular occurrence that someone swings by the studio to show me an unusual, or just plain cool guitar. Here is a super-cool guitar that paid a visit to my studio today. A B-Bender-equipped paisley Tele. This is actually a Fender copy made by Tokia. There are those that prefer the Tokai to the original Fender…I’ll leave that for someone else to debate. For you eagle-eyes out that, that is a Rickenbacker John Lennon Limited Edition 12-string electric shown in the reflection of the Tele’s B-bender back plate. That’s my show-and-tell piece for today. Despite all the mythology thatContinue readingCool Guitar Came to Visit the Studio Today
Rob Michael’s Free Guitar Lesson: Diminished Scale 4-for-1 Deal
Times are tough and everyone is looking for a deal. To that end, I’m offering-up this little morsel of jazzy vocabulary. The (half-step/ whole-step) diminished scale is arguably the most flexible harmonic and melodic device available to the improvising musician. We talked about this great device before in terms of using it chordally so I thought I would explore some melodic applications. The diminished scale is a symmetrical scale that is nothing more that alternating half-steps and whole-steps. Due to this construction, anything derived from diminished harmony can be transposed up or down in minor thirds and you never leaveContinue readingRob Michael’s Free Guitar Lesson: Diminished Scale 4-for-1 Deal
