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Well thank you, and I'm glad its of use to someone. When the mechanics don't come natural to you, and you decide to stick with the instrument anyway, you eventually learn a lot of ways to get around...

HA! I wouldn't mind seeing some tips on doing that Sultans solo better. I "approximate" it OK, and also play it slightly slower then the original under the theory that there are more non guitarists...

I did politely write to D-Addario about, hoping to maybe find out if there was a report of a bad batch any time in the recent past. The rep didn't know of any such issue, but did offer to send me a 5...

Yes! Kewl riff. The beginning sounds like part of a Lester Young solo from an old Count Bassie tune (Jumpin at the woodside maybe?).

Just a side note you might find interesting. Back around maybe...

This is just a summary of some advice I'll offer, from a guitarist who has become a decent player, but by no means had an easy time technically... no thanks to a lot of rules I learned over the...

Ha! I remember my teacher had me learning some Charlie Parker lines back when you could put the 33rpm record on 16, and drop it to half speed, and of course we didn't have the tools back then to drop...

Something that helped me... I drew a table on a big poster board. On the left I put all the intervals from m2 to 9, and then made columns on top for UP and DOWN. In the middle I pencil in song titles...

Wish I could afford to go. I have a product I'm trying to market which I've worked on for years and spent a ton of money developing, but I've shot my load financially on it, and I now realize...

It is odd. And while I do bend a lot, its pretty rare I bend more then a minor 3rd. I got those strings from "stringsbymail.com", who are pretty reputable. But this has happened so often I've gotten...

This is a problem on my Les Paul (deluxe, 1972 if it matters). As I often get a pretty mixed set of string gauges, I often buy my high two strings as "loose", and haven't paid close attention to to...

To my ears, I'm hearing compression set for long sustain, a mellow overdrive, a little chorus, and possibly some reverb or echo, in that order. The compression before the overdrive is a big part of...

If this thread is still active, let me say that at 62 now I feel your pain. Now over 60 myself, I'm also recovering from a tear in what is called the "A4 pully tendon" in my ring finger, basically...

I've a Les Paul deluxe with the mini humbuckers. I've already done mods to allow single/dual coil switching and phase inversion. I also have built in (squeezed in) an MXR Dyna-Comp compressor which i...

Yeah, I was afraid to tackle the the re-fret myself. At the very least there were some costly tools I needed to attempt it, and the price break from someone highly recommended was too hard to resist....

Hello everyone.

You may or may not have heard of the crazy "Internet Peter Pan" guy. No matter. My business card says "Guitarist, Engineer, Inventor, Eternal Child". I do indeed write a lot of...

Thanks Robert. Advise always appreciated.

For the benefit of some 80+ others that viewed my post and may run into a similar situation, the solution was simply poorly leveled frets. I didn't want...

I've had good results leveling and re-crowned frets on all my guitars, but after about the 5th time (!), my 72 Les Paul really needed new frets, and that was beyond me. My finances aren't the best,...

Hey DreadMan. I also like to do my own leveling. One thing that often confuses me is the best way to compensate for the lack of string tension when you begin the main initial leveling task. Usually I...