Kcprogguitar

This is the way

Well played Fret. Saved the day.

The original lace's didn't show poles. If memory serves, they had magnets arranged around the outside of the coil with a plain (no holes) pickup cover. The color printed on the cover denoted which kind it was. Red was hot, more like a hum bucker, blue was supposed be p90 ish, the original golds were 50's style Strat pickups.

I believe the first guitars to use them were Stratocaster Plus's with a red/gold/blue. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a bit fuzzy on three decades ago. Beck, Clapton and I believe Knopfler all used them at one point.

Btw,Strat Plus from the 80s-90s are basically custom shop Strats. There was attention paid to them due to the roller nut that they used. The installation was a bit more involved, so the techs paid more attention to the rest of the guitar..hence custom shop before custom shop existed. Some really cool finishes.

Off to Wildwood guitars for a new Les Paul. New project upcoming. Always wanted to go there and now I am. Should be a lot of fun.

This deserves a lol.

Swedens defense industry is custom tailored to repel a Soviet incursion. It’s all they’ve done since WW2.

Speech doesn't kill people. People kill people. Sound familiar?

So if the govt removes trans as a designation, how can trans be used as a designation to deny the 2A?

Looking forward to the pretzel logic.

It’s a slow ramp up. Then plateaus. Metronome.

If you want to learn how music is “constructed”, buy a cheap, and I mean cheap keyboard. You use it to learn the voicings and intervals. It’s easier to learn because it’s linear in its layout. Each note can only be played in one place. No need to worry about learning to play it, unless you want to, it’s a tool to understand the language you’re using. Intervals. Triads. If you can get one that’s touch sensitive, all the better. Dynamics.

Metronome.

Learn to sing. Joe Walsh is quoted saying if you can sing a phrase, you can learn to play it. Sing with the notes you’re playing on the aforementioned piano. The quality of your singing doesn’t matter, once again, unless you want it to. It’s another tool.

Metronome.

I can’t stress this enough. Metronome. It’s an absolute necessity. I don’t care what you know, if it isn’t in time, it sounds like shite. There’s a new thing called a pulse watch which is supposed to be awesome. Haven’t tried it. I’ll report back if I do.

Learning to read music is a great way to start understanding what you’re trying to learn. It’s the written language. It has melody, harmony and timing right there. It’s literally teaching you as you read it.

Start simple. Stay simple until you master what you’re doing. But…at the end of your playing session, reach for something more challenging. When you master that, you’ve progressed.

Lessons if you can find the time. I’ve been playing 45 years and I’m taking lessons from one of the hottest young fusion players around. But, it’s not about how many years you’ve played. It’s about hours and minutes. Practice in your head. Listen outside your genre.

And for gods sake, go lightly on the YouTube tutorials. 99% are pure garbage. Start with Guthrie Trapp. It’s a bit elevated at times, but it’s honest. Develop a warm up. I like the 3 notes per string scales. It helps with those longer stretches. Which leads to cooler chord voicings. Think of it like football players warming up before a game. My warmup takes a little over a minute.

Metronome.

How do you become good at something? Focus. Practice. Practice focusing.

Shortcuts lead to dead ends.

Saw him in KC. It’s the concert that he put the Ulimate Sin concert video out on. Also saw Maiden at Long Beach which became their landmark concert video Live after Death.

That’s kind of cool.

I love free rent

And was such a trash pit even then that they couldn’t wait to leave.