Guitar Chord

Sometimes simple is best. This is what you can think when you're looking on the Music Man Axis or some Charvel guitars. The MM Axis is a two pickup guitar with a simple, 3-way toggle pickup switch and one pot – volume. This is completely enough if you want to get just clear, distinct signal – especially if your guitar is made from some high-grade wood and got some nice pickups.

This is the wiring diagram for that kind of axe:

Robert Fripp is one of the most unique guitarists. He's especially known as part of the King Crimson band, but in this post, I would like to write something about his solo career.

Fripp made a few great music projects. They always was unique, with awesome tone and playing style. Robert's music is something that you can't describe as mainstream, or typical, or common. You can't even say that this is rock, ambient, world, jazz or whatever. It's just Fripp.

He's well known from his solo performances, where he's using Frippertronics.

Tom Waits is not picking up an electric guitar very often. Probably you know him more as a vocalist only or a singing piano player. I would like to present here his made with an electric guitar music. This guy has got a really cool tone!

Ive been changed

Jim Hall is a living jazz legend. Hes influencing a lot of jazz guitarists. His tone is well balanced, warm and reeeaaally smooth. It is that kind of tone, that everybody connecting with jazz music, but its also an original tone, typical for Jim Hall.
If you are interesting in guitar design or tonewoods, you should check out Halls guitars. His hollow-bodies are always beautiful and high-grade.

Links:

to listen:

Jim Hall Trio - Umbria Jazz Winter

Hi,

This is my first post on this blog. I hope, it will be useful for you. I will try to put some new post systematically.

You will be able to find here some electric guitar wiring schematics, tips about changing the tone of a guitar and some other knowledge about these beautiful instruments.

PS

I know, my English is not brilliant :), but I hope, its good enough to give you some useful tips.

Mike Stern is a jazz / fusion guitarist with very interesting tone and gear. His music has got a lot of really groovy-bluesy-jazzy lines with a dynamic rhythm. I can hear in his work a mix of many techniques of guitar playing.

Hes got his signature guitar, made by Yamaha. Stern is an often user of chorus, delay, distortion and few other types of effects. He like to play on solid state amps, Yamaha G100 (yeah, no tube).

Bob Berg / Mike Stern Band - Chromazone

George Harrison (yeah, that guy from The Beatles) was also an great guitarist. When Im writing this, Im not thinking only about The Beatles, but also about Harrison in his solo carrier and with Traveling Wilburys. If You dont know him from this side, I really recommend to search online for some music from this part of his life.
I recommend also, to find music video: Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care, than see George Harrisons guitar and hear his solo. He had really cool peace of wood with really cool tone!

georgeharrison.com

travelingwilburys.com

youtube.com/TravelingWilburys – here you can find the music video that I wrote about.

What are you working on?

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what practice is. When you get your guitar out for 15 or 20 minutes, noodle around with a few songs and licks and then put it away, does that count as practice? Or, do you have to be your own taskmaster and force yourself to have every minute of playing be goal oriented? I hope its obvious that the answer lies somewhere in between. My beginning students seem to be at one extreme or the other on this, with no visible middle ground. Most guitar teachers will encourage you to do both, play for fun and play to improve. Maintaining your focus is hard sometimes, but is a necessary part of advancing. Set aside a specific amount of your practice time to work on something thats holding you back.

Self assessment.

I would say that most of us know what we need to work on and sometimes it appears to be too difficult. The best thing to do is to pick one small improvement you could make and stick to it. Does your timing need help? Get out the old metronome, you DO have a metronome dont you, and set it to a comfortable pace. Smooth out what needs work and then move on. Are you missing the same notes over and over? Slow down as much as you need to so that every note sounds good and is clean and clear. Theres no sense in practicing mistakes and I see way too many students do just that. Ive heard it all before, it doesnt sound good slow, I cant get it, I dont like this song, its too hard. Muscle memory is what youre trying to learn, so if youre teaching your muscles the wrong notes, thats what theyre going to play.

Play for fun too.

After youve put in your work, play for the sheer enjoyment of playing. I know when youre first starting out thats not easy, but there must be at least a couple songs you can play well and enjoy doing. End on a positive note, leaving yourself open for more improvement next time.

Do you remember these spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More or Once Upon a Time in the West?

Maybe you already know, that their soundtracks are composed by Ennio Morricone - but who played this awesome guitar riffs? It was Alessandro Alessandroni.

Alessandroni is famous from his twangy guitar sounds, which are ringing when Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson is starting to be mad and danger. Hes also a good whistler, and player of many other instruments.

Alessandro Alessandroni was using probably a Fender Stratocaster guitar for his records for Morricone.

Guitar parts in Morricones compositions are not very complicated, but they are very powerful and well fitted to other instruments. Morricones melodies + Alessandronis guitar tone = very good record.