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This is a 1999 Korean made Schecter C-7 plus, and it and Sonny Landreth are the reasons I've gotten back into slide so heavy the past few years. I was a fanatic for it back in the 80's, playing along with Ravi Shankar and whatever else Indian music I could find way back in the Dark Ages...

When you mention that the string is harder to press down at the 1st fret, I find myself wondering if the groove in the nut is too high. Is it also really hard to press down at the 3rd fret? To check the height of the groove, press the string down at the 3rd fret, and look to see how much the...

Solidbody guitars are great jazz guitars, that what they were originally designed for. Ted Greene & Scotty Anderson, Mike Stern, Kevin Eubanks.... Even a "shred" guitar is fine - if the pickups are powerful enough to overdrive your preamp, TURN DOWN the volume OR the preamp. The notion that one...

As you surely know, those last few frets on a 24-fret guitar make a good setup somewhat trickier, because of the area that can't be adjusted at the very end of the truss rod. One big advantage to the bolt-necks is that you have one extra degree of flexibility in setting up something tricky like...

Well, every year or so I repost this - it's a speed-building method I "liberated" from a Steve Morse book/column: What this does is kick open the door to the possibility of always increasing-speed. I actually like to play them slow and fast, sort of ties in with John Petrucci's "burst"...

SchecterWhore, that was a great post on modulation. One of the neat things about whole-tone riffs is that they have a "need" to resolve, and they will resolve - right to the next major chord! If you work up some rhythmic riff in the E whole-tone scale, on the next beat after a A#, just ease it...

I had a DeArmond M75-T for a while, which was a kind-of version of a Gretsch Duo-Jet. "DeArmond" was a brand name owned by Guild in the mid-1990's through their purchase by Fender. They were manufactured in Korea, and some of them were very nice in quality and sound. Like any of that, sometimes...

You know, John Mayer was doing a Stevie Ray Vaughan cover/tribute thing around Atlanta when he got "discovered" by the scouts. They saw his cheekbones, curls & lips and made him into a teeny-boy pop idol. Then after he made a pile of money and generated some influence, he told 'em to fuck off...

I want to find out which is the largest of the Schecter necks, if there is any difference. I had an RG7421 with a Wizard neck which felt small, so I sold it when I got my Warmoth finished. However, even Warmoth's standard seven neck is on the small side - my favorite sixes are a good bit larger...

I read on one of those fretless sites that glass fretboards are pretty easy to obtain, from your local auto glass refitting shop. They have racks full of flat glass and the equipment to cut, bend and polish it to fit any automobile. So, if you go in there with the specific dimensions you want...

I've "made" a few the conventional way - (hello, pliers) - but I found that the unwound strings didn't sustain well, and in order to play chords you want to be able to put two fingertips parallel, so the strings are too close together. Consequently, I'm planning to build a five-string baritone...

Ummm, I missed this thread first time around. Here's a test: Go up to a pretty girl, tell her you're taking a survey, and ask her to whistle her favorite tune (this actually works, dude.) Then ask her to whistle her favorite shred guitar lick (this absolutely won't work - dude). "Normal"...

Morse has certainly been my biggest influence (2nd: McLaughlin). His video "The Definitive Steve Morse" from Warner Bros. Classics is a given, as is the book "Best of Steve Morse and Dixie Dregs" from Cherry Lane. Both are compilations of other, more varied material - there's a (OOP) book out...

Hey, I used to have one just like that... hey, I used to own one EXACTLY like that! I sold it to Harry cause it seemed like he really wanted it and was going to play the stuffing out of it. It's a seriously, seriously good guitar, but I also like to build guitars out of Warmoth and USA Custom...

Fine by me! Let some younger bands divide up the entertainment dollars, for one thing - and if he doesn't want to, why should he? As composers, he and Page make a few fractions of a cent every time an old Zeppelin song is played anywhere on any radio station - it adds up....:lol: Better this...

That #10 is one of my new favorites, ever since I bought the DVD last year. Half-step, half-step, whole-step; Half-step, half-step, whole-step; Half-step, half-step, whole-step; Half-step, half-step, whole-step; etc. If you use the one with a Eb, E and F in it, it contains like a...

It depends on what you're trying to do with it - if you just want it to be musical as soon as possible, you need to play it however works best*. If you want to use it to improve your playing, you want to play it with: A) all downstrokes B) all upstrokes C) alternate picking, starting on an...

I want to sell my Ibanez RG7421, it's a Japan-made 1999 seven-string, 25.5" scale, "cherry fudge" finish. Wizard neck, stock electronics, minimal fretwear, a few typical Ibanez finish chips from the previous owner. I just want what I put into it, now that I've built my Warmoth seven - $300...

You will benefit most from challenging yourself. When you say Steve Morse is an "influence", what does that mean? I spent years with Dregs and SMB tunes, and because he's so versatile, it translates over to almost anything else a popular rock band might throw at you. If you learn all the tunes...

I just googled "nerve representation brain musicians" and came up with a bunch of stuff, including this: Titel:. Mapping Perception to Action in the Musician’s Brain: Where, When, What - and How There's been a huge amount of research done on this recently , because trained musicians are a...