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I have Japanese MIJ strat with a fotoflame finish. I like it a lot, but had to get new pickups (Tex-Mex) since it came with pretty cheap ones, and rewired and shielded while I was at it (like any strat it has the single coil 60 hz hum). Otherwise, really good hardware and well made. The Fenders Made in Japan (MIJ) are built at the famous FujiGen factory and are pretty much state of the art, just in time manufacturing, keeping the price down. Later models are labelled CIJ "Crafted in Japan" and from a different factory but I am not sure if they are much different and I would think the quality of material is the same. The fotoflame finish is an ash body with basswood cap and sounds very much like the American Standard model. Many Japanese Fenders replace ash with basswood which is a much lighter wood and therefore does not reverberate like ash, giving them a somewhat thinner sound, at least according to the experts.
Overall I think they are good value, play and sound great.
try to practice a call and response like the Allman Bros. version of Statesboro Blues. gregg sings, duane answers on the slide. play along and try to imitate the vocal. It forces you to keep your improv short (less is more) and dynamic, then naturally end the bar.
btw: duane played slide trying to imitate a blues harp.
Another great blues player to check out is Albert King for some great phrasing. He really influenced young EC.
Having learned to improvise on sax as a kid, I like Dorian and Mixolydian which are the first scales I learned after the major and minor melodic. Dorian is a great blues scale once you get the hang of the phrasing.
I play Willin' using these chord voicings built off a variation of the 123 method. I can really get a booming Em7 when I sing the line "...everytime I go to Mexico" for a really nice dynamic when I'm playing by myself.
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DrewDruncan wrote:While pickup covers do provide protection for the fine wire windings, their main purpose is as electrical shielding from hum and noise. As such, they also add some capacitance which, combined with the inductance of the pickup itself, forms a low-pass filters. This reduces high frequencies slightly.
Jeff Beck was one of the people that started the trend of removing humbucker covers (on his brown Les Paul, as seen on the cover of Wired). He did this to get slightly more highs out of the bridge pickup. The guitar sounded fine in the studio, but on stage, through long cable runs, it sounded dull. He discovered that without the pickup cover, he could get back some of the highs lost in the long cables.
your circuit analysis makes sense. I was probably too inexperienced (translate: young and dumb) to know the difference.
I remember doing because of the photo of FZ with his coverless SG on the back of the Apostrophe album.
I think jay is right about aesthetics. I had an SG that I removed the humbucker pickup covers. Not for sound, but I liked the look without the pick guard and covers when I was 18. I don't think it helped prevent mphonic squeal, but the humbuckers didn't squeal much anyway.
professional fishermen have a lot less fun than we do, professional gamers at $3K/year are not having fun.
Maybe Jerome's parents don't like him either.
The Nigerian prince ruse where for a small fee up front you will have access to abandoned millions is called a 419 scam. (419 is the Nigerian penal code for fraud)
not sure if this story linked below is true, but this is an amusing revenge scheme where the perpetrator is lured into rewriting Harry Potter on notebook paper.
http://419eater.com/html/joyce_ozioma.htm
I deaden the strings with my finger tips or the palm of my strumming hand, but some of the reaches off the Am are out of my league.
Jimi played all the original parts with a pick, as far as know. There are spots where you can supplement with your middle ring and pinky fingers to add melody notes to the chords. There are so many covers, someone must have a finger pick version. Clapton and Allman play it very strait up on the Layla album, with some great solo work. SRV used a pick at 90 mph. I don't remember if Hiram Bullock, who just passed away last friday from cancer, might have. Check it out on Sting's Nothing Like the Sun.
While this is a public forum, the owners of the site have the right to moderate the content. I don't think that is denying freedom of speech, but rather encouraging a sense of decorum.
Chat/IM is much more difficult to moderate and sometimes attracts undesirable elements.
A good set of rules and easy to stick to for most people.
thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.
not a bad list, but...
his approach highly values staying power (as does Mrs tonydr 
which kind of biases against albums made in the last 10 years, or has no one produced anything worthy in the last 10 years?
anyone can mention a dozen albums they think should be on it, but...
no Dylan? How about Highway 61 or blood on the tracks? Not a big dylan fan, but those albums had a very significant influence on music in general and the formula does not take impact into account. No one remembers Paul Butterfield as it is. Maybe the formula should take into account subsequent covers.
any formula will have shortcomings, but I like his scientific approach and it produced a pretty interesting list.
alvee33 wrote:Got to agree with last rebel here. Yeah I@ve played it and it was fun. Nothing like a real guitar and got bored after a short while. I'd rather stink at playing my guitar than stink at kidding on I'm playing my guitar.
yes, I think I'd rather go for the real stink too!
if you mean as opposed to barre chords? yes, if you can.
if you mean as opposed to toes, to each his own.
Jimi played the G, F, Am and Bb forms wrapping his thumb over the top on the E string. That allowed him to use his pinky extensively. The Gadd9 Aadd9 Gadd9 Fadd9 lick uses the thumb over the top, pinky adding the 9th. Also the double octave E is thumb over the 6th string, middle finger on the 1st and slide down from the 12th fret. great sound and immediately identifiable as the beginning of Little Wing. My favorite rhythm track to play on a strat.
Pearl Jam did a great job on "The Real Me" complete with scissor kicks!
reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap where Nigel is describing the interweaving lines in his trilogy in D Minor, "the saddest of all the keys". If you saw it, you remember the name.
Southpaw got it right: girls, girls, girls. There is no other explanation for Winger.
and Aerosmith certainly makes a good living off the power ballad.
anybody actually try guitar hero?
I haven't and don't really have any interest, but i'm am curious as to how close the game experience comes to the real thing?
when I was 8 I wanted to be in the Monkees because all the 10 year old girls loved them.
I think it is a little sick I was already fixated on girls at 8. Nothing has changed, except every year older I get, the older girls look better.
I still want to jam with any of the great players; let's start with Clapton.
yes, style over substance often succeeds, but substance endures.
Kiss notwithstanding 
it seems to me, pop music these days has neither and is driven by the tabloids with no style or substance required, or panties.
Like many Japanese manufacturers, most of those Chinese LPs are made with basswood which is a lighter wood and does not sustain like a classic mahogany. Purists dismiss the sound as inferior.
nazareth is not so far for me. I should check it out.
saw a short TV special on Abbey Road with Paul McCartney. With a small studio audience he went through how they mixed down with a 4 track tape deck adding a part at a time. very cool to see how comfortable he was with the equipment. He must have spent endless days there.
I think the Beatles got to the point they could have put out junk and still sold well, like Madonna. All the more credit to them for not selling out and instead, stretching their chops.
Tommy Emmanuel. Just saw him in a small venue a few weeks ago and he was really amazing.
I think every one forgets where these guitars came from: Leo Fender and Les Paul. That's why every one wants one. Even Mary Ford wanted a Les Paul.
I think these guitars are popular because of the sound, body shape, playability and versatility. Players can be influenced in guitar choice to produce a sound or a look, but have to like the way a guitar plays. The big 3 you mention are some of the best guitars made and therefore played by a lot of people for a long time.
And PRS is a high quality guitar that meets all those expectations. I would say that was a good trade and I would also say LP's are a bit over-priced.
To your point, Kramer would not have gotten so popular, so fast if Eddie Van Halen didn't actively promote it.
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