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A closeup video of Django's favorite guitar. If you can tolerate the wobbly camera work, it is worth a look.

Thanks Dave. If you can endure 25 seconds before the English narration and translation kick in, you may find the following video interesting.

Seldom have I ever listened to a more abject, boring presentation with such sophomoric analogies. I’ve been around this place for some time, and I’ve noticed that one of the most challenging skills we students face is learning to play with the “gnome,” that dreaded clicking monster. Let’s face why. We’re learning to fret and strum, and now we have to keep time (rhythm) with a humongous distraction of sound. The best way to keep time is with our tapping foot (left or right, just pick one). The problem is that our tapping feet aren’t calibrated in beats per minute. Fortunately we have two ways to overcome this inability. If we set a gnome to the b.p.m. we wish before we begin playing and get our foot in sync with it, then we can ignore the clicking sound and feel the beat with our feet. I use this method lots of times. If we play with a group, the beat is set by either the drummer or the bassist, and we can tap along with him. The other method is a commercial metronome called a Peterson Body Beat, which has a pulsing transducer we stick in our belt or shoe so we can feel its set b.p.m. I have one, but I’ve sorta gotten used to the first method. Now, I’m no guitar teacher like Steve, with whom I have an agreement: I won’t teach guitar and he won’t engineer designs of Navy ships; both students and our armed forces smile at this arrangement. I don’t own any Peterson stock, but as a student I do endorse the Body Beat. ‘Nuff said, and maybe too much. Lotsa luck.

I say adjust them. Take a measurement as they currently are, raise them until they are way too high then sink them in a 1/2 turn at a time and see if you find a sweet spot. Beyond setting them far enough from the strings to avoid magnetic interference this is a totally subjective adjustment. What sounds good to you is the “spec”. Don’t forget you may find a better sound angling the pickup slightly. That can help clean up a muddy bass side and balance the output from top to bottom string. If you find it makes no difference to your ear, you can return to the starting measurement and know that’s as good as it gets with the rig as is. I concur that your options for replacement pickups will be far fewer than if you could use standard sized humbuckers. Not sure if P90s might fit.

Interesting video! And yes, the camera work was definitely wobbly!! lol!

I posted this link on FB but wanted to share it here. There is the usual "rambling" in such videos; but the 2 & 4 beat concept looks interesting and worth a try. Enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/groups/GuitarGathering2018/permalink/139897820039665/

A place for members to post links to BACKING TRACKS To start off; A Slow Blues in A, 12/8 time in the style of BB King ; A good one for practicing Pentatonic solos. Download available below video. slow_blues_in_A BB King style.zip

I had started the Major Scales workouts a few months back. I got up to the Intermediate level of the Major Scales 2 lesson. Well, I got sidetracked (not really a surprise, lol!).... So two weeks ago I started them again. Quickly reviewed the first lesson, then moved back into MS2. Took me a few days to get back thru the first workout, which I think I was not doing as well as I thought the first go thru... The intermediate is challenging!!! I have been at it for about a week, and for the first time tonite, I was able to keep up on almost all of the exercises!!! Persistence really pays off!! One or two days I had hardly any time to practice, so this was the only stuff I did as I could get it done in a half hour. I will definitely spend a few days or longer really getting this before moving on to the last one...

Rarely will you question where you stand with John

But how do you REALLY feel?! Sorry it was a bust for you.

Here's a couple I've been using a for a while. Both Gilmour style tracks

The pickups came in, apparently the delay was the factory had to make them because they are all dated January 2018. Here is my samples.