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Mike Hoodenpyle

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  1. 20 hours ago, Alice said:

    Congratulations on your new guitar! The back is beautiful!

     

    7 hours ago, matonanjin said:

    Well, you clearly have your priorities jumbled, Mike😮😉  Skip work and pick up that beautiful guitar!  As others said,  I love the back.  And the sides!   Enjoy that guitar a long time!

    Thank you both. She's a stunner!

  2. Santa came early and delivered this beautiful Taylor E14ce. This is a limited model, originally only available to dealers at Taylor’s Roadshows. The back and sides are West African Ebony, and the top is Sitka Spruce. It's very balanced with great sustain and clarity, and very responsive. The highs just ring, with a pure, fat tone, especially when you dig in. If I had to describe it in one word, I’d say “powerful.” I play acoustic almost exclusively fingerstyle, with bare fingers, and this guitar can get incredibly loud. It really shines when played hard. Love this guitar.

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  3. I think it boils down to personal preference and what you get used to playing. I'm pretty sure your S6 fretboard is 1.8" wide at the nut, and most classical guitars are 2" or just a shade wider, so not a huge difference there. Of course, you can always use the wider fretboard argument to justify adding a nylon string to your arsenal ;).

     

  4. I'm not familiar with the progression, but I'm curious as to why the 3rd is eliminated. Also, if you do eliminate the 3rd, the chord is neither major nor minor. You would normally have either a 2nd or 4th in place of the 3rd, making it a sus2 or sus4 chord.  If you're only playing the notes F#, C# and E, I don't really know what you would call that, except maybe a C#madd11/F# (no 5).

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  5. My understanding has always been a riff is a rhythm figure; a series of chords/notes that repeats throughout the song. A lick is a short series of notes that generally doesn't repeat. Riffs can be strumming patterns and/or arpeggios, and can also include non-chord tone fills, which can make them sound like licks.

     

    A turnaround could be either a riff or a lick, and generally returns you to the beginning of a song for the next verse after the chorus. Most (not all) songs end on the I chord, so most choruses also end on the I chord. That being the case, a turnaround would take you from the I chord at the end of a chorus, through a series of other chords and/or notes, and back to the I chord again at the beginning of the song. 

  6. Here's my attempt at Laurence Juber's "The White Pass Trail." This piece is special for several reasons:

    1. It's one of my favorite originals by one of my favorite players.

    2. It's in DADGAD tuning.

    3. There's a lot going on: hammers, pulls, bends (both subtle and full step), slides, frailing, slap harmonics, percussion, just a little muted rhythm, and a pinch harmonic where the 24th fret would be if I had a 24th fret. Some of those things are going on simultaneously.

    I did some things differently than LJ does (some of them actually on purpose 😀). I changed the transition to the percussive section with a brief lick and the aforementioned 24th fret harmonic. I also changed the transition to the outro. If you've heard the original, you know he plays a little blues lick there. I've never really felt like that belonged, so I changed that bar. 

    This piece is a little above my ability level, but I gave it a shot. No one was injured in the making of this video, so here it is.

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Six String said:

    Beauty!  

    Maybe just the photo but the the fretboard looks super wide.  Illusion?

    Good call on straplocks IMHO.  Are you a Schaller or Dunlop guy?  Something else?

    Just an illusion I guess as the fretboard is standard. 1 11/16" at the nut, 2 1/4" at the body.

    I use Schallers. The screws on the new model Schaller S Locks are built into the strap buttons and are quite a bit shorter than the button screws that came on the guitar. I was fortunate to have two old model Schaller buttons, so I used those with the screws that came with the guitar and it's good to go.

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  8. PRS CE24 in Burnt Amber Smokeburst. Love this guitar. Easy playing satin neck. Superb workmanship, including the fretwork. Wide range of great tones. The only thing I dislike is the size of the strap buttons. They're way too big. It took me 10 minutes and I worked up a sweat getting a strap on, lol, but I'll take care of that tomorrow by installing strap locks. I think she's a beauty!

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  9. PRS it is. Got to try a CE 24, a Les Paul Classic and a Les Paul Standard last weekend. I liked them all, but the PRS won. I wanted a different color, so I ordered a CE 24 from Sweetwater today. I'll post pics when she gets here, but here's a teaser.

     

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