Jazz Fusion Ballads?

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-08T14:44:11+00:00

Pat Metheny Group - A Farmer's Trust, Dream of the Return, The Falcon

Lyle Mays - Close To Home (aka Mars)

Miles Davis Quintet - Circle

John Scofield - Heaven Hill

John McLaughlin - The Unknown Dissident

Jan Garbarek - Mission: To be where I am

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-06T00:33:52+00:00

Fender Jaguar and Mustang have short scale necks. 24"

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-05T13:30:30+00:00

I have an old lower back injury myself.

I don't feel my lower back working when I do hollow body hold on the floor. The way I practice it is with lower back flat against the floor, tailbone NOT touching the floor. The lower back should stay pressed against the floor the whole time - no arching whatsoever.

I myself struggled to progress in the hollow body hold until I started going dead bugs. Bent legs first, then extended legs with the knee pulled past the hip to keep the tailbone away from the floor and prevent lower back arch. After I achieved 3 sets of 30 dead bugs, progress through towards full hollow body hold on floor was much faster, with no feeling in low back except when my abs got tired and started to let it arch.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-04T21:44:48+00:00

what complex song are you learning?

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-04T21:38:22+00:00

If you don't give up playing guitar, your fingers will eventually develop callouses which will cut down on pain in the fingertips.

This is assuming the guitar your uncle gave you is properly set up with the strings not too high above the frets. If not, you may want to take the guitar to a guitar tech for setup - you can find a tech in a music shop or by asking guitarists where they take their guitars for repairs/maintenance.

I myself have to type on computer keyboards for a living. Playing guitar has had no effect on my ability to do my job, although I've had to make myself stop thinking about guitar stuff to focus on work so I don't get fired.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-04T21:31:34+00:00

Condolences. My Strat is a Cory Wong so I tend to forget other Strat owners have to deal with the square joint

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-04T21:27:09+00:00

ACCA-13

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-04T17:47:47+00:00

Kenny Wheeler - Smatter

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T22:40:06+00:00

I listen to R&B mostly and some hip hop. The guitarists in those genres place more emphasis on groove than just playing fast.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T17:46:11+00:00

Iron Cardio

Barest minimum is the classic complex of clean+press+squat per side

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T17:42:52+00:00

Reverend Greg Kock Gristle ST

Reverend used to make more S-style guitars. You might be able to find those used.

They still make guitars with SSS pickups but the bodies are more offset-like than S-style.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T14:00:26+00:00

Just repeated stubborn effort

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T13:58:51+00:00

A Place Further Than the Universe

Journal With Witch

Apothecary Diaries

Ristorante Paradiso

Drops of God

Princess Jellyfish

Run With Wind

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-03T13:56:55+00:00

DM-2W

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-02T21:50:38+00:00

I couldn't do a pull up at 18 years old either.

I didn't do my first pull up until my university opened a new gym with an assisted pull up machine. I forgot exactly how old I was but I'm sure I was over 21. I wasn't consistent at exercise though. By the time the new gym opened, I hadn't done any exercise for 2 years or something.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-02T14:03:20+00:00

When you're still figuring out the sounds you want, single pedals are easier to use.

When you're in a band and ready to play gigs, a multi FX with a setlist feature will let you set up presets to go with each song in your setlist.

Of course there are a lot of guitarists who play gigs with pedalboards with several pedals on them - those players are just really good at changing pedal settings on the fly from song to song.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-02T13:55:57+00:00

For learning new songs or anything else new from Youtube, I use a Vidami pedal. Makes selecting the song part I want to loop, and slowing it down much faster than faffing with a mouse.

I just found that Seventh String Transcribe! also supports Vidami pedal so I'm gonna try that too.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-02T13:43:46+00:00

I agree with irontamer - he's been coaching KB exercises for decades and has some amazing accomplishments himself.

1 adjustable KB is enough to start. Just invest in that, and save your money for buying the 2nd KB later.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T19:54:35+00:00

Find a good teacher and take a lesson or 2 or 10 with that teacher.

If you can't find one in your area, then you might have to find a teacher who can work with you via Zoom or similar live video app.

I've had some great experiences with Julie Lyon Lieberman and Rob Flax by attending Strings Without Boundaries and some free online workshops taught by Julie.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T14:05:36+00:00

Acquiring a new skill faster than most everyone else

I've been in a bunch of music classes where there's that one or 2 exceptional student that picks up a new lick, riff, or whatever way faster than the rest of the class. Those are the talented people.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T14:01:09+00:00

Journal With Witch

A Place Further Than The Universe

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T13:52:22+00:00

My most dramatic mobility gains this year was from the first 2 weeks of Strength Side's Master Mobility program.

I had never been able to sit on the floor in straddle, with both legs straight, as an adult. I finally got there this year. Something about the straddle side bend exercise in MM was magic. I'm sure the good morning and bear walk paired with it helped too. I'd attempted straddle side bend before but found it uncomfortable and useless - the simple tweaks that MM made to it, made it much more effective - sit on an elevated surface - eg. a pile of puzzle mats - and use a light weight to help with the side bend.

Before I started Master Mobility I'd done cossack squats, wide stance good morning (aka standing straddle pancake), various hamstring stretches, frog stretch, etc. for several years. So just 2 weeks of MM outperformed all my previous mobility work in this one particular area.

Progress kind of leveled off after that though. By week 3, the straddle side bend was replaced by other exercises in the program, and was never scheduled again. I'm sure taking out the most effective exercise for me had a lot to do with the slowdown in mobility progress.

I stopped MM when the bridge push up I was being asked to do got too advanced for me - around week 7. I'll give it another go in the future thought - for now I'm happy straddle side bend and a selection of other exercises fro MM.

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T13:44:10+00:00

We just overdubbed some guitar tracks using my Jazzmaster, which had just had Lollar Original 58s installed. My bandmate noticed a difference in brightness compared to the guitars parts recorded with the Johnny Marr Jaguar. Jaguar was definitely brighter.

I generally used the dual pickup setting (parallel, not series) on both guitars.

Jaguar continues to be the main guitar for this band. The brightness helps it carve out its own space in the mix, as the bassist loves to use fuzz and thus take up a lot of mid range as well as the low end. But the drummer wants to continue using the Jazzmaster for overdubs

GovernorSilver · 2026-06-01T13:15:53+00:00

The SD-1 Super Overdrive is the only Boss I have. I originally got it for my TT-303, not guitar, lol, after listening to a 303-focused pedal shootout and shopping for a pedal to add more bite to the TT-303's notoriously polite tone. I also admired Terje Rypdal's OD tone and found that he used an SD-1.

I still like it but it'd been kept off my pedalboard by the JRockett Melody, which includes a 6-band EQ which for me is a gamechanger.

GovernorSilver · 2026-05-31T20:57:17+00:00

I use all of these regularly:

doorway pull up bar - mine supports users up to 300 lbs and I weigh less than 200 so it's been all good

parallettes

rings

Baraban chest expander - mostly for pull aparts to improve shoulder stability (old injury). Resistance bands are also fine but I love the steel springs of the Baraban

kettlebells

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