🚨GUITAR PLAYERS 🎸🎸🎸
What’s your FAVORITE guitar you own at the moment?
What’s your “go to” axe?
For me it’s this PRS… intonation, playability, tone control, this thing does it all for me, where electric guitars are concerned 🎶
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Who inspired you to pick up the gutiar?
For me, it was James Patrick Page, for the electric.
One day, my cool uncle Jimmy Lee said...
"So, you dig the Beatles?"
"Wait until you get a load of this"
I will always love Jimmy
Thank you, Jimmy ♥️🎸
you, dear guitar player, take your 12 fret fingerboard for granted
meanwhile, there were FIGHTS going on in the late 1500s over how to properly calculate the distance between frets, to get what's called "equal temperament"
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Eddie Van Halen's inspiration to do what he did came from Allan Holdsworth...
If you don't know Allan⎯he is known mainly to other guitar players⎯you're missing out.
Who's YOUR inspiration?♥️🎸
best compliment I ever got about my music and my guitar playing was that it is UNIQUE 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
had that a few times, from different people
means a lot
I've worked my ass off for DECADES to accomplish the one thing that matters to me in terms of the craft of music: being able
quick little history lesson
the Ancient Greeks, Pythagoras, the 12 tone system, equal temperament, Pythagorean intonation, rational and irrational numbers, quarter tones, modes, ancient modes and the harmonic series
⛈️ RAIN A’COMIN’
never really screwed with open tunings, although I always loved the things Pagey did with them… kinda found the best if both worlds here—G C F G D G (kinda)
@prsguitars
@pentaGuitar
@EA_guitar
🎸 IF EVERYTHING IS HEAVY, NOTHING IS HEAVY
🎸 IF EVERYTHING IS SOFT, NOTHING IS SOFT
this, CONTRAST, is the single most important thing in all of music
ignore at your own risk
use and PROFIT ♾️🎶♾️
current reading: The Silk Roads by
@peterfrankopan
got started on this topic⎯Central Asia⎯to understand where this thing we call "the guitar" even came from...
I'm hooked
this is extraordinarily well written
my general approach to twitter is simple
interact with what I like or agree
ignore the rest
gratuitous beef is beyond me...
who has time for THAT shit?
the shrewd combatant wins the day without having to ever draw his sword
but if strike you must, strike first and strike with deadly force
you must draw and strike before the thought of attaking is fully formed in your opponent's mind
🔥 TAKE IT BACK 🔥
my personal tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and to the great
@johnfrusciante
🤟🎸
I somehow got hold of Chad Smith's drum track for Give it Away... slowed it down and built from there
to all my beautiful American friends
left right and center
hold it together please, will ya?
like... no civil war, PLEASE?! 🙏
when the shit goes down in MY country, gotta have someplace to go, alright?
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If the "chromatic" is just a scale to you, you're missing the point.
If the "circle of fifths" is just how you find keys, you're missing the point.
on this day Alicia Cortés Reyna, my mother, would have been 80...
but for a few months, she would have made it here
and there she is, somewhere in Europe⎯either Madrid or Berlin⎯in the late 60s with her father
thank you for everything⎯and Godspeed to you⎯Mother Dear ♥️
took a walk to the fancy guitar store
nearly purchased a fancy PRS I don't need
instead of checking my balance upon returning home, picked up my trusty old PRS
almost identical, problem solved... don't need it
🖕 prs I'll keep my hard earned cash this time 😅
OUTER SPACE JAM: you are invited 🚀👽🛸
bring an instrument 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
super grateful to
@telestrater
for pulling me out of total stupor on a saturday morning after a wild night out... invited me to jam on his funky-af track (you're a total crack bass player, Dubs)
his
I haven’t played my bass in a while so I figured I’d bust it out today for a funky jam. I wonder if
@EA_guitar
would rip a lead over this?
Cheers, my people! 🍻💯🎸
hey you 🎸tech wizzards out there, question for you
what's the big difference about the electronics on a PRS?
crazy good
first time I've used the tone pot
like REALLY used it...
gives me usable tones from 0 all the way to 10
never had that before, on ANY electric
there’s only 12 notes
yet guitar players will attempt to learn 38,000 patterns
if there was a pill to just see all 12 notes, all over the fretboard and be free from patterns forever—would you take it?
1K INCOMING 😤
now I'm only 999K short, you guys
but in all seriousness, y'all are amazing
to the many cool people I've had a chance to meet here, THANK YOU & LFG ♥️🎸
of all extant instruments, this one is most similar to the oldest direct ancestor of the guitar
the geš. gù. de. or "talking stick" of Sumer and Akkad
the Sumerian pan.tur
the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and later Persian tan.bur
the nefer of Kemet, now known as Egypt
Don’t worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn’t matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
— RUMI ❤️♬
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my personal tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and to the great
@johnfrusciante
🤟🎸
I somehow got hold of Chad Smith's drum track for Give it Away... slowed it down and built from there
The Mystery of Charlemagne's 6 string CYTHARA
👉THREAD
at around the year 800, a good 500 years before the oldest confirmed 6 string lutes in Europe
a very interesting set of illuminations show up in what are known as the Stuttgart and Paris Psalters...