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After I said that I was buying a Yamaha Silent Guitar SLG200S and a Borsi humbucker pickup system to go with it, some members expressed interest. Here are my views. The Borsi pickup system is produced in Hungary, replaces the scratch plate on the SLG200S, and it is completely non-destructive and restorable. It is necessary to unscrew and remove the right frame, and this is a little fiddly but not too difficult. When fitting the Borsi, it is a good idea to have the instructions to hand – there are a couple of processes that are not obvious. The Borsi requires a right angle plug because the frame obstructs a straight plug; this is a minor inconvenience. There is a three-position pickup selector, as well as a volume and tone control. The neck and bridge pickups are thin to fit under the strings, and there are no pole piece adjustments. This is what I like about the SLG200S/Borsi system: It is compact and can fit easily in a wardrobe, it is light - 2.2 kg or 4.8 lbs, it is quiet although not exactly silent, the SLG200S has an inbuilt tuner and headphone socket, headphone output from the Borsi can be achieved with a headphone amp such as the Vox Clean headphone amp, and the SLG200S is less susceptible to temperature and humidity variations than, say, archtops. What I don’t like about the system is that the unwound treble strings sound ‘tinny’ and rather thin. Actually, the Borsi makes the wound strings sound more mellow, but not the unwound strings, so the trebles sound lacking by comparison. I have achieved some improvement by reducing gain at 4 kHz using my Katana’s parametric e.q., but I’m still not completely happy with the sound. My current view is that this system is great for practice, but not so much for performance, at least for jazz. It may be fine for genres that have more treble, but I don’t think I would take it to a jazz gig.

Little late, but something!!

Recently, my grand-daughter asked me to accompany her for a coming school performance, which I regard as quite an honour. Apparently, her music teacher is comfortable with this. We first recorded the vocal and guitar parts, and I subsequently over-dubbed the guitar for the video. The timing is a little stilted in parts, because I had to ensure that the vocal would come back in at the right time after the guitar solo, and there was no metronome track (which I would have had difficulty sticking to in any case. This has been a work in progress, and some parts of the guitar have been cleaned up since the recording. https://youtu.be/tAdPJbabp9c

Here’s a chord melody arrangement I did a while back of Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’. Feedback welcome!

Please excuse the finger fumbles - I'm not sure if the wines for lunch helped or hindered. This should give some idea of this combination for anyone interested. The audio signal chain is Borsi pickup direct to high Z input of a Steinberg UR242 audio interface. Volume was on full, tone 50%, and there were no other effects, including eq or reverb. I apologise for the low volume, but my attempts to improve it didn't work. This was not a problem with the pickups. https://youtu.be/CHmf96_GzF8

This was my challenge in the accelerator. And it was a challenge. I'm happy with the result but i'll have to come back to it eventyally. Now i need a break from it i've been practicing it for quite a while! https://youtu.be/-5hgDuw2OB8?si=lg8E2UiBEtIe8Rky

This is far from polished, but I thought I'd post anyway. It's Autumn Leaves (again) played over a loop of just two chords: Am7(b5) to Gm. I created this loop a while back, but just realized I could play the entire Autumn Leaves melody over top with just a little rhythmic variation. If you have any alternate versions of Autumn Leaves, feel free to share them. https://youtu.be/53RPIHfWdgg

Very simple but I enjoyed putting it together. Happy to hear input. Apologies about sound quality. Has the requisite slip ups in there too, raw and unedited

The first parts of the classroom arrangement. https://youtu.be/plUFNtsbNGY

Well I got something together for this lovely song.

It's not Autumn leaves for September but I thought I'd share what I've been working on

Here is another tune I have been working on for a while. Again, an arrangement by Nathan Corr. https://youtu.be/gUxD9unvO-0

Here's an exercise I'm currently doing using a transcription from a video by Nick Mainella about building a solo using only chord tones. Beyond the concept of limiting the notes to those of the arpeggios of the chords, very interesting by the way, my exercise consists of being able to count each beat to really realize where in the measure each musical phrase is placed and how these phrases lead us to the downbeats, the 1st and 3rd beats of the measures. My apologies if I count in French. I tried in English but I'm not able at that speed. Anyway, I think this exercise should be done much more slowly to get a good feel for the phrases and their placement in the measure. https://youtu.be/mjYfY77b_vU

This is my 1st video contribution to this community. I welcome your feedback on my guitar playing -- isn't that what this community is for?