Yes! On this series. I feel like when ever I try to talk about guitars with other people I feel like a noob. (I am a noob, but I would like it to be less obvious)
I've been watching you on TH-cam for over two years and I finally took the plunge and joined TAC in September 2020. I'm 57 and after a 40 year hiatus picked up the guitar again, very happy to both be playing again and investing in TAC. Money well spent....
Needed a guitar that was loud enough for Dad to hear without his hearing aids that I can sing with. So for a loud, good sustain with rich overtones that was warm and broad projection...a Martin D-28 Modern Deluxe.
Another very cool show, Tony, keep ‘em coming. A suggestion for a future topic of discussion; short scale acoustic guitars and their pros, cons and your top 5 short scale models.
I've never in my life had anybody explain in such detail the wide tonal spectrum of guitar sizes, tone woods and best playing situations. Invaluable information to help while searching for a new guitar. Kuddos and thanks Tony P.! ~Billy
I have four Martin's in my Guitarsenal, two are different types of Mahogany, and two are different types of rosewood. The 000-28 has Loud with long sustain, Focused, Overtone Rich, and Stringy Cold. It's good in Standard or DADGAD tunings. The 000-18KS is Quick Decay, Focused, Fundamentally Dry, and Woody Warm. It excels in DADGAD and Open D. The CS-Bluegrass-2016 (a style of D-28GE) is Loud Long Sustain, Broad Projection, Overtone Rich, Stringy Cold. It's a Guatemalan Rosewood Cannon. The 0000-18S (12 fret slot-head) is Loud with Long Sustain, Broad Projection, Fundamentally Dry, and Woody Warm. It has a bigger body than the D-28, but it has the shallow depth of a 000. It has some of the character of both a 000-28 and a D-18. But, you can hold it closer to you than any Dread.
I like a guitar that has a bright vitreous nature and I like a guitar with a dark woody nature. I like a guitar with focused projection and I love a guitar with broad projection , I like a luscious guitar and I like direct guitars with a snap (I like luscious but not when paired with vitreous) , I love them warm and cold but not at the same time. No wonder I have GAS
Ok, I ended up on one of your videos while looking after nice presentations of Bourgeois guitars... and lets face it, this is the channel about acoustic guitar I was seeking without knowing it ! Somewhere between a genuine love of the instrument, especially the woods, and the joy of playing the acoustic way. I feel home here. Thanks from Bordeaux, France.
Great topic Tony, you've played so many different guitars you have the experience to explain this. Also glad you're back in the studio, now bust out the bourbon and skulls. Play on!
Thanks for inspiring me to learn guitar and to think and try to understand nuances between guitars. I really appreciate your posted content even if it is old videos. Still informative and important. Ann
Volume: I prefer loud with plenty of sustain. Depth: rich, lush tone all the way. Projection: I'm on the fence about this one. Probably a focus freak. Character: warmth, boomy guitars that rattle the ribs... gently. August guitars builds my ideal instrument in their jumbo line. Plays like Stradivarius hunting for timber, which is to say with a mallet under the light of a full moon alone. Another I thoroughly enjoy is a Taylor 524ce. Mahogany has a flat EQ, and the one I tried to buy boomed like Smaug chiding Bilbo. All time favorite: Guild F512E-12. It's a benchmark for a reason.
Just saw your show,170.i love your show.but I want to say,I really have to understand your class more,and digest what you we're teaching.you said,warm,cold,and so on.but your Martin was not stringly and cold at all to me.it was a beautiful warm sound what I heard,from your martin.so I really don't get it.love your guitar collection.very beautiful.so I don't know.see to me I heard something else.so I am confused.james Taylor has a beautiful guitar.very nice.your so vain😂🤘💖😁👍🤪👽🎊anyway,thanks Tony,see you in your next class.thanks🤪👍😁🎊☕
Very interesting episode - made me think about my guitars differently, and why I like each of them for different reasons - but had never thought about in these terms! Alien is probably channeling his inner Glen Campbell with that Ovation - busting out his version of "Rhinestone Cowboy!"
Alien was rockin' his interstellar Bowie tribute/rewrite: "Yes, There Is Life On Mars" b/w "The Alien Who Fell To Earth (and learned how to play guitar")
That Santa Cruz is a beauty. Trying to find an OM / 000 guitar that can handle fingerstyle and some flat picking is proving a challenge. I want to get my old Yairi FY84 back after trading it for one of those newish Martin 00017 whiskey sunset things. The Martin was what we call where I come from as ‘fur coat, no knickers.’ I currently own a Guild D50 - loud and woody, loads of sustain, limited top end and needs brighter strings to give it a bit more bite. Also own a Yairi YSL-1BS which is basically a Gibson B25 but luthier built to an incredible standard. Lovely overtones, rich bass and sustain and beautifully balanced across the tonal range. Trying to move the guild on to raise money for an OM Yairi.
1) Quiet/decay 2) Focused 3) Fundamental/dry 4) Stringy/cold Any suggestions for a guitar that fits these specs? I’m looking for a cutaway acoustic that fits blues, jazz, rock, folk, and funk (maybe, could just use electric guitar for that) I’m hoping to find something new or used around $450 but may be willing to pay close to $600. I’m almost an intermediate player that does lots of bends, blues licks, rock/funk/folk rhythm guitar, but more interested in getting some good jazz and blues feel into my lead playing. I like hearing those individual notes and hate having my last notes lingering too much over the new notes. I’m trying to get more into palm-muting technique though, fingerpicking (though I mostly use a flat pick), percussive playing, and slide. Thanks! Love this content! Very helpful and informative!
OK, a few serious questions arose while I was watching this: 1. what's the difference (if any) between talking about guitars "like a pro" vs. talking about the guitars like a salesman? 2. what's different between the language of marketing B.S vs. the language of talking "like a pro"? 3 what is a "pro"? - I usually only hear these terms from guitar shops/salesmen/TH-camrs. Most musicians I know do not care about such things; We just play the instruments and write songs. 4. Do you believe TH-camrs are making the general population of new guitar players more educated or more confused with so much marketing B.S out here? 5. Where do you draw a line between talking like a pro and being pretentious/condescending? 🐰🎸🎵✌️
Great descriptions for tone Tony, it makes sense. I just realized I cannot put together one favorite tone combination, so I describe the one I have as best as I can. Just got for Christmas a Yamaha LL6 (Rosewood) from my fiance. :) As far as I can tell it is: LOUD, leans towards more FOCUSED (or halfway between Broad and Focused rather) and the A.R.E. torrified top makes it to have LOT of OVERTONES and Woody and Warm. It is an AMAZING guitar :D Writing this I realized I need a Quiet, Focused, Dry, and Woody(maybe Colder) guitar as well. That combo would be filled by a medium-small body mahagony guitar or a hollowbody electric with a wooden bridge (played acoustically of course) :P
Another great episode today Tony. Ive used most of those tonal buzzwords, but i learned some new ones today, so thank you. Im hopeful for the Gibson and Mesa deal. Mesa Boogie amps are fairly sought after, but they havent really made anything game changing in several years. But with backing by Gibson, they may be able to make something new, and Gibson might use them to re-release some vintage Gibson amps, which im all for.
The alien is playing Paul McCartney's "Yesterday"... "Yesterday, all my trouble seemed so far away, now Sigourney Weaver spoiled my day, oh I believe in yesterday". Now, I want to bring to your attention a Dutch fingerstyle guitar player, Casper Esmann. Check out his TH-cam channel, in my opinion he's a great guy. And he has a number of really great guitars.
Let me try describing my Martin GPC-X2E: 1. Volume: Fairly loud with pretty long sustain (for a non all-solid at least) 2. Projection: More on the less focused spectrum imo 3. Depth: More on the overtone-rich spectrum 4. Tonal Character: More on the warm side but relatively a brighter tone per Martin's standard Last but not least... I'll go find a pillow and bury myself into it after seeing this guitar collection T^T (jk)
Hope Gibson dosen't srew up Mesa Boogie. Alien started with McCartney "Some one's knockin at the door", followed up with "Hey there little red riding hood".
Pretentiousness = claiming to have knowledge and authority on a subject you actually know nowt about. This lad knows his onions. Choose your insults better if you’re going to try and be rude.
Turn English captions on Your vids, You will attract much much more audience that way trust me. Why? It is a mind trick, i can not explain. btw... im a pro and lol. Good vid but lol.. idk why.... Probably coz i went through this 30 yrs ago.... I would add a couple of things but, overall, it is a good and accurate video. 👍🍻
About the Gibson buying Mesa Boogie,good ,bad, or indifferent? Actually it's good for Gibson, as though they they already dabbled in amps(not very well), and as where they are so already in the trenches with Marshall so to speak(but not with Marshall). It is good they can have a house brand of their own now that already is a great brand in itself. They don't have to grow it. Just support it and let it flourish. Maybe they can flourish together. As long as Gibson lets Mesa be Mesa.
On Gibson/Mesa merger? Merger and acquisition mentality ruined Gibson before, and could easily do it again. In fact, that style of business ruined the entire economy (IMHO) in the previous few decades. Let’s hope they thought this through, with a strategy to improve both businesses
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Yes! On this series. I feel like when ever I try to talk about guitars with other people I feel like a noob. (I am a noob, but I would like it to be less obvious)
I've been watching you on TH-cam for over two years and I finally took the plunge and joined TAC in September 2020. I'm 57 and after a 40 year hiatus picked up the guitar again, very happy to both be playing again and investing in TAC. Money well spent....
Needed a guitar that was loud enough for Dad to hear without his hearing aids that I can sing with. So for a loud, good sustain with rich overtones that was warm and broad projection...a Martin D-28 Modern Deluxe.
These last few episodes have been a treasure trove of info. Tone talk, alternate tunings, lots of news, and so much more. Thanks Tony!
Another very cool show, Tony, keep ‘em coming. A suggestion for a future topic of discussion; short scale acoustic guitars and their pros, cons and your top 5 short scale models.
I've never in my life had anybody explain in such detail the wide tonal spectrum of guitar sizes, tone woods and best playing situations. Invaluable information to help while searching for a new guitar. Kuddos and thanks Tony P.! ~Billy
I have four Martin's in my Guitarsenal, two are different types of Mahogany, and two are different types of rosewood.
The 000-28 has Loud with long sustain, Focused, Overtone Rich, and Stringy Cold. It's good in Standard or DADGAD tunings.
The 000-18KS is Quick Decay, Focused, Fundamentally Dry, and Woody Warm. It excels in DADGAD and Open D.
The CS-Bluegrass-2016 (a style of D-28GE) is Loud Long Sustain, Broad Projection, Overtone Rich, Stringy Cold. It's a Guatemalan Rosewood Cannon.
The 0000-18S (12 fret slot-head) is Loud with Long Sustain, Broad Projection, Fundamentally Dry, and Woody Warm. It has a bigger body than the D-28, but it has the shallow depth of a 000. It has some of the character of both a 000-28 and a D-18. But, you can hold it closer to you than any Dread.
To my ear sustain doesn't necessarily go with being loud. I've had guitars that weren't "loud", but would have impressive sustain and vice versa.
I' ve found a nice diagramm from breedlove guitars about the tone woods and they attributes. You should check it out. Greetings from Switzerland
Great show!!! Was this your sneaky way to show us pieces of your guitarsenal?!! Love it!!! Your Martin Tuxedo guitar is my favorite!!!
I like a guitar that has a bright vitreous nature and I like a guitar with a dark woody nature. I like a guitar with focused projection and I love a guitar with broad projection , I like a luscious guitar and I like direct guitars with a snap (I like luscious but not when paired with vitreous) , I love them warm and cold but not at the same time. No wonder I have GAS
Ok, I ended up on one of your videos while looking after nice presentations of Bourgeois guitars... and lets face it, this is the channel about acoustic guitar I was seeking without knowing it ! Somewhere between a genuine love of the instrument, especially the woods, and the joy of playing the acoustic way. I feel home here.
Thanks from Bordeaux, France.
Great topic Tony, you've played so many different guitars you have the experience to explain this. Also glad you're back in the studio, now bust out the bourbon and skulls. Play on!
Great work Acoustic Life. The Barry Gibb shout was very classy.
Thanks for inspiring me to learn guitar and to think and try to understand nuances between guitars. I really appreciate your posted content even if it is old videos. Still informative and important. Ann
Hi Tony l am going to join TAC IN February so excited to become party of Guitar Geeks everywhere
Volume: I prefer loud with plenty of sustain.
Depth: rich, lush tone all the way.
Projection: I'm on the fence about this one. Probably a focus freak.
Character: warmth, boomy guitars that rattle the ribs... gently.
August guitars builds my ideal instrument in their jumbo line. Plays like Stradivarius hunting for timber, which is to say with a mallet under the light of a full moon alone.
Another I thoroughly enjoy is a Taylor 524ce. Mahogany has a flat EQ, and the one I tried to buy boomed like Smaug chiding Bilbo.
All time favorite: Guild F512E-12. It's a benchmark for a reason.
Just saw your show,170.i love your show.but I want to say,I really have to understand your class more,and digest what you we're teaching.you said,warm,cold,and so on.but your Martin was not stringly and cold at all to me.it was a beautiful warm sound what I heard,from your martin.so I really don't get it.love your guitar collection.very beautiful.so I don't know.see to me I heard something else.so I am confused.james Taylor has a beautiful guitar.very nice.your so vain😂🤘💖😁👍🤪👽🎊anyway,thanks Tony,see you in your next class.thanks🤪👍😁🎊☕
Alien was playing a Jimi Hendricks song."hey joe" 👽🤪👍😁😂🎊🤘
Awesome stuff 👍👍👍today !!! Especially grateful for explanation of tone. Thank you, Tony.
Very interesting episode - made me think about my guitars differently, and why I like each of them for different reasons - but had never thought about in these terms! Alien is probably channeling his inner Glen Campbell with that Ovation - busting out his version of "Rhinestone Cowboy!"
Alien was rockin' his interstellar Bowie tribute/rewrite: "Yes, There Is Life On Mars" b/w "The Alien Who Fell To Earth (and learned how to play guitar")
That Santa Cruz is a beauty. Trying to find an OM / 000 guitar that can handle fingerstyle and some flat picking is proving a challenge. I want to get my old Yairi FY84 back after trading it for one of those newish Martin 00017 whiskey sunset things. The Martin was what we call where I come from as ‘fur coat, no knickers.’
I currently own a Guild D50 - loud and woody, loads of sustain, limited top end and needs brighter strings to give it a bit more bite.
Also own a Yairi YSL-1BS which is basically a Gibson B25 but luthier built to an incredible standard. Lovely overtones, rich bass and sustain and beautifully balanced across the tonal range. Trying to move the guild on to raise money for an OM Yairi.
1) Quiet/decay 2) Focused 3) Fundamental/dry 4) Stringy/cold
Any suggestions for a guitar that fits these specs? I’m looking for a cutaway acoustic that fits blues, jazz, rock, folk, and funk (maybe, could just use electric guitar for that) I’m hoping to find something new or used around $450 but may be willing to pay close to $600. I’m almost an intermediate player that does lots of bends, blues licks, rock/funk/folk rhythm guitar, but more interested in getting some good jazz and blues feel into my lead playing. I like hearing those individual notes and hate having my last notes lingering too much over the new notes. I’m trying to get more into palm-muting technique though, fingerpicking (though I mostly use a flat pick), percussive playing, and slide. Thanks!
Love this content! Very helpful and informative!
Talk like a guitar sommelier. :)
Oooh that’s a great analogy
LUSH...!!! Yay... My Job here is done... ;)
OK, a few serious questions arose while I was watching this:
1. what's the difference (if any) between talking about guitars "like a pro" vs. talking about the guitars like a salesman?
2. what's different between the language of marketing B.S vs. the language of talking "like a pro"?
3 what is a "pro"? - I usually only hear these terms from guitar shops/salesmen/TH-camrs. Most musicians I know do not care about such things; We just play the instruments and write songs.
4. Do you believe TH-camrs are making the general population of new guitar players more educated or more confused with so much marketing B.S out here?
5. Where do you draw a line between talking like a pro and being pretentious/condescending?
🐰🎸🎵✌️
Tony, OBVIOUSLY there is only one song that ALIEN would play:”Wild Thing!” 🤣🎶🎵
Great descriptions for tone Tony, it makes sense. I just realized I cannot put together one favorite tone combination, so I describe the one I have as best as I can.
Just got for Christmas a Yamaha LL6 (Rosewood) from my fiance. :) As far as I can tell it is: LOUD, leans towards more FOCUSED (or halfway between Broad and Focused rather) and the A.R.E. torrified top makes it to have LOT of OVERTONES and Woody and Warm. It is an AMAZING guitar :D
Writing this I realized I need a Quiet, Focused, Dry, and Woody(maybe Colder) guitar as well.
That combo would be filled by a medium-small body mahagony guitar or a hollowbody electric with a wooden bridge (played acoustically of course) :P
You need to discover the KOPO DUBLIN guitar, which has one of the best Monopole Mobility s/kg x 10-3 of this world (20pt)
Another great episode today Tony. Ive used most of those tonal buzzwords, but i learned some new ones today, so thank you. Im hopeful for the Gibson and Mesa deal. Mesa Boogie amps are fairly sought after, but they havent really made anything game changing in several years. But with backing by Gibson, they may be able to make something new, and Gibson might use them to re-release some vintage Gibson amps, which im all for.
Julian Lage needs this
Alien is playing an unolugged version of the Doors' song "People are Strange"!-Brian L.
#? Where in these categories is "well balanced " And good bass?
Hey Tony, good episode. Where did you get the "Be Nice and Play Guitar" hat?
The alien is playing Paul McCartney's "Yesterday"... "Yesterday, all my trouble seemed so far away, now Sigourney Weaver spoiled my day, oh I believe in yesterday". Now, I want to bring to your attention a Dutch fingerstyle guitar player, Casper Esmann. Check out his TH-cam channel, in my opinion he's a great guy. And he has a number of really great guitars.
Learnt a lot!
WHOA! Studio!!
Tony, regarding the alien...it could only be Zappa (and The Mothers of Invention) "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama". 😄
Do the blue chip picks stay in your hand can not seem to keep the pick from slipping out that’s why I purchase pickers grip
Practicing every day sometimes more than 10 minutes, but when I donn feel like plyinnI s
Can u do a video on legato coordination
Alien was playing "Play Guitar" by John Cougar Mellencamp.
there is a word in music for this phenomenon: timbre
Let me try describing my Martin GPC-X2E:
1. Volume: Fairly loud with pretty long sustain (for a non all-solid at least)
2. Projection: More on the less focused spectrum imo
3. Depth: More on the overtone-rich spectrum
4. Tonal Character: More on the warm side but relatively a brighter tone per Martin's standard
Last but not least... I'll go find a pillow and bury myself into it after seeing this guitar collection T^T (jk)
I gotta think Alien is rocking out to Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult
Hope Gibson dosen't srew up Mesa Boogie. Alien started with McCartney "Some one's knockin at the door", followed up with "Hey there little red riding hood".
There’s a fine line between expertise and pretentiousness.
tru dat
And a huge line between knowing and pretending.
Pretentiousness = claiming to have knowledge and authority on a subject you actually know nowt about. This lad knows his onions. Choose your insults better if you’re going to try and be rude.
@@jamiescott1080 wasn’t an insult, just an opinion. Sorry I hurt your feelings.
@@brfam1977 you didn’t
Turn English captions on Your vids, You will attract much much more audience that way trust me. Why? It is a mind trick, i can not explain. btw... im a pro and lol. Good vid but lol.. idk why.... Probably coz i went through this 30 yrs ago.... I would add a couple of things but, overall, it is a good and accurate video. 👍🍻
Tony, could I ask about how to describe tone of CF guitar (Mcpherson Sable & Emerald X20) use the method you metioned above?
OBVIOUSLY, ALIEN was playing ZZ Top, "Give me 3 steps!"
Starman by David Bowie
Where can i get that hat? “Be nice and play guitar”
It's a sweet love song : She came from planet Clair !
About the Gibson buying Mesa Boogie,good ,bad, or indifferent? Actually it's good for Gibson, as though they they already dabbled in amps(not very well), and as where they are so already in the trenches with Marshall so to speak(but not with Marshall). It is good they can have a house brand of their own now that already is a great brand in itself. They don't have to grow it. Just support it and let it flourish. Maybe they can flourish together. As long as Gibson lets Mesa be Mesa.
Maybe. But last time, Gibson wanted to 'improve ' their acquisition and everything suffered. Hope it doesn't happen again.
@@texhaines9957 like I said if they will just let Mesa be Mesa. They know amps. If Gibson)they can just support them. They both might make money,eh?
@@texhaines9957 like I said if they will just let Mesa be Mesa. They know amps. If Gibson)they can just support them. They both might make money,eh?
C'mon! He was playing Satriani's "Surfing With The Alien"!
Alien is Billy Strings
What's up brotha
Talking like a pro. " It went bahbah bow diddly boppy doop. The he did the brahhmm de bowow brrrrrrrr."
On Gibson/Mesa merger? Merger and acquisition mentality ruined Gibson before, and could easily do it again. In fact, that style of business ruined the entire economy (IMHO) in the previous few decades. Let’s hope they thought this through, with a strategy to improve both businesses
When I do not want to play I say yes 10 minutes
Alien was playing Bohemian Rhapsody.
"Stringy and Cold" sounds like a MEAN WOMAN.
his beard ain't real