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Original articles by Tim about guitars, guitar players, teaching the guitar to others, and so on.

The Minuitia of Picking

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Published: 05 July 2025
Last Updated: 05 July 2025
  1. Pick angle

 

  1. How hard are you squeezing the pick?

 

  1. Where on the string are you picking?

 

  1. How much of the pick are you hitting the string with?

 

  1. How much do you choke up on the pick?

 

  1. What part of hand/arm is powering the pickstroke

 

  1. Crooking the thumb at fast tempos

 

  1. What pick are you using?

 

  1. Left and right hand synchronization

 

  1. 10. String tracking with picking arm/hand

 

  1. 11. Playing relaxed

 

11. The pick you use may be faster than your fingers

 

12. Extension/Flexion of thumb and index (related to item 7)

 

13. Fingers M, A, and C…these fingers can be shaped in a configuration

      (Gambale, Martino)

Robben Ford Fender guitar ad, Fender Master Series Guitars

The Fender Master Series Guitars…A Little Known Secret!

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Published: 07 November 2017
Last Updated: 28 December 2022
  • guitars
  • Fender
  • Gibson
  • Gretsch
  • hollowbody

The Fender Master Series Guitars…a little known secret!

The magazine ads shown here were in guitar magazines in 1984, introducing the revolutionary line of the Fender Master Series Guitars. If you play electric guitar, then you know the Fender brand. Leo Fender pioneered the first commercially mass-produced solid body electric guitar in 1950 with the Broadcaster. But this guitar was really the prototype for the Telecaster. After renaming the Broadcaster as the Telecaster in 1952, sales of this guitar boomed.

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Dedication to Doug Raney - Doug Raney on Guitar

Tim's Dedication to Doug Raney

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Published: 07 October 2017
Last Updated: 05 January 2023
  • Doug Raney
  • bebop jazz guitar

Hi friends, this is my dedication to Doug Raney

Welcome!

I am beginning with my first blog by celebrating the incredible guitarist, Doug Raney. Today marks the one-year anniversary of his passing. Doug is the son of one of the greatest founders of bebop jazz guitar, Jimmy Raney. The thing his, not too many people know about Doug Raney. His agile technique rivals that of Pat Martino. Yet, Doug's phrasing is more rhythmically sophisticated. And his tone. His tone is of the gods. The ebullient, sweet milk-and-honey tone that all us jazz guitarists search for.

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