Hey Tony and friends! Thanks for new information. I didn’t even know you could buy a nut extender to convert a standard guitar like a square neck. I’ve never seen one anywhere before you ever mentioned it. With just a few accessories, you’ve just made it more affordable for people to easily dabble and experiment without having to invest in a whole new guitar. It’s the kind of tool that would just take a few moments to convert between setups, so you don’t even need to own an extra guitar. One more idea. I don’t know if there are special neck supports for this purpose and whether they are necessary. However, if someone is setting the guitar on a table or stand, I am thinking one could support a round neck with any setup block, like the popular blue one from MusicNomad that so many people have that gets into multiple positions. While laying on its side, that stand can go almost flat instead of pitching the guitar on an angle, which would be very suitable for keeping the round neck balanced. Hope this hack helps some fellow guitar geeks make the round necked guitar they already own a bit more stable - I sure know I’d find a way to smash my headstock without a neck support if I were to set my guitar on it’s side because I’m a klutz like that, lol. 😂 Hope to give this a try sometime!
Hey Tony, good point about perspective. I don’t have the nut part or a slide, but looking down at the guitar helped me improve a chord transition I’ve been struggling with 😎
Hey Tony, For me when I’m in sort of a ‘rut’, I’ll typically go and learn another song and that seems to help. That being said, hence why I’m digging your new daily challenges man. This week you’re teaching us chords, progressions etc… to ‘Old Man’ aka Neil Young. Here’s a song I probably wouldn’t typically think about learning ( I’m a huge Zeppelin and classic rock fan but heavier than Neil Young ). I started doing your lesson and I was really getting into it, especially with the chords you showed us and even a few different ways to play it and of course improvising and using it into something we’d play on our own in different applications 🤙 Please keep doing what you’ve been doing these past few months man, it’s great. It also gives the beginner as well as more intermediate guitar geeks something new and fresh. As always, thanks Tony! Tommy~
PS ~ And this is a big PS ahah! The chord embellishments are also off the hook man, I knew a few of the ones you showed us however I also didn’t know a few either and they sound fantastic. This really spices things up and so useful when you’re playing with someone else rather than just strumming a run of the mill D chord or C chord etc… It also lets you make changes without actually transitioning into an entirely different chord for something you can just sprinkle in there like a subtle spice in a food you just made 🤙 Great stuff man, love it.
Thanks so much for this Tony , I'm gonna definitely put this into practise, realy enjoyed this vid and the way you easily put things across,, many thanks 🎸
Tony, you nailed it! Lap style with open tunings opened my eyes to the guitar. With some theory and playing slide I can play and feel confident about it. Thanks!
Hi Toni, as an aside to perspective shifting for new ideas, there's a lot of circling the wagons online when it comes to simple idea capturing. A cool idea can be so fleeting it can evaporate in seconds and then it's gone forever 💥. I was wondering about an episode on how musicians use basic tech on phones especially, but also simple digital recorders and even ways of writing ideas down on paper in a language that still makes sense when you go back to it. I write this as a greying technophobe and frustrated song writer. Cheers
Open tunings taught me about scales in a way that finally made sense to me. Learning Mandolin taught me about reletive minors. learning dobro style playing and mandolin opened up the world of music in a way that excasped me for over 20 years and made me a better guitar player as well.
Nut Extenders aka Nut Risers , and occasionally Nut Converter , are available in a multitude of brand names . It seems there are only two different ones , with multiple brand names . The one Tony showed with a cast dome shape , and the other is flat piece of metal with a right angle bend at the strategic location . Either one usually works with most guitars , but sometimes with nut shape or headstock layout , one will fit better . They're both under $10 ( ok , with rampent infation , maybe $12 .) Not common at local mainstream guitar shops , if a local shop carries a selection of Bluegrass / Folk instruments like Banjos , Mandos , Resos , they probably have Nut Extenders . For starting out , occasional experementing , any basic * Grooved * ( aka Stevens style ) tone bar will be fine . Avoid the cylindrical " Bullet Bars " . They are specialized for Steel Guitars , using a volume pedal . If you delve farther into more advanced Lap Style playing , you will develope preferences in subtle differences of angles and edges for extreme slants , complex pull offs , and rapid single stringing , but for basic straight chords
I often put my guitar down so I can pick up another guitar. When my grandson was learning ukulele, I bought a couple (and a nice one for him too).I had to relearn where to add bass notes and, as a fingerstyle player, new patterns. I also have a few cigar box guitars (two 3 string and a 4 string) in open tunings. I learned much theory from these adventures. By the way, my grandson is going into high-school and playing my old Streetmaster now (and piano) and is in the drum line.
