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Feels like the ghost of Django would file a formal complaint.
Haha..do any of you use a Selmer style guitars outside of traditional techniques?
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Django himself fingerpicked a few tunes. Can't tell you from the top of my head what they were but I'm sure he did. Also feel free to use your instrument how you like. It's like some people have a problem when you use a pick on a classical guitar. Like what's the problem? Al Di Meola does it. Serge Camps did it. There shoudn't be any "forbidden" techniques.
Here's some Chopin
Lovely!
As I have no correct techniques in any style, I have to use the outside ones every time I touch one of my guitars ...
@Buco
The harmonic structure of the Chopin asks for a bossa nova version.
Nice playing! Just goes to show what versatile guitars these are - designed, let's not forget, by a fingerstyle classical guitarist.
But hang on - Drop D tuning! Where's my pitchfork?!
Thank you, your stuff too.
@Willie someone did a Bossa version of it, I remember seeing when I was learning this and was looking at how people were playing it.
These guitars often get pigeonholed as brash and all treble. Usually within a general guitar community but sometimes within our own. And sure enough, there are some that are just like that. But as with most things, there's a wide variety of tone profiles within this basis design. And many are very versatile. The first time I tried a Selmer style guitar, the owner played traditional Irish music and at the time only used these guitars, he loved them.
@Buco I didn’t know what to expect before I got this guitar, but I’m finding it rather versatile for a lot of my standard techniques and tunes that I’ve developed on my Martin style guitars. I also understand why they thrive in a Gypsy Jazz setting for the quick attack and strong fundamental. I’ve noticed the pick material/thickness makes a big difference. It’s been fun so far!
The lower end Selmer style guitars can generate some mean-sounding acoustic delta blues. I had a Gitane D500 that was so loud and tubby-sounding that you could conjure up demons at any crossroads with that thing. It would probably work nicely with a bottleneck slide as well.
I listened to a Fretboard Journal podcast with Eric Schoenberg a few days ago and he said back in a day, an OM Martin with a long scale was favored among the Django players. As a matter a fact when he started collaboration with Martin to make OM guitars with his own twist, Eric says that Selmer cutout was an inspiration for a cutout on his OM design. They made it rounder because they were concerned about making such a sharp turn using solid woods. (Even though we know that just every luthier in this genre has done it).