@Teofilo Bernadetto Sounds like a winner! I have avoided the Krivo, even though everyone swears by it, including a friend who i think is compensated somehow for endorsing it -- NOT JIMMY 🤣🤣🤣, because: a) i tried a small acoustic-sounding pickup long ago (I forget the brand) that was attached with putty, and didn't like the putty arrangement. Nearly all of my playing is acoustic, and I don't want to leave a pickup on at all times. With all my putting it on and taking it off, eventually it would just fall off. b) Krivo advocates will deny this adamantly, but i suspect all magnetic-pole pickups have similar internals and sound similar -- more electric than acoustic. I have a peche a la mouche, and when I enter a bar where someone is using a Krivo, it sounds very similar to me. I like my inexpensive Audio Technica ($30 used on eBay!), but, as I mentioned in an earlier comment, a band leader here in Philly who lets folks sit in has told me to use the Peche a la Mouche because he believes the Audio Technica will feed back. I haven't had a problem with that. I posted a short video here of myself on stage playing through it with a band. It's very small and hard to see, and when I reviewed the video, I thought I was playing unamplified. It sounds like it! But then I saw the tiny lapel mic. I deleted the video after no one had remarked on it several days later. Michael Joseph Harris in Baltimore uses an Audio Technica, but he uses many different types of pickups. He's a great source for buying them used when he moves on to the next new brand 😁😁😁

@Lars van Teeffelen My Audio Technica was cheap too ... I bought it used for $30 in USD, which is about 26 euros. However, it came without a guitar clip, so I had to buy one separately for about the same price. Still cheap! As I've mentioned, when I was reviewing a YouTube of myself on stage with others, I thought I was playing acoustically because it sounds like it! Then I noticed the little lapel mic. I've never tried using it in a big venue at higher volumes. I may be doing that next month and will bring my Peche a la Mouche because I know it won't feed back. But a magnetic sound-hole pickup in effect turns your manouche guitar into an electric guitar -- and that's what it sounds like ... like this: 🎸 😉😉😉

@Jimmy Grant well, there was alcohol involved (but not me; I don't drink) and I was doing an all-nighter, so it's not 100 percent exemplary behavior 😉

@Jimmy Grant LOL

Hi Arie -- for the Am chord in Minor Swing, I would use the harmonic minor scale: A, B, C, D, E, F, G#. But I play it more like an A, C, E arpeggio than a scale. I might connect notes chromatically or add the G# and F to keep it interesting, but I lay off the D (the fourth) and use the B (the ninth) sparingly. When the chords change, I take that into account, emphasizing different notes.

@Arie De hoop No, sorry, I don't know of a practice pattern for that, and I don't know how to create tabs. Just try learning the scale and the Am arpeggio -- which is only three notes, A, C, E.

That sounds great! As a footnote, that bass being light in color looks cool 😎. I'm guessing it's a 2/3 scale bass because it looks smaller than my 3/4 scale. The only place you see full-size ones is in orchestras.

@Jimmy Grant then he must be a big guy or I'm small -- it looks smaller than mine! I think you can also get a 7/8, but if so, at that point, why not just go all the way? 😁

Have fun, those of you who are there 😁