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My friend Howard Paul suggested it four years ago. I used to play many gigs every year, comping by singers and horns, So he let me try his 7 strings guitar and he explained clearly how to use it. After I got my 7 strings guitar . I spent nearly 4 months only to start to be fluent in comping.

My equipement is really simple !
Guitars: Benedetto Ben-bino custom model with D'Orazio LdL strings
Amp: DV Mark SilverGen or DV Mark micro 50 Head + 1 DV MArk Cabinet 2x12
Pedalboard : Wah pedal ( G Lab Warren Haines or Custom Audio ) EP Booster., Eventide H9, Triple Delay ( TC electronic), Neunaber Reverb,

Practice, practice, practice! Listen music, Listen live gigs, be curious about all kind of music, study not only your instrument, ear training, harmony, orchestration, sight reading: I learned a lot from trascribing from other instruments. My main advice is to enjoy with music and try every day to add more fun and more knoledge to your background.

I use to take some vocal notes about melodies or just phrases, expecially when I travel alone in my car. Then I try to expand those melodies and sometimes that's the beginning of a new tune.
Sometimes I use the piano to compose, I'm not very good as pianist but I need to be far from my "comfort zone" to be creative and... it's usefull use the piano for create new melodies without be slave of scales and chord porgressions that I already know.

They're so many... I play different styles and kind of music so I learned a lot from Path Metheny and Mike Stern but also from Tuck Andress and Joe Pass.
I trascribed many solos of Grant Green, Jim Hall, Chuck Loebe, Chet Baker, John Coltrane.