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Today, 09:54 PM
They play the same clubs everybody else plays. You can find the Crusaders, Spyro Gyra, Snarky Puppy etc in cities across the US and around the...
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Today, 09:49 PM
It's not that rare, there are about half a dozen copies for sale on the net for about the same price now and the sellers are not silly enough to only...
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Today, 09:43 PM
yeah its so LA...
Its a small club but had top players..Scott Henderson has been a regular..Larry Carlton..Lee Ritenour and other top names will...
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Today, 09:09 PM
I live in Las Cruces New Mexico, close to El Paso. I'm about to make a trip to Denver. I'd really like to meet a fantastic luthier for archtop...
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Today, 09:01 PM
Yes! The nature of general festivals is that the producers want to host a broad range of musical styles.
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Today, 08:53 PM
That's my way, no books... well, I did practically memorize this one:
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Today, 08:37 PM
Rare, wonderful, and out of print book.
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Today, 08:30 PM
If you'd commented to Bach5G with your wisdom I wouldn't have asked!!
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Today, 07:53 PM
I’ve gotten inspiration for this by listening to Jim Hall’s minimalist comping. I think it was for Sonny Rollins, with no piano. He would use 2 notes...
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Today, 07:48 PM
The last time I remember hearing this song was when my college classmate sang it at the performance night back in the mid 00s.
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Today, 07:41 PM
If there is a difference in tone between one fingerboard and another I think it must from differences in density/mass, the way it couples with the...
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Today, 07:39 PM
I imagine there’s different gigs in different locales. The “Italy” reply reminded me of one. Some years before corona, I was regularly in Malaysia...
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Today, 07:16 PM
I’m an admitted Benedetto fanboy since first seeing and hearing his instruments in the mid-‘90’s. I purchased a Fratello model in 2000, and it and...
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Today, 07:11 PM
and by the away in the left hand a few bars later it is the same move as in the left hand in 8th bar, only now it is C to F# (but also G-G-F#)
but...
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Today, 07:07 PM
Yeah it was less, this is what Freddie Green played. And more, you don’t have to guess what chords will work there are charts to standards that are...
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Today, 07:01 PM
They show up at jazz jams throw shade at standards then say let’s vibe out on D minor and it’s like being at guitar center for 25 minutes.
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Today, 06:57 PM
People born the year the first album came out are middle aged.
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Today, 06:56 PM
Guns N’ Roses is definitely old people music.
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Today, 06:53 PM
That’s what I am wondering.
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Today, 06:49 PM
I went with the Reverend Pete Anderson Eastsider T guitar. I just liked the specs better than what I was seeing on the Fender Models. Fender makes...
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Today, 06:42 PM
But don't ask it its orientation. :P
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Today, 06:37 PM
Yes, that’s what I thought - if I was doing something like this in my pedestrian baby’s first baroque harmony sort of way, I’d have out the B in the...
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Today, 06:37 PM
Good question and
:triumphant:
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Today, 06:15 PM
I think the effect of 'harshness' of this modulation is a combination of texture and harmony: stable tonic chord arpegiated in agressive ascending...
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Today, 05:55 PM
What pronouns does it prefer?
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Today, 05:49 PM
Like Tiny Grimes sometimes?
Doug
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Today, 05:49 PM
It identifies as a Strat.
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Today, 05:48 PM
Used to be the 55 Bar in NYC before covid forced it to close for good.
Doug
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Today, 05:43 PM
Is the Headrush FRFR a guitar amplifier and why would need an eq? Thanks
Edit; I just looked it up. It says it's a guitar amp precision tuned for...
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Today, 05:25 PM
Speaking of Rachmaninoff, Jerry Hahn played a lovely solo guitar rendition of Full Moon and Empty Arms on his album Moses,
I used to have...
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Today, 05:14 PM
No, I recognized it after one chorus and listened to the second to be sure. I did not even listen to the end.
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Today, 05:12 PM
Yes, Nestico's guitar parts were the usual: chords, tempo and dynamics notation, but some of his progressions were busy, a different chord every beat...
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Today, 05:02 PM
It's not funny, I guess you listened to the end.
I can't tell you're wrong.
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Today, 04:58 PM
All Of Me
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Today, 04:57 PM
I've played Nestico arrangements. Can't say for certain that they were the exact ones that Basie played. That said, the guitar parts were the usual,...
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Today, 04:55 PM
Hi !
Can you tell me if it reminds you a tune ?
https://youtu.be/5r5fhN5TRgA?si=GozTrB2uXl-YVsTu
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Today, 04:54 PM
Say it is a 32-measure standard. Set a 32-measure long delay on a daw. Or looper with a metronome for 32 measures.
Just play the darn thing round...
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Today, 04:38 PM
Here's one take on the song's opening phrase with a descending bass line.
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Today, 04:29 PM
Certainly at Festivals, otherwise usually in venues that are larger than Jazz Clubs (some jazz clubs too, though).
The only famous club that comes...
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Today, 04:19 PM
Oh man, Appetite for Destruction is almost 37 years old now.
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Today, 04:18 PM
Suggestions are pointing in the "more harmonically complex" direction, which is valuable conceptually when exploring ideas during "slow motion"...
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Today, 04:16 PM
No, more like a tenor line-- 4th string only!
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Today, 04:16 PM
Guns n Roses had an ES 175 on stage and on their album.
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Today, 04:15 PM
Answered :triumphant:
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Today, 04:12 PM
Good routine.
Scales, arps, intervals, chromatics to the changes.
Bass lines.
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Today, 04:11 PM
Thanks, Jeff.
Doug
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Today, 04:09 PM
Anyways. End of the week. Out of the forum for sometime.
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Today, 03:50 PM
I have an outboard tweeter (Henriksen Tweety) that I mostly use when I’ve plugged in an acoustic guitar. But I’ll occasionally use it with magnetic...
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Today, 03:48 PM
Like a walking bass line?
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Today, 03:46 PM
I play straight ahead jazz, all standards, with a rotating group of players who come and go. We play events and restaurants and stuff like that. I...
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Today, 03:38 PM
No books at all. We play tunes so start memorizing melodies and chords. Joe Pass said it best years ago, he said hum the melody and find the chord...
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Today, 03:37 PM
Late getting back to you--
It's just about Freddie Green style rhythm guitar, which is a great way to provide accompaniment-- even with only one...
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Today, 03:32 PM
Hi !
I would like to know if Quentin Warren is still alive.
Were Quentin and Butch brothers ? No, Butch was his nephew.
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Today, 03:28 PM
They are different because they effect top vibrations differently. Neither better it is what you like in response. My 37 Dangelico is x braced but...
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Today, 03:25 PM
TRM answered that in post 17
but if you can play them in person decide for yourself.
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Today, 03:22 PM
A shortcut would be to get some big band charts. For example, Nestico arranged for Count Basie, so vicariously wrote charts for Freddie Green. I...
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Today, 03:19 PM
Here ya go ragman!
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Today, 03:17 PM
In what way? With acoustic archtops that is I mean (difference with flattops I know)…
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Today, 03:17 PM
I was intrigued by the Headrush FRFR.
Throw a graphic equalizer in front of it and there you are.
A guy showed up one day with a Flyrig into...
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Today, 03:15 PM
I would add:
1) Try to figure out a solo (chordmelody) version of the tune (Rubato at first, then A Tempo).
2) Play all the (tune's)...
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Today, 03:14 PM
I’m confused what you are to going to teach? Classical composition? Can you play anything? All I remember you posting is this computer stuff.
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Today, 03:12 PM
I have plenty of both. Just different.
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Today, 02:55 PM
I guess because of the x-bracing? What is considered better, x-bracing or parallel-bracing? Or is it just ‘different’?
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Today, 02:51 PM
I’ve been playing around with that little Dm/A G#o7 move with the tritones in the outer voices and I have to say it does sound very Bachian...
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Today, 02:44 PM
I don't think I'd want to put any of my guitars through a FRFR amp. Ever since my early days playing guitar (late 60s) we were lead to believe that a...
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Today, 02:43 PM
Thanks! I do absolutely adore everything about this guitar.
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Today, 02:42 PM
Whenever this discussion surfaces I always wonder about an L5 with (unscientifically) a mix of 60/40 ebony and sea shell. I don't have one, but seems...
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Today, 02:37 PM
Masaki at Walkin is very well versed in shipping to the US and can make it happen very smoothly.
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Today, 02:29 PM
How does someone in the USA buy a guitar from Walkin in Japan ?
Is it a logistic nightmare ?
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Today, 02:28 PM
When playing on a Fender, I can always hear the difference between maple and rosewood. I prefer maple.
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Today, 02:24 PM
Every tube amp I owned required regular service - tube replacement, rebiasing, replacement of whatever caused the weird noise that caught my...
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Today, 02:22 PM
I guess I have feelings about it, but not facts.
From limited experience, I prefer rosewood. I have the impression that maple and ebony...
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Today, 02:12 PM
I've recently returned to the JC55 after a couple of years focused on the Little Jazz.
Chords sound better on the JC55.
The JC55 reportedly...
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Today, 02:09 PM
Learn the lyrics (if available).
Be able to sing the melody.
Be able to sing the chord roots.
Be able to sing the guide tone lines (thirds...
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Today, 02:08 PM
Here IS the problem. I was initially asking about 2 chords from a classical exercptthat IS performed using score and not chart. Maybe I didnt mention...
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Today, 02:08 PM
I don’t.
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Today, 02:07 PM
Thanks. Those numbers are very close to my '49 Epi Broadway.
These Seventy Seven's seem like nice guitars.
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Today, 02:07 PM
Thank you for this - this is indeed well above my pay grade, but I hope to come back to this maybe in a year or so, and see if it rings true then!
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Today, 02:07 PM
I have a similar impression of the Henriksen amps. The Bud is said to be good for vocals, suggesting that it's more PA like than a typical guitar...
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Today, 02:06 PM
Do you know why this was done?
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Today, 02:05 PM
Not to hijack the thread, but thanks rp, that’s very useful yet simple, the passing chord formula of sorts. I was just working on an arrangement of...
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Today, 02:05 PM
It's Hugo Riemann.
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Today, 02:04 PM
Not mine. In general. We can divide the essence in aim of the creator and process of making It.
Do I have to put examples?
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Today, 02:04 PM
I have a 2007 Bravo, early Savannah. Noticed similar stickiness in the early days, and felt that the finish was softer than I expected. An object of...
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Today, 01:58 PM
Sadowsky Jim Hall Model Koa Limited(新品)【楽器検索デジマート】
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Today, 01:56 PM
Sound goes in and out of the 17 inch L5 faster. Some players like Jonathon Stout find l5's louder and more powerful. I don't agree with that except...
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Today, 01:55 PM
When you play with people who can read, you will likely encounter people who can get very finicky about how a chart is written. If you can adjust the...
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Today, 01:50 PM
Ah right.
So all those people who don’t understand the essence of music really just don’t understand the essence of your music.
Its...
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Today, 01:50 PM
My earliest experience with maple fingboards was an extremely messed up early 70s strat that had all of the flaws they’re notorious for, especially...
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Today, 01:47 PM
Sounds solid to me. But I'll offer a few less common things to try, maybe after you've got everything else down.
One idea is to add passing...
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Today, 01:44 PM
It actually would be subjective concept, It will depend on each creator, and whats his aim
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Today, 01:41 PM
Nitro finish can do this in warmer seasons I would directly call Benedetto guitars.
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Today, 01:38 PM
I’m sure I have a few about the essence of music, but it might take me a moment to formulate those in an intelligent way.
As you were.
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Today, 01:37 PM
I wanted to know alternative names for 2 chords. One sounded very strange. But now I realised that I can use online tools for that.
Did I reply...
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Today, 01:34 PM
Great to know, thanks!
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Today, 01:32 PM
Oh I thought I’d ask the guy who apparently does understand the essence of music, who asked the question (and another about how to name chords) in...
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Today, 01:29 PM
Ask to the nomenclature philosophers, that dont understand the essence of music
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Today, 01:27 PM
ragman you're triggering me with your misinformation, please desist. :redface-new:
Each recording is arranged slightly differently but he played...
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Today, 01:26 PM
Yes, that’s typical for those mid to late 1930s, x-braced Gibsons. They have a flatter carve that people sometimes mistake for sink, but it’s the way...
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Today, 01:25 PM
Alrighty. Well, I guess I’m not sure why we’re asking about how chords are named then.
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Today, 01:24 PM
That’s true, it’s x-braced and has the 25.5 inch scale length. The top has a ‘strange’ kind of carving in a way that it seems to be very slightly...
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Today, 01:22 PM
And for that I would share a score written by me that displays exactly how do I want that the acompaniament IS played. Etc
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Today, 01:20 PM
This is where it gets more interesting. A Super 400 from 1937 should be x-braced, in contrast to the L-5 previously described. That’s likely going to...
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Today, 01:19 PM
A significant portion of the work of composing/arranging is formatting your artistic vision in a way that makes it readable to other people.
The...
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Today, 01:16 PM
Yes. I mixed the two things because my knowledge on counterpoint is nonexistent and I was wondering whether this had any relation to the tritone root...
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Today, 01:02 PM
Wonderful playing! It's fascinating how your tone with this guitar has evolved over the months. Fatter, warmer and yet distinctly different from...
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Today, 12:31 PM
Pm sent with a pickup trade offer
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Today, 12:20 PM
Great instrument at a great price!
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Today, 12:04 PM
Why should I? If you can name a chords in different ways. What would be the use of that book for me? I only have puntual doubts about some chords...
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Today, 11:58 AM
hey Jimmy get yourself a copy of Standardized Chord Symbol Notation. It's cheap and is standard starting point for notation concepts.
Standard...
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Today, 11:55 AM
I have a Benedetto Bravo. The neck finish has always relatively sticky too me when compared to most of my guitars. I think I am the 3rd or 4th...
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Today, 11:50 AM
Great suggestions, and worth reviving. My choice’d be the 2 volume Jazz Standard Bible (something like the Real Books, in Japan). In some sense, much...
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Today, 11:28 AM
Fair point. Although I would never use this in a live MIDI equipped guitar situation, I could get good results in a project by programming key...
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Today, 11:24 AM
$50/hr is about average. Less is altruistic, more is greedy for a novice.
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Today, 11:15 AM
A great truth is that music makes fools of all of us!
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Today, 11:13 AM
Sounds like a fine routine!
I’d add two other things. Listen attentively to ten versions by different artists from different eras for each song...
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Today, 11:08 AM
Just ordered one. Handy to have for guitar and maybe more for me with a mixing board in live settings. Thanks for the head's up!
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Today, 10:59 AM
For what it’s worth, I took a couple of in-person private lessons from an American jazz guitarist who was touring Japan a couple of years ago, and he...
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Today, 10:51 AM
You can change 60 $/hr even teaching positivity and patience. You get a lot of unjustified attacks on your musical skills and always handle with...
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Today, 10:49 AM
excuse me?? you are the guy confusing a 4/4 with 3/4. and you are not being able to notice chords change. are you really so low that you are gonna...
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Today, 10:43 AM
I take my leave now, on this somewhat positive note.
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Today, 10:42 AM
Dude you can't even hear time signatures. You also don't understand how harmony and voice movement works. What are you gonna teach how to use music...
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Today, 10:40 AM
yes I agree with you
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Today, 10:39 AM
I’ll add the obvious and something I don’t do enough.
Play through the changes using just the 3rd and 7th of each chord.
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Today, 10:11 AM
It would seem so.
Last thing I’ll say:
Sometimes you can get a couple students by being a good player, but you rarely keep them that way.
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Today, 10:04 AM
The “real time” mode is not for live performance - it’s an alternative algorithm for recording, if I read the user manual correctly. You also have...
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Today, 09:48 AM
i really didnt know how much to charge. I thought these type of guys charged 30 max. I see not. So I did well in asking
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Today, 09:40 AM
Somebody had to do it.
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Today, 09:39 AM
Okay. Everybody used to charge less and now charges more.
You seem to have an idea already of what your value is as a teacher, so I’m not really...
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Today, 09:38 AM
So far, I’m working on:
Playing the melody
Playing the chords in shells through the changes
Playing voicings on the 4 high strings through...
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Today, 09:35 AM
he raised it, but he used to charge 50. and its about what you charge
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Today, 09:29 AM
Right on his site it says he charges $75. $40 for a half hour.
I don’t recall asking you to pay it.
Whatever you want, my guy. Have a...
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Today, 09:25 AM
check grisha goryachevm he charges about what you say you charge man... and I know other classical guitar players who charges about that. Even...
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Today, 09:14 AM
And I know zero “top players” who charge less than $90
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