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Today, 03:51 AM
The string figure in that part of the song was supposedly composed by Carol Kaye in the studio but it's almost identical to the one that runs through...
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Today, 03:08 AM
Coming back to Stella, I hear that opening C#°7 as linked to the end of the tune. A similar example might be how the final ii-V (C#-7 F#7) of Giant...
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Today, 01:56 AM
That bridge seems too high, as does the pickup. The f-hole looks distorted too: the inner edge seems lower than the outer edge. All clear signs of a...
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Today, 12:31 AM
This is the part that always baffled me: Given the hardwood block down the center, how do you get the hollow part to contribute to the sound/tone at...
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Today, 12:16 AM
So much for certainty.... :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 11:06 PM
This is a relatively painless place to sell an archtop, but it's only going to reach a small audience, and there's not that many new members, most...
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRsP08TbBg
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
My $.02. I have now an Epiphone 335 Pro, and an Epi '61 Casino RI. Both made in China sometime in the last 10 years. I don't buy guitars to look...
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Yesterday, 10:38 PM
Something just isn’t right when an L-4, priced significantly lower than a custom shop plank guitar, won’t sell. My wife or kids will have to sell my...
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Yesterday, 10:31 PM
I did my sell my 1977 Gibson Super 400ces to a fantastic young player named Raphael Silverman here in NYC. He's been playing it at every gig and just...
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Yesterday, 10:03 PM
I think the main quest is not for a louder box but for better sound quality. Loudness seems to be a secondary issue, as stated:
Whether a...
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Yesterday, 09:54 PM
Here's a go at Time After Time.
I learned the Jeff Arnold arrangement for the study group. As I've been practicing it I've slowly been replacing...
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Yesterday, 09:34 PM
Coming along nicely!
(check bar 3).
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Yesterday, 09:34 PM
Don't know about differences in early and late models. I have a Gibson 335 (late 90's I think) and a Heritage 535 (early one.. probably 1989). Just...
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Yesterday, 09:33 PM
There are many accepted methods for making analysis of different players.
Personally you need to start making analysis of what or whom you want to...
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Yesterday, 09:22 PM
https://youtu.be/ud9Bl68_XfY?si=7Ymw55ca5EEk6YVj
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Yesterday, 08:26 PM
Yep, in the other forums, younger guys are spending $3k-$5k on headless mayones guitars. Old jazz guys are retiring and dying out and the young lions...
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Yesterday, 08:22 PM
I think it is demographics, not economics. The demographic that likes high end archtops is aging out. Like JZ and Roli,we are mostly selling and...
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Yesterday, 08:17 PM
My 401k has made more during the biden era than during any administration history so if this is bidenomics, I'll take it!
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Yesterday, 08:08 PM
Here is a guitar version. I play this song with a few of the blues\rocker buddies I know.
https://youtu.be/EKyHYC92OK0
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Yesterday, 07:29 PM
Makes it look like a Hendrix strat without all the controls and tremolo stuff being in the way.
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM
and I took them sailing in my boat in seattle in 1990 or maybe 89 she was new to sailing and had agreat time had a very new york sense of humor she...
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Yesterday, 07:12 PM
That guitar was made the year I was born. I, too, came from New York - born in Queens. So I guess I must be "vintage" too. shreddin'
Anyway,...
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Yesterday, 07:02 PM
I can't believe Roli's TF and Jack's L-4 were not instantly scooped up. Both superb Gibby's at a smoking good price.
And this is JGF where jazz...
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
Yes cool... generally licks have targets. Like in Guy's 1st lick. D to G to E. At least that's how sounded when I see it on paper. Obviously...
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Yesterday, 06:37 PM
+1 on that.
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
Analysis or just playing and trial and error both work. The important thing is.... They both create standard References for playing tunes. We as jazz...
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
Don't overthink it buy the highest wattage you can afford. You might want to add a tweeter.
I don't use this one now that I got a Fishman LoudBox...
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Yesterday, 06:04 PM
The ebony board is brighter. The rosewood board is warmer and woodier. Can't go wrong with either but I do generally like ebony.
@herbie the only...
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Yesterday, 05:42 PM
"PNP connections"? Like a transistor? That's probably not what you mean. What is a "PNP connection"?
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Yesterday, 05:14 PM
I owned both a 335 and 345 recent 2022,2023 models. Both were excellent thinlines, and a great representation of the lineage of semi
hollow...
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Yesterday, 05:13 PM
Just to give an example: my teacher asked my if I'd hurt my left hand yesterday: there's hematoma-like spot over the centre of the back of my hand,...
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Yesterday, 05:11 PM
2b, I totally agree. Fred has a gift in that his playing is not over done, which is what makes it so easy to listen to.
It probably mirrors his...
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Yesterday, 04:59 PM
That lick implies altered chords though: Dm7b5 > G7b9.
Scale wise, D/F/Ab/B diminished or other scales such as C harmonic minor or Major, Ab...
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
My Quilted Maple Campellone is way darker than my flame maple L-5CES (and both guitars have Kent Armstrong handmade PAF pickups), but it could be...
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Yesterday, 04:41 PM
A rare 1989 2 complete sets of Emily performing live in St. Paul, Minnesota
Emily Remler St. Paul MN 1989 KBEM Jazz 88 : KBEM Jazz88 : Free...
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Yesterday, 04:35 PM
I worked in that book and got a lot out of it.
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Yesterday, 04:27 PM
I can say this as fact. Quilted maple has a more mellow tone at least in comparison with my quilt vs flame maple Campellone’s.
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
Yes my middle can use some elimination…LOL :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
Hahaha :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 04:17 PM
If you have to turn way up the issue might be low output of the guitar. Gain is not identical to power, my Trace Elliot Elf has huge gain, meaning I...
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Yesterday, 04:11 PM
that's what I did on my L4. After putting it "on sale" for a stupid low price with little interest, I said, "screw that" and decided to keep it.
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
If weight matters, the Beta 8A's is 6.6 lb vs Celestion's 5.1 lb.
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Seems like an odd spot for pain. I have no idea what would cause pain right in that spot, and not in the adjacent joint, except an injury.
My...
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Yesterday, 04:08 PM
Bump for price reduction.
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Yesterday, 04:04 PM
Final call! I’ve had this listed for two weeks now and plan to pull down the posting at the end of this week if there are no takers. I’m not in any...
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
Tbh a thing having a nice bassline against the melody is 9/10s of the law
The inner voices often write themselves.
Then you have to write out...
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Yesterday, 03:46 PM
There are a great many questions in old school jazz harmony to which the answer is diminished chord.
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
Almost – "emanate"
I agree with others that it's a strange place for arthritis. Like ruger, I have arthritis pain in both thumbs, in the joints,...
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Yesterday, 03:38 PM
About $7000 - seems like an attractive price.
No affliation, just passing along the info. I'm guessing they would ship internationally.
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
I use Beta 8A too with my Quilter TB202 combo. The sound is perfect.
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Yesterday, 03:11 PM
I still find my L5ces in Cognac (?) Burst to be stunning. Depicted here with two other very strong contenders, though, the Aria Pro II PE180 and the...
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Yesterday, 03:04 PM
Hey, it really ties the room together.
And the guitar is now a mere $5,000.
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Yesterday, 02:45 PM
Looking at the rims, are there generic sonic differences between different kinds of maple? (Beyond the differences between any two pieces of wood.)
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Yesterday, 02:39 PM
Thanks Keith. Going to miss this one but going to make someone a very happy camper
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Yesterday, 02:36 PM
Love Handel, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CH8EzM5M0
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
The singer picked this version because she loves it and the key is right for her. I can see why, it’s a barnstormer and Ella totally owns it. It’s a...
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Yesterday, 02:20 PM
Sorry, for me it's going to be either a 16"er which can still be played with normal comfort (for me), or an 18"er. A 17" is too much of the one and...
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Yesterday, 02:20 PM
That is a really nice guitar. I have a 1989 Fratello and it is absolutely fantastic.
Keith
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Yesterday, 02:00 PM
Loudness depends on two factors, input wattage and speaker sensitivity. I assume you mean Celestion TF0818, which has a sensitivity of 94 dB. Your...
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Yesterday, 01:58 PM
Jazzer EU, ultimately I think you have to free yourself from associating playing guitar with the bad experiences you've had with colleagues as a...
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
I was fortunate enough to own 3 L5’s. A blonde CES, a sunburst Wesmo, and a sunburst CES. All I can say is, their build quality was second to none,...
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Yesterday, 01:47 PM
Eminence Beta is the speaker used in Mambo amps and is what I'd recommend.
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Yesterday, 01:44 PM
Fred’s taking a nod from Miles Davis. Space is just as important too. Let the music breathe.
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Yesterday, 01:43 PM
Skip warming up play a melody. I warm up practicing tunes bebop in particular. Play changes to a tune bottom line is practice what you are going to...
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Yesterday, 01:40 PM
I can’t wait to see those non cutaways completed!:drum:
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Yesterday, 01:37 PM
"clean, warm, loverly ... ", loud enough and cheap ...
That's going to be hard to improve on.
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Yesterday, 01:36 PM
I like the CS ES-335 reissues.
The inherent sound of those instruments is richer with harmonics or something. Think it is the woods and...
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Yesterday, 01:35 PM
The Notated Lick Compendium.
A thread for posting and storing notated licks.
Another classic Lick:
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Yesterday, 01:33 PM
why not just post the photos in the forum ad?
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Yesterday, 01:32 PM
i tried it and to me it's horrible. When it encounters an Fm7 chord, it doesn't seem to know that it can use Fm9, Fm11, doesn't seem to recognize...
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Yesterday, 01:30 PM
The R word, in this case.
I don't really care who you feel you need to "put in their place," you can think of another way or my opinion of you...
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Yesterday, 01:25 PM
Thanks guys!
Forgot to mention that I will include a custom black pickguard that I had made in an effort to get away from the BB King Lucille...
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Yesterday, 01:24 PM
Assuming you're not BSing do people think you're undercutting-downsizing? It's just you and a singer while others need bigger combos?
It's too bad...
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Yesterday, 01:21 PM
Quite possible. It's the pesky dim chord syndrome again. Maybe, as you say, he treated it like an A7 but I can't say I noticed any real clash with...
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Yesterday, 01:20 PM
I think you really need to define "offensive" here. I don't think you can put someone who's being unreasonable in his/her place while remaining...
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Yesterday, 01:19 PM
Beautiful
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Yesterday, 01:16 PM
No, I just changed it to A7 because it's easier for me to play and Basie plays the phrase G E A G over it, so I thought he might be thinking A7.
I...
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Yesterday, 01:10 PM
Right, got it. Thanks for the vid, nothing like the real thing.
Well, I hear a dim chord, the object being (as with most dim chords) to make a...
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Yesterday, 01:10 PM
Looks classy! GLWTS
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Yesterday, 01:03 PM
The Precision Technique by Robert Conti sounds exactly like what you described, notation, tablature and video.
Here's a link, read the reviews, and...
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Yesterday, 12:56 PM
That's what pearls are for.
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Yesterday, 12:52 PM
https://youtu.be/G0dVZlw2GDM?si=Iyw1djJuoLld9ifJ
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Yesterday, 12:51 PM
That's how I feel. Getting a peek at some of these builds-in-progress is one of the best things about this forum, imho. Thanks, Mark!
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Yesterday, 12:37 PM
Very nice looking guitar. I have a couple of Electromatic Gretsches myself, great value for the money
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Yesterday, 12:35 PM
They really do have a different sound to my ears. The ebony board made it a little brighter. But the big difference to me was the stereo wiring and a...
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Yesterday, 12:19 PM
So blessed to see one of the best builders on Earth posting here! Thank you, Mark!!!
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Yesterday, 12:15 PM
Yea supersoul.... there's a big different between just playing and practice. There's technique practice and performance practice.
Very cool your...
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Yesterday, 12:04 PM
lol
I’m shocked. SHOCKED.
(clutches pearls)
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Yesterday, 12:03 PM
It is always good to eliminate the middleman.
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Yesterday, 12:01 PM
Lester Leaps In is just a swing version of Rhythm Changes. The bit I mentioned is just an intro to the tune played by Basie before the rest of the...
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Yesterday, 11:56 AM
Joe- thanks for the kind words – greatly appreciated. My intention with this post was to share my recent experience with Archtop guitars produced...
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Yesterday, 11:56 AM
Wait, is Mark allowed to post photos of his own builds? I thought by the laws of the jazz guitar forum, photos had to be posted by Vinny?!
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Yesterday, 11:54 AM
Was he? Oh, my mistake then, don't know Lester Leaps In. I better explore it.
Oh, not at all, perennial problem, how to navigate difficult...
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Yesterday, 11:54 AM
This is a rough of an original tune of mine recorded about 16+ years ago in tribute to Emily using a Bossa progression she taught in her...
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Yesterday, 11:50 AM
Can we also agree that bullying in return and using offensive language to describe the person with whom you are in conflict is not an appropriate...
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Yesterday, 11:50 AM
I was in the market for a small, portable amp for jazz. I settled on a TC Electronics BAM20 after seeing a YouTube video. The cab I am using is an...
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Yesterday, 11:49 AM
He was talking about Lester Leaps In. You brought in that Bernstein video again.
Because what they’re doing bears no relationship whatsoever...
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Yesterday, 11:45 AM
All absolutely beautiful Borys guitars
Thanks everyone
(Going back to my Ibanez laminate for now
of which I can't complain anyway !)
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Yesterday, 11:41 AM
I saw one of these modern versions, called ’Sixties Cherry’ in a near shop. It was so beautiful! I try not to think about it in my arsenal… I ain’t...
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Yesterday, 11:40 AM
That was absolutely awesome to listen to :) amazing playing an loved listening to the interactions.
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Yesterday, 11:36 AM
I'm hard-pressed to remember ever seeing a neck-pickup that high.
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Yesterday, 11:35 AM
Maybe nylon saddles for the bright strings would have done the trick?
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Yesterday, 11:34 AM
I didn't bring it up, I was replying to charlieparker (see quote in post).
Why? I've played it a million times without having a meltdown. So...
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Yesterday, 11:30 AM
Reviving a bit of an old thread. I found one of these but the bridge is quite high (at least compared to what I'm used to). Does the top look sunken...
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Yesterday, 11:23 AM
Then for the love of all that is holy stop bringing it up. In all the threads you reference, it’s just you bringing up Stella.
And again … it is...
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Yesterday, 11:11 AM
Sorry, haven't done Lester Leaps In yet. Will get back to you. But what you say seems very reasonable :-)
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Yesterday, 11:11 AM
bump!
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Yesterday, 10:45 AM
Mark is the sharp cutaway to time involved vs the Venetian? It seems to have better access to the upper frets for the player. Perhaps I’m looking at...
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Yesterday, 10:28 AM
I should have asked earlier; did the singer provide this version as how it should be done, or to just indicate the style, or just identify key...
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Yesterday, 10:14 AM
My brand new B165 - I chose the slightly bigger model based on my previous ownership of a B120 (ca. 25 years ago), conversations with Roger and the...
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Yesterday, 10:13 AM
My knowledge of part writing and voice leading is next to nil but if we look at some drop 2 inversions of Bb6 | Db dim | Cm7 we get
D G Bb F
C# G...
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Yesterday, 10:02 AM
There's a difference between playing and practicing slow. I'm just working on a new technique, the thumb, and a lot of what I'm practicing is purely...
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Yesterday, 10:01 AM
I don't. I meant the swing turnaround has a nice bass line.
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Yesterday, 10:00 AM
This I think is a good argument for working slow.
When I work with students I tell them basically that we won’t work on playing “fast” and that...
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Yesterday, 09:57 AM
moving the batch forward - rims after bending, and rims joined to end and neck blocks -
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Yesterday, 09:43 AM
To be able to play slow... you need to be able to subdivide mentally.
The less free space between the notes or chords etc.... the better chance...
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Yesterday, 09:40 AM
ding ding ding
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Yesterday, 09:30 AM
It slowly dawns on me why people have such difficulties remembering the changes of tunes and always need lead sheets ...
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Yesterday, 09:24 AM
Not really, G6 > Bbo > Am7 > D7 could be written other ways:
Em7 > A7b9 > Am7 > D7
GM7 > Em7b5/A7b9 > Am7/D7
- etc.
The voicing of a chord...
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Yesterday, 09:17 AM
What about a Heritage guitar?
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Yesterday, 09:17 AM
I've been relearning Bird tunes to play with my thumb instead of pick. The thumb is only downstrokes, so I have to rely on hammer-ons/pull-offs, and...
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Yesterday, 09:11 AM
Absolutely.
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Yesterday, 08:59 AM
I’m rubber, you’re glue.
Oh lord.
Bb - Bb
Db - C
E - Eb
G - G
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Yesterday, 08:58 AM
New clip, with round-wound strings :
https://youtu.be/rTwpWdsh2d8
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Yesterday, 08:46 AM
Chords are both vertical snapshots of linear voice movements and vertical sonorities (especially in the way they are played with accompanying...
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Yesterday, 08:44 AM
I find this app so much more useful to play along to that iReal Pro, and much easier to use than Band in a Box.
The one drawback is some of my...
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Yesterday, 08:38 AM
Yea I think it's just 'i'. Whoever hand wrote this charts has a daytime job prolly a doctor.
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Yesterday, 08:34 AM
I know of course what you were thinking of but I am working on a separate dedicated thread regarding that other country ATM.
The colors of Bavaria...
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Yesterday, 08:30 AM
Steve,
Looking Good my man. I still say you and Richard Gere are related somehow..
People seek your opinion because you know your stuff. You are an...
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Yesterday, 08:22 AM
Not at all, you just don't get it :-)
Yes, it's the same inverted chord if you like, but the actual chord at that point in their discussion...
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Yesterday, 08:11 AM
Oh ragman. You’re talking yourself in circles, cat.
Bbdim is a Dbdim (same notes … we don’t say C/E isn’t an C because there’s an E in the bass)...
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Yesterday, 08:06 AM
Hah, make that 5 then.
I was thinking of a country that's a bit more often in the news these days.
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Yesterday, 08:03 AM
El Salvador?
Honduras?
Guatemala?
Nicaragua?
Like Argentina all FCKed up by Henry Kissinger in the 70ies/80ies.
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Yesterday, 07:57 AM
Haha, I had the same association :) There's at least 1 other country that has a flag with a blue-white-blue banner design with something on the white...
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Yesterday, 07:55 AM
He was. To repeat what I said before:
He looked puzzled, tried to run a scale and found that the dim scale from A7 didn't land on C (it doesn't)...
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Yesterday, 07:53 AM
I Will be posting some nice warm Up exercises I have been using.
This is one of my favourites. Start fast and changed tempo. Reps 20. A short...
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Yesterday, 07:37 AM
It's a very simple song, you know, and 'improving' it by making it hideously complicated like that pdf version may not improve it at all.
Ella's...
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Yesterday, 07:37 AM
This isn’t a dilemma. We went over this about a dozen times, as did Bernstein in the video you posted claiming he was confused about it.
He...
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Yesterday, 07:36 AM
It strikes me that here too a simple "Jealous much?" would be a perfect way to shrug off most remarks.
I have been on the receiving end of...
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Yesterday, 07:07 AM
You don't really need to copy that version precisely. If the singer wants to strut her stuff, okay, but all you need to do is move up a half-step and...
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Yesterday, 06:46 AM
My point was that diminisheds and dominants aren't the same chords. I'm not saying one can't be subbed for the other if it suits.
As a matter of...
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Yesterday, 05:32 AM
Agreed on Jack's style and 335 tone. I'm subscribed to his Patreon lessons, and he has a pair of Truefire lessons, some of the best teaching I know...
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Yesterday, 05:23 AM
I think you can view diminished chords both ways. They are a very useful way to get lots of dominants in a chord solo (Wes Montgomery used them like...
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Yesterday, 04:58 AM
I mean the letter ‘i’
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Yesterday, 04:38 AM
It seems a decent name to me because it also sort of went out of fashion with the bop era. You often see it subbed for D-7 | Db-7 | C-7 | F7
...
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Yesterday, 03:53 AM
The Necks, from Sydney, New South Wales.
https://youtu.be/UMueDWG86JU
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Yesterday, 03:48 AM
The Jac, from Wellington, New Zealand.
https://youtu.be/IPYD_OjoMzA
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Yesterday, 03:29 AM
I’ve had a custom shop ‘58 VOS reissue 335 which I really wanted to love… but couldn’t. It played like a dream, amazing neck and fretwork. It looked...
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Yesterday, 03:19 AM
I have played a number of the current 'figured' models (I am guessing 2022/23?). They didn't feel at all cheap to me. To the contrary, I thought that...
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Yesterday, 03:07 AM
I agree with your observation : many newer Gibson models felt cheap in my hands and were un-inspiring re the tones I was able to coax out of them....
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Yesterday, 02:07 AM
So sorry you experienced such discrimination. Your story sounds crazy to me because of how severe and ridiculous it is. However, I'm discriminated so...
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Yesterday, 02:00 AM
From the start, the song seems to be ABAC > AB > AB > modulation > AB. Then we’re at two minutes and then it seems to modulate again and I have...
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Yesterday, 01:40 AM
Thanks everyone!
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Yesterday, 01:37 AM
You also get the old Bernstein dilemma of how A7 becomes Cm since there's no real theoretical connection!
Why do you think Bb - A - C is a better...
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Yesterday, 01:32 AM
Sorry to go back to this again but no, it's not.
This keeps coming up and is all wrong and highly deceptive. To be honest, you'd do yourself, as...
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Yesterday, 01:27 AM
Interesting! I was accustomed to the Leavitt system of fingerings, I had missed the Bruno system.
So, in other words (Bruno system) start, on the...
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09-23-2024, 11:30 PM
I've had a couple 355s and have a 335 with a trap tailpiece. I also have had 2 collings i 35lc and an i 30 lc. The gibsons were murphy lab and I far...
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09-23-2024, 10:54 PM
My latest is a 2017 and I have no idea what pup of the decade Gibson is putting in those later years but my latest 335 has "Burstbuckers", and I can...
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09-23-2024, 10:51 PM
I did a little bar gig with my PM3C last week, and it really shone. It was my group Tuba Django - vocals, archtop guitar, gypsy guitar, tuba. I used...
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09-23-2024, 10:34 PM
I’ve been trying to think about what things to practice slow and what to work up to speed and I’ve ended up working on scales and bebop heads really...
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09-23-2024, 10:20 PM
Ahhh..Ben Monder .. he does hear something very different
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09-23-2024, 10:18 PM
https://youtu.be/HujpKF9a8yw?si=tnFgctx0GCyeHngX
I stumbled upon Joe Pass talking about it a few nights ago, at around 12:45:
“You have a...
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09-23-2024, 10:07 PM
So as the fact checkers say on the podcasts, I was "directionally right". :pride:
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09-23-2024, 09:54 PM
I just transcribed Basie's intro to Lester Leaps In as Bb | Db dim | Cm7 | F7.
But I believe Basie plays an A on the Db dim chord, so I changed it...
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09-23-2024, 09:49 PM
What else would you do but interact? Playing together is a sort of communication. For me it is something that happens on an intuitive subconscious...
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09-23-2024, 09:40 PM
At about 1:42 the band modulates up a half step. From about 1:44, you can just kind of sing the chorus and bridge along with her scatting, and you'll...
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09-23-2024, 09:35 PM
Surely they can put it back after taking it off. Though honestly businesses should really disclose when they're selling you demo gear, and discount...
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09-23-2024, 09:15 PM
If anyone has any humbucking floaters sitting in a drawer that they have been thinking about parting with please reach out!
Thanks all!
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09-23-2024, 09:14 PM
Peerless Monarch 17 Lefty Archtop Guitar w case #7020 — Guitars 'n Jazz
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09-23-2024, 09:09 PM
That's a great article.
Thanks Paul.
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09-23-2024, 08:52 PM
Sounds like they had a lot of fun.
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09-23-2024, 08:36 PM
Yes I'm not seeing any pictures.
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09-23-2024, 08:35 PM
Yeah, what about past current forward looking stuff?
This was my introduction to jazz and favorite record.
Even after fifty+ years, it still sounds...
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