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I see that some posts are claiming that theory ends here... Well, it doesn't. There's a perfectly rational theoretical reason for the substitutions...

I don't quite understand this thread. Your original post seems to conflate two unrelated things and the whole discussion seems to have drifted away...

Cognac is a good thing! (why does my head hurt?)

Well, I attended school back then too. While there was no jazz degree offered at my school, there was jazz band and 1 jazz improv course. Not...

He went for two years, right? That’s how long Barry Greene went to Berklee, but whatever. The point was made that Herb was “not schooled”. So...

JC Stylles registered here years ago and posted a fair bit for a while. Mainly about Benson picking, which he knows a lot about. Here is a set...

Fair enough. If one wishes to practice something 100% of the time which they will use 5% of the time, it’s their party, lol. If you don’t mind,...

The OP specifically asked about the Conti materials he is working with. When he gets to "The Formula" things really open up, but that is not where...

Everyone was French there, no lost tourists. A very fine jam session, I didn't know Vérène and Sébastien, we had played for more than two hours...

What other jazz guitarists, from the same era as Kessel, do you dig? Kessel does have an aggressive style but that is why he is one of my...

I would say the preamp and the cab / speaker count the most, and the power amp not as much. There's a forum member (Chris1997) that has changed the...

many of us have faced this problem..and there are various solutions for me it was playing all the inversions of ii7 V7 I7 on all string sets in...

Hmmm. 1. For chord melody you will use inversions - liberally 2. You should not play a chord on every beat, and especially not for every melody...

So what does this imply of modal playing?

Conti himself addresses these kinds of issues on his DVDs. He talks about practicing slowly and carfully as well as initially not playing a chord...

We did Spain a couple of years ago in the weekly jam thing and as you say, there’s quite a lot of implied ii-V movement in it, I found I could ...

1st combo but you have to play with the AI EQ settings and increase the input gain to max

I've found that for me there are two separate challenges. 1) Trying to come up with good lines and 2) developing more speed. I practice both slow...

My post is over a year old, youtube have probably changed the layout again. I’d need to get on my PC to see it, can’t do that at the moment. I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnra0huSPTA

Yeah. Mine is definitely less rigorous than that. A friend of mine (former forum dude, I believe) describes what I do as “muscle confusion.” More...

Cognac color applied to the Cameo. :smile-new:

Jim Hall also had to deal with both problems (stage fright and alcohol)

I have Manage Videos but nothing called Edit Details. Can you do a screenshot or anything?

How do you make it look so easy? That's no kind of jazz face. Furthermore; has anyone ever seen Jon Oliver and Christian in the same room...

Here’s my latest offering https://youtu.be/W5pYx0O9AcY this is more about applying Barry harris material on Spain. Which is both straightforward...

Ooh yeah OP dodgy af

Oh, I definitively hope you have!

I bought Alexander's picking course the other week. He's basically a downward picking-slanting economy player as his primary or base technique, with...

Guess what? I don't believe you.... you registered here for email phishing... that's all...

Really lame phishing attempt...

sort of, but in what I’m talking about you’d do 3 minutes on a scale, then 3 minutes learning a tune, then 3 minutes on sight reading, 3 minutes on...

ohhh yes! I don’t think I heard it called this but I had a college professor into it. The thing I took from it was sort of like playing a tune in...

I have it go off every two or four bars on the four usually. I have good days and bad days lol. As Peter Bernstein points out the in between tempos...

And fwiw : If '12th fret ' is mentioned as a reference point, someone may mean 12th fret * wire *....... And if '1st fret ' is...

Interleaved practice is a general concept where instead of practicing something for a block of one hour say, you divide a number of or at or...

Thanks, I’ll check that out.

What do You say? Opposite of jazz? I think that far away from that. There would not be rock without jazz, they are straight decendants. They are...

Laurel

I think that the US vs UK speaker dilemma is stronger in distorted rock sounds than cleanish jazz sounds and it depends on amps too (Marshall vs...

Many love to say gear doesn't matter. It's a kind of reverse snobbery to say it's all technique. Except it isn't. Wes on a tele may sound like...

Me too!!! I’ve whritten some ideas: Ex. 6. Line 4. Part one: Fmaj/Dmin Bar 1: Gmin11 arpeggio Bar 2: Bb triad, scale tones

I also love TV Jones. I have three different sets: classics, supertrons, and P90. They are great. As I thought about what dynas to get, I went...

Measurement #1: -top of the board just behind and butting up to the first fret Measurement #2: -most archtop guitars, with 14th fret neck/body...

A couple videos that may be of interest....

Try flute duets or flute/piano arrangements. I used to sight-read flute duets with one of my teachers bc there is a lot of material, the range of...

Yeah it’s very cool, but there’s a place for the metronome too. Being able to hear and react to the time is a very good thing, but with the metronome...

Could not resist :cool:

OK, well three answers: 1. Practicing "Lead Lines" on drop 2s: Play drop 2s from the 5th and 4th strings in eighth notes. Play the chord on the...

Fine little amp - GLWYS. I love mine.

Thanks for the exercises PDFs. This kind of stuff is helpful for me. Is there a guitar method called Interleaved Practice, or is it more of a...

I guess what I am saying is that if you are playing G7 lines in order to deal with a modal tune in Dm (e.g. So What), when you want to play bluesy...

I'm a big fan of old Celestions with original cones. They have made many different kinds of guitar speakers over the years, but usually the ones that...

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The great Brazilian guitarist Nelson Faria, with his signature guitar....a cheap model, manufactured in Korea by the Brazilian brand...

Japanese sites also specifie them at 24 3/4 scale length Epiphone Broadway Wine Red エピフォン ブロードウェイ【梅田店】（新品/送料無料）【楽器検索デジマート】 Fingerboard made of...

yeah… learning a tune is a journey. It can take years to drill down into stuff. I think at least if you are using your ears and you make mistakes...

TV Jones makes a Dyna clone in a PAF size case. I haven't heard it, I am into vintage Dynas, but I've got TVJ Classics, Ray Butts, and Supertrons...

The most versatile metronome app I have found is Time Guru. It can do any imaginable time signature with all kinds of sounds. But the best feature is...

Musician Tim Fitzgerald playing on an Epiphone Joe pass... Throwback Tuesday to good times in Istanbul - YouTube Tim Fitzgerald on Instagram:...

very good lesson Andy..thanks a study in voice movement and melody/chord relation..with some nice blues flavor

Thank you. I tend to get rigid in application.

In #369 above I said none, but I was looking. However, as of Tuesday I now have one, a GA-20. I sold my previous amp in 1982, so for 41-years there...

You can play blues licks over anything, in moderation. Parker used to insert them in his bebop lines here and there. To me they are kind of a...

Either my question is so lame that people are being kind, or it is obvious that I should just see what happens by application. In my sad defense,...

I'm tired of waiting! I'm cracking open that last page of examples today! .

Makes me wonder if it’s even 17” and not a mis-branded Emperor.

According to the Epiphone website, scale of the new Broadway is 24.75, while numerous sources confirm the 25.5 scale of earlier issues.

The top of the fretboard.

Yeah he’s next level even by that standard. And you got that right … I did think I knew it. Whoops. And to be fair, I do love all those old tunes....

I'm no luthier, but it wouldn't make sense to me to measure from the the top of the frets as they vary so much, both in original profile and wear.

Just received a used 22 FV680. The top is quite lively, it has a great acoustic tone. Fairly bright, but it works well for bedroom practice....

Thanks John, Looks like a new set of strings is going on this afternoon. Wish me luck!

Oops, it seems there was a mistake. Edited. Thanks for letting me know.

That.s not the Baldwin in the audio, that's a flamenco nylon string.

9000 Yen is what? About 65 dollars? I'll take it! :smile-new:

Winding the strings away from the center won’t cause any problems with break angle. I don’t have that specific model, but I do have a different...

Sweetwater is a great company, but I have found that Chinese made guitars are sometimes advertised with incorrect specs. I would caution any would be...

The scale length change is significant, especially in comping role. As well, it's less of a poor man's L5 now.

He didn’t specify currency. Maybe it’s yen!

In what world is raising your price by 500 dollars a "price down"? Inquiring minds want to know. :smile-new:

The new ones at Sweetwater look nice. They are 24.75 scale vs 25.5 on the vintage natural. Different fretboard wood too.

Just started week 4 of super chops trying to incorporate all of these various elements. I have also started rewriting the charts with additional...

Welp… just took the plunge. Hopefully it’s worth the $8 for all the grooves. I think this may be just as useful for my drum practice. Thanks for...

Drum genius is really good

An app that has tons of drum samples that can be manipulated by pitch and tempo. So instead of practicing a tune to a metronome you can practice it...

True, what if there’s another lockdown and you need some toilet paper? mostly I use the old real book for sight reading practice. (This is what we...

Yeah … Yotam Silberstein posted a picture the other day of himself lighting a real book on fire, which is ………. Maybe a bit extreme? And Bernstein...

all the New York guys are like this in my experience regardless. Moreno would be the same, Kreisberg. Bernstein. Hundreds of people who aren’t well...

Maybe a dumb question, what is drum genius? I just use a metronome

Yeah I was wondering if it was that. I probably would have received the same bollocking all though I don’t think I learned it from the real book...

Are there any recording of him playing tenor guitar/banjo? I mean, in his early years.

Very good, Luca :smile-new:

What is your picking style... plectrum, fingerpicking, some combination of the two? Fingerpicking gives you more control over the individual...

Definitely not wrong. My point was just that even folks who we might think of as ultra modern and new fangled probably got there by knowing the...

I have the same problem every time I'm learning a new piece. Don't rush anything, don't push too hard, follow the path of least resistence, i.e....

Here's a few pages of scale exercises. Every line is a different exercise. Pretty standard stuff, triads, arpeggios, inversions and connections, then...

You're right, I confused that with our southern Spanish "Gitanos" ... sorry, was too late that night.

Eb E dim F min F# dim should be Eb - Gm7b5 C7 - F min - Am7b5 D7 so it wasn’t just a wrong chord … it was that it was a dead five away that...

Wonderful! Bravo! The sound and the overall timing and articulations are fantastic. EttoreQuenda.it - Sito di Ettore Quaglia - Chitarra Jazz -...

now I’m wondering what that wrong chord was, and if I play and therefore deserve a good telling off.

I keep a book of chord patterns open in front of me when I practice. I pick chords and play them at random. It helps me develop fluency.

He's not wrong. A bit brutal, perhaps, but very true.

Trying to diagnose skiing mistakes...going downhill!

Someone once pondered why, after all the gigs they played, the Grateful Dead never improved. I do not know enough of their music to say whether this...

As Gjerdingen puts it ‘we would be hard pressed to copy music as fast as they (professional composers of the c18) composed it’ whether or not Bach...

I knew you were going to say that :-)

I did the same thing with 3 guitars from Professional Music in Des Moines as I live in MN. In my case we just pretended we shipped them. Don't tell...

Price down to $8500 plus shipping worldwide

Hi Jake Thanks for info. Yes that little sparkle sounds very natural. I have surrendered to direct recording too, due to terrible bass reflections...

Judging by his output alone, Bach had to have improvised at near the level of his compositions. He simply didn't have the time to "think it over". He...

He is French.

That was fun! Where is Stéphan from, Lionel? He doesn't have a very French accent. Or he's very travelled.

Play the first chord perfectly once then slowly finger the second chord and play that perfectly. Then the first chord again etc. 5 minutes in the...

Face it, you can't buy skills and therefore you can't buy tone. Some people are more occupied with gear than practice playing. For different...

Barney’s comping is some of my favourite. This album is wonderful https://youtu.be/JVyg-l-DySE

You might want to take a look at Interleaved Practice

How about Martin Taylor?

Joe Pass suggested rubbing your left hand fingers on the side of your nose. The fingers pick up a little skin oil and that helps with the string...