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Today, 02:58 PM
I agree with a lot of what's been said. Mistakes are inevitable to a degree and it's important to not dwell on them in the moment. And yeah I can't...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Yes!
When reading a book that is kinda boring and just soldiering through, I sometimes just watch what the words do and later try to do something...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Yea.. pretty standard...two bar count off, 1st bar # of beats, 1 ... 2 ,
2nd bar should imply the feel of the beats ... 1 and 2 and, or just 1......
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Today, 02:55 PM
It is racist to wish to bond with people that look like oneself? To wish to employee (and thus help make money) with people that look like...
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Today, 02:51 PM
Yep. Sorry, had the link copied and forgot. I like the looks of that though.
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Today, 02:25 PM
Guild Electric Guitar & Hard Case | ShopGoodwill.com
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Today, 02:03 PM
I run a bead of fish glue it the slot. It doesn’t hold frets like ca glue but acts as a filler. Ed Schafer gave me the tip used to use titebond but...
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Today, 01:54 PM
ah.chem: Would it be possible to share some pictures of the neck, bridge, etc. to better understand what you're dealing with?
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Today, 01:51 PM
Art comes across as a humble, fairly relaxed guy who either played with or rubbed shoulders with pretty much all the greats. Quite likeable, with...
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Today, 01:40 PM
If this is a PSA, wouldn't it be wise to include a link to the auction/sale?
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Today, 01:25 PM
Made my day!
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Today, 01:14 PM
Could be a 1960 from the guild chart and blowing the picture up. Looks in decent shape. Good nonoriginal case. Guild Electric Guitar & Hard Case |...
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Today, 01:04 PM
Cool, I want to listen to the version you like so much.
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Today, 12:48 PM
To clarify here, this is different than, say, playing a Charlie Christian solo along with Charlie Christian. Charlie is obviously giving you the...
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Today, 12:46 PM
Yes. Still not beneficial.
Because you’re playing along with the MIDI, yes? So it’s kind of irrelevant where the metronome clicks when it’s giving...
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Today, 12:43 PM
Yes, but a fret kisser is very localized. Expensive but for a shop tool, invaluable. Only in the centre portion. REALLY handy tool. They are so...
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Today, 12:36 PM
I've done plenty of re-frets and I can tell you one thing, removing a glued (or superglued or epoxied) fret can wreak havoc on a fingerboard. You're...
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Today, 12:29 PM
Thank you. It's ok considering my circumstances :highly_amused:
Yes, a nice bit of contrary motion from the E9 to EbMaj7.
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Today, 12:26 PM
Another thing that I am conscious about when using that fret hammer: the opposite end might come upwards when you hammer the other side down (the...
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Today, 12:22 PM
Realize though, that this may lower the height of the fret at the top and you could introduce a buzz when you fret that note (it's lower now and it...
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Today, 12:20 PM
Tried that. Even bought a holder plus appropriate inserts (normally used in a press) so the blows get distributed over the entire fret. Had my...
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Today, 12:17 PM
Yeah and I’d be interested to hear Tristano’s thoughts about jazz as a label, more generally. Because whether or not jazz is a product of the...
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Today, 12:15 PM
It's not just their site that's fishy: Temu (marketplace) - Wikipedia
Thx for confirming the problem with the Dynarette in any case, I expected it...
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Today, 12:09 PM
It's easy to make Musescore beat only on 2 and 4, or only on 1. Or, actually, not at all.
So, Peter, in this case, is it still not beneficial?
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Today, 12:04 PM
If some frets aren't completely seated, it's not that difficult to use a small hammer, preferably a dead-blow, to seat them better. I would do that...
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Today, 12:01 PM
I guess they don't plan a version to plug into any crappy old flattop (tentatively called Virzi)? :rolleyes:
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Today, 11:56 AM
Yea... again beautiful.
Their long... I'm no one, just a Geetar player. But from a listener perspective, would be cool if withing the shape or...
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Today, 11:38 AM
I see lots of analogies of verbal or written speech with music. You can learn a lot by trying to organize a solo the way you would organize an essay,...
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Today, 11:35 AM
Yea... I remember that record... the 80's.
So I get more of your playing now... Monk. You did take lessons from Monaco... he's from a different...
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Today, 11:22 AM
Including polyurethane Hiscock hardcase:
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Today, 11:21 AM
Sounds heavily compressed
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Today, 11:17 AM
Thats also a good point with respect to transposing these tunes to guitar keys. Folks have mentioned tonal/timbral things about jazz being in flat...
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Today, 11:17 AM
Nicely done! I will keep that ending too. I also like the approach to the Eb maj7 that starts on beat 3 of bar 11.
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Today, 11:15 AM
Oh, I forgot it wasn't just minor... good! :smile-new:
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Today, 11:11 AM
sorry, i just listened and the humming is too loud, i know.
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Today, 11:07 AM
Yea... I like the All Blues version... sounded different in E and ? different tuning.
But the tone and sound worked for the style you were...
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Today, 11:07 AM
Here's my first take:
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Today, 11:03 AM
I'm talking film score. Pawlowski has posted the accepted "jazz" changes...we'll start there I think, that makes sense.
I can love the original...
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Today, 10:47 AM
I'm gonna drop the price:
$3,500
Thanks!
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Today, 10:46 AM
. Thanks so much, yes, this style is really my favorite thing. I just posted another tune “500 Miles High” with a similar approach.
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Today, 10:45 AM
It's in Bb. The basic progression is the same regardless of the version:
ii7b5/III -> V7/III, etc.
But if you want, here it is.
Shared album...
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Today, 10:44 AM
https://youtu.be/brxxAn5LEis?si=vFIBrm7ai1GV6Qau
Some day you'll look in to her eyes
Then there'll be no goodbyes
And yesterday will have gone...
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Today, 10:38 AM
It is the 50th guitar. I have seen pictures of a 100th, and a 150th so there is probably a 200th in the not-too-distant future. I really had no idea...
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Today, 10:35 AM
hey sounds pretty good. I like that version of “all blues” and good job keeping those notes ringing while you’re playing the melody in the beginning....
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Today, 10:32 AM
Wow, those guys are killin' it! Kenny is at his very best. The guitar comping is great.
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Today, 10:25 AM
I wish incould pull the trigger as fast. I'd get rid of all my others to have that one. Sigh....
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Today, 10:21 AM
What are you considering the original? The film score, or one of the vocals that came a year or so later?
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Today, 10:20 AM
Thank you Allen !
I have trouble with frets under .040.
Tom really wants it so I shouldn’t be a pig. I have 4 L-5’s.
I am basically totally...
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Today, 10:19 AM
It definitely would not be beneficial.
Two big reasons:
1. Time feel is a big part of what we're working on with any practice and a program...
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Today, 10:16 AM
Oh I definitely will. Not doing any of that gatekeeping figure it out yourself shit. Just gotta write one out.
The original is not "jazz" and...
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Today, 10:14 AM
That's the salient point for me.
Incidentally Iverson suggests Tristano's emphasis on "pure improvisation" was not necessarily an emphasis shared...
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Today, 10:10 AM
You could always post a chart for us. Stella is... not my favorite, so I probably won't go out of my way to grab chords by ear off an original...
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Today, 10:08 AM
As far as anchoring the strings, vibrations etc... I don't know if I can claim anything, but the G&L "SaddleLock" bridge is top-loading, on one hand,...
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Today, 10:07 AM
I’m a bit confused by your luthier’s opinion, Jack. First, the gap under that area of the footer is only 15 thou. It should be easy to lay thin...
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Today, 10:05 AM
I need to learn Straight No Chaser. So that's my request. Then Mr PC.
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Today, 10:01 AM
What's your goal? Be really good at musescore, or to play music?
I actually think copying exercises into musescore and playing along with them...
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Today, 10:00 AM
I've decided to sell my 1949 Gibson L4C for £3000, I had it for about 20 years. I rarely play it nowadays, it stays in it's case.
Body size at...
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Today, 09:43 AM
Stella sounds good. Ballads are surprisingly tough! Feels like so much space between those quarter notes.
Rather than get into a thing about the...
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Today, 09:33 AM
I was hoping this thread would generate more discussion, I know there are more Comins GCS owners here, but maybe more GCS-16 then GCS-1?:
Comins...
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Today, 09:09 AM
Thanx for taking the feedback.
Do you know what you'll tackle next? Maybe I'll do it too and we can share notes, compare/contrast styles,...
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Today, 09:04 AM
Love it. Epiphone sounds fantastic...no surprise. Old Epiphones are the bees knees.
I'll try to improve my camera angle for the right hand,...
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Today, 09:00 AM
Of course. But I can't help but think that seating frets all the way is not going to add 15 minutes to the whole procedure. It may also not make that...
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Today, 08:59 AM
It is already done.
Music for years has been connected with spoken intonation. And you can actually hear it in national schools of music(realtion to...
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Today, 08:53 AM
Ok, I finally had some time this morning, here's a little Dinah with an experimental bridge reharm.
Also, I can't sing and I want a little melody...
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Today, 08:49 AM
Is there some reason you think this would be "more beneficial" ?
Playing with a metronome is a time tested technique for improving a player's...
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Today, 08:47 AM
I'd wish I could have seen your right hand. I think where we play (closer to neck vs bridge) plays a big part of the sound.
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Today, 08:45 AM
So, I'd really like to dive deep on rhythm styles...straight four, syncopated, gypsy style. I'm noticing everyone's sounds good but different.
I...
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Today, 08:42 AM
Excellent, great job.
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Today, 08:37 AM
Although not officially a Gibson, the Epiphone Elitist is related somewhat, beautifully made and worth a mention. Play nice too!
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Today, 08:33 AM
Oh I don't disagree with you there. Very true. When it comes to the law of diminishing returns and engineered inexactitude, frets are an area where...
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Today, 08:03 AM
The question is not so much "does it affect" but "does it have to affect and can you predict how". I don't see why you'd care about what an e-guitar...
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Today, 07:51 AM
I don't know. My experience suggests that fret installation is left a bit too much as an afterthought, compared to the attention to detail that's...
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Today, 07:28 AM
My copy will arrive in two to three weeks. :)
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Today, 07:24 AM
It's actually one of my favorite books on jazz. The conversations are unvarnished.
Art Taylor asks his friends, who just happen to be jazz...
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Today, 07:23 AM
I don't think that I have time to record (or practice) anything over the weekend so thought I'd do a quick take now.
For the next tune I won't...
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Today, 07:15 AM
I agree, and I get great jazz tones out of it!!
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Today, 07:02 AM
Its probably more or less finished bending by now and with just an 0015 clearance there seems to be enough wood in the bridge feet that they could...
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Today, 06:55 AM
There are no rules. Only statistics. The chance of repairs or extra maintenance effort definitely increases with age. But it also crucially depends...
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Today, 06:42 AM
Anyway, here's my last Misterioso. A simple work of beauty.
Stream Misterioso 4 by ragman | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Today, 06:23 AM
Agree completely. The luthier (or whatever he is) seems to have messed up just about everything he has touched - bridge, scratches on the guitar...
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Today, 06:14 AM
Birk's Works is a bit more of a challenge. Interesting changes. Might be better, actually.
Fm - Gø/C7 - Fm - Cø/F7
Bbm7 - % - Fm - %
Abm7/Db9 -...
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Today, 06:10 AM
Regarding string-through-body: Fender Telecasters made in 1958 ARE NOT string-through. Jim Campilongo famously plays one.
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Today, 05:58 AM
Once you've got the head out the way it's just a Gm blues.
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Today, 05:47 AM
very good observation
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Today, 05:36 AM
^ Yep. And then good players are also in the practice of using context to make 'mistakes' be part of the flow of the music and end up working or even...
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Today, 05:24 AM
It's more challenging to play to only a click, easier to play along to a drum track, easier still to play along to some sort of accompaniment track....
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Today, 05:16 AM
Herbie Hancock's story of an early gig with Miles where he played entirely the wrong thing and froze for a few seconds in panic before realising that...
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Today, 05:09 AM
I quite fancy Stolen Moments. It's been a long time...
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Today, 04:49 AM
"Do you remember flexidiscs?"
Vaguely.... unfortunately some sadistic marketers are bringing them back:
It's Thin, It's...
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Today, 04:43 AM
Quarrelling? I haven't quarrelled and I'm not upset, quite the contrary. Show me where I've quarrelled. Cut and paste it in, I haven't changed...
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Today, 04:41 AM
Would it be more beneficial to eliminate any pulse at all in technical studies and just write out the studies on a program like MuseScore, indicate...
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Today, 04:14 AM
What a bunch of weenies, complaining about these young guitars. Wrestle with +200 year old violins to understand vintage.
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Today, 04:13 AM
I have owned a Gibson ES-335, an Ibanez Hollow and an Eastman AR508. I still own the Gibson. The 335 is just an amazing guitar. Super versatile, very...
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Today, 04:09 AM
If one argues wood doesn't affect tone on electric guitar I'm ok with that. As long as they are not in guitar making business. If somebody out...
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Today, 03:35 AM
I do not support historical approach (unless one wants to do it on purpose of course), I see no limitations from artistic/aesthetic point of you. And...
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Today, 03:31 AM
There were two Eagle branded guitars:
-one was "designed" in Norway and built in Korea.
-the other was the brand of a French company, IML, that...
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Today, 03:25 AM
I am firmly in the Gibson camp. While the PRS may sound good(not denying that), I don't like how they feel/play, and don't like the look(esthetics)....
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Today, 03:11 AM
Miles hated the way he played.
And I don't want to discuss the book with you or anyone else.
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Today, 03:01 AM
Thanks for the vote of confidence big guy! I can surely say the same thing about you! Looking forward to checking out your new custom toy when you...
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Today, 02:54 AM
Hello Navdeep,
Thanks for the greetings and well wishes! A buddy of mine in San Francisco also gave up the 6 string for 8, 9 & 10 string custom...
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Today, 02:48 AM
rag, you were the one who instigated all the quarrelling about the tune. Why are you getting upset when someone asks 1 question? If you're bored, go...
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Today, 02:47 AM
Hi Vinny,
OK finally had a chance to measure the fret height. They appear to be approximately 0.035" in height. There's very little fret wear,...
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Today, 02:43 AM
Much good advice here. Try to roll off the tone, as many say, but also reduce/remove the amount of reverb. The amount of reverb you use removes...
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Today, 02:40 AM
Ron Carter and Mads Vinding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nJ-d3S3GZ0&list=PLyHn3f7-9IUJ1nSug6N_klm5OQZgZyVhf&index=12
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Today, 02:38 AM
I put a humbucker in the neck position on my Tele many years ago, mostly out of necessity, the original neck pickup broke and I was going on the road...
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Today, 02:32 AM
I hear what you're saying. The top pro players don't only play the vanilla changes when soloing, they have extra stuff going on harmonically to make...
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Today, 02:14 AM
No, it's great for jazz without modding too. If you don't mind the noise it's fine as is.
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Today, 02:13 AM
This is just a perfectly simple, common or garden, 12-bar blues in Bb. Beginners stuff. We should have easily done it and moved on by now. So...
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Today, 02:11 AM
He's fine, he still got the original coils, just a slap on the wrist (for bigsby). :cool:
Btw I had to shim the neck AND the bridge, because the...
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Today, 02:05 AM
He's not playing jazz, he admits he's not a jazz musician, he just wants to change the sound of his guitar. It's getting tedious. It ought to be in...
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Today, 01:40 AM
So, practical:
You are playing through a Fender Princeton amp? Then turn the bass and treble down to zero. You'll have to turn the volume up to...
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Today, 01:24 AM
Great post, and throws much needed light on this discussion. So, as to the quote (in the OP) in question, is this then the true source of it? :
"A...
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Today, 12:49 AM
Vinny, I know you like a warm tone and the CES delivers a slightly warmer tone than the WESMO does. This guitar looks like a good fit for you.
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Today, 12:23 AM
Yes, I've noticed that too. His technique looks effortless. And his sound is great.
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Today, 12:20 AM
I think his action is very low, he has a custom string gauge set with lighter wound strings than usual. This must allow a very light touch, and give...
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Today, 12:05 AM
I don’t think this was ever in question.
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
In any case the Tristano school did not breed racists.
There is that section in "Conversation's on the Improvisor's Art" where Lee Konitz speaks...
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Yesterday, 11:48 PM
I might have considered hitting someone. That is so beyond stupid.
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Yesterday, 11:37 PM
I present to you, one of my very favorite moments in recorded jazz (the link should cue you up to the right spot, but if not, we're looking for about...
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Yesterday, 11:33 PM
Play the background gigs to get good enough to play the nightclub gigs.
But really, everyone wants to see and play a good show. The guy who will...
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Yesterday, 11:24 PM
This is a pretty good one to start ear training with. You already know it’s in Bb and “all 6ths”
oops meant to reply to the other person…
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Yesterday, 11:22 PM
Ah crap. At least I know where I went wrong.
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Yesterday, 10:58 PM
I decided to order it. You made me even more curious after having heard about the book recently and finding out that is has become unavailable in the...
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Yesterday, 10:44 PM
I’ll hit both those events. They’re maybe a half hour from home. Thanks!
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Yesterday, 10:35 PM
I always think the same thing. It looks like he just moves his hand up and down the neck and notes pop out. Whatever the technique is, is must be...
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Yesterday, 10:34 PM
Another interesting point. This is about the time that black musicians started making a concerted effort to reject “jazz” as a label for both...
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Yesterday, 10:29 PM
For what it’s worth — this says that Tristano’s dismissal of black musicians must be seen as a reaction to the black musician’s dismissal of white...
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Yesterday, 10:10 PM
Thank you all for the good advice in this thread.
I just can't behind the "there are no mistakes" stuff. The idea that they have to be bought and...
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
Here is a section of Shim Eunmi's Lennie Tristano: His life in music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007, pp108-9), in which Tristano's...
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Yesterday, 10:08 PM
Today at my annual physical, I made the mistake of complaining to one of the PA's that I had a pain in my neck,left shoulder area from using a...
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Yesterday, 10:03 PM
I would disagree with those who say "your tone is fine" because the OP is clearly not happy with the tone, and the tone in the archtop video is the...
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Yesterday, 09:43 PM
Have you ever read the book?
Read the book, and you can find out for yourself
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Yesterday, 09:35 PM
If you're familiar with Jazz/Fusion guitar great Tim Miller, this is his new signature guitar.
It plays exceptionally well and is semi hollow....
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Yesterday, 08:57 PM
There is a video of Jimmy Bruno playing over Bbmaj7 using chord tones (maybe some Bb major scale tones too, I don't recall) and swinging like mad....
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Yesterday, 08:38 PM
I often play at my worst when I know musicians are in the audience. So, as long as I don't know there are (pro) musicians in the crowd I play OK.
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Yesterday, 08:32 PM
Who knows what they sound like in the room but in the recordings, I thought the Tal sounded best followed by the Golden Eagle. Those two just had a...
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Yesterday, 08:30 PM
I don't often listen to Mike Stern, but a couple days ago I put on the Upside Downside album, and that is just a glorious slab of mid-80s NYC...
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Yesterday, 08:19 PM
I ordered one from Ali Express. It arrived in a week from China. That's faster than my recent purchase from Calgary, one province away. I've been...
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Yesterday, 08:05 PM
OP, I notice your point of reference in your post is to a youtube video rather than a record you like. Wondering what jazz you listen to? I think the...
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Yesterday, 07:47 PM
I'm trying to help the OP... I can swing like a Mother F.... I've worked with some of the best drummer. They know and can help.
The obvious...
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