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This is a technique that interests me as it's something I think I have a hope of managing to pull off eventually. I wonder if anyone can recommend...

Not directly related to the topic, but I think it is an interesting read - with a referral at hex strings too. I took this paragraph from ABOUT —...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNTUyKvMyo0&t=27s

Alan Kingstone’s book has a section at the end on ‘Partial Chords’ which are scales of various 6/dim voicings reduced to 3 notes. I haven’t looked...

There’s also been an uptick of interest in indie makers among jazz players too. The sort of players who own just really one or two really good...

I agree that it’s a horn thing but for me I think it’s simpler - triad pairs sound really good on the saxophone. The sound of the horn lends it a lot...

Thanks, very interesting. Then it appears that some people used some type of Flats already in the '40s. Herbie Kay was a guitarist, trumpeter and...

Black Diamonds were regular round wound strings. We all know the difference when comparing new vs worn-in round wounds. I think Johnny maybe wanted...

I have had that app on my iPad for years now, but have never delved into it. There always seems to be so much other stuff to do, and then things like...

On sale this weekend. Reason: I found another guitar I am interested in and would like to sell his one first. After this weekend the other guitar...

totally agree!

Cheating a liitle here by not being strictly single line with the melody (though far from chord-melody) and by including the first half-ish chorus of...

Parts and pickup sold. Keeping the listing up for future reference.

Guitar volume on "7" provides the right jazz tone for me - it quiets pick, finger, and string noise. I set the amp volume for solo level with normal...

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Foot tapping could be a curse. In my early youth i had a band with a singer who was not very good, but he tapped a lot maybe because he was nervous....

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Oh nice! I’ve been working on this a lot … just starting to hear bits and pieces of it. I would love to hear if you have any practice ideas or...

That is a beautiful, hand crafted instrument. May she inspire your playing for many years to come.

Awesome!! Play it in good health.

The way that this comes up in daily life happens in rehearsals. Some band members want to do what amount to cover versions of tunes. I'm rarely...

I wonder if foot tapping has been the subject of solid research. If you look at the players in a horn section, some tap, some don't. Among the...

For the record just doing a key a day so I have some artificial benchmark to hit before I add some new level of difficulty. I have a tendency to...

my man. Ive been trying to mirror my one key a day stuff and doing some ear training on the four chord types in the home key. It starts with...

Yeah I'm not taking those out just to find out. They work fine. They're soldered inside a can anyway. Too much trouble for trivia. Gibson really...

When the band leader just snaps his fingers into the song, it's 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, or do you guess, hoping not wrong?

I think it was Johnny Smith who talked about using Black Diamond strings and lifting them up away from the fingerboard by putting a pencil underneath...

As I said earlier, I've found Slonimsky's book to be a great resource for patterns and interval studies (I shared a link to it in my post #44). I...

Probably not. Gibson did not keep good records. You cannot even count on serial numbers for proper dating. What Gibson tells you can be inaccurate....

I think I might have one of the first of the final 400 versions. It's got an orange label, and a Venetian cutaway. It's a really nice guitar too....

If Gibson wants to get back to making carved top archtops, I am sure they can subcontract with one or more of the dozens of highly skilled archtop...

Not a particularly good one to put in a book. You could have 2 beats per chord Bbm7b5/ Eb7/ AbM7/Eb11/ > Ab (or sub a Bb7b5 for the Bbm7b5)

A few people have most of the money and can afford to pay others to make products for them. A few artisans can make a living by making these products.

I thought everyone knew about the CC transcriptions. I downloaded them 25 or 30 years ago.

For simplicity, I prefer a boost pedal of some type for switching between rhythm and solo. I own, and have used, several pedals that work well...

Dur-A-Glo flatwound strings were advertised in the 1940 Montgomery Ward Catalogue, on page 555. In the 1942 Catalogue (page 716) the catalogue entry...

Exactly!

Bump for an inexpensive, awesome sounding guitar!

One of my favorite tunes, again, one I've always played chord-melody style and have enjoyed working on for this thread. It's a super simple melody,...

they should be called "hard bops"

Why are TI flats called swings?

Well, it's all Ab Major save for one note (E nat.), so it could be Bbm7(b5) > Eb7 > AbM or Ab7/D7. As I recall, Nelson does not suggest chords,...

Whether or not it happens, I suspect they still have the skills, mainly because a 175 is a laminate, which they still use with 335's. It is the...

Up for a great guitar!

Peter, you are too kind! I'm definitely deep into hexatonics by now, much more so than when I started programming the app. :)

Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!

That is the thing about Gibson guitars, particularly from that era. There are exceptions to every rule. I suspect that the luthiers were able to...

Hmm. I found skydiving somewhat "exhilarating" but I never tried it a second time. I have had trouble on loud jazz gigs with a full hollow body. I...

I have a late 1968 400CES with 1 11/16" nut. Serial number confirmed by Gibson. It wasn't custom ordered.

That is lucky, guys who like cars, motorcycles, speedboats or most other "toys for big boys" lose money on their stuff as they are constantly...

I too have the "knowledge gap" I mentioned, I know the reason for it have yet to rectify it.

I agree playing rock music on a plank is easier, but there can be something exhilarating about keeping a lively hollow guitar tamed while doing so…...

To which chords is this lick played? Thanks

^^^ Yeah, I think I've figured out I just really like guitars. Almost all of them.

To be fair, I didn't take Mick's post about a "knowledge gap" as an insult, it might be a spot on critique. I have definitely spent a lot of time...

+1 I love Strats, Teles and Lesters AND I love archtops. I suspect that in both the world of guitar collectors and pro musicians (and with...

I like the CC pup PM models. Could play some gigs on those. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Neither can I.

Sure man. But for what it’s worth, there are sort of normal chord scale harmonies that are pretty easy to figure out, but I can imagine a world...

Allan Holdsworth was very self deprecating, even though, IMO, Allan Holdsworth was probably the most original and talented UK guitarist. He was also...

I generally find comping with my fingers and soloing with a pick is enough of a boost.

I think you're trying to oversimplify this and make it objective when it's largely subjective. There's no single answer - it all depends on several...

Thanks to nevershouldhavesoldit and sgosnell. Compare this: With:

I'll take G, C, D7 and feel good about myself for $100, Alex.

Good thing you're not a librarian.

They're all gorgeous. A couple of brunettes and blondes--what's not to like? I'll have a couple of each!

Maybe, if you understood the underlying scale/harmonic theory - in which case you probably wouldn't need the app. :smile-new: Then again, as we...

If archtops are so low in popularity why are virtually every luthier making archtops ive talked to booked out months if not years? If theyre to...

Okay … one might even recommend using the app to correct that deficit?

Absolutely, but everyone doubts their own ability to some extent. Wes, for example, constantly doubted his, possibly because he was self-taught....

C Major or C melodic minor, but it just spells out a G11 chord (G-B-D-F-A-C). Maybe I'm just saying that needing an app for it (whatever "it" is)...

Youll want to go into the settings to limit the number of chords that it’s using … the default setting is ……… ………. challenging

Alright I’ll give it a shot

Thank god I've only got an old acoustic :-)

I've heard these called many different things. Triad pairs and hexatonics are pretty common. Charlie Banacos used to call them "double mambos" or...

Yeah I’ve had it for a while. Jordan K had told me about it because Stefon was working on it when he was studying with him. And I was like cool … but...

Are you? Hearing harmony is a weak spot for me.

It sounds like you’re talking about being able to play diatonic triads, but playing triad pairs is developing vocabulary from overlapping inversions...

This just sounds like an argument against superficial scale knowledge. To me, knowing the C Major scale, or any other scale, means knowing, and...

That black Ibanez GB10 BK is gorgeous! From the photo it appeared to have a deeper body, but after checking its specs, that is only an illusion....

You've pinpointed a knowledge gap, technical and/or hearing-wise, which prevents you from being as competent at playing single note lines as playing...

Triad pairs are not really chord-over-chord though, I don't think ... more a modal way of getting around. And honestly I think these are actually...

It's kind of the default tho Notice how in this Kurt Rosenwinkel chart, Phrygian is specified in the chord symbols. Obv. the progression is not...

Anything and everything is good enough to post on this forum, with caveats or without. Everyone should be encouraged to post their videos,...

That was my point, m7b13 does not represent a single scale/mode, it occurs in other scales. As I said, if one knows a scale, one knows what...

Same here. I can pretty much create a chord-melody arrangement of a standard on the first or second try. That, of course, is what pianists always...

Thanks! Let me know if you do, I’m curious to hear your thoughts.