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Today, 11:36 AM
That Lowden arrangement is a fine example of how the guitar part might not sound "right" on it's own without the rest of the band.
And by sound...
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Today, 11:32 AM
Very nice interpretation of a classic piece. Love the tone of your guitar, right in between a classical nylon and classic archtop sound. Of course...
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Today, 11:21 AM
If you are looking mainly for repairs, then try Pimentel & Sons in Albuquerque. Not sure about any archtop builders in NM although there are...
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Today, 11:10 AM
This is the one I was thinking of, turns out it's a Bob Lowden chart. Anyway here's the Basie version too. I feel like my general point still...
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Today, 11:09 AM
Any tips on how to efficiently dial in a parametric EQ? I would like to shape my clean tone to compensate when using different amps. I have a 3 band...
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Today, 11:04 AM
Like JBN said, whether this is a good price really depends on what all the stuff you can't see in the pictures is like. In the use 4000 EUR...
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Today, 10:49 AM
TRuly most current jazz that's actually original is fusion of. some ilk...
Probably the most useless classification in music.
I remember when...
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Today, 10:21 AM
For that kind of money buy an Ibanez ArtCore.
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Today, 10:20 AM
Based on your photos, €4000 is too much to pay for it for me. I might part with €2500, if I like it very much.
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Today, 10:20 AM
Yeah a band I play in is a lot closer to fusion and we had a regular thing at a pizza place for a while. Also a great nightclub type place that had...
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Today, 10:18 AM
Nothing like enjoying a relaxing cup of coffee and listening to fusion.
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Today, 10:17 AM
Herbie Hancock is gonna come for you.
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Today, 10:07 AM
I like all these ideas. I would add playing along with your favourite recordings
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Today, 10:06 AM
As someone who is studying this style, I can say that Freddie rarely moved on every beat.
Either 4 of the same note per bar or 2 and 2, for the...
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Today, 10:01 AM
I don't think of Metheny as fusion. He's way too melodic for that.
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Today, 10:00 AM
I don’t think Freddie played all that detail. A lot of the time he hangs out on one or two single notes. He’s pretty zen.
Tbh I did a big band...
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Today, 09:59 AM
Almost as much as I hate "chord melody."
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Today, 09:59 AM
I think when the whole point is to scare your parents, something gets lost. How far can it go? I know a lot of parents (now in their 50s) who...
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Today, 09:58 AM
You just made my day!
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Today, 09:49 AM
Part 6 is now up to conclude the series.
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Today, 09:49 AM
Thanks for the insight!
Yeah, I guess one would need closer photos. Looking closer and playing this guitar before buying is not very easy, the...
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Today, 09:47 AM
Can I just say here that I absolutely hate the term "jazz box"?
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Today, 09:30 AM
I have a friend who calls it "The Blandening." I think that's pretty spot on.
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Today, 09:21 AM
From the proximity to the pickup screw, the lack of close detailed photo on that spot, I say it looks like a top split along the grain line. From the...
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Today, 09:19 AM
The algorithm is wise and mighty. The algorithm will reach a musical singularity where one song is all songs and no one will love or hate it.
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Today, 09:09 AM
Isn't it remarkable how things have slowed down?
23 years between the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and Appetite.
Listen to popular music from...
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Today, 08:59 AM
I recommend Il Paradiso Perduto in Venice, famed for its seafood and progressive jazz.
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Today, 08:31 AM
Beatrice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFljeJ0Pds&ab_channel=Adam%C4%8Cehovin
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Today, 08:08 AM
Here is another comparison. To my ears, maple has more bass, rosewood has more high mids. It's actually consistent with the other comparison video I...
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Today, 07:31 AM
This recently was launched and is cool.
I have two G&L versions of the Strat the I love. One has the standard hum canceling split coils...
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Today, 07:21 AM
Under 4000 euros.
"The crack" – You mean the darker stripe starting from the bridge pickup?
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Today, 07:17 AM
I don’t think anyone can tell if it’s a good deal without knowing the price. That top crack is going to knock more than a dollar off.
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Today, 07:14 AM
I found an offer for a Gibson L4CES that's built in 1986/1987.
An inheritance of a jazz guitarist sells it.
Price is good (if You got the...
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Today, 07:07 AM
More from Italy (with Alessio Menconi on guitar).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g6Fp-7UqiI
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Today, 06:27 AM
The head is played the same every time. :P Yeah no, nice clip.
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Today, 06:20 AM
The demise of the Sadowsky-labelled-and-licensed archtop guitars is greatly exaggerated.
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Today, 06:20 AM
I asked it and I couldn't find the info on a site either.
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Today, 06:18 AM
For one that identifies as a Strat take a look at this one.
Pete Anderson Eastsider S Guitar - Reverend Guitars | We know what players want.
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Today, 06:14 AM
Just write to Masaki-san. He writes English very well. Everything is transparent. Please note foreign exchange rates. Credit card agencies and some...
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Today, 06:07 AM
Oz Noy is an Israeli guitarist, not a band. He’s a fantastic player - studio, sideman, leader and everything in between.
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Today, 06:04 AM
Maybe Billy Hart knows something. There is no contact information on Billy's website but you could contact him via Ethan Iverson.
Another...
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Today, 06:00 AM
The Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven guitar was sold for 100k!
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Today, 05:51 AM
^ I could not find a single bit of biographical information on him except for a post here that told the thing of Butch being his nephew. Could you...
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Today, 05:50 AM
They claim accuracy is -/+ 1-2cm. To put it in context, that’s the difference between a Sadowski or a Hofner Vice President turning up.
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Today, 05:41 AM
Try these guys owner knows a lot about archtops.
Olde Town Pickin' Parlor
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Today, 05:06 AM
Protip: that banana is bait.
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Today, 05:04 AM
“It’s not a question of why be a free improvisor. It’s a question of what else? Free Improvisation offers more playing per cubic second than any...
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Today, 04:47 AM
I had one guitar where the finish on the tuning knobs started coming off. I didn't notice at first, except for the guitar feeling sticky.
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Today, 04:32 AM
I’ve played fusion in pizza restaurants and cafes. And of course, on jazz club gigs. They was (or is) a fantastic fusion night at a pizza place near...
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Today, 03:28 AM
The same was said about Gibson guitars some years ago and it was debated on this forum on several occations. Some said it was caused by a switch from...
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Today, 03:25 AM
You're probably right, call me a curmudgeon. It wasn't his price I was critiquing, it is fair enough, it was the idea of only accepting cash from...
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Today, 02:46 AM
An Italian (Neapolitan) band I liked that was big in the 70's and 80's was Napoli Centrale ("Central Naples"). James Senese is a pretty soulful sax...
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Today, 02:43 AM
As you point out, I guess that they are not so rare. Come to think of it, 3,750 copies were printed. I'm not sure where that puts it for rarity in...
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Today, 02:28 AM
Oz Noy is quite cool! I had only heard the name and (don't know why) I thought they were doing experimental-avantguard (I guess the name sounded like...
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Today, 01:08 AM
Carol Kaye told me she preferred Rosewood as fingerboard material for the warmth. I ended up choosing maple on my P Bass for the visual effect. All...
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Yesterday, 11:32 PM
@Mick-7 Why denigrate another forum members for sale ad? Others can decide what price and terms they are willing to pay for this item themselves. ...
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Yesterday, 11:28 PM
This is Fusion? Oh crap, I like Fusion and I never knew it. :highly_amused:
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Yesterday, 11:17 PM
This would be a great one to refresh those 6543 and 5432 mel bay chord inversions on.
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Yesterday, 11:12 PM
https://youtu.be/Mqh-4kvwlYA?si=zr59q5QIcO6ehZ5_
I used the head off this album. Stop bickering guys. The newbs will think that’s how everyone...
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Yesterday, 11:05 PM
Thanks, Jeff. I found a digital download on 7Digital.com of the recording. For a start I like that kind of music. I'll see what I can hear that I...
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
Reach out to Henriksen, they should know someone good!
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Yesterday, 10:29 PM
Running into a pretty good FRFR..
Not sure the sounds above 5khz coming from a humbucker or single coil are very flattering. With my Gibson...
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
For sure, maybe more two notes for Tiny, but on those inside strings...or I suppose for Tiny, his lower strings...
Here's some well recorded...
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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
The chatbot said he died in 2017.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 08:53 PM
That's my way, no books... well, I did practically memorize this one:
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Yesterday, 08:37 PM
Rare, wonderful, and out of print book.
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Yesterday, 08:30 PM
If you'd commented to Bach5G with your wisdom I wouldn't have asked!!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 06:57 PM
People born the year the first album came out are middle aged.
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Yesterday, 06:56 PM
Guns N’ Roses is definitely old people music.
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
That’s what I am wondering.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
But don't ask it its orientation. :P
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 06:37 PM
Good question and
:triumphant:
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:55 PM
What pronouns does it prefer?
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Yesterday, 05:49 PM
Like Tiny Grimes sometimes?
Doug
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Yesterday, 05:49 PM
It identifies as a Strat.
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Yesterday, 05:48 PM
Used to be the 55 Bar in NYC before covid forced it to close for good.
Doug
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:16 PM
Indeed!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:58 PM
Italy
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Yesterday, 04:58 PM
All Of Me
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:38 PM
Here's one take on the song's opening phrase with a descending bass line.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:19 PM
Oh man, Appetite for Destruction is almost 37 years old now.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
No, more like a tenor line-- 4th string only!
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Yesterday, 04:16 PM
Guns n Roses had an ES 175 on stage and on their album.
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Yesterday, 04:15 PM
Answered :triumphant:
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Yesterday, 04:12 PM
Good routine.
Scales, arps, intervals, chromatics to the changes.
Bass lines.
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Yesterday, 04:11 PM
Thanks, Jeff.
Doug
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Anyways. End of the week. Out of the forum for sometime.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:48 PM
Like a walking bass line?
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
TRM answered that in post 17
but if you can play them in person decide for yourself.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:19 PM
Here ya go ragman!
Stream Misterioso by Clint Jones | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Yesterday, 03:17 PM
In what way? With acoustic archtops that is I mean (difference with flattops I know)…
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:12 PM
I have plenty of both. Just different.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 02:43 PM
Thanks! I do absolutely adore everything about this guitar.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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