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Today, 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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Today, 12:56 PM
That's what pearls are for.
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Today, 12:52 PM
https://youtu.be/G0dVZlw2GDM?si=Iyw1djJuoLld9ifJ
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Today, 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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Today, 12:37 PM
Very nice looking guitar. I have a couple of Electromatic Gretsches myself, great value for the money
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Today, 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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Today, 12:19 PM
So blessed to see one of the best builders on Earth posting here! Thank you, Mark!!!
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Today, 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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Today, 12:04 PM
lol
I’m shocked. SHOCKED.
(clutches pearls)
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Today, 12:03 PM
It is always good to eliminate the middleman.
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 11:40 AM
That was absolutely awesome to listen to :) amazing playing an loved listening to the interactions.
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Today, 11:36 AM
I'm hard-pressed to remember ever seeing a neck-pickup that high.
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Today, 11:35 AM
Maybe nylon saddles for the bright strings would have done the trick?
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 10:01 AM
I don't. I meant the swing turnaround has a nice bass line.
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Today, 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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Today, 09:57 AM
moving the batch forward - rims after bending, and rims joined to end and neck blocks -
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Today, 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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Today, 09:40 AM
ding ding ding
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 09:17 AM
What about a Heritage guitar?
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Today, 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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Today, 09:11 AM
Absolutely.
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Today, 08:59 AM
I’m rubber, you’re glue.
Oh lord.
Bb - Bb
Db - C
E - Eb
G - G
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Today, 08:58 AM
New clip, with round-wound strings :
https://youtu.be/rTwpWdsh2d8
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 08:03 AM
El Salvador?
Honduras?
Guatemala?
Nicaragua?
Like Argentina all FCKed up by Henry Kissinger in the 70ies/80ies.
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 04:58 AM
I mean the letter ‘i’
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 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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Today, 03:53 AM
The Necks, from Sydney, New South Wales.
https://youtu.be/UMueDWG86JU
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Today, 03:48 AM
The Jac, from Wellington, New Zealand.
https://youtu.be/IPYD_OjoMzA
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 01:40 AM
Thanks everyone!
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Today, 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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Today, 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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Today, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
Ahhh..Ben Monder .. he does hear something very different
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
So as the fact checkers say on the podcasts, I was "directionally right". :pride:
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 09:14 PM
Peerless Monarch 17 Lefty Archtop Guitar w case #7020 — Guitars 'n Jazz
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Yesterday, 09:09 PM
That's a great article.
Thanks Paul.
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Yesterday, 08:52 PM
Sounds like they had a lot of fun.
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Yesterday, 08:36 PM
Yes I'm not seeing any pictures.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 08:30 PM
Added pics
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Yesterday, 08:27 PM
Your theory points to an interesting case of clairvoyance by N. Riddle:
The recording sessions resulting in this and another album were finished...
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Yesterday, 08:17 PM
Bob made spectacular Fratello I am selling on reverb and will post it here for $14,000 net to me shipped continental US. Great deal for a vintage...
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Yesterday, 08:07 PM
Then & Now: BamBoo - Then and Now: Toronto Nightlife HistoryThen and Now: Toronto Nightlife History
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Yesterday, 07:48 PM
That's a Riddle.
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Yesterday, 07:48 PM
Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta (Nostalgia)
Idk if this fits the criteria. Too old?
https://youtu.be/Wy-v-FgiUD8?si=OUtoZxE8XwlQccey
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