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Here is Albert Lee with his Fender Twin. https://youtu.be/pQ30A3w5Mjw?si=9Jbj_N-3GCY_DhE1&t=546

DawgBone at least is talking about a vintage tube amp, which is the purpose of this thread.

Hmm ... not quite the same. Four is Eb to Ebm Ab7 … then Ab or Fm ... Check out September in the Rain and the A section is pretty doggone...

Actually, I had a metronome going but I think I occasionally played ahead of or behind the beat, and I may have lost half a measure when I hit the...

You ever try to play all blues and someone just starts blues wailing over it. Some things just sound better with space to me. Also, Misty starts...

What chord changes are you looking at? You could just use the common blues chord changes, or at least start with them and add chord subs later if...

Interesting … playing too much is usually the biggest problem with my phrasing. Though maybe what Allen is hearing is a squishiness with the time?...

I always wondered what was going on there. A beautiful ballad played in a beautiful way.

Put another way, he’s on the right thread and we’d love to help him get rid of those pesky extra notes

If you ignore his left hand chords and just listen to his right hand melody, he's playing it in octaves, and it's really pretty how he rhythmically...

Some abstraction getting used to my new guitar, a Yamaha C40 classical I bought at my local Guitar Center yesterday. It was too good a deal to pass...

Nice but you're in the wrong thread, go to the main forum page, turn right at Chord-Melody.

Well, I was practicing phrasing, not playing does not help with that. What's more, this is wall to wall chords: ...

It sounds like you’re noodling the melody. Teething the reigns waiting for your solo. Space is good. ...

I've had no issues with the TI but still have been getting into the Optima Jazz Swing, as they are cheaper and seem just as good to me. Maybe a...

Happy Birthday! :birthday: Keep pickin' and grinnin' and you should have many more - you must do both though: pickin' and grinnin'. So...

o.k., here I am messing around with phrasing, can't imagine why anyone other than me would want to listen to it but I said I'd share it so... ...

cough LaBella jazz flats cough cough

Dogals are pretty damn good.

You are no doubt aware that your volume needs are the exception, not the norm in jazz in general and in the forum. :rolleyes: Hence why there...

i tried them but they are not flats as I recall.

If the Dogal’s are too much coin you might want to try Pyramid Golds. I switched from TI’s to Pyramid a few years ago and am not going back. Haven’t...

A common misconception about J H is that he was not a "fast " player... shreddin' Wonderful! thx for posting.... S

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Haha, that's pretty clever. It's also one of my favorite songs from Chet Baker, but I prefer a different version that he recorded.

I should fess up that I have two tube amps (tweed Deluxe and Pro Reverb) and two solid state amps (AI Clarus 2r and Polytone Baby Taurus). I rarely...

Mark, nobody sounds like you.

The fingerpointing is purely political grandstanding, there is nothing any of the critics are actually offering to help. Just bash the other side...

Compared to smaller practice amps at low volumes. It's true that bigger amps sound their best at higher volumes but that doesn't necessarily mean...

Unfortunately my morning inspiration coincides with some of my busiest times of day...Great for my job, not so much for my guitar playing.

Speaker efficiency will play into the results I would think. If you have a dB meter or phone app with one that might be some interesting data. The...

More like accelerated ignorance

AI? It’s not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial ignorance.

Plug it into a 2x12 loaded with efficient speakers and it probably will, since it makes 120W RMS. Now I'm curious, so I'll plug the Twin's speaker...

You could use people like Mulroy who work behind the scenes and actually know what they're doing. Anything flammable is the enemy. A lot of people...

When that Henriksen can hang with a Twin volume wise I will graciously concede your point haha.

refreshing!

Ms. Mulroy was brought in just before the end of 2022-23' when heavy rain and snow ended the decades long drought in the southwest. The first time...

Looks like a tailpiece with a wooden crossbar…I’m not an expert on these matters, but a wooden crossbar and no truss rod “could” point to a war-time...

Thanks! I’ve been working on this tune for over 40 years, slow learner that I am:)

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Ummmm - ya got that right!

Came here to post the same clip. Nice

Yes I looked through f-holes and also checked the end of neck block for any markings

I usually do business kind of work in the morning. Some small amount of practicing in the early afternoon. Then I teach until pretty late and do a...

I've clocked a JBL D series loaded Twin with transients as high 129dB and I have an Emi PF-350 loaded 72 that maxed at 136dB with sustained 126 and...

Thanks for link, very interesting but no further forward I'm afraid

The story of water in CA..Southern CA in particular has a long list of corrupt politicians-State City County..all taking a good bite of the pie. ...

I read your original post where you said no numbers were visible, but just in case: did you look through the bass-side f-hole to see if there was...

Amen!

For reverb it doesn't get more cost effective than the Behringer DR600 Access to this page has been denied .It is a clone of a Boss reverb but at...

I just recently went up to 13s and I’m not sure, they sound a bit ringy still if that makes any sense. The G and the D especially, had them on around...

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Interesting point. We started with Lovely Day and did Ipanema second. So maybe that wasn't so bad. But, later, we did Maneater, Ain't Misbehavin'...

Solid state amps sound a lot better than tubes, up a long flight of stairs. On the ground floor, of the two best guitar sounds I ever heard live...

Maybe the people couldn't keep up with the eclecticism. I can see it being jarring going from a faithful rendition of Private Eyes into a vanilla...

Add to this premise, that there are still a LOT of Gibson arch tops out there. Some of them are for sale, or will be.........someday

EDIT: After reading this post, I plugged my Picoverb into the BAM200 and it sounds great. Since I'm only using this amp for backup and some solo...

We didn't let the string beans touch the mashed potatoes. We did kept as faithful as we could to the recordings on the covers (more 60s and 70s...

Say Hi to him for us :)

I wish they would stop calling everything AI. I inherently don't like it because of the AI marketing. I do suppose this is AI in the right...

Did you look through these catalogs? If you find it in one of them, that would be a good starting point for it's date. Looks earlier than mid...

Awesome tone.

You need someone to orchestrate water policies in the southwest. Pat Mulroy was the last to do it; The ‘Water Witch’: Pat Mulroy Preached...

I had a couple of MB200s and like them. I had a piece of gear fry out over the weekend (entirely 100% my fault) so I'm trying to figure out how to...

Those who think that Matteo always overplays might want to watch this video.

Thank you guys, really appreciate your warm welcome. See you around the forum!

What is the neck depth/thickness at the 1st and 12? Thanks!

I have Big Mike Unity guitar here I have to get back to him. I originally had it set up with round wound DR Pure Blues. Big Mike wanted the Ti swings...

I exercise in the morning precisely because my brain is NOT working well. If I actually think clearly about it, I'd stay in bed!

Many thanks, sir! I have tried to stay healthy and happy, and I suppose I'm reaping some of the benefits now.

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Very nice guitar and reasonably priced. How would you describe the neck profile?

I know that all the 13s of TIs I've bought in past years had a rough feeling G string. The 12s have been better. This may be subjective, but I feel a...

I usually exercise in the morning - that's when my brain works best. There are also days when I exercise very early in the morning before breakfast.

Sorry, I'm loosing it (or already lost it). I'm probably going to try Newtone round cores next, but I'm really happy with the MM13s.

I think they've added AI enhancements to do just that: Of course, now I am VERY curious to see what sorts of enhancements AI could bring to the...

To some, maybe not so, but mine are all beautiful to me:

olejason has the L5 copy. So, I installed the Martin Monel’s today. I’m using the 13 medium lights. Surprisingly there’s a bit more volume than I...

Wow! That's interesting. There is no way my nails would stand up to that kind of playing.

Asking this here is maybe not a great strategy, some exceptions notwithstanding, unless you're also going to go to a free improv page and ask them...

Here in suburban Philadelphia it gets very dry when the heat goes on. Humidity will dip to +/-30%. I’ve been using a vornado evap 40 for several...

My Loar is the LH700. Which brand is your L5 copy to which you refer please?

What can you do? They don't know anything deserts and LA is the desert. The dry brush and shrubs all over California is kindling.

Good for trading fours with scat singing.

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1962 random navy B15. My bass playing son needed room in his Brooklyn apt having had a baby girl 3 months ago and returned it to me after 10 years....

AFAIK TI strings aren't ground, they're wrapped with flat windings.

You don't look 70, good job. LOL

I just turned 70 on Friday. You ain't seen nothin' yet...

I have bought several hundred sets of TI Flats over the years and I have never had a problem. That said, I wonder what they do with string sets that...

Something happened at 40 where I just lost all my morning person energy. I'm comatose until 9am lately.

Well as a man of the cloth I know a lot more about guitars than i do about God. The first and most honest understanding about God is that….Lord you...

Every semester at Berklee, I'd have a conversation with Mick as the year began: who's the most exciting and promising of the top tier players, how...

original Dynasonics are my favorite pickups. I would suggest finding a pair of those and putting them in a Duo Jet made in Japan, for a versatile...

Okay thanks. Anybody else prefer practicing/playing in the mornings?

Did you play the party songs in a Brazilian style? Or did you play 80s covers with Brazilian jazz mixed in?

All 200W bass amps I have used work well alone for jazz guitar, or as an "intelligent power amp" behind a preamp or a cluster of pedals. The Gnome is...

When I saw the gourd (?) I actually not of music but of my favorite drink from the time I lived in Kenya, which was aged in a gourd that had been...

You can expect to be a little bit better than you were the morning before. Something else to consider is that you can expect more progress faster...

I had a set a few years ago that corroded within about 2 weeks. (I cleaned the strings with alcohol, and despite some oxidation so major progression...

No. At 48 seconds into this video, he says he always uses his natural nails - Matteo Mancuso: Game Changer Finger Style - Tutorial through...

Having a little fun. https://youtu.be/QlfLITAAN9o?si=jiq2FJufQAbJs8Dy

I will keep working on it. It was only one morning of working on it, what can I expect from one morning?

I had a Twin in the 70's. JBLs. My back is nearly better. A couple more years of PT should do it. But, I can't imagine needing an amp that loud....

Which Loar, an LH600?

Whoa, and I thought TI George Bensons were expensive. What’s unique about them?

@Danny W. ...Did you sell all of those gorgeous Johnny A.'s?! Besides your L5, those were my favorites in your collection.

Where are you buying the sets from? I bought some from a local music store and found them pretty rough and figured they must have been sitting around...

Why do you imagine that real jazz is somehow separate from playing the song? This is something a lot of people go through when they first start...

We played Lovely Day as our first tune. People seemed to like it. A little later, we played Private Eyes and Sunny. People were dancing. Then...

Honestly, I can't tune out the original and focus on you playing over and around it, things are rhythmically clashing all over the place.

Yes, understand. But don't you hear something good happening? I actually hear myself playing jazz now. Not just random notes....the notes are...

Bebop tunes are certainly not forbidden.

Hello. I spent the morning listening to Louis Armstrong’s recording and Grant Green’s recording of “Go Down Moses”. I spent the requested thirty...

I have been using Thomastik Swing Series flatwounds on nearly all of my guitars for about twenty years. Once, I had a set with one dead string. No...

Don’t think bebop tunes are forbidden, but I’d imagine you’d need a lot more than thirty minutes to get a good take. Also bebop tunes are the...

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We're not doing bebop here, I thought about playing Joy Spring but no... swing tunes, maybe the blues, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. ...

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Of course old standards can be reinvented, here's an extreme example of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDslAaGAvYo

Are they worth $43 a set?

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I'll keep mine as it is, no mods needed, Tarback pickups are great and the look as it is naturally aged to perfection, not even Murphy Lab could do...

Let's remember that a lot of jazz standards were show tunes written after the late 50's (Day's of Wine and Roses, Moon River, Watch What Happens,...

dogal expressive jazz flats. i'm not planning going back to thomastik any time soon.

I have probably used over 30 sets of Thomastik without any rough strings.The only mishap was a low e string snapping as i started tuning.I contacted...

this isn't a *ME* problem. I've been using thomastik JS112 for 10 years or so, and have them on 4 of my archtops. No problem like this on my other...

Why is it so hard to restrain oneself from playing too much, especially with be-bop?

There’s a group by me that’s milking this for all it’s worth. Piano, sax and drum trio that does 1 standard every 10 pop tunes. They’re all so good...

Yeah, not to pile on, but just learn the tune first.

There are many streaming radio stations that play "pop oldies" or "classic rock," but they don't normally play anything older than the late 50's -...

That’s in the grip, 4th fret on the G string. 6xx466 13th, 7th, 3rd, 13th. It sounds cool to hit that and go to Bb13 as the vanilla 6x678x.

What brand L5 copy is it? I use MMs on a fully carved Loar which has a neck mount pickup