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Today, 11:16 PM
As others have pointed out there is no guaranteed way to protect your instrument aside from buying a seat, which I have done before when I brought my...
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Today, 11:11 PM
Mike,
We don't know each other, but hanging around here for a few years, one gets some sense of some personalities, more than others. Your passion...
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Today, 10:57 PM
Clearly a side gig as a stuntman for Borat has it's advantages, though I imagine there were certain standards needed to qualify. Did you work on...
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Today, 10:47 PM
Hey, a different Ribbecke! Haven't heard this one for a while. Nice interpretation of an old warhorse, too!
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Today, 10:09 PM
My partner in blues crime (we're the two guitars in the Philly Blues Kings) bought a 15W (6V6) 1x12 Choco Prince combo a few weeks ago "because it...
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Today, 09:56 PM
I just returned from Japan (aka guitar shopping heaven) with a new archtop that had to be gate checked. The United employee at the baggage check-in...
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Today, 09:48 PM
I had to look up TRC…
Funny!
Great playing. If I could play that well, I would probably just stop and call it a day. He has a great feel for...
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Today, 09:45 PM
Great, analytical post.
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Today, 09:42 PM
Looks like a party to me. :thrasher::thrasher::thrasher::thrasher:
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Today, 09:32 PM
Keep feeling better Mike! You know we are all rooting for you. It's great to see you posting and seeing the love here for you. Hopefully it helps in...
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Today, 09:32 PM
If one builder carefully dries their woods, say like Benedetto does, and another builder, say a maker of very cheap guitars in China, builds guitars...
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Today, 09:31 PM
Oh, I see what you're talking about, to the right of the right dot -- that "S" shaped pattern which beckons to those of us with "S" in our names ......
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Today, 09:29 PM
Guinga is an amazing guitarist and composer. He can play anything, but I don't think he often plays straight Bossa Nova. He is not a jazz player and...
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Today, 09:26 PM
Even for the most highly skilled luck is always called-for.
Good luck Vin!
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Today, 09:24 PM
Gibson used the Es-135 name for two
Completely different guitars: a full-depth archtop in the 50s and semi-hollow in the late ‘90s and early 2000’s....
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Today, 09:09 PM
I'm a 50+ year bassist and I approve this message.
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Today, 09:06 PM
I really liked the forward-motion of your arrangement, also those ascending bass lines are killer!
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Today, 08:56 PM
No one knew before Trane.
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Today, 08:54 PM
Nah, I just think it's a cool looking shirt, when Pat wears it, anyway. It looks great on him when he's jamming in concert, and his fans like it too....
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Today, 08:37 PM
Why not? I just got back from the beach.
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Today, 08:22 PM
I bet he didn't know what the triangle was supposed to mean :pride:
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Today, 08:21 PM
Well, let me explain what I'm working on. With this big band stuff I'm trying to see a symbol and immediately grab the chord. Instead of grabbing...
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Today, 08:14 PM
There's practicality and vanity too. The fashionistas say that horizontal stripes make you l look taller and slimmer, and vertical stripes can make...
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Today, 07:22 PM
Well, it depends on the style. Nothing wrong m with working on strict voice leading. I did a lot of that!
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Today, 07:21 PM
That was beautiful Mikey.
As far as I’m concerned, there was never a beef so there’s no reason for a grudge.
“Oh, it doesn't sound bad and if it...
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Today, 07:13 PM
Thanks for that, interesting. Tbh I go with what feels natural, but the bass notes can jump out a bit sometimes.
I remember hearing Guinga...
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Today, 06:53 PM
Mick Twain
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Today, 06:52 PM
Yes, mine too now. I forgot links within the forum only have a short life.
Very simple, go to the search box at the top of the page and put in...
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Today, 06:44 PM
I love it! Really enjoyed your fills and ornamentations on the tune. I think the pick gives it a different feel as well from the finger style that...
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Today, 06:42 PM
Ah yeah fair, so that's my Barry thing coming in, I basically ignore the II chord as just a suspension of V. But you can look on it as two separate...
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Today, 06:38 PM
That's very nice. Listening and watching I realized I've handled a few of the chords more according to my own past experience and not according to...
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Today, 06:38 PM
Cool, because horizontal is slang for "doing it, getting busy, makin' whoopee, knockin' boots," etc., etc.
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Today, 06:32 PM
I wasn't actually proposing them for a vote. All of them are good, and all would transfer equally to other tunes.
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Today, 06:31 PM
I have found the Princeton mic's very well. I can't hear much difference between the direct line side and the mic side of my recording. I also have a...
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Today, 06:23 PM
:triumphant:
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Today, 06:21 PM
LOL, there's probably a Mark Twain quote for that, something like, "He's an extremely talented man, unfortunately no one has been able to find a...
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Today, 06:14 PM
Thank you.
I wish I had an actually useful skill.
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Today, 06:06 PM
Very nice summation, Christian, you really are good at that sort of thing. :smile-new:
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Today, 05:57 PM
Since you played with and learned some stuff from Danny Gatton (who I just discovered in the last few months), do you have any observations on that...
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Today, 05:57 PM
You guys are goin to town with the pedantry.
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Today, 05:56 PM
OK, so to be super specific.
a pitch class is defined as the set of all pitches a whole number of octaves apart. Alternatively put, it is an...
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Today, 05:52 PM
"BTW, there's a clear b13 there too, in case you missed it."
Played over the IIm7b5 chord (b9th), not the V7 chord. This is, the b9th of the IIm7...
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Today, 05:49 PM
Today's musings: playing the second string
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Today, 05:41 PM
It sounds like he did to me. Many melodic devices, especially in the minor key, are reminiscent of Bach. They may have been semi quotes, for all I...
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Today, 05:41 PM
Well I had like 4 days so I did my best without the book. I learned the basic structure from you guys's recordings and I inserted some BH. But it's...
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Today, 05:37 PM
Is this based on Arnold's arrangement? - because you said you didn't have a copy of the book yet. I'll have to analyze it.
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Today, 05:32 PM
When Sunny Gets Blue would be my choice, and I think it's one of the less difficult arrangements.
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Today, 05:32 PM
Oops. Jinx.
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Today, 05:31 PM
I’ve also read numerous times (accurate, I’m not sure) that Bird played and listened to a good bit of Bach, in which case those pitches in a minor...
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Today, 05:26 PM
Ibanez makes wood bridges for similar sized bodies (GB models) (quite costly).
I tried Göldo HW155 which did not fit my guitar very well (less...
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Today, 05:26 PM
Potayto potahto? BTW, there's a clear b13 there too, in case you missed it.
Sounds legit!
In seriousness that's a profound point about...
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Today, 05:22 PM
I'd like to try The Nearness of You.
I've never played it, and the key is different than the first two tunes.
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Today, 05:18 PM
Yes the midnights do sound quite different And I prefer them in general. The only thing I like more about the L series is that they are more...
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Today, 05:13 PM
Looks like the new 535s have a larger cutaway more similar to the gibson....
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Today, 05:12 PM
Yeah these are useful points. I usually tell students that theory is not the knowledge in the books, but it is the Dewey decimal system.
Maybe...
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Today, 05:11 PM
^ All beautiful tunes.
Alright guys, since I didn't have much time to internalize the tune I did a rubato version for you. I'm best at melody but...
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Today, 05:07 PM
It probably won't hurt to obtain access to the PCB that holds those top knobs and blow some contact spray into the pots and any other switch that...
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Today, 05:06 PM
Hey, you take take back! Some of my best friends are Berklee graduates!
I'll use the Berklee terms if I know what they are because that's lingua...
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Today, 05:02 PM
Man you can’t live your life that way
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Today, 05:00 PM
ok P. but call me skeptical, I'd like to see the source of that quote.
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Today, 04:54 PM
Yes, we do.
“I used fifth mode of harmonic minor on Billie’s Bounce”
- Charlie Parker
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Today, 04:50 PM
o.k., but do we know that he was thinking in terms of a scale there vs. playing b9ths over the Am7b5/D7 chords? - it's perhaps the most common...
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Today, 04:44 PM
I would go as far as saying that Ibanez is one of the most cutting edge, large and modern guitar factories out there. Fender and Gibson rely heavily...
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Today, 04:34 PM
@Crm114 wrote:
“ I would say do the things you've wanted to do now”
“Don't wait for another day”
“If there are people you haven't talked to in...
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Today, 04:33 PM
OK
(some stuff I put down for a video, I don't just transcribe stuff to make a point on JGO.)
(yet)
Bird liked this sound a lot.
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Today, 04:20 PM
Is a tele style guitar a tele?:confused:
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Today, 04:18 PM
You all just dislike adopting anything that comes from Berklee :highly_amused: Seriously though, I think the way harmony is taught there may have...
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Today, 04:18 PM
It’s the nanny state Alez! They’re censoring my rubbish voicings.
If you don’t include an A it messes up the third structure. Besides Wes plays...
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Today, 04:17 PM
Ok guys, rather than start a new thread with a poll please select one of the below for our next tune.
Darn that dream
In a Sentimental Mood
When...
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Today, 04:09 PM
Well I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear. To me three notes means three pitches. When I write or play music and am thinking harmonically it never matters...
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Today, 04:08 PM
That’s not Greek that’s Berklee-ese
I don’t hear no Plato arguing to ban no mixob9b13 from the plebs*
I will accept dominant b9 b13 may be a...
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Today, 04:06 PM
Ha ha, I was sure you had your reasons. But I don't think many would agree that E13 still has an A in it. After all, it's (mostly) standard notation,...
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Today, 04:03 PM
Huh? Skip? I was a music professor. No need to be condescending.
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Today, 03:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUNZKESjngc
Oscar Castro Neves, bossa nova giant. Does it different ways.
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Today, 03:58 PM
This is amusing
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Today, 03:56 PM
Thanks for the recommendation. To be clear, it's actually not really too much bass, just a lot of it. I find it very controllable off the amp bass...
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Today, 03:56 PM
… says the guy who just used the term “mixob9b13”
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Today, 03:47 PM
Specifically, I disagree with "Their only problem is that there's nothing rebellious, charismatic or mystical about the brand". There's lot of...
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Today, 03:43 PM
Harmonic Minor (or it's modes) is not even on Steve Swallow's scale list:
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Today, 03:32 PM
Alternatively, it’s a power chord m8.
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Today, 03:29 PM
Fancy word i got from medieval music theory for an octave and a fifth ‘together ‘trine’
When I say medieval music theory I mean theory people made...
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Today, 03:28 PM
There would be no sense in faking it in a study group like this, what would be the point?
Mistakes are fuel for learning.... hmm, come to think of...
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Today, 03:11 PM
I love this story. Mine is similar but different.
In my household music was everywhere. My mother was a very gifted classical piano player who...
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Today, 03:08 PM
Then audio only should be ok for me as I'm a pianist and you won't be learning from my fingerings. My clips are always take at once unless I specify....
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Today, 03:06 PM
You have changed your definition of "chord." In a previous post you quoted the Oxford Dictionary: "Chord: a group of (typically three or more) notes...
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Today, 03:06 PM
I see I’m trying to hard at the wrong thing again. Figures
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Today, 02:59 PM
Beyond your question:
For authentic bossa you have to alternate the bass correctly (in case you do not know it already). It's described in this...
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Today, 02:58 PM
Thank you! It's a Carr Sportsman :)
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Today, 02:58 PM
I think you may be right, although this is the part that becomes tricky. If one wants "not clangy, sharp, trebly, echoey etc", then I would take out...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Yeah, but I tend to avoid saying harmonic minor because the scale is based on the Vth. You use it differently from harmonic minor, and you want to...
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Today, 02:55 PM
Did you skip other 1st year classes? Pitch = frequency ...
The full version of the cited definition in the Oxford Dictionary reads
3.a. A...
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Today, 02:53 PM
Bobby - it's just my preference as imo audio files can be doctored. Much harder to do with video.
Also, and more importantly, I like to see the...
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Today, 02:49 PM
*puts on pedant’s hat*
Proposal rejected! :-)
It’s an E13 chord because of the way it is ordered - in thirds. The A is usually considered an...
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Today, 02:48 PM
Hey Big Mike, stay strong, my brother. You still have gas in your tank, and tons of friends who love you. That's because you've shown how much you...
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Today, 02:46 PM
Disagree on what? I mentioned a few stellar artists and could add to the list. Of course there are younger and up-and-coming artists, and Hoshino...
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Today, 02:45 PM
If the bassist is doing the same thing, it can work to double the bass line. Antonio Aldofo talks about it in his book.
If the bass is...
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Today, 02:41 PM
Huh? Those are still only two notes. Not different octaves of the same notes. It doesn’t matter which octaves they’re still only two different...
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Today, 02:40 PM
Let's face it, the only real Bossa sound is on nylon strings. However, many pro players play bossa on their jazz guitars, usually archtops.
It's...
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Today, 02:37 PM
Are you referring to Harmonic minor or ?? For example, D hm over A7.
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Today, 02:36 PM
Be creative. If you want to accent that pattern, then do something chordally with it or counter it somehow. Don't double the exact bass part, that's...
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Today, 02:32 PM
For Ab7+
4 x 4 5 5 x
x 3 2 1 x x
Ive drifted away from the shells thing for this old school pre bop stuff. The shell voicing thing is not...
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Today, 02:31 PM
Not in Europe any more but it used to be :
Speaker reconing and repair - Speaker repair
Speaker repair center uk
Otherwise, you'll find a lot of...
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Today, 02:29 PM
I would've thought E13 can't have A in it. I propose to call that E mixolydian :numbness:
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Today, 02:24 PM
But apparently only horizontal stripes have mojo - unless you play surf music.
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Today, 02:18 PM
So then, if I double the tonic note (or 5th), you folks will consider these harmonic delinquents to be legal and allow them into the chord club?
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Today, 02:15 PM
Let the bass play the bass. Covering all the parts just because you can is what piano players do.
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Today, 02:14 PM
I think it sounds quite nice.
Quite honestly, if you're an amateur and you stay away from jazz nazis, you could probably do all right with your...
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Today, 02:11 PM
E13 as in
E G# B D F# (A)* C#
*usually omitted in voicings
Yes ‘that’ was a typo for ‘than’
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Today, 02:08 PM
If you can't be sentimental about guitars and music, what's the point?
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Today, 02:07 PM
That’s cool, thanks. I like the arrangement transitioning sax and flute solos on Tele Funky
the second track was better.
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Today, 02:06 PM
Solo - Not so much these days. Just a subtle accent on 3. Bass on 6th string, so some chords inverted. But as long as the bassline is strong…
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Today, 02:00 PM
Nonsense. There is a clear and obvious solution.
T H U N D E R D O M E
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Today, 01:58 PM
I would not alternate, though in the interest of keeping the lowest note on the sixth string, my chords my have a fifth on the bottom.
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Today, 01:55 PM
For Barry Harris btw a chord was four notes. Three notes was a triad.
An arpeggio otoh was specifically a broken triad doubled at the octave.
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Today, 01:55 PM
Pretty simple question, so I expect a pretty simple answer. :smile-new:
I don't have a teacher at the moment.
Do you play the alternating part...
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Today, 01:55 PM
Oh I just read your post more clearly. If you already have too much bass then maybe the celestion gold and the Jupiter m10c will be too much also....
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Today, 01:55 PM
What are your augmented grips? 643 string set grips. What notes do you grab?
I’ve been playing 137 shells when they come up on a big band chart....
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