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Today, 09:37 AM
I'm selling my beautiful Guild Benedetto.
This guitar has Robert Benedetto's 'opulent brown' nitrocellulose lacquer finish.
Robert Benedetto...
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Today, 09:35 AM
That's a really helpful diagnosis, thank you. I think that must be exactly what happened.
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Today, 09:32 AM
Agreed! If the headstock can't move but the body can, it can be a problem.
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Today, 09:27 AM
Kind of an unusual place for a fracture - typically, a neck joint failure will cause a noticeable increase in string height - if your action hasn't...
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Today, 09:25 AM
Sold, pending buyer's approval.
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Today, 09:18 AM
Thanks Hammer,
it’s Boris and Natasha are the ones you gotta look out for..
I'm in conversations with Steve,
love the instrument, in my honeymoon...
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Today, 09:16 AM
It appears that the strap button is screwed into the neck block, not the heel cap, so unlikely that it's part of the problem.
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Today, 08:50 AM
And I absolutely love to split hairs, so in that spirit, your posts used the word “arpeggio” without specifying whether you meant 7th chords or...
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Today, 08:39 AM
It's been a while since I made this thread. I was really lusting for a Pavan model but never acquired one. I did get an Esteve 7SR for very cheap as...
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Today, 08:38 AM
You absolutely love it.
and thank you for the exhaustive post outlining how triads and 7th chords are different.
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Today, 08:37 AM
And the towers are much easier to carry and set up. No heavy speakers to lift onto poles. Just place the woofer box on the ground and pop the tower...
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Today, 08:31 AM
Hey Big Mike:
Miss your comments, recipes (Saturday lunch especially) and general presence on this site.
Tony D. (pilotony)
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Today, 08:24 AM
I'm the proud owner of a Campellone thin-line which I ordered in March, 2020 and was delivered to me in July, 2021. Mark told me the guitar had a...
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Today, 08:14 AM
I hate to be the one to split hairs, but the word arpeggio never appeared in your post #2. You talked about triads, not arpeggios. Triads and...
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Today, 07:27 AM
I believe they are dimensionally the same.
I feel a bit like Sherman and Peabody, having just used the Wayback Machine to go back in time, but by...
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Today, 07:09 AM
I also felt I wanted to protest this statement about being to use whichever top note as soon as I saw it.
However I feel it can be sometimes...
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Today, 06:20 AM
Wrong side of the pond and of my account balance (or something to that extent), sadly, but I'd sure love to hear some sound samples!
How's the...
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Today, 06:14 AM
I think you might find some answers in Jeffrey J. Noonan's The Guitar in America: Victorian era to jazz age (Jackson: University Press of...
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Today, 05:59 AM
Here's a version I recorded a couple of years ago. Some of the notes are incorrect. I'll try and get a new recording done once I've finished with...
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Today, 05:54 AM
no info on speakers
but
info on the Left and Right feeds
afaik he used to slightly different delays
(not pitch changes)
very small delays...
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Today, 04:25 AM
Power source for busking
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Today, 03:20 AM
The same for me. Yes was a big influence on my budding musicianship, and wide musical interests. Saw them in ‘75 and ‘76. One of the great things...
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Today, 03:11 AM
Yup..... finding more of 'em now!
Waiting with baited breath for a reply from Peeless now ... hahaha ?
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Today, 02:10 AM
You sure about all that? :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3BRBIRJV8
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Today, 01:54 AM
Neither my knowledge of electronics nor my ability to describe the little that I know in English is good enough to make a contribution on the level...
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Today, 01:05 AM
How dare you accuse me of advocating "blues scale lines."
But the hour grows late.
I am weary.
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Today, 12:51 AM
What kind of blues are you talking about, though? For straight ahead blues, sure the key center thing can work fine, blues scale, sliding blues...
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Today, 12:47 AM
I might have mentioned this before - here is a really good Truefire course - 10 Principles of Jazz Accompaniment - Martin Taylor - Guitar Lessons -...
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Today, 12:19 AM
Yes. Thats the prog rock of prog rock bands for me. I saw them on their Close To The Edge Tour. Great. Never got with Genesis. Floyd was never Prog...
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Today, 12:02 AM
Noodle x2
Yep. Learning arpeggios and coming up with lines using just those is a great exercise. To be fair, I did recommend it back yonder in...
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
Learn your arpeggios, that is a big key to sounding like you're playing the changes and not just noodling in a key. Once you can 'see' the arpeggios...
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Yesterday, 11:18 PM
I would like to do a command F on this whole thread for the word “noodling.”
Seems to be used an awful lot with respect to playing key centers and...
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Yesterday, 11:16 PM
Quite a few of the Peerless guitars on the Guitars 'n Jazz website have serial # starting with 300 or 301
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Yesterday, 11:11 PM
I’m quite calm, thank you. Apart from this thread, it’s been a fine Fathers’ Day. I played a brunch gig, and the kids have just gone home after a...
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Yesterday, 11:00 PM
Oh JFC, if you know how to play key centers you're playing changes too. There's no dichotomy.
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Yesterday, 10:52 PM
If you play over the key center too much in jazz, your lines will sound vague and like you're just noodling over a key center. Playing over the key...
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Yesterday, 10:49 PM
Bought myself one of those "newfangled" minimalist slim wallets. $9., 3"x2" (the size of a credit card) x1/2", faux leather. Holds up to 15...
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Yesterday, 10:37 PM
One Polytone Mini Brute II still available and price just reduced.
I’ll give forum members $50 off the list price if you message me via the forum....
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Yesterday, 10:36 PM
Everyone seems to know that Metheny used two Lexicons with a slight pitch bend into two 15" Speakers on opposite sides of the stage, and his Acoustic...
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Yesterday, 10:36 PM
Now that I've got my Zoom recorder Zoomin', I will post my rendition of Here's that Rainy Day.
Lawson, are you saying that you find it difficult...
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Yesterday, 10:18 PM
Joe pass once said "when the chord changes, you should change" and who am I to argue with that? Now, when I improvise, I do "make the changes" but I...
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Yesterday, 09:28 PM
Brilliantly in my experience. You can also custom-fine tune the EQ in each channel using the app.
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
Probably, back to using my ear and making mistakes.
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Yesterday, 08:45 PM
Ahh... multiple Porchfests. Who knew? And for once I thought there might be kindred souls in southern Oregon.
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Yesterday, 08:43 PM
I asked Barry Harris if putting the chord tones on down beats were really the point of the half note rules, he said chord tones also sound good on...
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Yesterday, 08:25 PM
^ Country boy Allan!
Uh I'm not sure the melody is accurate. :P
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Yesterday, 08:12 PM
Plectrum tuning is great for chord work but tough when trying to work out song lines. My Dads old banjo deserves a good setup, maybe I’ll take it...
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Yesterday, 08:11 PM
How well does the one knob EQ work?
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Yesterday, 07:59 PM
He does talk about it for the scale outlines but that’s to get the sound in your ear. The rules themselves communicate the emphasis.
BH — if you...
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Yesterday, 07:28 PM
Applies only to the dominant scales (aka "mixolydian" to Berklee-oids). For major and minor (melodic minor ascending version for ascending and...
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
A passing note in my understanding is a note located pitch-wise between two notes. Which happens with Dave Baker's one chromatic passing tone in his...
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Yesterday, 07:10 PM
He does indeed. The expression I used ("rhythmically correct") comes from one of the ca. 50 videos from master classes at the Royal Conservatory at...
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Yesterday, 07:02 PM
That.
I have some scans of real "original vocal / piano sheet music" somewhere (like they where sold originally, one song on a few pages with a...
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Yesterday, 06:55 PM
I was one note away from figuring it out. Haha.
Thanks
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Yesterday, 06:50 PM
Because the 7 and 8 throw it off.
Playing it for the second octave (or playing it starting anywhere but the root) and you end up switching to...
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Yesterday, 06:49 PM
First take, still trying to figure out my old Zoom recorder - and where did my favorite pick go?! (I play with a plectrum so can't use the broken...
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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
This link has a set of original changes for I Got Rhythm. They look different from the set of changes Dick Hyman cites. I’ll have to look it up when...
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Yesterday, 06:40 PM
What do you mean by "the Barry Harris scale"? If you mean the scales with the added chromatic "extra notes", those were taught descending. Then you...
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Yesterday, 06:40 PM
John A is they. As he said Regga.
Also, like Ipanema covering Latin for most people. The only Raga you need to know would be Within You Without...
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
This looks like a recycled hand-engraved original vocal/piano score. The chord symbols / guitar grips were possibly added later. Most important for...
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Yesterday, 06:32 PM
Sitting on the deck pondering jazz and a thought came to me.
Why do we need the Barry Harris scale at all? If every other note of a scale is a...
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Yesterday, 06:31 PM
Thank you for the offer, but unless you are also footing the bill to fly us from the Boston area, regrettably we will have to decline the offer...
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Yesterday, 06:22 PM
Think I got it. Working off the Oscar Peterson, Getz, Mulligan version.
Sucks how fast you forget. But things are easier to learn the 2nd or 3rd...
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Yesterday, 06:20 PM
We actually skipped Porchfest this year (a music fest on the streets on Grants Pass Oregon where muscians and bands set up on porches and front yards...
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Yesterday, 06:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWiWcBNcVY
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Yesterday, 05:50 PM
I was curious about the original changes. I couldn't find the 1930 sheet music, but I found what seems to be an early version.
I got -- Bb and...
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Yesterday, 05:27 PM
Who "they"?
Raga is not a style but a scale for modal improvisation in traditional Indian classical music. And there are many Ragas.
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Yesterday, 05:09 PM
Hi yes, sold it this evening.
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Yesterday, 05:07 PM
Sorry, you mean it’s already been sold ?
if so then no worries !
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Yesterday, 05:05 PM
Maybe they meant Indian Raga?
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Yesterday, 05:02 PM
It absolutely matters to share my music; I once complained about how little feedback original music gets on this forum in general for example, so...
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Yesterday, 04:58 PM
Really enjoyed it. Thanks
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Yesterday, 04:55 PM
You're incorrect, and you need to calm down. There are other knowledgeable people besides you.
If you have a solid body with a shielded cavity,...
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Yesterday, 04:43 PM
You asked “the bot”?!?!?!
Read the answer you got. It says that “he ground wire to the bridge ensures that the bridge, and consequently the...
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
I haven't been actively trying to sell this but going to give it a shot now. Thought I would bump it here before I post it on Reverb. Let me know...
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
Necks being glued to body :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
Duh……
There are metal bridges, tailpieces, and combos on solid body and semi-hollow guitars. It is these that one grounds to a pot. There are...
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Yesterday, 04:09 PM
Thanks for the explanation and good luck.
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Yesterday, 03:51 PM
Just ranting.
On hollowbodies I think the common practice with humbuckers is to use shielded cable where possible and to ground the strings...
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Yesterday, 03:38 PM
That's because you trained it with itself. Intellectual incest.
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Yesterday, 03:37 PM
Sold
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Yesterday, 03:36 PM
You’d think, but it keeps lying to me.
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Yesterday, 03:11 PM
OP, You have not provided sufficient background information to answer your question. In addition to the incomplete serial number (which would help...
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Yesterday, 03:07 PM
A common enough thought, mainly that arose on eBay to prevent scam lookalike auctions. I'm not sure how much difference it makes- it's not personal...
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Yesterday, 02:34 PM
No reason....other than an understanding that it was best practice not to divulge serials online!
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Yesterday, 02:33 PM
You mean strum i or use to play lines? More or less, yes.
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Yesterday, 02:30 PM
Thanks everyone for sharing their insights on this seminal form. Super helpful.
FWIW, two books I have found useful are "The Rhythm Changes...
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Yesterday, 02:26 PM
Is there a reason why you're not providing us with the full serial number? Also, none of your pictures show the serial number. Perhaps this...
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Yesterday, 02:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXNNXldUfw
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Yesterday, 02:22 PM
There are at least three thumbpick options that can function as a flat pick: the Fred Kelly Bumblebee (which comes in several variations), the Herco...
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Yesterday, 02:13 PM
Hey! I have a Roland Cube-10GX and I've been looking at power supplys for going busking with it. I've got about ~€250 to spend and I'm wondering if...
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Yesterday, 01:51 PM
Can you really use that pick as a thumb and flat pick?
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Yesterday, 01:44 PM
Chopping veggies is an "art" that's fun to practise (until you chop your fingers). Scaling fish or cleaning squid, not so much.
But nothing beats...
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Yesterday, 01:40 PM
Re-reading my quoted post I realise it may come across as a bit overly generalised or pedantic; I did mean it's a recurrent problem for me of course....
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Yesterday, 01:27 PM
Making music is making art. The "art" part is what tastes good, what pleases the artist and the audience, what feels right in the doing and the...
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Yesterday, 01:18 PM
Thanks for the insight! I wasn’t aware that this was a general problem on steel string phosphor bronze guitars.
I found that Black Mountain...
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Yesterday, 01:13 PM
Thanks Deacon! You're the best!
I appreciate very much your keeping us informed.
Big Mike is one awesome guy that gives me hope for humanity with...
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Yesterday, 01:10 PM
@nevershouldhavesoldit, I asked the bot and it said we're both right. Grounding the bridge both extends the chassis ground and grounds the player.
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Yesterday, 12:26 PM
Hi!
This is a nice and well kept tal in wine red with a slight impression/ damage around the headstock. Here is the full reverb listing -
Just...
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Yesterday, 12:21 PM
That's where artificial intelligence comes into play helpfully.
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Yesterday, 12:14 PM
Do you mean Reggae? "Reggae" is as versatile as "Latin" or "Brasil". Most jazz and rock people do not even realize that there are straight eighths...
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Yesterday, 11:52 AM
I don't know how your parents/mom approached this, but mine (and every other parent I've known) would say that AND do her best to make us enjoy those...
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Yesterday, 11:46 AM
If you want to listen to how the pros like Joe, Barney,etc accompany a singer, check out a software tool called Moises. It allows you to split off...
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Yesterday, 11:23 AM
The 1st time I came across the Eb A7 movement was in Dark Town Strutter's Ball back in the early 70s. Thought it was cool then - and still do.
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Yesterday, 10:51 AM
Hey Folks,
I'm selling this blonde eastman with a handmade Kent Armstrong and selector switch Kent Armstrong Floating Single Coil (Handmade) -...
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Yesterday, 10:46 AM
I've owned and used RCF and HK Audio line array towers and they were both terrific.
Now I'm using a Yamaha Stagepas 1000 Mark II and it is the...
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Yesterday, 10:09 AM
Lots of good, jazz specific advice here. I'll share my experience...
After our bassist left, my vocalist buddy and I carried on and played several...
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Yesterday, 09:52 AM
Thanks for all the suggestions, I hadn't considered the "tower" style speakers for our application but I will now. At a porchfest I played at...
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Yesterday, 09:41 AM
Father's Day price reduction to $3,750.00.
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Yesterday, 09:40 AM
It's not possible to ground most archtop bridges. Wood is not a good conductor, and can't be soldered at all.
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Yesterday, 09:33 AM
Five Todt archtops were were sold at the auction. Four of the five sold for $1,300 each. One (far left) sold for $2,600.
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Yesterday, 09:32 AM
I’d like to buy this amp…am in UK (Scotland)…£450 ?
Sorry, but it wasn’t obvious how to DM you on here…?
EssMac
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Yesterday, 09:21 AM
Saw this last night. Directed by Ethan Coen and produced by among others Mick Jagger. Released in 2022.
Very entertaining, and quite illuminating....
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Yesterday, 09:13 AM
The Someday My Prince Will Come chord. Love it.
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Yesterday, 09:10 AM
Wow…
At $1300 that was a STEAL!
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Yesterday, 09:09 AM
I prefer Shtupp metal.
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Yesterday, 09:05 AM
Ragman isn’t really interested in jazz
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Yesterday, 09:04 AM
Zappa produced quite a few people back in the 60’s. I have an album on cassette I recorded from my girlfriend called Zapped. (She gave me the bumper...
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Yesterday, 09:03 AM
Unpossible!!!!
Eo7 on F7 is like my make everyone go “ooo that’s a bit hip innit” power move. It’s that or A7.
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Yesterday, 09:03 AM
I still have this so let me try to give this a new bump!!
i just tend to grab one of my tele's these days.
that said this is a great guitar for...
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Yesterday, 08:44 AM
If only all sound persons were beautiful young women. In my experience they’re shlubby middle-aged guys with beard stubble and borderline hygiene...
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Yesterday, 08:44 AM
Oh interesting, because what you actually said was that you couldn’t possibly help until you knew precisely what version the OP was looking at.
...
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Yesterday, 08:40 AM
Back off, Boogaloo…
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Yesterday, 08:33 AM
I was going to say some time ago that, if you know what you're doing, technically every verse is just Bb maj, with little embellishments obviously.
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Yesterday, 08:23 AM
This is a recurrent problem with steel bass strings even on normal 6 string guitars. Not sure if it's inharmonicity or something else, but they just...
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Yesterday, 08:19 AM
It's already basically beyond should or shouldn't; it's a fait accompli:
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Yesterday, 08:19 AM
As aquin43 says, this is not correct. Strings don’t introduce noise, but we do. Grounding strings grounds us, which reduces the EMF we introduce...
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Yesterday, 07:46 AM
Put what?
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Yesterday, 07:42 AM
As they say, that escalated quickly…. From 1300 + auction costs to 8000 is easy money :cool:
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Yesterday, 07:25 AM
BUT WAIT
how can you replace that Cm7 and F7 with an Eb and Eo??
Its like the only point of these chords is to get you back to Bb!!
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Yesterday, 07:19 AM
I transcribed a bunch of his solos on Bird recordings.
Probably because I was too lazy to transcribe Bird’s.
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