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Today, 02:41 AM
Coincidentally, I believe that Mr. Campellone still has a few sets of EP rims and backs in stock, and would be happy to make a 15" Florentine cutaway...
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Today, 01:34 AM
I’ve tried several 8” drivers in a small ported cabinet and my favorite was the Eminence Beta-8A.
https://eminence.com/products/beta_8a
I haven’t...
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Today, 12:41 AM
Caramba :-)
Which one the least?
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Today, 12:18 AM
Myself When I Am Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk71dhCz7wM
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Today, 12:17 AM
You probably do if you use the melodic minor scale, since 5 out of its 7 notes are a diminished scale.
For example, C Melodic Minor has 5 notes...
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Today, 12:00 AM
ah well. can't have that.
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Yesterday, 11:51 PM
That approach seems unnatural to me, i.e., referencing a scale that does not include the chord tones (root of the chord in this case) of the chord...
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Yesterday, 11:50 PM
57's seem to be the favorite. It does depend on the particular guitar though. They weren't great in the neck position of my Epi Lucille, but a...
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Yesterday, 11:49 PM
Thanks Jimmy, I have a padded one that came w an old Princeton Reverb w their logo on the front in big letters. Checking their website I believe they...
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Yesterday, 11:45 PM
Le Cover, check them out for variations. Padded or not, I like them and have had 5 or 6 covers from them.
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Yesterday, 11:39 PM
Basically it is playing the phrase over and over from the recording. Then I try to play the phrase on my guitar. I get the phrasing and rhythmic...
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Yesterday, 11:38 PM
I liked 4 the best.
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Yesterday, 11:21 PM
Let me be the fourth to mention 57's in a semi hollow. I've had them in two semis now. My favorite. I had the Seths and they just didn't match as...
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Yesterday, 11:20 PM
No point, I don't use them.
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Yesterday, 11:08 PM
This is not reverb, if you don’t give some better deal I say you should not post. No price listed in the ad here. I don’t care about the original i...
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Yesterday, 11:04 PM
Just have to have some vocabulary with them. That would help. Put in the time.
I don’t use them all that much, unless I have a longer stretch on a...
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
It's the G I got wrong, should be F#:
A B C D Eb F F# G#/Ab
That's an A dim scale. I believe so, anyway. I can see why folks don't care for dim...
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Yesterday, 10:46 PM
Not my flavor but alright. Thats because that Abo7 is in there by way of the Bo7.
It’s almost like you would benefit from listening to other...
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Yesterday, 10:44 PM
My simple approach if you'll bear with me.
I've picked S'wonderful as an example in Eb major.
First and 2nd 8 start:
Eb % Edim7 % ...
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Yesterday, 10:41 PM
All I know is it sounded okay on the chord :-)
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Yesterday, 10:37 PM
It's a lie, they actually recorded it with the Manchester Mellotron Festival Orchestra.
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Yesterday, 10:33 PM
Goodness gracious.
No indeed.
You have two consecutive whole steps between Eb-F and F-G. So it’s not a symmetrical diminished scale.
For...
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Yesterday, 10:29 PM
You're the 2nd one on this thread to mention the Classic 57's for a semi-hollow. This sounds like the ticket.
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Yesterday, 10:25 PM
Right, never mind the writing it down. There's a clip there. No.4 over Abo is B C D Eb F G Ab. I played that.
What's that? As far as I know it's...
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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
The authors are anonymous, and the publisher (Hal Leonard) doesn't guarantee accuracy - which is actually rather weird.
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Yesterday, 10:17 PM
Man, I think you're arguing about a discussion you don't have a handle on.
Not correct. A harmonic minor over G#o7 is not an 8-note half-whole...
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Yesterday, 10:14 PM
Anyone here can suss that out. Duh. The point that others are making here, a lot more frequently now, is that this JGF thread was not conceived as a...
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Yesterday, 10:09 PM
Last January I bought a 2021 335 dot. Really love the guitar. It replaced an Ibanez JSM10. It had the calibrated T top pickups, which I liked for a...
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Yesterday, 10:08 PM
Incidentally, I tested out what I was saying. I didn't make mistakes playing it, only writing it down. Writers need editors!
The first bars of...
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Yesterday, 10:03 PM
I wrote a lengthy post on this thread last week. But it got lost after I tried to post it. Heartbroken. Yeah and I haven’t gone through the thread,...
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Yesterday, 09:26 PM
Peter -
Quite right, it's easy to make mistakes with this stuff. I've corrected it.
A harmonic over Abo and Ab A B C D Eb F F# (8-note H-W...
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Yesterday, 09:12 PM
My card is more direct....."can't play".
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Yesterday, 09:09 PM
Damn, how time is running. I once borrowed this (fusion? prog-rock?) album from the public library ca. 35 years ago (on cassette!) and listened to it...
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Yesterday, 09:07 PM
Released a few years ago, but hey
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Yesterday, 08:54 PM
I've had one of these for 15 years and I really like it. I know Lawson likes his too. Mine was built in 1998 by Peerless. I hope yours works out...
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Yesterday, 08:51 PM
In the historic archives, this perhaps is excusable, given that the ES-175 was never anything other than a mass-produced, midpriced, workhorse. This...
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
E=digger;1361641] And often I've got a note wrong, or I'm playing it in a different position / shape to the published version.
I don't think...
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Yesterday, 08:45 PM
Reverb price is $10,500.
And, since this price is not on the forum, I have no problem commenting on how dumb I think it is. Seems outrageously...
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Yesterday, 08:44 PM
Just fishing, but looking for an early L5, preferably w/issues or a refin. Anyone ready to part with a fixer upper, or anything really?
Thx.
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Yesterday, 08:31 PM
I feel blessed my friend Paul gave me the books and I got a complimentary copy of the some of the early additions due to some input I had with the...
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Yesterday, 08:29 PM
You can't sell anything to anyone on this forum no price. Be a real person and put the price in the add be bold. I went to the store today and bought...
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Yesterday, 08:05 PM
Will be binging Trio HLK and listening closely to the Miles Okazaki album when time allows..... then Joe Lovano. Thanks!
I often listen to Rudresh...
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Yesterday, 07:56 PM
Oh goodness. You should probably think through this stuff a bit more when you plan on commenting like an authority. For reference:
C#o7
D...
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Yesterday, 07:55 PM
It is a great book. I have a first edition that I bought many years ago.
There are two other great books about D'Angelico guitars:
The...
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Yesterday, 07:40 PM
Yes, I know, but the function's obvious too. The dominant wants to resolve, at least eventually (because they can go round the cycle), to its tonic...
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Yesterday, 07:25 PM
I have quite a few Andy Summers albums. There is at least one that is straight ahead jazz. I think it might be the one with John Etheridge. I have...
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM
Sullivan Fortner was wearing a hat like this (w/o the Smiley) that he took off in the second set with Peter Bernstein on Tuesday. Joe Farnsworth was...
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Yesterday, 07:10 PM
Could use an amp cover for a '66 Twin Reverb. My '67 Twin has what I believe is a non padded Tuki I've had so long I can't remember where I got it,...
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Yesterday, 07:06 PM
This is pre-Police Sting and Andy Summers. And not jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3yWgtlgUw
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Yesterday, 06:58 PM
Hello,
I hope everyone is going well!
It's been a while that I couldn't record new videos, I'm working in new things for concerts in classical...
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Yesterday, 06:57 PM
'Round Midnight w/ Sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZAT-nsO3A
Seems to be a whole dedicated Monk record. Monk would have hated him for...
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Yesterday, 06:51 PM
..and the price on the forum is?????
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Yesterday, 06:45 PM
I know. Very painful. I was/am a big Yes fan. I saw them on their Close To The Edge Tour. I was disappointed in that they played every EXACTLY...
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Yesterday, 06:43 PM
Rather than repost:
Remembering Emily Remler today
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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
You made me look for it...painful to watch and I love early Yes records...
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Yesterday, 06:39 PM
My guess is that maybe other demos were played with guitar volume and tone pots wide open. I almost always back off on both guitar controls to one...
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Yesterday, 06:36 PM
You've all seen this... the universal (a "no" times three "any"s) definition of transcribe.
"...no part may be reproduced or transmitted by any...
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Yesterday, 06:34 PM
No, the shipping was no charge to me. It shipped free of charge. It’s rather heavy and measures 16”x11” so I imagine the dimensions increased the...
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Yesterday, 06:21 PM
Hi,
I am selling this absolutely pristine 1993 James W. Hutchins-Signed Wes Mongtomery Signature Model #93023701. Recently set-up by an excellent...
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Yesterday, 06:17 PM
Just don't listen to Steve Howe playing jazz. I think there a recording somewhere of him playing Four on Six.
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Yesterday, 06:13 PM
The gig last week after our rehearsal. No shorts here but still bare feet that you can't see.
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Yesterday, 06:11 PM
This is my normal appearance. Concert at a theater called Sophia. I prefer casual. The only times I wear a suit is if I play a wedding - NEVER any...
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Yesterday, 06:07 PM
I read (somewhere) that Andy Summers can play traditional/straight jazz very well. Anyone know anything about that? I know he was a studio guitarist...
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Yesterday, 06:05 PM
Would be interested to hear what this is.
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Yesterday, 05:57 PM
good book, but that shipping cost is a gouge, doesn't free mean free?
media mail should be no more than $7 unless they tacked on some unnecessary...
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Yesterday, 05:40 PM
Thats very interesting. You got a real good tone out of it, but if you look at the settings, most would probably guess it would be a little on the...
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Yesterday, 05:29 PM
Cough cough... the real book... cough.
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
That’s also a beauty. I like tricones as well. There may be one in my future, someday.
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
So not exactly gear. But if you enjoy arch tops, the finest craftsmanship, and builders, it’s so relevant here on the gear page.
D’Angelico means...
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Yesterday, 05:23 PM
Yeah. Well for me I want to hear and pull out better what’s in my head. So learning something by ear a phrase at a time does this for me. It gives me...
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Yesterday, 05:04 PM
Different attires for different circumstances:
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Yesterday, 05:01 PM
Fair.
I think I'm not terribly imaginative with rhythm and I find writing them to be super useful because I actually have to think about and...
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Yesterday, 05:00 PM
My first was “Spike Driver’s Blues”. It’s one chord, so it was easy to focus on the right hand.
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Yesterday, 04:57 PM
That's beautiful! I had a brass body style O for many years, but it was so heavy that it rarely went out to play. I finally bought a modern steel...
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
Most of what I've transcribed has tended to be either eighth note or sixteenth note based, medium to up-tempo, so generally not too difficult from a...
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Yesterday, 04:41 PM
I stumbled upon this one while browsing on reverb a couple weeks ago. The seller was a non-player who inherited it from a relative. He had it...
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Yesterday, 04:30 PM
I've seen more than a few inaccurate transcriptions online, but not often in books, nobody wants to see their errors in print.
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
Actually this was the rehearsal at the venue before the gig. On the gig I had long slacks, button cotton shirt but no shoes! I never wear shoes.
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Yesterday, 04:19 PM
Hopefully it'll turn out to be a great guitar. If not, lesson learned for the cost of shipping.
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Yesterday, 04:18 PM
BTW I feel I've learned a lot about rhythm, or at least, notating rhythms and understanding them trying to write things down. Holdsworth is fun for...
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Yesterday, 04:18 PM
Jazz musicians in inconsistent use of terminology shocker!
FWIW I personally try to use terms I find clear. So if I write it down I might say...
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Yesterday, 04:14 PM
I believe that's true. I call it ear transcribing. But most people memorize solos and licks and stuff. I've never done that. I am almost anal...
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Yesterday, 04:08 PM
You can't score beat width without multiplying the number of marks on the staff as tied and dotted sequences of shorter notes. If you score it...
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Yesterday, 04:05 PM
Want to buy this guitar.
know anyone selling? Gibson L5CT, sunburst
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Yesterday, 04:04 PM
Thanks but I can’t justify this for a 14th guitar . Not that your price is wrong, but shipping cost plus import taxes will add a big amount in the...
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Yesterday, 04:01 PM
My Tokai Super Edition has built in distortion.
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Yesterday, 04:00 PM
I agree, so I called again. The shop manager was very friendly and seemed knowledgeable (at least moreso than I) and let me know that yes, the bridge...
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Yesterday, 03:56 PM
My first pro guitar, a '63 Jazzmaster I bought in 1967, was fun after a guy installed his "Moan-Tone" under the pickguard. Volume was drive, mini...
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Yesterday, 03:26 PM
I was talking about function, sorry. not sure when i'll learn no one wants to hear my 2 cents from the peanut gallery
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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
still available :)
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Yesterday, 03:22 PM
I went to the venue and heard another band there. Quartet. Good band. Guitar, vibes, drums, bass. No vocals. Soul jazz. Song For My Father,...
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Yesterday, 03:12 PM
Just to reiterate, the distance from the top to the strings is not a meaningful measurement. It's not telling you anything about how a guitar plays....
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Yesterday, 02:54 PM
Thanks for the interest. I can ship it although it may be pricey .
Cheers
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Yesterday, 02:49 PM
I don't write out transcriptions either. Everything is easier to learn the second time, or 3rd.... or the 100th if it's the dang bridge to Caravan. ...
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Yesterday, 02:46 PM
Were you on the right side of the pond, this lovely guitar would already be mine !
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Yesterday, 02:40 PM
Ha ha !
Sorry, no tube, not good !
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Yesterday, 02:24 PM
It looks to me as if the neck angle may be the primary cause of the bridge height, along with the installed height. It certainly shouldn't need a...
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Yesterday, 02:07 PM
Dear jazzers,
You're too kind with your comments. Thanks for that. I am very glad if my playing is moving you. I feel honored, but I also know...
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
this is one of my total favourites - both this rhythm head and the whole glorious album
I hope it's not just me.... (it's a recognised classic -...
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Yesterday, 01:58 PM
Joe Pass had a huge impact on my approach to learning to improvise when - somewhere in his well known video - he recommends that you try to play...
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Yesterday, 01:56 PM
The ES-335 in general has a more pronounced midrange quality to it. I’m not sure how much is the actual design vs. the variation in woods used...
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Yesterday, 01:53 PM
I did do a video, inevitably
https://youtu.be/bAAWlzeKGRU?si=M4x2rDdxWC29Deo0
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Yesterday, 01:51 PM
i don't know. I try to use as few BIAB features as possible. It's a pretty horrible program with a 1980s style interface. I've never used their...
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Yesterday, 01:46 PM
Barry Harris used to teach that BTW. Nice one Charlie.
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Yesterday, 01:45 PM
For what it’s worth, I think most folks of my generation would describe this as transcribing. Means literally to turn into script, but the most folks...
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Yesterday, 01:43 PM
My drummer said she used to wash his and other students sweaters when they were @ Berkley for extra $
He said she couldn't play a lick then but her...
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
I also think that there MAY be some in the boat I'm in, which is that I'd buy the TF if some of the other guitars I had listed would sell.
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Yesterday, 01:37 PM
This is very well thought out and presented. Thanks.
There is a way to think about soloing using the same ideas. Maybe it's obvious.
You...
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Yesterday, 01:34 PM
But they're two different chords. They have their own separate sections in any musical dictionary.
Dominant: The fifth tone of the scale....
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Yesterday, 01:30 PM
I almost never transcribe. It always seemed more an exercise in writing than in assisting with playing. Whenever I “learn” a solo I just use my ears...
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Yesterday, 01:17 PM
Yeah, because that’s due to the strength of the Pound, don’t you think?
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Yesterday, 01:17 PM
I'm sure you have heard someone play a popular solo where it is obvious what they did is use TAB to learn the thing note for note, but you can hear...
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Yesterday, 01:09 PM
Oh yeah, I mean ... sure.
Those four are going to be really tough rhythmically. Cannonball because his time-feel is so malleable (some things...
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Yesterday, 01:04 PM
Keep in mind the shop did say the instrument's action was lowered so what was in the picture is higher than what it is now. They said the action was...
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Yesterday, 01:00 PM
Easier rhythmically: Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett (both right hands only), Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard.
Harder rhythmically: Cannonball Adderly,...
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Yesterday, 12:57 PM
The bridge looks like it's maybe an 1/8" too close to the bridge. Pushing it further back a little probably would bring the saddle down a bit. But...
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