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because noodling around in the general scale is not the same as expressing changes. You should be able to spell out the changes in your lines without...

I know:)

Studying on your own is a given. Without that you'll make zero progress. If you can play live, you should. If you can take lessons, you should.

Thank you very much. Best Kris

Any learning is good. Whether with a good teacher or with good educational materials. It all depends on you and your commitment.Nowadays, there are...

Very interesting! I absolutely love the idea of creating a compendium of short licks and phrases that can be shared and utilized by fellow jazz...

I would recommend giving roundwound strings a try and see how they sound and feel on your 2007 LeGrand. It's an opportunity to explore different...

Hank's playing has undoubtedly left an indelible mark on jazz guitar and continues to inspire musicians to this day. Thank you for sharing your...

If you prefer a smoother application with fewer brush marks, you might opt for a brush with softer natural bristles, such as squirrel or ox hair.

Like syrup of ipecac for my ears and eyes. I only listen to electronic music after the gig while I"m waiting for the check.....

I'd reframe that and say that it's a good idea to know the chord tones of the chords you're playing over. It's also a good idea to know the...

It´s an awesome guitar! The difficulty has been finding a case for it. Anybody have any recommendations? We are talking 2 hundred plus to order the...

I’d love to find someone in my area who has a Polytone that I could borrow for a couple days, to see how close I can come to it with the Katana. I...

Studying with a good to reasonable teacher is always better than dicking around on your own. If you have the time and money you should do it. It...

I have a very expensive set of badger hair brushes that I used for brushing lacquer. This was a long time ago so there are likely some equivalent...

If you are buying, talk them down as much as you can. If selling, it looks more like a finish issue near the glue line; if it is stable, probably no...

The crack along the glue line might suggest a neck angle shift. One thing I'd check is the saddle height assuming the action is reasonable. I don't...

New Ilya video is out. KILLER STUFF!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4buU7xRW31Y&t=177s

I went thru a big pick search before going all in on fingerstyle…still use a pick occasionally tho. The golden gates were my second favorite out of...

Jimmy Bruno endlessly admires Hank Garland.

Update on the Golden Gate MP 12 investigation. Heard from Matt at Strings By Mail. (I ordered four picks from them to see how they were. In case...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tQid7FcY0

This is a great overdrive pedal if anyone is looking for one. GLWTS! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah a lot of it is stylistic. It’s one of those things where people say “I’m doing it right, but it doesn’t sound like jazz.” Stylistically jazz...

ahhhh...Zappa lives..!!

I’m glad you pointed out the sports angle in the US. In many regions American football is considered more important than the basics. I think the only...

I dig electronic music

Yes, always amplified, thank you.

I love a IV to iv to I and using the 7th (not the b7) over the m7 chord. F# on the Gm7 chord in this instance. And then, resolving from the b3 of the...

You could always just dig in with Steve Khan's Wes Montgomery trascriptions book.

If you are always playing amplified, you might prefer flats to rounds, but if you are playing acoustically, try a bunch of different roundwound...

Yours is intense. With intense vibe. All vibe.... damn. so viby music.

I think that's pretty generic electronic music, really. It is sweet. Makes you think bout nothing. Best type.

Super hip. It does feel kind of like Souped-Up-Charlie-Christian … but then he kind of sounds about forty years ahead of himself sometimes too. ...

Here an answer, do you feel like having a headache ? It's a little more interesting at 3.00 ! That was years ago, I understand why I don't play it...

I think that's pretty generic electronic music, really. If you want gunpowder, here's a cannon. And on the topic of electronic music,...

Great guitars, i have a 2022 Lorraine. its my main guitar for jazz, i want another someday but a different model of Moffa, maybe Larrisa or a single...

Because jazz is about playing the changes whether you're playing chords or melody. Part of soloing in jazz does utilize key centers whether major,...

Lick compendium #1

I'm sure a teacher would be great if I ever found a good one after decades of spending time in a small room with various instructors who waste my...

Hey Christian. I watched the video and I’m wondering why one should learn arpeggios for Dm G7 CM7 when the C major scale covers it all. I know...

I would put Thomastik Benson Roundwounds on that guitar.Every guitar is different even one's of the same make.The only way to know is to try...

Watching this vid sure takes me back to my first guitar, a $100. Greco, and those four guys from Liverpool on the Ed Sullivan Show. No...

PRICE DROP - $85 plus shipping takes it. This is one of the best and most versatile preamp & multiFX pedals out there. It's solid as a tank, quiet,...

Here's one I use as part of a Latin tune I composed good for any bVI-V-im7 where the style is "Latin" or old style "Fusion" For tunes with this...

this should be posted under Improvisation From just the few examples given there are many great ideas to cross harmonic lines using basic...

Lol, im fine with watching someone else for 6 minutes...just not myself.

He always sings better when he's not trying to be heard over a rock band. Got time for a little game of Name That Archtop?

Mine was a brisk six minutes. What more do you want?

I have a DV Mark Jazz head, which I believe is pretty much the same amp in the Little Jazz. Most of the time I keep it plugged into the 2 x 8 cabinet...

I'm with sgosnell in my enjoyment of the LJ. I've been using it for almost everything, including playing with two different 19 piece big bands. All...

Nick Costley-White performs Rodgers and Hart's 'Manhattan' from his forthcoming standards EP.

I'm going to try and do a bunch, very quick vids though. You know me and brevity:)

The best busking guitarist I've seen in Bath was Mike Britton. World class.

I forgot it was Soikkeli in that Choro video. My mate/the bass player in my quartet did a gig with him the other week, said the tempos were entirely...

Nice idea. Don’t know if I’ll have time, but look forward to seeing what people post

Thanks everyone. I do tend to put my amps on stands because that helps mitigate a lot of the boominess issues I run into. Still not sure if I’m going...

I use a Raezor's Edge Twin 8 made by Rich from 1999 I think or close to that year. I use it with a AI Clarus R2 and it delivers great sound...

Yes, find a like minded Guitar Jazzer, then form a duo, learn some songs. Then get out and play anywhere that will have you.

This is a very good idea, I hope many members post their fav licks, so that I can steal them and pretend that they are my own. Only joking. ...

Nice post - thanks for sharing! Just to add to this. I actually got to play one of these a couple of weeks ago (although with a humbucker, not a...

My thing with transcriptions is, once I learn them and can play them with the CD, I try to stay with them for at least a month. Play the licks, play...

I have a Victoria 518, it's the Fender Champ version. Great amp, complex voice, slightly bigger cabinet than the fender ones, so it sounds a bit...

Go for a Stealth 10 with the blackface head. I also found the Twin 8 Boomy. I have used my Stealth 10 with my Quilter head and it sounds amazing....

I have a club deluxe and it's a great amp. It's got plenty of volume, I've gigged with it quite a bit in a pop rock band and I've never had to turn...

I would love to play tight chord voicings like you could in M3. And learn everything in 3 fingerings instead 9. Yet... once it is "done" with guitar...

I was trying. But I’m bad at it. :highly_amused:

Sorry, thought you were being facetious. I certainly was. :)

Quite. I guess TG is just being a bit click-baity with these videos ... (2) Olli Soikkeli's Amazing Alternate Picking - feat. Cesar Garabini -...

I meant from the start. The hard start, I got my instrument today. Mostly being smart.

I would think a screen grab and just upload as an image would work. I might go really old school and write it out and take a photo:) If I post...

Very fun idea, could have more potential than a lot of the study group threads. is there a way to upload notation?

And we are off and running. Cool! And anybody else who wants to join, do it however you want-- explain a bunch or a little. The only point is lick...

Well there ‘tis

Cool! The idea dawned on me as I was trying to think of some of my favorite CC licks...and then I couldn't remember if they were actual CC licks, or...

Oh man I love this. I just recorded a …… Charlie Christian one …… maybe I’ll post here instead. This is a great idea.

I had an RE Twin 8 and would suggest that the Fender AB 763 might exaggerate the already boomy quality of the twin 8. Just one person’s...

I have looked at that amp a number of times and would love to try one out. On paper it sounds like the perfect jazz amp for small gigs. It's...

believe it or not this is not the first time I’ve heard jazz and CS compared. One jazz edu paper I read cited another for a concept ‘stolen...

Yep, that's a point that TG also makes. The notion that there is one all powerful technique to "pick anything" is a fool's errand.

I have a Rich Razer built Twin 8 From the way back and used it for a good number of years with an Acoustic Image Clarus head until I got a 2009 era...

Agreed. But for giggles, listen to Lester Young solos at 1.5x speed.

Music education in the US, at least, is affected by how education in general is funded and thus administered, and those, in turn, are affected by...

Yes, if the kid doesn’t grab on there’s no need to force it. But if they do…

I think the language became a bit more dense and decorative. Parker moved the ball down the field for sure.

Something that's been staring me in the face, but I couldn't see until this morning: Cº7 = D#º7 = F#º7 = Aº7 These four chords are,...

Just heard about a kid who was my son's buddy when they were younger, whose parents pushed to play tennis so he would become a pro. Now 17, he quit...

There are two basic considerations when determining the proper neck set height/angle - you need the correct angle to achieve (1) a bridge height...

The looper : practice, assimilate tunes, listening to what I play, how to comp, voicings. It helped me a lot. It really changed my life and I'm not...

Yeah, funny thing about that - Gibson has gone back and forth with that policy over the years - I recall a time when they charged extra for sunburst...

How did the looper change your guitar playing? Also in the context of freeing yourself from positions and formulas? (Of course the looper is a...

C MAJOR continued Line 7 -Bar 1: Beats 1 & 2 - Fmaj7 arpeggio (pivot) Beats 3 & 4 - Scale

Standard responses would be; A1: From swing, and blues. A2: From bop, and blues.

Nu-uh. Mickey Baker.

Yes, you get it that's it ! People who play with positions and formulas get lost very quickly. Two things changed my guitar playing, the melodica...

I didn't realize this was the soundtrack from the streaming movie from 2021. The son of a friend of mine was involved in the production. Not sure...

That looks nice, and I have owned a Victoria Tweed Twin, which was great. There are many amp companies building Deluxe Reverb variants, including...

All language education (and music is indeed language) benefits enormously from an early start. The earlier the better. It’s so much easier for a...

One more opinion (you know what they say about opinions ...): I do not think it's possible to learn to play jazz without interacting in person with...

More snappy and more responsive sounds like a solid body or semi-solid body guitar would be what you want.

I do believe the tongue gap is to prevent fretboard tail rise. There is a substantial neck joint underneath.

I would guess that technique and setup are the primary influences. Steel string electrics require a different technique than classicals with nylon...

ha yes I was just making that up, as you say there’s a bit of the miller’s tale there. But I think Chaucer should have written a busker’s tale!

Greg Ruggiero has a demo of a Grote hollowbody, maybe more, on YouTube. He's a New York jazz guitarist, relatively well known, who doesn't just post...

For bedroom playing, the internal speaker of the Little Jazz is more than loud enough, and sounds very good. That's where I mostly play mine. I...

Thanks Mark, as always. Then, how did you arrive at that neck joint height dimension - meaning the height of the f/b above the guitar body ? We'd...

In that range, you could get a DV Mark Jazz, which would be exactly what you want sound-wise, take up no more space than an extension cabinet, and...

Thanks Joe, it's that old issue of tone of voice you don't get on the Internet, and Hammer was right, it's more orange/red than you might normally...

I have played a few Victoria amps. Wow. However, the price and quality match each other. They have a reputation of making the best boutique fender...

Cool. I had checked in on that thread and it seemed like there was a lot of people saying-- "oh, this stuff is already available on the internet" and...

When I go searching for new speakers, I have to narrow it down to what type of sound do I want. I have to also consider what I want the sound to do....

Bob, You always purchase some beautiful and interesting instruments and I'm sure this will not be the exception but I'm really impressed with Mr....

I bet you're talking about OO design patterns, lol. There is a good analogy between OO design patterns in programming and chord-scales in jazz. CS...

Literally just revived that Charlie Christian thread two hours ago. Charlie Christian transcription group

The Holy Grail jazz box.

I'd really have to know where you were at currently, but I really do believe that if you spend some time with Charlie and get an understanding of how...

A sunburst finish is a ton more work then natural. I often wondered why Gibson charges way more for blonde. It should be the opposite IMO. More...

I'd go as far as to say if I needed a picture of a "jazz guitar" to put into an encyclopedia, I might pick this one.

Thanks all, some good advice Have just been thinking about goal setting and I am not very good at it. Partly due to being all over the place with...

Drooling over that last shot in the case. GLWTS

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There's that push and pull of "I'm gonna have you take piano lessons, even though you might not like it, because it'll be good for you" and "I don't...

I think the question then becomes...how different is bebop, really?

When it comes to a lot of things, but especially music, I think that the European way of starting kids young works best - by far. American parents...

Where did the folks who created bop start? Where did the folks who created post-bop start?

Ah, I see. So many players playing Bebop after him makes me overlook that a bit. Joe Pass - and his contributions to jazz guitar instruction -...

I don’t know man. You didn’t see what that dining hall pepperoni pizza looked like by the time I got it back to the practice rooms in those wet...

Sure, but I don't mean quoting or referencing...I mean the whole approach. Chord tones, enclosures, chromatics, shape based playing...people think...

I don't think it's the best system tbh, but it is the same everywhere I expect. I suppose on the other hand we can't expect students these days...

Yeah, a lot of people still reference Charlie Christian in their solos, because it swings, it's energetic, and just plain old infectious fun. Back...

Hey Maaj12... There is no magic, get a teacher that can teach you technique as mentioned by Mr. B. and sight reading. Playing and...

I would triple down on that. "Jazz" is pretty big by now, and there are periods and styles. Trad, Swing, Bebop, Post-Bop, Fusion, Modern (whatever...

Yep! And obviously, as with Jim, you don't have to stop there. But man, there is so much value in starting there. I get it though, people want...