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Thanks very much Marc!

Oh I should probably have a crack at this. Four part chorale harmony is typically the bane of music students life. How much does it have to do...

I never knew Martial Solal was on that session, also!

What a find! I don't think there are any other films of Smith playing in those years. Mottola used to play regularly in a band on the radio on a...

She sounds good. Back in the 30s, the archtops were kings because the only gigs they'd have were Depression rent parties in apartments. No one could...

The lockdowns sales boom is definitively over ..

Seems like you know your forks =)

Just get a competent teacher online or in person. Ime local teachers can suck at jazz. Just find someone who is actually working semi pro or pro at...

PLAYING THROUGH AN AMP VS PLAYING THROUGH MODELING SOFTWARE ON A COMPUTER is a big difference with consequences. These days many people got...

I didn't see that but the course is probably still decent. I saw one for rock that said you'd be a confident player after two weeks. I think that's...

Sux, but you don't really want to make a career out of a factory job.

On the other thread I said I like the standards thread so I had to pony up and get a take together. I think something's up with my computer, it's...

Best answer, of course, but in his case it has to be online, unfortunately... The important thing when considering instruction, no matter what age or...

It's all about the bottom line and making the quarterly profits look good, so the suits get their bonuses. Fuck the line employees, they should have...

Tal in his prime (or at least what a lot of people would think of as his prime; I actually like a lot of his later life stuff. It's maybe less...

I taught myself the fretboard by writing the notes on sheets of music paper. Finding the frets where all the notes are naturals gave me anchor...

Nice and swingin' as usual Graham ! And yeah, ballads ala Dexter - a good way to use this idea, cheers.

...or just halve the tempo and play it double timed ! :cool: If that makes sense...

Thanks for the nice coments.

Hey Joe... yes look at the tune as a whole... the form is A A B A right, so that makes it simple, the melody basically spells out the changes......

A long time ago, I earned my money in a Country band.:smile-new:

The AI Corus was so good, the bass player thought I was playing acoustic guitar all this time!. I much prefer playing a show like this than using...

Yea... I'm stealing the basic arrangement for performance... Never really put much into tune Quiet Nights... was almost boring etc... But that...

Yea, as started by Caminum.... Diatonic chords with a Relationship to a Scale. Simply ....chords constructed from each degree of a Scale, (any...

Playing is based on music, reading is optional. Theory is based on notation, reading required. All I said, and notes and pitch aren't the same.

Used the UK Superblock direct and had a monitor mix with excellent results on a couple of different gigs! Highly Recommended!

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In light of that quote he made about Tal, maybe it was better off they didn't meet!:cool:

Yup. I'm sure that the 300 that got laid off with no notice and very little severance pay would agree with you. Doug

Yeah, "from beginner to advanced beginner" is more like it IF you practice your a-- off... even then, it still seems like an unrealistic promise.

I have a couple from the mid 60s right here, zero checking. Not likely but not impossible.

Man, @grahambop -- freakin' fantastic! I was listening to this in the background while doing some work, and then I paused, "Hmm, what album am I...

It's like a plague is coming...

2nd what the others have said. Get a teacher. You'll progress much faster than teaching yourself. A teacher can show you exactly what you need to...

There are lots of providers who will make a simple, plastic tortoise shell pickguard for me but it has taken a lot more time and effort to find...

Sucks.

Learn songs. Every thing you need tp know is in the songs. Ear training is a natural outgrowth of repertoire building. H/t vintagelove, Mr Beaumont.

If you want to dissuade novices, that's the way to do it. The experience of playing is nothing like that, fortunately.

Hey @Jumpn, Glad you're still itchin' to learn!! If you haven't already, check out some of Bob Conti's DVDs/books on chord melody stuff, since...

Thanks all. “Family of Four” makes sense.

I concur that the oldest 125's would likely be mahogany laminate and mahogany neck. The speed knobs were common. The earliest having no numbers and...

Unless they've been kept at a more or less constant temperature throughout, which is extremely unlikely, given that these guitars have typically been...

Gary's has some exceptional archtops, and exceptionally steep prices. I love window shopping there. Some day, if I find myself in Loveland, Ohio, I'm...

Thanks, David. Now-time to go hunting! :smile-new: Doug

This, from the page linked earlier in this thread, seems a rather tall order: In this guided learning pathway, Cecil Alexander and Sam Blakelock...

Beautiful L7 - but way overpriced. I bought a 64 last year - no electronics - all original including case. Pretty close to mint. Didn't pay...

Fred Archtop wins the prize! Barney along with Tal definitely used 15/20 as the top strings. I still have in my L5 case a sticky note with...

Yes, released in 2021 as 'The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings'. That video in the first post though is a cut up between the April 1965 Hamburg...

" All nitro-finished hollowbody guitars this old will have extensive finish checking, regardless of what the top is made of. " The majority yes,...

How's about a little bluesy Piedmont jazz.........or maybe some jazzy Piedmont blues? This is my 7 string flattop and my National Tricone, both...

Thanks for that 2b-any idea if there is a recording of that for sale? (CD, etc.) Thanks Doug

Here are pictures of the crack and after the luthier did the repair. The small crack lied between bridge up to the f hole below the pickguard...

All ES-125's are laminated maple/mahogany/maple except for a small batch in the 1940s, which were mahogany/mahogany/mahogany (similar to the J-45...

I’m of course open for offers from anyone interested! Bring ‘em! :cool:

Barney seemed to favor higher action or at least bigger strings for sure. He was a master at setting the chord-melody as a complete orchestral...

For various and sundry reasons, I've moved out of my mancave and into the living room for my computer stuff ... gaming, entertainment, internet...

Well, that neuron finally fired. "Diatonic chords in C Major" for the ones the OP listed originally.

Nice video for a mythic guitar. A friend if mine followed a guitar clinic with Barney in the ‘90s and he had the opportunity to try his ES-350. He...

Step one's knowing that notes and pitches are not the same. Enharmonics are not the same note, they are different notes; those different notes are...

Hey everyone, We're about to start another week with new exercises! This week we will practice: One, Two, Three, Four duet (Pages 10 & 11)...

I agree. I’m a big fan and I do enjoy his crunchy guitar trio records, but I think Worlds Fair is maybe the most inspiring guitar record of all time...

I read that he used heavy gauge round wounds with at least a .14 on top

I don't know if this terminology is universal, but around here, people mean different things by "double time", and "double time feel". Double...

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To suggest learning 224 notes though? Most people would be taught 12 and the enharmonics would be treated as different names for the same note. ...

Sheryl Bailey calls it the family of four in the case of dominants. So for G7 you get: Bmin7b5, Dmin7 and FMaj7. These are combined with the G bebop...

"I've been playing guitar 60+ years, professionally, semi-professionally... I've played by ear 99% of the time." Looks like an excellent position...

It looks great to me but I have so many courses on truefire. Best of luck though, I hope it works well for you.

Look at the post and thread count on each subforum on this site. This gear category dwarfs the activity of all the others which are the topics tat...

Here’s my favorite. It’s generally easy to read his fingers on most of his tunes. My suggestion, first plat tunes at a slower tempo first, in...

Good points. The LJ reverb has gotten quite a bit of criticism. If you turn it up to noon or beyond it does something to the signal which goes...

Just to clarify... this is a post for someone who claims to be a novice. Can't we keep it simple? The post title will end up being altered to...

There is a procedure called the half note melody where an existing melody, no matter its form, is decomposed into just two notes per measure - but...

No

Dexter Gordon often did something like this on ballads, he would play the melody and his solo at the slow ballad tempo, then the pianist would double...

Just wanted to add another video that I found interesting. It's from the same guy that Christian posted.

Pat Martino did the same thing with his version of ‘Along Came Betty’. Actually I’ve realised that I did too when I did it with a samba groove...

Thanks John. It was great to get another tone perspective. I dug yours much better!

Tunes. You have to learn Tunes. Tunes are what will give context to all the random bits you’ve learned so far. That in turn will make it...

There are “piano White notes that come alive” on the fretboard? :nonchalance:

When I bought mine (used) in 2020, new ones were listed on Reverb for $2250. Mine is a single-pickup with solid pearl inlays (which I think was a...

Conversely, the tailpiece looks like chrome not nickel plating (i.e. mid-1965 or later) Maybe the knobs got swapped for repros at the same time --...

It's not really possible to just do a bar or two... the organization of this style of composition is designed on the length of the cantus firmus......

The sides are mahogany. The only way to tell if they're laminated is at the jack-hole, but statistically they would be laminated. The top is...

Op for the love of god get a teacher and stay away from this vortex of confusion lol

? Just to be clear, I have read music since I was 8 years old. However, I have never touched books, charts, lead sheets, or scores to play jazz on...

Joe Pass recorded Wave on Tudo Bem! in double time feel. So, the melody went at the usual tempo or maybe a bit slower, but the rhythm section was...

Poor OP. Reminds me of the parable of the blind men describing an elephant. It is long like a snake! No, it has the wings of a bat! No, it is thick...

My trio has performed this song for several years. It always gets a nice response.

“Gibson can now focus attention on continuing to leverage its iconic past, and invest in future innovation, with confidence.” YAY! More “Gibson...

As long as your grinnin' while you're pickin' It's all good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaWHjo09lZw ...

Yes, and I hadn’t seen this clip until you mentioned it. An old flame. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVLnzIsLmKU

Your terms are a little off. A triad is a chord containing 3 pitches; none of the chords you listed are triads. They all derive from the...

If anyone is interested shoot a message! Thanks :)

You where quick.. You’re right!

The balanced XLR line out is post EQ and reverb. So whatever coloration the input stage imparts to your guitar signal (which is very little with EQ...

There are no good years or bad years. This isn't a mass produced guitar like a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster. This model was always...

guitar is in Stockholm Gibson Johnny Smith 1961 - 1969...

Not true for the mileage I get from my iPhone SE: fits nicely on my knee while tuning, or in noisier situations, on top of the guitar (which I lay...

MIJ Seventy Seven Jazz Hawk

welcome to the board, where are you located ?

You don't need a chart! Just take your fave tune and double the bars. So, either slow the melody to fit, or swap it for something else.

has been listed for 5 months. me like it. :smile-new: me like most everything Gibson. :smile-new:

Here you go: Cecil Alexander - Pickup Music

Yeah some people will complain, but you can’t make everyone happy. I like the idea, why not make a chart and send it over to the weekly jam...

So I can take that as a "Yes"?

Thanks for reminding me: iPhone doesn't really work (and a plug-in pigtail would tend to get lost amid clutter) except when you can post it on a...

Well, even with RC, would you think it's weird (or even just not very satisfying) to expand it to twice the length? I mean, I imagine bass players...

I have the iStroboSoft app on my phone, and the PitchGrabber. It works. It's mostly useful for setting intonation, because it gives a much larger...

Just change the melody to one of your etudes, how many "rhythm changes" songs are there? That's what I would do anyway.

Hehe, nah, most will see what's going on... (you would too, no?)

Put those etudes on some sheet music and call them compositions. Then you're playing originals and the other guys have to learn them.

Hey Jump, life is short, right? There are ways to teach / learn Jazz Harmony / Theory that has taken some of us decades. You always hear that there...

Not sure, Everywhere i looked it says the es325 is fully hollow. Could be just a block by the tailpiece.

Funny how different our ears are tuned re these pickups : I've bought my first BRAND NEW GB10 (a blonde ..) in 1979 and NEVER bonded with the pickups...

fair enough

Maybe because I'm old and slow. Maybe because I want accurate tuning, and that requires retuning, or at least rechecking, the previous strings at...

Anyone using Peterson Strobe's iStrobosoft on their iPhone? Seems like they're pushing it on their site. FWIW, if you follow some of Rob Mackillop's...

Hey Joe...Dallin is just letting "you" know if you understand and have an approach for compose melodies and combine them. Species counterpoint was...

There are lots of other videos with him on them. Miles wouldn't have him there unless he had something. Maybe it was just that particular one that...

It's fairly simple. A couple molds pressed in a hydraulic press that uses a bottle jack, where the bar and piston has been removed from the press. I...

Thanks for the kind comments. I'll try get something recorded shortly.

I now realize that the 8mm slop will be harmless, so that's not a big deal. I just wanted to share the oddity that stateside the size charts...

What? LOL! :rolleyes: It'll come with time and practice. Heck, every one of the jazz masters was a novice at one time.....I think. :cool:

Why does it take so many of you longer than 30 seconds to tune?

Oh, I never heard of Foley. Okay, that blue guitar was a lead bass. Got it. But it was what he was playing that I thought was noodly. ...