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Today, 08:16 AM
A bump for a great vintage setup. Guitar is clean and great shape vintage pickup setup is solid and versatile. Knock $800 off is you don’t want the...
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Today, 07:48 AM
I just looked at their website, I don't see any blowout pricing... do you have a link to a special sale ? Or is this in-store only?
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Today, 07:27 AM
Really nice interaction between rhythm guitar and bass.
I am not familiar with the tune so I loose track where we are in your solo.
I could imagine...
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Today, 06:29 AM
I suspect that the bottom line for frequent guitar changes is a matter of convenience or money. Most great players sound like themselves on most...
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Today, 06:27 AM
Still looking!
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Today, 06:13 AM
My opinion about the debate about this rendition: In general I like to hear the tune. And in general I think it's more appropriate to play to the...
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Today, 05:57 AM
Yes, it would be better. You really need to start with the absolute basics. Chord melody isn't easy and understanding the way chords are used really...
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Today, 05:46 AM
Why does everyone want a book? If you're a beginner, don't start with those squirrely advanced arrangements. Simply use a youtube video with tab...
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Today, 04:35 AM
I have a Tonedexter. It works great on both nylon and steel string guitars with under saddle pickups. I think they have a new version out.
Sent...
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Today, 04:16 AM
Mine is 10101211482, natural, made in Unsung, Korea, in 2010.
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Today, 03:50 AM
Hi Starjasmine,
the amp is a Headstrong lil' King. It sounds nearly identical to my 1980 Fender Princeton (which you can hear in most of the other...
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Today, 03:28 AM
That’s nuts. That’s not how violin works! You don’t just dabble in it for a couple of years lol. Unless you are Allan apparently.
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Today, 03:08 AM
Thank you. I'll try to find something easier to start with. I got totally lost in the previous conversations, maybe it wasn't even ment for my...
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Today, 02:22 AM
I did wonder about Frank Vignola switching to Sadowsky from Eastman but only for a couple of months on his Wednesday night Birdland show. Now FV...
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Today, 02:12 AM
Hi!
Minor major chord is the one that gives the mystery in harmonic texture. Works fine especially in endings.
In this video there's first...
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Today, 12:23 AM
Has anyone here seen the Blowout at Sam Ash? Thoughts?
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Today, 12:19 AM
Thanks - of course a lot comes from your fingers and your great ideas, but the 175T + Princeton clone must be a really great combination! Some...
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Yesterday, 11:44 PM
not a lot takers..myself included...try this..sounds great.... just ease off the gas........Stablemates (Mike Moreno) Solo Transcription Jazz Guitar...
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Yesterday, 11:14 PM
looking for a transcription.
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Yesterday, 09:58 PM
Back, sides and neck are mahogany. It definitely is a fairly light guitar. I love the neck.
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Yesterday, 09:50 PM
There are two because there are two pickups, thus two inputs. These switches are made as simply as possible. It's made to switch between two...
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Yesterday, 09:48 PM
Yep you nailed it.
Over E-7 to F7, Play the blues in D Minor. D Minor seventh works against the E minor seventh because it is the II of DMA7 (The...
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Yesterday, 09:28 PM
If you don’t, can you point to article-thread-post that can explain this? Is there anything more than the fact that these aren’t selling?
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
Good, I didn't want to answer that! LOL!
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
The jazz content is nice, but Matt just isn't sociopathic enough for Tom. Too cloying in his sucking up and just not dangerous enough. Jude is way...
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Yesterday, 08:01 PM
Harness is ready and passes the tap test.
Am I supposed to solder the output wire to both lugs on the Switchcraft 3-way switch? I don't get why...
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Yesterday, 07:23 PM
I had seen the movie version, "The Talented Mr. Ripley", and I was expecting something completely different In the movie, they had Jude Law playing...
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Yesterday, 07:11 PM
First off, it's not beginner-to-jazz material. Most chord melodies I hear are easier than the one you posted.
If you're going to do it, it's...
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Yesterday, 07:01 PM
Treme has the same executive producers as the highly watched HBO series, The Wire.
Actor Wendell Pierce is in both of them.
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Yesterday, 06:38 PM
Great job mounting the pickup! I’m in the minority here, but the only thing I’d change is the length of it. The Guild Benedetto’s had solid white...
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Yesterday, 06:28 PM
Hi StarJasmine,
I can explain my setup to you, but I basically sound the same regardless of what I am using. (within reason)
It is a 1980...
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
The answer to this question is simple: You first have to possess Audiophile ears. Tubeophiles in the audio industry believe that tube amps clearly...
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Yesterday, 05:53 PM
+1 on Lawson's comments. Love your tone! Can you please tell us more about your rig? Guitar, strings, amp, how you recorded the clip?
Thanks!
SJ
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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
Just watched The Serpent in Netflix. Not bad
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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
i bet i have 30 nice guitars here in the studio if not 30 really really close and although i have had a few i dont have any nice dreadnoughts sold...
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Yesterday, 04:48 PM
That post needed more emojis. Most readers' sarcasm meters are not strong enough without lots of them.
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Yesterday, 04:45 PM
The polepieces become stiff when the pickups are potted with wax. The wax gets everywhere inside the pickup, by design, and a consequence is that...
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Yesterday, 04:44 PM
Didn't appeal to me, sounded like a goofy caricature of Misty.
The wavering jumpy jerky pace sounded like struggle with physical technique. The...
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Yesterday, 04:29 PM
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New Jim Hall, $3533.20.
Fill in the dots.
I suspect they will be for sale in Japan for a long time to come until the...
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Yesterday, 04:18 PM
Wow that was really splendid. Great tone, great ideas, you played it like you owned it.
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Yesterday, 04:05 PM
If you do session work, even at a very basic pro level you can easily need 20-30 guitars. And if you are a name player, you do need to get into...
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Yesterday, 03:58 PM
Sorry, I'll have to correct your statement, Allan Holdsworth played guitar long before learning the violin.
Allan Holdsworth started learning...
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Yesterday, 03:53 PM
I learned "Stablemates" yesterday and recorded a version of it today, so I decided to revive this old JGBE thread from the pandemic period and post...
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Yesterday, 03:47 PM
I'm starting this thread so we can collect and register as many of the Korean made Epiphone Emperor Regents as possible,
I will start with the two I...
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Yesterday, 03:29 PM
Im a old tube guy, when a tube amp gets hot the whole amp gets hot. As many know you can actually warm a room with a tube amp. So that means...
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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
Thank you, sir. Mostly just guitar and amp, but I have the tiniest bit of tremolo and the tiniest bit of some of the oddball Strymon tape delay stuff...
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Yesterday, 03:23 PM
Ragman, is this a good time to remind you that you did post your own take for contrast, so this opinion will be taken for precisely what it is?
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Yesterday, 03:23 PM
Which jazz guitar store?
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Yesterday, 03:16 PM
All right, personal view. I don't think he's very good. And I think he murdered a really nice ballad. Take it or leave it. If you don't agree you...
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Yesterday, 03:08 PM
Wasn't it you that stated: I don't think he's very good. This is Misty? Poor man's murdering it.
That doesn't sound like just a personal...
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Yesterday, 03:01 PM
On the cassette (and CD I suppose) Joe plays all the examples from the book:
Joe Pass - On Guitar (book/CD) - OR - Guitar Style -
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Yesterday, 02:59 PM
Isn't there an engineers quote "don't make what you can buy"?
I agree with your thoughts and understand your operating position. If I start trying...
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Just saw this thread... a pdf copy of the Joe Pass Guitar Style book can be found online for free (like most things these days), e.g., at Scribd. I...
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Yesterday, 02:15 PM
I have a pair of Sadowsky — a long scale semi-hollow I got used and a FV model I bought new.
I also have owned 7 Eastman’s at various price...
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Yesterday, 01:58 PM
Even at the brighter tempo Hawk took it at, it's still a long tune...2 choruses, 3 minutes. You throw in two heads, maybe a piano solo...that's a...
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
'Fox Trot" - that's funny. "Don't let anyone tell you you can't dance to this music, you can! So go ahead and buy the record!"
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
A lap-steel squareneck tricone is a bit of a different beast from a roundneck, even before one takes into account the musical-stylistic-textural...
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Yesterday, 01:53 PM
Love this clip.
https://youtu.be/-ZvnoY5r_Lk?si=NpJsLYws1r5Zo6ob
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Yesterday, 01:48 PM
I think Coleman Hawkins established it quite nicely and then moved to improv quickly since a side is only a few minutes. I don't need to hear all of...
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Yesterday, 01:39 PM
It was funny, Wayne's bass player was playing guitar in his place with the drummer, he asked me if I wanted to sit in, I said no. :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 01:38 PM
That reminds me of one of the more interesting response to my ‘three fingered’ video who cited this video:
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Yesterday, 01:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTR_8bTFng
For the record (as in vinyl) on what became one of the most famous jazz recordings of all time,...
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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
Allan actually had quite a pronated left hand - not that this is necessarily untrue of Classical players as Peter indicated, but much more so than...
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Yesterday, 01:29 PM
He meant that unless person works with a very specific and possibly niche technical method — classical pedagogy, benson picking, etc — then there is...
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Yesterday, 01:22 PM
I have raised 3 children who, inspite of having me as their dad, have grown into fine adults, married very well, and now i have 8 grandchildren! So...
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Yesterday, 01:20 PM
That makes at least two of us.
Roger S. did well with his business model (it seems) regarding archtops and he is moving on. So what? If you need...
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Yesterday, 01:18 PM
I don't know Ben Monder's musical background, but Allan Holdsworth played violin before he played guitar.
"Unless a player is in a particular...
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Yesterday, 01:06 PM
Why is that? Do you know something we don't know?
Doug
EDIT: Ah, I read more of the thread, I get it now....
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Yesterday, 01:04 PM
Judging by the description and reviews, this is a unique book. I don't know of any comparable jazz guitar oriented books but others here may have...
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Yesterday, 01:01 PM
Ah, ha. Well, there we are. I hope Yka59 takes heed, which I'm sure he will. I only wish I could recommend him a really good book instead but I'm...
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Yesterday, 12:59 PM
Ditto. SS15 was my first archtop and while a perfectly serviceable professional tool to make music on, in the back of my mind there was always a...
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Yesterday, 12:51 PM
I have and I do.
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Yesterday, 12:44 PM
Not saying that a Sadowsky isn’t good. Just not $6K good.
These cost far less brand new.
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Yesterday, 12:43 PM
Yes, the IV7 chord, which theory wise is the b5 substitute of B7 - V7 of IIIm (Em7 in this instance).
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Yesterday, 12:36 PM
Hear those strumming sounds in the distance? They're getting louder and louder! Hide your guitar, Robert Yelin is coming!! :nightmare:
You can see...
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Yesterday, 12:35 PM
...and shellac, otherwise known as "violin varnish," can easily be refreshed by any reasonably competent luthier, to whatever level of sheen and...
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Yesterday, 12:21 PM
I still have my Sadowsky Jim Hall. It’s the only 6 string archtop I have, I sold everything else. When these first came out and for the first few...
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Yesterday, 12:16 PM
It is not about improvement of the music, it is about expressive possibilities that work for me personally. With the means of piano i hear the...
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Yesterday, 12:15 PM
Do you have kids? You know when you give you kid an apple and half way though they're like "I see a brown spot I don't want this anymore" and you...
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Yesterday, 12:01 PM
I took a look but unfortunately I don't own a microphone anymore.
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Yesterday, 11:57 AM
I've just found a very obvious application of F(7) connecting C with Em7, it's this ubiquitous turnaround that resolves in measure #32 (rather than...
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Yesterday, 11:54 AM
Sounds idyllic.
David
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Yesterday, 11:53 AM
That's a great price on a beautiful guitar.
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Yesterday, 11:52 AM
If you have played both, you would probably not say so.
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Yesterday, 11:52 AM
Careful now,you are going to get people's hair on fire in this forum with talk like that.I personally totally agree with you.
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Yesterday, 11:50 AM
I've decided to sell my 6 string guitars, as I'm only playing 7 string.
My Hofner John Stowell has many scratches in the Shellac finish, so I'm...
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Yesterday, 11:38 AM
Lol, a very local name of the "mountain" on top of which I live, located in a small village in the Valois region :cool:
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Yesterday, 11:34 AM
Bach's music doesn't need any improvements... (not just) my opinion and a definitive one.
As to recordings: evidently we cannot reproduce what a...
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Yesterday, 11:25 AM
Thanks, yeah I wasn't going to try a 50s wiring since I'm new and bridging the caps between two pots looked a little extra for my amateurish...
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Yesterday, 11:20 AM
An Eastman is just as good at a fraction of the cost like the laminate John Pisano model for around $1600.
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Yesterday, 11:18 AM
This is the last time I'm going to say this. It's and IMPROVISATION ON THE CHANGES OF MISTY. It doesn't have to play ANY of the melody. Improvisation...
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Yesterday, 11:16 AM
Really helpful and thank you. Return to France in the morning so will hit the pharmacie first thing. Will report back After rdv avec mon médecin. BTW...
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Yesterday, 11:11 AM
Hmm … I mean again this is not my vibe, but I would clock this as Misty immediately. He does play the “helpless as a kitten” and “hat from my glove”...
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Yesterday, 11:08 AM
I did it this way. I like it. If others don't, too bad! It's actually quite fast all things considering. The tune's at the end to save space.
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Yesterday, 11:05 AM
1000.00 for your Squier Strat ; o
you would be hard hard pressed around here to get a 1000.00 for a used USA made one.
there an American standard...
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Yesterday, 11:04 AM
Price drop bump in advance of lowering my reverb ad. JGF gets first chance!
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Yesterday, 11:03 AM
These guitars were completely overpriced and using a name. While certainly they were fine guitars a name only gets you so far when the name is not...
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Yesterday, 10:54 AM
Yeah, I'm not speaking so much to all the chords of it. That's a style choice. But, I didn't even hear the first three notes of the melody. I...
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Yesterday, 10:48 AM
I recently visited a prominent jazz guitar store, guitar in hand, hoping to realize some profit, or trade for something.
I was met by the valet...
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Yesterday, 10:13 AM
Misty's a lovely melody, but it's also a LONG ASS tune. So you gotta figure out what you're going to do with it in a solo environment...if you play...
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Yesterday, 10:07 AM
That the tune is played by the giants of jazz in a number of ways that go far beyond the murder you accused Yelin of is not a "view" but a fact. Your...
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Yesterday, 10:05 AM
This Donna Lee thing is the most I've used my pinky in my life, I think.
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Yesterday, 10:01 AM
To which view you are fully entitled, Lawson :-)
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Yesterday, 09:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI
For fun here's Erol Garner himself playing his own tune. I guess he murders it too.
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Yesterday, 09:51 AM
I think it's more than mere personal preference. There is a long tradition of improvising on Misty using block-chords, interspersing melodic...
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Yesterday, 09:50 AM
First, the colors may or may not be the same. You can't blindly go by the color of the wire coverings, because different manufacturers use different...
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Yesterday, 09:48 AM
If you want the basics of fingerings study Leavitt's modern guitar method. Then when you've figured out how he would play it, and realize that all...
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Yesterday, 09:48 AM
It's an improvisation on the changes to the tune incorporating some phrases from the melody. Remember, as a jazz player, you will need to play the...
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Yesterday, 09:45 AM
But it's a lovely tune. I don't think he has any feeling for it, he's just playing it as a swing thing.
I can understand a version that put a...
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Yesterday, 09:41 AM
Duties & Customs charges in the US are kind of a crapshoot. Sometimes you'll get hit with fees and sometimes you won't. The rate itself depends on...
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Yesterday, 09:41 AM
I'm really finding this discussion in the last dozen posts or so very helpful. Some really fine players (you guys!) and very thoughtful as well,...
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Yesterday, 09:37 AM
In the end their guitars were simple too expensive for an asian built laminated guitar with a poly finish.
I once had one and it was a good guitar,...
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Yesterday, 09:35 AM
Thanks so much for the info.
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Yesterday, 09:34 AM
Les Paul, and Chet Atkins vibes, real cool
https://youtu.be/FYFEPM-HLtU
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Yesterday, 09:32 AM
It's evidently not an arrangement of the tune but an improvisation weaving elements of the melody with other ideas in a strongly chorded manner. It...
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Yesterday, 09:30 AM
It sounded more like a long intro into Four than Misty to me.
If someone posted that here I would comment to focus more on the melody and ballad...
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Yesterday, 09:28 AM
As an aside … has anyone checked out Tal Yahalom? He’s been doing this chord melody workshop a couple times a year and I want to do it eventually....
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Yesterday, 09:27 AM
Ahhhhh very George Van Eps
Not my bag of chips, but the “chord on every beat” makes sense now. Stride guitar.
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Yesterday, 09:25 AM
Thanks everyone, I'll keep all these comments in mind. I did really like the AMH90 but I do want something practical and they seem fairly inexpensive...
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Yesterday, 09:21 AM
Ah yes, the old "where does the thumb go" dilemma... When I did the Rock/Blues thing, like most, the thumb was always visible over the edge of the...
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Yesterday, 09:14 AM
Murdering it?
He doesn't actually ever play the melody "straight," but I would call this far from a murder.
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Yesterday, 09:13 AM
Difficult topic... when you say ' If you have the default configuration it has a stereo mic pair on it that should give you a faithful reproduction...
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Yesterday, 09:12 AM
Sounds good without a drummer.
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Yesterday, 09:10 AM
Here's the author of that arrangement. I don't think he's very good. This is Misty? Poor man's murdering it.
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Yesterday, 09:06 AM
This makes more sense to me. Find the one you like and use it. Then, take it around the 12 keys and learn why the other ones are just as good.
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Yesterday, 09:05 AM
A video would be so helpful. But this explained so much, real eyeopener for me.
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