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At least one did. Chase Maddox, one of the better YouTube jazz guitar instructors bought one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJbkQ-RsOOc&t=11s

V. much agree with that. Really good book for position playing. Over too soon though so you need other stuff. Never really thought of the David...

Yup.

Thanks. I think I prefer the Hofner shape but I have enough material to make one of each. Good point about covering the f hole but I like the...

I'll be re-installing the pickup that was originally installed on the guitar, modifying it to a pickguard mount. It's a full-sized, shallow...

Please keep posting, be ause I probably wouldn't be here without you. Thank you and may God always bless you. Request....can you do Christmas...

All great stuff and very challenging reading.

What mistakes? I find none. That seems like a difficult piece to get through for anyone.

Here are some pics of my pressing the Ibanez JP20 plate. Ignore the wood. It’s just some scrap sycamore maple. This former was made from a 3d...

Bill Lawrence designed the electronics for possibly the HR and certainly the L6S. I think the Varitone was Gibson's cheaper approximation of Bill's...

Thanks Voxo

Open Studio Echols class tomorrow morning. :encouragement:

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while I hate to agree with ragman ... when he's right, he's right

I'm pretty sure most Eastman's are X braced but depending on the maker parallel braced tops sometimes have one of the braces glued at a slightly more...

I just found these pics Gibson ES-175D (1989) – Classic Guitars and Amps The top seems to be the standard lamination and pressing (plate...

When he was a sprout, like many of his generation, Joe learned stuff off the radio (at the behest of his father, who was a taskmaster with Joe and...

Thing about Monk was his rhythm, virtually perfect, extraordinary. You should look at 6.00. Cigarette in one hand, handkerchief in the other, and...

I'm now at 45 years of studying jazz and still don't play at a pro level. I am starting to suspect that my lack of actual musical talent might be...

That’s exactly why I’m remaking it :) I wanted to do a series of archtops that could have been vastly improved (in the publics eye) if not for...

This is a great thread.

Yeah I'm a grown adult with job / kids ... have a group of friends since HS that I play music with but obviously don't have as much time as I used...

Thanks everyone! A lot of great ideas in this thread!

Oh dang. I didn’t think about that. Not a bad idea. Read them in third position. Go through again in fifth, etc.

My recommendation is How to Play Bebop vol 2 by David Baker. It's a compendium of turnarounds in the key of C. So you build vocabulary while you...

Here's Howard Roberts sight reading book (out of print) that I posted in another thread: What is the best Scale System to use when reading music?

Nothing when I reread it. I was really stuck in thinking only about music students.

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that he plays mostly 2 note chords, I'm just challenging myself to do it.

Bought a guitar from Ric, and will vouch that his packing and shipping were very well done, and he was very conservative with the way he described...

This is a fun album: Gatemouth actually opened for my band once long ago in the Bay Area. Must have been filling in an off night. He rolled in...

This fleshes out the 3 things a bit. I think it's pretty solid:

Thread revival. Just got the Blu and used it for about an hour, trying various settings. I'm a long term Little Jazz user. I bought the...

There's a vid where Tim Lerch demonstrates exactly that. A partial bar instead of using 2 separate fingers on non-adjacent strings frees up a finger...

It's meant to exclude those who can fake a chorus of Autumn Leaves in a loud corporate holiday party where no one is paying attention to the music....

I would say that "a certain caliber" is doing a lot of work in that description ... so it kind of excludes everyone or no one or everything in...

Wow, that looks just like a piano! JD

So disrespectful. I have a new 335. Go somewhere else! And far away from my lawn!

Why do you think my description excludes them from being jazz pros?

I've played that guitar when we were both at Berklee at the same time. My impression at that time was "This is a rare instrument that was really...

I think there's plenty of pro level improv amount young students or just out of undergrad born after 2000 at the Emmet Ray, Drom and the Rex. Maybe...

Everything is I (i) or V.

Here's another thing. I figure it might take a few years to play the guitar well enough to be a gigging jazz musician. But how long would it...

A dedicated musician who is competent in another style can get to a level where they learn some standards and develop rudimentary jazz improvisation...

George Benson method, Peter Farrell

This sounds very nice. Sire does good work for the money. I have a Sire Marcus Miller M7 6 string bass and it's quite nice. There are some dead...

Haha! Already have two banjos for trad gigs. Many would say that is two too many... :highly_amused:

Here's a Lenny Style blues comp for those interested. Wrote in the note names bc who's got time for these ledger lines.

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Anything you can do to learn more ways to voice chords is a positive. That said, another wrinkle or two could be added to this exercise. 1....

For thin hollow bodies I'd look at: - Eastman: AR403 and AR503. They're both around 2.5" thick. The 503 has a carved spruce top and is on the...

I'm glad you mentioned the listener, and playing something attractive to them. I'm with you on this. Not sure it gets much attention/priority...

For sure, not everyone. Hard to put put a value on it but the top 1/2 I'd say if that's what they want to do. Many move on to other pop gigs and...

With the side and face dots illuminated:

Oooouuuuccchhhh, yes! But could she outdo Florence Foster Jenkins? :D

So is this a Naples guitar - one you buy and then you can die? I mean, it'd be a nice way of cleaning out my accounts in that event shreddin'

^ Sounds pretty accurate but maybe only the top players could be decent musicians beforehand and then hit studying jazz and come out pro level in 2-5...

Really nice! Thanks for posting that.

A bit of the confusion was diminished as little while back with an analysis of how musicians playing with a fat beat width (sounding notes...

2-5 years esp if you're in an environment where you can learn and thrive like a good music school. Depends on what your playing level is before Jazz....

I've finally reached the point where I'm happy with my playing and it sounds like 'jazz' to me. Only took 20 years! Lol. I think if you get to the...

Yes, and I think there are over 600 of them now. Keith

Here's a back photo of one of the non-cutaways after its first sealer coat. Blister maple.

Eastman T145 SM : 15" body width Solid wood 25" scale 1 3/4" nut width 1 3/4" body depth It ticks a lot of your cases, apparently

Breathtaking! :faint:

^ Yep. 2 on my list. Yep. Totally got me out of the paralysis of only playing the form mundanely rather than being expressive in the way you want...

You holding out on the circle of flat fifths?

First, :welcome: Second, have you tried to message the member who made that post? If that doesn't work, please provide us with a link to the...

Lenny typically used 2-note voicings for dominants but often used 3-note voicings for other chord qualities.

I'll chime in to say you get good reading at what you read...so be sure to spend plenty of time reading the stuff you're going to want/need to read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYy-GiESlEg

There's really something to playing with confidence and conviction. I show my art students all the time how a bold, confident line, even if drawn...

The closest to a consensus afaik is maybe the Levitt books. A lot of people recommend them. I learned with Belwin I, Mel Bay 2, Colin/Bower...

That is very beautiful! The maple is off the charts!

I wanted to chime on this thread. Before I bought my Sadowsky Jim Hall from archtop.com I saw the Japan Sadowsky's all over Ebay. I emailed Roger...

Yes rhythm and time feel is a huge part of it. Not everything though. That's a subcategory of play soundly. I want everything to be good - rhythm,...

Joe is not a complicated thinker with his playing. It is major, minor, and dominate chords. He views them all as this and then simply makes the...

You might also consider getting yourself into situations where you won't be going it alone: get a teacher who can help you, or a similarly...

Save for sour notes and overplaying I mostly associate bad sounding playing, be it rhythm or lead, to poor application of rhythm. If you're playing...

If you are learning how to read music, I recommend Bach's Chorales. They are short, easy pieces that are excellent for reading practice and are also...

On this thread I need ice on my hand

I learned to sight read using the Frederick Noad "Solo Guitar Playing" books. These are not jazz, tho; they're for classic guitar (aka "classical"...

I completed that book probably 15 years ago when I started playing Jazz. No question it's a solid foundation. The problem with Book I is that it's...

C’mon folks, $1400 delivered is a ridiculous price for this instrument. Did you know that the Eastman ELITE series sold for much more than a standard...

Actually, it’s the budget that’s the limit!

"Single channel grab and go" Works for me!

Nonsense! The only limit is your imagination....

Not bad!

when you feel you know it..push yourself a bit..learn it in another key:angel:

power chords and tab ftw.

6 months was the longest on my daily driver...only changed because i wanted to give rounds a go...a week later, the same brand of flats were back on...

Just bought this Loar LH400 acoustic archtop in an auction here in the UK. It's a 2005, made in Korea, guitar. Beautiful condition. I bought this to...

Several bars of Larry Coryell's comping on his tune "Dragon's Gate", he plays only 2-3 note shell voicings throughout, except for the final two ...

Moved this post to: Ed Bickert chords and diatonic cycles

This sounds really cool. Do you have any examples to share?

Check out this maple :smile-new:

How about a banjo? You could amass a real collection at the drop of a hat!shreddin'

Bobby Keys and Keith Richards sounding good https://youtu.be/esULAF4Qhis?si=143K3dyd33PWNGYF

Thanks for the answers ! I also got the Joe Pass Style book, i'm working on the modern blues progression. So right now i have learned the first...

There's a Joe Pass exercise book called "Virtuoso #3" that is basically transcriptions of his playing on the album. It includes a lot of...

The idea of low A makes me glad.

Y'all are right, from the straight collector point of view it's a mutt and there are cleaner examples available for people with that kind of money to...

That's hilarious! Weird Al Yankovic could not touch that!

Weston and Stafford won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album - and it was Stafford's only Grammy. But they didn't spare pop music. My favorite among...

Well, at least the cacophony is in harmony, both the piano and the singer are out of tune. I could only bear several seconds of it. :nightmare: ...

Oh yeah I get it! And truthfully I’ve recently spent too much money on audio gear. :cool:

And ofcourse a less deeply set neck increases the choice of floating neck pickup should the owner want to add one.

I would suggest you also obtain a copy of The Joe Pass Guitar Style (free copies can be found online), because he explains the logic behind his chord...

And how long do your other strings last? Point being, TI’s last far longer than any other strings that I’ve owned. I easily get a year or more out of...

Aquila makes a low A set that supposedly requires no adjustments to the guitar...might be something to look into. ...

It will affect your guitar. How much it will change things is impossible to say on a forum. It probably won't destroy your guitar to try it out. ...

Ah, o.k., that makes sense, I was mixing applications. If I wanted a comp voicing for Bm7b5, I would most likely use the dim. triad rather than the...

I’m not risking it :behindsofa:

The fingerboard extension is a little thicker on the new neck, but it won't necessarily require a taller bridge. There are two factors which...

He claims it's Platonic, but I think you got it right, and it's probably why I feel like taking a large shot of Hemlock after reading some of his...

I grew up in Dayton OH in the 60s and the 70s. My neighborhood and my high school were in the epicenter of Dayton Funk. I walked by Roger Troutman's...

Agreed. I came to the sixth diminished voicings I use by playing a sixth chord in that format and then moving it through the scales. I love those...

Re: The shell voicings in the diatonic cycles pdf you shared in this thread: Ed Bickert chords and diatonic cycles For example: String set 4-3-1...

Apparently it was a comedy act, the singer was actually Jo Stafford: Jonathan and Darlene Edwards - Wikipedia

That never stopped me :nonchalance:

sorry I do not use BB solos.

Eight

Why would you subject us to that?

Everything in the brass family, and I mean everything! Played them all in everything from marching and concert band to jazz band. In fact I still...

QUESTION KRIS.do you use the BB solos against jazz standards BB/JGSOLOS 228 of them...how do you rate them...cheers

I don't think so. The question was why do you move your first finger more than you need to? You immediately went for the solution but you weren't...

That is lovely. It reminds me of mine, but I guess they're all brothers and sisters!

I met Bobbie "Blue" Bland in LA in 1975. He was staying at a motel in Hollywood that I was living at (Carolina-Hollywood Motel at Sunset and La...