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Today, 09:38 AM
Where I was working, there weren’t enough police to deal with all of the crime, so a lot of people, not just musicians, felt emboldened to carry out...
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Today, 09:33 AM
I’m in my early to mid thirties
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Today, 09:32 AM
How old are you?
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Today, 09:30 AM
Hi Jimmy.
Firstly I wanted to thank you for making this recording. It's become one of my all time favourite live recordings and is a real gem!!...
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Today, 09:27 AM
The Birdland sound can be very uneven at the start of livestreams. One instrument can be too loud, some can't be heard, it's often all over the...
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Today, 09:24 AM
https://youtu.be/e6UT0Q_DyeE
I made this Light classical piece
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Today, 09:11 AM
Spend a lot of time snoozing then?
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Today, 09:07 AM
No one will believe me but I was just about to ask panasonic what his next song was going to be. True.
Hey, I don't get out of bed for less...
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Today, 08:56 AM
Why three control knobs on the HR only one PU?
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Today, 08:53 AM
Nice work, Graham. It think it sounds very 1932! Which is about 90 years ago.
I wonder if they'll still be playing, say, Rollins' version in...
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Today, 08:43 AM
Has a nice stride piano vibe I think, I didn’t really realise that just from looking at the score.
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Today, 08:43 AM
For the sake of completeness, here's the HR.
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Today, 08:39 AM
I get your point. And I did grow up in Kalamazoo. My mother's bridge partner was the CFO of Gibson. I used to visit the plant as a kid and more...
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Today, 08:34 AM
I’ll get onto to making a guitar arrangement. I think most of it works
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Today, 08:32 AM
Is it meant to be an ‘i’?
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Today, 08:32 AM
New video
the SIMPLEST way into melodic minor harmony - start HERE
https://youtu.be/5OfaZBYt7mQ
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Today, 08:28 AM
Well initially a thread where I was posting videos of myself tinkering with songs I used to know but that fell by the wayside.
Now Ragman has...
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Today, 08:15 AM
Just don't get your fingernails caught on that fingerrest! :smile-new:
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Today, 08:09 AM
+1+1+1...
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Today, 08:05 AM
The best!
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Today, 07:30 AM
Well yeah
I suppose it helps if you like the song
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Today, 07:11 AM
Lawrence Lucie was a member of an early Coleman Hawkins band, in March 1933.
Two songs still exist from the original sessions which are both on...
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Today, 07:00 AM
Being a native New Yorker does come with some benefits. One of those treats is being surrounded by some of the best guitars in the World. From the...
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Today, 06:51 AM
I wanted to hear what that 1932 arrangement of Alone Together sounded like, but as I don't play the piano, I notated it in Musescore and played it...
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Today, 06:43 AM
Anyone can play (and will) play rushing uptempo funk. The true art is to play it relaxed and sexy.
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Today, 06:38 AM
That's of course true.
There are Swifties that can sing along for three hours.
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Today, 06:30 AM
In the case of lyrics it actually helps me to write them down. My parents are/were from a generation that still had to learn a lot of poems in...
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Today, 06:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0qzZjtTdOY
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Today, 06:16 AM
Man, back in my home town, if someone insulted a senior musician, that would be a career ender. They would be placed on a black list where no other...
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Today, 05:50 AM
Transcribe? lol I wish we could ban that word. Especially the scribe bit.
The world is full of non musicians who can sing all the words to their...
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Today, 05:35 AM
It seems you got a bug with diminished chord, thank you to take the time to share these improvements ! :smile-new:
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Today, 05:33 AM
Absolutly, I’m on this ! Thx
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Today, 05:32 AM
That’s a great idea actually, I’ll do that. Thanks !
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Today, 05:30 AM
Hey there - no I don't have sound clips before / after pickup change. I hate to say it but however authentic the original pickup was - a Heritage...
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Today, 05:27 AM
Bit of a late contribution but: I soldered several speaker cables for my Quilter Superblock for all my amps (either with terminals to hook directly...
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Today, 05:11 AM
Thanks for the advice guys. I have zero plans to ever return to professional music. It just sucks to feel like a part of me was taken away but a...
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Today, 04:20 AM
Here's a neat old guitar. It's a fully functional ES-150 from '46. Not a single original part on it except for the tailpiece and the tuner ferrules....
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Today, 04:15 AM
Thank you. I shall take your helpful advice on board! There is no intro other than 4 bars instrumental. I believe the singer is accomplished and I'm...
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Today, 03:05 AM
Cherish what you enjoy (teaching English to children)... perhaps play some guitar for them and take on board some of their contageous enthusiasm they...
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Today, 02:44 AM
Equinox is this morning. End of summer, beginning of fall for the northern hemisphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zyr0IDaRXQ
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Today, 02:39 AM
6th on the 5th for a minor 7 chord! Gives you a minor 11 sound. And no major 7th like the normal minor 7 6th dim.
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Today, 02:36 AM
I would get professional help as well.
I recommend watching videos by and interviews with Peter Levine and Gabor Maté who have successfully...
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Today, 02:22 AM
At some point all these gigs became like a bad habit and now I am a lifer. It dawned on me a few months ago when I was trying to get a part time...
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Today, 02:19 AM
Man, Jonathan was the loudest guy on stage for a while there. And I wish I knew anything as thoroughly as he knows swing guitar.
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Today, 01:56 AM
Markku, have You tested if the Eminence Beta 8A fits in there? That Beta series has a sound that has proved to please jazz players.
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Today, 01:27 AM
Suitable attire for those of you who have more than a few guitars:
guiitar sweater - etsy.com
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Today, 01:14 AM
JazzerEU, Sounds to me like you have a mild to moderate case of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), there are effective therapies for it that you...
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Today, 12:42 AM
Yes, some of the greats had great "elastic time" . Cannonball Adderley comes to mind, a transcriber's nightmare, what seemed commonplace for him was...
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Yesterday, 11:23 PM
I really like Shan’s channel as well!
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Yesterday, 11:16 PM
Yes, yours was the original correction but I did not catch the syllables count.
I am now reformed; all my future offerings will be True, Good, and...
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Yesterday, 11:16 PM
ROFLMAO! :beer:
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Yesterday, 10:28 PM
Beautiful Alan! Thanks for that.
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Thanks :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
Cool man!
I hope you find some students.
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Yesterday, 10:10 PM
https://youtu.be/eOT0pzNVRaY?si=grEDTX9kHjSq5TEm
Yes like to I play and you?
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Yesterday, 09:58 PM
I'm pretty familiar with this tune – sung it and heard it sung by different singers (usually opera or legit singers).
If he's singing the...
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Yesterday, 09:45 PM
I have a piece of shit strat copy that I use for alternate tunings (mostly for fingerpicking), and I've been meaning to tune it to one of Blood's...
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Yesterday, 09:15 PM
Nothing “beats” an L5. If you really want an L5, everything else will be a compromise. Wait and save your money. And if you want an L5, accept no...
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
An ES-330 with humbuckers or mini-hums sounds great. Gibson did a few here and there, and did the Gibson Memphis 2019 Limited MOD Series. It's...
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Yesterday, 08:56 PM
I wish people these days wouldn't call a powered speaker a speaker!
To me a speaker is passive. For nearly 60 years I've been plugging my guitar...
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Yesterday, 08:55 PM
I played the Toronto leg of Argentina's Cecilia Monte in 2012 and decided to pack it in after that.
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Yesterday, 08:51 PM
i second this
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Yesterday, 08:13 PM
https://youtu.be/dI5q30NFu6g?si=GrnTTo49f_2-LFhN
1 year ago. Now better.
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Yesterday, 08:11 PM
San Diego isn't a brand. It was the music underground in the 1980's and should probably stay that way. I could go on and on about what happened with...
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Yesterday, 07:54 PM
Thanks.
Regular time may me the best option but I'm guessing the singer has his own way of singing it. (I've never touched on it before). I'm...
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Yesterday, 07:52 PM
what i dont udnerstand is why did they start to threat your life ? I have heard about envy and things like that, but never going so far to start...
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Yesterday, 07:36 PM
One issue worth thinking about is what makes the chord changes move.
One way is that you do it in strict time and you change chords as indicated...
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Yesterday, 07:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBvlbHW0Kc
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Yesterday, 07:23 PM
Well, I'll take the gracious part. Mr. Gracious, that's me :-)
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
When did you stop playing around Toronto? (Only jacking the thread for this question)
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Yesterday, 07:05 PM
I'm not sure what this thread is now but I used to claim knowing about 400 tunes. I was self-humiliated onstage in 1993 not knowing Bye Bye Blackbird...
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
So I guess that’s a no
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
= Guitar Pro 6, which someone shared online. It will export a score as an image file.
I've posted charts I made with it here before, for example:...
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Yesterday, 06:37 PM
you said that they bully you? cause mopre skills? so just ignore them.... they rats and jealous then, that makes them rats.... just ignore them, or...
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Yesterday, 06:34 PM
I've only once ever accompanied a singer on solo guitar. That would have been in about 1971 during a school production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
Emily's 330 looks like it has a stop tail(?)
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Yesterday, 06:10 PM
BTW for those who fear the effort of learning lyrics:
First of all it is "brain jogging" that will not hurt your intellectual abilities and your...
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Yesterday, 06:01 PM
Hello all,
I have a problem, playing guitar isn’t fun anymore. It hasn’t been since probably 2018. I retired from professional music altogether in...
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Yesterday, 05:57 PM
Look at you, being accessible with tab. Is that autogenerated or did you input it?
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Yesterday, 05:55 PM
I just took a look at youtube. I don't see anything new. I think we have every one posted already linked in
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Yesterday, 05:22 PM
In the words of the great Victor Wooten “You can’t hold no groove if you ain’t got no pocket.”
https://youtu.be/Gg4hrXgTvsI?si=J5_ZlB5Cu55d6PBD
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Yesterday, 05:07 PM
Lyrics help
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Yesterday, 05:02 PM
could you put a link on here please
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
I haven't seen this "C2" chord notation on a common lead sheet, apparently it's a C add9 (C-E-G-D). Somewhat odd in that they notated the G add9 as...
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Yesterday, 04:05 PM
Tre Bien!!
Sounds awesome.
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Yesterday, 03:42 PM
It's a great speaker! My dad uses one regularly and I also used it for a keyboard gig. Nice and clean, light, and loud.
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
I listened to a couple guys demoing this model on Youtube the other day and they both had absolutely great tones, really nice, really thick, warm,...
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Yesterday, 03:24 PM
I don't know that I would call that the "perfect" jazz guitar tone (there is no such thing), but it's a very nice tone. And I think in terms of...
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Yesterday, 03:18 PM
I'll take your Gm7 card and raise you a C7!
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Yesterday, 03:07 PM
I did say Salvation Army dumpster. No problem with the stuff inside the Salvation Army store.
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Yesterday, 02:56 PM
Not a lord. I've met one or two, they're a bit odd. Could be the inbreeding :-)
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Yesterday, 02:41 PM
Thank you! This instrument amazes me every time I pick it up.
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Yesterday, 02:34 PM
The Notated Lick Compendium.
A thread for posting and storing notated licks.
I like this quote:
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Yesterday, 02:18 PM
I try to sort out the past here. It's therapy.
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Yesterday, 02:12 PM
iim's commission threads are one of the best things about the forum. And he has some dandies. I remember the 'Roycroft Rose'. I look forward to...
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Yesterday, 02:08 PM
More like a dirge in this instance... for whom did the bell toll?
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Yesterday, 02:02 PM
Yes, one should be able to effortlessly play any melody one hears, except perhaps complicated be-bop melodies, etc. Being able to play what you hear...
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Yesterday, 01:53 PM
https://youtu.be/nOLNeGaLkYw?si=jBhlB0oXmgWcZrN4
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Yesterday, 01:38 PM
The variation of placement position of a phrase into the tempo is "beat width", which in jazz is highly desired to be as "fat" as can be musically...
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Yesterday, 01:33 PM
Gee Skip, I am not a mental health professional but that sounds suspiciously like a form of depression to me, specifically what is clinically called...
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Yesterday, 01:29 PM
You are a patient and gracious lord.
I guess it’s constructive criticism time?
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Yesterday, 01:24 PM
I think that the way to memorize melody is the same way any non-musician can sing a popular song they like.
You listen to the song, learn the...
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Yesterday, 01:18 PM
I forgot to mention a very important thing I do first: I listen to as many versions and especially vocal versions of a tune as I can find. I download...
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Yesterday, 01:14 PM
A Brazilian resonator
Del Vecchio (guitar maker) - Wikipedia
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Yesterday, 01:12 PM
What the heck is that guitar?
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Yesterday, 01:06 PM
Beautiful playing and wonderful sound. Chet Atkins used Del Vecchios for one of his signature sounds for decades. My recollection is that they...
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Yesterday, 12:59 PM
Peter -
There's nothing wrong with what you did, it's very impressive as I said. It was just hard for me to follow, that's all. I mean, you must...
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Yesterday, 12:47 PM
A lot of slower versions but most I would call maybe down swing. Not really ballad. Most of the time I’ve heard it live it’s closer to the Sonny...
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Yesterday, 12:47 PM
The Wayback are from San Fran and Dead-adjacent. They did a long jam featuring Casey Jones segueing into Help on the Way then Lawyers, Guns and...
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Yesterday, 12:46 PM
lovely
the low end of that guitar is
coming out great now
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Yesterday, 12:43 PM
Sounds to me like you’re doing it right. I found a sport coat on eBay that fits better, but I still need a longer sleeve. There ought to be a...
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Yesterday, 12:41 PM
WOW. Thank you. I think. lol
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Yesterday, 12:37 PM
Stevebol - sounds like you’ve had quite the colorful life. Need to write a book!
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Yesterday, 12:37 PM
Just got back from a trip to Bristol, TN, my family home and the location of a great music festival, the BRRR, now in its 20th year.
I went to 2...
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Yesterday, 12:31 PM
Great 3 knob amp.
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Yesterday, 12:30 PM
I learn it in two distinct approaches: By tonal phrase and as an entire melody intact. This is with the ear.
In learning it on the guitar, I'll...
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Yesterday, 12:17 PM
The Bad Plus new album:
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Yesterday, 12:17 PM
Tbf I never told you about the time a guy I knew (sax player) threatened Ray Davies when he was rude about Belgium. There’s more to the story.
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Yesterday, 12:14 PM
Did they inhabit a sort of Demi-Mond?
Good grief kill me now.
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Yesterday, 12:12 PM
Oh, come on, it's practically a folk song!
Stream AT by ragman | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Yesterday, 12:12 PM
I love Floating Points, particularly his album with Pharaoh Sanders.
He has a new album out, which is pretty techno, but more interesting than...
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Yesterday, 12:09 PM
I am not quite retired, but I do like to travel. We recently got a Class C RV for longer travels. We took it out to the East coast last week for a...
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Yesterday, 12:00 PM
ok thanks , understood ….
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