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Today, 11:13 AM
I was wrong! It’s a sequence :-)
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Today, 10:57 AM
I used to own a Gibson ES-339 Studio that had a Baked Maple fingerboard, and I assume a maple neck as well. I really enjoyed that combination on...
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Today, 10:57 AM
Many Class D amps rely on IcePower modules, which in my understanding can be replaced. It's up to the amp manufacturer how and at what cost this can...
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Today, 10:56 AM
Tritones were always fine, apparently that's a popular myth... There's quite a good Adam Neely video on it. Actually one of his best IMO.
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Today, 10:50 AM
You're welcome. That looks good.
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Today, 10:42 AM
…not if you close your eyes and are given them in random order. And you can control for intertest consistency by presenting the same one multiple...
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Today, 10:39 AM
I recently succeeded in fixing a freezer by installing a new thermostat. It was pure guesswork as to what the problem was. So a great result not...
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Today, 10:36 AM
My understanding is that the "standard" version is thinner (around 2"), and the "deep" version is 3-3/8" (like a 175). Deviser's website is no help...
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Today, 10:26 AM
So each neck definitely has noticeable signature in the overall sound. But it's hard to generalize the tone based on the wood. I have an all parts...
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Today, 10:23 AM
I've had teles with maple, rosewood, and ebony fretboards.
They were all a little different, and of course, there were other factors that were...
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Today, 10:22 AM
I've (knock wood) never had a tube amp or digital amp die on me. I did however have a 42" Vizio TV die on me. I googled what could be wrong with it,...
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Today, 10:19 AM
Here is another comparison with to my ears different results. In this case the maple sounds warmer than the rosewood IMO. ...
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Today, 09:59 AM
Now if the next chords were:
CM7 - FM7 - Bm7b5/E7b9 - Am7
Eb7 - Am7b5/D7b9 - Gm7 - Db7b5
that would make a nice loop. Drive the devout out of...
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Today, 09:56 AM
Not only that, but the player knows he's playing different necks, and he is doing it at different points in time and quite obviously not playing them...
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Today, 09:40 AM
I drive a Honda Accord, because it is the sensible thing to do. When I was younger though, I had a choice of ride to work ;)
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Today, 09:36 AM
Is it still called voice leading if it's the bass voice? This is my favorite type of chord movement.
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Today, 09:34 AM
Wow, this is exactly the kind of jazz group I want to have.
https://youtu.be/EfdvCl-aIEo?si=xX2IjyzeDA8Oji0L
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Today, 09:33 AM
Re. the chord root tritone moves, take:
CM7 - FM7 - Bm7b5/E7b9 - Am7
It sounds pretty good so I'm wondering what the issue is. Why is the fact...
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Today, 09:31 AM
IME any shielded two-conductor wire is fine, and easier to use than a single wire inside a braided shield. The braid is a PITA to solder, and you...
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Today, 09:24 AM
So the first tritone is F-B in the treble. The second is D-G#(Ab) in the bass. and both span #8 and #9. Got it, thanks.
But it all sounds...
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Today, 09:21 AM
:D :D :D
Exactly. Besides, (so much) jazz is just weird (coming from classical music)... shreddin'
Check with Isaac from Cranmer...
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Today, 09:12 AM
why not a insulated cup with some hot tea and honey?
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Today, 09:11 AM
Thanks for this pro tip. I'm in the US if there's any specific product or link you'd recommend. I've been struggling to buy the right stuff.
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Today, 09:11 AM
That’s a great find, Marty - thanks so much! I heard exactly the same things they did, and it held up in blinded comparison with good headphones and...
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Today, 09:07 AM
Charlie Baty (RIP) of the band Little Charlie and the Nightcats was a great blues/jump blues/jazz guitarist. Here he is jamming at a Django in June...
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Today, 08:51 AM
For anyone interested in a Zoom meeting discussing specific, general, practical, theoretical, expansive, improvisational and compositional aspects of...
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Today, 08:48 AM
If you serve the same food on two different coloured plates, your perception of how it tases, will change.
The fact that you know which neck he's...
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Today, 08:47 AM
Yeah, I tried to get Tom for the session but he flaked out and I had to to do it minus him.
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Today, 08:40 AM
Both the treble clef and bass clef have a leap of tritone when going to the first beat of measure 9. F goes up to B in the treble clef and D goes...
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Today, 08:33 AM
I'm not good at this stuff and maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see any tritone intervals in #9.
The two notes sounding together in #9 are B natural...
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Today, 08:30 AM
By “weird” you mean any guitar used to play jazz that is not a Gibson? I have never felt weird playing jazz on my Mule steel tricone. On the...
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Today, 08:28 AM
Good will bargains?
Used Jewelry & Gemstones Thrift Items For Sale Online | ShopGoodwill.com
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Today, 08:22 AM
The obvious methodical problem with these tests is that they use one example of each type that they are testing and they generalize the results to...
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Today, 08:18 AM
First page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyvP0pdGP8A
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Today, 08:04 AM
Probably not so much an issue on a fretted instrument esp. one where you can just replace the entire neck, but the main reason why luthiers moved to...
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Today, 07:51 AM
Worth listening to. This is about as careful a test as you'll get without a frequency analyzer.
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Today, 07:30 AM
Not sure how this relates to what I said. He is not comparing a stock strat with a stock tele in the same amp/eq/tone control settings. Yes, you can...
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Today, 07:29 AM
In practice I have been using those full Mel Bay chords for quite a few years. I use my ear while singing the melody to find the inversion I like. ...
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Today, 07:13 AM
I only downloadable product I see there is the Kindle edition. Did I miss the pdf version? Amazon Fire tablets are relatively cheap compared to an...
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Today, 06:58 AM
the other thing to keep in mind is that companies do go out of business and/or change hands. Folks who had AcousticIMG stuff were lucky to have...
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Today, 06:05 AM
Send me a message and I'll send them to your email, greetings
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Today, 05:58 AM
There are professional musicians on this site who make their living from intellectual copyright. Please let's not talk about piracy.
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Today, 05:32 AM
Just to make things more confusing, Metheny uses a Kemper :)
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Today, 05:30 AM
Imagine drivers buying only Fords. Thousands of workers, from Bugatti to Lada, would die of hunger and this would be a shame.
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Today, 05:16 AM
This company AFAIK produces pastilles containing this. I have used them with good success against a sore throat, but not the honey-lemon flavor.
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Today, 05:11 AM
Thank you all for the recommendations.
Yes, dry air makes it worse, and i notice with growing age it's becoming more of a necessity to always carry...
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Today, 05:06 AM
I think i never really experienced stress/concentration to have an influence on coughing when i got a cold.
When i exhale, some remains from the...
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Today, 04:41 AM
Could you (or anyone) recommend someone in the UK?
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Today, 04:37 AM
I spent about year angsting over a Fender Twin when I had intermittent loud crackling. It turned out to be one of the jacks on my cable. It was the...
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Today, 03:55 AM
I would say it depends what's wrong.
The most common failure in my experience is when a jack or pot is soldered into the board and the solder...
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Today, 03:20 AM
Can confirm this with my QSC PA speakers—had to replace the entire motherboard—-thankfully, still under warranty, due to being a recent purchase. ...
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Today, 02:03 AM
You want to use shielded coaxial wire in hollow bodies because the wiring isn't inside a cavity that you can shield like with solid bodies. Hollow...
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Today, 01:56 AM
I usually use braided shielded wire which is essentially self-shielding when using two versus four conductor setups, although dealing with the ends...
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Today, 01:52 AM
^ Yeah vibes are hella nice. I have to scheme about it. I probably don't need to take on debt just so I can get a 2nd instrument. If I get the money...
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Today, 12:42 AM
Hello!
This is my first post, I hope I can post this with a youtube video link.
To begin with a short introduction: I play guitar as a hobby, I...
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Today, 12:12 AM
And therein lies the rub (including with some very reputable and expensive amplifiers). Most of them include boards with many or all of the...
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Yesterday, 11:37 PM
Borrowing works well, i've used this many times. You usually need to have Adobe Digital Editions as a reader for the DRM. And as long as you don't...
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Yesterday, 11:28 PM
James Chirillo is also the guitarist most of the time with Wynton Marsalis' Lincoln Center Jazz Band. The Ear-Regulars play regularly at the Ear Inn,...
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Yesterday, 11:27 PM
They'll be going up to B next week :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 11:19 PM
Since the thread is getting far afield and into the weeds, the luthier who builds spot-on acoustic L5 replicas is Jackson Cunningham from SW Virginia...
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Yesterday, 11:13 PM
Yes, I remember that Gary played in the Tal Farlow quartet. I have that and other CDs of the quartet.
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Yesterday, 11:11 PM
Not necessrily. Dutchbopper on his Strat, bone stock with .010s...
https://youtu.be/06qnbxerLq8
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Yesterday, 11:09 PM
And here is phase two of those diatonic turns. Nothing fancy yet, just the next part of practicing them.
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Yesterday, 11:05 PM
All tubes are non-linear and have much higher total harmonic distortion be they in the pre-amp, phase inverter, reverb/effects loop, or the final...
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Yesterday, 10:58 PM
Short story about Gary: he provides the bass lines at Frank's Big Jersey Camps. Frank sends out the lead sheets for the repertoire about two months...
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
no, they are not. And you might think modeling "amps" are crap but when I've needed repairs for fractal or line 6, they were done quickly and...
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Yesterday, 10:38 PM
All tubes are non-linear and have much higher total harmonic distortion be they in the pre-amp, phase inverter, reverb/effects loop, or the final...
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Yesterday, 10:35 PM
Cloth works, it just costs more. Use whatever you like. I don't like paying for tinning that I can do myself, but it's your money.
There are...
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Yesterday, 10:27 PM
Yeah, says it all. And some of us, if we're lucky, will make it all the way back to Satch. And hopefully it will all make sense! :cool:
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Yesterday, 10:26 PM
And those tubes and the factories which make them, poisoning children, the air, rivers, etc. Tube factories are among the worst polluters of any...
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Yesterday, 10:24 PM
I used to be one. My father was one. I could see, in my teens and early 20s, that there were better ways to make a living.
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Which is precisely the eminently successful Gillette business model. You can often get Gillette razors for free. The blades for them are never free.
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Yesterday, 10:13 PM
Does anyone remember the TV repair man?
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Yesterday, 10:00 PM
I went to the Sam Ash website. The guitars are discounted about 10-15% (from the already high MSRP). So nice, but not unreal.
Yes they’re scams....
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Yesterday, 09:54 PM
I’m going to see Branford Marsalis on Saturday—playing Dead music with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead.
Branford’s embrace of different musics is quite...
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Yesterday, 09:51 PM
I also have a few Gibsons and Fenders and some great value for money Korean copies made by Fenix and Vester. I also have 3 'handbuilt' guitars - two...
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Yesterday, 09:47 PM
And all those printers that end up in landfills!!! Hopefully they do end up there, and not in some 3rd world salvage dump - poisoning children, the...
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Yesterday, 09:45 PM
They haven't always. For a time the streams were subscription only. I can't remember the price, but I didn't pay, because I couldn't be sure of...
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Yesterday, 09:38 PM
What I meant was that they are not doing a regular line of archtops. You can just sail into a nice music store and pick out a new ES175 in your...
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Yesterday, 09:38 PM
Look out! SCAM!
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Yesterday, 09:36 PM
Just to be clear, Gibson IS currently making archtops. They are very few in number and really only special order though.
Sent from my iPhone...
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Yesterday, 09:35 PM
The flats like your (or his) car jokes are free, and provided at every performance. :triumphant:
That Guild that James has, with the Rhythm Chief...
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Yesterday, 09:29 PM
Thank you both. I wasn’t able to find download links on either archive or zlib. Looks like you have to “borrow” the book from archive. Am I missing...
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Yesterday, 09:25 PM
They sell you the printer at a discount price to ensure you buy their ink cartridges, which are overpriced.
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Yesterday, 09:24 PM
Is that what ChatGPT says?
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
You nailed with one sentence what I couldn't make clear with several paragraphs!
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
The most used amp I have is an 80s Musicman 65 rp 112. It has it's issues but the tech I use is great and he seems to source the old components or...
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Yesterday, 09:17 PM
Of course, Bobby Hutcherson played and recorded marimba too. Seems if you master one you're good to do the other.
I love vibes. Do that. I...
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Yesterday, 09:13 PM
I don't stray far from the traditional brands. Gibson, Fender and Ibanez constitue my entire 30 guitar collection with a few solid-body outliers.
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Yesterday, 09:03 PM
Tramadol, IME, is pretty much useless. OTC migraine formula, a mix of equal parts aspirin and acetaminophen, and a little caffeine, works better for...
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
I waited weeks for this auction to begin. Like HT, I was along for the ride from the very beginning. After letting go of my Lang —to another forum...
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Yesterday, 09:00 PM
If not the gavitt cloth wire then what wire would work better?
Is the cloth an inferior insulator or are you saying it works fine and just isn't...
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Yesterday, 08:54 PM
Please do!
Only criteria-- it's jazz rhythm guitar. Other than that, do whatever you want!
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Yesterday, 08:53 PM
I am so with you on that.
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Yesterday, 08:52 PM
Cloth insulation is only good for making the wiring look old, it has no effect on the wire inside the cloth. It is somewhat effective at reducing...
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Yesterday, 08:45 PM
Repairable and worth repairing are not the same thing. It may be more expensive to repair an item which can be repaired than to buy a new one. This...
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Yesterday, 08:39 PM
Most new amps are throw away gear. Especially the digital/modeling crap.
Anything can be fixed but most amp techs I have had loathe dealing with...
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Yesterday, 08:36 PM
It's possible to monitor through your amp (with its reverb) while recording dry. So, you hear what you want to hear and you can add whatever you like...
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Yesterday, 08:35 PM
Alright for whatever this is worth, I revived my ancient dusty Patreon page, mostly just to keep myself working on this. I'll post probably some...
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Yesterday, 08:06 PM
Oh, this is good. I'm gonna join in.
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Yesterday, 08:00 PM
For those who have experience with them, which modelers would work best for coping Metheny like tones? I think it would be fun to do that and go...
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Yesterday, 07:58 PM
This has been clogging up my Facebook feed today from various “Sam Ash close out” sites:
90% off? Sounds great!
Hmmm…a $2800 guitar for...
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Yesterday, 07:55 PM
Thanks, yeah I'm curious what kind of tone I can get with a different pickup. With any electric I need time alone to dial in the fit and this Eastman...
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Yesterday, 07:53 PM
Guitarists in general are a rather conservative bunch. They prefer 1950’s designs and tube amps to newer solid state,digital,etc.
And While I get it...
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Yesterday, 07:53 PM
The corn in the Midwest is awesome, but hard to get good tomatoes unless you grow them yourself or get them from the farmer’s market in season.
My...
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Yesterday, 07:50 PM
What kind of wire do you guys use installing pickups in archtops and where do you get it? I've only installed a few pickups and my first attempt at...
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Yesterday, 07:49 PM
Hope you heal quickly!
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Yesterday, 07:49 PM
After owning several different Eastman Archtops 810CE,880JP, 803CE,.etc I’ve found that that are just bright sounding guitars,probably due to the...
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
Came so close to buying this... but I have too many guitars. Have to be a seller not a buyer. Damn.
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Yesterday, 06:41 PM
Part 2: The Blues
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Yesterday, 06:35 PM
Monitor with some reverb as you track the guitar part but do not print the effect. As Jim said, you are stuck with that reverb and most DAWs have...
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Yesterday, 06:33 PM
Sadly, a glitch prevented me from bidding on this one. Perhaps its new owner might be aware of its importance, but it's a 1930's Roger, built by...
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Yesterday, 06:22 PM
Oh interesting … I guess half diminished off the #4 gives you a 6b5 … given the context I always thought of it as a #11, but it is a nice voicing.
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Yesterday, 06:18 PM
wtf????
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Yesterday, 06:13 PM
I always have some of these in my pocket:
Robot or human?
Danny W.
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Yesterday, 06:09 PM
I've just realized that Jimmy Dunlop is Hans Groiner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFLp5JmCsek
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Yesterday, 06:01 PM
Looking for a parlor size classical $700.or so or less.Any suggestions.
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Yesterday, 06:00 PM
yes it is the same progression and its 4/4 not 3/4.
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Yesterday, 05:57 PM
I find those work better against throat ache than as couch suppressors; inhaling a good breath after sucking on one of those or alternatives...
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Yesterday, 05:56 PM
This is not the progression you posted. This is in 3/4 time and what I hear is repeated Amin bars end with a D7 to Gmaj in the last bar.
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Yesterday, 05:55 PM
Ciao House on the Food Network. The current series is all being filmed in Puglia, Italy. This is where my wife grew up and where I just came...
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Yesterday, 05:54 PM
Fishermans Friend has been recommended by some vocal teachers.
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Yesterday, 05:54 PM
I was tempted to ask if it couldn't be both, but then I saw the photos.
With f-holes that narrow it could only be a decorative chamberpot I fear...
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Yesterday, 05:46 PM
Stream chorus11 by Jimmy Dunlop | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
is this what you were talking about related to "bass" chords? this is the...
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Yesterday, 05:40 PM
I suspect that this is a good archtop guitar and not a chamberpot, despite the tarnish on the silver-plated tailpiece and the corrosion on the the...
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Yesterday, 05:35 PM
Do you know from experience that the stress and concentration from being on stage will distract you enough that the cough will disappear during the...
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Yesterday, 05:31 PM
Sounds sweet and looks cool too, thanks for sharing this. :encouragement:
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Yesterday, 05:25 PM
There's a lot of crossover between classical and jazz harmony. A lot of what separates the 2 is how they're played, although they're not identical. ...
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
its from lehar, couldnt find on yt since it was deleted, so i uploaded the sibelius file
Stream chorus11 by Jimmy Dunlop | Listen online for free...
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Yesterday, 05:09 PM
Hey.
Not just compare. How can we steal from spoken language?
There's a bunch of books about motif-development. But lets steal from what works...
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Yesterday, 05:07 PM
Also note that the top line of that bar is a descending line:
| D9 Cmaj9 D7/B Am9 |
E (9th of D), D (9th of C), C (7th of D7), B (9th of Am)
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Yesterday, 05:01 PM
That's one explanation but it's hard to say without seeing the actual arrangement.
Let's take a bar from the progression:
| D9 Cmaj9 D7/B Am9 |...
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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
so in other words you mean that it uses these type of extensions cause of bass line? i hope i got you right
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Yesterday, 04:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c7rapnXZbE
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Yesterday, 04:43 PM
Because it's not cowboy music? Haha. Joking aside, the key here is the harmonic motion or voice motion within a chord. Yes you can just hit a basic...
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Yesterday, 04:38 PM
It is from an opera, let me check if I can find it, i got the sibelius file. My point is that chords are not uncommon but it doesnt look like the...
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Yesterday, 04:32 PM
Doc: Did you watch the auction (it was live-streamed) or just review the final results? I sat through the whole thing. I had divided the relevant...
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Yesterday, 04:28 PM
https://youtu.be/FrkvnzdKObY?si=BC62G-yg0Lt_h1a7
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Yesterday, 04:24 PM
Not sure if I follow your question. The ii V I progression is everywhere, in classical music, baroque music, pop music. Extensions are also...
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
They still do, but we didn’t get them in our Philly suburban stores. Jersey is still the #5 producer of tomatoes in the
US, but I don’t know about...
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