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I don't know what you mean by rhythmically compelling. I was really trying to demonstrate what are, or not, so-called wrong notes. I mean, I wouldn't...

I have been watching the Birdland live streams regularly and Frank always seems to be using that blackface Princeton Reverb. Although there is often...

The 2 guitar builders I worked with and knew had their shop attached to the house. It was a dangerous thing in they could go out and simply work all...

There are multiple ways to damp the strings between the bridge and tailpiece. You can use Velcro across the strings, or a piece of rubber, felt,...

Thanks for your suggestion, I just reduced the price to $4200 in the original posting. There are indeed some other black ones for sale at the...

The Seth is on the chirpier side, but it is nice and vintage. Works better with roundwounds. It's not a fat and syrupy pup. Depends what you're...

That sharp cutaway body is another Hammertone project - I'm gonna put a new neck on it for him.

Sir, this is a guitar forum.

Well I think so too, but you try telling them that haha. A lot of kids who've been in the system since a young age, too. And not everyone is like...

I am not great but decent at sight-singing from some time in a chorus. But if I don't sing it out loud I won't hear it that well in my head. And that...

When you're reading a part that is supposed to mesh with the horns, it's essential to be really accurate. Notes need to stop, and end, at the right...

He sings too!!

Thanks for the reply and clarifications. I still think even if you're at an elite conservatoire it's still worth putting the effort in even if it's...

Funny, I just had this very conversation with Kent Armstrong yesterday. He was adamant that pole pieces should be lowered never raised. He said raise...

While I don't doubt that a black 175 can be difficult to find, currently there are several for sale on Reverb and eBay. Would it make sense to offer...

Got tuning and voicing down. Gonna start with regulating the piano. I'll take one step at a time. The first step is leveling the keys. Then I can...

Thanks! That’s what the tech said too. Sometimes that makes sense. For me it was distortion on everything between the 4th and 9th fret. That was...

No that's not what I am saying. I think you misunderstand the context, I'll try to explain. Classical music undergrad students at elite...

Bump for a gorgeous guitar!

I'm not that worried about it. I've seen this all before in 80's Japan. People lost their minds with spending habits. The economy crashed in the...

Hmm, I see that they usually use the same stock photo for each model but these are all used guitars so you'd think they'd be different. Their...

Agreed, the Barber EQ is a great pedal. Hope it can go to someone who will use it a lot. Giving this another bump.

I used to have a lovely L4CES ( the version with maple b/s). I have owned several ES-175’s and L5’s over the years. The L4 didn’t sound like a 175 or...

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Thanks to everyone for helping out with this. Here's where we ended up. Looks like we'll be outside. The kb player has two pairs of powered...

hmm...not so sure about that bolded part.

That's for NYC guitars and basses made in the shop in New York. The Japanese instruments have a different serial sequence beginning with A

Oh. Missed this. Yes. Well. I have a nice L5 Studio. There are two generations. I have an older one with a standard burst and laminate back and...

I don’t know man. I think again that our sense of what is rhythmically compelling is very different. Which is fine as a matter of taste, I suppose

The short answer is no. Can you talk him into it …… ?

That's very cool! The Japanese builders/factory are putting out a lot of interesting guitars these days. I just picked up a Stringphonic L-5ish...

I like the thinner body of the SS, and its wider neck, but I'm always afraid I'd miss the extra 15th fret on the Bruno. I don't often need it, but...

Very similar thread from about a year ago has the licks with sound examples: Modular lick compendium

This might interest you, or not. Three solos on Summertime. The first one's straight but the next two have subs (only the solo, not the chords):...

Mark Campellone has a Wesmo in his shop right now that has some cosmetic issues. He is going to fix the finish and flip it. Might get a good deal on...

Is Mark Campellone making sharp cutaways as an option nowadays?

I thought you are all sight readers? Audiation, baby!

They do both, it's notated on the sheets hard swing, or straight, or something in Italian or Latin that I don't yet understand.

Distortion on specific notes sounds like sympathetic vibration from the strings behind the bridge and in front of where they connect to the...

thx Jim.... I will keep ya posted. appreciate the kind words re the design !! sent you an email via the system. Scott

EDIT: 95% of the noise is gone. The rest comes and goes. I’ ll try the tape around pu and a piece of reed / plectrum to stabilize. thanks once...

Hah! Getting out of the subway yesterday afternoon I saw I guy in the station with glasses and two jumbo gig bags and thought to myself "hey, is that...

Might be good to include a sound clip with the licks for those of us away from the instrument.

ps - That's why it would be nice to compare the AA Pro to the Bud 10. Both have 10" woofs.

For what it's worth, I had a Fishman Loudbox Artist to try for a month to compare to the AA Mini. (Both 8" woofs.) The Fishman had a few features...

Do big bands not play swing eighths?

I don't know. It's simple to me, if it fits, then it's okay. If you hear something that makes you want to vomit then it's not...

Christian is incapable of withholding snark. If it makes you feel better, I was a jazz guitar student thrust into a classical major because of...

Very true, there are exceptions to the rule and every guitar is different. I have an old twin pickup Gibson that sounds so loud and full...

Agreed … also interesting note, there’s a killer G major lick in Cornet Chop Suey (from what … 1930?) that looks an awful lot like this one.

I am thoroughly impressed with this AA Pro. Full disclosure, I didn’t even know they existed until I first stumbled upon this one. I did know about...

I'm not sure why you feel the need to scoff at people practising something which they might not have a career in. It seems to me that in doing this,...

Benedetto buys pickups from Seymour Duncan, AFAIK. I'm sure they don't wind their own pickups.

I've just recently got my first hollowbody, and I set the neck pickup for 4/64ths on the treble side, and 6/64ths on the bass side. Gibson specs, and...

Just a note on the Wesmo versions sounding better acoustically than the CES versions: When I got my CES last year, I thought it had a very good...

It might be able to just "handle it," but The Bud 6 is not nearly in the same league as the AA Pro for fullness and range. Or the AA Mini, for that...

There's also a natural slide in the use of notes. For example, using the major seventh as part of a melody was common in the 1920s, but you...

My parents said college would ruin me. I'll never be respected in academia or the music business no matter how much experience I have. They had...

Of course not. I would never call it a wrong note. A inside note played haltingingly is a wrong note. But I brought it up because …. Which...

right. So this it, right. Analyzing based on the color of the note against the chord isn’t terribly productive because its rhythm and articulation...

I may have done, I can't remember now :-) It depends entirely on the context. I'd say that's the bottom line. Done skilfully it can sound...

Rim wood :smile-new:

My fault, I thought you meant the chord D over C, not just the note. So, D on C. Then it's C add 9 or CM9 if the C was CM7. I'd still say colorful to...

I have a PhD from St. Tropez University in Osaka. I'm a labor relations consultant. On a personal note, I'm in the world's worst techno band.

It occurs to me that you might have read that as a “D chord,” but the same still applies.

Being a club musician takes dedication. Everything is about networking no matter where you're at in music. You have to pay your dues in clubs. A guy...

I've got a 2011 SS-15 and the year is written on the inside label right along with the serial number... just sayin'

Apparently. First off, nothing distinctly “Lydian” about that note. But also you didn’t ask an important question … what comes before and after,...

Before investing money in new pickups, take some time to change things, as Jimmy blue note said. Change the volumes on the amp and guitar. I like...

Colorful, because it's pleasantly lydian, which is more than acceptable. Wrong notes aren't notes just 'not in the chord', they're basically mistakes...

Not so much as we might like to think. Thought experiment: You play C maj and I play the note D … is it colorful or do you barely notice it?

My parents were classical pianists and they said music school would ruin me. I dabbled in a class or two and hated it. I love dives. They're my...

A piece of reed or guitar pick can help damp the buzz of the pickup against the ring, if that's the cause. Most springs I've seen are identical, but...

I don't have that book and I'm certainly not going to buy it so I can reply to your post! If you have a link, post it. If you don't, and you have the...

To be a good sight reader is also a type of improvisation - if you’ve read a load of Sor or Giuliani or whatever you are more likely to know ‘how it...

The real Bobby is great.

Yeah that’s probably true. I wish classical musicians did a bit more. I remember my old classical guitar teacher had me do jazz adjacent harmonic...

Yeah, that's a good idea, I'll start forcing myself to use the other parts of the neck.

Very good solo playing. Very good jazz sound and very good jazz taste and feel. Best Kris

I mean - it’s no surprise when you go back to theory/practice from the era when it was actually about people being able to improvise and write music...

I know about their guarantee, so I’m not worried about losing the purchase money, just the return shipping. Based on the reviews I’ve read and...

I'd say they were an integral part of the music, classical included.

I put electrical tape around the pu and part of a sax reed to immobilise it (zoom in a bit) clumsey maybe but it works

You might have misread it. I said jazz players do it more than classical musicians and for different reasons, mostly to do with the demands of...

Color notes generally aren’t that interesting, alas. As much as we might like them to be.

Btw, why is neck pickup spring wider ? Less springy? Shorter? Is it because it isn’t supposed to be raised as high? EDIT. I have now mounted thin...

From my original order sheet: 16" body w/3"rim depth 25" fingerboard scale 1&3/4" nut width

That wasn’t what I saying. Jazz musicians analyse stuff all the time. Their purpose in doing is not (generally) the same as classical musicians....

Well, I'll play interesting color notes and you play a lot of nonsense. I don't mind, it's been done before :-)

Reading recommendation: Don Byas on Art Tatum in Art Taylors "Notes and Tones"

Also looks like Frank brought (or is using) a Princeton to which is lower wattage then what he usually seems to have there…a Deluxe? Maybe as a...

Ha, finally a (partly) acoustic evening with! :cool: (And no feedback! ;) ) It's true that you have to know where to look, the thing is in...

Funny enough I used to often consider switching to a Bruno!

I’ve long pondered switching from my Jimmy Bruno to a SS-15, but I can never decide.

True, true :smile-new:

Save the boxtops from 10 boxes of any of Zen cereals and send them with a self-addressed jetpack to Zen Guitars.

I really think it's a great pickup, especially if you're upgrading from a stock pickup not designed for a warm jazz sound. I've also come to like the...

Lol. He ought to debunk the whole “notes are wrong because they don’t fit over the chord” theory. You gotta get hip, ragman.

That's why it's a theory :-)

One person's 'wrong note' is another's colour tone. Much of it depends on rhythm, articulation, phrasing, the courage of ones conviction...

Thanks everyone for the info and deal alerts. I'm not quite ready to pull the trigger yet and financing is also a (big) consideration.

You can see Johnathan's mic more clearly in some of the later performances that night. The mic mount is attached to the tailpiece. The mic sits...

Selling Stuff? Read here first!

He ought to de-bunk the 'There are no wrong notes' theory as well because that is serious nonsense! Stream Uh? by ragman | Listen online for...

Thanks for your replies. I took away the pick guard. No result. I unscrewed the neck pickup and let it just sit there. No result. Did the same thing...

Henricksen has a 30 day money back guarantee. Also, a Bud 6 will easily handle your 7string low end. It handles mine.

Christian - I think your point about analysis being far more prevalent among players in jazz than classical music is a good one. Acidskiffle...

The Notated Lick Compendium. A thread for posting and storing notated licks? (maybe) Here's a classic lick I like:

Here’s another. I’ll stop now https://youtu.be/h93iH6N4-58?si=o4YT79Hna8jD-fnh Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've had the original spiral bound Lego Brick Jazz Harmony book for over 20 years. A few years ago, I bought and downloaded the newer Elliot book,...

This is from my the beard days, but I’ll put this in while I work up something fresh. Nice tune not often played around these parts ...

JB seems to use his arm more than his wrist when picking.

I'm also curious to know if with a Seth Lover on the neck the tone sound will be more to my liking!? I've heard and read so many positive opinions...

It’s also worth pointing out that much classical music theory is an attempt to elevate aesthetics to a science, to formulate objective virtue in...

Sounds good. Next up (if you don't mind some advice from someone who used that book): 1. read the lines in different positions and in different...

It’s possible to make somewhat objective statements about music - this musician is playing notes from this pitch set, this musician is playing behind...

That is possible. The guitar I had it on had limited clearance (1979 Maton Starline), so lowering the pickup wasn't an option, and it was fairly...

I will start a dedicated Israel-Palestine thread today in order not to annoy those here not interested in history happening right in front of their...

To quote Rahsaan: "The nose knows, y'all."

Came again, hoping things had cooled, to post about my music school experience, but here we go again! There are places to go to vent and argue. I...

I basically live in T-shirts and I can't wear one with a tag. I've also become a scrawny old man. But I do think it's a great design.

Great playing, Jonathan! :D

As always, I love JS' playing! FV's trad/gypsy/swing roots complemented JS quite well, I think.

Damn Vinny, what?!?! That's insane!

Cam-pell-own :)

^ That guy's friggin good. He kind of made Frank sound like a slouch on the 1st tune.

Thanks for your answers, I will do some tests

Just finishing watching tonight's show with Jonathon Stout. That was fun. I had other commitments, and had to watch it late, but it was definitely...