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I have the Little Jazz and have played it through a PA with the line-out in several situations. It sounded fine. I didn't notice any problem with...

Oh get into Konnakol instead. I started doing it and my wife thought I’d joined a cult. It’s perfect.

I don't agree. There still is something about music theory that makes I seem to start reasoning in circles, have to hold my own hand to re-read the...

the foo fighters?? What’s that, grandad? Rockschool grade repertoire, that’s what. May as well be flipping Schumann. I tell you what I was...

Hang on am I missing something here? Solflege? Had to look that up, as in singing ‘do re mi fa so la ti do....’? And we are asking why a bunch of 6...

You guys ... ... are making me wonder if solfège classes wouldn't be a perfect weapon to slow down dementia shreddin'

sounds like a choir school tbf

I come back here after buying a Princeton Reverb Tone Master... and sent it back after three weeks of using When I did a A/B comparison with my...

What makes you think I don’t enjoy it? Think about it - it goes the same way every time. There’s not many things in life that are that dependable.

It is indeed a great piece, I find the Brazilian rhythms much more enjoyable to solo over than other standards’ backing tracks, where I just seem to...

Your brother was someone who couldn't sing but he loved it? Sure :-) (The people I'm talking about couldn't sing to save their lives, they wanted...

Nor was it necessary. So, as it’s you who is asking why Don't bother with your tricks, I haven't asked for a thing. That's why you get cross,...

The slightly silly Heritage ad is in Canadian dollars. Price in US dollars is @5,700-5,800, depending on the exchange rate.

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One thing I like as a listener is when the next verse arrives, and some changes come with it. Maybe the drummer changes from brushes to ride cymbal,...

Check out the Napolitano that Woody posted (as a public service announcement)! Also, I'm assuming you're looking for used, not new, and you have...

My brother being one, even though he loved it so and kept on trying. Decades later he took some lessons that included some form of solfege. I'd guess...

Thanks Christian....GREAT POST.

Keep the GA-79. It looks so good with all those fine instruments. It conjures images of classic jazz clubs of the 60's. Dinner jackets and martinis....

I agree it’s ALL about the rhythm Always keeping a good time feel going no matter what …. the better the time feel the singer has …. the easier...

In groove based music with more or less regular rhythmic patterns in the comping, one chord instrument can focus on pulse and the other on...

OK, so doesn’t sound like you did much work on sight singing at your school then? So, as it’s you who is asking why, I’ll boil it down. movable...

There's a heritage in Ottawa Ont. 2012 Heritage Sweet 16 Electric Arch Top ES-175 | Guitars | Ottawa | Kijiji And Vinny1k would sell the Borys...

I don't consent to assigning fault over precedents that aren't clearly stated. :P

Reviving an old thread, but having used either a 50 or 35 watt Jimi...or '66 Deluxe Reverb or '63 Concert...for over 20 years, maybe I can offer some...

If you have a stereo guitar or effect, that GA79 is too good to let go. And IIRC the 30 has one 10 and one 12, which give it a unique clean tone. ...

A case in point would be what to play over the third chord (Dm) in Cantaloupe Island. A straight, literal D dorian never worked for me there, and I...

Both luthiers (Borys/Holst) have their laminated plate construction down IMHO!

Israeli scientist isolates ‘satire gene’ | The Times of Israel There may yet be hope for you, Jimmy. But until this comes to fruition I suggest...

I've had a bit of experience comping with a vocalist. I always did alright when she was singing, I mixed up accompaniment styles over songs, etc, but...

It's necessary for most. Certainly everyone on this forum. That's a pretty vast proportion. Therefore it's really stupid to try to portray it as...

Christian, I've no intention of getting into some technical thing about music teaching systems. I'm older than you. I don't remember any sort of...

It seems that it's easy to get bogged down in the convention of "playing/outlining the changes", ending up with lines that may not say much...

Sometimes it’s fun to comp with just a bassline. That said, you better be good at playing basslines!

Ok, so that means what exactly? reading on their instruments?

The quote was 'If kids started with dots they'd be better at it quicker.' Better at dots :-)

There was this thread about the EXL D'Angelico EXL-1 Interesting conversation and there's a clip that partly illustrates the GB sound mentioned...

You are supporting the vocalist, so a lot has to do with what's comfortable for them. Some vocalists can handle more complicated/abstract...

Thanks for responses so far. I was worried that there would be little consensus... and that indeed seems to be the case ... :numbness:

Thanks to all who responded. Sorry, I had typed a long response which I frustratingly lost - by the time I tried to post it I had been logged out...

Thx Mark , much appreciated.. Sol

not sure what you’re referring to, but that is for the comment about your playing. That’s all it’s really for, I do agree.

The logic of this: Say that this is the proposition in your second to last post: it is necessary to know theory to improvise jazz. if you...

For the record, I was just goofing, guitar looks great. In my book no instrument has any real "value" if it's not being played and enjoyed, being...

On a slightly less dumb level, I don’t know about anyone else but I find that my ear playing on the guitar has never had much to do with solfege...

That isn't an argument that theory is destructive.

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I’m a bit cross that through his more or less total cluelessness Ragman is making me defend moveable do solfege lol - which is in many ways clunky...

Oh well! At least it’s $1000 less than the one at Gryphon Strings.

what about gypsy jazz and Django?:smile-new:

Anyone can learn the theory easily.Playing an instrument is not so easy anymore. Perhaps one should ask the question - why is that so?

Better at what? Sight singing and dictation? Sure - if you have perfect pitch. Let’s set aside the fact that not everyone calls the note on the...

Apparently one school is not equal to another school. It all depends on the curriculum and who conducts the classes....I had what you write about in...

Allow you to play competently? Like Bill Evans? Lol

he made this in the early 90s at his prime

I’m not mad at theory, just disappointed. Theory, consider yourself grounded. Now go to your room and think about what you’ve done.

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Quite so. Music is practical. Theory is there to explain and enhance the practical. The practical is not there to explain the theory!

I also lack a lot of biological, physical and mathematical and (even more so) psychological education, but that didn't stop me from being a biologist...

No, sorry, I absolutely don't start with Guido of Arezzo, of whom I've never heard, I start here, now, with what is current. But you're not...

I remember from music school adult opera singers who passionately sang solfege exercises ... funny.:smile-new:

Too much philosophy. A music school is not always identified with a conservatory. The human voice is the most beautiful instrument.:smile-new:

+1 And that's it.

You lack musical education. Just by going to school you learn to listen and educate your hearing ... and what will come of it is a completely...

Bump - still available.

1. What's the rest of the hardware? Chrome or nickel? Chrome and nickel may appear to be the same, but if you put them side by side there's a...

If you were Leo Fender, your picture would be captioned as “halfway done with this one” :smile-new: Knowing that slab will someday be a beautiful...

That sounds like "ear training" to me. I could be wrong about this, but I think that in the US it’s unusual for this material to be called solfège....

try this

Re: the first point - there are books on music history, you know. It’s complicated but you start with Guido of Arezzo. the modern moveable do...

What I don't get is this. The music we know is dots on a page, and has been for long time. Why introduce yet another system to be able to hear that?...

NB functional ear training which is essentially moveable do solfege is something the missus claims was really helpful in developing her sight singing...

Anything that isn’t the hexachord system or classic French fixed do gets side eye here mate. ‘Te’ and ’ma’???? F off m8 Do re mi fa sol re mi...

+++ I've also found Thomann very helpful in this regard; they even gave me a list with cases that would be suitable for my LH650, after I gave them...

And the size of bags by the same name (eg semi-hollow, dreadnought, acoustic etc) can be very different between brands. it’s critical to read the...

I think 5 years ago maybe

Both. I agree the question is a false dichotomy. Can't have one without the other. Silly, really. Carry on.

Erm, maybe if you you mean music school = conservatory, i.e. a institution for forming professional musicians. There are two aspects to music...

Just added a PRS Blue Sierra 50w hand wired head and 2 x12 It joins : PRS DG30 Custom w matching 2x12 Mesa Rosette 300w 2x 8 - my go to...

Thanks all, I''ll post progress pics. I was at a friend's gig last night and met a very talented young artist who wants me to make her an...

Very interesting Emil. The results sound good! I first heard about negative harmony from Jacob Collier who also references the Levy book. How...

That sounds like a good theory anger management technique.

Did Eliot Fisk make this recording when he was 8 years old?:smile-new: Currently he is probably a 68 year old guitarist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFlHZojrVZA&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z-4WneE2gw&feature=youtu.beHi! I don't know if I'm...

...just to clarify - solfege isn't just for kids...:smile-new:

Oh, so true! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5VXFEWaWws

Nothing is simple on a Wikipedia music theory page.

Uh? Sorry, I should have looked it up before. Wiki has a page. Absurdly complex, completely bananas. What is the point of it? They teach this...

Don't write nonsense - because it's a shame! Singing is very important in music schools - without it you won't play properly - singing is the basis!

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It's sad that there is a lack of professionalism here on this forum. I went to school and studied solfege.It was a school of classical music, not...

Thankfully I never encountered the word Solfège but obviously heard about Do Re Mi and all that, usually in reference to young children being taught...

So some people hadn't heard of trumpeter John Raymond before this thread?

I use a Mono Vertigo (the acoustic guitar version for my archtop) and I'm happy with it. Besides very good protection (like other high end soft...

Julie Andrews had perfect pitch, which is why many people find her voice irritating :-)

Kindly excuse me for a moment. I'm going out to the kitchen to cut off all of my fingers. (Just kidding. How would I torture myself then? What a...

But you'll notice that, in order to produce a different sound, both Juris and myself instinctively felt the need to make it 'moody'. Given that...

Theory+ear training+singing+knocking. So they go through all keys, intervals & chords with inversions, write down rhythm or melodic dictates, sight...

Something like this, I suppose. https://youtu.be/drnBMAEA3AM

It’s a Bozeman L-7C. Most of them look like this. They have Custom Shop stickers because they were built in the Bozeman Custom Shop.

I think I'll put you on my ignore list...:smile-new:

Behind Marty, I must have owned some 30 Heritage archtop's. 8 SE's, 7 Sweet 16's, 7 GE's, a 555, a 535, a SKB (twice), a Heritage Eldog, 2 575's, a...

Bookmarking to watch later. John Raymond can play! Real Feels is such a cool band.

Interesting post. You think that the Epiphone has better playibility? Do you mean that the overall feel of the guitar is easier for you since the...

What have the theorists ever done for us?

An unrelated Wes tidbit I just learned: The actor who played Ensign Travis Mayweather on the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise is Anthony Montgomery,...

ATTYA seems a prime candidate for a reharmonisation as the melody moves slowly, often at one note per chord change. The challenge is that the both...

Daz right! As a former PrimaVera owner I approve of this message! This 17” is a downright steal!

This is a 16" D'Angelico EXS-1 with a Charlie Christian pickup. This was customized by the gentleman who worked for the D'Angelico company when they...

Wow, interesting, I used to own one of those until not too long ago, good amp, basically a copy of a Mark 1 Boogie. I currently own: ...

It sounds like a laminate Holst to my ears.

You guys are so mad at theory that you start posting compulsively and neurotically.

Agreed, it's not bad :-)

Coleman Hawkins probably came up with those subs. The tune was written in 1939 and Bean is already playing them in his 1944 rendition. I'll...

wow vinny, I think you just broke the internet! :cool:

Marty it’s a thing of beauty. I love the re/curve, the wood package etc.. Mine does not have Johnny’s sig so you’re a lucky guy. Out of all my...

DA had a few of the "Throwback" series archies that were just fantastic. But short-lived. I saw a few on GC sites, and I played one at their HQ...

I'd make an exception for Vic Juris who recorded his complete reharm of ATTYA (inspired by listening to Radiohead) on a few occasions: ...

Is that the McGill who built Delvecchio "clones" for a while? I knew he was working on a natural sounding PU system but didn't know any of the...

Yes! I have two of those, the acoustic bag and the electric bag. Awesome protection and storage compartments, built like a tank, and a cool classy...

Thanks for all the recommendations. Great to know about the GC return policy! I really like the floating pickup sound. I definitely plan on...

For the <12 (pre-puberty) you really shouldn't have to tell them anything other than "you'll understand and thank me later". That's what I should...

Godin's seem like cool high quality Instruments, but all the videos I've seen of 5th avenues seemed a bit too "punchy" for me. It seemed awesome for...