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You singled him out. He is an exception. Most straight-ahead guitarists do not play hammer-ons and pull-offs (terms invented by Pete Seeger — the...

I usually let it ring a little. I have no idea how many cents out it has to be for me to notice. If it sounds out of tune to me, I tune it....

I agree with pingu, There is no perfect. If you need perfect tuning pick another instrument.

I don’t follow what you’re trying to say. Herb Ellis isn’t some peripheral… he’s the guy from the Oscar Perterson Trio. Oscar Peterson Trio...

Thank you for listening.

I just look at my watch.

I'm enjoying this thread, thanks everyone. Reading through, it evokes some memories and thoughts. Back in the 1980s when I had a small recording...

Yes, I sold it.

If you look closely at any pictures of the JP-20 that Joe played for many years, it had a unique headstock inlay that I have never seen on any other...

The problem with going to Mars is hard radiation. The shortest one-way route exposes one to almost complete lifetime allowable accumulation, which...

Im going to Nashville in November for the first time. I will definitely check out Gruhns!

I don't pick hard enough for the pitch during the attack to raise, but I would figure you should pick where you play. The most important thing to...

There's no perfect ....

In any music with a groove (So not some Metal or Classical music) I think the time feel is a dance You need to feel the music and syncopations...

Fuckin' A man

It’s easy to find a chart in Eb. Shift up a 4th or move over one string to transpose to Ab.

This Metronome-as-crutch thing is weird to me. Not sure what the opposition is all about. It’s a tool. You can use it as a crutch or you can use it...

My opinion is that using a metronome is possibly useful as a remedial aid when just starting one's first instrument, as in for the first few days, to...

If you are going to be a musician,learning to transpose to another key is a basic requirement,especially if you work with singers or horn players.I...

I once visited a class where the instructor (a Hawaiian who knew the tradition well) was teaching slack key guitar. The students were mainlanders,...

Very useful indeed. I remember transposing for arranging class at Berklee 40+ years ago. It did get easier (and quicker) with practice.

Ed Benson was a great guy, imho. I still enjoy jjg. Ed brought jimmy bruno, bob benedetto, + Howard paul to Atlanta for clinics. Glad he got to enjoy...

Hey thanks to those who've ordered with the promo, I've extended the sale for a while longer. Here's a fun one I just finished:

Yet still it sat here for 5 days without anyone pulling the trigger. Some guitars can’t be given away. :rolleyes:

That baby’s got back!

What I find interesting is how the idea of UFOs or extraterrestrial life seems very like an Jungian archetype. Somehow it bounces through...

Most often associated with Reggae/Ska, cool enough, but this is the side of Ernest I was first (knowingly) exposed to: Like this collab, too:

Here's another fun one with some measurement of different band member's beat placement http://https://youtu.be/I3lzbNLxYhQ?si=4jZg5Jg5RmBUgJ6x

It seems to me that to have good time feel, one must have a good sense of time. Get married to your metronome and use it all the time when you...

Very useful when you have to arrange for transposing instruments such as Bb and Eb horns. The more you do it, the easier it is. It's communication.

Is it bothersome to learn, or just tedious to perform?

That guitar goes way back to before I'd standardized my current tailpiece designs -

So glad I went to the bother of learning to transpose melodies into other keys.

Bob’s Cameo with a little clear on it.

This is his last guitar, maybe it was the one you saw. https://youtu.be/HSeJSWwEyoE?si=4UFZijhGGPTcf5CN

Interesting tailpiece. Is that a one off?

I once did a full rebuild / repair on an Elk amp head, which I believe is a Japanese Fender copy. Iirc, it had this same odd convention wrt the...

(the diameter of the solar system seems to be a mystery*). most spacy things are based on theory..what else do we have The Big Bang the size...

People should work on their faakin time innit

Buddy Fite broke all the laws of jazz guitar. He played a twangy sounding Gretsch with the treble on eleven. He bent the Hell out of strings. He...

Good lord that’s gorgeous….

I had the privileged of having met Joe Pass in person, attended one of his courses in Vienna, besides – together with Les Wise, my teacher at the...

Grant Green.

This is very much debatable. People absolutely have aptitudes and that’s all well and good, but most of what makes music interesting and pleasant has...

You are trying and failing to quantify something that cannot be measured. That is not a 'music principle'. It is folly.

Mark immediately informed me that he did not install the off center strap button. I told him that goes without saying. :smile-new: Crooked or off...

The confusion is not being sure of the connection convention. In the world of electric guitar pedals the convention is that with a series of...

The writer was not a jazz enthusiast and was writing generally, no doubt with conservative straight-ahead guitarists in mind. Yes, there are jazz...

Joe, this guitar is probably out of sight good. Ed Benson would not play a guitar that did not have the "stuff." I am not sure but it could be one...

If you are having trouble with beat width time feel, there is an exercise you may do to see if you can learn to hear it, then learn to feel it and...

The amp is currently disassembled waiting on parts.. Much of the front panel hardware was rusty (sat in basement or cold storage?) and I'm replacing...

Joe, I've purchased from Gruhns several times. A first class experience. They will set the guitar up perfectly. Also, they accept reasonable offers...

Time feel is about the harmony for me first of all.

Yeah, I think this was the point I was trying make earlier...

Bottom line, not everyone has the talent. Sad, maybe, but true. Also, there's a lot of difference between technique and a natural feeling for time...

Strymon has a setting for amp model only or IR only. Not sure I see much application outside of recording since I don't want to string boxes...

"The $100 million initiative intends to develop light-propelled nanocrafts that will get us to Alpha Centauri..." I think they meant to say it's...

I've struggled with this issue. I don't think I've mastered it. So, clearly no need to read the rest of this post. I have looked at graphs of...

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as we know you can't teach "feel" good or otherwise.. but you can show an example of it---when the trumpet takes a solo..look the kufc out ...

Here, Dr Brian Keating (Professor of Physics at UC San Diego) interviews Avi Loeb on the subject of Oumuamua, specifically starting at min 11:00, so...

Theory can explain precise time feel, but not necessarily "good." Good time feel can be on the beat without sounding metronomic. Good time feel...

This is why I've suggested learning to dance will help. A lot. Especially if you're playing Latin. I saw Ray Barreto one time. The bass player...

That one has me MAJOR LEAGUE tempted.. JD

Yes but everyone has some of it. Ask someone to walk and watch them subdivide perfectly from one foot to the next. Usually if people can’t access...

I was just thinking about classical players. In some ways they have a more sophisticated time feel. A string quartet may have pieces where the beat...

This is a fun one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EtsPf3X-I

John Coltrane was the first jazz music I heard that really melted my brain. I already was playing the guitar so I just started teaching myself. I...

Now we're talking about phrasing. Part of it is being able to feel 4 bars or 8 bars without counting. Another part is knowing where 1 is without...

I said that. If you have some of it, it can be polished, improved, like someone's who's not naturally athletic can train up. But they won't have that...

Take note that George is asking a very fair price for a guitar that looks great. Another reason to avoid reverb George does. I will add again that...

Good time = consistent awareness of the pulse of music, not speeding up or slowing down unintentionally, not playing at a different tempo from the...

Tragically, no, not really. Any more than a normal person can become Kim Peek.

Everyone can improve, even Ragman

You really think this is true? You can’t listen to music and copy and incorporate enough to produce a good time feel where, before, you didn’t...

… over all, I agree with you. However, there is also how a tool will shape its’ use. That creates a relationship between a person, the process,...

I have a nice time exercise from ancient times. When trying to learn a tricky rhythm for a lick or whatever, try this. Left hand taps( um.....

Of course you can, but if there's no natural feel what then? Someone with natural feel can study it and build on it for sure, but if it's not there...

I hear three things going on; pace, pause, and beat width Pace is what a metronome does, the strict mathematical period Pause is what occurs in...

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a very interesting and useful thread this ….

Here's something i found. Not saying this is definitive: "The fastest speed by a spacecraft is 163 km/s (586,800 km/h; 364,660 mph), which was...

i know a bass player who uses an Elf amp into a barefaced cab it sounds really good ….

Thanks! Am I correct in assuming that you’ve played the song a zillion times before over the years, in a zillion different ways, and that you drew...

have you got option paralysis yet ? I have ! Ive just bought a behriger graphic eq for £26 …. so I’m gonna try that out next with my Bam200 and...

Yes. The way he organises the elements in a pyramid is also a good way to illustrate how to practice time feel as well. You need consistency and...

Have you swapped the input/output leads ? what is the result ? if that does not fix the reverb you will need to get out the multi meter and a...

Concierto de Aranjuez has heavy rasqueado fff, doesn't sound out of place or in another style. Mentioning that one because the smoothest version of...

Hey, them's fightin' words, Juan! :wink-new: Looking forward to your review!

Corrected !

Great post! I think this is a really accurate explanation! See, I never would have uncovered this on my own.

After giging for 5 yrs I encountered Jerry Glassel in Jackson Mich. He taught me the basics of harmony.He could play anything after hearing it...

A friend of mine has the UA dream. We did some playing and gear testing and we agreed it sounded kinda sterile and it was noisy. I recently got a...

IIRC, both Ben Monder and Jonathan Kriesberg (who often have a similar tonal quality to my ears.) use obsolete reverb technology: Lexicon LXP-1 and...

Yes Litterick. You're so above music principles and those who use them. lol

No rag. No, no, no! :P You can quantify it and practice it.

I agree. I thought you'd have some good insight.

True about the Milkman "in itself" but one thing that interests me is its speaker output. I could run this into my Ox Box and take advantage of the...

Kirk builds some really great guitars. I know Doyle Dykes is a huge fan of them. Nice playing too.

These were $2495 back 10 to more years back. Wonderful instrument!

Sorry maybe I wasn’t clear You can understand (at least the basic features of) a micro-rhythmic feel theoretically (like samba or jazz swing) but...

Christian, I don't doubt it's possible to teach or learn good time feel, just not have it explained theoretically - because the 'why' of it I think...

I think it can actually, but I don’t think it’s all that helpful! There’s a difference between knowing the path and waking the path. let’s take...

These are beautiful looking and sounding amps! :eagerness: GLWTS!

This reads as if the pedal is a merger of the Fender Mustang and ToneMaster

Yeah this is super true. Teaching younger students things like triplets and whatever, I always make them take the time to put it in their ear, in...

Agree with this. But I still don't think good time feel can be explained theoretically. And I certainly do not underestimate how great at rhythm...

I know, right? Every time I see a photo of a guitar in the white, I covet it :smile-new:

Ha - that's great - yeah, "crump" as is Helen Crump from the Andy Griffith Show : )

But like with the old bifocals the "nearer-and-nearer" zone tapers down to a more or less narrow band in the centre (just how narrow is inversely...

I do loads of hammer ons and pull offs and I’m not the only one. I suspect what they mean is ‘why do jazz guitarists not sound like rock...

You’re spot on! That’s a really good summation of how I approach these all-improvised solo pieces. I listen as if the music just played is from...

Jazz guitarists don’t do hammer ons and pull offs? That’s news to me. Herb Ellis specifically said to use them in his instructional materials.

Plug and Play indeed. ...

As with a lot of things, the first stage learning the thing somewhat mechanically and then relaxing into it when you’ve got it down. That’s when all...

Could split "time feel" into those same two components. So, time are these theoretically perfect chunks of musical movements but feel is the...

Yes, also do the same for half note and quarter note triplets. Also the displaced quarter triplet, where the first note of the triplet coincides with...

Obv this was widened out a little into a general discussion of time… which of course isn’t quite the same thing as feel. But I don’t expect I’ll ever...

The most important thing IMO is being able to feel the pulse. Dancing to the music might help, no kidding. Then the understanding of polyrhythms...

yeah I deleted it because I decided it wasn’t true haha that’s completely true. However in the case of intermediate level students, just...

I don't really understand the first paragraph. The second paragraph - ok, but software like Sibelius can produce exact rhythms, but I don't think it...

Professional opinion and the judgment of the community is central to music. The goalposts DO vary from tradition to tradition. We don’t do rubato in...

If you get it instinctually, you don't need to break it down. I feel your teacher's pain.