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Well done! I love a lot of those tunes you picked too.

Nice lines and ideas. Biggest thing I hear that could be improved is your timing. If feels like some of your phrases started a bit early or late....

Joe pass is a great place to start. He said to learn CAGED forms. He didn't explicitly say how to learn minor and dominant chords but I think it is...

I enjoyed that a lot. It felt like you were laying back on the latin section a little, and then swinging pretty hard on the bridge, yet somehow...

I got nothing but not for lack of trying.

I like the boogaloo feel. I also like the way you did the bridge, really emphasizing the modulation to Abmaj. Great feel an tone throughout. John

I like this a lot, particularly you 8th note feel on the latin part...pushes ever so slightly...makes it exciting. More great tone too...nice...

Thanks, LittleJay! I found another of DBs blogposts and saw your reply after I posted my update (which, incidentally, now has a link to a different...

I took a few cracks at this one, messing around a bit with different tones. But decided to stop here. I could have played something more...

This sounds great. Works good as a Boogaloo. Nice lines, phrasing...this is the type of playing I really enjoy. And great tone too. Oh, and yes, a...

I think this sounds good! I actually find Mr. Sunnybass hard to play with sometimes, because he plays real bass lines, not just keeping time.

LMAO.....now that is a LOTTA CHEESE !! will know in a few days.....ya neva - NO.

Just came back for seconds. Excellent ears, intuition and.... patience :) Really though. Folks who think there's nothing to free playing oughta...

Jeff, great phrasing, feel and tone! Love that guitar. Heritage right? Picking my ears, liking the "dive into it" attitude! And "You Stepped Out...

That's a beauty Mark!

Here it is... Recorded with a bass player and the Drum Genius app. Since I couldn't get the app to learn the form and switch from Latin to Swing, I...

that's a lot of cheese!! haha congrats...luck cheers

Right here...

Those are some very classy and beautiful heads! But where's the Lehmann?

ps- if you want true rube goldberg pup design look no further than the dearmond dynasonic...used real magnet polepieces but with an elaborate spring...

Thanks for the purchase of Solo Jazz Guitar 2. I hope you enjoy it and Mercy is a nice and easy arrangement to learn. I want to add a quick caveat....

Well.... I haven't looked at ESP but it's probably a "modal" tune? Anyway, Leavitt's stuff was not that. He used key signatures for his music,...

well, i was really addressing iced tea ^, who was having trouble with his cc uk pickup being evenly balanced!...same principle applies though for the...

Awesome! Congratulations.

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I am glad to hear that you found what sounds like a pretty significant improvement by changing the controls. I have generally found that large...

Cool! Good news.

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Congratulations on this major achievement. Tony D.

These pickups are heavy and the mass is asymmetrically distributed. Hanging it this way makes the load of the pickup more uniformly distributed...

Any day when your music is listed before Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Peter Bernstein, the Yellowjackets and Christian McBride is a good day!

Not to derail this thread, but that seems like such a Rube Goldberg way to adjust the pickup. I can see how it works but...why didn’t they mount it...

I just remembered my ex asked for and got my 1970 Goya classical—G-20. The neck needed a reset. I wasn’t playing it much and got another decent...

A 500k pot will have 250k resistance at some point in the turn of the knob. It's not illegal to roll the tone control, nor the volume control, back...

It’s his birthday today, ya know.

Fellow LaCrossian? I lived there for 10 years; my daughter is still there. Lovely place. And Dave’s....I knew him a bit...we had kids at the...

It’s almost like people aren’t machines or something

Dave's Guitars in Lacrosse Wisconsin just listed a 2mpickup version!:smile-new:

This is at our local Dave's shop.

I find the L4CES to be a superb sounding guitar. The last one I had was an earlier 2000’s ma’hog that sounded absolutely superb. I bought it sight...

That said, I thought the solve was more eighth notes so I did this take: Nica's Rough Feet by Irez87 | Free Listening on SoundCloud Rough...

Well yesterday l was just revising the MMFG, Vol.1 2nd Ex. P56, when l noticed it had 2 flat keys so with out thinking to much l started playing Bb...

Here was my first real try... still needs work. Nica's Big Beat by Irez87 | Free Listening on SoundCloud

I must say, I have never heard a guitarist produce a better tone from a flat top guitar than Tony Rice. The most award winning flat picker, Scott...

Darn I’d love to see it. Can some Windows type help the guy? Apple here, I avoid Windows like, well Covid)

Finally. A way to control HS trumpet players! Where were these in 1970? :cool:

Yep that's very handy, and so is a list of chord scales. However, both leave a lot to the player in terms of how to make melodies. The only...

As an aside, I think of key signatures as being more of a tool to make the notated music easier to read. As such it does not always indicate the key...

Well that explains it, never did meet a bridge pickup I liked

In my book the L4CES is a highly prestigious instrument; I don't have one (or better yet, two) simply because in my (very) red neck of the woods,...

Here are a few: Top Left - Comins Classic; Bottom Left - Trenier Artifex; Middle - Comins Zelig; Right - Buscarino Monarch

Check out Milestones, the tempo is noticeably slower by the end.

The lineage from Midwest.

Impressive!

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Shipping: -The zip code is 15143 being shipped from. -Fender Princeton reverb box dimensions 24"×20"×14". -Assume 40 lbs. - Optional Outer...

Another one from the archives (2009): A Michael Abene chart of Bill Evans' 'Rattletrap' WDR Big Band feat. Bill Evans, Dave Weckl, Mark Egan....

Can’t play the right chord scales and the rhythm section speeds up? Bloody rubbish! Who are these amateurs?

Congratulations!!!

wayne's night dreamer speeds up considerably.

Love this story, I remember the feeling of second-hand joy reading it when FJ published the article. It also reminds me of the Peter Frampton's...

Except when they are both in 5 of course #jazznerdsinternational

ROFL yes they do. You know what they say though; better to speed up than slow down.

Thanks and, yes, I totally agree. It’s all there in the work of your favourite musicians.

Eh, kind of what I’ve been working on for a couple of years. It’s a good approach for decluttering.

Funny, that, and handy in the garden, but not actually the case. This is the case:

There seems to be a slight flabbiness to it...can't quite put my finger on it.

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Yep turns out to be a typo, referenced to my older copy of MMFG. Thanks

Where are you located, Wildcat?

replied to email and pm...

Congratulations on your journey. So, now that you’ve begun, what do you think of these knuckleheads who’ve been at it for decades?:)

Should probably just do some more transcribing.....but I'd like to check out/shed those small phrases.....

Take a look at Figure 2. It's not that it's a completely new concept, but it does boil things down to a digestible formula based on simple triads. ...

Thanks! I copied your correction into the OP too.

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Right on - congrats!!

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They do the week of THROUGH. Today through Thursday next week. I trust March 1 is Thursday! It’s not. I don’t know. It’s always Thursday through, I...

March 1?

And here I thought Mel was short for Melvin.

You are super lucky. Those are absolutely beautiful guitars!

Ahem...how bout a little palate cleanser? Love the Heritage bound headstocks, but the real pointy ones don't do it for me. But...guess whose...

Bravo!

Maybe a little basic but as I seem to miss the forest for the trees myself fairly often I'll mention... For the most part, an electric guitar,...

thanks, you’re one of the few cats here that seems to really like these free pieces. Much appreciate your patronage:)

I have been getting more and more into Barry's teaching recently, having come from the Berklee approach. The Berklee stuff has been beneficial in...

Congrats!

About 10 years ago, I decided to let a few guitars go and one of them was a 17” Blonde Campellone Deluxe. It wasn’t long before I started to really...

Coming back here to follow up on what I found with the Schatten thumbwheel: So, I couldn't find a 250k version which I would've preferred so I just...

Great!Congrats Jazzingly Kris

Wow, congrats!

I think you're a very accomplished musician, revisiting the Django stuff is nice to delve into different harmonic territory and open up new ideas. I...

more patience, less patients! nice cheers

To me it's <10min adjustment time to switch between. The thing gives me most trouble is the fanned frets, especially on the higher positions....

Nice thread. I got a new GB10 in fall 2019. I always wanted one since my early 20s but never got around to buy one. I had an Artcore AG75 (the poor...

I know some don't like the Heritage headstock but I always thought it was clever how the cutouts at the top were the mirror image of the Gibson "open...

Is that the one that was solid mahogany, that is, without the maple cap? How did it sound compare with other LPCs?

:welcome:

That's a beauty! Enjoy it in good health! :encouragement:

It's true, but maybe it's some kind of motivation to work on yourself. Nice take over ND. Best kris

Some of the Aebersolds speed up quite a bit as they go, but maybe that’s good practice for real-world situations!

About Aebersolds playalongs-sometimes I cut piano and play with bass and drums. It is very easy because of stereo separation. why? If you practise...

Sorry for all the ' Kodak Brownie ' photo mistakes, but you get the idea ! : )

I didn't read it yet but: So-called "chord tone soloing" is a widely used beginning improv technique. That is - improvise melodies using...

I am happy that LS start to love music of W.Shorter. Best Kris

That's true. I have met him, since he lives just 60 miles from my home. He performed once here in Lexington, Ky. and I went to hear him and spoke to...

You just made my day! Thank you. And you have given me the melody, which I want to learn now.

haha I love robo-jazz backing from BB/real tracks/ though I have almost all Aebersolds playalongs. BB is a fantastic tool-you can organize jazz...

Right, thanks! Wayne chord progressions are like cryptic puzzles with the clues given by the melody. But Wayne so frequently paraphrases the...

that makes sense, some Aebersolds are definitely better than others. I’d still take them over robo-jazz backing any day

I think if you do learn it, you'll like the tune even more. I think its very memorable. And as Graham pointed out, melody is absolutely key in...

May interest Four swing era variants of rhythm changes - YouTube

Been working on walking bass/chords and Bb Rhythm Study number 3 from Contemporary Jazz Studies volume 1 By David Berger RhythmBergerEtude...

I think I read somewhere that this is how they made at least some of the Aebersold tracks, i.e. Jamie A. played the melody and a solo, which was then...

Thankyou!