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Oh another point - just about everyone uses their pinky a bit. Wes and Grant Green for example would hammer 3-4-3 very often and you play a few...

Is the first note F or G? Notated in my Omnibook 2 as G, but sounds like F.

I tell you what would really help the debate is if you could do an audio recording of both approaches and not tell us which was which. I wonder if I...

Thanks for giving it a go. That’s a good start with the three fingered stuff, stick with it, sounding good ;-) Ok, so more seriously, anything...

too many cracks and iffy neck joint for me to buy sight unseen without a close personal inspection. Thanks for looking. I think if I do buy a smaller...

neck joint does not look good on that one. Thanks for looking though.

Although I posted the transcription above, I am with Christian Miller on this that really digesting small fragments of a solo is often more useful...

Nice, you seem to have a strong little finger and big(ish) fingers. I do too, so I use the little finger. But, we're all physically different.

Just had a meeting cancelled, so picked up my guitar and tried to remember some of the discussion in this thread. As "usual", a rough and ready vid...

Christian has a video on the A section of Dexterity.

Same experience with Premier vs Excel. Excels I've tried were really nice, Premier meh. SS are somewhere between 335 and a 330. Other options...

Good gradiation from the edge to the middle in both colors and transparency. Colors that don’t blend well and/or abrupt solid to transparent will...

It went for $908. Maybe someone knew something more than we did. Or not. We'll likely never know. Auction Ended|Bids:33 Current Price: $908.00

I played solos by Ch. Parker at the beginning of my studies and then a few solos by M. Davis and J.Raney.. Later I transcribed John Scofield's and...

It's plausible there could be a difference. I remember years ago there was a guy on some guitar forum that found out that if he loosened one of the...

I think the first complete solo I learned was Summertime by Wes Montgomery (the Live at Jorgies one, not the studio one he did). It’s really long...

I bought this one (TA 40) used and changed the electronics and put in two Seymor Duncan Seth Lovers. Now it plays and sounds great!

There’s solo transcriptions I’ve done that I’ve learned relatively little from. There’s small bits of music that I’ve learned a tremendous amount...

A short film about the Paris jazz scene. With English subtitles.

There were a few that made my pull my hair out for sure! Haha! Thanks for watching!

I’ve had many issues over the years and in general found ways to fix them. You don’t actually always have to suffer for your art. My favourite...

The actual amount of anatomical pronation in the forearm is also governed by the position of the neck. Obviously if you have TBS with the guitar on...

Yeah thats true, they do look and sound good but no mojo at all, kida cold, what about Ibanez AR520 VLS? seems 335 vibe, light weight and they sound...

Sorry, gotta disagree on that. I spent years looking for the single way to hold my pick that would let me play anything, the single way to fret that...

Decent guitar. I‘ve played the same model but with the Bigsby style vibrato in the 90‘s.

I said "in general" those that are nearly black on the rim (yours is not) and not translucent are IMO fugly. I posted a pic of some very acceptable...

Sounds good.

IDK any specifics about his health, but I recall that back in the 80s he was shot in the neck by an unidentified teenager in his own yard. He had...

Some people think that kind of little tweaking on an electric guitar does nothing. I found the contrary. Any little modification, the better the...

Skip, please post any updates you can. Be safe down there brother.

But did you meet Legba at the Crossroads? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYuBKRj6ELU EDIT: Interesting that on all the iconic photos Johnson...

Here’s another. Same disclaimer as before. Just trying to get those voicings in everywhere. Wouldn’t play it this way live (even if I could, which I...

I did not know that nyc chaz. This news is saddening. God bless Larry Carlton.

Or maybe, just maybe, I’m came to this conclusion because I got carpal tunnel syndrome at 22 and still get tingles in my fingers when I hold my arm...

Great thread, good examples! Although I don’t have the time nor patience to transcribe solos or study them systematically, I appreciate what can...

Lucky you! Seems I'm always in some sort of guitar related pain, fingertips, tendinitis, carpal tunnel, tennis (guitar?) elbow, neck and even back...

I'm in Bradenton - we lost power for 10 hours on the last one and had a little yard trash. I think Milton will be worse but I'm about 6 miles inland...

From the Moll website, back is carved, top is laminate. Got a lam already so don't need a road guitar. I was hoping it'd be a solid carved tuned top...

What do you have against a Gibson tobacco burst? For example this one doesn’t look cheap to me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Moonglow again. Dropbox

Whoa, I just heard Johnny St Cyr play the 2nd measure of the Opanije rhythm verbatim! On Heebie Jeebies, he plays this descending line from Ab7...

OK, gotcha, thanks for the tip! :hippie:

Agree 17" but I can't tell if it's a lam from those pics. I believe the 10,000-4,000 is a price reduction. If it truly was 10k originally I'd expect...

I watched the video and those looked like some insanely difficult solos to play on guitar.

Time to put up or shut up. https://youtu.be/lWpXFXXc4x4?si=mT2FKolK3BOX54V8

Here's the new study group thread for My Foolish Heart: My Foolish Heart - Jeff Arnold Jazz Ballads Book, Song #6

Have a look at the Excel Tour line, very close to Indo prices but made in Korea. Korean D'Angelicos are really well made, but for me they lack a bit...

I smiled at the picture of the crossed fingers on Christian's bebop fingering video; sure, you don't want to cross your fingers on the finger board,...

...or laying on the bar.

They have a (much) cheaper “Premier” line made in Asia and the “Excel” line (still) made in Korea. The Excels are still very nice. The one Premier I...

Notice in the article the first thing they talk about is posture. I think that might have something to do with it. Like...posture first and hand...

Ah. Yeah, looks like it's a 17" laminate. Whew. No longer tempted. I love it when things (don't) work out. Thanks for the link wintermoon.

had to swim to safety at 11 PM! That is so far out of my realm of experience that I can't even really imagine it. And swimming in a storm with all...

Amazon, UPS and FedEx all use USPS for last mile delivery, not every package obviously but many. I suspect that's probably more prevalent in rural...

At least they're communicating. I just got another email that it's still in Koeln for a 7th day, with no predictable arrival date. By the time it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaS0WXRV5Is

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Hunting down rattles, getting rid of electrical hums, making exact duplicates of someone else's work because someone is looking for a way not to pay...

I would be interested to hear what the OP means when they say "for vocab." What are you doing with these solos, out of curiosity? What's the...

Pretty much the same as you. Sometimes I play along with a record and if something catches my ear I'll go back and try to figure it out. It can be...

I don't recommend my approach, but here's what I've actually done. I have never transcribed a solo, even though I can read and write music. I'm...

If there's a contact for the seller, I can't find it. Do you get the impression that it's local pick up only? No shipping possible? And why don't...

All points well taken, JBN - just thought it odd that there's no exterior evidence of any impact strong enough to crack a brace - well, like you...

Hello. Unfortunately I have never taken music or guitar playing lessons the past 34 1/2 years of playing guitar/music. I am happy to report that I...

Nice job on the f-holes, whatever you used. And the varitone is verycool.

I'm not sure it helps much but I have two natural EX-SS models one made earlier that in most aspects had the Vestax appointments and a later EX-SS...

I iexted Thatrhymman ( Chuck ) and they seem to get power back on pretty decent he is in SC Greenville and said it was a mess at the hospital but...

I use a guitar strap because the guitar can be at the same angle and relative position to my body whether sitting or standing. Also, I have a chair...

Emerald City has one as well... 1976 Gibson ES-175T – Emerald City Guitars

Also I think with jazz the more different ways people find to play a thing , the better …. idiosyncrasy is probably a good thing as long as it’s...

Straight no chaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PI9wPGfHjw Looks great but I can't manage to keep the guitar in place, so I make do with a DeOro support, on my...

I'm in New Orleans now but it looks like I won't be able to stop by that shop. I'm not in the market for a 7 string.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwnj7mUY5sg

Interesting thread, but short of time right now. Would anyone care to post a bop head whose "feel" they believe is favoured/enhanced by the...

Okay sounds good! This is a really neat tune.

You have to be mindful of where the channel/output is in relationship to the channel adjustments are. Different mixers are different. Some have...

Hmm. It’s so small - only under the bridge (maybe 1” x 3” on an even smaller foot) - that I am reluctant to call it a block, it’s more a sound post....

I have a great Bossa Nova song written by guitarist Romero Lubambo. Song for Kaya. https://youtu.be/QU6Sd0mGOIE?si=BziKdaurm5cQFtKK ...

My mistake. Jjazzlab only runs on a computer

One thing I find helpful is putting a small wedge under the rear two legs of my chair. Talking about just a few inches at most to give an equal tilt...

Every answer needs to apply to every situation for all related, semi-related and un-related questions. Otherwise it's wrong.

So the "Cooper's" little block is sort of in-between a 330 & a 335(?)

A'zon US still ships using carriers they don't own? I can't remember when I had a delivery from anything but "A'zon Logistic Services" or some such...

Problem solved. Yakuza.

Bump!

You know why the seller shipped it 1st class. It was the cheapest. The seller didn’t give any consideration about the item because it was sold. These...

Always my first thought with UPS as well. I have learned a little patience, and have realized that often it is not that UPS has actually lost the...

If I'm reading the jjazzlab site correctly, it's only available for computers, not phones. OP asked about phone apps that are an improvement over...

Edit: dunno. My pinky is stupid, except in polyphonic music and chords when it looks pretty good. Just stop using it for single notes, Problem...

Well, that's a chuckle (I first heard that applied to IBM: "we lose money on every computer, but we make up for it with volume"). But you are...

Ars Technica: "The USPS, which is funded by its own revenue, reported a net loss of $6.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended September 30. In a...

According to businessinsider.com, behind a paywall, Amazon paid USPS $3.9 billion for shipping on 1.54 billion packages, although I don't know what...

Thanks for the reminder! Those are books 1 and 2. There were two other volumes (books 3 and 4) to that series that did chord melody of some of the...

Maybe I'm confused, I thought the OP was looking for a solo done with chords, not a tune... That's why I suggested Unit 7. Yeah, Wes is an...

Barney Kessel is the first person who comes to mind, I have some transcriptions of his I will look up.

Just saw your post, Alan, thought this project was comatose. I'll start a thread for it and join you, thanks.

I must fess up, that 4th vote for Chasing the Bird was my doing. :shocked: Wanted to see if I can catch him, but Dexterity is fine with me.

I wonder what percentage of USPS volume is Amazon-related?

Dave Creamer used to use his pinky to play consecutive chromatic notes as in the pattern below, I could never get used to it (but I did not try all...

Awesome guitar...awesome price...Monday Bump

I got a lot from Mike Eliot's two volumes of chord solos. Gorgeous arrangements that are easy to play, have logically and helpful graphics to show...

Elderly has a 175T. I used to drive there and back from Akron to try guitars. All day adventure though.

I'd say that any good version (including Joe Pass's) of All The Things You Are (for the head, not the solo section) is a very nice doable tune and...

He was f***ing with you. I asked one of the trumpet players I mentioned who’d lost his chops the same question … his answer … “Rest at least...

Bumping again. The Barber EQ has sold, but the Kingsley Maiden is still available.

Yes, that what a typo, thank you. The notes are Root > #7 > b7 > 6th, and as I said, you could call the Cm6 a D7b9 going to Gm7.

I'm trying to understand and incorporate the ideas in this video: (Subtitles needed. With sound off.)

That makes sense Mark, but that's overlooking the fact that at the factory, it's way too easy not to use that top at all, simply toss it and not...