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Today, 05:36 PM
Let me say that I'm talking strictly in terms of technical studies that have nothing to do with playing jazz.
Many people have recommended not using...
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Today, 05:33 PM
I suppose, since the OP was talking about technical studies, and not learning a Charlie Christian solo, it might depend on the particular technical...
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Today, 05:31 PM
Getting closer to completion.
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Today, 05:10 PM
Everyone's in charge of arranging the tunes how they want. The tune will just be called. And there will be a suggested key, that's it.
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Today, 05:06 PM
Sorry, I forgot these are "bluez" jams.... What about the tempo? The "melody" (more like a riff) is meant to be played fast.
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Today, 05:01 PM
I am certainly the Charlie Parker of schadenfreude….
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Today, 04:58 PM
Good point, an electronic score is going to be artificially rigid, and lacking the subtleties of a musician's rendition because how they play/phrase...
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Today, 04:52 PM
https://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/files/video/tristano/crothers-q3/crothers-q3-640-20-700.mp4
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Today, 04:52 PM
There will be overlap in the styles of the tunes sir. If you want to do something unique, then you call the tune.
No, that caused too much...
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Today, 04:46 PM
Hey!
I'm drunk atm and got a drunk idea.
Bad notes are like trying to give up alcochol!
How to practice to NOT do something? A good answer...
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Today, 04:46 PM
Here's one more for turns. This time with intervals. Slapped some music on their too. I'll post a pdf shortly.
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Today, 04:44 PM
Which is of course another 12 bar blues, generally played fast. Will it be too young to drink adult beverages? (minor)
JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam...
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Today, 04:35 PM
What's the highest closing bid you've seen on a Good Will guitar? I don't exactly recall, up to $3k I think.
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Today, 04:24 PM
Thanks, I do really appreciate feedback and insight into how these videos land with folks. I’m always caring about listeners, yet my best work is...
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Today, 04:24 PM
This big-bodied Lang guitar from a quite short period between the early to mid 1960s, in pretty good condition, was offered privately last autumn for...
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Today, 04:24 PM
Except no one calls (or used to call them) vintage. Maybe the term hadn't come en vogue yet, but we just called them old. Or authentic.
Plus......
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Today, 04:20 PM
I generally end tunes with an open string chord such as:
Gmaj.7: 3-2-4-0-0-2 (no G on top)
or maybe: G: 3-2-0-2-0-3
And maybe throw in a...
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Today, 04:19 PM
The cool thing is that you can plug in the number that fits your budget as your maximum bid, and until the bidding gets past that number, you will be...
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Today, 04:17 PM
Ok since the last one was spacey we can have the next one be boppin - straight no chaser.
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Today, 04:13 PM
Yep. Good movie.
Yeah he's my biggest influence. I purposely try to not overdo it with copying him.
He is. He's actually kind of vanilla but...
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Today, 04:05 PM
I really like the looks of that guitar. But its likely to go way past my budget by two or three times.
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Today, 04:03 PM
Ahh, I'm getting it now.
I mean, it's just not for me. It sure seems like EVERYONE else likes it a lot and everyone has a classic...
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Today, 04:00 PM
Sold! (to the man with the spittoon haircut)
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Today, 03:59 PM
Hmmm, old archtops can have problems, new archtops can have problems. The only answer is to have a bunch of spares of both.
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Today, 03:58 PM
It's your thing, pick one.
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Today, 03:56 PM
Guild lists it as a 1960 production:
https://guildguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/history_of_your_guild.pdf
Same as this 1960 model: Just...
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Today, 03:54 PM
That is funny.
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Today, 03:49 PM
Wonderful, very tasteful.
I don't understand why there's so much negativity around this song normally.
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Today, 03:46 PM
It's not so much that I love that particular version, it's typical old Hollywood schmaltz really...but the chords are beautiful, particularly the...
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Today, 03:40 PM
So which tune is it gonna be?
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Today, 03:39 PM
Remember that long-term memory is known to increasingly improve with age!
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Today, 03:34 PM
it changes the level but not so much the tone, I had never seen or heard of this pickup until I got this git, but oddly a short while later a 575...
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Today, 03:28 PM
The bad notes get scared away the more you play but are always lurking in the shadows.
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Today, 03:28 PM
I don't have a doubt, and the luthier I now go to didn't seem very reassured about the prospect that I might ask him to do a refret... Yet there are...
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Today, 03:16 PM
Great artists usually aren't good critics. The same personality traits that drove them to develop an individual voice also means that they can have a...
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Today, 03:16 PM
What does the switch switch?
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Today, 03:11 PM
Yea... go for it... But man I love that guitar.
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Today, 03:09 PM
I have decided to sell my 2000 American Archtop/Dale Unger American Legend 7 string guitar. This is Dale’s hand carved model, not to be confused with...
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Today, 03:07 PM
Rag... this is his 2nd post. I don't think he's that worried about tone or actual sound of Guitar. I know we're both old...LOL
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Today, 02:58 PM
I agree with a lot of what's been said. Mistakes are inevitable to a degree and it's important to not dwell on them in the moment. And yeah I can't...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Yes!
When reading a book that is kinda boring and just soldiering through, I sometimes just watch what the words do and later try to do something...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Yea.. pretty standard...two bar count off, 1st bar # of beats, 1 ... 2 ,
2nd bar should imply the feel of the beats ... 1 and 2 and, or just 1......
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Today, 02:55 PM
It is racist to wish to bond with people that look like oneself? To wish to employee (and thus help make money) with people that look like...
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Today, 02:51 PM
Yep. Sorry, had the link copied and forgot. I like the looks of that though.
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Today, 02:25 PM
Guild Electric Guitar & Hard Case | ShopGoodwill.com
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Today, 02:03 PM
I run a bead of fish glue it the slot. It doesn’t hold frets like ca glue but acts as a filler. Ed Schafer gave me the tip used to use titebond but...
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Today, 01:54 PM
ah.chem: Would it be possible to share some pictures of the neck, bridge, etc. to better understand what you're dealing with?
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Today, 01:51 PM
Art comes across as a humble, fairly relaxed guy who either played with or rubbed shoulders with pretty much all the greats. Quite likeable, with...
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Today, 01:40 PM
If this is a PSA, wouldn't it be wise to include a link to the auction/sale?
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Today, 01:25 PM
Made my day!
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Today, 01:14 PM
Could be a 1960 from the guild chart and blowing the picture up. Looks in decent shape. Good nonoriginal case. Guild Electric Guitar & Hard Case |...
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Today, 01:04 PM
Cool, I want to listen to the version you like so much.
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Today, 12:48 PM
To clarify here, this is different than, say, playing a Charlie Christian solo along with Charlie Christian. Charlie is obviously giving you the...
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Today, 12:46 PM
Yes. Still not beneficial.
Because you’re playing along with the MIDI, yes? So it’s kind of irrelevant where the metronome clicks when it’s giving...
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Today, 12:43 PM
Yes, but a fret kisser is very localized. Expensive but for a shop tool, invaluable. Only in the centre portion. REALLY handy tool. They are so...
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Today, 12:36 PM
I've done plenty of re-frets and I can tell you one thing, removing a glued (or superglued or epoxied) fret can wreak havoc on a fingerboard. You're...
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Today, 12:29 PM
Thank you. It's ok considering my circumstances :highly_amused:
Yes, a nice bit of contrary motion from the E9 to EbMaj7.
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Today, 12:26 PM
Another thing that I am conscious about when using that fret hammer: the opposite end might come upwards when you hammer the other side down (the...
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Today, 12:22 PM
Realize though, that this may lower the height of the fret at the top and you could introduce a buzz when you fret that note (it's lower now and it...
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Today, 12:20 PM
Tried that. Even bought a holder plus appropriate inserts (normally used in a press) so the blows get distributed over the entire fret. Had my...
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Today, 12:17 PM
Yeah and I’d be interested to hear Tristano’s thoughts about jazz as a label, more generally. Because whether or not jazz is a product of the...
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Today, 12:15 PM
It's not just their site that's fishy: Temu (marketplace) - Wikipedia
Thx for confirming the problem with the Dynarette in any case, I expected it...
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Today, 12:09 PM
It's easy to make Musescore beat only on 2 and 4, or only on 1. Or, actually, not at all.
So, Peter, in this case, is it still not beneficial?
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Today, 12:04 PM
If some frets aren't completely seated, it's not that difficult to use a small hammer, preferably a dead-blow, to seat them better. I would do that...
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Today, 12:01 PM
I guess they don't plan a version to plug into any crappy old flattop (tentatively called Virzi)? :rolleyes:
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Today, 11:56 AM
Yea... again beautiful.
Their long... I'm no one, just a Geetar player. But from a listener perspective, would be cool if withing the shape or...
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Today, 11:38 AM
I see lots of analogies of verbal or written speech with music. You can learn a lot by trying to organize a solo the way you would organize an essay,...
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Today, 11:35 AM
Yea... I remember that record... the 80's.
So I get more of your playing now... Monk. You did take lessons from Monaco... he's from a different...
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Today, 11:22 AM
Including polyurethane Hiscock hardcase:
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Today, 11:21 AM
Sounds heavily compressed
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Today, 11:17 AM
Thats also a good point with respect to transposing these tunes to guitar keys. Folks have mentioned tonal/timbral things about jazz being in flat...
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Today, 11:17 AM
Nicely done! I will keep that ending too. I also like the approach to the Eb maj7 that starts on beat 3 of bar 11.
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Today, 11:15 AM
Oh, I forgot it wasn't just minor... good! :smile-new:
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Today, 11:11 AM
sorry, i just listened and the humming is too loud, i know.
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Today, 11:07 AM
Yea... I like the All Blues version... sounded different in E and ? different tuning.
But the tone and sound worked for the style you were...
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Today, 11:07 AM
Here's my first take:
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Today, 11:03 AM
I'm talking film score. Pawlowski has posted the accepted "jazz" changes...we'll start there I think, that makes sense.
I can love the original...
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Today, 10:47 AM
I'm gonna drop the price:
$3,500
Thanks!
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Today, 10:46 AM
. Thanks so much, yes, this style is really my favorite thing. I just posted another tune “500 Miles High” with a similar approach.
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Today, 10:45 AM
It's in Bb. The basic progression is the same regardless of the version:
ii7b5/III -> V7/III, etc.
But if you want, here it is.
Shared album...
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Today, 10:44 AM
https://youtu.be/brxxAn5LEis?si=vFIBrm7ai1GV6Qau
Some day you'll look in to her eyes
Then there'll be no goodbyes
And yesterday will have gone...
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Today, 10:38 AM
It is the 50th guitar. I have seen pictures of a 100th, and a 150th so there is probably a 200th in the not-too-distant future. I really had no idea...
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Today, 10:35 AM
hey sounds pretty good. I like that version of “all blues” and good job keeping those notes ringing while you’re playing the melody in the beginning....
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Today, 10:32 AM
Wow, those guys are killin' it! Kenny is at his very best. The guitar comping is great.
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Today, 10:25 AM
I wish incould pull the trigger as fast. I'd get rid of all my others to have that one. Sigh....
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Today, 10:21 AM
What are you considering the original? The film score, or one of the vocals that came a year or so later?
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Today, 10:20 AM
Thank you Allen !
I have trouble with frets under .040.
Tom really wants it so I shouldn’t be a pig. I have 4 L-5’s.
I am basically totally...
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Today, 10:19 AM
It definitely would not be beneficial.
Two big reasons:
1. Time feel is a big part of what we're working on with any practice and a program...
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Today, 10:16 AM
Oh I definitely will. Not doing any of that gatekeeping figure it out yourself shit. Just gotta write one out.
The original is not "jazz" and...
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Today, 10:14 AM
That's the salient point for me.
Incidentally Iverson suggests Tristano's emphasis on "pure improvisation" was not necessarily an emphasis shared...
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Today, 10:10 AM
You could always post a chart for us. Stella is... not my favorite, so I probably won't go out of my way to grab chords by ear off an original...
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Today, 10:08 AM
As far as anchoring the strings, vibrations etc... I don't know if I can claim anything, but the G&L "SaddleLock" bridge is top-loading, on one hand,...
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Today, 10:07 AM
I’m a bit confused by your luthier’s opinion, Jack. First, the gap under that area of the footer is only 15 thou. It should be easy to lay thin...
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Today, 10:05 AM
I need to learn Straight No Chaser. So that's my request. Then Mr PC.
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Today, 10:01 AM
What's your goal? Be really good at musescore, or to play music?
I actually think copying exercises into musescore and playing along with them...
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Today, 10:00 AM
I've decided to sell my 1949 Gibson L4C for £3000, I had it for about 20 years. I rarely play it nowadays, it stays in it's case.
Body size at...
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Today, 09:43 AM
Stella sounds good. Ballads are surprisingly tough! Feels like so much space between those quarter notes.
Rather than get into a thing about the...
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Today, 09:33 AM
I was hoping this thread would generate more discussion, I know there are more Comins GCS owners here, but maybe more GCS-16 then GCS-1?:
Comins...
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Today, 09:09 AM
Thanx for taking the feedback.
Do you know what you'll tackle next? Maybe I'll do it too and we can share notes, compare/contrast styles,...
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Today, 09:04 AM
Love it. Epiphone sounds fantastic...no surprise. Old Epiphones are the bees knees.
I'll try to improve my camera angle for the right hand,...
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Today, 09:00 AM
Of course. But I can't help but think that seating frets all the way is not going to add 15 minutes to the whole procedure. It may also not make that...
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Today, 08:59 AM
It is already done.
Music for years has been connected with spoken intonation. And you can actually hear it in national schools of music(realtion to...
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Today, 08:53 AM
Ok, I finally had some time this morning, here's a little Dinah with an experimental bridge reharm.
Also, I can't sing and I want a little melody...
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Today, 08:49 AM
Is there some reason you think this would be "more beneficial" ?
Playing with a metronome is a time tested technique for improving a player's...
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Today, 08:47 AM
I'd wish I could have seen your right hand. I think where we play (closer to neck vs bridge) plays a big part of the sound.
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Today, 08:45 AM
So, I'd really like to dive deep on rhythm styles...straight four, syncopated, gypsy style. I'm noticing everyone's sounds good but different.
I...
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Today, 08:42 AM
Excellent, great job.
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Today, 08:37 AM
Although not officially a Gibson, the Epiphone Elitist is related somewhat, beautifully made and worth a mention. Play nice too!
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Today, 08:33 AM
Oh I don't disagree with you there. Very true. When it comes to the law of diminishing returns and engineered inexactitude, frets are an area where...
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Today, 08:03 AM
The question is not so much "does it affect" but "does it have to affect and can you predict how". I don't see why you'd care about what an e-guitar...
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Today, 07:51 AM
I don't know. My experience suggests that fret installation is left a bit too much as an afterthought, compared to the attention to detail that's...
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Today, 07:28 AM
My copy will arrive in two to three weeks. :)
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Today, 07:24 AM
It's actually one of my favorite books on jazz. The conversations are unvarnished.
Art Taylor asks his friends, who just happen to be jazz...
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Today, 07:23 AM
I don't think that I have time to record (or practice) anything over the weekend so thought I'd do a quick take now.
For the next tune I won't...
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Today, 07:15 AM
I agree, and I get great jazz tones out of it!!
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Today, 07:02 AM
Its probably more or less finished bending by now and with just an 0015 clearance there seems to be enough wood in the bridge feet that they could...
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Today, 06:55 AM
There are no rules. Only statistics. The chance of repairs or extra maintenance effort definitely increases with age. But it also crucially depends...
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Today, 06:42 AM
Anyway, here's my last Misterioso. A simple work of beauty.
Stream Misterioso 4 by ragman | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Today, 06:23 AM
Agree completely. The luthier (or whatever he is) seems to have messed up just about everything he has touched - bridge, scratches on the guitar...
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Today, 06:14 AM
Birk's Works is a bit more of a challenge. Interesting changes. Might be better, actually.
Fm - Gø/C7 - Fm - Cø/F7
Bbm7 - % - Fm - %
Abm7/Db9 -...
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Today, 06:10 AM
Regarding string-through-body: Fender Telecasters made in 1958 ARE NOT string-through. Jim Campilongo famously plays one.
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Today, 05:58 AM
Once you've got the head out the way it's just a Gm blues.
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Today, 05:47 AM
very good observation
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Today, 05:36 AM
^ Yep. And then good players are also in the practice of using context to make 'mistakes' be part of the flow of the music and end up working or even...
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Today, 05:24 AM
It's more challenging to play to only a click, easier to play along to a drum track, easier still to play along to some sort of accompaniment track....
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Today, 05:16 AM
Herbie Hancock's story of an early gig with Miles where he played entirely the wrong thing and froze for a few seconds in panic before realising that...
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Today, 05:09 AM
I quite fancy Stolen Moments. It's been a long time...
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Today, 04:49 AM
"Do you remember flexidiscs?"
Vaguely.... unfortunately some sadistic marketers are bringing them back:
It's Thin, It's...
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Today, 04:43 AM
Quarrelling? I haven't quarrelled and I'm not upset, quite the contrary. Show me where I've quarrelled. Cut and paste it in, I haven't changed...
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Today, 04:41 AM
Would it be more beneficial to eliminate any pulse at all in technical studies and just write out the studies on a program like MuseScore, indicate...
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Today, 04:14 AM
What a bunch of weenies, complaining about these young guitars. Wrestle with +200 year old violins to understand vintage.
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Today, 04:13 AM
I have owned a Gibson ES-335, an Ibanez Hollow and an Eastman AR508. I still own the Gibson. The 335 is just an amazing guitar. Super versatile, very...
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