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Today, 05:49 PM
Keys don’t matter
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Today, 05:46 PM
Yes, muting strings, no open chords...
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Today, 05:09 PM
I really like the tone on your guitar. Nice playing.
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Today, 05:09 PM
alpop, you can always post a recording of Rainy Day this coming week. There's really no time limit to posting recordings it's just that we move to a...
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Today, 04:41 PM
Never heard of it but if I apply it to my own neck regularly will I become a virtuoso?
Or just not have a sticky neck on very hot days? I guess I...
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Today, 04:37 PM
I've seen this in the minor blues turnaround F7 E7 Am, key of A minor. It's the first time I see a Bb7 A7 Dm(7), key of C. But it looks and sounds...
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Today, 04:18 PM
Hello Everyone,
I'm currently working on wrapping up sales on my L5. I appreciate all your kind words and interest!
Best,
Allen
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Today, 04:16 PM
Useful insights, thanks :) Interesting re. bass motion and those two tunes.
In the key of C and in the key of A minor:
G7 E7 Am(7)
C7 A7...
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Today, 04:16 PM
Here is my arrangement (attached) - the chords anyway, obviously I wouldn't play it straight like this (oh, I forgot to add an intro to it, I'll do...
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Today, 03:58 PM
Thanks for the additional info!
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Today, 03:57 PM
So C7 and A7 don’t really form a ii-V because C isn’t the ii. Bb7 and A7 would be closer to the ii-V movement because that bVI7 chord is a pretty sub...
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Today, 03:48 PM
Good information, thank you
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Today, 03:47 PM
I've always liked Time After Time.
Not sure I'll get the current song recorded as I am recovering from 3 - 1 hour sets of bashing out rock n roll...
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Today, 03:41 PM
And here is my cheesy playing over a software generated backing track:
https://mega.nz/file/yEg2yZZD#q5UTXK_pxWtqUXTXsc77ggmK5kRYrNf2SeA3qtWN-ww
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Today, 03:40 PM
I'm looking at these changes:
C | % | % | G7 |
% | Dm7 | G7 | C |
C7 | Bb7 | A7 | Dm7 |
Dm7 Bb7 | Em7 A7 | Dm7 G7 | C ||
(The tune is...
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Today, 03:26 PM
Believe it or not but I have cured sticky necks just by using Virtuoso polish regularly on them.
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Today, 03:18 PM
Hello,
Here are some pics shot as the ones found on schlaggitarren website.
Body
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Today, 03:16 PM
I missed it!
AKA
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Today, 03:01 PM
Not a fan of in-ear monitors. I was in a project once that was considering in-ear for everyone... If in the future that happened again I would...
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Today, 02:58 PM
Prince was kicking record execs out of the recording studio when he was 19 years old.
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Today, 02:52 PM
Hell yeah I was at that show and saw jubu outside before they went on. Did you catch Lalah Hathaway at Yoshis last year? Legally Blynd was her rhythm...
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Today, 02:48 PM
I wonder if using a knob with a very small diameter might help.
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Today, 02:38 PM
Don’t know about the ‘X’.
In the seventies Gibson only started the regular serial number process after 1977.
The years before that numbers...
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Today, 02:21 PM
Thanks for the tips !
I always thought there was no solution to this problem on a Strat
As for the idea of wiring the pot backward, I won't go...
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Today, 02:19 PM
A few weeks ago, my 19pc band played a 379 seat theater at a local college. I'd guess the audience was around 250. The theater is used for stage...
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Today, 02:19 PM
What is the significance of the "X" on the back of the headstock and the unusual serial # (only the first two digits are gold)? Thanks in advance.
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Today, 02:13 PM
I am offering for sale or trade my 1977 Epiphone Sheraton.
Price : 4350 Euro.
I live in the Netherlands.
Made in USA (Gibson factory...
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Today, 02:08 PM
Always look for the silver lining, and try to find the sunny side of life. :encouragement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpRvuVOCJac
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Today, 02:04 PM
That's a generally accepted "truth" provided there's "all other things being equal" in there *). However, my question was about strings pulling an...
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Today, 01:57 PM
Actually, Jim Campilongo's favorite Tele is a 1959, not 1958.
From his website...
I have a '59 Fender Tele, three saddle, top-loading bridge...
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Today, 01:53 PM
My plan is to create a "silent zone" around me using ear plugs and/or in-ear monitors. I'll place my speaker in front of me to provide sound only for...
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Today, 01:38 PM
I play in two big bands, each of which has been around for decades and yet, they both still occasionally make major changes to the setup...
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Today, 01:36 PM
I do agree, although more in terms of a skepticism (plus one needs to remain skeptical about one's skepticisms), and my own take on tone woods would...
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Today, 01:35 PM
Hey Ray, were fine thanks, PM me and we can chat. I knew that guitar looked familiar. B
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Today, 01:31 PM
Ok, Stella part 1. This one will need a few visits.
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Today, 01:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwD4MuicYE&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtoYxqX49U
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Today, 01:24 PM
Remember this from 2010?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoBvj_Fk19o
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Today, 01:19 PM
Hi B. Hope all is well with you and L.
R.
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Today, 01:09 PM
Just plonk it on over to PixelGoober
Sounds like forking over for the extra functionality of Finale is a little easier.
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Today, 01:03 PM
Look on the bright side, the next one's in C :-)
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Today, 12:59 PM
To tell a good story or do a joke justice you need to be aware of where you're going and where you've been. There will be tension building and an...
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Today, 12:43 PM
You know you can shift text frames up and down with the arrow keys? You know how to not stretch shorter examples over the full page-width? You know...
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Today, 12:39 PM
Yeah, that’s why I chose it
Scrapple is more of a basic B jam sesh head. Probs more useful
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Today, 12:38 PM
Our blues for the week is Straight No Chaser, and our key is B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJs2eCqhTN0
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Today, 12:37 PM
I mean neither was Sibelius… and that cost a lot more
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Today, 12:35 PM
There would be significant latency
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Today, 12:27 PM
Not surprising that this store wants to make a nice profit and I also don't think that this guitar will go to player either, despite it's proven...
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Today, 12:20 PM
They were a short run made about 12 years ago. B
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Today, 12:08 PM
Thank you. Favorite quotes of mine too!Weird about Tristano. I read that book about three times. Funny but I don't remember that.
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Today, 12:06 PM
Yeah. That's it. But you know. They just assumed I'd have known, which I should have. You don't talk about people in their own homes. Period. So...
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Today, 12:03 PM
That is correct.
"I'm not aware that tailpieces wear out but I suppose they can."
That is understandable.
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Today, 12:01 PM
I'm in agreement, my inclination is to say no. Practicing with midi is not a good way to develop human sounding time feel. It sounds like you're...
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Today, 11:58 AM
Longer scale lengths produce a richer more detailed note.
That is what you will hear and perhaps confuse with ‘tone’.
I suppose we need to define...
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Today, 11:56 AM
Sorry to hear about this. Get well soon!
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Today, 11:55 AM
I saw him and his band Legally Blynd at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley a few months ago! They were cookin!
His style is influenced...
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Today, 11:54 AM
I'd be up for Scrapple.
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Today, 11:51 AM
Well - it was a good saying at least! :):):):)
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Today, 11:48 AM
Frank Pratte (known here as fep) and I are The Crazy Assholes. (If you don't believe us, just ask our wives!)
This is our latest.
I started...
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Today, 11:42 AM
No it’s not a skills issue, I'm a software Engineer and I don't find MuseScore very good, but it's free to download and use that's why it's popular.
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Today, 11:37 AM
Well I don't take antidepressants, no gastric issues, I have read they can interfere with healing of bones. I take 220 mgs of naproxen 3 times in 24...
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Today, 11:35 AM
Similar to a tool I have, this tool:
With a diamond fret crowning file, the fret will be crowned too, not flat on top. :encouragement:
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Today, 11:33 AM
BTW interesting post.
Is it possible to Bluetooth a live mixer into earbuds? Our piano guy has a rig similar to the Bose T8S.
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Today, 11:32 AM
I would add remove 1 at a time drill a proper sized pilot hole then replace the screw.
I keep a lump of beeswax handy at all times, no screw goes...
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Today, 11:32 AM
Archie,
Here is a photo of a similar completed design. I’ll defer to Wilkie on the details. I’ll PM his email if you’d like ask him directly.
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Today, 11:30 AM
Bari guys have to be friendly. They don’t get no respect otherwise…
My son played mainly bari in his high school jazz band. The others sax...
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Today, 11:27 AM
Here is my 1983 Tele, which, btw, is also top loading.
The humbucker is now a SD Whole Lotta Humbucker, and the bridge is a SD Broadcaster
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Today, 11:23 AM
Just updating the thread to report what seems to be working for me......
I am using the JS111 set now on the Telecaster style guitar and the JS112...
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Today, 11:22 AM
I can't play Billie's Bounce again, I've developed a severe allergy to the tune from being in a group that played it too often.
Anything else...
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Today, 11:12 AM
Personally, I try to avoid anything "big scoopy squishy".
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Today, 11:03 AM
I can definitely hear the difference between, say, an all-mahogany LP Special and a “real”
LP with a maple cap (substantial recent experience with...
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Today, 11:00 AM
Hey Topper, sorry for delay. The pics above should give ya the numbers ya need. Regarding the neck profile, definitely more of a flat-D type shape...
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Today, 10:49 AM
The bari sax player is friendly so I usually try to sit next to him.
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Today, 10:44 AM
I like scrapple. I never learned the B section.
Billie’s Bounce is good too. I can work it in the lower octave since I just have it down in the...
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Today, 10:15 AM
Not exactly a jazz guitarist, but Jubu is one of the most influential RnB guitarists of the last 40 years. I saw the preview for this video a while...
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Today, 10:10 AM
I have one of these “kits”
https://www.jsbguitars.com/shop/guitar-building-tools/fretting/buzz-off-fret-leveling-kit/
The leveling tool is a...
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Today, 09:56 AM
Christian's got me learning Billie's Bounce in the style of Rachmaninov, and since I can only seem to remember one tune at a time, it would be great...
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Today, 09:38 AM
For sale $1350 shipped, local pickup in NYC
I purchased this guitar recently to practice at home, it has received minimal play time. Includes...
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Today, 09:37 AM
I'm up for anything. I'm still getting Donna Lee up to tempo, but for the first time in my life I feel like I have it truly memorized and worked out...
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Today, 09:27 AM
Where were you last year when I broke my fish?
It started when I ordered a bass online. I was quite surprised when I opened the box and a...
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Today, 09:22 AM
Jazz guitar struggles against the nature of itself.
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Today, 09:11 AM
Okay Dewey square is maybe my personal favorite but thought maybe it was tiny bit niche? Maybe not?
That would also be another good break tune....
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Today, 08:58 AM
Remember, something is only jazz when a jazz player says it is. And a jazz player only that when other jazz players agree that s/he is :cool:
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Today, 08:48 AM
Those files that end with .mscz are native Musescore files. When you open one in Musescore, if you choose to export it, it doesn't replace the...
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Today, 08:40 AM
Dewey Square
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Today, 08:40 AM
Marmaduke
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Today, 08:14 AM
What say we take another week, post some round ups, and then choose a new one.
Bebop tunes, what’s next
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Today, 08:13 AM
How did it go?
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Today, 08:11 AM
Alrighty. Let’s get to choosing our next bebop tune to work through. I chose these because they’re short and they’re blueses, or in the case of...
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Today, 07:57 AM
Ditto all the above, but I'd pull on them gently to see if they're actually gripping any healthy wood and then be attentive to if and how they lock...
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Today, 07:52 AM
I think you may be way off on the number of guitars that have come off Bryant’s bench. My archtop from him that was #144 and he built that in the...
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Today, 07:51 AM
Bop Head is a man of specific tastes.
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Today, 07:49 AM
I find that sort of thjng hard to do on Musescore. Perhaps it’s a skills issue. I just end up posting a million screenshots into word which is LAME
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Today, 07:41 AM
Reading the list of those on the notice that comes with NSAIDs really gives me pause, esp. the increased risk of developing cataracts. Plus they...
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Today, 07:34 AM
Every bowed instrument that gets played will need a fingerboard replacement at some point (and hopefully "much" more frequent reshaping of that...
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Today, 07:29 AM
Why would that change the amplified sound of an e-guitar - assuming we're talking about a solid-body? All I can really think of that might be...
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Today, 07:20 AM
:D
You might have actually pushed her buttons if you had said something like Then why do I hear a crackling noise whenever I get close to a radio...
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Today, 07:12 AM
I have never understood why people would voluntarily use ugly imitations of handwritten notation. Probably they think jazz notation has to look like...
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Today, 06:52 AM
Unscrew them, put candle wax on the screw threads, then tighten them.
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Today, 06:51 AM
Well the natural extension of that would be less metronome, e.g. what Romain was doing.
Miles Okazaki does this thing where he’ll play a bebop...
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Today, 06:44 AM
Peter? Hello?
Yeah my secret? Never use jazz font.
It’s just finale. I’ve gotten pretty good at the spacing and stuff over time. Not sure...
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Today, 06:27 AM
You're fine to share it. Just pretend you're a library.
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Today, 05:45 AM
You feel my pain!
I will post how the in-ears work in the next couple of weeks
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Today, 05:37 AM
I am not Peter, but this looks simply like the Finale Maestro music font plus Times New Roman for the text.
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Today, 05:36 AM
Sit next to the horns, not behind them. Don’t be too far away. Position yourself between the drums and the horns. Point the amp towards the horns,...
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Today, 05:28 AM
General comping vocab - check out Randy Vincent’s ‘the Guitarists Introduction to Jazz.’
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Today, 05:25 AM
How do you make up your worksheets
Peter? They look nice.
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Today, 05:23 AM
I like to record with a click on a DAW and then obsess about the way the little waves don’t line up with the beat. I’m sure this is very helpful and...
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Today, 05:20 AM
Regarding technical exercises (rather than solo transcriptions etc), my inclination is to say no.
Play with a metronome. When you are...
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Today, 05:15 AM
I like the project of Thelonious Monk interpretations he did with Peter Bernstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzWOEdv7cCw
Those two...
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Today, 04:56 AM
I recently played a gig with a big band consisting of 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 3 trumpets, and a full rhythm section. Since most of the instruments...
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Today, 04:11 AM
Opiates like Tramadol are often not very effective for pain in skeleton, muscles and connective tissue. It works better for pain in the inner organs...
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Today, 04:10 AM
Nice interview. My favorite quote: “Play your own shit even if it stinks.” (Mingus)
Best regards from disco town Munich
EDIT: Second favorite...
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Today, 03:30 AM
It's good but it sounds too much like a guitar, this is my opinion.
If you don't like your way of playing you should listen to other instruments,...
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Today, 03:20 AM
Yeah, I mean started off listening to Coltrane and Brecker and only got into bop and pre war jazz much later. Which is not uncommon.
It is however...
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Today, 03:09 AM
But if one looks at all these classic soloists from the bebop era, solos are like a whole, instant composition. Using music to carry an indulging...
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Today, 02:38 AM
That's it, export to pdf. But just to be safe, save a copy of it first in a different folder than the one you'd normally store it in - or just ...
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Today, 02:25 AM
This must be it: Podoko Cushion - Amazon.com
But they have quite a few alternatives, Search Term = "guitar leg cushions"
Guitar Leg Cushions
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Today, 02:05 AM
I just watched a concert of the Steve Swallow/Carla Bley Quintet at the "Jazz a Junas Festival" circa 2013 with Steve Cardenas and Chris Cheek on...
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Today, 02:01 AM
Thanks, I don't know why you posted it.
You like posting, so do I, this is my terrible version.
https://youtu.be/VjJmjc2lJlk
It's not funny, the...
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Today, 01:55 AM
My answer is entirely anecdotal from having owned about a dozen strats over the years. I think there is a small but appreciable difference between...
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Today, 01:51 AM
The secret is to wire it up backward. So down is up and up is down. Every time you bump it, you're turning it up. Turn it all the way up (down) and...
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Today, 01:37 AM
What a great interview, Henry. If they didn't want anyone to know about Mingus' illness, why couldn't they tell you that?
How can you blame someone...
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Today, 01:11 AM
Just be careful on screwing them in. It's easy to burr a Phillips-head screw, taking the edge off the screw slot, and then you're faced with removing...
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Today, 12:43 AM
I became aware of Gabor Szabo via the Guitar Player magazine 20th anniversary issue. They had their writers list 20 albums in various styles that...
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Today, 12:32 AM
Just screw them in. There is going to be little load on those screws, given their location (the strings are pulling the bracket into the body, so...
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Today, 12:19 AM
It comes naturally to me now. When I was learning back in the 00s, I spent a lot of time transcribing and with the Monk fake book. It was hard to...
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Today, 12:18 AM
I was lucky to find one of my own compositions on PDF for a grant competition, but all the others say mscz. file.
There are a lot of choices under...
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Today, 12:10 AM
Thanks for sharing the Connie Crothers video. She was an amazing person and musician.
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Yesterday, 11:58 PM
Milman Parry | Harvard Magazine
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Yesterday, 11:44 PM
Thank you bako!
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Yesterday, 11:43 PM
I must express apologies. The thigh cushion I've been using is by Podoko. I bought it on Amazon almost two years ago, hence I forgot the brand...
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Yesterday, 11:31 PM
Actually my "old" (?) violins are perfectly reliable and daily players. Every now and then one needs work that I do, this February one got a new...
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Yesterday, 11:24 PM
Great read. Glad to learn some of your back story.
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Yesterday, 11:17 PM
Slow down! I’m busy this week.
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Yesterday, 09:53 PM
We must get back to the bop.
I take full responsibility for this lapse.
Here is some tinkering with the first lick, trying to fit it over every...
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM
Yep.
Generally, I don't think I have any business playing Monk's music.
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Yesterday, 09:05 PM
I think I always ran away from monk tunes because they’re hard. I play bebop heads every single day when I do some of my single line technique stuff...
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Yesterday, 08:52 PM
Here's the relevant portion of the PDF:
turns, with intervals.pdf - Google Drive
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Yesterday, 08:49 PM
Henry Robinett Paths to Here Interview - by Eric Siegel
This just came out. Eric Siegel and his Paths To Here series.
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Yesterday, 08:15 PM
The scale lengths are different between fender and Les Pauls, which I think plays more of a role in shaping the amplified tone, than the wood, on a...
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Yesterday, 08:05 PM
Les Pauls have ABR bridges with a less steep back angle than Fenders. They are really not too far off from trapeze bridges in a way. But are you...
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Yesterday, 08:02 PM
You can't beat a good Ibanez neck.
You cannot beat the playability of a good Ibanez.
Only Westerley Guilds can compete.
Jack get a maple...
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Yesterday, 07:54 PM
Agreed but whether an ‘electric’ guitar has the strings pulling on the top or pushing down on the top, is a greater fundamental difference, regarding...
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