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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.
Sent from my iPhone...
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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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Yesterday, 07:46 PM
I'd say solid vs hollow is a fundamental design factor.
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Yesterday, 07:46 PM
Yes. I have gotten a few sub $100 guitars that were pretty decent after working on them for a while. The conn c200 I use on the sort of jazz sounding...
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Yesterday, 07:42 PM
Interesting neck join. I’ve seen something similar before. Can you explain it more? What is the burl'd wood caps?
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Yesterday, 07:35 PM
"Today at my annual physical, I made the mistake of complaining to one of the PA's that I had a pain in my neck,left shoulder area from using a ...
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Yesterday, 07:34 PM
I like everything about this build. I really dig the more open, bigger Florentine cut for some reason. (as compared to the circular 175 type). I'm...
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Yesterday, 07:34 PM
Like Mick says, Print to pdf.
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Yesterday, 07:29 PM
I'm not familiar with MuseScore, can't it export the score to pdf? That's a basic function for music notation apps, I wouldn't use one that doesn't...
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Yesterday, 07:28 PM
Hold my beer! :)
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
The main difference in sound between jazz guitars and solid wood guitars, comes from the difference in the way they are fundamentally designed. Not...
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
Ah, so you've been watching Good Will auctions for a long time now! I just discovered the website about 2 months ago. I'm guessing the average bids...
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Yesterday, 07:07 PM
LOL Alter, I remember your lockdown solos were as long as they were cool, but what you're describing is more applicable to whole compositions, IME.
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Yesterday, 07:06 PM
Did anyone notice how physically static the OP is in the clips? Holding, as opposed to hugging (mauling in my case) the guitar is maybe more...
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Yesterday, 06:58 PM
Actually, the entire ending can be played utilizing open strings (or simply at the first rather than 5th position). If I'm in a key such as G Major...
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
Yeah, that why I'm a bit wary of doing business with them...:nightmare:
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Yesterday, 06:51 PM
Today, one of the girls called me up to tell me that the results of the nuclear stress test were fine. I asked her, "Then why am I glowing in a light...
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Yesterday, 06:51 PM
Hey golf, Can you give us some specs, like nut width, neck width at fret 14, body depth (look like maybe 3"), and weight? Also, how would you...
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
I like the G 6/9 that Jeff's arrangement ends on. Really looking forward to hearing your take of Jeff's arrangement Mick.
We should also start...
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Yesterday, 06:46 PM
You sound like you know a lot about using MS. I've written about 75 big band charts on MS, but don't know how to send them to people. You know how to...
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Yesterday, 06:36 PM
I better keep doing both, or my chops will fall apart!
I wasn't referring to the Romaine comment, I was referring to you're suggestion to have the...
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Yesterday, 06:31 PM
The ones I recall was a like new super high end prs with the case and all cards and whatnot that went for $4500 several years ago. And back about 10...
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
The thing Romain was doing was the first beat of every four measures.
Anyway, it sounds like you were asking a question to which you’ve already...
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
The numerous times I've played "Solo Flight" in concert with a big band, I always practiced for it by playing with the recording, but I'm not talking...
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Yesterday, 06:27 PM
I had a Gibson with a sticky neck. I bought it new and used both the naptha trick and the 3M Scotch-Brite pads previously suggested. The abrasive pad...
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Yesterday, 06:22 PM
See post #13.
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Yesterday, 06:12 PM
They're not presented online played in perpetuity, so that would be impossible. It means a bit more work copying out the notes into MS, but once...
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Yesterday, 06:04 PM
This really isn't the case with 16th note exercises at above the tempo of 200bpm. It's playing it back so fast that it reveals every weakness in your...
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Yesterday, 05:48 PM
You can use CA glue even StewMac recommends this, but you have to wax off the fingerboard. In an ideal world the frets would just get hammered in or...
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Yesterday, 05:48 PM
After keeping the guitar out on a stand for several days, playing it daily, and wiping it down times a day with a clean microfiber cloth, I am...
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:31 PM
Getting closer to completion.
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Yesterday, 05:10 PM
Yes, 'bluez' jams. 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...
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 05:01 PM
I am certainly the Charlie Parker of schadenfreude….
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:52 PM
https://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/files/video/tristano/crothers-q3/crothers-q3-640-20-700.mp4
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 04:00 PM
Sold! (to the man with the spittoon haircut)
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:58 PM
It's your thing, pick one.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:54 PM
That is funny.
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
Wonderful, very tasteful.
I don't understand why there's so much negativity around this song normally.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:40 PM
So which tune is it gonna be?
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Yesterday, 03:39 PM
Remember that long-term memory is known to increasingly improve with age!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:28 PM
The bad notes get scared away the more you play but are always lurking in the shadows.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 03:16 PM
What does the switch switch?
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Yesterday, 03:11 PM
Yea... go for it... But man I love that guitar.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 02:51 PM
Yep. Sorry, had the link copied and forgot. I like the looks of that though.
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Yesterday, 02:25 PM
Guild Electric Guitar & Hard Case | ShopGoodwill.com
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 01:25 PM
Made my day!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 01:04 PM
Cool, I want to listen to the version you like so much.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 11:22 AM
Including polyurethane Hiscock hardcase:
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Yesterday, 11:21 AM
Sounds heavily compressed
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 11:15 AM
Oh, I forgot it wasn't just minor... good! :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 11:11 AM
sorry, i just listened and the humming is too loud, i know.
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 11:07 AM
Here's my first take:
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 10:47 AM
I'm gonna drop the price:
$3,500
Thanks!
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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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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