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Today, 03:42 PM
Great playing! Whenever I listen to a GG solo, I'm "man, I love that lick... that lick too... and that one, but it's the same as the first one... how...
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Today, 03:41 PM
That said I do quite like squirty ice cream out of a nozzle. We call it me whippy in the UK. No idea what you call it, if you have it.
I also...
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Today, 03:40 PM
To strip this of the metaphor, it’s interesting how harmonically straight down the middle most great improvisers are.
Especially...
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Today, 03:36 PM
No
You have good vanilla and you make good ice cream.
That’s harder than dropping a load of over sweetened stuff on top.
Sent from my...
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Today, 03:35 PM
Because of these leprechauns blasting their music too loud buskers need to get a busking license from May 20 onwards. :doh:
€30 acoustic license,...
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Today, 03:29 PM
Based in Cork. Where the leprechauns are.
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Today, 03:21 PM
I suspect that neither the Campy nor the Heritage will be as overbuilt as the Gibson.
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Today, 03:19 PM
What does Cork-based mean?
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Today, 03:19 PM
Thanks for the serial number info - I checked my records - that guitar was originally built for Ed Benson, who was the publisher of Just Jazz Guitar...
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Today, 03:19 PM
That's the one! Thanks!!!! :encouragement:
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Today, 03:16 PM
Thanks for the serial number info - I checked my records - that guitar was originally built for Ed Benson, who was the publisher of Just Jazz Guitar...
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Today, 03:15 PM
We had a good gig today. Went as expected.
Friday rehearsal was terrible on my part and was very nervous for the gig. Saturday rehearsal was bang...
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Today, 03:14 PM
It’s the stuff to add to the vanilla that improves it.
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Today, 03:11 PM
Go to a masseuse.
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Today, 02:51 PM
Thanks! The guitar was ordered with the following upgrades:
Locking G&L tuners
G&G hard case
Natural wood body binding
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Today, 02:48 PM
Picked this up on Temu for $52 - free shipping. Supposed to be good for 300# but not sure I'd trust it that far but not terrible quality. adjusts...
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Today, 02:42 PM
My 76 GJS has a volute, this one doesn't. My 1970 L5CES also doesn't have one, i think they came later in the decade.
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Today, 02:40 PM
Thanks for posting this. My favorite track on my all-time favorite album. Had it on vinyl when it came out and bought the CD decades later.
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Today, 02:20 PM
Thank you very much for your answer.
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Today, 02:16 PM
Magic strings made of angel’s hair
And you can’t have none.
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Today, 02:10 PM
Thanks Mark for your thoughtful and informative response. I had a similar thought regarding DAs vs L5 of this era in a similar price range. Per...
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Today, 01:54 PM
When I started lifting, bench overloaded my serratus muscle. Because my main muscles could handle it, but this little muscle on the side that also...
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Today, 01:44 PM
First off, this guitar is gorgeous! Would you please list the upgrades? Thanks.
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Today, 01:38 PM
Where did you acquire this knowledge?
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Today, 01:20 PM
Yeah, that's what the IR lamp is meant for, but in the meantime I'm wearing a sleeve-less bodywarmer. I've actually been thinking this might simply...
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Today, 01:11 PM
If it's not a serious injury and feels like mainly a tweak, for the shoulders I recommend pull ups or simply hanging.
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Today, 01:08 PM
Not in the market myself, but your photo suggests that the gooseneck itself isn't included. Is that correct?
(In that case it's maybe not as...
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Today, 12:46 PM
Hot take - the last people a rational Guitar Centre CEO would wish to attract is serious musicians.
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Today, 12:43 PM
Hot take - all ice cream flavours are inferior to vanilla.
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Today, 12:35 PM
Congratulations! I've never played one of those guitars, but I've heard positive things about them from everyone who has. Enjoy and may it inspire...
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Today, 12:31 PM
Strap it too, if that's possible. It relieves no end of troubles.
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Today, 12:25 PM
Jack Pearson is a serious a musician as you can find, and he gigged for years on a Squire Strat that he found at a Guitar Center, IIRC. Said it was...
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Today, 12:09 PM
That’s cool, it stuck out as more than a regular vamp intro.
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Today, 12:06 PM
The short answer is no. The longer answer is yes with a lot of expense and trouble if you can even buy the pickups separately, it would probably be...
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Today, 11:54 AM
First thing I'd try is a warm pack, maybe a massage.
I'd suggest a consult with a doc and get a referral to a physical therapist (especially one...
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Today, 11:40 AM
It was not made in 2022. I actually had that guitar at my home in 2008 and took some photos of it (see below). It was for sale at my brother’s store...
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Today, 11:26 AM
or
just try an Alnico2 humbucker
in the neck position
that should warm it up cp to
ceramic ….
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Today, 11:03 AM
yea... but at some point you need to have the technique.... to actually play.
Richie's cool... although extremely vanilla. He is organized, has...
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Today, 10:58 AM
Sorry, I guess it can be confusing, with the shoulder blade being located on the back...
I tend to restrict "back problems" to those directly...
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Today, 10:53 AM
A cheaper alternative might be to replace the volume pot (a 500k, I believe) with a 250k. That might just give you the warmer tone that you’re...
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Today, 10:46 AM
Shoulder or back pain, I'm not understanding which you are referring too.
FWIW, shoulder pain might be "frozen shoulder" also known as "adhesive...
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Today, 10:39 AM
The DPA 4099G instrument clip microphone is the ultimate miking solution for your live instrument application. Lightweight, flexible and simple to...
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Today, 09:42 AM
Sorry, in French, but this page stirred some forgotten memories:
Soulagez vos douleur entre les omoplates - PhysioWork
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Today, 09:25 AM
You might think I’m a little crazy for selling this.
This guitar is in factory fresh, as – new condition. Unplayed. Plastic on pickguard.
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Today, 09:11 AM
Of course, I'm not expecting medical advice beyond specific terms (like muscle names) I might search for.
The other (right) shoulder issue I...
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Today, 09:01 AM
Me too. I considered making the suggestion to turn the bridge 180° (not the saddle of course) because I'd feel better personally with the lean in the...
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Today, 08:27 AM
Without an actual diagnosis, it's impossible to give advice.
I had shoulder issues for about 2 years, long story short it was FINALLY diagnosed as...
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Today, 07:59 AM
You are correct sir
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Today, 07:51 AM
I thought it was a quite common location to have muscle aches but it appears not so much, or I haven't yet figured out the correct terms to search...
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Today, 07:43 AM
Pretty sure Joe Ds has one. @Max405
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Today, 07:34 AM
I might suggest taking a peek at the cross section of the wood provided by the cuts of the unbound F holes, or in the case that they're bound in some...
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Today, 07:33 AM
Can anyone post a pic of a Gibson Johnny Smith w a volute? like nshsi I can't recall ever seeing one.
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Today, 05:42 AM
Hi,
Does anyone know what kind / brand of strings Jesse is using ?
Thanks
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Today, 04:25 AM
Yes, that's a good one. That'll show you moving sixths, thirds, tenths, and so on, in use. That way you're learning the intervals and a good tune to...
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Today, 03:01 AM
Based on pics Your guitar has full size humbuckers. I am not sure if there is a MT mini hum that can be installed to a humbucker ring with the side...
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Today, 01:47 AM
Some examples here are more like just duos… I respect and admire many tasteful and skilful players and there are collaborations I really love…. but...
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Today, 12:55 AM
The side view of the bridge shows it angled to the body more than makes me comfortable; the direction of the down force from the strings aligns...
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Today, 12:53 AM
Yeah it's kind of a mish mash of four and how high the moon w the four section kind of serving as an intro of sorts.
Jack Mcduff was known for using...
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Today, 12:11 AM
Hi Mick
I have a box set from Mosaic entitled The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings. It's superb!
Derek
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Today, 12:08 AM
Red Norvo and Tal Farlow.
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Yesterday, 11:23 PM
That's a beauty.
Waiting to buy strings in the Totowa, NJ GC last week, I opened up a D'Angelico hard case that was on the counter, something...
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Yesterday, 11:04 PM
Here's a better recording of Annotations of the Muses by Johnny Richards, played by the great Johnny Smith. It's come out on a Mosaic Select...
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Yesterday, 10:59 PM
Thanks for the suggestions, people. Working on some of them, already.
Stumbled on this yesterday. Demonstrates playing "Blue Monk" in 3rds, then,...
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Yesterday, 10:52 PM
I agree, the point for the student is to thoroughly internalize the lessons in the book and mess around with them six ways from Sunday rather than to...
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Yesterday, 10:50 PM
Johnny Smith performed a real concerto for electric guitar written by Massimo Joseph DeJulio, in one movement:...
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Yesterday, 10:44 PM
Time Out is still one of my favorite albums. Blue Rondo a la Turk is just beautiful. I should learn that one too…
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Yesterday, 10:43 PM
Great stuff, Decitrig. You have mathematically enhanced this august thread. I don’t care if the info is trivial for some.
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Yesterday, 10:38 PM
What’s up with this intro?
Is there a verse to How High The Moon? Are they quoting another tune, or is this just a bluesy riff kind of like Four?...
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Yesterday, 10:31 PM
Of course. I intended no snarkiness of my own either. I had realized before I even wrote anything that this thread is a ghost town and that I might...
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Yesterday, 10:25 PM
Truly.
I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Paul Desmond solo stuff. Brubeck was my in for jazz and the Paul Desmond stuff with Ed...
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Yesterday, 10:12 PM
I was more like, spitballing as to why nobody is joining the conversation.
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Yesterday, 09:56 PM
That was merely for anyone who might come here looking for your own informed opinions about the book; more informed than mine, for sure. If I've...
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Yesterday, 09:56 PM
This guitar looks beautiful… Is it still available?
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Yesterday, 09:43 PM
OK, then! I'll refer to the books as 1E (for first edition) and 2E (for the second) so as to save a little on typing.
At a glance, the most...
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Yesterday, 09:34 PM
Wonderful album
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Yesterday, 09:33 PM
I haven’t had pain there yet, I suppose you’ll have to try stretches until you hit one that works.
I hold my left arm out with the palm out and...
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
In a way. But someone has to have both versions of the book, and the time to sit down and compare them instead of practicing. Just seems like a poor...
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Yesterday, 09:19 PM
It is unfinished koa on the inside. I am not sure if all the plys are koa.
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Yesterday, 09:17 PM
Actually, I think Rob is the one remaining true spirit when it comes to the Micky Baker book around here. The rest of y’all are done and dusted with...
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Yesterday, 09:07 PM
I just don't care about the differences between the books and the errata sheet are. What's that got to do with playing jazz? Questions on the...
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Yesterday, 08:37 PM
Looks like everyone else has kind of clocked out of MB.
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Yesterday, 08:22 PM
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! I do NOT need another guitar! (But, I don't have a national steel bodied resonator. And, I really could use a baritone of some...
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Yesterday, 07:50 PM
Thank you. I was looking for some inspiration. This is an interesting and valuable work.
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Yesterday, 07:44 PM
i saw this the other day, looks great...if it was a Bruno i would have brought it
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Yesterday, 07:35 PM
There is also G&L for solidbodies.
Doug
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Yesterday, 07:33 PM
My Ibanez AF75G has got Classic Elite ceramic pups. They're good, though I don't know if they have that classic "warm, mellow" jazz tone. Still using...
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
I was going to say! I happen to like Bud (the US clone) well enough (the original Budweiser is hard to find here too) but most of those IPAs...
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Yesterday, 07:15 PM
Woodworking note: that won't tell you if it's solid or laminate. The correct way to make any veneer glue up dictates the same veneer be used on both...
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Yesterday, 07:08 PM
It's only in the past 50 years that the globalists have designated "Nationalism" as a bad word. That doesn't mean I wouldn't buy a guitar from Japan...
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Yesterday, 06:59 PM
^ I saw The Knot Garden in the UK (somewhere near London) back in the 70s. The guitarist was playing a Gibson SG with a touch of amp breakup, as I...
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Yesterday, 06:52 PM
I could never give this one up, but adding the koa? Would be like Betty and Veronica. Betty has always been more faithful, but the dark mystery of...
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Yesterday, 06:51 PM
We have a bevy of overdone, alcoholic IPAs that don't taste particularly good. I'll take Europe's beers any day!
I'm not sure if South Korea can...
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Yesterday, 06:38 PM
Currency translator says: 4,025.34 US Dollars.
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Yesterday, 06:29 PM
Are there specific albums by them you can recommend? I'm more familiar with Desmond's recordings with Jim Hall, which are excellent.
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Yesterday, 06:29 PM
I spent around 4 years in a band with one of those. Horrible thing. Both the amp and keyboard over 100lbs each if I remember. Speakers pointed at the...
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
Good job! So, is it a koa veneer with laminate, or solid wood?
the website photos look like unfinished koa on the interior, through the f hole...
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Yesterday, 05:58 PM
Posted here:
https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/players/74580-bill-frisell-new-recent-releases-thread-post1334227.html#post1334227
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Yesterday, 05:55 PM
It’s probably just hosted in a country that doesn’t care to prosecute.
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Yesterday, 05:52 PM
Hard to tell. The post spacing is very close but no idea if the post diameter is too big. Original ABR1 posts are smaller in diameter than most...
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Yesterday, 05:50 PM
Attached is someone's PhD dissertation re: Bill Frisell's playing on Paul Motian's On Broadway recordings. It includes quite a few transcriptions.
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Yesterday, 05:39 PM
Found the attached transcription on an old hard drive. Jim Hall's part from Paul Desmond's album of the same name.
Here is the track on YouTube:
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Yesterday, 05:24 PM
Bucky Pizzarelli and anybody. Grappelli and anybody. Zoot Sims and anybody. Django and anybody. Django and Grappelli. Pizzarelli and Grappelli. Zoot...
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Yesterday, 05:23 PM
If you like the sound and feel of nylon,you might think of trying Galli Black Nylon Tapes 12-56.The Galli's are stiffer than Labella's 12-56 and...
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Yesterday, 05:15 PM
Paul Desmond and Ed Bickert get a lot of airtime in my car and on my iPod. So does Zoot Sims and Jimmy Rowles.
Derek
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Yesterday, 05:14 PM
So... I found out the other day that there are a couple of dozen fake books (pdfs) on Scribd, including all the Real books (except I did not see Vol....
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Yesterday, 05:14 PM
Old thread or not, it would be interesting to hear about the second edition, and whether it does indeed provide a profound improvement over the...
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
That reminds me of when the Charlie Parker Omnibook first came out in the early 1980s. I was excited to see it but didn't notice it was the E flat...
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Yesterday, 05:06 PM
Speaking of which, I’ve been on a Grant Green trip. This is after listening to tons of Wes Montgomery for a few months. Now when I listen to Wes...
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Yesterday, 05:04 PM
So to clarify, I don’t play from fake books often but i do need lead sheets for students so I would like them to be in the correct key.
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Yesterday, 05:01 PM
Play it in the key written as concert.
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Yesterday, 04:49 PM
It can also help your body get into it better rhythmically to stand. So I think it's beneficial to at least do some standing, don't have to do it...
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Yesterday, 04:44 PM
It’s stupid and makes no sense. He’s quite right.
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
Really? One clarinetist I know transcribed a ton of Pat Metheny. Another one was obsessed with Grant Green….. I’m often surprised at how much they...
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
One of my old professors (actually a trumpeter) plays all the rhythm section instruments except guitar.
me: why not guitar?
him: that...
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Yesterday, 04:41 PM
Tippett's 1988 opera, New Year, also uses electric guitar, as does this suite from the opera's themes:
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Yesterday, 04:40 PM
Trumpet friends?
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Yesterday, 04:28 PM
Yeaaaahhhh. You know it’s just one of those things. There’s a bunch of tunes I half learned wrong on the stand and then had to relearn. It’s a...
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Yesterday, 04:25 PM
Michael Tippett introduced the electric guitar to the orchestra in 1970 for his opera, The Knot Garden.
https://youtu.be/BYCygItYjx0
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
The vintage sound is definitely there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLZ34bsMkM
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Yesterday, 04:22 PM
Hi, yes that is very true I had forgot about those videos. I sometimes have to use real pro and when im sitting the audience can't see my guitar or...
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Yesterday, 04:18 PM
Possibly. I had a far worse problem caused by just that with the Pyramid tape-wounds on an acoustic flat-top. Those actually have a quite high...
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Yesterday, 04:11 PM
Price Reduced!
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Yesterday, 04:08 PM
If you have a kneading machine (Kitchenaid, whatever) with ditto hook, try the "add moisture and knead until it forms a ball on the hook" method....
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Yesterday, 03:58 PM
I’ve known a lot of jazzers over the years, and if I listened to their opinions I wouldn’t even think of playing jazz guitar. I never met a...
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Yesterday, 03:54 PM
I never looked at a video of Wes Montgomery or Barney Kessel and thought, I only wish they were standing up.
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Yesterday, 03:51 PM
No idea how I got it, but I've been annoyed by a "wry neck in my left shoulder", more precisely at the level of the left shoulder blade, since at...
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Yesterday, 03:43 PM
Single floating pickup, cherry red, located in Toronto at the 12th Fret. Price translates to about USD 6950.
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
so many but the first one that pops into my head is Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley
Ceora (youtube.com)
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Yesterday, 03:35 PM
Walkin had two of these. I bought the other one last month. I had it shipped to the US from Japan. The guitar looks, plays and sounds great! I...
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Yesterday, 03:32 PM
^ What was that thing, like 300 lbs?
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Yesterday, 03:25 PM
I smashed my guitar in anger; very embarrassing to say. But in my defense, as an xray tech of 15 years, the amount of fist vs wall fractures I have...
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Yesterday, 03:24 PM
Peter Bernstein and Jesse van Ruller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Iw3FRVj68
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Yesterday, 03:22 PM
Incidentally...
I have a tenor uke.
I wonder if instead of expanding to the rest of the guitar, I were to shrink down the instrument instead.
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
Louis Stewart and Martin Taylor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDzo50gRek
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Yesterday, 03:19 PM
^ That's nice.
I didn't mean exclusively duo, I meant the pairing of 2 unique featured greats in any group setting. If I meant duo, I would have...
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