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Today, 04:34 PM
Looks like they took down the Stern/Bruno video ...
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Today, 04:33 PM
Been watching demos for this one lately. I really liked it's plugged in tones. But really bummed it's a maple top instead of spruce like the...
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Today, 04:31 PM
Yes, we all have things that motivate us, and we all have things that dissuade and sway us that it's not worth the effort.
I have a lot of friends...
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Today, 04:30 PM
Lenny Breau
by Ron Forbes-Roberts
DG
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Today, 04:27 PM
Barney Kessel
by Maurice Summerfield.
DG
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Today, 04:25 PM
Thanks for the link! I've copied it over to the ongoing Guitar Night thread: Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series
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Today, 04:25 PM
Could be a reason my post made you think of that line..I studied with Ted.
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Today, 04:25 PM
Posted two days ago.
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Today, 04:24 PM
About a jazz guitarist? Peter Leitch's excellent autobiography 'Off the Books'.
About any musician? Robin DG Kelley's 'Thelonious Monk: The Life...
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Today, 04:18 PM
—> trade interest are DeArmond pickups , with you or me paying extra depending on the model (FHC, 1000, 1100, in any condition)
I have for sale an...
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Today, 04:14 PM
I have thought about that question a lot. It is easy nowadays to judge the people living under the criminal dictatorship in my country several...
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Today, 04:12 PM
Even using a wound 3rd the two barrels flanking the middle would still need to be compensated for really good intonation. This is the reason 6 saddle...
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Today, 04:08 PM
I can explain how I do it, more or less. It isn't a structured, 100% organized and logical approach. I'm answering your question about how I think....
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Today, 04:08 PM
Actually, you can do fine if you're able to play in the most common keys, the 12 keys approach is primarily a practice regimen rather than a...
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Today, 04:07 PM
https://youtu.be/X95uQcHkvSI?si=RUuugmPtpjMdEB7Q
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Today, 04:04 PM
This was bought recently from a member here by a friend who is quite knowledgeable and interested in archtops. He tends to buy interesting guitars...
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Today, 03:54 PM
Google "Ted Greene Telecaster" and the first line of the first result reads,
"With guitar, it is not always about setup, but about touch."
That...
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Today, 03:51 PM
To build on what I typed before, if you want a Jazz centered telecaster I would choose any Tele you can find with a good neck and proper body...
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Today, 03:49 PM
I agree that it is a question of courage and priority. E.g. Courage to lost some of their popularity. Courage to lose income because they lose...
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Today, 03:47 PM
I believe that's called "resting on your laurels."
The challenge, you will not stick with it if you do not enjoy it.
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Today, 03:45 PM
Here’s a mint condition Gibson L-4CES.
The expression "mint condition" is often abused by the guitar community. Every once in awhile something...
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Today, 03:44 PM
To me, a Telecaster is so great because it's cheap and easy to produce. For that reason, I really shy away from the expensive models. MIM Fender's,...
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Today, 03:43 PM
Or at least they could put it in the name so we’d know
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Today, 03:32 PM
BTW. I don't wanna be rude but "enjoy!", "have fun" are the worst kind of advice for such topic.
Well, rude it was.
But truly, "enjoy"... what?
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Today, 03:32 PM
Nicely done. I like your sound.
I never thought of submitting a "progress report". Maybe I will do the same. I'm pretty sure I'd be able to...
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Today, 03:30 PM
I think it is a question of courage and priority. The musicians I am talking about had a certain popularity otherwise I would not have read /...
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Today, 03:23 PM
So anyway, now that my reading comprehension skills have been fully displayed.
I think a lot of the guys were cool, and some of them were not.
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Today, 03:20 PM
If only there were a blues written specifically in the Key of C...
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Today, 03:16 PM
Clearly those white musicians you're referring too were not part of the solution, but should they be lumped together with the part of the problem...
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Today, 03:12 PM
I have not heard all of those brands, but of the ones I have listened to (through?) I would say the QSC 10 inch speakers are the best I have heard....
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Today, 03:07 PM
You might consider adding Bose to your list. You may also find the microphone selection is pretty important.
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Today, 03:05 PM
The Johnny Smith book is interesting and informative. It is not a critical assessment of JS in any way. Other than apparently drinking quite a bit...
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Today, 03:02 PM
I hate when people write negative things about someone after they pass without them being able to refute what is said.The worst was Stan Kenton's...
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Today, 02:59 PM
I guess in your haste, you didn't see that I also posted "I mean outside of who could be in their bands, what clubs they could play in and other...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Don't buy the Barney Kessel book, it's written by his bitter wife and reflects her attitude.
I read it and got rid of it.
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Today, 02:55 PM
I never fully understood why Ice MFin' T would play cops in TV series.
When you really challenge the system (and that is not a matter of colour of...
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Today, 02:52 PM
Chet Atkins L10 model
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Today, 02:52 PM
Sounds good, Lawson.... and I'm glad you didn't transpose it to a minor key. ;)
By the way, are we allowed to play these arrangements slowly and...
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Today, 02:51 PM
From Brad Mehldau's album 'Jacob's Ladder', one of three cuts based on "Cogs in Cogs" from Gentle Giant's "The Power and the Glory" (with Becca...
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Today, 02:50 PM
From Brad Mehldau's album 'Jacob's Ladder', his interpretation of "Starship Trooper" from "The Yes Album" (with Cécile McLorin Salvant):
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Today, 02:48 PM
I'm not blaming the musicians for society, that's backwards, they were born into the same problematic society as everyone else.
When you said "Did...
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Today, 02:48 PM
It is very interesting to listen to interviews with white musicians who were touring the South of the USA in the fourties and fifties with their...
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Today, 02:43 PM
Of course that is white privilege in a nutshell. But are you blaming the majority of white jazz musicians of the era for that? E.g. that white...
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Today, 02:38 PM
I am part of a trio (sometimes quartet when our bassist is in town) that performs mostly at senior living facilities, and an occasional porchfest or...
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Today, 02:37 PM
"jazz" is in the players fingers talent and attitude..the equipment is secondary
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Today, 02:34 PM
I've been wondering about the Johnny Smith book. Glad to hear it's good.
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Today, 02:20 PM
It is a sweet looking guitar in good shape though. Maybe it was someone from here and they will do a NGD. I am curious what it sounds like. I'm...
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Today, 02:20 PM
Do you also play/sing it together already? Asking because I have a hard time imagining that accompanying a singer in jazz is fundamentally different...
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Today, 02:17 PM
It ain't easy being a minority yo.
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Today, 02:13 PM
I don't think any one particular flavor of Telecaster is necessarily superior for jazz given the vast expanse of sonic terrain that is the genre.
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Today, 02:11 PM
Ok then!
Playlist link
Analysing standards progressions - YouTube
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Today, 02:10 PM
"Tim Buckley .... He was produced by Zappa at one point."
Yes, his last album, which was arguably his worst, but that was probably not due to...
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Today, 02:02 PM
So, white privilege in a nutshell. Any white guy could waltz right into Harlem and go into any club, you could not flip the scenario. Remember...
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Today, 01:53 PM
The recent biography on guitarist Bill Frisell was a good read. Comprehensive indeed.
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Today, 01:52 PM
I'm an artificial person. It suits me.
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Today, 01:47 PM
Jeez, that's a Reverb sales price! I think that the days of finding deals on anything other than budget or fixer-upper guitars at Good Will online...
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Today, 01:42 PM
No lives matter;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlk7o5T56iw
All notes matter;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0dcMH4N5U
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Today, 01:32 PM
I wonder how segregated the majority of white jazz musicians were off-the-books? (by off-the-book I mean outside of who could be in their bands,...
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Today, 01:23 PM
The Johnny Smith bio Moonlight in Vermont is a great book.I wish someone would do a Joe Pass bio. Not a jazz guitarist but the Steve Lukather book...
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Today, 01:19 PM
I was going to say Sally's Blues but I don't thinks its blues changes. So, I nominate Blues March, or Mr PC.
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Today, 01:18 PM
Heritage 550 normally uses 2 solid parallel braces they might add 2 small braces to this general configuration. They never used kerfed bracing to my...
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Today, 01:09 PM
I think he meant kerfed.
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Today, 01:05 PM
What is scarfed bracing I have never heard that term used to describe the inside bracing on a guitar?
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Today, 01:04 PM
Here is measures 1-16 of the tune, played a bit on the stiff side.
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Today, 01:04 PM
Figures ... techno was always artificial already, and doesn't exactly require (a lot of) intelligence? :boing: :boing: :boing: shreddin'
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Today, 01:00 PM
Around 2007 I received a call from a DJ friend of mine that had a Jazz Morning show on the local University radio station. He explained there was a...
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Today, 12:43 PM
Wow, what a lovely version of that song. I am not familiar with that singer, but will definitely listen to her more.
Lots of great examples of...
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Today, 12:40 PM
I think it's going to be great for performers. Not so great for people that write music in a traditional way.
I'm in a techno duo and AI won't...
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Today, 12:40 PM
Play bass and comp thru the changes. You can get away with just having whatever top note, but you should work towards being able to improvise a lil...
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Today, 12:39 PM
Christian, link up the other three videos you do in this series. I think they’re all relevant for rhythm changes.
cycle 4
ii-V-I
four and back...
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Today, 12:36 PM
Singers gonna sing—I mean they’re gonna do what they want, so you have to play around them.
Give them space to sing, but be supportive and listen...
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Today, 12:34 PM
Does anyone want to call the next tune?
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Today, 12:25 PM
Here's a video I did
https://youtu.be/0R8GJpP2Xpc?si=kCt_1ywtIJh5RQiE
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Today, 12:25 PM
These are really cool. Descending progressions against an ascending melody.
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Today, 12:06 PM
Rhythm Changes is a classic sticking point because no one seems to be taught chord progressions these days.
In fact it is no different to the...
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Today, 11:58 AM
Gonna check that out
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Today, 11:41 AM
I much prefer the tal and it's built better. The scarfed bracing was a bad idea on the 550 and if you notice, the older ones tops have flattened out....
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Today, 11:31 AM
I would recommend you learn the diatonic chord progression for Major and Natural Minor scales.
Then learn how to perform a progression analysis.
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Today, 11:08 AM
Here’s Charlie Parker on “Kim” … again first rhythm changes I found and first page of the solo. In this case the chord symbols reflect what he’s...
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Today, 10:59 AM
I heard that there are a some awesome classical guitar players who don't really care to learn a new bunch of pieces every year.
Instead they are...
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Today, 10:56 AM
Changes I've seen sometime or other in the past.
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Today, 10:54 AM
Quite. That's why you should cut down and simplify. It's not difficult if that's what you want.
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Today, 10:53 AM
these ….
I think I need to use uncompensated barrels
as as i want to use wound third
TI jazz swing set
with the intonation set up
they end up...
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Today, 10:43 AM
would they be darker sounding than
brass ?
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Today, 10:40 AM
https://youtu.be/TTVdX1awekY?si=JAQfaB6F0qprfyYW
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Today, 10:37 AM
https://youtu.be/rYX80H991Dg?si=e0OBzLp1QD1hKIu1
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Today, 10:36 AM
I agree there is no end point in learning a classical piece. I once asked my classical guitar teacher from way back how long should I be expected to...
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Today, 10:36 AM
This is what I'm trying to explain.
He's not sure what it's expressing. A really good transcription would have chord symbols for what the rhythm...
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Today, 10:34 AM
Just ordered this...why not? it was ten clams US
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Today, 10:24 AM
Are these chord changes or what the transcriber thinks the soloist is thinking? That diminished move is like, the first chord sub we learn.
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Today, 10:21 AM
This is like someone saying they want to learn the blues and starting off with Joe Satriani.
Pasquale Grasso is one of the most technically...
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Today, 10:17 AM
Er, you might be right. I think that was for another thread. So I've got rid of it.
wipes off dribble all over T-shirt...
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Today, 10:16 AM
Alas, not quite. I'd already quoted it. No take backs.
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Today, 10:14 AM
Graph Tech does make 3-barrel tele saddles. Model 8163 in their catalogue.
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Today, 10:13 AM
Hey all, I'm wondering what a good approach is for learning how to play with a singer as a solo guitarist.
I really have no experience playing...
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Today, 10:00 AM
Actually, I've been looking at the first four bars too. I've seen some great versions, like Bb6 Bo | Cm C#o | Bb/D Dbo | Cm B7. And so on.
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Today, 09:57 AM
Thank you. Just in time :-)
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Today, 09:55 AM
Just came across this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OWUgm8wRprQ
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Today, 09:48 AM
George Benson's Autobiography was good. It's not jazz but Scotty and Elvis was good and it's not about guitar but Time is Tight by Booker T Jones...
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Today, 09:45 AM
How certain are we that they always had steel strings, in fact? So-called classical banjos were gut-strung so the transition must have taken place at...
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Today, 09:45 AM
It's the sound from The Allman Brothers Stormy Monday and Miles Davis Freddie Freeloader. I suspect they lifted it from Freedie Freeloader.
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Today, 09:44 AM
I would second every word of this.
I want to reply in some detail but there's a lot here.
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Today, 09:42 AM
You forgot my favorite. Calypso
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Today, 09:42 AM
Whoa nelly! Sold for $2,852.96. I was thinking $1900.
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Today, 09:41 AM
^ Thank you - I've edited the above lists to reflect this!
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Today, 09:37 AM
I'm still working on some of the very first jazz songs I started with in 1974.
There are others of course!
AFAIK some of the deepest classical...
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Today, 09:27 AM
A quality edit, Ragman
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Today, 09:27 AM
Peng is not giving us his version. I don't think he's got one. So he's asking us what to play over a non-existent chord progression...
Don't...
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Today, 09:26 AM
The 36 is my favorite.
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Today, 09:24 AM
I am currently reading World on a String by John Pizzarelli, it is a great book. What other books are out there on Jazz guitarist that you would...
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Today, 09:16 AM
Once more for the people in the back:
The variation doesn’t really matter.
and … the Barry version:
Bb - F7 - Bb - F7
Bb7 - Eb7 - Bb - F7
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Today, 09:14 AM
A few years back I tried two, one was an older one with a Kent Armstrong and the other was newer and had a SD SL. The SD was a little brighter...
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Today, 09:13 AM
Yep. Really common to use the half-step between flat 7 and tonic too. So that’s E, A, and B respectively. You can just use the chromatic note between...
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Today, 09:12 AM
Ok,
so ...
Over F7: A/F, Bb/G, C/A, D/Bb, Eb/C, F/D, G/Eb, (G#/E) - -
Over Bb7: D/Bb, Eb/C, F/D, G/Eb, Ab/F, Bb/G, C/Ab, (C#/A) - - otes from...
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Today, 09:08 AM
Awesome, thank you for the information. I called the shop yesterday and they were very helpful.
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Today, 09:01 AM
Joe Pass played an A7 arp over the Eo: C#AGE. xx6585.
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Today, 08:58 AM
Dominant 7 is the fifth mode of the major scale. Another way to say it would be for a dominant chord you want the major scale from the fourth.
F7...
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Today, 08:56 AM
Okay for real …
This is Sonny on Oleo. Look at what he plays over that bar. They notate an Ebm sometimes and an Edim sometimes. What he actually...
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Today, 08:50 AM
Brass is the "warmest" of the metal saddle materials. If you are still finding the guitar too bright, maybe you're not a tele person. The only other...
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Today, 08:49 AM
Thank you for this - so what would this look like over the Bb7? Would that be over a Bb7 Scale? and what about the C7?
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Today, 08:45 AM
It's not 'conceptualised'. You know the sound, you know how to play it, and you play it where you think it'll sound nice. Which it does :-)
i.e....
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Today, 08:33 AM
Yes you are correct
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Today, 08:22 AM
1934 Gibson L-12
Caveat: Archtopdotcom is not definitive. Original parts such as tailpieces may have been swapped out.
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Today, 08:21 AM
Using the scales.
These would be what you call “diatonic sixths.” So if you’re playing a blues in F and you’re using an F7 scale over the F chord...
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Today, 08:14 AM
Excellent research.
Here's a brief summary of your excellent research in pictures.
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Today, 08:10 AM
thanks
does anyone know a source of
a softer material for
traditional 3 piece tele saddles
(Ive got brass on there at the moment)
maybe...
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Today, 08:09 AM
A showcase of how the L12 changed over the period it was in the catalogue.
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Today, 08:07 AM
1953 Gibson L-12
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Today, 08:07 AM
1948 Gibson L-12
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Today, 08:06 AM
1936 Gibson L-12
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Today, 08:06 AM
If you're not playing professionally.
Just enjoy playing songs you like.
And, have fun. :eagerness:
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Today, 08:06 AM
1932 Gibson L-12
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