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Often overlooked side effect of higher tension High strings.... Hi E at 015 puts on 40lbs while the Lo E 052 is at 23lbs. according to stringjoy...

Very cool. Being a completist, this is a gotta have.

I use 12-52 sets and change the first two from 12 16 to 14 18. Been doing this for years and it yields a much more balanced set than stock! I also...

My Holst came with GHS flats of some sort. They sounded great. Not sure what’s on there now but I wouldn’t hesitate to try them again.

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There's another thread in here- I want to hear how you went un-electric, then returned from bluegrass!

Mexican metal/Prog from Guadalajara https://youtu.be/TOogCIB0TFQ https://youtu.be/nLI2M6VxgiY

Well unfortunately we are in agreement as usual, lol.

I know you didn't say notes don't matter, the video did! lol. And I agree. It's best to prioritize rhythm but not at the expense of being inept note...

Only used 16 with a dobro set playing steel. I'd make sure my low string was thick enough to provide a similar tension or you might risk putting a...

GHS Pat Martino Lights are my go-to jazz box strings. They feel balanced and I believe that they sound beefier on the high end. That's pretty...

I didn't know GHS made 15 gauge strings. I'll definitely check them out.

I never said notes don't matter. I am speaking from a bandleader perspective. The guy with amazing note choice is a detriment to the band if he has...

The GHS Pat Martino Lights (15-52) are the go-to strings on my jazz boxes. I believed that my 12s and 13s sounded tinny. They feel great and very...

Ok. I wouldn't want to be clueless in either aspect though. Notes don't matter is false. Otherwise you could bang on a triangle and have jazz.

Agreed. But assuming both of our theoretical players are trading off between rhythm guitar playing and soloing and were otherwise playing the correct...

Excited for this

That's true, but that's only for single note, and it's a false dichotomy. Guitars are harmony instruments too. If you're playing bad sounding...

I guess I didn't state my point as well as I should've. A musician with great feeling for syncopation and mediocre note selection will always be...

If you don’t write it out you won’t be able to sell your notes as a book down the line.

Thank you. It did not cross my mind that it would of been a blend. That is a useful insight. It makes a lot of sense.

I try to isolate rhythm a lot. I play Hammond so I do exercises like play my bassline by only hitting the roots and focusing on rhythm. Or I'll play...

It is an interesting exercise to do exactly that. Take a tune, pick a note and play a solo using only that one note. Rhythm is almost the only thing...

Recording quick to some type of non-DAW recorder, just voice and mic... And no need to plug a mic into your amp, record the voice unamplified. It...

I'm with Barry Harris "add 3 half steps" = 10 note scales. I think 3 scales: Major, Dominant (Mixo), and Melodic Minor. I line build from there....

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You can certainly treat rhythm theoretically and the best people to talk to about that are, naturally, drummers. Having had my brain boiled by...

What about a Fender Acoustasonic 15 ($130) or Acoustasonic 40 ($200)?

True that rhythm is very important. False that good rhythm and bad fundamentals elsewhere will lead to adequate playing. Everything is important. ...

true. Professional driving…. just don’t say you are musican when getting insurance…. Music teaching! The insurance companies know…

I tell people that the music is free, the money is for the driving. And indeed, the hours spent doing administrative stuff sure do add up!

My suspicion is that it was his Manzer and you're hearing a blend of microphone and plugged in sound. Don't know much more than that,...

sometimes at the end of ten emails it happens? I figure music performance is basically an office job with some unpaid playing tacked on when you...

It's definitely a humbucker. I installed one a couple weeks ago and could see the two coils from underneath. Mine's the floater, the AZ48.

Being a musician, you are already used to that. :mad-new:

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Ha! I bought a set of those a few years ago just because I like Pat. Then I looked at the gauges. I still have them, unwrapped. I keep them...

Have heard this woman a bit before. Outstanding. Completely different from the stuff I hear on the radio here but the rhythm has a similar flavor....

Only problem is … we’re not getting paid….

I spent a few decades teaching writing--not the kind strangely called "creative," but plain old producing-prose-that-delivers-meaning. And what I...

My line was indeed clever and you guys have parsed it out like a bunch of first year lawyers trying to meet their billable hours quota. :smile-new: ...

The late Jeff Beck once said of Barney Kessell :"With regard to style, I don't like messy sound. People like Barney Kessell, who use plenty of...

If the uni/college level jazz educators I know are anything to go by they all seem to enjoy quoting Paul Desmond ‘jazz cannot be taught …. But it can...

Yes, I have used 14's before. The only reason I went for 15's was because I didn't have any 13's or 14's. I thought it was gonna be too extreme but...

Not sure if you'd call this heavy - i'm jusing Thomastik Swings .053 to .013, but replace the top with .014 E and .018 B. Both replacements sound...

haha amazing! But also - bad pad etiquette no?

(I sometimes wonder if a distinctive part of jazz harmony is actually the misspelling…)

I read that article this morning. I'm not an Eric Dolphy fan, but I am a fan of Coltrane when he gets more out there...the one song in the preview...

I see - well you mentioned the Andalusian cadence and I wanted to point out this progression is certainly not unique to flamenco, although it may...

“The schools are always five years behind the market” is something I heard about graduate engineering school, some years ago. I can’t disagree too...

I used the Pat Martino set on a suspension bridge I built.

Absolutely great! Thanks for posting.

I was a GHS Boomers user exclusively for years until I was introduced to the new Dunlop Heavy Cores. I've started using those on my main guitars...

A intense study on the diminished scale will give you TWO hexatonic scales and embedded in the scale find close to 30 chords due to its symmetricial...

The context of my post was stringswinger’s comment “Jazz education is a modern thing and great players like Herb and Barney did not suffer from too...

right that’s where the Eschete and Thomas books can help. The first has melodies on top and the second is just chord changes with strong voice...

yeah, I was responding to the comment above where it says over time you reduce chords, not add them. In other words it appears that the approach is...

Another hm. I was doing an 8-hour workday at school. When it ended, I landed in a couch, put on a backing track and improvised a solo. And it was...

I like their “Bright Flats” a lot on some of my guitars.

Yeah the premise is one I really really identify with and relate to — strong melodic shapes used to make harmonic implication — but I haven’t gotten...

Milk Duds I could take. But I don't think they are malted though. Btw, one other observation. I like and play jazz because musical curiosity is...

So it's a mode of Bebop Harmonic Min., that sounds like Mark. That works, I mean that's where I learned how to use it back in the 60's. A way to...

I use GHS Boomers on every electric I own. For almost 40 years now. If it ain't broke... If I had a "proper jazz archtop" (I don't at the moment),...

Tried Precision Flatwounds once, they were ok; not my favourite, though... Might try them again...

Wonderful to hear you're recovering so well and so quickly! Take care.

Adam Maness, being cheeky, calls it the "secret dominant scale" @3:52

Yes. I mean, it’s not black and white. But I think learning to use dissonance for its expressive effect is obviously an important part of being able...

yes! So I think Jordan might teach it slightly differently to Stephon (I think Jordan is finding a way to make it super accessible for guitar), but...

I’m the opposite. Some live in beautiful places, but their narcissism is hard to deal with. ;-)

i like boomers a lot. not a fan of their flats.

Good stuff, very thoughtful, I've been down this road for the last 10 years or so, creating progressions with colouful chord voicings and playing...

Hm. Practicing a lot will solidify the same feel when having to perform. Meaning always judging, pushy, always a sharp stick in the behind.

I have a set on my 69 Telecaster and they are quite bright sounding and not really great for a traditional jazz tone.

Thanks for thinking it through and pointing those out. I'm meaning performance; practice is something else. And yes, it is a good thing we don't...

That's pretty much my experience as well. For reasons that don't matter, I decided that it was not the right time to add an archtop to my life but I...

I’m into nickel plated. Never played their electric strings but ghs makes high quality strings and sells them at a very low price. I’m sure you’ll...

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Yeah the avoid note stuff never really worked for me, but I get what you’re saying. Where did you come across Stefon’s thing? Jordan?

Not that I think avoid note theory as presented in nettles and Graf has much to do with reality. The correct avoids notes for Cmaj7 are given by E...

Two things here that might be built on faulty assumptions. The first maybe is the dichotomy between Theory and Ear. I usually think of theory as a...

Ahhhhhh okay I see what you mean.

How were the tops carved?

My first and favorite Jim Hall album

so it’s not a cut and dried distinction - more like a spectrum. The more avoid notes or clash notes a scale has (again this is something of a...

The video raises the musical question, "Why Do I Still Suck?" My sense of the answer is, "Because you are not playing the melodic & harmonic part...

If we are talking Mexican music, time to plug Natalia Lafourcade, who has basically become my favorite current artist.

The attitude matters the most. Still a mystery to me. Notes and rhythm matter completely equally. Both matter 100%. So its 200% total. If notes...

I'm curious about the Mambo amps, I wasn't aware of them, will look them up.

Hang on... I'm not sure it is based on the P90 but my luthier told me it's single coil! Anyway, I really like the super clean, clear and punchy, yet...

Korean music also. K-Pop has become huge all over the world, for the past 5 or 10 years. It's no longer just the US and UK.

I thought that hollow body looked familiar! Xian, never came good on that 330 build for me eh

I’ve been meaning to do this kind of practice recently too. Was watching the Jerry Bergonzi My Music Masterclass on “Melodic Shapes” and he talks...

Victor Wooten agrees: notes don't matter:) https://youtu.be/PHdo1qWNWI4

Goal of this experiment was to compare the following combinations to the polytone combo, and see which one is closer to it, hence determining what...

Walk-in had a guitar I almost bought. Even though I didn’t buy it, they were great to deal with. Very responsive and clearly experienced in selling...

I’m a long time Polytone user but never felt the tone was anything but passable. Almost any other amp will be an improvement on tone. Polytones are...

To be fair, the video does say many times “the notes don’t matter.” But also to be fair, he does play random junk to the rhythm of Rhythm-a-Ning and...

They'll keep the idea for a nylon-string archtop on the back-burner...

Good points. This series of Conti books is the "Source Code" series. His stated intention is that this series teaches HOW he arrives at the...

I didn't know that the Shadow Atilla Zoller was based on the P90. I like mine a lot. It's a humbucker, but is unusually clear sounding.

I'm overjoyed that you're doing so well! It's great to see--and HEAR--you back in the saddle again. All the very best for continued successful...

I was away on hols so sadly I couldn’t attend How did it go ? huge Mullen fan here

Was it something about ' Filtertrons ' ?

Thanks for posting this. I can't understand what he says at 1:28 after "P90s."

@Jazzjourney4Eva I'm only at the very beginning of Conti's introductory course ("Source code") where he gives a grip that can go below any melody...

Norteno, conjunto....that stuff has been extremely popular here in TX for a long time. I enjoy the very tight brass sections and the accordion....

That was great, thanks for posting.

Hmmm. What is the end goal here? For me it is playing songs EVEN if it means simplifying a chord melody arrangement. As noted Conti himself is a...

I have to take a rare disagreement with you Jimmy. With a feeling for rhythm that excels you can entertain more using fewer notes. Most people that...

There are several allusions here to the "Spanish Phrygian scale". For clarification of the use of b3 and 3, and the traditions behind these options,...

I picked up this Dave Cliff CD recently, he gets a great sound out of that guitar. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqTzS3YkjSg

Enjoyed this. Thanks.

Im not sure I follow the distinction here. Particularly with respect to melodic minor.

The thing that I like to bore everyone senseless about is that in scale use in jazz it’s important to distinguish the harmonic notes and the...

There’s no empirical evidence to suggest that educational models such as VARK (visual, auditory, read/write, kinaesthetic) have any relationship to...

What I do like about Brian May is that he embellishes the melody or the vocal melody with his solos a lot. And, obviously I'm envious of his hair.

I have a boss katana 50 which I did nearly all my learning on and love. And now a 68 custom deluxe reverb which I’m honesty underwhelmed by, maybe...

Yes, you can add as many notes or subtract as many notes as you think is best for the music. I'm glad I didn't mention my 9 note 4NPS 4th Tuning...

I've got three. 1) Jazz Reverb Dual Master 150 by Sonic Guitars 2) Polytone Mega Brute 3) DV Mark Little Jazz

It's very common to mix string types on upright basses, no reason you can't on electric. It might or might not sound good. Easy to find out.

Just wanted to let you guys know that if you are buying from Walkin' Guitars, this is the only site that you should be contacting for international...

I think it's better if I don't tell you that when my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child she could often be found inhaling deeply from the sound...

I've noticed there's a lot of latino music on the spotify Top 50 Global playlist lately.

I had a great Dave cliff album years ago that I listened to all the time - wonder where that is now....He's fab.

Given the 1-b7-b6-5 descending tetrachord bass and the phrygian half cadence are an important aspect of Baroque harmony… I think that’s a little...

I've heard Polytone amps sound "sterile and boxy", but then, I saw that the player(s) had the tone knob on the guitar all the way down to 0 and the...

Neither. It's almost all minor pentatonic with the appearance of the 9th during the chorus.

That's awesome. 5 days is like you just got out of surgery as far as recovery time. In a couple months you'll be certified refurbished!!!

I will be in the same room with this guitar and many packing boxes for the next couple of days - someone take advantage of this temporary proximity,...

I will be in the same room with this guitar and many packing boxes for the next couple of days - someone take advantage of this temporary proximity,...

Hutchins is Gary Hutchins, one of the funnier people that I have had the pleasure of meeting in the music business. He's in the UK. Here: HOME |...

I was thinking about it in reaction to this thread. In my playing, when I'm thinking, I focus on chord tones, some extensions/tensions, tonal...