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I don't either. The days of slumming and philanthropy are over. Now people build a fan base on Youtube then hit the road. They sell tickets for...

I say go in style and comfort. Take a tele. And a Super 400:

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Has anyone tried the new-ish FLUENCE "Gristle Tone" Tele pickups by Fishman ? What I've heard + read so far is making me very interested but - as...

You have some other options before fooling around with the fretbord itself. Last time I checked, these Hofners had compound radius fretboards -...

The demise of jazz clubs tends to come up here often but live music is live music. I'm optimistic about where things are headed. Gen Z California...

I bought my first one from a Berklee Teacher who I studied with privately. After that copy was destroyed in a flood I replaced it with one from the...

i don't play much nowadays but my acoustic and mandolin at home, i'm always at home now but for now i'm using mapes heavy 13's on my acoustic and...

Eastman T64 - as long as it's not a lacquer finish. The Eastman's with lacquer finish scratch really easily.

Maceo kills ! I'd rather listen to this than to the million-notes-neo-math-jazz NY sax playing. :smile-new:

Yamaha Silent is smaller to store. That might be helpful in an RV. I have the original nylon. The following refer to the original model, not the...

I’ll be using a BAM and a FlyRig for Fridays album launch (along with a TOOB Metro for monitoring.)

For a long time now, I've used a Strobel Rambler Traveler Guitar, Portable Guitars, Electric Travel Guitar as a travel guitar. Easy to take on air...

Depth of an 1100 is a little over half that. It would easily fit. Also I just noticed that on the OP's photos that the holes drilled on the neck...

I've ordered several times from CD Japan. Fast, seamless service. John Galich

I've played many gigs with the BAM. The warm tone kinda offsets the lack of reverb. However, I'm not addressing discerning, critical audiences....

"My main beef with "music these days" is that no one bothers with melody anymore. There aren't any songs, only beats or sad grooves." DoctorJeff ...

I've been using it for a few years, I know how it should work)

With a trailer hitch and one of these... portastudio!

nice guitars, do you have to be electrified? if not, a nice parlor acoustic is so sweet...but me being 69 I've had all the electricity I can stand

You have to press twice quickly to get to the playback mode. If you press once while recording, it stops recording. If you press again, it starts...

There is always good music out there, you just have to know where to find it. Yes there is not the jazz scene or folk scene or whatever there once...

Hi, B, No wonder you're hanging around a guitar site . . . you have the gene for obsessive compulsive collecting! Funny. However, I played in...

What a great image that is! Would have loved to have been there! Wow you lucky duck. I am envious! I would have a hard time picking up a...

I thought of running it with a Flyrig, but it’s twice the cost of the BAM.

If I tilt the guitar, it places my left wrist in an awkward position.

A writer friend found out how many trombones I owned and was impressed enough to write a story called The Man Who Owned Six Trombones. A few...

Barry also has other useful devices such as pivots, arpeggios, diminished runs etc. which get incorporated in the lines. I don’t think it’s all just...

Your T64 is compact? It is thin... My recommendation would be a Godin Kingpin, along with a small battery-powered amp for busking. Very light, but...

I had to join the wagon last autumn but forgot to write about it. The price and all the praise made me buy one too. The first notes made me grin –...

You are thinking of selling the house? You are not sure about this, but in the meantime you are contemplating which guitar to take with you? ...

Hi, Jads, Art reflects the culture. Simple. Music began a serious decline, IMO, in the late 70's/80's. Jazz Clubs disappeared, live music was...

Musescore is a notation software to create sheet music. I like it much better than Sibelius (and it's free) It is not a DAW. The audio output...

Hammertone, I've swapped out the tuners to the Schaller/locking version and also replaced the roller-bar of the Bigsby to one with sealed bearings -...

I don't see how it had to do with them. Prince used drum machines but recorded to tape. I think popular music went from being about melody to...

This is made in the Terada factory I think.

Here's a picture of the distance from strings to top at the end of fingerboard on my '36 Emperor. I think the neck angle is correct. It looks to be...

Yippie! Another old L7 owner. These guitars have the sweetest sound on the planet! Congrats! It's hard to beat on old Gibson L7!

Yes, that seems to be true. The thing is, the use of chromatic passing notes (or leaped diatonic notes) as a way to make lines come out right...

Good discussion fellows on all sides! I started this again from my viewpoint at my age and as a pro musician who's always loved Jazz. To me music...

I love playing my 17" archtop, very comfortable if, while sitting. I use a fairly snug strap. I've been married for 36 years so I've gone from a...

Ah .... I had one back in the 70's ... great guitars. Paid $750 bucks in Boston in 77. Looking forward to your video. Looks like a keeper

Lesson 26 of the "learning guitar" series is now on youtube. Download the free PDF (link in video description) and watch the lesson. I hope you...

All the Barry Harris half-step examples I have seen (e.g. in Roni Ben-Hur's book) are designed to operate over 2 bars, not 1 bar as in your example. ...

Excellent lesson on important basic material and I have to agree with Greentone: that guitar sounds wonderful!

Funkmaster Maceo . . . always a pleaser! However, as you stated-- pretty traditional horn arrangements . . . Love the big band sound! Play live ....

But it is hurdy gurdy... it's not percussive... Or I misunderstood the question?

That just looks like a common offset screwdriver. Those are commonly available here, and I would assume also in Europe. A hardware store should...

More Rudresh Mahanthappa, with Rez Abbassi, Rich Brown and Rudy Royston: Rudresh Mahanthappa: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube Also worth...

I do not see a switch that would allow one to select voltages, unlike, for example my DV Mark unit.

I think you have to learn to connect chords. I don't think the half step rules help you to do that directly, but actually, they help you set up...

I believe we have a winner! :smile-new:

That's how I interpret it as well. Because of that, my point was, the specific rules outlined in detail in both sources don't really mean all that...

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Ooooookaayyyy OK, so the way I interpret it, the advantage of the half step rules is that you know where you end up rhythmically. Generally,...

I'm beginning to appreciate that the more ways one can see these relationships the more they can be understood.

I'd take the Tele and a battery-powered amp suitable for pedals and a mic (for the Missus). Compact, durable. Teles were made for gigs like this....

pcjazz and rNeill, Yes, to your above comments but once horn players purchase their professional instrument, they usually play it for life. ...

When I go sailing I usually take my Ovation Country Artist. Mid depth bowl, 14 fret neck joint, nylon strings and a Crate Limo battery powered amp...

Both explanations are right, but yours is better as it functions as the V of G. But sometimes it helps to see weird extended chords as simple major...

Here's a video where the OP can see the instrument being played Stevie Wishart : Vespers for St. Hildegard - YouTube

If there is not enough space to install a DeArmond 1100 on your Epiphone Emperor, it probably means you need a neck reset. This guitar should have...

I like Rob's explanation that it's the V of the vi and the vi is a sub for the I. There's yet another way to look at it: I have a note in my book...

I travel with one of these: Composite Acoustics It's pretty good, and no worries about humidity or heat, very durable. The Cargo model is what I...

that's only because he threw it at bird...

The first step in reading is to memorise the notes on the fingerboard ON THE FIRST FIVE FRETS ONLY WITH THE OPEN STRINGS. Too many try to...

Congrats, great site, great content!

What a great guitar! You can get repro pick guards for these that the Lollar will attach to.

Lollar gold foil.

I'd be inclined to go the Telecaster Thinline route.

Looks like Ron Carter on bass....:cool:

Thanks, Chris...and...damn! That Slaman sounds awesome.

my pick of choice! though I should mention that mine have warped in a weird way. but I love the smooth edge they have. I think I've only lost one...

But none of the experts seem to know anything about it. And I never saw hurdy hurdy as a part of serious medieval music performance practice

Having no phases would be a bad sign. Same here, except for me a phase takes 10 or more years :-)

a small body acoustic with electronics would be my personal choice

I mean half steps. Half step rules as outlined by BH and David Baker for example contradict with guide tone resolution. Suppose scalar descend G7...

I saw recently that Heritage guitars "gost" build similar type guitars. The interior label was Heritage in that particular guitar. Would this be one...

I think the straight eighths practice is for building competency. You can always subtract. You can always play motivically (is that a word?). ...

From 1983 to about 1990, I set the guitar aside my main pursuit, and became a producer/manager of jazz. As a young player I had met Wes and hung out...

A full scale acoustic would take up too much of my guitar-allowed-space I'm afraid. I've had the idea to sell my ukes and get a 6-string baritone or...

Do you mean half notes or half steps?

Now that's well put, very close. BH has said, " so they gave us the major 7 scale and left us with it, while they proceeded to improvise over...

The user manual quotes 2 ranges for voltage, one for US and Canada and another for elsewhere. Looks to me like there is a North American model and a...

I am wondering what is the use of those excellent tonewoods and pickups, also blending acoustic pickup when on many recordings the highs are so...

I had one for a few months before I moved onto a custom build from Craig Bumgarner. The Eastman is a nicely made guitar, and while it does sound...

There seems to be a bias against Filterons in jazz archtops. I have heard them beautifully employed for that purpose. To me, they have a slight...

Hey whitebeard, good to see you and thanks for keeping the oud flame burning! Sorry to hear of your health issues but glad to know you're back in...

To call it "Dostoyevskyan" may do it a slight dis-service. On one night a patron at the bar was fatally stabbed and taken to hospital by "persons...

Kent Armstrong 12-pole. You can mount to pickguard or neck: Kent Armstrong®

People commonly have a propensity to complain but much less to sympathize.

I suggest contacting Rob Doolittle here: https://www.facebook.com/kalamazooguitarcompany/ He is a wizard and builds pickups as well as guitars. ...

I would bet on the hurdy hurry as well.

Many thanks for all your advice--very helpful.

As a basically homeless 16-year old in 1966 I earned whatever I could in various places. One was Frank Traynor's 291 Club in Melbourne. This ran...

I just looked at one. It says 220-240V but 50/60Hz on the back. I know they exist in USA.

Or how about Gavanya? Nithākam (Unplugged Live): Dedication to Prashant Bhargava - YouTube

Of course there is but you have to get started somewhere. Deciphering standard notation so it reveals the same limited information as TAB is not...

Talk with Krivo.

Tonight I spent time on the electric telephone with an old friend from days of yore, we talked of musicians we had known and/or played with. One name...

Correct It's very straightforward - all intervals are diatonic to the relevant Major or Natural Minor scale unless otherwise noted. The only...

Danil said he never heard of that and can hardly imagine such in instrument in early music periods... and me too... it is not really common for...

The funny thing is, those BH/David Baker half step rules are codifying the opposite of what you probably want to do 99% of the time. You don't want...

linda manzer - who was his luthier for many years - said she refretted that guitar so many times that it really needs a new fingerboard before it...

All would be appropriate and rugged enough for travel on the road. It comes down to which one brings the music out in you. Perhaps something that you...

Hard to tell, but I know that he plays guitars built by Wyatt Wilkie. Very cool instruments.

I have a Schaller floating pickup that is only about 9 mm thick. Does the job and cost only about 80€. Gesendet von iPhone mit Tapatalk

TLB, this threads for you. :rolleyes:

What guitar was Ed Cherry playing?

Well I don't know Jads. I am only 70 so I guess there is still a lot for me to discover! Stay well. Cheers TLB

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I remember I saw Kenny one other time, he was in this Philip Morris-sponsored ‘superband’ or something, with Frank Foster, Jimmy Smith and Grady...

Hurdy-Gurdy is hardly a percussion.. but I guess the conception can be allied to drum patterns either I am quite deep into that topic, I played...

Yes it’s interesting, I think Joe and Kenny were both big influences on me (along with Wes). I probably tried to emulate the continuous 8th-note...

Could this be a strategy to help someone bridge modern harmony with counterpoint? - Harmonize every note of the melody vertically by applying...

well I'm so glad I asked - lots of really interesting stuff.... you have been lucky graham to hear both these guys in small club settings I go...

the drummer is playing time correct- no freaking ride cymbal! :encouragement:

Does anyone know if this amp head has universal voltage? Like does it have the 100-240V indicator letting you know if it can be used in the US and EU?

Oh well, then maybe we need more of that! shreddin'

how the hell does one hang out at a jazz forum without ever having heard of a cutting session? :cool: Jazz '34: Final Battle | Kansas City Band...

hi Jimmy I'm not sure what the pricing is like now but Martin do a 00-15 which is all solid mahogany as do Guild in their USA made M20 - both at...

How the hell does one "compete" in Jazz? :pride:

More about jazz: Is there any young jazz musician who could compete with Coltrane? Don't worry!

Thanks Walt! While I love all four guitars, they all have a few upsides and downsides. I guess that's why I have all four of them. Three guitars are...

To get an idea of what Barry’s approach is like, I would simply recommend anyone to take the time to watch episodes 1 to 6 of Chris Parks’ ‘Things I...

I'm not hearing good melodies often enough. 80's music was goofy but it had melodies. I hear good vocals. Naturally musicians are bigger stronger...

Nice! Thanks Rob.

Possibly this one: Rudresh Mahanthappa - Convergence (Kinsmen) - YouTube Also very cool: Offering - YouTube

It's the turnaround bar, which would normally head back to G6. Now, the notes of G6 are GBDE. If we put the E first: EGBD we have Em7, for which B7...

Cool, always wanted to do something like that but yeah, now i have kids haha. Tele would be a no brainer. With all the others I would constantly...

I also vividly recall seeing him back in 1982 ... on his album cover.