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That probably stands to reason if you get proper intonation over your entire fretboard by tuning the open strings slightly flat. Maybe that's in fact...

As a guitarist, I probably learn the chords first. Then the Melody. Comping is our main job. IMHO.

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I have an Earvana nut in my cupboard, that I have fitted to guitars for an experiment. It doesn't adjust intonation for the frets on the whole...

I stole another lick, and I wrote (or at least devised) one, so here I am dropping them both repeatedly into a couple of choruses of Autumn Leaves...

Are we sure there was money, fame, and accouterment back in the 60s?

You forgot to mention things like the thrill of playing cool music and interacting with good players in front of even 2 or 3 people, where it's just...

Why not on an archtop? I agree that it's sometimes necessary to retune an instrument that has had its open strings tuned painstakingly. ...

His solos on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (Concierto) and “I Hear A Rhapsody” (Undercurrent) are two of my favorites.

It’s still available.

I suppose we're talking about Pick-up - udo roesner amps , but which one, single or dual source? Could you post some pictures of how it's...

Certainly wouldn’t argue. I really like transcribing solos but I couldn’t argue with anything you say about transcribing melodies.

Angel Eyes from Jim Hall Live for its musicality, melodic development of motifs, combination of single notes and chords and overall-excellence. ...

... when the sax player starts playing All of Me instead the John Legend song and you're forced to cobble together a solo guitar "arrangement" on the...

Thanks guys! For those that listen because I post these, please know that I post them because YOU listen.

Good video. Good Tech Channel. At 12:20min Compensated Nuts are explained. Personally, I prefer Zero frets.

There has been a UK Public broadcast on the subject of the 'Three Little Pigs'. Were they victims or Insurance Fraudsters? Was the Wolf...

Haha, OK so when you hear 'professional jazz guitarist' your brain goes to 'Misty in Db' whereas my brain goes to 'sending emails, designing a...

Classic guitar version with great sound! Box

One guy I knew at college played that whole solo, and he wound up dying from a heart condition in his 20s. Pretty clear cause and effect right...

Wow! You hit a Borys home run! Roger tried to talk me into a triple once, but I'm cool with a double.

Bill Connors solo acoustic guitar albums were unique, the link below is to his second one, Swimming with a Hole in my Body. Most people know him from...

I also had a similar compensation nut in an arch-top guitar with nylons.It worked very well.

Thank you for this enlightening video!

Sounds good. That's what I found to work. Plan out what voicings you want to target for how you play. Build facility just running the scale of chords...

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My arrangement of "Bye Bye Blackbird", interpreted by Dr. Francis Hon of NYU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxrT3JgqSMo

Absolutely beautiful!

LOL. You make it sound as if people who are happy to do that would even want to be seen as a "Jazz guitarist", be respected for it, or even just be...

So current practice vibe is … working with the voicing on 4/3/2 … along with the included intervals. 5th on 4/3, 3rd on 3/2, and 7th on 4/2...

Wow Keith. They look beautiful. Congratulations. I am very happy for you bud. To me, the best thing about getting a new guitar is exploring it. When...

Funny, i've never really bonded with any of the carvins I've owned. We all have different tastes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaDChPkriXQ

Mysterioso?

Another thing that I think affects intonation is the amount of relief in the neck. More relief means the string has to be stretched more to fret it,...

But a higher nut means a more acute break angle and more stretching of the string when fretting (especially at the first few frets). These factors...

Here are just of few ideas from the Ted Greene book Chord Chemistry ...

Unless you're a nerd, jump to minute 19'30 for the nitty-gritty, where it finally became clear why I used to get Stratitis on my first Stratocaster...

I had this whole thread going a while back where I transcribed all the solos off Jazz Guitar for a workshop I was teaching: Jim Hall “Jazz Guitar”...

Tbf due to incredibly restrictive planning laws no one has built a house in the UK in the past two or three decades. I’m not sure how Wolf...

Fair play. Everyone's forced to get wolf insurance here.

I have an old Chaarvel with an Earvana compensated nut, and an EBMM JP6 with a compensated nut. they tune well, like my other guitars. I don't know...

If the frets are accurate then properly tempering the open strings yields sweet chords everywhere. But the frets can be wrong. My 10-string...

I don’t know what cob is, maybe it’s bricks as opposed to twigs or whatever it is American new builds are made of. Sent from my iPhone using...

Good point. My 4 year old would make an excellent Project Manager. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well I have no idea. But I think it may be worth flagging that being a performing musician involves not passing some threshold of ability but very...

So, you're no nationalist, no cosmopolitan, just a nothing, probably not even a human? That scares me a bit, but I see that you're obviously having...

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” with Bill Evans. He improvises a whole new head. And check out his comping when Bill Evans solos: magnifique! ...

Yes, my 1984 Gibson R8 has a Feiten nut, I thought it was an improvement then, but of course I was never able to compare directly. My recollection...

A ballad played solo might tick both boxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kPZg9zVe4&t=142s

And on the other hand I’ve owned my share of some high end guitars Gibsons mostly and a Benedetto Bambino mid priced. But as of a year or so ago I...

These are all of them. They are highly functional art.

"Thin to me means thin in depth." I may be (probably am) misinformed about this, is there a general consensus on what exactly the term means?

In the UK in wintertime?? Aren't the walls still made of cob over there?

Thought experiment. You're the engineer on a session of master musicians who play a track with the best time feel anybody has ever heard. You...

Tell em to get a job.

Didn’t you already have 2 of them, or did you sell those you had 5 or so years ago?

St. Thomas with Ron Carter.

Have to tried putting a box fan in their room?

And this gem from the same philosopher: "Reality is a concept for people who can't handle drugs." shreddin'

Yes, thank you, but also that they don't have to identify individual chords by ear. That is, a guitar player may transcribe the chord voicings he's...

It's my late nite guitar. I play anything louder downstairs after 8 I get complaints from the kids.

Don't do too much of that, or your next incarnation may be as a bird or squirrel.

What you've suggested would be note micro-management. It's best to determine how an entire phrase/melody lays out best on the fretboard with the...

Yes - but no, because: One can describe the frequency a stopped/fretted string as the frequency of the open string multiplied by the quotient...

Reminds me of a curb-side portable sign that I saw, while driving through a small town in western Wisconsin, this past summer. It said..."Stop...

or the physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjekEOMWmg S

Can't believe that Christian posted an example in which he plays an unamplified Telecaster. He of all people! The future of Western civilization is...

i get 2&1/8 inch depth robert

I've had my fair share of costom-ordered instruments from some very reputable makers and it was not always a 100% happy experience. But in the end...

I've never tried a compensated nut, but I've run into quite a few decompensating nuts.

Right - and Feiten apparently thought that reducing the acute string angle was the solution, along with shifting the contact point. He cut the slots...

you probably set a record @ $1300 for one of those, but when vintage gear is that mint it carries a premium there's almost always someone out there...

that was their first post, probably haven't logged back in since

Exactly. Nice comment thread here. What was I even thinking? I came really close to selling it this past weekend. This one stays. Gives priceless new...

The first photo is Chuck playing my 10th Anniversay model.

If you took a picture of "jazz" it would look like a cloud. Or a Rorschach Inkblot. In every aspect there are major differences. Great players or...

So beautiful!

Although there are many variables this Luthier swears by them (compensated nuts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFUxpR8uUU S

Man, the zero fret gets a bad rap, doesn't it? It's a great design in my opinion. I guess there were a lot of cheapo guitars in the past with...

Personally, I'd prefer a Zero fret.

From what I understand, if the first frets are sharp the bridge is too high. As we can see here, a compensated nut might fix a specific problem...

On my 1938 L5 set up the regular way the high E in tune. Then if you play each note up the neck from the first fret, all them are slightly flat by...

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Also Miles haha Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Member didn’t reply to my PM. So, still looking.

Years of work -- seconds of pleasure!

It would be one thing to have a 60 year old amp in the usual player's condition. But this one looks like it hasn't left the factory yet. That's...

I thought he was talking about me and my highschool band "stabbed in the face"

You could have convinced me that Boulez Extract was in a little bottle in my spice cabinet. But, I've actually had to play this version of Surrey...

Miles

Some builders think that matching the top that way yields a unique tone, not necessarily worse, just different, that some might prefer.

I'm going to guess... you?

That is one gorgeous silky grained spruce top. When I got my first high-end classical guitar, I used to stare at the spruce, mesmerized. :smile-new:

I thought the idea was to compensate for strings that fret a bit sharp at the first or second fret, because of the string stretching down from the...

FWIW, I have a few 1x12 cabs with second jacks. They're specifically for hooking up additional cabs when desired. I have two Mesa 1x12 cabs that I...

A nut that is too high will cause intonation problems, but a well-made regular nut is close enough for jazz.

lol much more!

Okay then. Better question. What value is the time I spend at my solo gig, looping the turnaround to some ballad because I'm watching the sports...

It's the thing that helped my playing the most, and it's also something a lot of people are afraid to do. You don't have to know a million scales...

depends if you gig or not

What value is the time I spend watching tv while I play guitar then? after 11:30 pm is my special Scales While Law and Order Reruns time.

You know who had to hustle gigs and literally drive his band mates to the gigs for the first few years of his career (after getting the sack from his...

Correction Allen is gigging the exact same amount as me right now.

I think Bobby just meant you happen to bring it up often

The concept has never made any sense to me. Moving the contact point at the bridge changes the effective length of a string at every fret. But...

I've been hired by exactly zero people as a jazz sideman. So my gigs are literally my gigs, with my band. So there is also that. Sending a lot of...

There’s worse measures, tbf. Being able to type essays on JGO for example haha. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Allen said that it seemed that way to him. I mean telly is rubbish. I rather play my tele, but that’s me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm not into being anything, I just think it's snotty to say it has the same value as watching tv

Me too probably haha. I mean if people feel that playing solos - however well - with a backing track gives them license to call themselves a jazz...

Yeah, I know this whole Jazz thing came about because of gigs, social music as Miles would say, and back in the day the cats were were gigging more...