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Today, 04:18 PM
Wow that was really splendid. Great tone, great ideas, you played it like you owned it.
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Today, 04:05 PM
If you do session work, even at a very basic pro level you can easily need 20-30 guitars. And if you are a name player, you do need to get into...
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Today, 03:58 PM
Sorry, I'll have to correct your statement, Allan Holdsworth played guitar long before learning the violin.
Allan Holdsworth started learning...
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Today, 03:53 PM
I learned "Stablemates" yesterday and recorded a version of it today, so I decided to revive this old JGBE thread from the pandemic period and post...
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Today, 03:47 PM
I'm starting this thread so we can collect and register as many of the Korean made Epiphone Emperor Regents as possible,
I will start with the two I...
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Today, 03:29 PM
Im a old tube guy, when a tube amp gets hot the whole amp gets hot. As many know you can actually warm a room with a tube amp. So that means...
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Today, 03:25 PM
Thank you, sir. Mostly just guitar and amp, but I have the tiniest bit of tremolo and the tiniest bit of some of the oddball Strymon tape delay stuff...
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Today, 03:23 PM
Ragman, is this a good time to remind you that you did post your own take for contrast, so this opinion will be taken for precisely what it is?
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Today, 03:23 PM
Which jazz guitar store?
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Today, 03:16 PM
All right, personal view. I don't think he's very good. And I think he murdered a really nice ballad. Take it or leave it. If you don't agree you...
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Today, 03:08 PM
Wasn't it you that stated: I don't think he's very good. This is Misty? Poor man's murdering it.
That doesn't sound like just a personal...
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Today, 03:01 PM
On the cassette (and CD I suppose) Joe plays all the examples from the book:
Joe Pass - On Guitar (book/CD) - OR - Guitar Style -
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Today, 02:59 PM
Isn't there an engineers quote "don't make what you can buy"?
I agree with your thoughts and understand your operating position. If I start trying...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Just saw this thread... a pdf copy of the Joe Pass Guitar Style book can be found online for free (like most things these days), e.g., at Scribd. I...
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Today, 02:15 PM
I have a pair of Sadowsky — a long scale semi-hollow I got used and a FV model I bought new.
I also have owned 7 Eastman’s at various price...
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Today, 01:58 PM
Even at the brighter tempo Hawk took it at, it's still a long tune...2 choruses, 3 minutes. You throw in two heads, maybe a piano solo...that's a...
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Today, 01:55 PM
'Fox Trot" - that's funny. "Don't let anyone tell you you can't dance to this music, you can! So go ahead and buy the record!"
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Today, 01:55 PM
A lap-steel squareneck tricone is a bit of a different beast from a roundneck, even before one takes into account the musical-stylistic-textural...
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Today, 01:53 PM
Love this clip.
https://youtu.be/-ZvnoY5r_Lk?si=NpJsLYws1r5Zo6ob
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Today, 01:48 PM
I think Coleman Hawkins established it quite nicely and then moved to improv quickly since a side is only a few minutes. I don't need to hear all of...
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Today, 01:39 PM
It was funny, Wayne's bass player was playing guitar in his place with the drummer, he asked me if I wanted to sit in, I said no. :smile-new:
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Today, 01:38 PM
That reminds me of one of the more interesting response to my ‘three fingered’ video who cited this video:
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Today, 01:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTR_8bTFng
For the record (as in vinyl) on what became one of the most famous jazz recordings of all time,...
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Today, 01:31 PM
Allan actually had quite a pronated left hand - not that this is necessarily untrue of Classical players as Peter indicated, but much more so than...
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Today, 01:29 PM
He meant that unless person works with a very specific and possibly niche technical method — classical pedagogy, benson picking, etc — then there is...
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Today, 01:22 PM
I have raised 3 children who, inspite of having me as their dad, have grown into fine adults, married very well, and now i have 8 grandchildren! So...
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Today, 01:20 PM
That makes at least two of us.
Roger S. did well with his business model (it seems) regarding archtops and he is moving on. So what? If you need...
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Today, 01:18 PM
I don't know Ben Monder's musical background, but Allan Holdsworth played violin before he played guitar.
"Unless a player is in a particular...
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Today, 01:06 PM
Why is that? Do you know something we don't know?
Doug
EDIT: Ah, I read more of the thread, I get it now....
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Today, 01:04 PM
Judging by the description and reviews, this is a unique book. I don't know of any comparable jazz guitar oriented books but others here may have...
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Today, 01:01 PM
Ah, ha. Well, there we are. I hope Yka59 takes heed, which I'm sure he will. I only wish I could recommend him a really good book instead but I'm...
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Today, 12:59 PM
Ditto. SS15 was my first archtop and while a perfectly serviceable professional tool to make music on, in the back of my mind there was always a...
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Today, 12:51 PM
I have and I do.
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Today, 12:44 PM
Not saying that a Sadowsky isn’t good. Just not $6K good.
These cost far less brand new.
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Today, 12:43 PM
Yes, the IV7 chord, which theory wise is the b5 substitute of B7 - V7 of IIIm (Em7 in this instance).
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Today, 12:36 PM
Hear those strumming sounds in the distance? They're getting louder and louder! Hide your guitar, Robert Yelin is coming!! :nightmare:
You can see...
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Today, 12:35 PM
...and shellac, otherwise known as "violin varnish," can easily be refreshed by any reasonably competent luthier, to whatever level of sheen and...
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Today, 12:21 PM
I still have my Sadowsky Jim Hall. It’s the only 6 string archtop I have, I sold everything else. When these first came out and for the first few...
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Today, 12:16 PM
It is not about improvement of the music, it is about expressive possibilities that work for me personally. With the means of piano i hear the...
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Today, 12:15 PM
Do you have kids? You know when you give you kid an apple and half way though they're like "I see a brown spot I don't want this anymore" and you...
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Today, 12:01 PM
I took a look but unfortunately I don't own a microphone anymore.
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Today, 11:57 AM
I've just found a very obvious application of F(7) connecting C with Em7, it's this ubiquitous turnaround that resolves in measure #32 (rather than...
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Today, 11:54 AM
Sounds idyllic.
David
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Today, 11:53 AM
That's a great price on a beautiful guitar.
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Today, 11:52 AM
If you have played both, you would probably not say so.
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Today, 11:52 AM
Careful now,you are going to get people's hair on fire in this forum with talk like that.I personally totally agree with you.
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Today, 11:50 AM
I've decided to sell my 6 string guitars, as I'm only playing 7 string.
My Hofner John Stowell has many scratches in the Shellac finish, so I'm...
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Today, 11:38 AM
Lol, a very local name of the "mountain" on top of which I live, located in a small village in the Valois region :cool:
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Today, 11:34 AM
Bach's music doesn't need any improvements... (not just) my opinion and a definitive one.
As to recordings: evidently we cannot reproduce what a...
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Today, 11:25 AM
Thanks, yeah I wasn't going to try a 50s wiring since I'm new and bridging the caps between two pots looked a little extra for my amateurish...
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Today, 11:20 AM
An Eastman is just as good at a fraction of the cost like the laminate John Pisano model for around $1600.
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Today, 11:18 AM
This is the last time I'm going to say this. It's and IMPROVISATION ON THE CHANGES OF MISTY. It doesn't have to play ANY of the melody. Improvisation...
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Today, 11:16 AM
Really helpful and thank you. Return to France in the morning so will hit the pharmacie first thing. Will report back After rdv avec mon médecin. BTW...
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Today, 11:11 AM
Hmm … I mean again this is not my vibe, but I would clock this as Misty immediately. He does play the “helpless as a kitten” and “hat from my glove”...
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Today, 11:08 AM
I did it this way. I like it. If others don't, too bad! It's actually quite fast all things considering. The tune's at the end to save space.
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Today, 11:05 AM
1000.00 for your Squier Strat ; o
you would be hard hard pressed around here to get a 1000.00 for a used USA made one.
there an American standard...
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Today, 11:04 AM
Price drop bump in advance of lowering my reverb ad. JGF gets first chance!
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Today, 11:03 AM
These guitars were completely overpriced and using a name. While certainly they were fine guitars a name only gets you so far when the name is not...
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Today, 10:54 AM
Yeah, I'm not speaking so much to all the chords of it. That's a style choice. But, I didn't even hear the first three notes of the melody. I...
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Today, 10:48 AM
I recently visited a prominent jazz guitar store, guitar in hand, hoping to realize some profit, or trade for something.
I was met by the valet...
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Today, 10:13 AM
Misty's a lovely melody, but it's also a LONG ASS tune. So you gotta figure out what you're going to do with it in a solo environment...if you play...
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Today, 10:07 AM
That the tune is played by the giants of jazz in a number of ways that go far beyond the murder you accused Yelin of is not a "view" but a fact. Your...
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Today, 10:05 AM
This Donna Lee thing is the most I've used my pinky in my life, I think.
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Today, 10:01 AM
To which view you are fully entitled, Lawson :-)
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Today, 09:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI
For fun here's Erol Garner himself playing his own tune. I guess he murders it too.
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Today, 09:51 AM
I think it's more than mere personal preference. There is a long tradition of improvising on Misty using block-chords, interspersing melodic...
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Today, 09:50 AM
First, the colors may or may not be the same. You can't blindly go by the color of the wire coverings, because different manufacturers use different...
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Today, 09:48 AM
If you want the basics of fingerings study Leavitt's modern guitar method. Then when you've figured out how he would play it, and realize that all...
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Today, 09:48 AM
It's an improvisation on the changes to the tune incorporating some phrases from the melody. Remember, as a jazz player, you will need to play the...
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Today, 09:45 AM
But it's a lovely tune. I don't think he has any feeling for it, he's just playing it as a swing thing.
I can understand a version that put a...
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Today, 09:41 AM
Duties & Customs charges in the US are kind of a crapshoot. Sometimes you'll get hit with fees and sometimes you won't. The rate itself depends on...
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Today, 09:41 AM
I'm really finding this discussion in the last dozen posts or so very helpful. Some really fine players (you guys!) and very thoughtful as well,...
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Today, 09:37 AM
In the end their guitars were simple too expensive for an asian built laminated guitar with a poly finish.
I once had one and it was a good guitar,...
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Today, 09:35 AM
Thanks so much for the info.
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Today, 09:34 AM
Les Paul, and Chet Atkins vibes, real cool
https://youtu.be/FYFEPM-HLtU
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Today, 09:32 AM
It's evidently not an arrangement of the tune but an improvisation weaving elements of the melody with other ideas in a strongly chorded manner. It...
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Today, 09:30 AM
It sounded more like a long intro into Four than Misty to me.
If someone posted that here I would comment to focus more on the melody and ballad...
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Today, 09:28 AM
As an aside … has anyone checked out Tal Yahalom? He’s been doing this chord melody workshop a couple times a year and I want to do it eventually....
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Today, 09:27 AM
Ahhhhh very George Van Eps
Not my bag of chips, but the “chord on every beat” makes sense now. Stride guitar.
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Today, 09:25 AM
Thanks everyone, I'll keep all these comments in mind. I did really like the AMH90 but I do want something practical and they seem fairly inexpensive...
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Today, 09:21 AM
Ah yes, the old "where does the thumb go" dilemma... When I did the Rock/Blues thing, like most, the thumb was always visible over the edge of the...
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Today, 09:14 AM
Murdering it?
He doesn't actually ever play the melody "straight," but I would call this far from a murder.
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Today, 09:13 AM
Difficult topic... when you say ' If you have the default configuration it has a stereo mic pair on it that should give you a faithful reproduction...
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Today, 09:12 AM
Sounds good without a drummer.
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Today, 09:10 AM
Here's the author of that arrangement. I don't think he's very good. This is Misty? Poor man's murdering it.
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Today, 09:06 AM
This makes more sense to me. Find the one you like and use it. Then, take it around the 12 keys and learn why the other ones are just as good.
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Today, 09:05 AM
A video would be so helpful. But this explained so much, real eyeopener for me.
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Today, 09:05 AM
Yep, and we have options form Korea, Indonesia and China
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Today, 09:02 AM
Starting with the less complicated install, I successfully put that 57 Classic in the Zephyr and love it. Now it's time for the Emperor's new pups....
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Today, 08:57 AM
'okay, Ebm is the ii of Ab7, but B7 and F7? Why?'
That wasn't me asking the question, it was posing the question the beginner would probably ask....
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Today, 08:41 AM
Only with the diagnosis of course ;) and even then it'll depend on the kind of x-ray. Cartilage doesn't necessarily show up very well in a...
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Today, 08:33 AM
In case anybody needs a reminder of the forum rule that you should always ignore Ragman. Otherwise you'll regret without exceptions.
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Today, 08:20 AM
I know. But it's not whether WE know but whether the unwitting novice to chord melody knows, which I doubt. And I'm not sure if describing it the...
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Today, 08:19 AM
I suspect they will always be available exclusively in Japan until Terada decide to stop making them, perhaps under a different brandname...
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Today, 08:09 AM
Check where he got it, and then ask yourself how they serve the wine in those places :cool:
Or maybe it's just (also) because the guitar used here...
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Today, 08:05 AM
Preach.
Not sure I’m all that qualified, but funny you mention violin. I’ve got two buddies I routinely refer classical students to when I’m...
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Today, 08:00 AM
Making mechanical changes is a bit like changing your posture when you walk. It’s hard to change something you’re not really supposed to be focusing...
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Today, 07:55 AM
But does he explain why certain subs are what they are? Sorry, I'm insistent about this! No one's fault here if he doesn't, of course :-)
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Today, 07:55 AM
There are different textures for chord melody. Putting a chord on every note is often referred to as block chord texture. What works best for chord...
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Today, 07:40 AM
Honestly, just Dorian and Phrygian.
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Today, 07:37 AM
Personally, I don't look at guitars as an investment. So many better ways you can invest your money. That being said, if you buy quality guitars,...
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Today, 07:28 AM
Sebastian Muller in Berlin is playing some of the best traditional lap-style tricone in the world right now.
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Today, 07:23 AM
I think the point is that if you play long enough you will likely try every fingering system out there. You will end up with your own way of doing it...
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Today, 07:18 AM
When people talk of a chord under every note, they are usually referring to the Robert Conti material. He explicitly states he is trying to train...
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Today, 07:10 AM
Guitar love is fickle. No one guitar will hold your heart forever. But when it does, you make your best music.
Get the one you clicked with. That...
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Today, 07:00 AM
As an adult, if you've spent 20-60 years fretting notes with four fingers, I wouldn't advise anyone to change to using three fingers, IMHO.
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Today, 06:56 AM
Incidentally, I take it this is designed to be played with a pick. But a lot of chord melody players use their fingers. Playing 5-note chords isn't a...
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Today, 06:54 AM
Yeah a lot of the time when I’m teaching this junk I’ll have someone go through and harmonize every note so they know how. Then we go through and...
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Today, 06:45 AM
Mmm... I think possibly this is one way of showing how every note could be harmonised. I suppose that could come in handy in places.
But I also...
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Today, 06:39 AM
Reminds me of what Robben Ford says in one of his courses when addressing the subject of string dampening (keeping unwanted strings from ringing)....
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Today, 06:23 AM
Hi.
Here's one: Jazz Favorites For Solo Guitar (Yelin Robert.) and then the other: Jazz gems for solo guitar (Yelin Robert.) I'm trying to attach a...
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Today, 05:58 AM
Yes, Frank says: "there are 100 ways to play a c Major Scale. Do it with every fingering you want"
For me it´s maybe a bit to fresh ;-)
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Today, 05:41 AM
There's a point where you feel certain options will work. You're at that point. Beyond that is something that happens with the bonding process: You...
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Today, 05:37 AM
I don’t see why you couldn’t use 3nps to sight read?
One thing I find a lot on this forum is that people often tie together fingering and...
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Today, 05:29 AM
Maybe - but my experience is most students have limited appetite and patience for practicing anything consistently regardless of what it is.
Tbf...
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Today, 05:25 AM
My pinkie finger is equally as bad as the rest of my fingers for fretting.
I've accepted my limited ability for speed and really enjoy just...
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Today, 05:25 AM
Hi. Which books have you found with a chord on every note please? Thanks
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Today, 05:07 AM
I like the guitar finish. Looks lovely, thanks for sharing the pic and happy NGD.
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Today, 05:04 AM
The only reason I'd pick one over the other is if I'm going to play somewhere where feedback is a big concern. A semi-hollow-body will have less...
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Today, 04:54 AM
Hi.
In jazz guitar we can have:
1) Traditional notation: notes on the staff
2) Tablature: fret numbers on six horizontal lines
3) Fingerings:...
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Today, 04:08 AM
You are 100% right, chord melodies don't have a chord on every note, it doesn't sound good. You could simplify it yourself according to your ear. ...
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Today, 04:06 AM
There is no set formula for the mix of chords and single notes. The simplest advice is to play slowly and slog your way through it. It may take a...
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Today, 03:59 AM
My pinky is not a winner for sure. Have you seen that bad boy flap around like a dying fish?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 03:57 AM
I've started to dabble with a piece of free software called Tonocracy. The main attraction is it uses IA-based amp models. I have very little time on...
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Today, 03:55 AM
It seems to me people don’t look at the left hand with the same mentality as the right. With picking we can say that there various picking approaches...
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Today, 03:34 AM
Hi. I'm a total beginner for jazz and I can't read music. I use tabs and I'm looking at some good books for standards but the one's I found have a...
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Today, 03:21 AM
The simplest way of replying to this is to say I also think Wes has perfect left hand
I like Denis Chang’s term - violin technique - for ‘three...
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Today, 03:06 AM
Really? Is that a direct quote? That's unusual, some would say refreshing , because most (almost all) guitar teachers will advise you to use a...
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Today, 02:51 AM
"As every other chord can be voiced as a different voicing of I or V chords."
In formal harmonic theory, the three basic chord functions are tonic...
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Today, 01:26 AM
Wow! Looks amazing!
Great work
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Today, 01:24 AM
I really like the sound of your guitar!
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Today, 01:15 AM
Consensus on the right way has not really caught up to the music being played, nor has it determined whether using three or four fingers is best for...
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Today, 12:27 AM
Thank you all for the help and the suggestions. Here's yet another version, this time blending some of the piezo with the IR. Without a lot of...
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Today, 12:16 AM
https://youtu.be/dIyVb6n3YOo?si=5Ou3pc33Y6QPOBMo
From a gig tonight.
Fun fact: bass player backed out, so the bass player in the video is my...
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Yesterday, 11:11 PM
"We didn't play oldies, we played ancienties" Gene Allen, Blue Jean Committee
At the bitter end of a long day, I just want to play for an hour...
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Yesterday, 10:40 PM
Well obviously it is not profitable for them to make archtops anymore but never fear because there are over 3,000 archtops for sale on Reverb.com if...
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Yesterday, 10:40 PM
There are so many choices nowadays,like a Chinese Restaurant menu,Lol! I’ve been through so many guitars and I now play the Kiesel/Carvin Alan...
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Yesterday, 10:05 PM
IKR?
Anything “we” like too much they stop making. Story of my (our) life.
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