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Today, 02:56 PM
Is this thread about playing in all keys AND in all positions?
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Today, 02:49 PM
is this still about bIII dim chords or what is even going on?
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Today, 02:47 PM
Absolutely stunning example of late master luthier Bill Moll’s work. Although I have never sold guitars here, I have done numerous no drama deals w...
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Today, 02:45 PM
Search Sexy Girls in your town for night
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Today, 02:45 PM
You'd best find a recording of it she made with a small combo, however, copies of the sheet music have been posted on YouTube, for example:
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Today, 02:40 PM
Delighted. Of what?
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Today, 02:35 PM
I see they left the bridge foam in. It’s got to be hard now. Take the foam out and then someone orders the guitar and complains it’s not new, leave...
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Today, 02:33 PM
^ I'm in Santa Fe, NM. We will probably have some more summery weather but a system happened to be coming through the day of equinox so I noticed a...
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Today, 02:22 PM
Wow! So happy to hear your enthusiasm for Cris' latest Crossfire. Congratulations, Cris!
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Today, 02:22 PM
i followed blood around the city in the early “80s. the big band show at the savoy was mind blowing.
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Today, 02:19 PM
That sounds really great!
Thank you. It’s a pleasure to hear a fine artist on such a fine instrument as this one.
I wish that I had the command...
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Today, 02:14 PM
Here is a pic of Roger holding my new B 155
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/QUOTEThis guitar is superb ! Acoustically - its sounds like a...
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Today, 02:13 PM
thanks for posting that
there’s a slight tech problem with the
plugged in to the princeton sound demo
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Its got a short delay on it
(close...
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Today, 01:54 PM
What I have to offer musically I offer live a lot recently. Going to jam sessions playing jazz, blues, funk, afro, reggae etc., to open stages...
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Today, 01:52 PM
This is the nature of this place.
2,000 posts in, Bop Head will not be recording his playing for you.
Take his advice or don’t.
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Today, 01:45 PM
Play the guitar anyway opening yourself to accept (not expect) fun as a gift.
Nothing good comes from only doing fun things for as long as they are...
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Today, 01:36 PM
I didn't mean that or anything of the sort.
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Today, 01:34 PM
I think I can answer that. It's based on Gibson's ES-250 w/Christian pickup. The fingerboards are flush w/ the top, low profile bridge resulting in a...
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Today, 01:32 PM
| ZOOM
I got one used for 30 EUR recently. It records on SD cards. Audio only.
SD card - Wikipedia
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Today, 01:31 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_EX9Ppfjw
I’m learning this version to accompany a singer and have it down until the two-minute mark, at which point...
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Today, 01:31 PM
What's wrong with block chord solos? I do them on my gig and no one has threatened me, yet...
It does make me crazy when the piano player tries...
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Today, 01:28 PM
Here is a "new" one, by the same guy who did the second video that was posted, and where not many cared for the tone. In this one, he has the black...
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Today, 01:22 PM
You don't need a smart phone. Your laptop probably has a web-cam and you can easily capture your playing with that. Most of even the cheapest cameras...
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Today, 01:19 PM
I enjoyed the Clooney version, but but liked the Tarkovsky version much more. Perfect Dark Zero was also made by a small team (30 or so by the end)....
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Today, 01:19 PM
It is funny that there are people who cannot imagine that there are people who do not own a smartphone.
And I do not want one. On the Sunday...
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Today, 01:18 PM
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Which is why you never post video of yourself
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Today, 01:15 PM
It's all anyone needs, really, Can even go direct. I think the excuses people give for not posting their own playing are a genre of posts in and of...
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Today, 01:13 PM
https://archive.org/details/waitingfordizzy00leesg
Waiting for Dizzy : Gene Lees : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Today, 12:59 PM
Gene Lees’ book ‘Waiting for Dizzy’ has a chapter on Emily, based on an interview he had with her. Well worth reading if you can find it (I could...
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Today, 12:53 PM
Astronomical, not meteorological. It's going to be in the 90s here for the foreseeable future. Maybe the occasional day in the high 80s, but not...
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Today, 12:51 PM
Big fan! I thought if she were still alive she’d be considered one of the greatest teachers of all time! Perhaps because she was a woman she was...
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Today, 12:49 PM
Oh cool. I don't think I'd have any recordings if I couldn't just use my phone.
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Today, 12:47 PM
I’ve got one somewhere. Haven’t used it for years….
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 12:44 PM
Yeah I almost mention Randy’s book because it’s the one I recommend, but I haven’t lived with it enough to know it as a teaching resource. I really...
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Today, 12:41 PM
I don't know if I made that up but sure.
I checked. Nothing came up.
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Today, 12:41 PM
Please don't get me wrong and I'm prepared to get flamed and/or educated and I would love to have this guitar.
But to me the neck seems set quite...
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Today, 12:40 PM
A 355 is just a 335 with more bling. From what I’ve heard and seen the various re-issue models (59, 64) are very toneful instruments, the Collings...
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Today, 12:33 PM
Right. What I meant, in part, was that these just feel cheap overall, dot or figured (pricier), with a tone that doesn't inspire. I've never played a...
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Today, 12:29 PM
Both of those guitars are beautiful.Borys deserves a lot more attention than he gets.My Borys is the easiset guitar for me to play and my aging hands...
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Today, 12:28 PM
not much you can do about inlay, but have you messed with pickup height?
i got a 2019 335 that's exactly what you describe (dots tho)...there's a...
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Today, 12:28 PM
Top of the line handheld recording tech, pre-iPhone 7
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Today, 12:23 PM
What's an SD card/zoomh4?
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Today, 12:10 PM
I just bought 2 SD cards today. I hope they are the right ones for my Zoom H4. I am busy now but tomorrow I will check it out.
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Today, 12:01 PM
May I use this as a song line? "We're just guides in a forbidden zone. We give people hope."
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Today, 11:59 AM
Never read a truer explanation! How many ordinary cheap archtop’s have all of us seen George Benson play the heck out of over the years? To a degree...
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Today, 11:58 AM
devastating
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Today, 11:53 AM
When are we going to get to hear Bophead example recordings?
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Today, 11:46 AM
Never saw the original Solaris but the George Clooney remake was excellent. I think S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was made by a very small team.
I hate the Yakuza...
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Today, 11:45 AM
Wow thanks everyone for such amazing replies and sharing your stories about Emily and the suggestions just checking those out on now really really...
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Today, 11:39 AM
Exactly right! I've red the book and watched the movie, it's as far from propaganda as it gets. In fact Tarkovsky the director was on 'non...
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Today, 11:13 AM
I'll have to get hold of it. I really enjoyed his adaptation of Solaris.
I've heard of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but never played. Not long before it came...
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Today, 11:08 AM
I cannot stop to advertise "Basic Harmony" haha. It is aimed at beginners also. The first musical examples are children and folk songs.
Like those...
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Today, 11:02 AM
It's a lot to absorb. I was trying to simplify one aspect of the plot. It's making more sense the 2nd time through but not nearly enough.
The movie...
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Today, 11:02 AM
Time for some Ragman example recordings.
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Today, 10:48 AM
you love it
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Today, 10:47 AM
Has anyone played a "newer" 335 of late, say 2021-2023 or similar? The figured / blocks somehow feel cheap, not a lot of depth. Maybe this is not new...
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Today, 10:45 AM
I dabbled in some music classes but do I really have to pay to learn about treachery?
If you're serious about music you have to play the game for...
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Today, 10:40 AM
Don't know that one.
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Today, 10:38 AM
That's not actually a propaganda movie. It's based on Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. The premise is that some travelling aliens briefly...
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Today, 10:35 AM
I'm a big fan. I got to see Emily perform at Smalls (I believe) in NYC in October 1988, while on my honeymoon. I spent a fair amount of time...
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Today, 10:30 AM
I find that the books I get the most out of these days are more beginner things. The really good ones can pose very different ways of organizing and...
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Today, 10:26 AM
Yeah I decided to take a break from the really focused work in it for a while and just use it in chord melody stuff for a little bit. Got through I...
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Today, 10:24 AM
Hey I have a Ph.D. from Yale... uh... in Near Eastern Languages and cultures... okay, not relevant...
I just like to brag about having gone to Yale....
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Today, 10:12 AM
There are some live recordings out there, that I think someone posted here. They were really interesting as they were in her later period.
Monster...
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Today, 10:06 AM
I’m gonna catch some lead for saying this but I have a D’Angelico EXL-1 that was made in Korea. Everything is stock except for the nut that was...
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Today, 09:46 AM
I'm watching a Soviet era propaganda film called Stalker. Best movie I've even seen. It won't make sense the first time through.
There are 3 main...
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Today, 09:43 AM
Here is a pic of Roger holding my new B 155
This guitar is superb ! Acoustically - its sounds like a carved guitar .
Sent from my iPhone using...
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Today, 09:26 AM
FIVE pages!
Personally, the second chord in 'Embraceable You' doesn't bother me at all. It's very nice, lovely sense of movement. Using the bIIIo...
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Today, 09:26 AM
Thanks so much! :-) I don't mean to inspire jealousy, mostly hoping to inspire folks to take a look at my downloadable video lessons teaching my...
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Today, 09:08 AM
Yeah I got it now, thanks. I love the intro to A Train and I always wondered what made a simple C major vamp so hip.
The handout was put...
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Today, 09:07 AM
Glad it worked out!
Enjoy the new guitar!
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Today, 08:57 AM
Ahhhhh, see, if you said this before, I didn't catch this part. This is all making more sense to me now.
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Today, 08:56 AM
No I do not
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Today, 08:51 AM
thanks for the heads up
(I can’t justify getting a Borys at the moment ….)
ps apart from them being superb instruments …. the light sunbursts...
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Today, 08:50 AM
I don't hate people enough to be a writer. I probably should. The last thing I would do is try to profit off of some yakuza splinter group that...
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Today, 08:25 AM
So Peter, what is your next song? We need to know.
Do you take requests?
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Today, 08:22 AM
I am the new owner of this Eagle. The instrument got a clean bill of health from a local luthier before shipping. Heritage support looked at a...
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Today, 08:17 AM
Love her playing and her wit. In her first instructional video she describes her path towards jazz guitar and I paraphrase “I wanted to be able to...
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Today, 07:39 AM
Hi Allan, if you build the melodic minor triads in root position they go
Cm Dm Eb+ F G Ao Bo
The Eb+ has three inversions like the other triads,...
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Today, 07:10 AM
Emily was great, I think I’ve got most if not all of her recordings.
I’ll always kick myself because she once appeared in the UK (at the Bull’s...
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Today, 07:08 AM
I mean it's an obvious jam session tune, so it will be one you'll learn quite early on.
Although you would't need to know Hot House was a...
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Today, 07:06 AM
After working with Alan Kingstone’s book for some time, I was doing some chord melody stuff and one of the tunes I tackled was Embraceable You. I...
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Today, 06:39 AM
You should "file a radar" about that, a phone with a so-called Retina display should also "see" at least as good as we do :cool:
Sure, as long...
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Today, 06:31 AM
And learn What Is This Thing Called Love before.
EDIT: Including lyrics of course :)
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Today, 06:21 AM
Also the music itself can be incredibly information rich. If you want a textbook on altered V - I cadences, just properly take apart Hot House, for...
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Today, 06:09 AM
No thank you I'm good haha.
In general, I would say the number one issue with adult jazz students (including myself) is we vastly over estimate...
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Today, 05:34 AM
Actually take a look into the book yourself -- I posted a link to a PDF of the long out-of-print English edition. It is a very practical book...
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Today, 05:19 AM
Or we could go and listen to some music instead.
I can't remember the last time I looked at a theory book, other than to see if I agreed with it.
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Today, 05:17 AM
There's a lot of ways to play V-I. Depends on what I'm hearing. There's a lot of well known tricks be it 'I went to the Guildhall' (Cry me a River in...
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Today, 05:11 AM
Hi Jimmy,
Thanks so much for replying and that's very generous of you sir. Thanks so much!
I'll send you my email address via PM too.
Thanks...
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Today, 04:44 AM
Occasionally Mick :) depends what kinda mood I’m in. Always nice for a lil bit of a shimmer with the heavier guage flat wounds compared to the much...
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Today, 03:51 AM
https://youtu.be/3YnXUg3cIdI?si=mabnVW9rj33c28KO
My favorite version of one of my all time favorite tunes, her first phrase of the ad-lib set a new...
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Today, 03:39 AM
I'm a longtime fan of her elegant playing and I learned some things I still use from her Hot Licks instructional videos. Her playing was joyful but...
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Today, 02:14 AM
We've mostly worked restaurants without vocals, playing quietly enough that diners can converse. When we've had the vocalist, she brings a very...
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Today, 01:43 AM
The key is to apply it.
Take this II-V-I example in Bb:
On the II chord play 8-x-8-8-8-x (Cm7), then on the V go from 8-x-7-8-7-x (Co =...
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Today, 01:16 AM
...raise any note in a diminished chord and it evolves into a minor 6 chord
C Eb Gb A
so
C E Gb/F# A - Ami6 / D9 / Ab7#5b9 (NR) /...
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Today, 12:52 AM
Is the Henriksen amp still available?
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Today, 12:47 AM
As an experiment, I did this with some small, thin nylon washers on my Gibson ES-175. The pickup rings are now about .01" above the top, about the...
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Today, 12:32 AM
But it seems like you were working on a lot of different things at the same time so if at least something sticks in your brain 1.5 pages per month is...
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Today, 12:08 AM
I am a fan of Emily Remler. I have a couple of her recordings and her video lessons. I find her playing inspirational.
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Today, 12:03 AM
Loud enough for anything isn’t a good priority for me. I mean, a Marshall stack is also loud enough for anything. You get my drift? How many of your...
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Yesterday, 11:44 PM
It was. I'm just being difficult.
I feel I should note here that Alan's book is of course, excellent. My brain is not special in anyway, so I'm on...
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Yesterday, 11:39 PM
My brain is big and quick but I thought it was clear that I learned the sixth/seventh and diminished scales from Alan's book (and from Chris Parks...
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Yesterday, 11:36 PM
Wow this thread has really become a lightning rod for my sarcasm today.
Apologies to the innocent bystanders.
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Yesterday, 11:27 PM
I have this problem too sometimes. Where I buy a book and then realize that my brain is so big I don’t need it after all.
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
Time to revisit your book obviously, TBH I have not looked into it for a while :redface-new:
On the other hand it was not necessary as things...
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Yesterday, 10:49 PM
There is a big fuzzy fat region of mystery between a band that uses am If you want to spread out the sound sources over a larger stage, then a PA,...
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Yesterday, 10:24 PM
A name to remember. At the age of only 24 it is definitely time for him to translate his website into English :) Saw him live tonight at a tribute to...
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Yesterday, 10:19 PM
I wrote and lost a longer response.
I agree that the rig is overcomplicated. But, it's loud enough for anything, I already have the components...
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Yesterday, 10:06 PM
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to sway you. I was just participating in Mick’s thread hijacking.
The surfliner is really cool. At $300 used I might even...
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Yesterday, 10:04 PM
Tonight at the weekly jam session at Munich's Unterfahrt bassist Ida Koch who hosted the session choose tribute to Wes as theme for the host gig of...
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Yesterday, 10:03 PM
I don’t think it’s bad to hear more bass on their side of the room and more guitar on the other side. It’s a live band, not a mono record.
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Yesterday, 10:02 PM
The Headrush 108s get a lot of good reviews and have been ever since they were first released. There are also some interesting posts over on the...
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Yesterday, 09:56 PM
There is a big fuzzy fat region of mystery between a band that uses amps for bass, guitar, keys, and nothing for sax, trumpet, drums vs a band that...
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Yesterday, 09:52 PM
Do you already know the interview Ben Sidran did with her and Larry Coryell?
Larry Coryell - Emily Remler | Ben Sidran | Talking Jazz
Her live...
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Yesterday, 09:46 PM
How do the three triads in example 2 repeat every 4 frets if Cm to Eb is 4 frets and those are different shapes?
The shapes seem to flip on 3rd...
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Yesterday, 08:42 PM
Do you use the Bigsby at all?
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Yesterday, 08:41 PM
Just one of my favorite quotes about Jazz ever:
Nothing is corny if it swings.
--Emily Remler
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Yesterday, 08:40 PM
Incredible. Super original voice while ALSO being maybe the only person who could fool you into thinking she was Wes.
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Yesterday, 08:37 PM
You mean like transcriptions? I have this book around somewhere, will have to look for it.
Mel Bay Presents Emily Remler Retrospective...
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Yesterday, 08:22 PM
The 4 note chords can usually be trusted - not always though, I've seen them binge out on symmetry and go berserk.
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Yesterday, 08:13 PM
Hi everyone I hope we are all well ^_^ a whole while back everyone gave me some advice on getting my first arch top for Jazz anyway that’s lead to a...
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Yesterday, 08:08 PM
Regretfully, the iPhone camera cannot pick up the subtle blends and graduation of color between the sunburst.
Unfortunately when taking shots, you...
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Yesterday, 08:07 PM
Hi everyone hope we are all well ^^
i was just wondering if anyone had any interesting Emily Remler things to share I’ve been so enjoying learning...
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Yesterday, 08:06 PM
There are but there are some features on the Surfliner that I really like, especially the tilt back peg head and the toggle switches. It also has a...
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Yesterday, 08:00 PM
Congratulations! I had one and replaced the pickups with Seth Lovers. I sold it but wish I didn't. Yours looks particularly nice. Enjoy!
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Yesterday, 07:58 PM
Heheheheheheheheee....
Enter at your own peril.....
shop
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Yesterday, 07:57 PM
Yeah, the Sires are getting good reviews, I think they were originally made in Korea but now they're made in Indonesia.
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Yesterday, 07:55 PM
Yes but how do we know we can trust it?
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Yesterday, 07:49 PM
Top of Page 12 - The Barry Harris Harmonic Method For Guitar.
Etc....
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