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04-24-2025, 04:18 PM
Got my 80th birthday coming up in a month and I'd like to get myself a nice present so I'm leaning heavily toward a Bud 6. I really like my Evans...
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04-24-2025, 07:15 PM
I just bought this on Reverb. As you can hear, the G string frets out very badly, while the adjacent strings (A, D and B) don't. Really a ...
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04-26-2025, 06:58 PM
This is about how people feel about the need for a band to be entertaining and how to do it better.
One ground rule for the discussion. Nothing...
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04-28-2025, 04:14 PM
Hi everyone,
Im looking for some advice/considerations regarding plectrums(picks). I exclusively play acoutic so the pick is a great tool to shape...
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04-28-2025, 08:56 PM
I was scrolling through Advancing Guitarist and this caught my eye:
How does one bend down a note, isn't that physically impossible?
Thanks!
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04-28-2025, 02:00 PM
I have an L-5CT in a unique configuration with a single factory-installed P90 pickup in the bridge position. I would like to find a great pickup for...
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04-24-2025, 09:09 AM
Hello,
I'm selling another high-end archtop, super comfortable and easy to play, which is rare for a solid wood guitar imo. Floating Kent...
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04-26-2025, 10:31 AM
What led to your choice? What's been your experience?
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04-27-2025, 09:07 AM
Hi everyone!
About a year ago, I bought a 1989 Mahogany ES-175 relatively cheaply. It's my first hollow body, so I don't have much experience with...
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04-28-2025, 03:29 PM
Can I get you’re top ideas for
navigating a 251 (in C major please)
mine is
up the Dm7 arp ,
down the G7 scale
resolve onto the third of C
so...
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04-25-2025, 03:05 PM
Hola chicos, parece una Ibanez FG 100, pero es diferente en muchos aspectos (tuve dos FG 100 antes). ¿Quizás una edición especial? El diapasón es de...
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04-25-2025, 12:54 PM
While looking on the Quilter website just now, I discovered that the Block Dock 12HD has been replaced with a neo-loaded 15” BD. It’s looks in its...
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04-26-2025, 02:22 AM
Anyone have experience modding a standard tele with the 4-way switching that lets you put both pickups in series? My feeling is it gives a nice...
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04-28-2025, 10:26 AM
https://youtu.be/DMLaYwaJhXk?si=bGe58nG34c6RjGaT
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04-29-2025, 02:43 AM
Hi to all! Newbie here :) I need help and advice to learn more about jazz guitar playing. I want to know your thoughts on my jazz guitar...
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04-27-2025, 01:37 PM
I found my strings....the search is over. You can have the greatest guitar, but if the strings are not right, then you won't want to play it. ...
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04-28-2025, 04:50 PM
I have two amps an ‘74 fender twin reverb and it’s great believe and I don’t want to mess Around with the settings.
my other amp is a ‘79 Mesa...
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04-27-2025, 03:41 PM
Got my guitar back after 24 days with the tech.
I bought the Kent Armstrong jazzy joe floating humbucker (korean) for $75, and my tech wasn't...
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04-25-2025, 05:45 AM
From a recent gig with a quintet. No amp :smile-new:
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04-25-2025, 12:40 PM
Welcome to my 648th fingerstyle solo jazz guitar arrangement video on YouTube "Stompin' at the Savoy," the classic jazz standard. While this tune...
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Yesterday, 05:17 PM
A few observations on what I've realised after a few weeks getting back into jazz guitar.
I decided to practice alternating I and M, rest stroke,...
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Yesterday, 12:06 PM
I just ordered parts for my 3rd Fender build. I have previously built a Tele and a Strat, going back to another Tele.
If you haven't ordered from...
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04-24-2025, 09:53 PM
Sketch of Barney.
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Yesterday, 02:37 PM
Our standard for May 2025 will be April in Paris (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg, 1932).
Background:
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (April in...
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Yesterday, 07:13 PM
Gibson Kalamazoo Award 1991. Local pickup only $17,000.00
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04-29-2025, 11:21 PM
G D+ l G D+ l G G6 l Gmaj7 G6
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04-26-2025, 11:18 AM
https://youtu.be/F0gMt9PIiEo?si=FZq2Pk74DZ6KITxU
My friend Jack Zucker just completed and released a new album that is a gorgeous work of art by...
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04-29-2025, 11:07 AM
Anyone see the Bud 10 on Reverb? There is one offer, wondering if it's anyone here? :cool:
Just a moment...
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04-28-2025, 10:01 AM
Guitars'n'Jazz in Summit, NJ, has decided to keep my TOOB and Metro cabs available on a consignment basis after all. I have just shipped them a TOOB...
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04-29-2025, 11:21 PM
You may have seen it before, but surely worth seeing again! :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29a1RL2ly0
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04-29-2025, 06:02 PM
Episode 1 of 6.
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04-29-2025, 04:13 PM
https://www.facebook.com/reel/474598115593873
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04-26-2025, 09:13 AM
https://youtu.be/2Y4TT5fRZ7o?si=mlePHWRvaOeZAaeD
Here’s another track from this freeform session with vocalist Shiri Zorn and cellist Ed Green.
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04-29-2025, 12:29 PM
In these two examples, I am playing the same song, "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face".....and remembering my fondness of Barney Kessel.
First...
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04-24-2025, 02:15 PM
https://youtu.be/cizR6RkFUWU?si=nY-H3NxQJojEUhAo
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Yesterday, 08:52 PM
Corey's a great blues player and teacher (YouTube, TrueFire, WorkingClassGuitar) with a good band. Here they cover Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been...
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04-29-2025, 11:36 AM
Ruby - $8,500 (price is shipped conus)
Jersey Girl Homemade Guitars Audrey-Ruby
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04-25-2025, 01:33 PM
Hello:
I bought a 'Charlie Christian' pickup homebrew-adapted to a round-hole flat-top guitar by a previous owner. It's been through 3 owners and...
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04-26-2025, 10:26 AM
Jens Larsen 🎸 | Is The Acoustic Sound Important For Jazz Guitar? 🧐 #jazzguitar
I figured this made more sense with my ES175
Is The Acoustic...
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04-28-2025, 12:15 PM
Hi!
"Karjalan kunnailla" is about yearning back to beautiful Karelia (=region Finns for the most part lost to Soviet Union 1940).
Here's my...
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Yesterday, 07:36 AM
Hello,
First of all I'd like to thank all the users on this forum, this is the first time I post but I came here so many times and learned so much...
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Yesterday, 09:59 AM
From the “roll your own” camp, I was reading the thread about different versions of this one, so felt compelled to do my own thing with it. ...
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Yesterday, 06:26 AM
Hello,
New member here.
Considering upgrading my Eastman T486 to something smaller, lighter and more comfortable.
Just demoed a Collings...
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Today, 05:23 AM
My new version of Four on classic guitar.
Box
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Today, 02:35 AM
It's always good to compose and play your own lines, as rpjg suggested. Just take a simple melodic phrase that you can sing and embellish it...
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Today, 02:28 AM
Ah, so you can syncopate after all!
The title, "hands off," doesn't quite fit though, what with all the hand puppet gestures your singer is...
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Today, 02:03 AM
Here's the thread I mentioned in my post quoted above -- Why Do The World's Best Guitarists Play On the Round Corner?
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Yesterday, 11:51 PM
I find scat singing good for finding a good rhythm for a line or a nice melodic phrase. But I find it hard to scat sing certain type of lines ala...
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Yesterday, 11:51 PM
Anyone who employs the Bigsby is cool in my book ))
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Yesterday, 11:40 PM
Play all the scales, but with a slur before every string change - ascending and descending.
This doesn't result in consistent "slurs-into-the-beat"...
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Yesterday, 11:18 PM
Their stuff is pretty good from my experience....but.....my problem is that their warehouse is about 10 miles from me and they won't let me just pick...
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Yesterday, 10:07 PM
I spent a number of years studying classical guitar. Generally play solos with a pick but everything else with fingers.
Ridiculous number of moves...
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Yesterday, 09:44 PM
Do I understand correctly that you can get your sound going archtop>mixer>amp>toobs? Same signal path for both guitar and vocals?
Might you know...
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Yesterday, 09:35 PM
I don’t play single notes with finger style, but I do pretty deliberately slur into as many downbeats as possible. So I have some ideas on that.
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Yesterday, 09:29 PM
definitely not.
This book is not a method book. It’s a series of really useful little tricks and perspectives and stuff that are designed to help...
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Yesterday, 08:50 PM
The 1000W (RMS continuous power) Alto TS4XX series is amazing. They all have an integral 3 channel mixer (one of which is Bluetooth only, IIRC) The...
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Yesterday, 08:41 PM
I picked up this book in the hope that it would help me learn how to improvise and I only skimmed over part 1 and went straight into Triads. But...
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Yesterday, 08:40 PM
Wow, that was something! :smile-new:
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Yesterday, 08:35 PM
I had purchased their Liverpool humbuckers which were quite the surprise! Modeled on the Gretch Filtertron, they were fantastic pickups at any price...
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Yesterday, 08:28 PM
There are a lot of small powered speakers. I mentioned the Bose S1 because I've used it. It has reverb. It has two band EQ and a bunch of presets --...
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Yesterday, 08:25 PM
Hi Johnny Mac. That's a very destinguished guitar you're selling.
I can see that you're a relatively infrequent poster here so I want to welcome you...
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Yesterday, 08:18 PM
It's much of a muchness, really. It's the first four bars of the B section that get you :-)
Do you have 'much of a muchness' in the States?
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Yesterday, 08:16 PM
I could do with some time in Paris...
Stream AIP by ragman | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
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Yesterday, 08:15 PM
It’s interesting the Ralph Platt Vanilla book changes are more complex than the real book.
They fit the tune better, I was just expecting them to...
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM
Hi - if you're selling this, please post in the "For sale" section, and be sure to read the "rules" before posting.
Thanks!
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Yesterday, 06:38 PM
I understand. All I meant was that I don't know what other song(s) it might sound like, but I might if I knew the music better. But I don't, so I...
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Yesterday, 06:20 PM
It's interesting that he views composition as the process of writing music directly onto a manuscript from one's imagination, if I understood it...
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Yesterday, 06:11 PM
Well, depending on your pref's, you'd probably have to carry a couple of pedals with the Bose. If you wanted a little more EQ control, some reverb,...
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Yesterday, 05:42 PM
Bump. If anyone is interested please PM me. Im willing to find some middle ground that works for both of us. Thanks
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Yesterday, 05:39 PM
Fingered etudes by Jimmy Wyble and George Van Eps can help in getting out of the I-M alternation trap.
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Yesterday, 05:21 PM
Chet Baker also had a pretty busted up mouth but he could still play. I think Miles Davis was also a boxer. Somehow they still found it within them...
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
My '90s 7 string Epi LP was made in China. I got it new for very little money because Sam Ash couldn't give them away at the time. The only people...
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Yesterday, 04:34 PM
I simply meant to say a rigid or thick pick is not an issue for strumming as witnessed by many great strummers using such picks - but many people...
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Yesterday, 04:14 PM
Do you have a favorite out of those 4 Eastmans? Do you prefer the tone of the T184 to the Ibanez AM200?
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Yesterday, 03:49 PM
I have a recent high-end (Elite? Deluxe?) American Tele Thinline that has pretty much become my #1 for everything. I have often/usually preferred...
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Yesterday, 03:38 PM
Yeah IDK about their built guitars. They're so cheap it's not like it's a big risk. I like some of the Earl Slick guitars, but I'm not really in the...
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Yesterday, 03:05 PM
Have you seen this video tour on the Epiphone factory in China? It's a pretty cool thing to watch, and at 5:20 they visit the presses used to make...
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Yesterday, 02:45 PM
I purchased one of their Xaviere 57 strats a number of years ago. I think the single coil strat pickups it came with sounded really good but the neck...
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Yesterday, 02:42 PM
I just wasn't satisfied.....still not totally satisfied (never will be), but I am with most of this new recording. This song has been very dear to...
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Yesterday, 02:22 PM
I thought you'd appreciate the Lee Morgan story since you play trumpet because let's face it he was a monster. Truly one of the greats. Another cool...
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Yesterday, 02:14 PM
She sounds exactly like the woman who killed Lee Morgan. Got him clean and back on his feet then when she saw him talking to another woman shot him....
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Yesterday, 02:07 PM
Man that would be a dream scenario for me listening to the van Gough of guitar while eating Chinese. My two favorite things music and food. I should...
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Yesterday, 02:03 PM
Replacement fertility rate is 2.1. More and more countries falling below the replacement rate every year. Victor Orban threw the kitchen sink at the...
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Yesterday, 02:03 PM
Thanks, you're too kind, a recording always ends up telling the truth.
Live on stage it's "What in the world is the drummer/bass thinking?!"
When...
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Yesterday, 02:01 PM
Yeah it's not what you know it's what you can prove. Same reason for Tupac and Biggie and even The Black Dahlia.
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Yesterday, 01:57 PM
Occams razor my friend. Makes perfect sense to me.
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Yesterday, 01:57 PM
For sure.... I was trying not to introduce politics into this discussion but the current administrations policies are, as you explained, the epitome...
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
Dude that's so cool. You probably know the Rush cats too. Toronto has a great cultural history especially musically speaking.
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Yesterday, 01:52 PM
That's a bit harsh to denigrate a whole genre of music bro.
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Yesterday, 01:50 PM
Why blame Canada? He was killed in Los Angeles.
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Yesterday, 01:48 PM
They probably had a very volatile relationship a la crime of passion. And ? since Lenny was always sedated he would've been venerable to a strangled...
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Yesterday, 01:43 PM
Lee Morgan's woman killed him.
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
An issue facing our economy is that there are more jobs open than there are workers to fill them. The nativist push to raise birth rates in America...
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
I bet he was nodding out on the couch ? after shooting up and his wife took advantage of the situation whereupon strangling him. Then she somehow...
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Yesterday, 01:35 PM
I just got the 3 types in standard 1mm. Funily I don't like the white bright one, warm(vanille colour) an dark one are quite nice. I have an triangle...
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Yesterday, 01:34 PM
I don't think he strangled himself lol.
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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
I think it's common knowledge that the U.S. has been a service based economy for a long time now, and our educational system, such as it is, has been...
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Yesterday, 01:31 PM
One thing that still puzzles me about the Bud is this.
By all accounts, it's good for voice as well as guitar. And, there are reports that the...
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Yesterday, 01:30 PM
OK, let me play the devil's advocate for a minute. Since we know that Casinos weren't designed to have such a shoddy neck joint in the first place,...
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Yesterday, 01:16 PM
they should be able to make a damn nice tenor for what Selmers asking for their guitar.
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Yesterday, 01:01 PM
I don't care for the double cutaway look of the BK Gibson model, but I've seen one played in person and it was one of the nicest sounding jazz...
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Yesterday, 12:59 PM
"Hmmm. By the data, US manufacturing is not at it's lowest ebb ever, nor is it at its peak; "skyrocketing" labor costs = families making more money...
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Yesterday, 12:57 PM
Nice, paul. Different!
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Yesterday, 12:26 PM
The movie seams to be in the public domain. You can download it here:
THE UNINVITED 1944 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet...
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Yesterday, 12:21 PM
What theory is that? Everything makes a difference, ask any physicist.
Rigidity makes a difference in the way the pick releases the string. More...
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Yesterday, 12:17 PM
That's a pretty exciting trio. Oscar Peterson really took the drumless trio to a high art. That trio runs a lineage back to the very iconic drumless...
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Yesterday, 11:57 AM
Fender 358 heavy is what I use, and I play primarily trad-jazz/4 to the bar/probably-should-be-playing-tenor-banjo-but-everyone-hates-jazz-banjo...
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Yesterday, 11:56 AM
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Well, me neither, but Shiri is Israeli so I’m just following her lead on this.
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Yesterday, 11:39 AM
Back in the days of my misspent youth (1960s) I took lessons from a big band guitarist (Jack Ambrose, RIP). He liked big triangular tortoise-shell...
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Yesterday, 11:36 AM
I got some Tusq picks as lagniappe when I bought a Tusq nut and saddle, and while I didn't initially like them much, I've found that they sound good...
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Yesterday, 11:27 AM
I'm not well enough versed in middle eastern music to begin to say what other songs it might sound like. But I like it.
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Yesterday, 11:04 AM
Any solution that results in more amps is the right one!:smile-new:
Seriously, if you are talking about vintage tone, you first have to define...
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Yesterday, 10:33 AM
But the tone is so rich that I can’t stop!
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Yesterday, 10:23 AM
Why? This doesn't make any sense.
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Yesterday, 09:55 AM
Call me when Gibson makes saxophones please.
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Yesterday, 09:45 AM
+1
And all those things are cool. But I feel like it’s easy to see the simple changes and embellish but much trickier to see the complex changes...
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Yesterday, 09:45 AM
If I was looking to buy that guitar, I would rather it not have epoxy poured into the neck socket. I don't think this is a ticking timebomb, it's how...
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Yesterday, 09:37 AM
Thank you!
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Yesterday, 09:34 AM
I feel like most of the original changes are simpler and pretty nice.
The realbook changes have turnarounds to ii V shoved in everywhere and...
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Yesterday, 09:19 AM
Also, Mick, you might like this track better: https://youtu.be/2Y4TT5fRZ7o?si=WoblxA1PhhenB6dM
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Yesterday, 09:15 AM
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of course we would. Percussion of every sort is fantastic for grooves and texture. We actually do have a guy in mind to add to this particular...
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Yesterday, 09:13 AM
Wait a minute.
That guitar is at least six years old.
That neck joint is butt-ugly (pun intended) but it has held up for 6+ years.
Play it...
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Yesterday, 09:05 AM
So keep both. Neither is very big, and they don't produce the same sounds. (I have an Evans 80 and an earlier Bud.) You might even find you like...
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Yesterday, 08:53 AM
In terms of melodic and harmonic invention, you guys are tops, but rhythm is your one deficiency. I bet you'd find it musically stimulating to have a...
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Yesterday, 08:34 AM
Dirges are my specialty:) really, I’ve turned Giant Steps and Cherokee into dirges and lived to tell about it.
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Yesterday, 08:21 AM
.... only $13 for this Polytone PA-60 if you can pick it up in Las Vegas, Nevada and are willing to gamble that much money.
Polytone Amp (For...
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