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Today, 07:21 PM
What he is doing is very simple. He is just using the common, mostly root in the bass voicings and approaching them with dominants. Nothing complex...
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Today, 07:02 PM
not proud of it. if everyone did that then anyone who wanted a guitar could have one.
with the complete absence of rage there would be no "poor kids...
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Today, 07:01 PM
I agree. That's probably the correct beginning approach to mobility in comping or chording on guitar.
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Today, 06:55 PM
For what it’s worth, this isn’t quite as straightforward on guitar. I think what Jeff is suggesting maps onto this well. Third and seventh on the D...
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Today, 06:50 PM
^ Play the inversions to the basic chords on the page god damn it.
After that play the inversions with scale notes on top.
This is how you get...
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Today, 06:49 PM
I don't believe there is a single source for advice on setting up a signal chain. There are lots of videos on U tube. Many are useless or worse (with...
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Today, 06:36 PM
Reg I’m having trouble bridging the gap between what I do now and what I’m missing. Like Peter asked, what should I add to my practice? Adding a V or...
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Today, 06:34 PM
I think he switched to the humbucker mostly to deal with buzz at clubs with dirty power.
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Today, 06:16 PM
What would you suggest for someone who does need to practice this stuff?
And I think Tal just means that there higher rhythmic density at...
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Today, 05:54 PM
hey Allen... yea I made quick vid... but wouldn't load and had to split....
back now and had to post vid on my youtube site to download on JGF...
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Today, 05:42 PM
This is an internet canard with no basis in truth. Plenty of young guys want old guitars, and many of them are reaching the stage of life where they...
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Today, 05:38 PM
The TI Swing Series JS111 .011" last me about 4 months before I notice bumps forming on the G string over the frets, indicating that the wraps are...
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Today, 05:37 PM
True - often it's the other way round.
Even at the lowest level of the press agency news tickers that feed tidbits to journalists working from...
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Today, 05:19 PM
I do not believe most news sources are heavily influenced or controlled by those with political agendas.
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Today, 05:18 PM
Guitars are not a good investment because younger generations show no interest in collecting them. They do not have money and they did not grow up...
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Today, 05:08 PM
Actually, his 2015 Brazilian Nights album isn’t bad. It’s not Stan Getz, but what is.
https://youtu.be/QD1VQPkX5YQ?si=_hM2TtJid6KBZIfS
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Today, 05:02 PM
On average, I agree with you. Sometimes you get lucky and find an arbitrage opportunity, but typically your gains net to zero in real dollars. Then...
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Today, 04:59 PM
Ironically faster tempos are a little easier when it comes to comping I think. A couple of voicings per chord, chromatic approaches, guide tones,...
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Today, 04:55 PM
And i thought pro tennis players were bad when they smash their $300 dollar racket but then again they get their rackets for free.Instead of smashing...
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Today, 04:49 PM
Good thing he's talking nonsense.
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Today, 04:46 PM
A few years ago I added an inflation calculator to the spreadsheet that lists all my guitars.
Most of the guitars are not appreciating. However,...
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Today, 04:46 PM
Thanks, lots of good stuff in this. I never thought to do two chromatic chords in a row. Db to D to land on Eb. I've got it in my head that I need...
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Today, 04:37 PM
That's it, I'm going to the river...
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Today, 04:36 PM
Some say he's still searching for the changes to this day.
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Today, 04:35 PM
That's how you comp without the same shape for every chord.
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Today, 04:33 PM
"What news sources do you use that are not heavily influenced or outright controlled by those with political agendas?"
I rely mostly on non-profit...
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Today, 04:30 PM
He requested that, since this was our first gig without a drummer.
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Today, 04:29 PM
Don't do it for me. I don't give a shit about chord melody. I'll throw my guitar in the river before I play a solo gig.
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Today, 04:25 PM
Quick ideas:
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Today, 04:20 PM
"I see as example A6 written in one of my studies and the I see Amaj7 or Amaj9 so why would the A6 not be labeled Amaj6?"
A6 is vague, should be...
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Today, 04:17 PM
I hate making videos because they're a waste of my time, noone cares, I'm nervous and can't talk well, and they represent my playing poorly, but I'm...
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Today, 04:14 PM
Hep? Haven't seen him for ages here.
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Today, 04:09 PM
To sound interesting when comping, you don't have to clash with the harmony of the tune and band or change the base chords. You can embellish the...
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Today, 04:03 PM
Whilst all true, I think we know where the majority of sharks are swimming.
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Today, 04:03 PM
Re: suggestion that pan60 use spellcheck:
You do, actually. Spelling words correctly helps your readers to understand the point you're trying to...
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Today, 03:57 PM
But in general they won't really appreciate, thereby being a legitimate viable financial investment that actually makes you money beyond inflation.....
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Today, 03:53 PM
Like the man said: "Buy land-they're not making it anymore! " :cool:
Doug
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Today, 03:51 PM
That's funny -- I was about to say Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb:
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Today, 03:43 PM
I mean. What I really mean.
When probing all the original plain harmony, not changing the scale - it is safe. Sometimes sounds bland, occasionally...
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Today, 03:37 PM
Isn't harmony a scale thing, overall?
I mean, when you go up and down the chords in diatonic (as the original tune has it), it really doesn't ...
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Today, 03:33 PM
But you don't have to change the harmony to be interesting...
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Today, 03:31 PM
Not mine, but, for the record, #83 is a 17" Special with a Natural finish.
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Today, 03:31 PM
Super fun texture. I’m playing with bass and sax next Thursday. So that’ll be fun.
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Today, 03:25 PM
Four is a bad example because it is so tight. The melody is the culprit. Everyone knows how it goes and the harmony is is almost unchangeable.
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Today, 03:20 PM
Yeah that's true, but my point is still valid. Guitars will underperform the S&P500 or any blue chip index fund on average, so all the money you...
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Today, 03:18 PM
The director there would be to make sure that the inside jokes would be easy for bypassers.
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Today, 03:16 PM
In terms of "toys", the right models from the right makers (Fender, Gibson ans Martin) are about the best investment that I have found. But there...
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Today, 03:11 PM
Ed Bickert is a great example of the type of comping I was talking about. He used chordal phrases tastefully in his comping and turned the...
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Today, 03:08 PM
Yeah, I would be all over a four on the floor thing on...er...Four (aside from the head that is, where you gotta do the hits) but then you all know...
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Today, 03:06 PM
Umm.. OK. What news sources do you use that are not heavily influenced or outright controlled by those with political agendas?
Here in the US...
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Today, 03:05 PM
Thanks Ol' Fret. Very much food for thought. I'll look into your glue recommendation.
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Today, 03:01 PM
I know. My point was that three note voicings don’t sound thin. If there’s a piano player, I’m playing even less.
The operative thing about...
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Today, 03:00 PM
See above
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Today, 02:59 PM
Overall guitars are not a good investment. Downsides:
- Cash transactions have risks
- Not a liquid investment
- Specific and significant...
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Today, 02:56 PM
Some interesting points made about KG’s musical history and a significant musical producer, Narada Michael Bolden, who was groomed by Quincy Jones,...
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Today, 02:56 PM
There wasn't, that was my point. You're not talking about what was on Allan's Facebook video. Or, in fact, what I was saying about it.
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Today, 02:54 PM
Thanks. The reason I'm not necessarily giving 3-note voicings myself (which I could) is I was wondering whether you had a piano or organ. You ...
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Today, 02:54 PM
This is the opposite of my experience.
Listening to guitar players play with pianos, they often don’t play at all. When they do, the number of...
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Today, 02:52 PM
I watched this yesterday. I really enjoy this modern type of harmony mixed with a traditional style.
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Today, 02:45 PM
I forgot to mention a bundle I haven't yet checked out myself:
https://www.melbay.com/Products/30660M/24-pieces-for-guitar-by-gilbert-isbin.aspx
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Today, 02:41 PM
The story has no record of how the participant (maybe not yet) called rpjazzguitar fared? ;)
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Today, 02:34 PM
I buy and hold an Exchange traded fund of the NASDAQ 100 and reinvest the dividends as low risk investment; and I day trade currencies - Forex as an...
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Today, 02:31 PM
For me the main issue was audio quality. I could hear he was doing some cool stuff but it was recorded poorly.
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Today, 02:30 PM
To expect people to make a 20X return on stock investments is just unrealistic.
If only we were all able to pick the winning stocks.
Guitars...
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Today, 02:28 PM
I love mine! Sold my Eastman 810 after I got it. (Had Gibson super 300, Fender Pat Metheny, Ibanez L5 clone before).
It's surprisingly strong...
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Today, 02:19 PM
You'd do a lot better in the S&P 500, and with a lot less hassle.
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Today, 02:18 PM
Hallowed be his name.
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Today, 02:12 PM
Some years back I was in a class with Guinga, the Brazilian composer/guitarist/singer. Somebody called Stella. No charts. Guinga, who is not a jazz...
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Today, 02:11 PM
suit yourself, just trying to help.
but if you're going to get into the guitar flipping biz I'm not sure how many people are going to take you...
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Today, 02:10 PM
Good point, whenever I see someone complaining about Kenny G (or smooth jazz in general), I always think of George Benson's "Turn Your Love Around"...
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Today, 02:08 PM
As Jeff said, people are often just inconsistent. Also many (I'm one), like to use the least number of characters possible.
Note that for...
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Today, 02:06 PM
Don't most guitars depreciate rather than appreciate? Wouldn't only rare collectibles appreciate? Even nice vintage instruments are still usually...
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Today, 02:06 PM
I'm very happy with the progress as you can see above. I wasn't angry about guitar when I did that. I'm surprised this thread didn't generate any...
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Today, 02:03 PM
chat gpt is free:
When you're buying guitars, is it to keep and use, as a hedge against inflation because it was too good a deal to pass up, or...
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Today, 01:59 PM
So no one would be allowed to film the act for posterity and post it online to say "look what a fun thing we saw today", or post a link to that video...
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Today, 01:52 PM
You have it right. People are just inconsistent when they write stuff.
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Today, 01:48 PM
be ecuse my ignorance on this i hope its not to basic.
sometimes i get hung up n small issue like this.
high all i am new to learning to read music...
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Today, 01:48 PM
Maybe someone will post with #83
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Today, 01:40 PM
I'm not gonna say what I thought when I read this title thread, but something from Penthouse forum comes to mind...
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Today, 01:35 PM
probly not going to happen.
its good enough or its not i am not writing a book or a document.
so take it or leave i dont care but i do not need...
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Today, 01:34 PM
I rather thought that it would be a fun act (NOT IN YOUTUBE..) but a real act.
Not possibly doable with actors but real jazz performers... with a...
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Today, 01:29 PM
Jeff Matz.
Bringing the Gospel of Ed Bickert to the people since 2006.
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Today, 01:27 PM
The only piece of gear I ever sold for a profit was a Gibson ES-175. In all my trading days, I considered the price differential between buying and...
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Today, 01:22 PM
Here’s KG playing some quote unquote “bebop.” But the real question is, does one use their talents to become super rich and famous, if they had that...
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Today, 01:21 PM
I like how streamlined this is. Close together and easy to play.
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Today, 01:21 PM
Someone posted a few videos on facebook. Here's the band playing Four. Before anyone asks, it's not my video, so no, I can't put it on YouTube.
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Today, 01:13 PM
Thanks for the post! I saw Chet Atkin's first guitar in the CMHF years ago and he had scratched his name in it too. So far i've never had that...
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Today, 01:10 PM
This popped up in my YouTube feed this morning and while there is a solid thread on the topic right now, I was impressed enough by this to think that...
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Today, 01:07 PM
Well it’s sort of a all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares thing.
But if that’s something you like, A MILLION PERCENT get...
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Today, 01:07 PM
I'd want to hear the sort of thing you're comping to. No recordings, I suppose? Can you make one on a cell?
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Today, 01:04 PM
I think being able to analyze music like this would be helpful. I side slip all the time, but if I saw a chart that had D7#9 G13 squeezed into one...
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Today, 01:04 PM
Spell check investment please.....
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Today, 12:55 PM
I play the guitar mainly acoustic but to my ears it sounds fairly transparent when plugged in.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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Today, 12:50 PM
I was just looking at one on Reverb. Looks like a wonderful guitar. Too bad they don't still make them. (I guess the Epi Sorrento RI was kind of...
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Today, 12:50 PM
Yeah this is where it’s at.
And for what it’s worth … you take say a G13 voicing (FBE) and side slip to it (F# C E#) then, lo and behold, you’ve...
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Today, 12:49 PM
I am always looking for a bargain, possibly to make over and flip, but it's barely worth the time and effort to do it. I would do it for fun more...
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Today, 12:49 PM
Jack had a lot of insights into ES175 clones that "thunk" (at least I believe it was him) and it saved me a lot of money picking up what would be the...
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Today, 12:48 PM
I always preferred a cedar top on a classical guitar because of it's warmer sound but i have come to realize that a spruce top with the right strings...
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Today, 12:44 PM
I don't really recall. It's been awhile since the last one. I wasn't involved in the threads, IIRC. Dirk has a short fuse for anything he...
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Today, 12:39 PM
To me vanilla comping is playing like a backing track. That is almost always using one voicing per chord on the chart (played once or multiple times...
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Today, 12:34 PM
I think if you were my student … which you’re not, so feel free to ignore … I would tell you that if you’re bored with it or it sounds boring, then...
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Today, 12:24 PM
Kenny G is laughing all the way to the BANK!
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Today, 12:24 PM
Ok all you do to further yourself in comping is practice making a melody line on your top note and have the voicings below follow suit. If you're...
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Today, 12:22 PM
This might interest you. Or not :-)
Here's the beginning of the A train. I've played seven different chords for D7. None of them contain a nat...
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Today, 12:18 PM
I like that one! :encouragement::encouragement::encouragement:
Doug
Maybe also Banned on the Run?
(Go ask Paul-I think he'll know.)
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Today, 12:17 PM
well i have persnaly had horific luck in the stock market dean witter and morgan stanly have manage my money as i know little about stocks and they...
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Today, 12:17 PM
Remember, no guitar is worth more than anyone is willing to pay for it, no matter the so called “market.”
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Today, 12:14 PM
Yeah, I've done that. Not to say I've mastered it. Red Garland seems to favor a hard swung bop bop on the 1 and 3. But when it's on guitar, it's...
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Today, 12:14 PM
Seller says he’s out of town until Monday, and has a pending offer Monday for $2250.
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Today, 12:13 PM
Ok, good starting point.
now, what if you ditch the notes on the fifth or sixth string and try to create some voice leading (or, keep a common...
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Today, 12:05 PM
I have never bought a guitar as an investment and probably never will. I bought it because I wanted to play it and enjoyed how it sounded and felt...
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Today, 11:57 AM
Yep. Jack is passionate about guitars, and is willing to churn through a lot of them and to share his experiences. Over the years, I think he has...
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Today, 11:50 AM
The shells are great.
Part of what Reg is talking about is targeting.
There are complex and very simple ways to do that. Side-slipping tends to...
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Today, 11:49 AM
Oh, I understand compensation at the nut, certainly at that kind of general level.
You can also think of it this way: if a fretted note is sharp,...
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Today, 11:45 AM
It’s fine to have some collectibles as part of your overall portfolio but you’re crazy to speculate on them thinking they will appreciate at a...
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Today, 11:44 AM
Something by the 3rd fret or the 10th fret.
5x35xx
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10x10 10 xx
10 x 9 10 xx
8x99xx
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Today, 11:37 AM
Thanks, all three are great suggestions. I'll check them out!
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Today, 11:18 AM
I think there are better returns on your investment than guitars, at least for the average aficionado, but will be interesting to hear what others...
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Today, 11:13 AM
Banned in a box?
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Today, 11:11 AM
So maybe a step back before you get into Reg's stuff....
If a chart says D-7, G7, Cmaj7, what would be your go to voicings?
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Today, 11:11 AM
A Ban on the Banned Ban. (Or something...)
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Today, 11:06 AM
Dear nyc chaz,
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it!
This guitar has a beautiful story...! When I arrived in France for...
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Today, 11:05 AM
Yeah, I play a R37 shell. But I want to do more, or at least, have knowledge of what else I could do. Like Reg said, it can get tiresome when you...
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Today, 11:03 AM
So what is the system to get to the second layer? Are you just subbing say Em over a Cmajor7? The iii over the I? What should I change or add to...
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Today, 11:01 AM
I almost never take my 175 out of the house, but when I do take it to play in public it will be in my line of sight 100% of the time. Mine is a...
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Today, 10:53 AM
Bravo! Beautiful playing.If you don't mine me asking what guitar is it that you are using.Nice warm sound.
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Today, 10:53 AM
As you said:
Then make it mean one thing, like play the shell. Which you're already doing, I believe.
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Today, 10:49 AM
To quote Borat, Very, uh, nice!
A local place in Omaha had one for sale for awhile--was still there about 3 weeks ago--for $1500. It was a late...
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Today, 10:49 AM
Think about it this way: The 12th fret is the knife edge for both the upper and lower scale registers. The bridge compensates the string lengths...
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Today, 10:48 AM
OK... great examples of what Vanilla is.... all the tunes Allen listed can be played simple... vanilla ... but that's what you will get.... boring...
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Today, 10:40 AM
just an update, i bought the Gator GL-Jumbo, found it on sale for $119 shipped, used it on the gig last night. It's very stout. I wouldn't put it in...
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Today, 10:39 AM
same here but i still prefer it to any real amp out there because if I find an amp that sounds great with my archtop, it's going to suck for pop...
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Today, 10:38 AM
I double on saxophone. At one of our regular venues, I brought my sax and played on several tunes. The owner of the venue came up to me and gave me...
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Today, 10:38 AM
Acoustic Guitar Soft Cases | Blue Heron Soft Cases
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Today, 10:33 AM
I had 3 175s in the 80's, trying to find one for a Yes tribute band I was playing in, and didn't bond with any of them. I ended up with a '78 Ibanez...
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