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Today, 04:21 PM
There seems to be some basic confusion on buying and selling guitars versus actual investments. If you had put that $2835 for the Yamaha in a very...
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Today, 04:16 PM
Bless you for your due diligence. I’m playing Ab7(9) for that one and they’ll have to correct me
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Today, 04:15 PM
Dm11 implies D F A C E and G. The chord I'm asking about omits A and G.
I understand that I can put the notes on a stem and they aren't too hard...
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Today, 04:12 PM
But I like delta for a triad, And the minus sign sometimes indicates a flatted note other than the third. Jazz notation is consistently...
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Today, 04:11 PM
So you're telling me the book I've been working on for the last 20 years ("Teles-The Destructive Element") has just been a waste of time?:doh:
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Today, 04:09 PM
It's commonly used to specify root and fifth. Look in guitar magazines with pictures of guys with unkempt beards on the covers.
Calling it a...
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Today, 04:07 PM
I’m not sure whether it is an error in the specifications on the sheet or whether this neck just turned out to be a little fatter than usual and I no...
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Today, 03:57 PM
If major is a triangle, I'm happy with lower case m for minor.
I also appreciate it when the engraver takes the trouble to increase the font size...
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Today, 03:42 PM
Are you saying that the spec sheet was inaccurate? I ask because I have heard they can be undependable, which would certainly be something to be...
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Today, 03:41 PM
I feel like we should let Pan60 write how he/she likes.
I left school with no qualifications and am dyslexic. I can't spell for toffee. I'm...
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Today, 03:40 PM
Paul Desmond and anybody else.
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Today, 03:31 PM
What really gets me is when someone gives the same chord two or three different names on a chart - make up your mind, dammit! :frown-new:
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Today, 03:26 PM
"based upon seeing D5 and the like on rock music charts."
I don't even know, D5 is what? A major triad with the 3rd omitted?
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Today, 03:25 PM
The person who wrote that chart should be drawn and quartered.
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Today, 03:21 PM
Believe it or not I have, to mean the I chord in a minor key - shorthand doesn't always work.
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Today, 03:14 PM
I sometimes think that all we guitar players are masochistic, there's not another instrument that comes close in terms of maintenance requirements...
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Today, 03:11 PM
Most people know Jackie Mac but you're not the only one aware of Tina Brooks, I've had his Minor Mode lp for almost 40 yrs. Just picked up a copy of...
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Today, 03:10 PM
Started it in January. We’ve been working through various lines and using this framework to break them up in modular ways.
Just did a lesson on...
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Today, 03:09 PM
Have you ever seen a piece of music where A6 denotes a minor chord?
It means major. Full stop. Whether it’s a perfect chord symbol is a different...
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Today, 03:08 PM
Remember, a good investment is where you buy low and sell high. Prices are high right now. We came out of a COVID influenced bubble so they seem to...
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Today, 03:04 PM
"Part of reading on the instrument is learning how to figure out where to play it, as well as what to play."
That comes with practice, after a...
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Today, 03:00 PM
He's not doing anything wrong, but ordering guitars just doesn't work out for him. His UPS guy must hate guitars or something.
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Today, 02:57 PM
The dude has been ordering guitars, having problems with the orders and complaining about the process here for at least 2 years.
It's got to be...
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Today, 02:53 PM
Rude and unnecessary.
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Today, 02:49 PM
How many guitars have you ordered and shipped back by now? You could substantially decrease the stress in your life if you stopped ordering guitars.
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Today, 02:41 PM
The OP asked how to interpret A6, whether it could have different meanings, I just said it's rather vague, should be qualified as being major or...
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Today, 02:38 PM
First thing, I'm sorry you're having to deal with this mess. When you shipped the guitar back to Blue Mountain, was an authorized signature required...
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Today, 02:23 PM
I make f-hole plugs\baffles. Feel free to contact me at carpenterguitars@gmail.com or on my Reverb page if you would like a set.
Click Here.....The...
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Today, 02:19 PM
I use American Express for all online purchases. No money back, but they do protect the cardholder where other companies will not.
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Today, 02:17 PM
I make f-hole plugs\baffles. Feel free to contact me at carpenterguitars@gmail.com or on my Reverb page if you would like a set.
Click Here.....The...
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Today, 02:17 PM
Really sorry to hear this but not surprising with Visa.I have found Amex to be better when it comes to a situation such as this.People knock...
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Today, 02:13 PM
The RB has a range of difficulty. If we're talking about the old standards, it's a question of knowing the fingerboard and being able to recognize...
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Today, 02:13 PM
Wow makes me feel blessed for all the straight up great deals and interactions on here. Let’s keep it that way y’all. All my bad experiences have...
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Today, 02:09 PM
I was reading somewhere that a big hole in the middle of the loaf is a sign of under-proofing. Assuming that you do the usual two step fermentation...
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Today, 02:07 PM
That story is from Steve Wallace's excellent remembrance of Ed just after Ed passed. The same piece also includes a great story about Ed in the...
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Today, 02:05 PM
Fucking awful.
Full voicemail leads me to believe you're not the only person they're dodging.
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Today, 01:55 PM
Please delete
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Today, 01:55 PM
I'm still making f-hole baffles if your interested.
The Marketplace for Musicians | Reverb.com
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Today, 01:53 PM
Jens Larsen has many videos on jazz comping. You should definitely check them out.
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Today, 01:53 PM
Funny, my experience is the EXACT opposite here. The guys that have to drag a book out are the laughing stock. Who asked you to learn 1000 tunes in...
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Today, 01:53 PM
Correct.
I'm looking to supplement my knowledge of the tune with my knowledge of reading to be able to aggrandize the number of songs I can play...
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Today, 01:51 PM
Don't just struggle with the book, put on a recording of the tune and listen so that the notes on the page come alive. Vocal versions are usually the...
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Today, 01:48 PM
Team delta all the way. Why draw all those lines when three will do?
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Today, 01:46 PM
I've found that tunes that I've learned by ear, I can not only play more fluently, but can remember. I've found that after playing a theater...
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Today, 01:45 PM
that's great, if you have the brain space to learn 1000 tunes and to be able to play them at all 12 keys like the old Masters did. It doesn't seem...
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Today, 01:39 PM
Delta and minus for me, PLEASE.
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Today, 01:38 PM
Sit with the Real Book and pick an easy song, and sing the rhythms.
Pitches are unimportant at this point...sing the harmonic rhythm. Rhythm is...
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Today, 01:32 PM
Reading is a bugaboo I have struggled with for 40 years as a guitarist. back when I was first learning the guitar, my teacher just did not push...
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Today, 01:27 PM
Yup, and there's no getting around this.
And unless you're a studio musician or playing a score, don't worry about it. If you're here at the JAZZ...
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Today, 01:24 PM
Please consider that I'm not saying this to attack you or police your grammar ...
The purpose of writing is to communicate. If you write in a...
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Today, 01:24 PM
Just play it w/o, the Real Book. If you know the song, what do you need the Real Book for anyway????? I don't understand that, especially for melody....
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Today, 01:23 PM
Looks like I interpreted the title the same as you did, which is why my first thought was Getz and Raney.
But as you noted there are multiple...
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Today, 01:19 PM
well i have not notice the spell check feature maybe i am just not seing it?
were is that found?
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Today, 01:15 PM
My take is there are only 3 different 'roles' midlevel players one need in a jam: playing the melody, playing the harmony (or rhythm, mostly using...
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Today, 01:10 PM
Hmm, curiously, this time the link worked. First time, it went to a dropbox page asking to sign in to dropbox. Strange.
Anyhoo, it's all good stuff...
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Today, 01:10 PM
Pan 60, as on any online forum, you will find "snooty" members and just regular folks. The majority of the replies you have received have been...
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Today, 01:09 PM
It’s pretty basic stuff so far but I do admire how you have broken it down step by step. Good pedagogy! Where are you going with this?
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Today, 01:09 PM
The studio album is Pure Desmond with Paul Desmond, Ed Bickert, Connie Kay and Ron Carter, if I remember correctly. I'd have to look at the album to...
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Today, 01:05 PM
Wow, a 1955 Closet queen!
Congratulations!
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Today, 12:57 PM
I'd call those communist rather than socialist even if their totalitarian traits have in principle little to do with communism either. We have...
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Today, 12:50 PM
Drives me crazy we can summarize how to play jazz in like, 5 sentences but it’s years of work.
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Today, 12:47 PM
Selling a Player Strat with upgraded electronics. Guitar is in great shape, there is one small ding I tried to show in the pictures.
Would prefer...
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Today, 12:47 PM
I think the practicing through without stopping is the important part. Mistakes go unnoticed, but trainwrecks happen when you stop or lose your...
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Today, 12:42 PM
Gently used Eastman DM-1 Gypsy Jazz style guitar. Hardly played, almost new condition. One small scratch on the neck, hardly noticeable.
Also...
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Today, 12:38 PM
Guitar player for many years.
I had a jam with some guys recently, and it went blah-ish.
One thing that I've always had a problem with is...
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Today, 12:38 PM
This is a great playing and sounding guitar, really fun to play, but I have a bad case of pedal steel GAS so I am selling some stuff.
I'm in...
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Today, 12:31 PM
guys if you dont care to read my post you dont have to.
i admit i am very little education i strugle with spelling i am not a compuer guy i tried...
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Today, 12:27 PM
It’s literally just a link you click. What’s your alternative?
And I’m fairly accustomed to things I spend time on getting crickets here. Some...
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Today, 12:27 PM
For whatever it’s worth, I’ve had a great experience with Roger. He built one guitar directly for me and I bought a second from him as well. He was...
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Today, 12:25 PM
That's understandable. I think age affects most players to some degree, mentally or otherwise. I know Scott Buffington (Evans Amps) personally. He...
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Today, 12:03 PM
Somehow I think this thread stopped having anything to do with "Guitars Amps and Gizmos" a long time ago.
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Today, 11:56 AM
Nice guitar the Blonde one I played some years ago. Just remember not liking the thinner neck profile as on many of the Eastmans. I got lucky...
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Today, 11:53 AM
China, Cuba, USSR, North Korea, Vietnam all come to mind. Think about "Pravda".
In addition to my earlier thoughts, right-wing authoritarian...
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Today, 11:50 AM
If I hadn’t just bought a couple of guitars I’d be all over this! Beautiful!
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Today, 11:43 AM
Speaking of risky sellers…
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Today, 11:34 AM
There is going to be a Bory's 120 posted on archtop.com soon according to their website.
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Today, 11:34 AM
Yeah that’s a red flag when a seller refuses to work out terms for evaluation. You’re better off avoiding it Jack.
This is par for the course TGP...
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Today, 11:29 AM
Erm, what socialist countries are you thinking of exactly? Do countries with an elected president of prime minister from a socialist party quality?...
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Today, 11:11 AM
Yeah, he plays that modern guitar beautifully but also with sweet tone and timing. I'll be checking him out more.
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Today, 11:11 AM
To the OP:
Reading your posts feels a bit like reading a ransom note in a kidnapping.
Just saying......
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Today, 11:08 AM
the guy from the gear page is hesitant to give any type of return period and/or have my luthier inspect it and is now considering making it a 'pickup...
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Today, 11:07 AM
i have a number of USA ,ade guitars i picked up mostly because the price was rite and i figured since i have allways done so poorly in the stock...
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Today, 11:00 AM
There always is and always has been some kind of agenda when it comes to news. News has to sell in a capitalist country and it has to please the...
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Today, 10:53 AM
I might have had another question if I could be bothered with negotiating Dropbox :smile-new:
You obviously put some effort into preparing that...
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Today, 10:53 AM
Thanks Skip, yeah I think everyone is skint at the moment!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Today, 10:52 AM
In the end no, but I almost did several times (including a Peerless Gigmaster). Actually the one exception is an Epiphone 175 which I really did...
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Today, 10:51 AM
And a perfect time for my favorite Emily Remler quote: "Nothing is corny if it swings."
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Today, 10:45 AM
Did you get a clone?
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Today, 10:31 AM
I think the big thing is still rhythm.
So many times when you transcribe stuff, it’s just way simpler than you’ve built it up to be, and I don’t...
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Today, 10:30 AM
Someone out there is missing out on a great amp at a very fair price.....just sayin'
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Today, 10:26 AM
Yeah his definitely has a picture of a dried vanilla bean and flowers on the carton.
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Today, 10:25 AM
Yeah, if I were comparing my vid to Reg's, mine is the vanilla in the plastic cup with the wooden spoon stick, Reg's is the vanilla with the little...
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Today, 10:22 AM
Yeah I wouldn’t call what Reg was doing reharmonizing anyway. The changes are still the same, just embellished. Functionally not much different than...
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Today, 10:05 AM
I think the big takeaways that are in what everybody is talking about is:
1. When comping, a note on the 1st or 2nd string is heard as a...
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Today, 09:50 AM
If that keyboard has midi out thru a USB cable you can record with an instrument plugin and bypass the Focusrite. That's the way most do it...
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Today, 09:50 AM
BAH! That doesn't help me at all.
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Today, 09:44 AM
That sounds about right. We all, well at least I do, dream of finding a "closet queen"--a '59 Les Paul or something--that is being sold at an estate...
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Today, 09:41 AM
Thats your question?
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Today, 09:28 AM
You're correct, you're getting both "direct monitoring" and "software monitoring".
My Audacity has a setting called "silent monitoring" which just...
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Today, 09:28 AM
My question- why dropbox?
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Today, 09:22 AM
Those are standard on the Elitist Broadway
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Today, 09:15 AM
I find Reverb to be a good place to buy and sell as long as you do you your homework about prices and are patient. But it has its downsides. For a...
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Today, 09:07 AM
I am very bad (and often impatient) at software.
Recently I decided to record digital piano using Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface and simple...
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Today, 09:02 AM
Thought I'd share this ebay purchase. Took 10 days to the UK. Total cost $16.66. Seems a really nice product. Packed well. Just checked, it's now out...
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Today, 09:00 AM
No one will agree, care or even know of this pairing, but the music they made together has got everything I listen for. Jackie of course with that...
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Today, 08:58 AM
Yeah, I do that. My question about reharmonizing was directed at Reg and his video. Or at least that's how I remember it. It's very hard for me to...
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Today, 08:54 AM
Are those the 3D printed hexagon knobs from ebay? Or did you find nice ones someplace else?
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Today, 08:43 AM
Achieving Guitar Artistry - Concert Solos.
After playing through the book, it seemed to me that he has got one tune in A, one in D, one in E, one...
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Today, 08:36 AM
God I hate the “single M or m for major and minor.” In the “jazz font” the lower case is usually just a smaller upper case. So confusing.
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Today, 08:25 AM
No regrets buying my 1950 Epiphone Triumph. Thanks John
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Today, 08:19 AM
That is not quite the case. I am familiar with the model and the “Modern Classic” profile which is how it is listed on the spec sheet. However, I...
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Today, 08:12 AM
And for what it’s worth, the ii chord (iv chord in minor) also has a natural sixth. Usually it’s m7 in the major key, but m6 often enough in the...
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Today, 08:12 AM
A6 is always a major chord and never ever a minor chord unless it's a mistake.
(It's also common as a IV chord (subdoninant) in major keys)
How...
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Today, 08:11 AM
Yeah I guess maybe that’s true (though IV chords are 6 chords often enough), but you implied that A6 might be major or minor which is not true. It’s...
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Today, 08:06 AM
Regret? Not one bit.
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Today, 07:32 AM
thank you!
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Today, 07:27 AM
Thats where the chord scale is handy, the former being from the diminished and the latter from the harmonic minor.
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Today, 06:29 AM
Yep, that nylon tape wrap is very hard wearing, as long as you don't take the strings off (and many will probably think they sound dead right out of...
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Today, 06:17 AM
The Preludes, Sonatas & Nocturnes book or one of his others? You do have a point, but I find that many contemporary compositions in this kind of...
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Today, 05:59 AM
I hope you will just mind your own business and stay out of mine. I am intelligent and not American. I can make my own decisions about media.
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Today, 05:57 AM
That's definitely a choice of pickup set but probably not for an EE.
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Today, 05:11 AM
Just happened to find this old thread! It's been a while since you asked me this question. Sorry about that.
The pickup is now in my Fenix FAE8. It...
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Today, 05:00 AM
Seymour Duncan Everything Axe Set is a choice of pickup.
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Today, 04:51 AM
That's a drop dead beautiful guitar. Happy NGD, buddy.
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Today, 04:29 AM
"I think around here, we've got to get to the subject of the Tele disturbing Ed's mind."
It wasn't the Tele (although I guess you're joking), his...
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Today, 04:25 AM
I got these through a recommendation from this forum, but somehow they didn’t click with me.
The William Bay book is not bad, but I have the...
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Today, 04:24 AM
Naming chords or reading them - in jazz, it is often not a "system". More like tradition.
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Today, 04:20 AM
Right now I‘m playing pieces by Eliseo Fresquet-Serret and Bernard Reeb. I’m also working on Rob McKillop‘s JSB Serial Blues.
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Today, 04:17 AM
What I said was correct. The OP asked about a specific chord, A6, and I replied that AM6 or Am6 usually functions as a tonic chord in the key, e.g.,...
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