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04-24-2024, 01:59 PM
Bit of a rough take, but this has been a fun one.
https://youtu.be/urDK8t1v-9M?si=UU5-M3j_Lpz2ye5y
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04-20-2024, 07:45 PM
Anyone have thoughts on this era of es-175? I have a line on one, from a friend of a friend. I saw a couple photos. The top and back appear very...
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04-20-2024, 08:22 PM
I'm wondering how does an attenuator really work: my fender tone master twin reverb set on 5 W attenuator and with the volume knob on 5 or 6 is loud...
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04-23-2024, 02:33 PM
Been thinking of selling some things and buying a Bud 6 for solo guitar. Won't give up my Evans Re200 but the Little Bud 6 seems pretty cool but is...
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04-19-2024, 10:57 PM
Howdy, I'm a non-jazz guitarist that became a jazz bassist (out of my bands necessity) now making the foray into jazz guitar! I'm trying to dial in a...
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04-23-2024, 07:27 PM
Any humbucker suggestions for this MIK Emperor?
I have a Korean Zephyr Regent that I adore since putting a Seth Lover in it on the advice...
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04-19-2024, 10:31 AM
So, I've been looking at Afternoon in Paris the last couple of days, and there's a peculiarity w some of the Real/Fake book lead sheets. The first A...
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04-21-2024, 06:11 PM
Wanting to upgrade an Epiphone 335 Pro (2018), I was wondering if either of these replacement bridges would be of benefit?
I like this guitar as...
22 replies | 993 view(s)
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04-24-2024, 01:40 PM
A friend of mine, Buck Wilkerson, with whom I used to play frequently, died two years ago. His widow contacted me recently to see if I could help her...
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04-21-2024, 11:57 AM
Does anyone here use a TOOB for busking, or in similar situations where there is no mains power?
If so, what amp is used, and how is it powered? I...
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04-21-2024, 05:32 AM
Always trying to find ways to reduce weight of equipment im wondering how it would sound playing an archtop through a TCE BAM 200 or Trace Elliot...
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04-22-2024, 01:06 PM
Modal à la Coltrane with an E pedal/drone? More "traditional"... somewhere in-between?
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04-24-2024, 01:50 PM
Here's an L5 you don't see every day. Not sure what to think of it. The pickguard def. has to go! :-)
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04-19-2024, 10:45 AM
https://youtu.be/hremf06x0CQ?si=gegPqy8ioJqcOt6w
Tone log 4.19.24: The Compliant Rim Ribbecke continues to impress me with its willingness to do...
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04-22-2024, 02:52 AM
Hey everyone, I was hoping to get some recommendations for an arch top. What I am looking for is a 15” laminate construction arch top, with a single...
15 replies | 717 view(s)
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04-20-2024, 03:34 PM
Hello,
Interested in purchasing an original DA RC1100. Please message if you have one or know someone who has one looking to sell. Not...
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04-20-2024, 10:53 AM
Dear fellow 175 enthousiasts,
A few days ago I decided to put a fresh set of Thomastik-Infeld JS112's on my guitar. I also took the time to...
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04-19-2024, 05:05 PM
I like the sound of flatwounds but they're hard for me to play because I can't get any traction on them with the pick. Recently I put some blue...
14 replies | 559 view(s)
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04-21-2024, 08:09 PM
It has been years since I posted but I tried to log in and well... it let me.... so I thought to pass something along.
I found an old link I had...
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04-20-2024, 03:35 PM
Does anyone have any experience / insight with an Epiphone Emperor? Still on the lookout for an Elitist Broadway, but maybe this is comparable?
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04-22-2024, 08:25 AM
A short excerpt from the Deep Dive with Ben Monder which happened yesterday evening.
It's interesting that Ted Greene and Ben plus other...
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04-21-2024, 11:17 AM
According to the Epi website, the Broadway re-issued in 2023 is still there, now in wine red and burst. Some vendors seem to offer new Broadways for...
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04-21-2024, 06:08 AM
Music Icons: The Randy Bachman Collection (juliensauctions.com)
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Yesterday, 04:44 AM
Hey there,
I'm quite intrigued by the Supro Amulet. A little tube amp, lightweight, with a 2 band EQ, reverb, tremolo, attenuator. Available with a...
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04-23-2024, 07:27 AM
Take a look at this video first. I have some comments.
My educated guess is the box was either dropped a considerable distance with the front...
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04-19-2024, 01:33 PM
periodic request...
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04-23-2024, 04:16 AM
My favorite gypsy jazz player.
https://youtu.be/_RqM72fk75E?si=OwbSf5_qTmqM0qzz
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04-22-2024, 07:48 AM
I can get a new one for $6k direct from Roger but the build is scheduled to finish in Nov and he's know to run late on build cycles. There's one on...
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04-22-2024, 01:04 PM
Hi
Just wanted to show you and tell you about my experience with the d'aquisto jazz line I now have. I have had the good fortune to own many high...
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04-19-2024, 05:42 PM
I've often seen archtops described as being mid-rangy (acoustically at least). One of the things that I seem to be noticing now that I have a...
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Yesterday, 03:53 PM
How did it evolved in jazz that the melodic minor scale is played the same way ascending or descending, that is, when descending the 6th and 7th...
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04-20-2024, 09:49 PM
Elvis Presley | Highway to hell (youtube.com)
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04-23-2024, 06:40 PM
Full band is going well so I wondered if I could do organ and guitar using a guitar VST. I can't play real guitar anymore due to a finger injury.
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04-22-2024, 02:41 PM
One of the greats along with Sal Salvador, Tony Mattola, and Herb Ellis who could play anything and made their livings in the LA studio scene. I came...
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04-24-2024, 05:27 AM
Hey guys, first post :)
So I recently bought a Ibanez GB10EM that came with 0.011 gauge strings.
I asked a luthier to make a new bone nut and to...
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04-22-2024, 07:54 PM
I'm not sure which subforum this belongs in.
I've been thinking about individual style. The old question was, "can your mother recognize your...
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04-21-2024, 04:42 PM
Hello,
I hope everyone is going well!
This time I share you a new transcription from Grant Green, probably one of the best guitarists in the...
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Yesterday, 11:50 AM
Not ALL of them.
Maybe none of your favorites, maybe one or two.
But a surprising number of excellent ones who perform in a variety of styles....
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Yesterday, 10:31 AM
Has anyone else noticed that all the manufacturers seem to be discontinuing their 10 inch neo guitar speakers and the price for the remainder of the...
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04-23-2024, 06:40 AM
Hello everyone,
I am looking for versions of said tune: so far the ones that I have heard that stand out are
Sinatra obviously
TIto Puente...
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04-23-2024, 05:23 PM
I love this tune.
That's Cornell Dupree on rhythm guitar with King Curtis. (First, the original studio recording and second, a live version from a...
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04-24-2024, 10:01 AM
Hey, looking for a 17” archtop with preferably a single humbucker pickup in the $1000-2500 range. I know it could be a tough price range to find one...
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04-21-2024, 01:02 PM
Quilter Tone Block 202, located in Brighton UK. Very little used, boxed and like new, £400.
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04-21-2024, 02:37 PM
I have this new Gotoh 510BN bridge with height adjustable saddles and have mounted it on my Yamaha SA2200.
Unfortunately there are problems on the...
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04-23-2024, 06:50 PM
https://youtu.be/yEfQE6_vDjA?si=T3LeUvwAGc-nHYPR
this:)
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Yesterday, 02:23 PM
Always been a big Ben Webster fan - love his tone; I wonder who would be an equivalent player in the guitar world? Wes on "One For My Baby" would be...
3 replies | 171 view(s)
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04-20-2024, 12:04 AM
Nowadays I practice five days each week, leading up to the Friday night recording session. I feel that I learn as much during that hour as I would...
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04-19-2024, 08:15 AM
I’ve signaled this before, now for real: the TOOB/Metro cab business needs a successor/partner. Why: I’m 77 and beginning to feel it. I’d have to...
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04-20-2024, 05:40 AM
New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Leni Stern – superb guitarist and composer, with a great last album Dance…talk...
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04-19-2024, 09:30 AM
I have it listed on Reverb but will sell here for 2100 plus shipping. :smile-new:
Tokai ES-175 Custom Shop | Reverb The Netherlands
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04-19-2024, 10:50 AM
https://youtu.be/UhHhLCl2_mI?si=p3sNhAI1HhCeibmo
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Yesterday, 06:04 PM
Heavy on "bro", "stoked", and so on, but worth a watch if you've gotten a custom shop guitar from Gibson recently.
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04-20-2024, 09:36 AM
Secret to McCoy Tyner Part 3, Basic Gm legato pentatonic with triads and hybrid picking
You can view the preview and download the PDF here....
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04-22-2024, 06:52 AM
hello
I have to replace the vintage deluxe gibson tuners with wider bolts.
Which tuners works? lightweight?
I don’t want to drill any extra holes...
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04-21-2024, 06:58 PM
asymetrical pentatonic scales with Ab Melodic Minor example, altered dominant, maj7#5
This is part 2 on my lesson about asymetrical pentatonic...
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04-23-2024, 10:47 AM
Hi!
I uploaded on YouTube a 22 minute video dedicated to the Harmonic Minor Scale.
At the beginning of the video I explain the harmonic minor scale...
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04-21-2024, 07:35 PM
Hi everyone.
A really nice example of a first year of production Ibanez JP20. Comes with original case, warranty card and key.
This example...
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04-22-2024, 11:39 AM
McCoyTyner style Asymetrical Pentatonic Scales over 2-5-1-6, forward motion, 4ths
For more details on these pentatonic scales, check out my...
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04-23-2024, 05:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbyBIJI0a4
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04-19-2024, 07:31 PM
Part 2 Secrets to McCoy Tyner using 4ths, pentatonics and Side-Stepping over Gm7, Modal
Secret to McCoy Tyner Part 2 using side stepping and...
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04-24-2024, 09:35 AM
McCoy Tyner style Pentatonic sequence with 5ths, forward motion,
This is a very cool way to play Gm pentatonic sequences with 5ths (actually...
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04-19-2024, 12:44 PM
Due to my close proximity to Acoustic Image's headquarter facility in North Carolina, I was able to acquire this rare find Acoustic Image Amp Head in...
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04-21-2024, 03:22 AM
As the title says I have: Robert Conti, "Ticket to Improv" volumes 1--4, for sale.
I am in the UK and asking £50.00 plus postage.
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04-19-2024, 10:47 AM
https://youtu.be/y-MSO5qxIC8?si=2SP1t1lAl7eYuSB6
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04-22-2024, 10:23 AM
Does anyone have a truss rod rescue kit for gibson? (10-32)
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Hi,
I've had my full TF subscription for probably as long as TF existed, and recently 2 fantastic jazz comping courses came out that some of you may...
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Yesterday, 09:05 PM
Gibson Style Gold Trapeze Tailpiece from StewMac. Perfect condition, except for some wear around the strap button hole. (From a metal strap...
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Yesterday, 02:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URTOZe9PXQ
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Yesterday, 09:37 PM
Anyone use a guitar with one (upper bout rim)? Does is work well?
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Today, 01:02 AM
Abbey Lincoln love here.
Some of my favourite Pat Metheny.
Ms. Lincoln can continually startle me.
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Today, 12:25 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JRcT5_QlMc
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Today, 12:19 AM
Well, hey, surprise!
I just came here to read about something else, saw this and guess what - today I also fitted JS112s to my '66 ES125 and -...
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Today, 12:02 AM
Those numbers tend to be faded blueish stamped ink. A black light might help. The locations.can also vary.
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Yesterday, 11:24 PM
I have a 1st generation Parker Fly, never tried, and never needed to turn the rod. More Non-defining info, I know, but a data point on stiff necks...
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Yesterday, 11:00 PM
One of the most legendary pairings and albums I think is Art Tatum and Ben Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJifh-S2Hw4&t=7s
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
So many wedding dances to that song.
Everybody clap your hands
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Yesterday, 10:51 PM
Shots fired
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Yesterday, 10:49 PM
Thx guys. I should be ok with my existing sounds in my brick and mortar instruments for right now - my organ, and then bass, vibes, rhodes and piano...
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Yesterday, 10:44 PM
the 120 sounds very different from the 100 or 200. 100 and 200 are more similar. I have not a/b'd them but a friend of mine has both and says the 200...
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Yesterday, 10:42 PM
It’s a fabulous instrument.
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Yesterday, 10:28 PM
:tongue-new:
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Yesterday, 10:24 PM
Reverse! Reverse!
Is anyone else here the right age to be hearing the Cha Cha Slide voice saying that every time someone mentions learning the...
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Haha exactly. I think it's cool that even though our micro generation came of age around the millennium, we were still the last to experience olden...
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Yesterday, 10:20 PM
Learned it by reading bar 8, then 7…. It was pretty pleasant that way.
https://youtu.be/xa1N0giAM7Q?si=GiBQQyMukqy1UWOS
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Yesterday, 09:52 PM
This. In jazz, mm isn't only about the contour of the melody, it's also about the tonality of those raised notes against the (minor) chord.
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Yesterday, 09:48 PM
I love it too. I like the enclosure emphasizing the extension and then further crap in the extensions. Lotta good vocab in DL.
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Yesterday, 09:43 PM
GG is one of the best jazz guitarists of all time. He wasn't a monster technically but he certainly was musically. Hey ragman, are you going to...
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Yesterday, 09:29 PM
You and Charlie Christian? You play beyond the veil?
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Yesterday, 09:17 PM
I've been a Quilter guy for several years. I think the main attraction in the Mach3 isn't the added voicings, as much as the fact that it's 2 amps in...
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Yesterday, 09:15 PM
A few observations on m5-8:I meant to say that the positions I chose rather than the fingerings are close to Jeff's. I'll often play in three-finger...
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Yesterday, 09:01 PM
Lower bout - 17"
Upper bout - 12.25"
Depth - 3.75"
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Yesterday, 08:54 PM
I love that wide wavy flame on the back.
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Yesterday, 08:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQKH_yLROE
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Yesterday, 08:11 PM
So interesting how it’s basically just Les Pauls and assorted solid bodies. No L-5’s etc. Amazing how much these can cost for basically cosmetic...
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Yesterday, 08:03 PM
Then go with the Cub. It’s just more features as far as I can tell.
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Yesterday, 07:39 PM
So I asked the pianist if they were going to go all Coltrane on this, and he just smiled. No. They actually ended up singing it and I played a solo...
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Yesterday, 07:18 PM
Oh you're absolutely correct...it's just a recent joke:)
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Yesterday, 06:53 PM
Cause they wanted to punish me for practicing the Segovia Scales for the last 40 years, every freaking day, at 320bpm through the cycle of fourths...
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Yesterday, 06:48 PM
But I've always seen it referred to in books from way back as the jazz minor. That's definitely not new.
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Yesterday, 06:45 PM
It ain't no Adam Rogers on Night and Day, but hey.
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Yesterday, 06:45 PM
As the others say, the same up and down mel m is called the jazz minor but that doesn't answer the question in the thread title.
My handy answer...
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Yesterday, 06:37 PM
I can't say that I listen to a ton of GG, but his groove is undeniable. And I feel like people underestimate how important that really is; audiences...
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Yesterday, 06:36 PM
I can't think of any guitarists who had BW's breathy sound, but the clarinetist Tony Scott was one musician who was strongly influenced by BW,...
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Yesterday, 06:35 PM
Thank you for your feedback on the Supro Amulet
I hear a lot of good reviews about Quilter amps. They have piqued my interest for several years
The...
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Yesterday, 06:16 PM
Supro amps have their problems.
I read this thread appreciating my Princeton Reverbs - thought about releasing one, but maybe it's better to hang...
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Yesterday, 06:02 PM
And don't you just love those oval fretboard inlays? I do.
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Yesterday, 04:49 PM
haha oddly enough I haven’t transcribed any GG. But I have listened to him a lot, and picked up something from it, I’m sure. As others have said,...
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Yesterday, 04:43 PM
Also worth noting that GG was effectively the house guitarist for Blue Note. Alfred Lion obviously liked him, and recorded him on loads of albums.
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Yesterday, 04:24 PM
I finally made up my mind and ordered a 7 string alnico II 59 bridge with a nickel cover to put in the neck position of my 335.
I know I could...
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Yesterday, 04:23 PM
With so many youthful wunderkind into the scene these days, we need firm rules to be set as a good example for all those "jazz minors".
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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
The notes are more easily sung that way; half steps and leading tones. That tradition, as a choral tradition, became assimilated as a sound and once...
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Yesterday, 04:15 PM
Regardless of how rigid it is, adjustments are necessary over the lifetime of an instrument. My dad's steinberger had a carbon/fiber neck and...
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Yesterday, 04:11 PM
Because rules are tools for fools:)
Most basic answer is that in jazz, the scale is not only used for melody, but harmony.
This is why...
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Yesterday, 04:10 PM
I had never thought about the increased stiffness of a fingerboard fighting the truss rod adjustment, but I do believe it's likely a 'thing'. It's...
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Yesterday, 03:36 PM
125's like that are great guitars.
I own one of the earliest mid-40's models, and it's a wonderful guitar. Those P90's should come with a warning...
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Yesterday, 03:32 PM
The last amp I really liked was the Fender 68 Custom Vibro Champ Reverb. I had to change all the tubes right away since 2 out of 3 where faulty. I...
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Yesterday, 03:21 PM
ToneX sounds wonderful but has little capability on the box to speak of.
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
Nothing idiotic about that!
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Yesterday, 03:12 PM
I put a StewMac Parsons Street humbucker in the neck slot of my MiK Broadway and love it. Then I put a Seymour Duncan PhatCat (?) --the P90 in the...
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Yesterday, 03:07 PM
I looked at the pickup openings and it looked solid. There is a strip of thin wood under the bridge, but not under the whole top.
And I played my...
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Yesterday, 03:03 PM
That too. I couldn't sell anything without shipping. Palm Beach CO Florida local sales are anemic.
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Yesterday, 03:01 PM
Really? I do. Seems lazy and over cautious.
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Yesterday, 03:00 PM
McCoy Tyner, famously a sideman for incomplete jazz musicians
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Yesterday, 02:57 PM
There weren’t many jazz guitarists who got to make albums with a line-up like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhVDfH0a8s
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Yesterday, 02:44 PM
Here's my take on mm 5-8
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Yesterday, 02:43 PM
I was wondering the same. I have never seen another like it. Don't blame him for not shipping....
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Yesterday, 02:43 PM
Epiphone Triumph.
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Yesterday, 02:42 PM
I love Ben Webster. I have never heard any guitar player approach what Webster does. Regardless of the instrument played, Webster was a unique,...
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Yesterday, 02:42 PM
I just took a Quick Look at prices in the UK and the rest of Europe and the prices seem normal The Tours & Premier is like Squire or Epiphone they...
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Yesterday, 02:41 PM
Some even play picks that only have round corners.
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Yesterday, 02:33 PM
Of course GG had drug issues, broken relationships etc., so did nearly all the jazz musicians back then, it was a tough profession. Has nothing to...
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Yesterday, 02:31 PM
Ah, yes - and the reverse can be true too; sets with a wound 3rd intonate a lot better on saddles that have obvious micro-compensation with the...
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