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Today, 08:10 AM
I don’t think you should label anything you play in the midst of an improvisation. It has to be sounds (not concepts) all the way during performance...
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Today, 08:09 AM
The Eastman 580CE could be an option and it could be a lifer. Solid top, laminated back and sides, not too big, not too small, extremely well-made.
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Today, 08:06 AM
Hi,
I know not many here play purely unplugged acoustic fingerstyle on their archtops, but what would be the (your) sweet spot for action height...
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Today, 07:57 AM
Both of these versions are very nicely played. Barry Greene recently did a video lesson on this tune. In typical Barry fashion, he explains how he...
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Today, 07:55 AM
Of course, every different instrument you learn adds something (if you manage not to let it distract you from your main instrument and all that). But...
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Today, 07:53 AM
The first thing I think about is how much I have to offer them lol. Back in NYC I had a list of drummers and bass players and I knew their price...
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Today, 07:37 AM
I also recommend Functional ear trainer. Notes with reference to a key centre more useful than intervallic at least for beginners
Sent from my...
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Today, 07:34 AM
Ear training shmear training. Get into the habit of learning music by ear.
I’m seriousness if you have a bit of dead time, ear training apps are...
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Today, 07:32 AM
My Casino 2023 is very good for the money, plays and sounds very decent even all stock. Great for "no worries-gigging".
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Today, 07:28 AM
melodic minor harmony is all on one note anyway.
maj7 on minor
#11 on 7,
9 on m7b5,
#5 on major 7
Learn to hear that one note and you’re...
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Today, 07:23 AM
Jazz minor jazz minor jazz minor jazz minor
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Today, 07:10 AM
I received the 65 Fender Princeton Reverb Reissue yesterday and now I'm in a real dilemma :highly_amused:
I like different aspects of both amps....
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Today, 07:06 AM
Erm, if that's the case it was posted in the wrong subforum. The subforum where it has been posted implies that it's about bass players in general,...
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Today, 06:50 AM
Price NOK 20250, - *)
Bought this guitar brand new on 19 Nov.1998, from «New Age Strings» in the USA.
This guitar is in a remarkable good...
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Today, 06:45 AM
Interesting! As I mentioned in the OP, I can't comment on the speaker, but it looks like your Swart speaker experiment should prove your point. I,...
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Today, 06:34 AM
Mine has been back in it's box, in my garage, since I first tested it. Plan to sell it. The one thing I want to try though before I sell it is to...
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Today, 06:31 AM
What's your budget?
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Today, 06:21 AM
Normally I tune by 5th fret and sometimes use tuner as reference for absolute pitch.
And then I check it contextually.. I mean hoe the chords and...
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Today, 05:59 AM
My first guitar teacher said to me "It's usually safe to use the term melodic minor, people know exactly what you mean in a jazz environment, but...
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Today, 05:28 AM
I like volume pedal for the hands free changes in volume and because because an active pedal change the tone less than the volume knob. Must have a...
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Today, 05:20 AM
I feel you. Mine is terrible. I never even tried to learn tunes by ear until I started taking lessons with Christian and he encouraged me to do it....
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Today, 05:10 AM
When i was hunting for a blonde JS i ended up buying a 76 which is great, actually my main giging guitar right now. At the time (around 2017) there...
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Today, 05:06 AM
I like this way. I don't bother with modes. May be I should.
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Today, 04:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7FKfl3O2Y
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Today, 04:02 AM
Wow that's nice. I had a tea burst '69. :biggrin-new:
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Today, 03:55 AM
I’ve been playing it mostly with three fingers for a dare. It works
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Today, 03:23 AM
Not really. I still do scales (and patterns based on a given scale), but I never considered it ear training. Dexterity, knowledge, ability all...
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Today, 03:13 AM
Thanks for your review.
I can't wait until his gig here in Munich next Wednesday. I bought the tickets half a year ago and it was easily sold out...
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Today, 02:52 AM
D'Angelico Style B (the one on the right in the picture)
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Today, 02:25 AM
Thanks for chiming in, Srini! I enjoyed reading your input.
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Today, 02:23 AM
From Mark's Gallery: "Serial #3570109 Custom 16" – this double cutaway custom was built for Michigan guitarist Steve Correll. Steve plays ‘lefty...
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Today, 02:22 AM
Kaiju, That is a new Ibanez you bought? Looks fine.
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Today, 02:19 AM
Julian played with his trio last night in Amsterdam. The venue holds 725 people and was sold out. He used his Nachocaster through a Deluxe. He...
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Today, 02:04 AM
Oh, I really don't about Donna Lee, she no longer returns my phone calls, believe she feels I did her wrong. :grumpy:
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Today, 01:58 AM
Woah... please, let's avoid name calling! Mr. Smith is certainly not dumb but prone to hyperbole at times. I just don't think terms like "better,"...
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Today, 01:44 AM
Don't recall that tune but Somewhere Over the Rainbow does that too.
First two notes of Norah Jones "Don't Know Why" are a major 7th and then a...
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Today, 01:28 AM
My 2 cents: I have tried a lot of ear training in different sauces
Ear master pro: good but not great
Complete ear trainer: 5 euro smartphone app...
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Today, 01:10 AM
Love was not enough… after what bassist did…
but… he knew he was no more that attractive
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Today, 01:03 AM
I’d take the sunburst Wes because Wes himself played one. The blonde looks like a signature model with the wrong color.
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Today, 12:54 AM
^ Good God no. I hate tippy taps.
2nd no drummer and proceeding with the gigs as is. If you eventually find a good replacement then cool.
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Today, 12:48 AM
You were inverted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFDg-pgE0Hk
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Today, 12:37 AM
ok..the scale/mode thing can be very confusing when your just learning jazz basics.
Strong suggestion:..dont worry about modes for now..
Learn...
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Today, 12:32 AM
I'd suggest getting a backing track. IRealPro is very useful. Then try it every which way and figure out which notes you like.
As far as theory...
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Today, 12:31 AM
So a "songwriter" is someone that write lyrics, like Homer the ancient Greek? or Lil' Wayne the rapper perhaps?
-Where's the subsection for poetry?...
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Today, 12:03 AM
You want to know and be able to use both. The diatonic notes to the key center; and what scales you can use over a chord that would fit the chord...
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Yesterday, 11:42 PM
One of my Wes L5s is a thinline version (2.75” deep). It’s insanely comfortable and makes zero sacrifice on tone.
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Yesterday, 11:35 PM
Both. Shell voicings are most commonly played on the E D and G strings, or the A D and G. R73, and R37 respectively. When you get to a voicing with...
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Yesterday, 11:30 PM
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
F Dorian and C Aeolian contain the same notes. Wherever you read to do that over the tune (or any other) go ahead and close the tab....
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Yesterday, 11:21 PM
Is there an interesting story in this history?
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Yesterday, 11:05 PM
Thanks archie, well said and the gb is also the easiest and most fun to play of my archtops
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Yesterday, 11:03 PM
Sorry, I'm trying to learn to play jazz. I'm pretty weak on theory.
So in Blue Bossa, the first chord is Cm7 then Fm7. I should play Aeolian (the...
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Yesterday, 10:50 PM
The Epiphone 1961 RI Casino is a great guitar, if you can score one. It was a limited run, and very much different from the run-of-the-mill Casinos...
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Yesterday, 10:41 PM
I think you're right; he sure looks young in that video...
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Yesterday, 10:33 PM
Mr. B is referring to string sets; aren't you referring to chord tones?
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Yesterday, 10:33 PM
In putting together a group, the first thing I think about is that the drummer and bassist have to love each other.
Hopefully, the drummer hasn't...
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Yesterday, 10:22 PM
Doesn't that one on the right seem like it's missing something? Knobs? Or a switch perhaps?
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Yesterday, 10:10 PM
Lol my bass player just canceled
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Yesterday, 09:57 PM
I want a guitar to play basically Charlie Christian/Django/swing/blues stuff. A Gibson ES175 would be too big. A few years ago, I sold a Gibson ES...
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Yesterday, 09:23 PM
Good point. I rarely jump the root up for the 137 and play 537 instead.
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Yesterday, 09:20 PM
When playing rhythm I'll play a lot of notes that aren't roots...keeping the string set (643, emphasis on the 4th) in most important
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Yesterday, 09:17 PM
You're watching lousy players?
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Yesterday, 09:11 PM
This is definitely not the case. Guitar players invert all the time. The chords will not often be close-voicings because they’d be unplayable, but...
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Yesterday, 08:57 PM
This is my preference. I just love it.
https://youtu.be/o25b-fyL-WQ?si=DR1F_pLUmWmRGoBR
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Yesterday, 08:49 PM
Vin, Everytime I see that Special, I want it.
Like Lawson said, the most perfect guitar he’s ever seen.
Me too.
Joe D
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Yesterday, 08:46 PM
You must have better pizza joints, all the ones I call send bone players.
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Yesterday, 08:43 PM
I play my 76 ALL THE TIME acoustically.
It’s not jumbo or a dreadnaught loud, but it’s certainly not dead. In fact it’s very much alive and its my...
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Yesterday, 08:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMjD4zZYlxk
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Yesterday, 08:38 PM
Who’s that fat bastard trying to play that beautiful guitar?
I remember that day. I had shingles and I was in massive pain.
That was like 60lbs...
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Yesterday, 08:36 PM
Hmmmm……I’ve played several from the ‘60s that were quite good acoustic guitars, not loud mind you, but decent volume with great, balanced tone from...
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Yesterday, 08:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2cdaz4p2Y&t=134s
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Yesterday, 08:26 PM
I think JM was using the K-Muse Photon Midi guitar interface at that time.
Initial view at the start of the video is obviously from a distance, but...
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Yesterday, 08:24 PM
Just call a pizza delivery service. Chances are the guy delivering your pizza will be a drummer.
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Yesterday, 08:14 PM
Hey. On piano inversions are like the bread and butter of jazz. It's so common that when not using any inversions it's referred to as block chords,...
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Yesterday, 07:46 PM
The JS is not supposed to be an acoustic guitar. It is supposed to look like one but the bracing, body size, scale length, top thickness etc.. are...
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Yesterday, 07:40 PM
Yes, you hear something, you associate it with something you already know from somewhere else, you know how to play it.
A simple example, a I...
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Yesterday, 07:38 PM
Marty all guitars sound unique but my HRJS is one of my fav’s, if not my fav and I have 3 out out of the 4, Johnny Smith models made.
Excited for...
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Yesterday, 07:29 PM
The original post... I think it's important that musicians sing, even if it's only in the practice room.
Classic rock bar band musicians...
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Yesterday, 07:23 PM
Jaz I think the Yammy sounds good. They are great guitars for the price and I enjoyed you channeling your inner Gabor.
The L4 has the more...
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Yesterday, 07:22 PM
There is another way that I use a bit. You sing the lyrics as you write the lyrics. So step 1 you simultaneously end up with lyrics and melody. ...
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Yesterday, 07:21 PM
Bennedetto A6 is an excellent choice, that's what I would have used. I just saw Barry Greene playing with a trio here in Orlando, with a Benedetto...
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Yesterday, 07:12 PM
That's what I guessed (and I wasn't even thinking of analysing everything you play that way, all the time). Seems safe to say that you're matching...
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Yesterday, 07:00 PM
I don’t have the mental capacity to label everything I play. Just like I don’t spell every word in my head before speaking.
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Yesterday, 06:59 PM
he seems to play a chord and be able
to ‘hold’ the synth chord pad sound with a foot pedal ….
sounds amazing ….
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Yesterday, 06:54 PM
I think it’s in C too, but I saw a YouTube transcription that had it as B. That’s why I was curious.
You did a great job by the way.
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Yesterday, 06:50 PM
A few years back I found a site that has movies, but it had commercials - the same ones over and over about every 10 minutes. One day I was so...
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Yesterday, 06:48 PM
Awesome Super Eagle! Wow!!
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Yesterday, 06:47 PM
Go to a jam session, they're falling off the trees there :cool:
Agree it's nice to have a good one if you can't have your regular. My longtime...
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Yesterday, 06:43 PM
I think, but can't prove, that plastic tends to be worse in this because it's softer, and stickier. I almost always see more problems with the D and...
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Yesterday, 06:42 PM
But do you really first transcribe a tune into a series of intervals? Even I have realised that I've become capable of playing (simple) tunes by ear,...
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Yesterday, 06:41 PM
That appeals a lot. Thanks!
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Yesterday, 06:34 PM
So...has anyone handled the new Epi's?
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Yesterday, 06:24 PM
$6,000!!!! They better carve both the top back and sides for that amount of money,as well as make it out of solid non laminate wood!
Sorry, but...
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Yesterday, 06:08 PM
I believe Mark is happy to install two set-in pickups, but has actually made very few with that configuration out of the @605 archtop guitars he has...
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Yesterday, 06:07 PM
Mancini did some music too.
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Yesterday, 05:57 PM
I dabble.
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Yesterday, 05:54 PM
Have you thought about a hobby instead? Like maybe learning piano or guitar?
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Yesterday, 05:49 PM
I don't pay for tv because I can't stand the commercials. I don't really like the content on tv either. All the stupid new shows. I scrum around...
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Yesterday, 05:48 PM
Yes. Now it is.
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
For batteries, I use rechargeable lithiums. The only use I have for regular alkaline 9V batteries is in smoke detectors. I also prefer using AC...
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
Not really. I just think tv is just a waste of time and a waste of life. Why do people get so offended by that? Makes it seem precious and central to...
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Yesterday, 05:43 PM
Did you just buy that off of Reverb? I noticed it there recently. As someone who is a Campellone fan and a big single coil devotee, it really knocked...
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Yesterday, 05:40 PM
I play the head at 314bpm. I used to be able to play it at 332bpm, but i fractured my pinky.
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Yesterday, 05:38 PM
You're showing your stupidity if you can't hear how clearly Charles's music is better organized and more effective because of it. It isn't only using...
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Yesterday, 05:36 PM
I like playing with a drummer, I like playing without a drummer as long as the bassist is solid in time. Somebody else put it as playing with...
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Yesterday, 05:35 PM
What a stupid idiotic thing to say. You're saying because he can move his fingers faster (not sure if that's even true, I doubt it is) he's a more...
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Yesterday, 05:35 PM
I was hearing more as a C flat
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Yesterday, 05:34 PM
Yeah, that too.
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Yesterday, 05:33 PM
I am very much an electric guitarist. I bought this in December and played it for about a month. It's been sitting in the case ever since and it's...
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Yesterday, 05:32 PM
Thanks. The amp is fine with batteries. When I can, I'd rather use a power supply but it's very frustrating. The problem is both at my home and where...
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Yesterday, 05:32 PM
That Spoonful for minor 3rd.
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Yesterday, 05:30 PM
That sounds like the ideal neck to me! I also prefer 1-3/4" nut width but the soft-V to C profile about an inch deep is really my happy place. Play...
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Yesterday, 05:26 PM
"I Love You" by Cole Porter opens with a descending major 7th.
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Yesterday, 05:25 PM
Well, I have to commend Jack for making the effort to create these videos, with notation /tab on the screen.
It seems like lots of work, and they...
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Yesterday, 05:24 PM
Easy, BEST bass players past and present:
1. Ron Carter
2. Christian McBride
3. Ray Brown
4. Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Honorable Mention...
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Yesterday, 05:21 PM
I'm reminded of Chet Baker's comment: “It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.”
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Yesterday, 05:16 PM
Unfortunately, like many people, the result of my "learning" scales has a tendency be learning finger patterns rather than really hearing the...
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Yesterday, 05:14 PM
You can still achieve a level of play where your music is attractive to the listener and legitimate even if it isn't Jimmy Smith level.
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Yesterday, 05:12 PM
What a remarkable, um, je-ne-sais-quoi reason not to consider a very nice guitar.
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Yesterday, 05:11 PM
I prefer to belittle them for their over-sized f-holes. :highly_amused:
Funny, that, and the aesthetically-challenged headstock shape, hasn't...
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Yesterday, 05:10 PM
It looks like this new generation, both the $4500 regular version and the $6,000 Custom (core) versions have lam tops and backs with a solid rim.
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Yesterday, 05:07 PM
That's a NICE size!
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Yesterday, 05:06 PM
This guitar:
-1 11/16" nut width - I prefer 1 3/4", but 1 11/16" works fine for me as well;
-.97" - depth at the 1st fret;
-1.00" - depth at the...
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
Since the conversation has gravitated to the headstock, I thought I would include a pick of my 2000 Heritage Eagle headstock with inlaid Fleur-de-lis.
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Yesterday, 04:51 PM
This was it for me. Back when I did Gypsy gigs being able to switch from rhythm to soloing in a single beat was great
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Yesterday, 04:50 PM
Well, Bali Hai (from South Pacific) goes up an octave and immediately down to the major 7th, so it's close, if you can simply imagine the second...
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Yesterday, 04:46 PM
In the first clip, to my ears, Hubbard is playing a sustained Bb there, not a B natural (which would be b5, a very different animal). In the second,...
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Yesterday, 04:45 PM
Yeah, but the recording isn't in 440 tuning. So it's in between B and C. Maybe it's just my copy.
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Yesterday, 04:42 PM
I get that the guys that started the company were old Gibson employees, but it would've been nice if they had come up w/ some original designs. 'The...
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Yesterday, 04:40 PM
This is an example from a group I was in decades ago, that later became a Broadway show (Pump Boys and Dinettes). This was our first performance, at...
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Yesterday, 04:38 PM
Dear AllanAllen,
The first note is just a B, it start with a Cmaj7 chord :)
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Yesterday, 04:37 PM
For me, A '51 Nocaster sized neck is big; a '58 Les Paul is big. I like 'em big. I don't need them that big, but I do enjoy them and find them very...
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Yesterday, 04:27 PM
I tend to like this. Someone recently posted Jimmy Bruno playing Poinciana, and it sounded rather anemic. I caught myself wishing his playing more...
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Yesterday, 04:23 PM
Curious if you chose to play it in a sharp B, or a flat C. I can't see what frets you are on.
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Yesterday, 04:20 PM
Yeah, scales and learning tunes by ear. That's all the interval practice I do.
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Yesterday, 04:12 PM
Thank you gentlemen both
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Yesterday, 03:43 PM
100%
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
Dear Mark,
I hope that you're going well! Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm really sorry for this late answer, these months are being...
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Yesterday, 03:41 PM
At one point I'd also learned Bird's solos on DL and could play them fairly well at a pretty decent tempo.
Here's that from about March 2020
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Yesterday, 03:35 PM
Voicing is definitely important. Play some common grips for these chords, you might say "what?" Put the melody on top, and it's like "you open the...
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Yesterday, 03:35 PM
Hello,
I hope that everyone is going well!
This time I share an other guitar transcription from Chet Baker, this is the scat solo from Do it...
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Yesterday, 03:34 PM
Dear Mark,
I hope that you're going well! Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm really sorry for this late answer, these months are being...
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Yesterday, 03:32 PM
Lawson that was fine for the first time run through and you did not seem terribly stressed. I do think I could sense you did not necessarily feel...
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