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Magma Flat Phosphor Bronze 12-54

Sun Ra Guitar Player?

Keyboardists, know our pain

Phil Woods - Greek Cooking

Are these books a well kept secret?

I’m so excited about this! I keep hoping for another recording of Inchworm. I tracked down a bootleg with Dolphy on bass clarinet and it was way less energetic than other examples of their live work...

New John Coltrane Release

I lurk much more than post, and now the community gets a small tangible benefit. I can’t find the discussion, so feel free to link it if you know which one I’m talking about. A couple of people...

Magma Flat Phosphor Bronze 12-54

Clean. The ‘standard’ one, not the Variation (which is more treble-forward). And after a couple weeks with it, the tone on my Eastman is moving further toward full-open. It sounds great. I’ve also...

Boss Katana: How are you getting along now that the honeymoon is over?

Amberburst:

New Campellone builds

Any of you happen to know the guitar player on East St. Louis Toodle-oo (New York, 1987)? Here’s a bandcamp link. The track was new to me until this week.

Sun Ra Guitar Player?

Cheers Ozoro .. Good manners and common courtesy are just about things of the past these days ,I try to ' fly the flag ' for these important things. There's lots of good people on this site that...

The Jazzy Joe is in

I had wondered, too if one week is enough time for everybody to go through each exercise. I'm approaching it as just going through each one and seeing what's there. We all have the rest of our lives...

Interest in Barry Galbraith “Jazz Guitar Study 1 -- The Fingerboard Workbook” Study G

I wonder what Pat was using on his Super 400.

15 or 16 gauge high e-strings

So far, I've found exactly one thing of value in this endeavor: the "drop-n" process is an easy and mechanical way to systematically expose all the inversions of chords, without having to struggle...

Drop3, Drop2&3, and Drop2&4 chord voicings

In the big band, the guitar chart requires a few things that aren't so easy. You have to read written-out rhythms, which are on the staff. As you do that, you also have to read chord symbols,...

Keyboardists, know our pain

Congrats on finding the one PW album everyone agrees is his worst.

Phil Woods - Greek Cooking

I have never found this to be true.

Keyboardists, know our pain

Ok. I'm sure you'll agree that an electromagnetic PU doesn't pick up the acoustic sound of a guitar unless it's microphonic, but if you think you hear it anyway then who am I to contradict that ;) ...

GHS Strings

Wow! What a beauty!

1951 Gibson ES-350

Pat Martino used a 12 set, but changed the first string to 15, which made it very close to the second string (17). I tried once using 15 and 19 on the firs two strings, and it was too much - settled...

15 or 16 gauge high e-strings

Phrygian Dominant Add #9

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

Neck feels sticky

Trying to diagnose playing mistakes...GOING DOWNHILL!

For those still battling nerves when they play live on stage...

New Gibson Custom Shop L-4?

Could a basement guitarist be happy with a Champ?

Anyone not use rest strokes?

Suggestions for practicing chord melody

The Nine-Note Scale.

Yes the ego gets a hit the past few days.

"British" speakers

Comping under a melody - how to avoid clashes