The Builder's Bench

Anyone watching the Stanley Cup?

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis 2006 [EU]

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)

A variety of picking techniques

at 2:50, it looks like half of an unfinished archtop body. Is that something you made as a test?

Starting A Jazz Guitar Manufacturing Business In The UK

Just another case of the loud mouthed few ruining it for everyone else. I saw Mike right after his accident at the Blue Note; it was a Miles Davis tribute. What a show… the late Wallace Roney was on...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

You're all welcome (or should I say "Here ya go mofos"?) ... EDIT: I posted this already in the other thread(but didn't have the time to analyze myself yet): meet george gershwin at the keyboard :...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Mike would phone me now and then to talk guitars, which was great fun - haven't known him as long as some of you guys have, but he strikes me as a person who makes the most of living - hope that will...

Campellone PSA

You've nailed the problem, but you have it backwards. When you accompany a singer (or other solo voice), it is not about you. Your only job is to follow and support the vocalist. There is no...

Learning to play with a singer

The harmonic motion in Just Friends, the A section, I just see as being chromatically decending minor tonalities. The written chords: BbM7 | Bbm7 Eb7 | FM7 | Abm7 Db7 | can be...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Funny indeed, "boring" and "cerebral" should be incompatible traits but they're exactly what comes to mind whenever I try to listen to Metheny for instance. Maybe it's also funny that I prefer to...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

Do you have a link to a scan of the sheet music? It’s difficult to hunt down. A lot of showy and early versions seem to have 1-6-2-5 in the bass in bars 5-6 interestingly, Ethel Merman, Ethel...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Playing devil's advocate here but a ii V that doesn't resolve is just a non-functioning dominant (so you shouldn't alter it).

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Aesthetically, I'd swap out the gold knobs for clear, to match the chrome.

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

I definitely like the C#dim too.

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Nice choice! the HB's are wonderful , I have an HBII Artist that' delicious

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

The bass is funky Why not the C#o7 as well? That sounds cool esp as a variation. Soloing wise… according to Barry bird didn’t play a B in bar 1 which is interesting.

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Yeah, I was going to comment the same thing. My niece is a gigging musician, among others I know in her generation. Social media might help her get a few extra faces in the crowd, but nobody just...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

That's funny, Mike Stern even with his injuries can still play at the level that most can only dream about, and be a real artist with originality and substance. Look at the new generation of...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

How bad is this?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

Learning to play with a singer