The Builder's Bench

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis 2006 [EU]

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)

A variety of picking techniques

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Here you go, Allan:

Red Garland comping rhythms

I'd like to note that the backing to rhythm changes necessitates 2 chords per bar. While soloing over it necessitates not always outlining 2 chords per bar. That Bill tune is great. I was thinking...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Hey :) I'm offering my 2006 Gibson Herb Ellis. The guitar got its own sound with a great BJB floating pickup, very fat and jazzy! It has got some good acoustic sound too! The guitar is in very...

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis 2006 [EU]

Here's a pic to cheer you up: Pete Townshend bought two or three D'Angelico New Yorkers.

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Oh I forgot, the modern jazz changes F7alt for 8 bars.

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

This is less of a 'soloing option' because people don't tend to move to a more standard RC changes when it comes to soloing (people being Nat Cole et al) but the T'aint What You Do/Straighten Up and...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

For better or worse, I'm copying the head for Scrapple from this Tenor Sax version on youtube, I find it easier to hear, also I can read the notation of the parts I can't hear. I've just started,...

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

Playing bad notes happens to me at almost every gig. And most of the times, I am one of very few who noticed it or the rest is just to polite. Even worse than playing a bad note is playing out of...

A few bad notes or a missed chord

I didn't see this variant, which I call the monte/fonte but normal people might call the 'up and down' Bb Bo7 | C-7 C#o7 | D-7 G7 | C-7 F7 | It does require two chords a bar I'm afraid. It...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

I don't know if he is. He seems quite animated about it. I agree no one would say that its ii V to Ab, for the simple reason it doesn't go to Ab. But treating it as if it was a ii V while improvising...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Hi everyone. Here's a fun one I'm slowly working through https://youtu.be/4-nwk9ojwR4?si=fyEg_19JNpJ1NXrX Good practice for polyrhythms. The A section is 5 on 2 with rhythmic displacements, the...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Well, my experience is that the internet has relatively little to do with the real world bricks and mortar jazz world. If you want to play live gigs, you have to build up your reputation in that...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

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Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Hoops are horizontal.

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvPs7ooFNo

Great Examples of a Good Jazz Guitar Tone

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?

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

I don't know how to go about learning jazz anymore