The Builder's Bench

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott)

RIP Nick Gravenites

KA PAF info please

Vintage fuzz on "space" transistors

16" 1920s/30s L5

What makes “classic jazz vocabulary” anyway? Much or most of the time it’s a strong rhythmic phrase hooked up to simple musical devices - chord tones, scales, neighbour tones etc. What I have...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

^ There is a video somewhere on Youtube (that I cannot find ATM, FCK AI search engine) from a Barry Harris masterclass (London IIRC) where Barry refers to blues clichés as "swear phrases".

BH

Maybe I should apply at a university to teach jazz history hahahaha. I met this unbelievably good young hard bop and soul jazz pianist who admitted that he doesn't know much music beyond jazz,...

BH

My own RE200 gets regular use - not as much as my BUD6 but when more volume and spread is called for the Evans delivers. Like with many other amps it sounds best at a level just a bit above bedroom...

Evans RE 300 excellent condition

I've had my 1981 GB10 since 1986, it's a great guitar. I notice that with demos and such, people tend to go right to the George Benson type tone. It's a versatile guitar with many other tones in it...

Out with the old, in with the new - GB10, Romeo and, um, well, G6609TG

PAF-OT for "thin," methinks. Note the vertical dimension being much thinner than a standard KA PAF-O pickup, which is itself already thinner than a Gibson PAF. If you have a guitar with low...

KA PAF info please

I love that attitude: "I think the band is really a family. You know, whenever we depart each other, we always tell each other that we love each other, we miss each other. If we don't play for a...

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott)

this is hand written so I’d assume it’s made in NYC, but conflicts with what the other poster said above. I’m not an expert. Regardless, great playing and sounding guitar

Sadowsky SS-15 - Sienna Burst

user error indeed :) it is 2010

Sadowsky SS-15 - Sienna Burst

I don’t mean to challenge you here, but earlier in the thread you’re referring to a method you use for learning stuff off records (I’ll avoid the t-word) that you’ve developed over decades of doing...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Mick. My guy. You missed my point entirely. Those were rhetorical questions. Though I’m glad you answered them … Yes they are the same chord when you take away their roots (i.e. they share...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

Once it’s in my head I can move them around pretty well, it’s something I’m working on. Usually in my band I try to play in the octave the trumpet isn’t in. So I’ll have to transpose heads around....

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

Great! I saw that you're up the neck. That's the way to learn the whole thing. Good job! Note that this exercise starts on F and never goes below F. So, if you start working on playing...

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

Alan, we had this discussion before if you remember: I learned a very similar movement from the Mickey Baker books (IIRC) in the 90ies and have been using it since then all the time: F7 - Gm7 -...

BH

In the 90's, he used to play with a bassist and drummer once a week at a little bar in Occidental, CA (Sonoma County), I saw and spoke to him there a few times. What a career! He played with and...

RIP Nick Gravenites

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

What beats an L5?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Came up with an epic tip for improv

The New Campellone fall batch

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Developing your own style/sound

Emily Remler

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Like-New Gibson ES-335s