The Builder's Bench

Roy Hargrove

Grant Green's Miss Ann's Tempo

Kenny Burrell Interview

Lace Acoustic Humbucker for archtops?

Tao Guitars Phaeton

I was talking about substitutions, maybe I got it mixed up with passing chords along the way, they kind of merged when I started thinking of 2 bars |C6 |C6 | as something like |Dm Bm7b5 |...

Which kind of chords to learn next

Yeah it's a similar exercise. He meant it in the way of play stepwise through the tune and use the added note rules as appropriate.

Pitfalls of Patterns

Not sure if I follow this. Continuous scales do not require changing direction when chords change but it'll frequently require scale change to accommodate the new chord. How would you make all the...

Pitfalls of Patterns

I like the way Beato bobs his head when listening to Dias's electric sitar solo on Do It Again at 9:00. I can relate. I can't keep my neck still when listening to music with an insistent beat.

Denny Diaz (Steely Dan) interview with Rick Beato

If a retailer has “nexus” (physical presence or other sort of connection) in another state they’re supposed to collect sales tax for that state. If not, they don’t have to. Determining nexus is...

"Reverb.con" Say goodbye to "customer service"

Every time I went to his classes it was scale outline and then making lines up. We didn't do any continuous 8th exercises, except though Giant Steps. However he did say - cats would be able to...

Pitfalls of Patterns

It's definitely a baroque guitar. 5 course instrument from the 1600 and 1700s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVl7TaAqb2A Viheula is earlier https://youtu.be/oUD4jLy4oEc?si=stp1tqendyazIXCt 4...

Taking a leap.. - Arrived!

I don’t know, probably. Simple, basic, but foundational and harder than they sound. So far as I’m aware, he wasn’t real big on “exercises” as such and had his couple of Get It In Your ear tools...

Pitfalls of Patterns

Heh, this is a forum where people have the habit of calling all kinds of things guitar because you can make noise with them using guitar(ish) technique. You know, a bit like the definition of the...

Taking a leap.. - Arrived!

For what it’s worth (if that’s what you were talking about) I would say some simple side slipping devices would be the move before diving into all that stuff. Cool though it may be.

Which kind of chords to learn next

i had the same thing happen to me on the 175 i bought where the seller forgot to mention he had glued the bridge to the top (in the wrong position , no less). He wouldn't take it back and reverb...

"Reverb.con" Say goodbye to "customer service"

Nice! One of his best solos!

Grant Green's Miss Ann's Tempo

There isn’t a straight sub for Major or minor*, but I think yall are probably talking about two things. Micks talking about what diminished to sub in for a dominant chord.** It sounds like...

Which kind of chords to learn next

So Db° for C7. But what about Cmaj and C-? I like chord for chord substitutions. I can think of the substitutions as more grips for the parent chord instead of this cloud of information you are...

Which kind of chords to learn next

I just watched Hargrove. It was made at the end of his life, on his final tour of Europe, so it's part portrait and part elegy. https://youtu.be/liK1u6DQQ4M?si=5JFng_ZLPoBF8yn7

Roy Hargrove

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Pitfalls of Patterns

Fake Instagram Guitar

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Luna 200 Combo, Quilter Aviator Cub, Or Blu 6?

On smaller speakers...

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

More Ed Bickert

2022 Borys B-120

Chunking, does it work for Jazz improv?

Some thoughts while working on a guitar