The Builder's Bench

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing...

Counting off a song in cut time

Aer compact 60/4 $1,450.CAD

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Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Where are you in Europe if you don't mind me asking? I'm heading there in a few weeks. In fact, there's a good change I'm bringing my L5 to a friend in Paris.

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

The trick is to treat songs as exercises. 12 keys, major to minor, arpeggios through the changes.

If you only had 1 book to work through…

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Henriksen blu 10 (Latest model) $900

Very pretty burst.

2012 Gibson CS ES-339 Sunburst

Just searched it up, and that sounds brilliant! Exactly the style I love! Thanks.

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Hmmm, are you not in the US? It's Paul Desmond/Ed Bickert doing "Things Ain't What They Used to Be." I consider Ed to be the best guitar comper in well, jazz history.

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

The video appears to not be available?

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Here's a smorgasbord of comping rhythms to lift.

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Do we? I own the Skoda version of one of those, a 2009 which I've kept out of the dieselgate recall for good reason. From time to time it blows an injector, and there are some other expensive known...

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

I get that language's first purpose is to convey information and meanings. Yet, a conversation doesn't have to be meaningful or informative at all to be enjoyable.

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

The Accord is as much or more of an "American car" as you can get these days, basically. (Here in the US, anyway). They are designed and built in Marysville Ohio using 90% US sourced parts. I would...

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

I think to reframe ragman's point: a book will contain vocabulary, maybe some concepts. But the question is still how to incorporate it into your own music. Which is generally the problem people have...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

They use eBay's name in the title of at least their landing page, but without any indication that I could find of an official affiliation or endorsement. Could be worth alerting the actual owners of...

Artur Lang Archtop

Not everyone needs one (or more) but they may still want one (or more).

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

Not being objectively better (as in demonstrably so with quantitative criteria) doesn't mean they can't be subjectively nicer. It's hard to tell from recordings alone, but most of the early 16" L5s...

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Are Modern Amps Repairable?

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Tritone chord root movement

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?