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Easy Jazz Phrases by Ear.

Transcribing melodies vs solos

Gibson L5 CES in Italy

Julian Lage - Serenade (current tour)

Udo Roesner Acoustics Dot O-Piezo Endpin PU System

Thanks! I find the Gary Burton (with Chick and Metheny) version to be the one from which it's the, relatively, easiest to learn as the music is stated a bit more clearly, in my opinion.

Windows, Chick Corea, solo guitar, Jake Reichbart

Only if you ask the guys trying to do it in the 80s. Just like now, where the 80s and 90s were a "golden age" of live music to us. By us I literally mean Peter and I. Not the members here who...

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

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Easy Jazz Phrases by Ear.

For a ballad I'd say "Autumn Leaves" with Ron Carter, maybe also "Embraceable You"

Jim Hall's Best Solos

That probably stands to reason if you get proper intonation over your entire fretboard by tuning the open strings slightly flat. Maybe that's in fact their entire purpose. Although the reasoning in...

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

As a guitarist, I probably learn the chords first. Then the Melody. Comping is our main job. IMHO.

Transcribing melodies vs solos

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Price Drop $949 2010 Montreal Premiere E/A Piezo Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar

I have an Earvana nut in my cupboard, that I have fitted to guitars for an experiment. It doesn't adjust intonation for the frets on the whole fretboard, only open strings. Even after adjusting the...

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

I stole another lick, and I wrote (or at least devised) one, so here I am dropping them both repeatedly into a couple of choruses of Autumn Leaves with the aim of trying to memorise them. The rest of...

Del's Tiny Steps...

Are we sure there was money, fame, and accouterment back in the 60s?

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

You forgot to mention things like the thrill of playing cool music and interacting with good players in front of even 2 or 3 people, where it's just that extra wee bit riskier than the safety of your...

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

Why not on an archtop? I agree that it's sometimes necessary to retune an instrument that has had its open strings tuned painstakingly. What kind of archtop was that?

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

His solos on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (Concierto) and “I Hear A Rhapsody” (Undercurrent) are two of my favorites.

Jim Hall's Best Solos

It’s still available.

1996 Gibson L5 Wine Red - original case - good condition

I suppose we're talking about Pick-up - udo roesner amps , but which one, single or dual source? Could you post some pictures of how it's installed in your guitar? The product page doesn't even...

Udo Roesner Acoustics Dot O-Piezo Endpin PU System

Trio albums (guitar, bass, drums)

What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

How did the greats learn how to play?

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

One octave scales - VIDEO

how old are we

Anyone selling a Borys Jazz solid?

Reverb pedals?

Solo Guitar Albums - one guitar only

Anyone near Sweetwater: Fort Wayne, Indiana?

... But does it Jazz ??

Unhappy with sound after installing benedetto ebony bridge