The Builder's Bench

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

Sweetwater has a reverb type site

McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style pentatonic 2-5-1...

Tips for translating ideas from head to...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

On the contrary, I know quite a lot about Derek Bailey, just got the name wrong (now corrected). He used to play straight jazz as a club, studio and dance hall musician, you know, for at least...

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

No, effective setups vary. But the only possibilities are the weak e string is from it being shoddy acoustically or too far away from the pickup. That's basically it barring some voodoo.

Cure for a weak high E string?

I never use the tweeter with an archtop, but I do like them with a Gypsy guitar or my Classical. I like my archtops to sound "dark" and the tweeter defeats that for me.

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

Wow, I downloaded the PDF to get started quickly (will buy the book too). Just looked at Rainy Day. I wrote out an arrangement for a student last week and it's very similar to the version in the...

Possible Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold Study Group - Who's In??

I'm not from the US, but he certainly seemed to have pissed off a lot of white, college trained Jazz enthusiasts over there! He was (is) certainly allowed his opinions, and I guess someone had...

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Is that a different pickup than stock? It has two adjustment screws on the bass side and modern flat black mounting screws.

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

Excellent. Yeah they're fun. The Clifford Brown ones I'm tinkering with now are super fun. I'll get around to putting them over here soon.

Bebop Technique

Doesn't really matter where you start ... should eventually do them wherever and in whatever key. But the highest note on the page I think is 12th fret E

Bebop Technique

Ohhhh I just got it. The DEDC is the root note turn, then it goes down the scale. This will be useful.

Bebop Technique

If you have an amp with a switchable or adjustable tweeter (Henriksen, etc), do you use it with your archtop? And whether yes or no, why?

Archtop with tweeter - yay or nay?

I played through your exercises. It’s high on the staff. I don’t think I have those notes on my guitar. So I started at 10th fret e string. Part two is like a tongue twister. Fun.

Bebop Technique

Was there a premise anywhere?

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Maybe they changed it, but a few years ago there was no buyer or seller protection. A Craigslist free for all with the added risk of shipping.

Sweetwater has a reverb type site

Yeah, it’s a labor of love now. You can’t support yourself on $100 gigs anymore. A non-insignificant amount of my practice time is looking for and promoting gigs. I don’t think it used to be like...

Bebop Technique

Zzzzzzz Can we start talking about turns again?

Bebop Technique

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Bebop Technique

Chord melody problem

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…

What's The Answer?

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Another way to look at the fingerboard