The Builder's Bench

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 5) - Mr PC

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

Pleasantly surprised at the Katana 50 for a clean...

Pürbach 14 (Andy Bartosh)

Thanks for posting this. Good thing I checked the Forum; I was just about to smash my Cremona!! Benedetto Fan

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

sweet setup! sounds great and good job

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Sometimes you have to roll with whatever the musician does.

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

The Katanas really wake up when you go in and tweak the pre and post EQ curves. Since doing that I use the Katana the most (my ‘better’ amps are jealous). My presets incorporate these tweaks. Worth...

Pleasantly surprised at the Katana 50 for a clean jazz tone

As I understand it, 5 is not a standard figure (the 5 3 chord is implicit when there are no figures.) However you do see it in partimenti. Usually it’s identifying a melody note. Bare 5ths are...

What do you call power chords with chord symbols?

I think a capital letter is major. The triangle is explicitly telling us major 7th. You won’t see a triangle b7.

Modes arranged in a musical sequence

It is that time of year.... believe the rule of fashion is vertical stripes with white pants or white guitars - plus Brian didn't want to look fat.

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

Spice up those minor blues changes Minor Blues Chord Progressions [11 Variations]

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 5) - Mr PC

Apologies for not noticing this post. Yes, sorry, I should've given a context. I'm interested in two scenarios, 1) comping on the head (melody), 2) comping on the solo choruses. Thanks! :) ...

All of Me - A7 on measure #28 (9th?)

Sounds good, Larson, but I was expecting a Count Basie ending as you suggested. :)

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Experience varies. I owned a GBJSA. It was built well, but the finish was extremely thick. Patrick also had the same experience. Electrically both sounded wonderful. I took the finish off the...

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

Surf's Up ! ' Now were the vertical stripes standard w/ option for horizontal or ? '

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

For a year? 1948 maybe? They put inlays of then 125, whatever’s it apart is the bout at 16” rather than 17” like the 150 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

1946-48 Gibson ES-125

"Heritage's quality control is notoriously bad," Sorry Archie, but thats complete BS! After the management change and letting go of their original and best people (same thing at gibson) they did...

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

I owned two of the Westerly made Guild Benedetto Artist Awards and after trying to like them (for too long), I let them both go. One was "very good" acoustically, the other was "fair" acoustically....

Heritage Johnny Smith incoming

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

Campellone PSA

L-5 Repair by Mark Campellone

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Florentine vs Venetian: which one is better?

Learning to play with a singer

How bad is this?

I don't know how to go about learning jazz anymore

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?