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This is of course a non-answer but listen to Red Garland on Miles recordings. Straight No Chaser from Milestones is a great one. The rhythms are very simple and are made up of two or maybe three...
What kind of rhythms are you currently playing with these chords?
I'm messing around with different ways of comping over a 12 bar Blues or Jazz-Blues - mainly using Now's The Time. I'm mainly using shell chords (F: x878xx and Bb: 6x67xx and C: 8x89xx) which...
I have a GCS-1ES that I bought new about 3 years ago and have been on a string journey. Long story short, for Jazz, I eventually settled on the Thomastik Infeld Swing JS111's, as I thought they...
Yes i have, small stuff and it was real and legit, just never bought anything like a guitar from there.
A bass player colleague of mine is selling his 90s yo father's Selmer tenor and alto saxes. It's very sad, he was a wonderful gigging musician. And played a wicked arranger's piano on a Rhodes(!) ...
Rulebending is fine. Wasn't sure if I'd like St. Thomas without a latin feel, but I sang along and liked it just fine.
I wasn't sure, I didn't read the whole thing between you and Ragman.
I know of them. The neck on a classical and the neck on an archtop are so different I haven't considered using them. Do you know that they do work on archtops? Thank you.
Yes, I do this To a degree, but not systematically. My goal in practicing tunes is to memorize changes and understand the form and harmony for purposes of soloing and comping. I also try come...
Thank you. I'm already going by there to try a Henriksen. Since the shop focuses on acoustics, they may be able to do well with an archtop. I wish I could find somebody not 9 hours away though. But...
Aha, I see you are scholar of our tongue! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
RIght you are, Christian - we're a bunch of perfect numpties.
Bending the rules already, here's St. Thomas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMpYam3Gw4
Nah he calls it contemporary improvisational music and is in the rising star guitar category of the downbeat critics poll.
Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?
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