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I do not like to use super glue for piezo elements. Works best with super glue.:smile-new:
You can also search for CDs from Big Bands. To get to know the Big Band repertoire. I played in three Big Bands. There were a lot of rehearsals. All sections rehearsed separately and then there...
This is what a study approach looks like. A jazz musician learns all his life. Whether it's playing with different musicians, or listening to Cds, or analyzing and trancribing solos. It is caring...
Thanks for sharing this, that was a great performance, and pretty much the same as our big band arrangement. I think practicing along with something like this might be good enough for now for me....
I love his playing. However, this pick still has that buzzing, piezoelectric sound that I hate. I am considering the JourneyTek system, which is inexpensive and sounds extremely natural on steel...
It looks laminated to me. FWIW it also looks symmetrical. Doesn't bother me in the least. Potentially even less prone to twisting since the adjacent pieces (typically with grain oriented in the...
I’m an advocate of learning repertoire to assimilate the vocabulary of the jazz language. My teacher Ted Dunbar years ago said that learning a few Bird heads (he was particularly fond of Donna Lee)...
Between the two points "Learn from the solos of the masters" and "at the end play your own" intervenes many years of work and untold investments of effort, especially to fulfill the last statement...
Yeah, that looks like a sap wood line that coincidentally follows the neck length. The ears look like separate pieces to me.
If the video was issued as a private video by a bigband, of course the entire song is in the video. If the video was issued by the publisher of the arrangement, in most cases it is the entire song....
Out of curiosity , I contacted Collings on this one , Hi Sol, Thank you for sending this over! It appears that this guitar does have our Aged Finish and Hardware. Due to the nature...
Totally right. Back in my younger days when I was doing studio work in addition to every kind of gig imaginable to make ends meet in NYC, I had a '60 ES345, and a '63 strat. Later I added a...
A Spontaneous Composition
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