Chord-Melody

Stella...by M. Mancuso

Archtop Comparison: Ibanez Japan (...

Guitar and Piano duets?

I love you Porgy

Eastman FV680 issue, need help!

Interesting... I have the first generation of Bud with the heat sink, essentially the Bud 6 but there was no other Bud number at the time... Later, I bought a Bud 10, actually felt a little...

Different generation Henriksen amps

Not the same as the laurels known in the Americas and Europe.

Epiphone Broadway?

The best place to learn to be a good jazz guitarist is on the bandstand, not in the classroom.

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

Thanks, Mark. I knew I had some recognition of the name but I couldn't place it. "Someone once pondered why, after all the gigs they played, the Grateful Dead never improved. I do not know...

For those still battling nerves when they play live on stage...

Jazz education is great… and sometimes it’s not. Thing is, it’s not possible to craft a curriculum for something that is being created in that moment. And if it’s been around long enough to be able...

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

It's sad to see that some posts are claiming that theory ends here... Well, it doesn't. There's a perfectly rational theoretical reason for the substitutions that use the next higher frets, but you...

Moving a dominant chord up a minor third

I don't quite understand this thread. Your original post seems to conflate two unrelated things and the whole discussion seems to have drifted away and become buried under a mound of...

Moving a dominant chord up a minor third

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Stella...by M. Mancuso

Cognac is a good thing! (why does my head hurt?)

New Campellone builds

Well, I attended school back then too. While there was no jazz degree offered at my school, there was jazz band and 1 jazz improv course. Not unlike some two year colleges these days. Instructors...

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

He went for two years, right? That’s how long Barry Greene went to Berklee, but whatever. The point was made that Herb was “not schooled”. So that’s wrong, not right. He sought school, he...

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

JC Stylles registered here years ago and posted a fair bit for a while. Mainly about Benson picking, which he knows a lot about. Here is a set from Small's from a few years back.

For those still battling nerves when they play live on stage...

Fair enough. If one wishes to practice something 100% of the time which they will use 5% of the time, it’s their party, lol. If you don’t mind, what is meant by “every chord is a root inversion”? ...

Suggestions for practicing chord melody

The OP specifically asked about the Conti materials he is working with. When he gets to "The Formula" things really open up, but that is not where he is right now. Tony

Suggestions for practicing chord melody

Everyone was French there, no lost tourists. A very fine jam session, I didn't know Vérène and Sébastien, we had played for more than two hours maybe three hours, no rehearsal. Frédéri said : "Why...

A jam session

Uptempo jazz tunes with a featured guitar player that swing!

How do you work on articulation?

Great speakers for computer?

Fender Princeton replacement speaker?

Neck feels sticky

Nuages soloing?

New Gibson Custom Shop L-4?

If you only had 1 book to work through…

First Jazz Jam Session

Overthinking Eurovision - Theoretical Analysis

Barney and Herb. Does jazz guitar get any better?

Comping under a melody - how to avoid clashes

Trying to diagnose playing mistakes...GOING DOWNHILL!