Chord-Melody

Aria EA-650 pickguard question

2008(?) Henriksen 112

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

A little help explaining shielding with archtop...

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

He told me personally what pedals he uses or (used).

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Sending all my best to Big Mike. He taught me a lot about Japanese guitars when I started out over 15 years ago. He was always very generous. Let’s hope the nurses have their hands full!

Campellone PSA

Or ... someone ask their favourite Mozai to compose a jazz version of this (with new music video, preferably)? :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

The player is usually the main source of hum and the purpose of grounding the strings is to ground the player. Most guitars seem to be already wired with shielded wire. Unfortunately the jack...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Aero Instruments makes a product which was reviewed in GP. Basically one end of a wire attaches to ground and the other to something that looks like a penny that you place against your skin. It...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

How do you remember where you put it, though? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

There’s also things like Miles ‘the serpents tooth’ which is not unlike progressions in tunes like Mean To Me, Bewitched, Ain’t Misbehaving (that we don’t think of as RC tunes, but kind of are). I...

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

There’s so many nice variants of RC. Here’s some swing era ones https://youtu.be/PRQ8wbwUtg4?si=7Sn6zAamOlYe-psv Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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

So, here’s what I make out as the changes to Lester Leaps In, for example. In fact the head is played over a sustained Bb chord. So, standard swing rhythm section riff of the era (Christopher...

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

There’s an argument to say that Miles was returning to the approach of Lester Young which often ignored the details of changes and forgrounded the melodic line. Lesters influence on Miles is...

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

New poll idea: How many people don't like participating in polls?

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

Since the hum cuts when you touch the strings, that means the bridge is grounded. Your only option for improving things is to use shielded (2 conductor) coaxial wire. This is the same principle as...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Plectrum tuning wouldn't be too weird. CGBD. All you have to do is lower the A and the E strings a full tone down on a standard guitar and ignore the top 2 strings and that would be a plectrum tuning.

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

So do a new poll that's delineated to your liking.

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

I'm no compositional expert, but I'll answer the questions regardless. I agree with both Jim and rpjazzguitar in spirit and method. 1: I rarely have very intellectual ideas to start with. Usually...

Questions about how others on here compose their music

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

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

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

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

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band