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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.
Medical circumstances dictate that I unfortunately need to sell a couple of guitars. First up is a Carvin CL450 with the rare (and expensive) flame Koa top. These guitars are now out of production,...
Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?
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