Classical Guitar

MUST Watch - Cynthia (Xinyan) Sun plays Caprice...

What Songs Use These Changes?

The effect and importance of body depth?

Who sold a Slaman Dome last year and plays with...

WesMo L5 @ Elderly Instruments

OOOps, yes, I meant 7cm. A 7mm top won't be driven by nylon strings, which is what these guitars are for ;) Interestingly the last few of Daniel's nylon string archtops (around 2019 as judged...

The effect and importance of body depth?

I know it's sounds like a cliche but it's all about practice ;) I know because I learned on piano a Bach's fugue - somewhat slowly and sloppy - but I can play it from beginnning to end. And I've...

Exploring polyphonic improvisation

Very accurate remarks but do professional musicians have a childhood. Most of the so-called classical musicians went to music schools and very often did not have time to "play football". Musicians...

MUST Watch - Cynthia (Xinyan) Sun plays Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini

wood is cheaper but the machining costs can be higher and longer. if you make a typical guild style 5 ply where each ply by is 1mm (on average) you have to veneer, sand thickness, glue abd press...

Heritage and Gibson Settle

I learned a ton from these, both about playing over the tunes, and about Scofield

Jazz Transcriptions

I once read a (classical) harmony text that suggested that we shouldn’t think of the major and parallel minor tonalities as separate things at all given the amount of borrowing that goes on.

Minor Keys

yeah for me the clincher is the key of the melody, it’s Cm. You know the bit we guitar players forget to think about haha. haha no not Eb but the definition of what exactly is a key is...

Minor Keys

re. 'sneaky', I always liked the Beatles' Michelle' for that: while the song's chords are from the harmonised F minor scale(s), the tonic chord is major, most of the time - lots to talk about there!...

Minor Keys

The composition "Sunny" by guitarist Chuck Wayne got the same changes apart from the opening chord. Miles "borrowed" the song and very clever changed the opening chord from C7M to CmM7. Arguably,...

Minor Keys

OOH that sneaky modal interchange. but to be honest I disagree. That Fmaj7 chord is unusual for Cm, but the other chords are not unusual. The tonicisations (ii V moves) to Eb and Db are reasonably...

Minor Keys

Really impressive play. But when I see such kids playing excellent guitar on difficult pieces, it reminds me everytime on child labor. Does this girl have a childhood? Or is it forced to practice...

MUST Watch - Cynthia (Xinyan) Sun plays Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini

Major or minor? You'll learn on a need-to-know basis. Example 1: The key of F-major (b) contains one flat, a Bb The key of D-minor (b) also contains one flat, a Bb The score got one flat, but...

Minor Keys

And of course various forms of the lamento (descending chromatic bass) that mix up the minor scales and allow a chromatic descent to the V 1 7 b7 6 b6 5 Simple Baroque style Cm G/B Gm/Bb F/A...

Minor Keys

Classical rule of the octave if anyone’s interested- chords with a scale bass. Rather than being a theoretical thing like building triads or seventh chords on each bass or root, these are meant to be...

Minor Keys

"I'm curious for your interpretation of why that model also has x braces" Probably because Gibson did some silly things when they began "reissuing" some models, especially archtops. They'd be...

2006 Gibson L-7CN at Gryphon Strings... $5,500

No progress in 80 years of jazz guitar building?

Minor Keys

Do you constantly hear music playing in your head?

Struggling with a new band

"Frets Per String For Melody" Rule --> How Many?

Pick the guitar tone you prefer - Part II.

Fender 64 Deluxe Reverb vs Henriksen / DV Mark Jazz etc

Which one of these two guitar tones is more pleasant to your ears?

A month of Rhythm Guitar

Another interesting Reverb experience

Hotel Gig in Hell

Pickup upgrade Epiphone Broadway

Exploring polyphonic improvisation