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Coincidentally, I read about a psychiatric research study the other day, in which they had a large group of elderly people live out a thought experiment: they were to think of themselves as 20 years...
Playing with nails isn't your best bet for a warm tone like your example unless you switch to heavy flats. I'd pluck the strings with the flesh of your fingertips but still allow your nails to...
To me, I think it's dense to see a piano score and not understand how that's everything that should be included for the head. So see the 2 staffs and then think dur I should plunk down more chordal...
This thread reminds me of what is talking place here in the USA, with the WNBA and their newly arrived status in the media. Some sports media talking heads are saying race isn't the topic, ...
Those two statements are in contradiction! It's obvious to you and me but maybe not to a beginner. I think what they should have done was put a note on the chart: Play that bass line with the head...
I had a business, a small shop where I made custom guitars. A while ago I found that there were many more players who wanted a good solid wood guitar than I could ever build so I started a line of...
Unfortunately it’s not really possible to untangle some of this stuff from the racial politics of the time. Lennie dismissing the blues-orientation of a lot of black musicians probably wasn’t...
There are of course good and bad vintages..... Q: "Was that a good year?" A: 'Well, um, it's debatable" ;)
Coincidentally, Grossman is holding a sale of instructional books on country blues, cake walks, marches & early jazz through June 20th (Stefan Grossman'''s Guitar Videos)
Being vintage sounds better than old and tired. I am old and tired, but maybe thinking of myself as vintage will make me feel better. :cool:
Are you capable of keeping things civil?
Yes, I didn't mean to accentuate the negative in my critique, he plays well. We all have our weaknesses, and developing jazzy, stylish phrasing is a great challenge.
I really like the way Mike Stern plays, especially in a straight-ahead context like @ Vignola's but the problem I have with listening to him is that the way he uses FX makes his sound so indirect and...
My daughter-in-law gave me a (fake) Calvin and Hobbes T-shirt with the text: I'm not old, I'm a Classic. My fave.
Guitar purchases Reverb - EMG pickups
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