Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)

A variety of picking techniques

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What do you call power chords with chord symbols?

Red Garland comping rhythms

Thanks for replying Frank. That is truly sad about the cyber bullying. I know that I speak for most here that recognize and enjoy Mike's talent and constantly upbeat personality. Anyone who cannot...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

That's really the way it was done back in the 70's for jazz, though. You had to get out there and get your music heard by audiences in order to build a following. Back then there was no Internet, no...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

The Sweet 16 arrived in excellent shape. The wood inlay in the tailpiece has what I thought was a sticker emblem. It's not. It's a perfectly done MOP insert.

Circling back: Heritage Sweet 16 incoming

It's drop dead gorgeous in person. I'm sure Mike's happy it's going to a good home.

Circling back: Heritage Sweet 16 incoming

Best, best wishes Rob! And all our hopes for a rapid positive response to treatment so that you can get home and on with your life.

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Tim gives the example of Just Friends going to Bbm7 - Eb7. He doesn't agree with any analysis of this as ii-V in Ab. His reason is that in terms of Ted Greene's 'expanded scale' idea, those two...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Thanks Peter for the response and your own excellent examples. Yes, that anticipation 'and of four' is a hard one for many people to both conceive and play. I think it's because for the sake of...

Red Garland comping rhythms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqeSq8dRy_A

The Answer Is Yes (Jim Hall)

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Eastman 805 (2005)......$1,400 PRICE DROP to $1,200

It's still available. Do you have any questions?

Aer compact 60/4 $1,450.CAD

There are also very good reasons why one could go wrong with adding BRW to a guitar, but that aside, is there really a reason to believe that the properties that make BRW a "celebrated" tonewood are...

Replacement footer and badge for my '63 Kessel

looks cool, can you paste an individual chord diagram to an image format to drop into a document?

My app Timothy for writing Ted Greene style sheets

Acquired taste, I felt the same way about Joe Pass. I couldn’t tell what was happening and couldn’t hear the changes. It was all chords and noodling. I feel like you have to be a musician to...

Pasquale Grasso

I think you’ll do just fine, keep working on the gaps.

A few bad notes or a missed chord

This is the only player where I didn't like him at all at first, now I love his playing. WTF happened? Maybe I had no taste of wasn't ready for it? Lately I listen to Pasquale almost every day and I...

Pasquale Grasso

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

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

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

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

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

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

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

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

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

How bad is this?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

AI music, yikes, it's improving fast