Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

Pete Escovedo & Sy Smith - Let’s Stay Together

The Look of Love

Comins GCS-1 ES - string experiences and...

June 2024 - Lover

“Little” Charlie Baty playing GJ at Djangofest.

My favorite version of this tune is by Simone Kopmajer.Great vocal and even better arrangement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNS720MHMcE

The Look of Love

PRSs are best heard and not seen, Les Pauls are best seen and not heard Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Les Paul vs. PRS

Update - one sold, but pre sonic circuit Mini Brute ii still available.

Polytone Mini Brute ii (x2)

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but the Fender Jazzmaster was the first Fender guitar to have a Rosewood fingerboard. The Fender Jazzmaster was originally designed in 1958 as a Jazz...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Sy is Mark Whitfield’s cousin https://youtu.be/IBE83SKE79Q?si=2k9ZY0Z831PkpV_y

Pete Escovedo & Sy Smith - Let’s Stay Together

featuring Mark Whitfield and his cousin Sy Smith https://youtu.be/muisPg2ti8Y?si=ZOGv5GDJ7TyILNmQ

The Look of Love

I suspect that many of these voicings are not discrete chords but rather voices moving within tonal centers (for example those I've underlined) so they could be given a few different (enharmonic)...

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

ok its not a scientific test..at best its a "three card monte" .. a different player would produce different results..a different amp would also. fret wire height..fitting..Nut settings..there was...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Both the Jaguar and the Jazzmaster are great guitars. Yes the Jaguar is 24inch scale, the Jazzmaster is 25.5inch scale like the majority of Fender guitars. Jazzmasters were designed to play...

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Ogden Avenue PART EIGHT Learning Phrases Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear After a few days of listening attentively and Internalising the phrases in the whole Ogden Avenue track.

Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear (' Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Greg Fishman'.)

I just noticed that the Jag is short scale, 24". That's almost Byrdland territory.

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Keep your eyes wide open (and your mouth shut?) Why do my eyes close when I sneeze? | Live Science

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

I tend to be in the "tone wood matters" camp, but I do think that the more you put between the guitar and the audience the less it matters. Maybe tone wood only really makes a difference...

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Wondering if anyone who has owned one of these had some opinions on what gauge and type of strings they thought sounded good on these. From what I can tell so far, they come with 11-49s (not sure...

Comins GCS-1 ES - string experiences and preference?

What Guild model is that?

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

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

Cure for a weak high E string?

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

Itching for a Fender, which one?

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…