Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

Another way to look at the fingerboard

NGD and a Mystery - Epiphone Content

Albanus archtops

Mike and Leni Stern Out On a Sunny Day.

Bebop Technique

i'm very tech savvy, but when it comes to music i like things simple and for me that is knobs and WYSIWYG. a good amp or two, depending on needs, a couple of good pedals and i can dial in a tone that...

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Another joyous player and all round nice guy is blues guitarist Kirk Fletcher. Check him out on his you tube channel.

Mike and Leni Stern Out On a Sunny Day.

No lie.

Bebop Technique

Yeah see above. Lots of bebop tunes, but there are also some things that turn up in bebop tunes (turns and those swept arpeggios) that I think took me a really long time to start using naturally, and...

Bebop Technique

Yeah super tricky. This is sort of what I use the bop heads for. I don't slur into every downbeat and I sort of think an efficient left hand fingering might kind of preempt that when I have to make a...

Bebop Technique

The name sounds like some sort of mystical alchemist of guitar making, all by itself.

Albanus archtops

[part 4 of 4] By working this out, I began to notice things, such as how stacked fourths resemble a min7#5, and all of the other harmonic synonyms. But the benefit of this approach, and...

Another way to look at the fingerboard

Neil Young uses a fan in his famous Fender tweed Deluxe, which his tech says is basically always on the cusp of melting, so the fan is essential. I have never used a fan in a tube amp, given that all...

Tube Amp Fan

[part 3 of 4] And for quartal harmony, also. (The grey and black alternating patterns are just to differentiate the voicings as they move up the neck).

Another way to look at the fingerboard

Learn bebop heads, especially Charlie Parker tunes. They force you out of position playing and into awkward fingerings. I have not done enough of this myself; whenever I do, however, it always...

Bebop Technique

[part 2 of 4] When I worked this out, I found that there are 33 possible voicings.

Another way to look at the fingerboard

Mike and Leni both radiate joy when they are playing. Even Mike's near career-ending injuries don't seem to have damped his spirits. Even though Mike's playing is a little too dense for my ears to...

Mike and Leni Stern Out On a Sunny Day.

Every couple of years, I will invent a system for deriving harmonic or melodic content, and then relearn an aspect of music-making on the guitar. I’ve been doing this for about 35 years. I have found...

Another way to look at the fingerboard

People also do it to make the treble strings a bit slinkier for bends due to the extra string length. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

NGD and a Mystery - Epiphone Content

Some people do that due to short bass side strings not reaching the tuners.

NGD and a Mystery - Epiphone Content

I just ordered all the Real Books lol

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naming chords?

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Would like some advice on improving reading from Real Book

notating 7/4 and 4/7 chords

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Any other bakers on here?

What's The Answer?

Younger guitarists are discovering the joys of having a jazz box. Good!

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Ed Bickert's gig bag

I'm now fluent in every key