Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

Left-Handed Non-Cut Carve?

My favorite show on youtube

T Monk altered sus 7 chords

Mandocello, Anyone?

Baritone tuning on standard classical guitar

T Monk altered sus 7 chords

That’s exactly why I’m remaking it :) I wanted to do a series of archtops that could have been vastly improved (in the publics eye) if not for one or two alterations. I was going to call it the...

Steve Holst - Jim Hall / D'Aquisto mini review part II

Player here, no building experience. I saw an Eastman non-cut 805 listed as a lefty. Other than the nut and saddle, what would make it left-handed? Are the two sides of the top carved differently?...

Left-Handed Non-Cut Carve?

This is a great thread.

Gustav Glassl rehabilitation

Yeah I'm a grown adult with job / kids ... have a group of friends since HS that I play music with but obviously don't have as much time as I used to. Regarding reading ... my main goals is that...

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Thanks everyone! A lot of great ideas in this thread!

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Oh dang. I didn’t think about that. Not a bad idea. Read them in third position. Go through again in fifth, etc.

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

My recommendation is How to Play Bebop vol 2 by David Baker. It's a compendium of turnarounds in the key of C. So you build vocabulary while you develop some basic reading skills. After working my...

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Here's Howard Roberts sight reading book (out of print) that I posted in another thread: What is the best Scale System to use when reading music?

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Nothing when I reread it. I was really stuck in thinking only about music students.

POLL- Time it takes to learn pro level jazz improv?

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that he plays mostly 2 note chords, I'm just challenging myself to do it.

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

Bought a guitar from Ric, and will vouch that his packing and shipping were very well done, and he was very conservative with the way he described the condition. When I got the guitar, it looked...

$1400 Shipped US Eastman Elite 16 Fully Hollow Archtop 2.25 inch body depth

This is a fun album: Gatemouth actually opened for my band once long ago in the Bay Area. Must have been filling in an off night. He rolled in about a half hour before the gig, killed it, and...

Take The A-Train by Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Roy Clark

This fleshes out the 3 things a bit. I think it's pretty solid:

Bobby's keys to sounding good

Thread revival. Just got the Blu and used it for about an hour, trying various settings. I'm a long term Little Jazz user. I bought the Blu in the hope that it would sound better than the...

DV Mark Little Jazz compared to Henriksen The Blu

The official mad-at-JC thread

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Experimental/free etc music

One octave scales - VIDEO

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

Tonex One vs. TC Combo Deluxe '65

Chord melody technique: do you keep a first finger bar position by default?

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

12 Hour Practice - Thoughts?

How does your Archtop play compared to solid body?

What Archtop Guitars have no binding?

Transcribing melodies vs solos