When I run into this I use amazing slow downer to adjust the pitch of the recording.
Only the A side was about a half tone sharp. There are many stories about this, but the real cause was that the 3 track machine used to record the stereo version was miscalibrated and ran too slow. ...
Tonight 5 June 2024 Mike Stern is tonight's guest.
Kendrick Lamar was apparently deep in a Coltrane phase in 2015 and you can hear it in the phrasing for sure.
I think language acquisition, fluency, vocabulary etc are just the beginning of the story. It's true that casual speaking is similar to improvisation in that the words come out and make sense often...
I love a maple board on a Strat or Tele, but I honestly don't care. Any nice guitar in my hands is going to make me happy, whether it's solid/semi/hollow ow whatever. Best to have a lot of them, I...
Doesn't work that way. There are companies like CDBaby, Orchard, Distrokid that do digital distribution, meaning you upload your music to them and they upload it to every streaming service on the...
I’m not sure about the provenance of the quote. Possible Archie Shepp misremembered the publication. There were loads of widely circulated jazz publications, for example, that were out of print long...
Please do not do that: art historian in the room.
I've told this story before, but it's it's a good story.... I wandered off the road mid bike ride once in Senegal, I heard a really amazing bird call & wanted to know what made it, left my bike at...
There's a Jamie Aebersold book/record called "Nothin' But Blues" that is, um, nothing but blues. The book itself has a lot of decent information: chord voicings, bass line construction, typical...
Research is just my word for work put in to find out what you need to answer your questions. You say you're learning the Charlie Parker solo. Why? Bear in mind it's not a question of...
The DGTs are special guitars. The finish on that one is insane. I have to tell you, I have never been a fan of the splits tho, and I don't find them very useful. I leave mine in humbucker mode all...
And that clarification is very useful. If this is the goal: Then now — as a mea culpa — all this would, in fact, be very good stuff (in addition to Grant Green).
Why is the internet out of tune, and what can you...
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