Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

Ibanez AG95 / Fender Mustang GTX Metallic Sound

Lil Dawg ChocoPrince w/ 6L6s and Dr. Z Brake Lite...

Night and Day

Incoming or better going to get

Epiphone ES-175 Premium

I've had lots of Venetians, relatively few Florentines: Early '60s L-4c '63 S400CES '64 L-5CES

Florentine vs Venetian: which one is better?

They have other inlays ... Just a moment...

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

Okay then, someone needs to tell Amazon and other retailers, because I see shirts all over the Internet listed as stripped that look just like this, here's the link: Amazon.com

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

I had posted that already in #22. Exactly the same engraving as in "Meet George Gershwin at the Keyboard" only different typeface for tune title, another example of recycling of an engraving.

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

The AR6xy series are probably Eastman's best-sounding archtops in my opinion (the hog B&S tame their bright nature a bit) and this one has an interesting fingerrest for an acoustic instrument....

Eastman AR610 - Big Bad Archtop

Good news all that! I decided against suggesting not to take the bike for going to get that guitar on that other thread, but I guess here would be OK ;) Also, just realised that all this...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Here's the version I was referring to - Gershwin's own piano arrangement in Db.

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Huh? LOTS of luthiers and companies make 16s with venetians. Both carved and lams.

Circling back: Heritage Sweet 16 incoming

Took off removable cast today and played first time seriously with pick. Did fine and really the only problem was shoulder out over the guitar for 30-40 minutes a bit pain. Otherwise chops ok left...

Playing guitar with a broken clavicle

Clearly, there are multiple possible scenarios. My point was about making maximum effort to stay out the singer's way. Never's point was partly about how the singer should handle it when the...

Learning to play with a singer

Had to open this thread ... and now I have a craving :D Good luck with the sale! :)

Lil Dawg ChocoPrince w/ 6L6s and Dr. Z Brake Lite attenuator

Jacob Collier is signed to Quincy Jones. Before that he got notoriety in high school selling vocal arrangements to New York Voices and others. No he didn’t drop out of the sky. His videos promoted...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

So would the bassist for their solo. :P

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

What if M-Ster who posts the standard of the month is Mike Stern?

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

My first reaction was "who'd create an account with that name and then use an ambiguous abbreviation for Frank" but then realised it had to be him. We could have welcomed him btw... After...

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

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?

Learning to play with a singer

Campellone PSA

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band