Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

M-tone Hypersonic #2 and #3

Distant Hills by Ralph Towner performed by Henry...

2021 Eastman T49D/v Minty++++

III7 to IV

Hopkins "The Contessa"

Absolutely. It’s not just a nice piece of kit for the money, it’s a nice piece of kit period. It’s basically a clone of the Tech 21 Blonde, but without defeatable cab simulation and slightly...

Pedal for that tube feel

Week 20. Day 1. Monday Project suggestion Project 1-B Cherokee in Db Speed to test and push your comfort zone. Cherokee is a racecourse built to test your diatonic ear and your facility with...

Howard Roberts Super Chops: study group for a tune based practice routine

Week 20. Review of all six project forms in no particular order Suggested target speed at the end of the week is 192 Actual speed for daily projects is up to the individual. This should be set at...

Howard Roberts Super Chops: study group for a tune based practice routine

I took another crack at it, this time with one of the faster backing tracks. Altoona upright - YouTube This time I just plugged my computer into the aux input of my Roland MicroCube along...

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 14) - Tune Up

Hi MG, Thank you for attaching a couple of my videos. I remember recording the “What’s New” vid. I had FULL BLOWN Shingles during the recording. I see a little bit on my hand. That was a really...

Do you dig Gretschs? Check out these.......

Will Mathews with the Count Basie Orchestra uses a D angelico reissue and does a great job IMO

Big Band Tone - A Serious Conversation

Nice playing! If you didn't sourpuss when you made a mistake it wouldn't even notice.

Some problems with blues

That is the biggest issue. I guess the original owner was a player and didn’t care about resale value when he or she decided to have a humbucker cut into the top. If only they put a floater on there...

Gibson L5C

each is brand new..... either for $4,200 (shipped CONUS). msg me for more details.

M-tone Hypersonic #2 and #3

Does a Fender Princeton or Deluxe Reverb trump both, or is that the wrong way of looking at it. Rich Severson gets super rich jazz tones through his Quilter, and it makes me wonder if I am missing...

Quilter or Henriksen?

I like that..a lot. I'd add that you could see the ii-7 as a subdominant IV ie F6, so for me the scale would run tonic, subdominant, tonic, subdominant, dominant, tonic, dominant. Just my take.

Finding the core progression (Jim Campilongo)

I think I could invest about 2-3 hours a week on this. So just to be clear, and using F as my starting point, I’m doing the 3 note major and minor arpeggio for two octaves, all three positions. Then...

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 14) - Tune Up

Someone cut a hole in the top for a humbucker

Gibson L5C

Bureau of Land Management California. They're buying all the ugly monopoly mansions with no yards in Las Vegas. I would have gone another way but it's their money.

Assets as opposed to cash???

What’s “all messed up”? Seriously I see the tailpiece change, but what else is so wrong? I ask out of ignorance on my part! d

Gibson L5C

The State of Music

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 13) - In Your Own Sweet Way

Don't complain that the guitar is too big for you

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 14) - Tune Up

What is sight reading?

Big Band Tone - A Serious Conversation

Marcin Patrzalek-Giant Steps-is it easy or not?

Do you like every song on an artist's CD or album?

Three Heritage Ghost Built Gretsches

Can I play jazz on my ESP Ron Wood custom telecaster?

Fender Twin Reverb Reissue - Best Power Tubes

A question for the Early Music experts in the house

Which of these guitars would be best for a motorhome?