Comping, Chords & Chord Progressions

KA PAF info please

Vintage fuzz on "space" transistors

16" 1920s/30s L5

Amp Covers

Chet Baker - Time After Time guitar solo

Doesn’t look like a Campellone pick guard and pickup? Heck, the pick guard alone is worth $100! Heard of inflation? :o

KA PAF info please

The best guitar book I ever read was “The Natural Classical Guitar” by F. Lee Ryan. It takes principles for the “Inner Game of Tennis” to help build technique. I find that many of these ideas can be...

Learning guitar as second instrument

The knock-offs don't say "KA" or "Kent Armstrong" at all, and the chinese made ones on the lower tier Eastman's say "Kent Armstrong Designed" . That looks to me like an original. Cheers, Arnie..

KA PAF info please

I have two "Sky" KA knockoffs, one with pole pieces, the other without, and there's no hand writing.

KA PAF info please

SS, how does this book compare to this one? Thx! Paul Schmidt?

Acquired of The Angels

But like, you gotta know Metheny was involved. There’s no other reason his songs are in there and Autumn Leaves is in the Clapton key. It’s all these classic jazz tunes and Bright Size Life...

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

How does calling a harmonic minor scale a Dominant scale with raised root instead inhibit you from getting stuck in it?! And it's not a good choice anyway because it has a limited application,...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

Do the cheaper knockoffs have the KA sticker with hand written model on the underside? They dont show it on the website.

KA PAF info please

It may be once of the cheaper knock-offs, maybe not. But with that nice assembly, I'd say it's still a good buy. Kent Armstrong Handwound Series Side Mount PAF Style Humbucker Pickup

KA PAF info please

Ok, lets me more scientific. I ask the ChatGPT what a used Gibson L5 could be bought for in 1980. I used 1980 because that was the year I bought my first D'angelico Excel from George Gruhn. Here is...

What beats an L5?

He’s wearing a collared shirt. That is dressed up. Good lord, you guys sure can make a mountain of a mole hill. Henry, you look sharp at show time, shoes or not.

Attire

ah, of course. I should have known. that clears it right up.

1993 MINT Gibson L-5 Wes Montgomery James Hutchins Signed Pristine Condition

1993 MINT Gibson L-5 Wes Montgomery James Hutchins Signed Pristine Condition

Add a Dearmond 1100 to that and it may be game over. Except that an L-5 still wins.

What beats an L5?

so although you say a dim chord is not a dominant, and playing dominant over a diminished is not a great way of doing it, your solution to C#dim is to play C7 over it!

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

The New Campellone fall batch

Developing your own style/sound

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Emily Remler

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

The Notated Lick Compendium.