Electric guitar players have been in love with textures for as long as I've been listening--certainly one of the appeals of "Rumble" was Link Wray's sound as well as the ferocious simplicity of the...
The only criteria is swing style rhythm guitar. No rules, no songlist, no assignments, just play, or play and talk about discoveries, transcribe, post lead sheets, talk voicings, picking hand stuff,...
Well if you’re playing Donna Lee and Scrapple at the same tempo, whatever that tempo may be, then those two measures are probably the hardest of the bunch
I'll let Mr. Beaumont answer but, I'm planning to post a new song today or tomorrow; In a Mellow Mood.
I think it's fun to see others' approach to the same song.
How does this thread work? Is there a specific tune being worked on for developing rhythm parts? Or is it just a more free-wheeling discussion? I have a 1955 acoustic L50 that i might bust out and...
RC is I vi ii V, there ain't no modes here. That's making it too hard.
Major 7 if you want a swing sound, Dom 7 if you want it more modern, better yet to use both and your ear to see what fits...
Nitro is super fragile lacquer. I was playing my guitar once with a T-shirt on with a decal on it. The T-shirt stuck to the guitar and deformed the lacquer. Luckily I was able to compound off the...
Yea... if you haven't been schooled on basic functional harmony as in the direction of Equenda... get it together.
It's kind of like one of the standard building block of western music.
But that...
How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of...
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