Lydian tonic.
In G major
C# (#11), B (3), E (13), G (root).
If it sounds as a tonic or not depends on the context and chord position, voice-leading etc.
It contains only 4 notes - two of them...
Mellotone is one of my favorites
Here's an older clip of me playing that tune with a terriffic Big Band.
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Nothing...
Thanks very much and I agree about the headless guitars. It's hard to get older players to try it.
I've had the Alan Holdsworth model as well. This one Tim Miller designed to have a larger body...
FWIW to other readers, and probably a given fact not requiring repetition, but these are wonderful instruments. Playability, tone, aesthetics, strtingnbalance, etc. ... all top notch. I'm a RH...
I don't understand the "solid wood back" notation. I am far from an expert, but this looks like a two-piece back to me. Am I misunderstanding something?
What a uniquely beautiful finish! What...
That is exactly what the very nice young lady at Butler Music told me, and the very next day I spoke to the owner and got a very different story. I would say, call Butler and say "I called Midwest...
It’s hard to get people to try headless guitars,especially older players. But since I switched to Kiesel Alan Holdsworth headless model,I have a hard time playing my normal guitars any longer.
And...
Went back to listen to Munisteri again...
Playing a lot of drop3 stuff, like I've been mostly doing. Not much in the way of reharmonization, some chromatic walk ups/downs between chords, some...
That's what I'm saying...it's not really a sub or a reharm...just doing what I can to have pleasant movement on the 4th string.
As for what Flory is doing there, I wouldn't call that rhythm...
I owned the exact same guitar 30 years ago. It was a terrific guitar and one that I have a lot of fond memories of. I have no idea how many they made but I'm pretty sure it wasn't many.
A nice blond and Mickey Rooney on drums
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