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Look, if I went to Guitar Night and Mike Stern was there I wouldn’t leave. But at home, with access to literally everything else in my life to pass my time with. I’ll pass. I can’t hear his...
Thank you all so much for these thoughtful responses. What a great welcome. It's true I'm an acoustic/fingerstyle guy at heart, I'm not - and definitely don't pretend to be - a jazz musician. But I...
By all means that's a good idea; I have my own treatment of the tune also, but I haven't notated it and likely won't! We'd all love to hear you actually play the piece, since this is a playing...
Actually there are a good many jazz players who have a tone something like yours. Lenny Breau comes to mind, a very harp-like sound that lots of jazz guitar fans love. I have a Princeton Reverb as...
After reading this sentence from your post I got a sillly image of two cavemen sitting around beating drum rhythms on logs. "We use pine logs, not those weird alder logs like you're using. Not...
I'm going to disagree with those here saying that the tone is paramount over the feel. There are alot of jazz tone out there... not everyone has to sound like Wes Montgomery. Jazz tone can be on...
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If we leave the ad hominem attacks at home, why would anyone have to feel compelled to listen to things s/he does not appreciate for pleasure? It really doesn't matter how acclaimed someone is or who...
Please try it again... Guitar tones full up, volume down a little from full up Only an instrument chord between the guitar and amp Princeton set with both tone controls at full minimum (1...
It may or may not be relevant that according to Howard Rees, Barry didn’t start teaching the 8 note scales until the 1980s.
Since you said 'it does not sound jazzy'... . I think 'jazzy sound' aesthetics (not in terms of sonority but overall sound)... it is about to make kind of 'wrong' things sound 'right' and 'kitchy'...
I’ve not noticed much of a correspondence between how well I think I played on a gig and how well I actually played. For example, you might not have played how you wanted or what you’d been...
Like I said, this is a very conservative place. Like I also said, preferences are one thing but not even being able to listen to such a fluent improvisor who freaked out Miles Davis (who wrote a...
This has Vinny's name written all over it! Vinny is in the hood, too.
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