Composition

Dexterity

John Stowell Trio

Larry Carlton destroys audience with four notes

My Foolish Heart - Jeff Arnold Jazz Ballads Book,...

Soloway Swan-like solid-body stratocaster guitar

Oh another point - just about everyone uses their pinky a bit. Wes and Grant Green for example would hammer 3-4-3 very often and you play a few phrases like that in Yardbird with three fingers...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Is the first note F or G? Notated in my Omnibook 2 as G, but sounds like F.

Dexterity

I tell you what would really help the debate is if you could do an audio recording of both approaches and not tell us which was which. I wonder if I could actually tell. Sent from my iPhone...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Thanks for that. That’s a good start with the three fingered stuff, stick with it, sounding good ;-) Ok, so more seriously, anything unfamiliar feels weird compared to something familiar. I...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Alright cats, have at it. This week is the first four.

Dexterity

too many cracks and iffy neck joint for me to buy sight unseen without a close personal inspection. Thanks for looking. I think if I do buy a smaller guitar, I'm just going to buy something newer...

Anyone selling a 175T?

neck joint does not look good on that one. Thanks for looking though.

Anyone selling a 175T?

Although I posted the transcription above, I am with Christian Miller on this that really digesting small fragments of a solo is often more useful and easier to utilize than doing the whole solo. ...

Progressive List of Solos that improved your 'vocab' ...

Nice, you seem to have a strong little finger and big(ish) fingers. I do too, so I use the little finger. But, we're all physically different.

Three finger less ergonomic?

Just had a meeting cancelled, so picked up my guitar and tried to remember some of the discussion in this thread. As "usual", a rough and ready vid c/w distorted laptop mic sound, but it's about the...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Christian has a video on the A section of Dexterity.

Bebop heads: no. 4

Same experience with Premier vs Excel. Excels I've tried were really nice, Premier meh. SS are somewhere between 335 and a 330. Other options off the top of my head: - Eastman T145/T146 -...

D’Angelico Premier SS or?

Good gradiation from the edge to the middle in both colors and transparency. Colors that don’t blend well and/or abrupt solid to transparent will not work IMHO. You see some that have a solid black...

What makes a sunburst good?

It went for $908. Maybe someone knew something more than we did. Or not. We'll likely never know. Auction Ended|Bids:33 Current Price: $908.00

USA made tele goodwill

I played solos by Ch. Parker at the beginning of my studies and then a few solos by M. Davis and J.Raney.. Later I transcribed John Scofield's and Pat Martino solos.I memorized fragments of them. I...

Progressive List of Solos that improved your 'vocab' ...

Three finger less ergonomic?

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

three fingers technique

Body and Soul at a local session

Inside the guitar

Unheard nice songs

Worst Budget Archtops?

Anyone selling a 175T?

What makes a sunburst good?

Bebop heads: no. 4

What do you think about putting a P90 in a Telecaster?

Swapping between chord work and single note soloing

Guitar Slurs for bebop