Ear Training, Transcribing & Reading

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

band in a box tabs..

Now if only it had built in reverb...

Nows the time improv

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

It looks to me as if the neck angle may be the primary cause of the bridge height, along with the installed height. It certainly shouldn't need a reset, ever. I don't really see a problem with the...

Epiphone Zephyr Regent

Dear jazzers, You're too kind with your comments. Thanks for that. I am very glad if my playing is moving you. I feel honored, but I also know who I am and who I am not. I like to take for...

Slaman Super 400 with CC pickup

this is one of my total favourites - both this rhythm head and the whole glorious album I hope it's not just me.... (it's a recognised classic - yes?) I hope so. this is years before he made...

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Joe Pass had a huge impact on my approach to learning to improvise when - somewhere in his well known video - he recommends that you try to play straight eighths through the changes. the good bit...

Nows the time improv

The ES-335 in general has a more pronounced midrange quality to it. I’m not sure how much is the actual design vs. the variation in woods used throughout various productions. But like all guitars...

Like-New Gibson ES-335s

I did do a video, inevitably https://youtu.be/bAAWlzeKGRU?si=M4x2rDdxWC29Deo0

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

i don't know. I try to use as few BIAB features as possible. It's a pretty horrible program with a 1980s style interface. I've never used their guitar tab feature

Anyone else use Genius Jamtracks?

Barry Harris used to teach that BTW. Nice one Charlie.

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

For what it’s worth, I think most folks of my generation would describe this as transcribing. Means literally to turn into script, but the most folks in my cohort use it to encompass any focused...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

My drummer said she used to wash his and other students sweaters when they were @ Berkley for extra $ He said she couldn't play a lick then but her boyfriend, another student, was very good and she...

Emily Remler

I also think that there MAY be some in the boat I'm in, which is that I'd buy the TF if some of the other guitars I had listed would sell.

2013 Gibson Custom Crimson Tal Farlow Archtop Guitar VSB

This is very well thought out and presented. Thanks. There is a way to think about soloing using the same ideas. Maybe it's obvious. You start with Bb6, so you play Bb Ionian. Think of Bb as...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

But they're two different chords. They have their own separate sections in any musical dictionary. Dominant: The fifth tone of the scale. Dominant seventh chord: The dominant triad plus a minor...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

I almost never transcribe. It always seemed more an exercise in writing than in assisting with playing. Whenever I “learn” a solo I just use my ears and analyze as I go. And then I’ve never memorized...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Now if only it had built in reverb...

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

Thumb pain

Stage setups for larger venues

Developing your own style/sound

Emily Remler

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

The Notated Lick Compendium.

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Starting a phrase late