This is my normal appearance. Concert at a theater called Sophia. I prefer casual. The only times I wear a suit is if I play a wedding - NEVER any more or someone else's gig where it's required. ...
I read (somewhere) that Andy Summers can play traditional/straight jazz very well. Anyone know anything about that? I know he was a studio guitarist at one point in his musical career. I've only...
Would be interested to hear what this is.
good book, but that shipping cost is a gouge, doesn't free mean free? media mail should be no more than $7 unless they tacked on some unnecessary packing/handling charge
Thats very interesting. You got a real good tone out of it, but if you look at the settings, most would probably guess it would be a little on the bright side. But its not at all and just sounds...
That’s also a beauty. I like tricones as well. There may be one in my future, someday.
So not exactly gear. But if you enjoy arch tops, the finest craftsmanship, and builders, it’s so relevant here on the gear page. D’Angelico means ‘of the angels’ Written by Paul Schmidt in...
Yeah. Well for me I want to hear and pull out better what’s in my head. So learning something by ear a phrase at a time does this for me. It gives me better certainty about what I’m hearing and...
Fair. I think I'm not terribly imaginative with rhythm and I find writing them to be super useful because I actually have to think about and decode them. And also about your earlier post, I...
My first was “Spike Driver’s Blues”. It’s one chord, so it was easy to focus on the right hand.
That's beautiful! I had a brass body style O for many years, but it was so heavy that it rarely went out to play. I finally bought a modern steel tricone National (a Polychrome) that's...
Most of what I've transcribed has tended to be either eighth note or sixteenth note based, medium to up-tempo, so generally not too difficult from a rhythmic perspective. Where there has been a...
I stumbled upon this one while browsing on reverb a couple weeks ago. The seller was a non-player who inherited it from a relative. He had it checked by a local guitar tech who said it was in good...
Andy Summers Plays Jazz
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