Ear Training, Transcribing & Reading

"Natalia"

Eastman 805 from 2005......$1,400

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This is a trivial question to me, as I said earlier, "I am not one to collect things, the idea of owning a lot of things I will seldom if ever use seems irrational to me, so my personal bias may be...

2008 Gibson L-4CES -carved spruce top, carved mahogany back -MINT

No reason....other than an understanding that it was best practice not to divulge serials online! Sent from my KFTRWI using Tapatalk

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

You mean strum i or use to play lines? More or less, yes.

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

Thanks everyone for sharing their insights on this seminal form. Super helpful. FWIW, two books I have found useful are "The Rhythm Changes Guide," by Lukas Gabric, and Herb Ellis' "Rhythm...

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Is there a reason why you're not providing us with the full serial number? Also, none of your pictures show the serial number. Perhaps this additional information might help with the dating. Lovely...

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

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"Natalia"

There are at least three thumbpick options that can function as a flat pick: the Fred Kelly Bumblebee (which comes in several variations), the Herco and the Black Mountain. I have the Fred Kelly ones...

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

The entire book is a jumble and cluster. The inaccuracies are the paragraphs and sentences being cut off in the middle and the unrelated sentences and parts of another paragraph inserted. Misspelled...

Favorite Jazz guitarist book

Can you really use that pick as a thumb and flat pick?

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

Chopping veggies is an "art" that's fun to practise (until you chop your fingers). Scaling fish or cleaning squid, not so much. But nothing beats peeling onions of course shreddin' the primal...

I don't know how to go about learning jazz anymore

Re-reading my quoted post I realise it may come across as a bit overly generalised or pedantic; I did mean it's a recurrent problem for me of course. That said, even a luthier as knowledgeable as...

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

i find that hard to believe. dunskus is a reputable expert on wes. what inaccuracies did you find?

Favorite Jazz guitarist book

Making music is making art. The "art" part is what tastes good, what pleases the artist and the audience, what feels right in the doing and the receiving. The "making" part might taste good, too (in...

I don't know how to go about learning jazz anymore

I second the notion that there should be a Jim Hall biography written. It is a shame one has not been written yet. There are still people/musicians living who can provide first hand accounts, etc. ...

Favorite Jazz guitarist book

Thanks for the insight! I wasn’t aware that this was a general problem on steel string phosphor bronze guitars. I found that Black Mountain thumb picks —a real pic attached via a hinge- have...

New Guitar Build (2 more months) Erich Solomon 8 string acoustic

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

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What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

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