Ear Training, Transcribing & Reading

Anything that speaks against stainless steel...

A nice blond and Mickey Rooney on drums

Ibanez AG95 / Fender Mustang GTX Metallic Sound

Lil Dawg ChocoPrince w/ 6L6s and Dr. Z Brake Lite...

Night and Day

Lady of the Evening, that's a good one. Paul, The EarRegulars stuff is all great too.

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

Vinny: These post make me want to order a guitar I don't need.......... but want none the less! Greg

Mark Campellone the Archtop building machine

Mellowtonin musings.

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

Birthday suits :smile-new:

Mark Campellone the Archtop building machine

All the best Rob ... wishing you a full recovery from this deeply unpleasant sounding illness.

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Wow! Great lines and voicings. You know your way around this one.

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

Common in the second pass through I Should Care, though in that case works as part of a back cycle too.

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I dunno we've had some on here. Also I think Mark Levine's Analysis of Just Friends (from the Jazz Piano Book IIRC) which is like this. Maybe that's what he was thinking of.

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Aha my favourite sub Usually it's used as a sub for the first I chord in a ABAC tune, often on the second repeat. For example IIRC Ted Greene uses it in this way on his recording of They Can't...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I thought I'd heard somewhere at one point he'd stumbled upon changing from an ebony clothespin to a pine one, but still keeping the stainless steel clothespin ' spring ' . There was also evidence...

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

That bands great. I hear you stay at Eb7 and don't have the weird RB F7 turnaround. I should drop that, I don't think I hear it on the Ellington one either.

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

yeah I fancy one of those …. (scale length , fingerboard radius , semi hollow , nice looking , wraparound bridge) can you get a nice clean warm jazz sound out of it , like a les paul ?

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

The tricky thing is that G is not tonic here. The whole tune is more like a bluesy modal harmony though it involves typical function ii - Vs (I think it is quite common for many modal tunes of the...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Possibly the easiest way to check for sound differences not due to fretbuzz or other artefacts: get a ZeroGlide nut with the upgrade SS 0-fret set. Install the proper fret from the standard set that...

Anything that speaks against stainless steel frets?

I ordered my Raines Tele 7 with SS frets and have had it for a few years. The main problem with SS is that it requires different tools and techniques to install and set up. So unless the frets are...

Anything that speaks against stainless steel frets?

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

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

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

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

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

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Learning to play with a singer

Campellone PSA

How bad is this?

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

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band