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Resonator plus toaster pickup for the perfect...

Starting a phrase late

BEST way to memorize standard melodies

Home, guitar playing and travel

HeadRush?

Yes, you can definitely use MP3s with Soundslice. When adding a "recording," choose MP3 instead of YouTube. See here for details. There are several advantages to using MP3s instead of YouTube:...

Any use SoundSlice (for your own music, not in, say, TrueFire lessons)

I learn the first couple of lines of lyrics with the tune then feel my way through the rest hear it sing it play it (or fumble through it) it gets easier the more you do it

BEST way to memorize standard melodies

Weekend bumpity!

Frenzel Tube Amplifiers "Little Jessie" [LJ10] tube head!

Damn, the head of the astrophysics must've had some questions from law enforcement. That's unfortunate that fool didn't see any prison time. Off topic, but in my home country, in the last 10 years or...

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Eliott mentions in his podcast that one advantage of Cork's approach to memorizing tunes is that it improves one's improvisation because one stops thinking chord-to-chord and instead focuses on...

Conrad Cork's "Harmony with LEGO Bricks"

Never played it as a ballad. Don't know what you're on about

Tunes I Claim I Know

That was awesome.

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

No one's as good as Rollins. As for singing while I play, I don't do that. Unless I'm singing, if you see what I mean :smile-new: I was a singer first, you see

Tunes I Claim I Know

I noticed that your from Kalamazoo,Michigan. I can’t help but laugh at the irony of your posting Leo Fenders’s designs, Lol! :smile-new:

G&L ASAT Deluxe Semi-Hollow

A follow-up question about entering music into SoundSlice. I watched a video on this and the guy entered a YouTube video and went to work transcribing that. Great. But what about phone audio? (For...

Any use SoundSlice (for your own music, not in, say, TrueFire lessons)

I'm reminded of my time in astrophysics school. There was a bunch of goths who called themselves the 'Dark Matters'. They'd go around bullying anyone who refused to believe the dark matter phenomenon...

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

If I ever had a kid, I wouldn't let him or her go into jazz music. Jazz music won't be played around the house at all. It's too dangerous of an industry and it will beat you down to the ground...

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

My parents knew academia would eat me alive. They were classical pianists. Mom said go run with gangsters. It's safer. I wound up in Japan. That was pretty great.

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

What are you a gangster rap group? I'm kidding. It sounds like you were hot. Bandleaders were very happy to get rid of me back in 1980's California. I think I was in 4-5 bands in one year. I had...

What makes a bandleader?

Block chords, Red!

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Analyzing

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Biting the bullet on an ES-175

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

No more Gibson archtops ?

Groove comes and goes

Developing your own style/sound

Thumb pain

Help me find Rattle on archtop

On Wes and improvisation (Octaves content)

Stage setups for larger venues