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I call that a football rattle, had to make one in woodwork at school... The best friction drum I ever heard was in a little two room museum in Ghana mainly dedicated to Kente & Adinkra cloth, i...
The store that's selling this is always asking the highest €€€ . I've visited Hamburg last summer and have to say that the quality of their stuff is top-notch, not a single "lemon" in their vintage...
...Right out of the box and in a traditional way that might be true. Mick's concept gives you a way of looking at harmony where you can have total freedom to move bass lines and total knowledge of...
Every recording, in chronological order: https://davegould68.wixsite.com/dave-gould DG
Ralph Patt Vanilla Book; if you are unsure where it start with this look at this and compare to Real Book chart. TBH after a decade or so of thinking about and teaching this stuff I think the...
Distrilling tunes down to tonic, subdominant and dominant chords not only shows you the deep structure of the tune, but unwinding back to the actual changes teaches you about different approaches to...
Send them to Las Vegas. Everyone. If they don't measure up just send them our way. If nothing else the world of gambling is efficient.
TBH in my experience if you can read, sight reading is a matter of exposure. You know how it works, you just need to do it. I recommend teaching guitar, actually. Teach your students to read,...
I think Barry can be a lot more contrapuntal. at some point I think we all want to get away from grips and into counterpoint whatever system of mental organisation or scales etc we might be...
Thinlines are the only teles I'm willing to play. I hate heavy weight guitars more than anything.
Free (non idiomatic) improvising is a fantastic way to develop this kind of hearing because you aren’t worried about all the other stuff; harmony, form, time (usually) so I’ve always found it a great...
Great plan. A friend of mine lives in a van full time for years now and he loves it. He is a software developer and can work with a laptop and internet connection. He also has a video blog about his...
Good point! Being aware of the overall sound is crucial. It’s really easy when improvising to jump on whatever bandwagon comes along, while in fact you need to very often play something...
I do want to say something... at the risk of being long-winded. This is the Vinson version, very fast. 02 Eddie Cleanhead Vinson - Tune Up - YouTube I find it quite interesting. I think...
Awesome animated video for a tune I wrote!
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