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Corey Congilio: "Who's Been Talking?"

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Observations on Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

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PSA: Guitar Fetish parts

It's always good to compose and play your own lines, as rpjg suggested. Just take a simple melodic phrase that you can sing and embellish it chromatically.

Best phrases to unlock the 251 progression

Ah, so you can syncopate after all! The title, "hands off," doesn't quite fit though, what with all the hand puppet gestures your singer is making. "Hands up" or "a hand out" would be better. :)

What song does this sound like?

Here's the thread I mentioned in my post quoted above -- Why Do The World's Best Guitarists Play On the Round Corner?

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

I find scat singing good for finding a good rhythm for a line or a nice melodic phrase. But I find it hard to scat sing certain type of lines ala Parker. If I want to sound like Chet Baker then...

Best phrases to unlock the 251 progression

Anyone who employs the Bigsby is cool in my book ))

Corey Congilio: "Who's Been Talking?"

Play all the scales, but with a slur before every string change - ascending and descending. This doesn't result in consistent "slurs-into-the-beat" but will definitely train you to get comfortable...

Observations on Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

Their stuff is pretty good from my experience....but.....my problem is that their warehouse is about 10 miles from me and they won't let me just pick stuff up; I've written emails and pleaded and...

PSA: Guitar Fetish parts

I spent a number of years studying classical guitar. Generally play solos with a pick but everything else with fingers. Ridiculous number of moves of the pick back and forth from my mouth to...

Observations on Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

Do I understand correctly that you can get your sound going archtop>mixer>amp>toobs? Same signal path for both guitar and vocals? Might you know if the lineout from the Little Jazz will drive...

Tip Me Over The Edge - Henriksen The Bud Six

I don’t play single notes with finger style, but I do pretty deliberately slur into as many downbeats as possible. So I have some ideas on that. 1. I think I probably down stroke on downbeats more...

Observations on Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

definitely not. This book is not a method book. It’s a series of really useful little tricks and perspectives and stuff that are designed to help you be more creative or help you out of a rut when...

Bending

Corey's a great blues player and teacher (YouTube, TrueFire, WorkingClassGuitar) with a good band. Here they cover Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talking?" Great arrangement.

Corey Congilio: "Who's Been Talking?"

The 1000W (RMS continuous power) Alto TS4XX series is amazing. They all have an integral 3 channel mixer (one of which is Bluetooth only, IIRC) The 408 (8") is $300, the 410 (10") is $350, and the...

Tip Me Over The Edge - Henriksen The Bud Six

I picked up this book in the hope that it would help me learn how to improvise and I only skimmed over part 1 and went straight into Triads. But after reading your comments and re-reading the first...

Bending

Wow, that was something! :smile-new:

Who killed Lenny Breau?

Will good jazz schools accept a thumb player?

How many watts for an outdoor gig?

If you have to play fast to sound good, you are using speed to cover up other flaws i

A minor and add 11

G string buzzing but adjacent strings don't. Any ideas? (video content)

Have You Met Miss Jones and the rest of Virtuoso by Joe Pass

Epiphone "Blak & Blu" Casino - Worst Neck Joint in the History of Neck...

Being entertaining.

Tip Me Over The Edge - Henriksen The Bud Six

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Micro PA?

New Selmer Guitars?

Martin Retro "Monel" strings?