Getting Started

"Natalia"

Power supply for busking

98 Tal Farlow Wine Red

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

Jerry Lee Lewis - Trouble in Mind

Forest stewardship, sustainable materials, and how much wood a guitar actually uses is a big subject that has nothing to do with Hammer selling this beautiful instrument. Such a discussion belongs in...

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

Probably, back to using my ear and making mistakes.

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

Stephen - sadly your For Sale post got completely derailed. Best to delete it and repost. GLWTS.

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

Ahh... multiple Porchfests. Who knew? And for once I thought there might be kindred souls in southern Oregon.

Seeking Advice for PA Speaker Voiced For Jazz Ballads

I asked Barry Harris if putting the chord tones on down beats were really the point of the half note rules, he said chord tones also sound good on the up beats (paraphrasing).

Official Barry Harris Thread

^ Country boy Allan! Uh I'm not sure the melody is accurate. :P

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

Plectrum tuning is great for chord work but tough when trying to work out song lines. My Dads old banjo deserves a good setup, maybe I’ll take it over to Turtle Hill and see what they say…

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

How well does the one knob EQ work?

Seeking Advice for PA Speaker Voiced For Jazz Ballads

It's time for Mick to fire up his own peer-reviewed / sustainability of fine, albeit unsustainable, guitar woods readers club thread elsewhere on the JF--unless he is gunning for the L-4 CES. Really,...

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

He does talk about it for the scale outlines but that’s to get the sound in your ear. The rules themselves communicate the emphasis. BH — if you start on, say, the 6 of a dominant chord, then you...

Official Barry Harris Thread

Applies only to the dominant scales (aka "mixolydian" to Berklee-oids). For major and minor (melodic minor ascending version for ascending and descending, sometimes called "jazz minor") the most...

Official Barry Harris Thread

A passing note in my understanding is a note located pitch-wise between two notes. Which happens with Dave Baker's one chromatic passing tone in his bebop scales. In Barry's teaching not the pitch is...

Official Barry Harris Thread

He does indeed. The expression I used ("rhythmically correct") comes from one of the ca. 50 videos from master classes at the Royal Conservatory at The Hague recorded by Frans Elsen, don't ask me...

Official Barry Harris Thread

That. I have some scans of real "original vocal / piano sheet music" somewhere (like they where sold originally, one song on a few pages with a color front page sold for a few cents and not a...

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

Not so sure about that, in the article it said: "In the United States alone, approximately 1.85 million acoustic guitars were sold in 2021, representing around 55% of all guitars sold that year." -...

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

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

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

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

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

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7