Getting Started

Acquired of The Angels

NGD: 1935 National Duolian

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

band in a box tabs..

Now if only it had built in reverb...

Cough cough... the real book... cough.

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

That’s also a beauty. I like tricones as well. There may be one in my future, someday.

NGD: 1935 National Duolian

So not exactly gear. But if you enjoy arch tops, the finest craftsmanship, and builders, it’s so relevant here on the gear page. D’Angelico means ‘of the angels’ Written by Paul Schmidt in...

Acquired of The Angels

Yeah. Well for me I want to hear and pull out better what’s in my head. So learning something by ear a phrase at a time does this for me. It gives me better certainty about what I’m hearing and...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Different attires for different circumstances:

Attire

Fair. I think I'm not terribly imaginative with rhythm and I find writing them to be super useful because I actually have to think about and decode them. And also about your earlier post, I...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

My first was “Spike Driver’s Blues”. It’s one chord, so it was easy to focus on the right hand.

Country Blues Guitar

That's beautiful! I had a brass body style O for many years, but it was so heavy that it rarely went out to play. I finally bought a modern steel tricone National (a Polychrome) that's...

NGD: 1935 National Duolian

Most of what I've transcribed has tended to be either eighth note or sixteenth note based, medium to up-tempo, so generally not too difficult from a rhythmic perspective. Where there has been a...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

I stumbled upon this one while browsing on reverb a couple weeks ago. The seller was a non-player who inherited it from a relative. He had it checked by a local guitar tech who said it was in good...

NGD: 1935 National Duolian

I've seen more than a few inaccurate transcriptions online, but not often in books, nobody wants to see their errors in print.

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

Actually this was the rehearsal at the venue before the gig. On the gig I had long slacks, button cotton shirt but no shoes! I never wear shoes.

Attire

Hopefully it'll turn out to be a great guitar. If not, lesson learned for the cost of shipping.

Epiphone Zephyr Regent

BTW I feel I've learned a lot about rhythm, or at least, notating rhythms and understanding them trying to write things down. Holdsworth is fun for this haha. OTOH try writing down that thing Monk...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Jazz musicians in inconsistent use of terminology shocker! FWIW I personally try to use terms I find clear. So if I write it down I might say 'take down' but if I'm just learning it by ear I say...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

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

Analysing jazz vocabulary

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

The New Campellone fall batch

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Developing your own style/sound

Emily Remler

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

The Notated Lick Compendium.

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Help me find Rattle on archtop