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Hope your recovery is going well and this surgery works for you!
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05-29-2023 11:42 AM
Hope your recovery is going well and this surgery works for you!
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Switching to 8s, 6s, and 2s is something to keep in mind once I get 4s down and then get bored of it.
Outdoors in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum, circa 1979, in a free concert with Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Bryant.
Yes, 250 & 47 are darker while 500 & 22 are brighter. But that’s not the whole story. There is no consistency to the effect of volume pots on tone (if any) among guitars or the amount of...
The original I bought, a long time along, had six fingering patterns. He must have lost one. :welcoming: Edit: A similar, new styled book still exists. Six Essential Fingerings for the Jazz...
Do people really care about a solo like that? It may have gone noticed because it’s totally generic. Versus his excellent songwriting and distinctive vocals, which people still enjoy hearing.
And there they are; his “5 shapes” are an application of the major scale. No way around it.
There's really something to this. Being forced to do things "the hard way." (in quotes because it's often not really all that hard, it just doesn't have the modern convenience attached) And of...
It might now be more than 30 years ago that I read an interview with drummer Omar Hakim but something stuck in my mind: He said every time he learned to play a new style (in that interview he was...
YooToob is the boomer name. That or, "The You Tubes"
Actually the drum genius app has a lot of great stuff in it regarding claves for the drum patterns and so on. Worth checking out - forgot about that!
I'm pretty convinced that the only reason my time-feel isn't utter garbage is because I started learning before YouTube (YooToob, apparently?) blew up and I didn't have enough money for Aebersold...
I come off the rails with this quite a bit haha but that’s what makes it practice of course
Oh something I should do more - playing with records. This is highly recommended by a number of players I admire. It’s actually the next best thing to playing in person with a great rhythm section...
Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert...
Yesterday, 08:14 PM in The Players