Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style pentatonic 2-5-1...

Tips for translating ideas from head to...

Nylon Strung Ken Parker - could interest some

Jimmy Raney - May 24, 1989 - WFPL Radio -...

Mr B program

Yeah man. Very nice mood piece. The ending poignant. It’s about the journey and not the destination. ???? says I. That is AG in my humble opinion.

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

I'd better buy the Kindle book so. Let's give it a few more days so that other people can join. Maybe start on Monday? I'd love to do Here's That Rainy Day especially if it's in G.

Possible Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold Study Group - Who's In??

I had a goal to play 12 gigs this year, my first year gigging, and I have 14 on the books. So it's going great. How are your gigs?

Bebop Technique

I recognize that pic from the Hank Risan fire sale auction of one of the greatest collections. I won't go into the details but you can Google it.

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Sorry, my fault, now it's Public. Try again!

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Bump

Comins GCS-1 Vintage Natural $1,549!

There's no guarantee, no safe way. All you can do is practice well and what happens in the moment happens. Don't forget players like Wes and Coltrane who've done takes 2, 5, 7, etc, on some...

Tips for translating ideas from head to instrument in real time

Yeah he’s a great player and I’ve known him a really long time but we haven’t gotten a lot of opportunities to play together since I moved back to the area. When in doubt, most folks stay out of the...

It Could Happen to You at a recent gig

Uh … going fine? No one’s told me otherwise, anyway. I guess the implication here is that no one likes to listen to bebop? Or like .. maybe that dorks don’t get gigs? I don’t know. Dorks...

Bebop Technique

Stringswinger posted back in 2015 that "Two prototypes were made of this guitar. When Joe Died, his widow sent one back to Gibson (at their request, presumably in someone's private collection now)...

Did Joe Pass NOT care much for his Ibanez JP20??

Ogden Avenue PART SEVEN Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear Over the next few days, repeatedly listen to the track Ogden Avenue. Then repeatedly listen to the phrases on the whole Ogden...

Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear (' Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Greg Fishman'.)

Just curious fellas! Don’t get me wrong I love Charlie Parker,Dizzy,etc. But how are the gigs going so far? Lol!

Bebop Technique

You'd see it eventually, it's inevitable. There are metals that don't corrode but they don't make guitar strings out of them. Not entirely, anyway. I don't know what would happen if they made...

Why do strings eventually sound dead?

Well, of course they do. You're just delaying the process, that's all :-)

Why do strings eventually sound dead?

McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style pentatonic 2-5-1 licks, legato, inside/outside I used to hear Brecker and Tyner play these kind of licks and was mystified for years. There are several things...

McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style pentatonic 2-5-1 licks, legato, inside/outside

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Chord melody problem

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Bebop Technique

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…

What's The Answer?

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

Recording my acoustic updated with version with IRs.

Another way to look at the fingerboard

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES