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Lick with tabs

Tim Lerch on Reharm

New Lee Ritenour

Guild Benedetto x-700 Stuart. Year 2001. £3000

Peripheral Gear, NWD

The secret of Pat's tone is in the striped shirt.

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

At, say, 23-24 seconds into the YouTube clip? But I haven't played this for a long time, I'll have to revisit it.

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

*eyebrow raised* Pretty clean to me

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

That Heritage is also gorgeous!

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

Interesting, never heard of this brand, looks like they made a lot more solid bodies than hollow bodies. How old is your guitar?

How Many Guitars Do You Own?

Hi! Here's lick with some open strings and string skipping. You can use it for example as a compositional inspiration. There's also tabs on the video. Cheers, Mikko Open String Lick | TABS...

Lick with tabs

We had a great Deep Dive with Tim Lerch last Saturday. Tim is such a nice guy, very knowledgeable too. Here is a short clip where Tim talks about the tonic, subdominant and dominant families...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I called Butler music to see if they had any of Big Mike's Heritage guitars, and they said everything they had of his is on the website, which isn't close to 70 guitars. They also said the owner's...

Campellone PSA

New album called Brasil by Lee and Dave Grusin (who is almost 90 now btw). They are backed by an all-Brazilian band, with some very excellent vocals. Very nice playing (of course), immaculate...

New Lee Ritenour

Even the great Jim Hall had trouble playing the head cleanly, which is encouraging. I thought his intro was odd for a bop tune until I heard Dexter, from whom he borrowed it - I think I'll swipe...

Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

Since, in the last few years, I acquired a 175, an L5ces and a Loar 700 poor man's early L5, this Fenix FAE8 hasn't had a look in! But I've recently dug it out at realised it's better than very...

How Many Guitars Do You Own?

Nice indeed! Very clean and the voice leading stands out wonderfully.

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

No actually I enjoy playing over these changes precisely because they aren't just I VI II V with a bridge. Of course the first line is a set of subs around a I-VI-II-V but it really feels different. ...

Here's That Rainy Day - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold Tune #1

Whatever he used--it's like his hair. It worked for him. BTW listened to a bit of the first Jaco album (Jaco) recently. I think it was the first the 2 had ever recorded, with Paul Bley and Bruce...

Is this an overlooked part of Metheny's sound?

The correct term to use in this context would be 'chord tones'

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

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?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

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?

How bad is this?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7