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I've done many café and restaurant gigs, and remember one woman saying to me after two hours of playing and being talked over: "Can't you play anything we can all sing?" To which I replied. "I hope...
Yeah, trying to call this a new "scale" seems to put equal weight on everything, or that every note can be used the same way... It's just playing over a dominant...I mean, what notes DON'T work?
So why not just call it as it's used... A Dom chord going to a Tonic Minor. It's another option for adding the #9 to a Dominant chord with implied resolution to a Tonic Minor. Like I believed...
Hello, This week we do double. And we start with the fingered exercises. I encourage you to join the study group, as we begin to dive deeper! Here below I copy the link to the updated...
At last I've treated myself to BIAB as a retirement present. I had it about 20 years ago but it 'got cleared' from my computer. Luckily a young person was able to set it up for me! Hoping for...
I personally prefer fingerboards with no inlays. I think it looks classier. And since I’m not looking at the fingerboard while playing, they serve no purpose. Inlays are also just one more thing that...
Thanks, now if only my playing were as good as my advice!
you don’t have to be a teacher for people to learn from you. pedagogy is just one aspect of a players education. Apprenticeship and mentorship has a long history, including in jazz. It is useful for...
Great post. It’s amazing how reframing the same situation from a different perspective can be transformative.
Second this. If it’s a line you like, try playing it in a few places, even if you have to transpose octaves!
Yeah I don’t see why that would be a bad thing. While I think it’s important to play the song, I would want a broadly consistent approach over different types of tunes… so I practice playing modally...
Your soundcloud link doesn't work. I have a BCA with the Blues Cube Tone Capsule... I really would like to hear that sound clip so I can hear what you're talking about. I have no problem getting a...
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