Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

"Clam Chowder"

Epiphone Zephyr Regent Reissue, 2004 MIK Sunburst

What ear plugs for hearing protection in loud...

Afternoon in Paris

Henriksen Bud or Blu 6

A lot of the time playing consecutive notes with the same finger is a bit of an inefficiency. Not necessarily and not all the time, but it's something I would tend to minimize. But this is a...

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

I tried Etymotic custom molded ear plugs. I think they worked well at first, but eventually stopped seating well in the ear canal. They're hard plastic and if they don't fit perfectly they leak. The...

What ear plugs for hearing protection in loud music environments?

Swing is a feel, not a count. You can make quarter notes swing, eighth notes swing, 16th notes swing, triplets swing, dotted 8ths swing, etc. Swing is not pedagogical. It's not counted out. Can't...

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Seems to involve two shifts of the index finger, on consecutive notes, from one fret to the next higher fret. That is, you play a G with your index finger at the third fret, E string, followed by an...

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

"With jazz in particular, I think there's a pretty significant disadvantage to big stretchy patterns, which is that you don't have fingers available for chromaticism." Not sure what you mean?...

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

I figured that pingu meant identifying pitches at fast tempos when he said, "I just wish I could hear that fast."

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

The Talbert/McGovern recording is available from Fresh Sounds as part of its "The Best Voices Time Forgot" series for €10.96, or about US$12.50 at current exchange rates: Marcy Lutes & Patty...

Always on the lookout for more Barry Galbraith

Obviously.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

You don't need to know what pitches or pitch organization it is to figure out the rhythm.

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

You could pretty easily come up with an analogy — like if you want to play a rhythm on a snare, you have to be able to hear the subdivision in time. That is probably true

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

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Play Alongs

So if someone is playing a rhythm on a snare drum, you have to be able to first hear the note pattern to hear the rhythm? :P

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Oh okay. I mean -- most people use some version of these scales for lengthy periods of their development. They wouldn't call them CAGED, but Joe Pass and Jimmy Bruno come to mind. I use them too....

Legato Guitar - John Coltrane style C Melodic minor / B+ over B7Alt

Not sure of neck size until it arrives, we talked about like a Les Paul. not skinny, exact is right now unknown - it will arrive soon.

Jonathan Kreisberg's headless guitar from Thailand

Yes it matters, because hopefully I can buy yours secondhand,Lol! Congrats on a very cool guitar!

Jonathan Kreisberg's headless guitar from Thailand

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Baldness

Fake Instagram Guitar

Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

On smaller speakers...

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

More Ed Bickert

Moving from bedroom to stage...

2022 Borys B-120

Music In My Head

Some thoughts while working on a guitar