Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

Jazz in/near Birmingham Alabama

John Kinnard Frank Hill archtop

Chord Melody Ideas - Doug McKenzie Piano

Lick with tabs

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I just bought the Yunzhi directly from Butler for $850 + $60 shipping. It sounds like Mike really liked it, and that's good enough for me! Thanks for bringing these to the forum-

Campellone PSA

Love the new tuning peg design - beat that, art-deco headstocks! shreddin'

L-5 Repair by Mark Campellone

Awesome headstock repair :smile-new:

L-5 Repair by Mark Campellone

Get some help,to get this worked up over my original post is absurd to say the least.Continue fighting on because i am out.

Tim Lerch on Reharm

Agreed. Can someone explain why he says the #IV m7b5 acts as a tonic?? For example in the key of G, a Dbm7b5 doesn't sound good in a II V I subbing for the tonic. I think of Dbm7b5 => Bbm6...

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I currently still have 29, but planning to get this number down to the single digits. I’ve always been too lazy to get around to selling gear. Lol. I picked up most my guitars over the last 25 years....

How Many Guitars Do You Own?

LBG is more like I IV7 I V7 You wouldn’t tend to play II7 I mentioned it because Bird makes a feature of that II7, using the A train chord - Eb+ on F7 in this case (F9#11 overall.) He...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

It's not YT. Try not to be so...biting my tongue. Drop it. You don't know what you're talking about.

Tim Lerch on Reharm

I mean … they both make sense, no? Lady Be Good is pretty doggone close.

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

That makes more sense…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Also some thread cross pollination. Lady Be Good uses that iv minor but also the #iv diminished in the B section, both serving the same purpose. Christians Four And Back Cinematic Universe

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Yeah this reminds me … Barry said it’s hard to be as free with scale use as with chord tones and intervals. Pentatonics are freeing because they represent what to our post Debussy post jazz...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

it's yardbird suite with a LBG bridge.

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

It figures that one of the few times i didn't watch live they took the video down.It is strange that it's only the Mike Stern ones but i doubt any criticism of Stern was the reason.Would love to know...

Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, an ongoing concert and livestream series

And pentatonics, which haven’t really come up much here. Which is interesting because they sort of purposefully obscure that scale/arpeggio, key/changes dichotomy.

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

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

How bad is this?

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7