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Chunking, does it work for Jazz improv?

Strat Jazz Tone - One More Time

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Altered chords in theory and practice

The best way I've found to address that issue is to slow down, focus on creating and playing melodies, avoid playing scale-oriented lines that outline the chord changes. Playing too much will tend to...

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

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Great Examples of a Good Jazz Guitar Tone

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2022 Borys B-120

This bis great. Thankyou so much. I changed my site. It was so hard to edit the site at wix.com so I just had to create a new one with square space . Trouble is I cant transfer the domain but they...

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I like Quilter Tone Block 202 amps. I have two of them in DIY cabinets. One is in Tweed Deluxe size combo cabin with a 12" Jensen Blackbird 100 speaker. I like it for rock guitar but somehow it ain't...

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I like that specific texture that chord-melody has with the pick only. I think there are lots of players who do that (sometimes with a bit of hybrid picking): Kessel mentioned abover, Kenny Burrell...

Chord Melody with only a pick?

As far as I can see there's no problem here at all. There's just music with eighths and triplets. It's jazz so it needs to be swung. Either you do it or you don't. Just play the thing. If you can do...

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

^ I don't know where you guys are coming up with this. You should listen to your namesake and try to superimpose on his playing that his swing comes from triplets over the time. That's not accurate....

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Welcome! If it is only one string that sounds weird and other five sound good I guess it is not good idea to change pickups, pots etc that makes the other strings sound different. How about...

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis question

I recently played a sweet vintage archtop, almost 70 years old, in good condition. At some point in time someone installed a neck strap button...The sweet old archtop had been altered and equipped...

Gibson ES-175 - Strap Button Poll

Hi James, I would encourage you to not completely give up on using a pick as both fingers and pick are useful tools. I use both as well as trying to get better at Hybrid picking. What you might...

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

I have to agree with @djg. Maybe I misinterpreted him, but mastering swing feel is really about mastering triplets and polyrhythms of 3 against 4. You should be able to play any subset of the...

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

I think that footage of Night Mist Blues is in a trio with Neil Swainson and Barry Elmes. It's great, part a documentary about Ed filmed for Canadian TV. The solo guitar cut from that documentary is...

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I've been poking around on this question and Fusionshred seems to be largely right. I found a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-Hz3l71BQ that mentions the issue. The video doesn't show...

Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin comparisons

Looks like complete crap. I have a chinese built, japanese assembled Edwards LP that you couldn't slip a split hair between the dovetail and the rout. Press fit. There is no excuse for that Casino...

Epiphone "Blak & Blu" Casino - Worst Neck Joint in the History of Neck...

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

G string buzzing but adjacent strings don't. Any ideas? (video content)

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Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Moving from bedroom to stage...

2022 Borys B-120

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Chunking, does it work for Jazz improv?