In May 2008 Bucky Pizzarelli came to Toronto to play at the Heliconian Club. After the gig he kindly agreed to give me a lesson the following morning at his hotel. Here's the first 15 minutes or so. The guitar is a mid-1940's L50 which we traded back and forth during the lesson. In this part we were working on straight acoustic rhythm. His message (repeated often): "Lighten up!"
I wanted to share this as a tribute to the memory of this charming and generous guitarist. Please ignore my flubs!
A belated thanks for this gem you shared with us. Bucky comes across as such a friendly and warm person, in addition to being the master we all know he was. You were lucky to have this opportunity of meeting him!
Honestly? I find him rather thin and I never warmed to him. I understand a lot of people like him. I'm not saying he can't play, of course.
There's also the question of his prolific number of...
Oh lord.
Well this is a literal transcription posted in the “Ear Training, Transcribing & Reading” subforum, so you could just go elsewhere.
As for the rest of it … *shrug*
As an aside — it...
Yeah I feel you wrt the sensitivity but 40w power handling is a lot. With modern solid state amps and a single 96 db 1m/1w 10" driver you can handle a lot of clean volume with minimal weight.
panasonic -
I see you have supporters. I meant what I said, I preferred watching you play than listening to the Grant Green recording. And, yes, I wouldn't mind seeing you play something with some...
Its more the sensitivity. The Blackbird is 3dB less sensitive than the NEO10-100 that I used to use. That is a factor of 1/2 on the effective amp power. AlNiCo is too expensive (unavailably so) at...
Then you're not reading properly. 99.9% of my posts are either my own musical stuff, helpful stuff (hopefully) for others, or posts with a smiley on them. If all you can remember is negativity and...
Green Dolphin was a goldmine.
I think I’m going to do The Song Is You next
I honestly might just keep picking stuff off that Complete Quartets until I’m tired of it.
"Why Do The World's Best Guitarists Play On the...
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