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!
Thank you for giving that very long clip such a close listen, and thank you also for your encouraging words and advice. I agree that the time is frequently "behind" and no, it's not because I'm...
I almost believe it has been this way a long time. Frankly it could have happened right after the neck set or was set that way.
if the action on the guitar has not changed or the playability over...
Good it’s resolved. It can be frustrating when we have certain standards in doing a transaction and others don’t. Especially in the case of a remote transaction.
Exactly. Apart from playing standard bebop over it, you can do almost anything you like with it. There's a lot of lydian/dorian stuff. Also minor subs... or you can just float along happily as read. ...
I am not to go alternate tunings, haha, just the messy standard one and go learning and gaining expression, with no hurries and all the fun i can have. Even planning of making out some tunes for a...
Everyone complains about slanted pickups on Gibson archtops.
Jim Culberson told me it helps reduce feedback.
They do it on purpose. Reduces magnetic strength.
Hence I don’t flip mine.
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