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This video helped me with bars 9 and 13 of Stella by Starlight
I've never seen as A follows B, it's always been music alongside instrumental development. If you wait until you have 'mastered the fretboard' you might run out of time to play any music. OTOH...
This has a carved maple top and a semi-hollow solid mahogany body. The fretboard is ebony. Pickups are SD 59 and JB with coil split toggle switch. It's about 6 lbs as a guess. The build quality...
I think people should get over themselves and learn licks. It's not the be all and end all, but it is a great way into playing stuff. (Also the surprisingly pervasive propaganda against idiom...
On this recording, Wes starts out with double octaves - both E strings. The musical genius of the start oh this solo is all the more impressive when you realize it is essentially played on on e...
I don’t think you’re really coming at what’s being described here from a charitable place. I don’t think we’re talking about “stringing together discrete musical phrases.” The idea is kind of the...
Here they are. This packet will elevate 25 pickups, and they are easy to install. Do they make a difference? It probably makes some difference subtley. Is it an improvement? I can't tell. ...
this is like the topic - I sometimes worry that I've put too much time into 'mastering the fretboard' - what about surfing, and hanging out with chicks - and one's children.... what a super post...
Bump, still for sale now at a reduced price!
Yes - a masters degree is about intellectual knowledge, music is about embodied knowledge. You need to spend a lot of time applying things, a general intellectual knowledge of the area is not that...
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Yes, those are the skills I work on, didn't mean to sound esoteric. For me, trying to reproduce the music I'm hearing is the most effective improvisation method I've found. Trying to string together...
I actually compared jazz to AA in a paper once.There are some parallels Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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