Guitar Technique

Night and Day

Incoming or better going to get

Epiphone ES-175 Premium

Eastman AR610 - Big Bad Archtop

Gibson ES-165 Herb Ellis 2006 [EU]

rpjazzguitar didn't have it backwards at all. He explicitly said he does some singing, and then described a situation where he was singing and amateur backup musicians didn't match the way he was...

Learning to play with a singer

LOL I'm just going to leave it at that, LOL. Matteo Mancuso, LOL.

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

If I may play devil's advocate: not entirely; note how he mentioned amateur singers in particular. But amateur or professional, a singer can get it wrong in his/her initial interpretation of novel...

Learning to play with a singer

I recorded a video at the Sarasota Arts Museum with my new ensemble. This was part of the Never Records recording sessions installation at the museum. It was a single take with no overdubs.

Night and Day

Three-note drop-3 voicings are generally more useful than drop-2 for four-to-the-bar swing rhythm.

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

That figures then, those are the ones I prefer :)

Replacement footer and badge for my '63 Kessel

Literally the only reason I don't buy PRS is because of the bird inlays

PRS SE Hollowbody Dark Smokeburst

Hey Super That’s the cutaway half of a JP20. To bend the sides I need a former, so after scanning the guitar, I cut the body in half (in CAD) and turned the outer contour into a solid surface....

Starting a Jazz Guitar Manufacturing Business in The UK

Some of the posted prices for Big's vintage guitars are shall we say a little optomistic.....to be kind, especially considering some of them have major damage. I wonder how they arrived at them. the...

Campellone PSA

As for the original question, I tend to regular single coil sized pickups in the neck, and almost always Fenders or DiMarzios. I have a "Twisted Tele" neck in one of my Teles, and an American Vintage...

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Hmmm. Not sure if that conflation is right. Canterbury bands are Prog bands? Or supergroups? Blind Faith was a supergroup.Yes was a prog band. (It was dying to be said, but eventually there was a one...

Most influential prog rock band

Thank you. We are. Albert

New Wilkie Acoustic Archtop Build

MG, that's nice. I'd fall in love with a guitar like that!

Circling back: Heritage Sweet 16 incoming

I like this Barney Kessel Bb6 walk up riff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkGctu3FG8

Summer of Rhythm … Changes?

Since that’s not what he said at all, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it isn’t what he really thinks. He said nobody “sits back and posts to the internet.” And that is very much true. ...

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Rob MacKillop not feeling well.

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

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

Time After Time - Jazz Ballads by Jeff Arnold - Tune #2

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

How bad is this?

Learning to play with a singer

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7