Improvisation

My favorite show on youtube

T Monk altered sus 7 chords

Mandocello, Anyone?

Baritone tuning on standard classical guitar

George Benson's Secret of 2 chords help

Oh dang. I didn’t think about that. Not a bad idea. Read them in third position. Go through again in fifth, etc.

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

My recommendation is How to Play Bebop vol 2 by David Baker. It's a compendium of turnarounds in the key of C. So you build vocabulary while you develop some basic reading skills. After working my...

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Here's Howard Roberts sight reading book (out of print) that I posted in another thread: What is the best Scale System to use when reading music?

Is there a consensus on the best books for learning how to read?

Nothing when I reread it. I was really stuck in thinking only about music students.

POLL- Time it takes to learn pro level jazz improv?

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that he plays mostly 2 note chords, I'm just challenging myself to do it.

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

Bought a guitar from Ric, and will vouch that his packing and shipping were very well done, and he was very conservative with the way he described the condition. When I got the guitar, it looked...

$1400 Shipped US Eastman Elite 16 Fully Hollow Archtop 2.25 inch body depth

This is a fun album: Gatemouth actually opened for my band once long ago in the Bay Area. Must have been filling in an off night. He rolled in about a half hour before the gig, killed it, and...

Take The A-Train by Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Roy Clark

This fleshes out the 3 things a bit. I think it's pretty solid:

Bobby's keys to sounding good

Thread revival. Just got the Blu and used it for about an hour, trying various settings. I'm a long term Little Jazz user. I bought the Blu in the hope that it would sound better than the...

DV Mark Little Jazz compared to Henriksen The Blu

There's a vid where Tim Lerch demonstrates exactly that. A partial bar instead of using 2 separate fingers on non-adjacent strings frees up a finger to do something else...like play a melody. Mark...

Chord melody technique: do you keep a first finger bar position by default?

It's meant to exclude those who can fake a chorus of Autumn Leaves in a loud corporate holiday party where no one is paying attention to the music. As opposed to playing in a venue where people...

POLL- Time it takes to learn pro level jazz improv?

I would say that "a certain caliber" is doing a lot of work in that description ... so it kind of excludes everyone or no one or everything in between.

POLL- Time it takes to learn pro level jazz improv?

Wow, that looks just like a piano! JD

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

So disrespectful. I have a new 335. Go somewhere else! And far away from my lawn!

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

Why do you think my description excludes them from being jazz pros?

POLL- Time it takes to learn pro level jazz improv?

The official mad-at-JC thread

6th Diminished - Thomas Echols

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Experimental/free etc music

One octave scales - VIDEO

Talk me out of buying a Gibson ES-335

Tonex One vs. TC Combo Deluxe '65

Chord melody technique: do you keep a first finger bar position by default?

Anyone tried a compensated nut?

12 Hour Practice - Thoughts?

How does your Archtop play compared to solid body?

What Archtop Guitars have no binding?

Transcribing melodies vs solos