Improvisation

Fret size your choice

'56 Gibson L7CN with Vintage RC 1100 OHSC

What's The Answer?

Source for back plate for DeArmond control box

A Custom Pickguard For A Guild Artist Award

I sold a guitar to a local friend who is a pro guitarist. He played it and said, it sounds great in this living room but I need to take it to a gig. I can front the cost but do you mind giving me a...

Anyone selling a Borys B120?

Play for someone. Maybe someone you know or knew. Maybe some part of yourself or an imaginary listener.

What's The Answer?

Free to the seller not to the buyer. Don’t get me wrong I don’t charge a restocking fee on sales outside of reverb. It exists in reverb because I know that “as-is” deters prospective buyers and I...

Anyone selling a Borys B120?

Just a guess but I think it could be a kind of mineral streak that showed over a period of time, maybe accelerated by the wood being bookmatch cut and exposed to air when the guitar was being built....

Trenier Jazz Special

So what’s a chord pattern? Do you mean identifying things like I vi ii V. Or are you talking about changing two bars of D into something like |Dmaj7 D6 |Em A13| or both?

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

I saw him work with a horn section a few years back. He sang the notes he wanted one at a time, low to high.

notating 7/4 and 4/7 chords

I sometimes see one chord written directly above another chord - in big band charts. I think that the guitar is best off playing the lower chord in those situations, but that's just based on a...

naming chords?

Consider the following: C6 = Cmaj triad with a major sixth = C E G A What happens when we take the same notes and put A on the bottom? A C E G = A-7 The context - what the listener hears -...

naming chords?

Hermeto’s system sounds very much like figured bass from your description (only difference being that figures have some shorthand conventions).

notating 7/4 and 4/7 chords

The Bellson book does not have any melody. It's all one note, afaik. So, it isolates rhythm. Didn't work well for me, but others swear by it. The book I recommended, Rhythms Complete is less...

Would like some advice on improving reading from Real Book

In this particular instance I want DGCF only. Writing Dm11 means somebody might play E and A. Also, I think calling it an 11 rather than a 4 might lead somebody to put the G on top. If I were...

notating 7/4 and 4/7 chords

and of course we have chord charts in Roman Numbers I7 ii7 iii7 IV7 V7 vi7 viio7 Back when I was doing some studio work,,I always had to make sure what chord names really meant. Most of the...

naming chords?

Yes, I guess so. It will also depend on the height of the saddle itself. The point I'm making though is that it's become apparent that a lot of people (not necessarily me included) don't like these...

Rosewood compensated bridge from India

I recently tried an S2 Single Cut 594, which I guess is supposed to be as close to a Les Paul as PRS gets. I'd say it felt and played a bit differently. Despite the way they pitch it as...

Les Paul vs. PRS

Both books look useful. Thank you! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Would like some advice on improving reading from Real Book

Playing melody in thirds, fourths, etc.

Death of USA made guitars

I just ordered all the Real Books lol

What not to do on a gig

Buying guitars as an investment

A couple of Guitar Center stories...

Would like some advice on improving reading from Real Book

FYI: Gibson L-4 HSL4 Light Cherry Burst, 2022

Any other bakers on here?

Anyone had an archtop Plek'd?

naming chords?

Younger guitarists are discovering the joys of having a jazz box. Good!

Favorite jazz musician pairings?