Improvisation

Ed Cherry at Small Last Night (6/3/24)

John Raymond & Gilad Hekselman - Russia, October...

PRS DGT with Rosewood neck

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Oh didn’t know that he brought it in. Either way I like his sound more on both the Zeidler and the 175 than the Wes. Having gotten to play his zeidler I can say it’s an amazing top ten guitar. I just...

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

What I am talking about is immersing yourself to the whole of the African-American music tradition. Listen, listen, listen with your heart and soul and not analytically and it will help your playing.

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Do you find Filtertrons twangy? I know "twang" is a Telecaster thing but it's usually not a jazz thing.

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

The count is typically the number of beats in a bar and the time is beats per minute. For cut time, the counted beats are one and two, the quarter notes between the 2 beats are “ands” and the...

Counting off a song in cut time

Spoon recorded with Jay McShann after Yardbird had left Hootie's big band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDHsdpdbYo Hootie's dedication to Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvjlZZ5NaQk

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

okay dude come on. You’re trying to say that jazz guitarists are influenced by blues guitarists and vice versa, yes? This is obviously true and I literally said that. Blues is an essential...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Single coils out of question for me. Not for the tone, which I rather like, but the hum makes them unusable in a lot of situations. And no, I don't wanna 'live with it', and the singers and...

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

I'll add George Benson: "I didn’t know anything. [Jack McDuff and his band] were trying to catch up with John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and I just wasn’t in that category. I had no idea what they...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

I do not agree to disagree. I think Peter is simply wrong. Two quotes: Nat Adderley on his influences: "And then you'd get to hear T-Bone Walker and the Blues Boys." English Wiki on Kenny...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Yeah. The nature of most instruments is that they had to adapt that microtonality of a voice. So instrumental vocab is a little bit its own thing. Guitar just has a very idiosyncratic thing even...

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Ive got a Sadowsky T-style that im going to put a Lollar CC pickup in it.

Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?

One of BB's early influences was Lowell Fullsom. And what you call horn blues comes from the breath of vocal music.

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Nat Adderley: "We belonged to the Episcopal church with its sort of Gregorian chantish kind of music. For the benefit of the music people, it's all tonic and sixths [hums]. That's tonic and sixth....

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

Yeah, for a cat from Mississippi his playing sure was "uptown."

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Language acquisition is facilitated by music and poetry. That is why lullabies and nursery rhymes exist which expose babies/toddlers to the rhythm and melody of their first language. I am lucky to...

Lets go and compare improvisation to spoken language.

What's with all the weird Jazz guitars people buy?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Do these chords exists? Any different name for them?

Itching for a Fender, which one?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Rosewood vs Maple fretboard head to head - There's a difference

Are Modern Amps Repairable?

how to suppress cough on the bandstand ....

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo?

Tritone chord root movement

Where do fusion guys play gigs?

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024