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Though to be fair, Leo was NOT marketing the Tele as a cheapie...he was going right for the pros. It was priced accordingly, I think a Tele was $150 back in the 50's, which would be over $1700 today....
Good thread and good stuff, I've been on holiday, but hopefully I'll catchup. :encouragement: I don't like Miles on the original version, he's not playing in unison with Parker, so I'll copy the...
They had a mint used Fishman Artist acoustic amp at a great price. I wanted to see how it stacked up against my similar spec'd Genzler. But I didn't want to bring mine in and be rushed into a quick...
https://youtu.be/VFw-BIGyRf4?si=A4ePsHFfjjn189jA just a few of the shapes I see/hear that come naturally to the fretboard.
I regularly play a Yamaha Pacifica 012, made in Indonesia. It has replacement tuners, pu, switch and output jack. So, I guess the original hardware wasn't great. OTOH, playability couldn't be...
Ogden Avenue PART THREE Jazz Phrasing for Beginners by Ear (I've been on holiday, but I'm reconvening this play by ear thread for Jazz beginners.) Over the next few days, repeatedly listen...
Otoh it’s ’you may not prepare the major seventh in a major seventh chord with an octave on the previous chord’ Why not??? Why not CPE??? It sounds good to me! No reason given lol. Old school....
Guitar Center use to be totally awesome. And their inventory was probably the best you could find anywhere. In the 1970s there was one Guitar Center in the L.A. area and it was on Sunset Blvd in...
Just been reading CPE Bach’s treatise on figured bass realisation. In four parts it becomes a horrendous list of prohibitions haha. They all make sense as issues with simpler rules - usually...
There's a related idea I've usually heard called "moving a chord through a scale". So, for example, you start with a Cmaj7 chord (C E G B) and move it through the Cmaj scale (C D E F G A B). ...
And here is the ES330. Fabulous instrument. Bought from a famous studio french guitarist Claude Engel
The newer ES- 335 I tried, a 2009 faded, a 2022 Original, and another one I don't remember the year, where nice but nothing exceptional. One Cherry Red from 1989 was just over the top. It has...
Tempered Dissonance from clusters and angles.
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