Improvisation

Elias Prinz -- young talent from Munich

Lucy’s Jazz Guitar Gretsch G5420 and Projects

Emily Remler

The Guild Surfliner ... So much to like for so...

PSA - New Borys B165 available

I'm watching a Soviet era propaganda film called Stalker. Best movie I've even seen. It won't make sense the first time through. There are 3 main characters. The Stalker is a guide through a...

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Here is a pic of Roger holding my new B 155 This guitar is superb ! Acoustically - its sounds like a carved guitar . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

PSA - New Borys B165 available

Thanks so much! :-) I don't mean to inspire jealousy, mostly hoping to inspire folks to take a look at my downloadable video lessons teaching my style in great detail... :-) Check it out:...

I'm Old Fashioned, solo guitar, Jake Reichbart

FIVE pages! Personally, the second chord in 'Embraceable You' doesn't bother me at all. It's very nice, lovely sense of movement. Using the bIIIo is a standard move for that time. So that's...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

Yeah I got it now, thanks. I love the intro to A Train and I always wondered what made a simple C major vamp so hip. The handout was put together well.

Billy Strayhorn voicings - VIDEO

Glad it worked out! Enjoy the new guitar!

Mahogony Heritage Eagle in Maine

Ahhhhh, see, if you said this before, I didn't catch this part. This is all making more sense to me now.

Stage setups for larger venues

No I do not

Tunes I Claim I Know

thanks for the heads up (I can’t justify getting a Borys at the moment ….) ps apart from them being superb instruments …. the light sunbursts are so beautiful ain’t they ? would you show a...

PSA - New Borys B165 available

I don't hate people enough to be a writer. I probably should. The last thing I would do is try to profit off of some yakuza splinter group that disbanded in 1989. Sega gaming has that covered. Rap...

What makes a bandleader?

So Peter, what is your next song? We need to know. Do you take requests?

Tunes I Claim I Know

I am the new owner of this Eagle. The instrument got a clean bill of health from a local luthier before shipping. Heritage support looked at a photo from the listing and said not to worry. I...

Mahogony Heritage Eagle in Maine

Love her playing and her wit. In her first instructional video she describes her path towards jazz guitar and I paraphrase “I wanted to be able to sit in a guitar store and be able to play something...

Emily Remler

Hi Allan, if you build the melodic minor triads in root position they go Cm Dm Eb+ F G Ao Bo The Eb+ has three inversions like the other triads, it's just that these inversions are also the same...

Billy Strayhorn voicings - VIDEO

Emily was great, I think I’ve got most if not all of her recordings. I’ll always kick myself because she once appeared in the UK (at the Bull’s Head at Barnes), and my friend and I decided not to...

Emily Remler

Analyzing

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

What beats an L5?

Came up with an epic tip for improv

No more Gibson archtops ?

Groove comes and goes

Developing your own style/sound

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

On Wes and improvisation (Octaves content)

Help me find Rattle on archtop

The Notated Lick Compendium.