Here's mine. As usual, I didn't know this one before. I wasn't going to post, but I listened to it today and I didn't hate it as much as I did last nite. And hopefully I'll continue with it during the month and improve.
Oh, that was better, sounds more thought-out. Familiarity with the tune helps, of course. No one's that good the first time. The blues sounds were good, suits the tune, I think.
Out of curiosity, what were the Garrison Fewell tips you were using, roughly? Not that I want to copy them or anything but for interest's sake.
It's one of the study threads in the Improvisation forum. It's to do with triads w/extensions to create lines. It's something I've been interested in for awhile now, but never found anything I seemed to "get". His book "A Melodic Approach" looked good and has really made sense to me so far.
Interesting! As I mentioned in the OP, I can't comment on the speaker, but it looks like your Swart speaker experiment should prove your point. I, too, often distrust combos that use "designed for...
Mine has been back in it's box, in my garage, since I first tested it. Plan to sell it. The one thing I want to try though before I sell it is to plug the LG into my Swart speaker, since it is well...
Normally I tune by 5th fret and sometimes use tuner as reference for absolute pitch.
And then I check it contextually.. I mean hoe the chords and intervals tune being played in turnarounds in...
My first guitar teacher said to me "It's usually safe to use the term melodic minor, people know exactly what you mean in a jazz environment, but sometimes you might come across people who feel smart...
I like volume pedal for the hands free changes in volume and because because an active pedal change the tone less than the volume knob. Must have a knob to set minimum volume though - I think it's...
I feel you. Mine is terrible. I never even tried to learn tunes by ear until I started taking lessons with Christian and he encouraged me to do it. This last week I was tasked with learning the B...
When i was hunting for a blonde JS i ended up buying a 76 which is great, actually my main giging guitar right now. At the time (around 2017) there were quite a few blondes from the seventies around....
Not really. I still do scales (and patterns based on a given scale), but I never considered it ear training. Dexterity, knowledge, ability all that, but not ear so much. I do a lot of scales in...
Julian Lage Trio, Amsterdam, April 17 2024
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