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Thad Jones Mel Lewis Big Band w/Joe...

Cannonball Adderley play along - Sack of Woe

Mapping Tonal Harmony

Gibson L5C

New Guild Day! (flat top content)

Good stuff Peter - I liked the staccato approach, although keeping it up for the length of time you did can be a bit too much...

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 14) Tune Up

Some people are very musically talented but in the end, not terribly interested. In the magical overlap between love and talent, one may find the best in any field I suppose.

John Williams Child First Guitar Recording 1949

a friend of mine and about the best drummer I know stopped by after our newly revived weekly gig and asked me to pull up this tune, he's a huge Thad/Mel fan. he doesn't have a computer and didn't...

Thad Jones Mel Lewis Big Band w/Joe Henderson/Eddie Daniels

Talent plus hard work - this is the best solution. Talent is difficult to measure.It can also be developed or not.

John Williams Child First Guitar Recording 1949

Agreed on his Youtube shyness, although he shared quite a bit more on Facebook. As someone who has bought several of his programs in the past, I can attest to the top notch content. He was a guitar...

Good chord melody instruction?

i use it with steel string acoustic, but the sm81 is a studio legend. i pair mine with a fathead ii ribbon mic for stereo acoustic recordings. 81 on the 12th fret, fathead on the body. it's what...

The best microphone for recording classical guitar

Exactly... it’s comprehensible input. It’s not just reading that helps with this.... spending time learning the Rule of the Octave really helps with reading 18th and early 19th century guitar music...

What is sight reading?

I learned to read music when I was five. I sight-sung the whole Brahms Requiem once (don‘t ask). On CG I can sight-read Sor and the like, but not Villa-Lobos (not till I figure out which chord he...

What is sight reading?

I have no idea what M is on about, but I have not found reading classical guitar music very good preparation for reading bop lines or pop 16th note rhythms for example. It may be written in the same...

What is sight reading?

Naïve question..... given that these electric basses are 3/4 size, with 104cm /41" scale, can someone point me towards the type of strings I will need? Standard length upright bass? Specific length...

Electric upright bass for fun

Oh boy it looks like Chris goes into a ton of depth on the concept of playing all your ABCs on the min6dim scale with melodic lines here: (2) Things I've Learned from Barry Harris Episode 21...

Official Barry Harris Thread

In my experience that is especially a popular sentiment among the non-greats. It's not their fault that they failed or never amounted to anything. They where just not born for it. It's just fate or...

John Williams Child First Guitar Recording 1949

Thanks everyone! I think you've cleared a lot up for me and I can understand what to do now with question #1 (how do I get the b5 and #5 with half step rules?) and I can also articulate question #2...

Official Barry Harris Thread

You used to be able to take Plectrum Guitar grades (1-8) as you can in classical guitar. The graded pieces were quite jazzy and some written by jazz guitarists. I think it was Trinity College, London...

Good chord melody instruction?

I am using it. Agree, it is not user friendly. The tonal mapping hocus pocus does not add any usable for me. Even with basic jazz theory knowledge the listener knows II is subdominant, V is...

Mapping Tonal Harmony

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 13) - In Your Own Sweet Way

The State of Music

Don't complain that the guitar is too big for you

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 14) Tune Up

What is sight reading?

Big Band Tone - A Serious Conversation

Marcin Patrzalek-Giant Steps-is it easy or not?

Do you like every song on an artist's CD or album?

When the solo swings...Unit 7

Can I play jazz on my ESP Ron Wood custom telecaster?

Three Heritage Ghost Built Gretsches

Fender Twin Reverb Reissue - Best Power Tubes

A question for the Early Music experts in the house