Other Styles / Instruments

16" 1920s/30s L5

Amp Covers

Chet Baker - Time After Time guitar solo

1993 MINT Gibson L-5 Wes Montgomery James...

Andy Summers Plays Jazz

There’s also the issue of whether or not you are treating the diminished scale as a melodic scale or a source of harmonies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

As I understand it, the main reason Barry advocated the dominant scale is people have more vocabulary to do with it. He was generally against people getting stuck in the harmonic minor. But you can...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

Is Eminence 820 worth ~ 110$ , or Celestion TF0818 for 65$ is still okey deal? Is price difference worth it in case for Eminence? Thanks for info and thoughts. This Vox is for sale in my local...

Can you show me your 1x8" guitar amp?

Ah, good point. But you have proven its not that difficult or complicated to get a good tone out of the thing. Even something like all tone knobs straight up on the amp and dial back a little on the...

The New Ibanez Pat Metheny PM3C Model

I had the jazzkat 8 for a longest time and ended up selling it to get a Fender Super Champ XD. I played through a fender princeton for the first time but was too broke to afford one and the XD was...

Original JazzKat club

Coincidentally, I believe that Mr. Campellone still has a few sets of EP rims and backs in stock, and would be happy to make a 15" Florentine cutaway thinline archtop for an interested customer. Step...

The New Campellone fall batch

I’ve tried several 8” drivers in a small ported cabinet and my favorite was the Eminence Beta-8A. https://eminence.com/products/beta_8a I haven’t used the TF0818, but the frequency response curve...

Replacement Speaker [newbie advice please)

Caramba :-) Which one the least?

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

Myself When I Am Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk71dhCz7wM

Developing your own style/sound

You probably do if you use the melodic minor scale, since 5 out of its 7 notes are a diminished scale. For example, C Melodic Minor has 5 notes from the C dim scale (and 5 notes from the Eb whole...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

ah well. can't have that.

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

That approach seems unnatural to me, i.e., referencing a scale that does not include the chord tones (root of the chord in this case) of the chord with which you're associating it. Of course you...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

57's seem to be the favorite. It does depend on the particular guitar though. They weren't great in the neck position of my Epi Lucille, but a DeArmond Gold Tone was. Still jonesin' for a Gibson...

Like-New Gibson ES-335s

Thanks Jimmy, I have a padded one that came w an old Princeton Reverb w their logo on the front in big letters. Checking their website I believe they now offer a no padding/no logo option. I'll check...

Amp Covers

Le Cover, check them out for variations. Padded or not, I like them and have had 5 or 6 covers from them.

Amp Covers

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

The New Campellone fall batch

Developing your own style/sound

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Emily Remler

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

The Notated Lick Compendium.

Like-New Gibson ES-335s