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I don't know if we 'need' it now or not. What I do know is that people use it so it's as well to know what they're talking about. That simple, really.
Your Warwick guitar has evolved over the years with various hardware changes. The Gibson P90 pickups, especially the overwound bridge pickup, enhance its tone. Reverting to the original bridge is on...
Those are descriptive sources of harmony where as the parallel view provides a more prescriptive view. One way is not objectively better than the other. But classical theory books help people to...
I agree in parts, it is true that in the classical world the notes are analyzed based on the tone and not parallel from each the chord. I know all this material and I have read it many times.I have...
I've owned my D'Aquisto (same as this one, a blonde) for about a year now and played many gigs with it, just this weekend a Bigband concert with only Ellington and Basie tunes and this guitar did an...
The Yamaha (SA30 from 1968) on the left is fully hollow , the ES-345 (1963) is mine since 1982. Red guitars are so cool .....
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Again for the thousandth time, modal names provide a parallel view (oriented to the root of the chord). Again check out Advancing Guitarist among many other sources like Berkee Book of Harmony or...
A heads-up for UK forum members that the great American guitarist Sid Jacobs is over later this week for a run of dates put together by London guitarist Tom Remon. The gigs are a mixture of guitar...
It's Brahms... Brahms fourth racket More irrelevant musings. Context - the finale is an evolved form of a ground bass Chaconne that Brahms consciously adapted from Bach, the chaconne...
Hey Skip, I wish you the best of luck with your guitar. It sounds like you did your homework. The GB is a very special guitar. The longest running signature guitar for a reason. It bears the name of...
Hi guys, I'd like to ask you something about this great guitar that I am trying to find. Does someone know this model ? Jesse Van Ruller used to play one of them. It should have a small neck, but...
These three posts seem to agree and are describing Jazz Modal Harmony.
Sid Jacobs in the UK this month for gigs and a...
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