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Modern Method for Guitar Vol 3

Advice on how to improve my playing

Mel Bay's Rhythm Chord System used by?

The most popular jazz guitarists according to...

Another Recording of my TK Smith Special

You gotta get over this asap. When you go to a jam, you will biff a solo, get lost, miss the B in an AABA or think the last A is the first A of the next round. It's all going to happen, accept it...

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

beautiful guitar, congrats! I have a couple SG's but I look forward to getting an ES-175 myself one day.

My first Gibson

Congratulations on the guitar and your upcoming retirement. I hope unlike me you will have more time to play guitar! Enjoy it I am sure you have earned both. Thanks John

My first Gibson

Downloaded, it will obviously take a few hours to listen to all of it. I appreciate your making this possible. Thank you.

Jimmy Raney - May 24, 1989 - WFPL Radio - Louisville, Kentucky

Stringmann, Here is the answer from Josh Kellmann: "Regarding the guy interested in your 7 string Novax, I’ve no problem with him contacting me about what might be expected when importing &...

Novax 7 string

Where do you think you're getting stuck? I think you sound good! The "Exactly Like You" clip is maybe a little notey...I don't think your solo pauses for more than a beat. But you're capturing...

Advice on how to improve my playing

True, still, allowing for all that, I'm still surprised to see Jim Hall so high up, and players like Barney Kessel and Pat Martino so low. Many notable omissions on that short list, how long into...

The most popular jazz guitarists according to Spotify statistics

It sounds pretty good. mind if I ask, are you improvising the solo sections? It looks like you’re reading. Just curious

Advice on how to improve my playing

I started working on Vol 3 recently and thought I'd share my progress as I go in case it is helpful to others. I'll stick with posting the duets and solo etudes, and spare you the scales and...

Modern Method for Guitar Vol 3

That Bruno video is gold for someone starting out... I too learned the relationships between the most common chord types this way...string set 6432, then 5432, 4321. It was later I learned what...

Mel Bay's Rhythm Chord System used by?

Josh, I will inform the guy interested in one of my other guitars that you are OK with him contacting you. Thanks, Tonnie

Used Frans Elferink "Moderne" 7-string 18" inch body

Ha! Well it wasn't always so, up until the 60's and 70's, the good people at places like EMI, Abbey Road, Trident or Olympic studios (all in the UK) jealously guarded the secrets to the gear they...

The Audio Plugin Scam

There's a reason the 175 is possibly the most recorded "jazz" guitar in history. Great catch!

My first Gibson

Thanks. TK is very popular in the rockabilly scene, but I think his stuff is so versatile. I’ve never played rockabilly and probably never will. I got into TK’s stuff when I was digging swing music...

Another Recording of my TK Smith Special

It’s amazing how many guitarists I know are into fishing. I have been looking into volunteering to help out with the stocking program. Missed it this year because of illness, planning on it next...

My first Gibson

Show Off Your Main Squeeze! Post a pic of the guitar you consider “the One.”

Can you call the music for J.Bond movies a genre?

Chord melody problem

Avant-Garde Music and Art. Discussions?

New ways to practice scales/making music out of scales

Sadowsky Ends Archtop Production

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 1) - Blue Monk in minor

Cure for a weak high E string?

Please Recommend Me Some Beginner Solos/Heads to Learn

Brazilian Rosewood and CITES

Thoughts on Gabor Szabo? Was he a jazz artist or no?

Wynton vs Herbie 1985

A sign of the times - they can’t give this away…