If the uni/college level jazz educators I know are anything to go by they all seem to enjoy quoting Paul Desmond ‘jazz cannot be taught …. But it can be learned.’
again, it’s entirely possibly to...
Yes, I have used 14's before. The only reason I went for 15's was because I didn't have any 13's or 14's. I thought it was gonna be too extreme but it wasn't. I use 17's for B but I should try 18's,...
Not sure if you'd call this heavy - i'm jusing Thomastik Swings .053 to .013, but replace the top with .014 E and .018 B.
Both replacements sound way better to my ears than the initial ones. They...
I want to be able to play my guitar and plug in a mic so I can quickly capture song ideas and, later, work up arrangements.
(I have a DAW and know how to use it, but I want something for the...
I ran out of 13's, so I installed a 15 gauge as high E string on my strat to try a few weeks ago. I love it. It really worked well on that guitar. Since then I installed 15 high e on some other...
I read that article this morning. I'm not an Eric Dolphy fan, but I am a fan of Coltrane when he gets more out there...the one song in the preview sounded cool. Either way I'm excited.
I see - well you mentioned the Andalusian cadence and I wanted to point out this progression is certainly not unique to flamenco, although it may have a bit of Spanish/moorish dna to it even when...
“The schools are always five years behind the market” is something I heard about graduate engineering school, some years ago. I can’t disagree too much.
I was a GHS Boomers user exclusively for years until I was introduced to the new Dunlop Heavy Cores.
I've started using those on my main guitars for the Metal band but everything else is still...
A intense study on the diminished scale will give you TWO hexatonic scales and embedded in the scale find close to 30 chords due to its symmetricial nature
there are only three diminished scales ...
The context of my post was stringswinger’s comment “Jazz education is a modern thing and great players like Herb and Barney did not suffer from too much of it.” I thought it was clever, and responded...
Guitar Practice Amp w XLR mic input
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