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04-05-2024 07:54 PM
It can also help your body get into it better rhythmically to stand. So I think it's beneficial to at least do some standing, don't have to do it all the time.
It’s stupid and makes no sense. He’s quite right. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Really? One clarinetist I know transcribed a ton of Pat Metheny. Another one was obsessed with Grant Green….. I’m often surprised at how much they like listening to jazz guitar. I can’t really see...
One of my old professors (actually a trumpeter) plays all the rhythm section instruments except guitar. me: why not guitar? him: [shudders] that instrument scares me.
Tippett's 1988 opera, New Year, also uses electric guitar, as does this suite from the opera's themes: https://youtu.be/2OR8RTEivEU?si=1YtLKNRe3Oifjzbx
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Yeaaaahhhh. You know it’s just one of those things. There’s a bunch of tunes I half learned wrong on the stand and then had to relearn. It’s a complicated life journey. I still find myself in...
Michael Tippett introduced the electric guitar to the orchestra in 1970 for his opera, The Knot Garden. https://youtu.be/BYCygItYjx0
The vintage sound is definitely there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLZ34bsMkM
Hi, yes that is very true I had forgot about those videos. I sometimes have to use real pro and when im sitting the audience can't see my guitar or fingers so that was another reason for standing :)
Possibly. I had a far worse problem caused by just that with the Pyramid tape-wounds on an acoustic flat-top. Those actually have a quite high tension (according to Pyramid but feel is consistent...
If you have a kneading machine (Kitchenaid, whatever) with ditto hook, try the "add moisture and knead until it forms a ball on the hook" method. From what I can tell it won't form a proper "closed"...
I’ve known a lot of jazzers over the years, and if I listened to their opinions I wouldn’t even think of playing jazz guitar. I never met a non-guitarist who thought much of it as a jazz instrument.
I never looked at a video of Wes Montgomery or Barney Kessel and thought, I only wish they were standing up.
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