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Bebop heads - Scrapple From the Apple

A little help explaining shielding with archtop...

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 4) - C Jam Blues

Amazing Practice Tool! Track Splitter!

Let's hear it for Al Schackman

Well, yes. In that the spike around 2 kHZ is reduced considerably. But because that can let you open up the tone control a little bit more, the sound is perhaps rounder than darker.

Telecaster Love Thread, No Archtops Allowed

None of my guitars have ever checked, so I have no advice to offer except that I think this adds to the charm of vintage instruments along with fading, ambering, etc. I don't know if I would feel...

Lacquer Finish Checking

It was, I was quite surprised. But a lot of them, maybe the majority, prefered Eb - Eo.

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Have you tried a nice bottle of wine, a bouquet of flowers and complementing it on its shoes?

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

Tim Lerch demonstrates--and names--the techniques I aspire to in backing a singer. Very specific. I think it's not irrelevant that (despite his limited pipes) he really knows his way around a song. I...

Learning to play with a singer

The strings are grounded, if the noise goes away when he touches them. So we already know that. It's remotely possible that the ground connection between the cover of the pickup and the wiring has...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

What an interesting coincidence

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

Perhaps not, but Eddie's set was reportedly .015 to .070-something!

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Thanks....I'd considered that a while back....but it's PE30xxxxx on both label, and back of headstock!! I've emailed ssmguitars@gmail.com (who now 'own' Peerless it seems!) ....but no reply yet.

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

Hooooray!!!...... I'm not the only one then!! :) ...thought I must be goin' crackers!! Surprised that no-one's chimed in with a definitive answer really......

Help me date my Peerless Jazz City please

Peng - I'm a pretty basic player but you asked how people got around the changes. Very simple, I just outline them plus a few connecting notes. This progression is the same one Christian was using...

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

That's the kind of assumption we should have learned not to make anymore in absence of formal proof. Actual ("real") chess is not what computer scientists and mathematicians call NP complete: see...

Why you shouldn't use AI to 'compose' music

I would first make sure the strings are grounded. That's easy enough to do with a multimeter/ohmmeter. You can still get some noise even if the strings are grounded, but if they're not, there will...

A little help explaining shielding with archtop guitars?

Almost any of the available 'power stations' will run a Class D amp for much longer than 4 hours. I don't know anything about a Cube 60, so I can't say anything about it specifically. The Beaudens...

Power source for busking

Read that somewhere else recently and remember thinking that (nowadays) a wound B string isn't necessary a heavy one. Thomastik include one (and ditto G; both silk-and-steel design with stainless...

What did early Jazz guitarists in America play live pre-swing era?

Playing the changes vs. playing over the key center

Jazz and Blues Single Note Soloing Recommendations ?

Don Cherry on Lennie Tristano

Telecaster - Single Coil or Humbucker?

Not really sounding very 'jazzy'. Is it in the playing technique?

Eliminating the Metronome for technical studies?

How do you understand the 5th and 6th bars of rhythm changes?

JGO Virtual 'Bluez' Jam (Round 3) - Straight No Chaser

Rich Severson’s top 5 guitars

Blues and Jazz-Blues Comping Recommendations ?

Just a Gigolo C7 Bb7 A7

How bad is this?

In-ear Monitors for a Big Band