A while ago I made a transcription of a Joe Pass solo fingerstyle version of Joyspring, as I was fascinated to know how he made this into an effective solo guitar arrangement (I worked it out from that youtube video where he plays to some people in a guitar shop, plus bits from another version he recorded).
It’s an absolute pig to play, I still can’t play it properly. Increased my respect for Joe no end. Especially as in the youtube video he starts talking while he plays it!
LaBella Jazz Flats on all my electrics. Man, I love a good flat wound string and will never go back to roundwounds. Better, more even sounding chords and still plenty of snap off the LaBellas on the...
As far as how to play it, the A section is basically a bunch of ii-Vs which move around (with a lot of those chromatic little shifts that Benny likes). So chunk it into ii-Vs and work on it like...
Stablemates is not on Moanin’, perhaps you were thinking of Along Came Betty which is on the album.
Incidentally I recently got the Sher Music Benny Golson songbook (which says it uses Benny’s own...
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Well, the first thing I was ever aware of was show tunes, which my mother played at home – early Rodgers & Hammerstein stuff. And I heard a lot of hymns at school. Then...
My awful confession does involve banjos.... In my defense it started innocently playing with finger picking my ancient (WW1 ?) tenor. My rationalization was it is good finger stretching exercise for...
Thanks man, I'm not consciously using rest strokes if that's what I'm doing haha.
I should dig back into this one and analyze it, I'm can't remember what polytonal subs he's using here. In general...
You're getting awfully hung up on the specific word "lick" but my guess is that Jack used that word primarily to make a little fun at Christian's video.
They are, after all, somewhat in dialogue.
^ I did so much guitar tech-ing that I remembered the characteristics. The 2 most common delux materials I ended up liking anyway - pio and orange drop. To me, they sound better than the cheapie...
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