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!
In the way I view it, there are two types of chord patterns. One type are patterns that create chord motion with the existing harmony. The other type are reharmonization patterns.
I think you can...
I am new both to here and to jazz guitar. I am struggling to get the right sound out of my old Fender Mustang amp and am starting to realise that I will need to buy something more suitable if I want...
I don’t know JZ
I don't like mahogany backs and sides but I doubt I would be able to consistently tell the difference between that and maple ones. Maybe in person but certainly not on record.
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Ruger, I'll say this for the second time - I'm not the OP. I'm not looking for anything. Just trying to clarify that when someone claims getting a "round, warm, jazz tone" is as easy as changing a...
How quickly you found the tone you are looking for on YouTube is irrelevant: because it's the tone YOU want to hear; how is anyone else supposed to know what YOU think is "round, warm, jazz tone"?
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Apparently the parent company is called Crewes and they are still made for the Japanese domestic market under that name, instead of Vestax.
I just picked up a Vestax D’Angelico NY2-FH. I will do...
There is some analysis and an etude here which may be useful.
It refers to tenor sax key so in the text the chords are often described a whole tone up, but the etude has a concert version.
The...
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Campellone Standard Series 17? Inch – Natural – 2024 | Acoustic Music
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I definitely shift this way, which I’m 99.9% certain it’s an artifact of all the classical I played.
Then again Holdsworth is not my wheelhouse … I’m out here transcribing Clifford Brown like a...
Used Henriksen or Mambo amp
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