Yes, it's nice, but I don't like the part where he moves up the fret-board from the Fm6 to Em7/Am7 and plays open E & A strings for the bass line, and has the bass line leap up and down a minor 9th...
My motivation for responding to this is not to deride it. I simply don’t like seeing erroneous statements left unchallenged, because others accept them without questioning and spread them as truth. ...
@AdroitMage said “It does look like his 15's were probably JBL's then. That would mean that his 15's were alnico magnet speakers too, because, correct me if I'm wrong, but all of the vintage 15" JBL...
It may be from having been playing for over 60 years, but that thought and visualization are ever present - I can't turn it on and off. I like to play a bit before a performance, but I don't have a...
Those half notes are a powerful tool. Just the notion that you can’t play a complete triad on most chord changes is really useful. Or more to the point, you can’t play a complete “shape.” For that...
Never in all my days have i ever wanted a George Benson Ibanez of any kind. The only thing I could use from George is his chops. I am not even envious because with those chops, I probably focused on...
Thanks for that great info. I have read the quote from his website before, HUGE Metheny fan here.:redface-new: I had never seen the one you posted from his guitar tech, though.
It does look like...
Well that’s the goal. In the final analysis terminology doesn’t matter.
But - It’s a hell of a job breaking that muscle memory aspect though. Everyone goes up and down usually from the root...
The more I think about this, the more I think “arpeggio” sticks for guitarists (and I’m not knocking it, and I totally use it all the time) because of that visual/tactile component. Less about the...
Apologies to any recovering alcoholics out there but this reminds me of the saying "practise like a scientist, play like a drunk" (btw, I had a good laugh at your line "...soloing by formula and rule...
Otoh Wikipedia says this
‘An arpeggio (Italian: [ar?pedd?o]) is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order....
Florentine vs Venetian: which one is better?
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