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Tim Bram Tribute thinline archtop jazz guitar

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Anyone remember the Richard Daniels books (Be...

Oh right. Well, this is just how changing time signatures work. There’s no metric modulation here. One way of thinking about it is ‘universal four.’ At Berklee (and no doubt other places) they...

Metric modulation question

Those must be juxtaposed, yes?

Tim Bram Tribute thinline archtop jazz guitar

Glenn Gould suggested Mozart tended to write “empty passage work” BECAUSE he was an improviser. I think he was wrong about Mozart - that passage work might look dull on paper but it serves the...

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

Your reading comprehension was just fine through the first few sentences of his post but then he said, "In fact, if I understand it now, the quarter note stays exactly the same. The bar is 3.5...

Metric modulation question

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Tim Bram Tribute thinline archtop jazz guitar

Actually, we clarified earlier in this conversation that we're describing the strategies we use to practice improvisation, which may be (probably are) different than those we use when we're actually...

What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

lower bout is 10.75 upper bout is 14.5 don't really have anything to measure the fretboard radius i would say its a rounded c neck.

Tim Bram Tribute thinline archtop jazz guitar

The converse is also true. There's a local sax player with incredible technique whose solos are a deft interweaving of nothing but bebop cliches and he may as well be playing along to an Aebersold...

Presentation is more important than improvisation? - Hal Galper

It’s nice when you mirror them at the tritone. Duncan Lamont had a whole bunch of scales like that. The 7b5-dim do be like that Do re mi fa, up a half step do re mi fa Sent from my iPhone...

One octave scales - VIDEO

Oh man … yeah … guitarists intro to jazz approaches scales using tetrachord fingerings. I’ll reread it. I remember thinking “oh that’s so smart” and then getting distracted by a shinier object.

One octave scales - VIDEO

Dunno about Randy Vincent. I pinched the idea from the Arabic music theory and 18th century solfeggio. They used to sing Do re mi fa sol re mi Fa, for a scale dontchaknow…. Mi fa always on the...

One octave scales - VIDEO

tetrachords and pentachords refer to the arrangement of scale steps in a four or five note group. like a major scale from the root is W W h but from the third it’s h W W. There are a limited...

One octave scales - VIDEO

Similarly, there are a thousand videos showing CAGED, Berklee and 3NPS scales with the standard shifts or stretches incorporating fingers 1-4 yet I can't recall any that discuss in detail how players...

One octave scales - VIDEO

I saw a YouTube short on pentachords. Seemed cool but it was for piano and I’m too lazy to move it to guitar. I’m finally getting a hang on the chord/diminished harmony.

One octave scales - VIDEO

I was just thinking I need to reread that bit of Randy Vincent which is the third or fourth time I’ve said that to myself in the last few weeks and I’ve yet to do it

One octave scales - VIDEO

Trio albums (guitar, bass, drums)

How did the greats learn how to play?

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

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What is your primary reference for practicing improvisation?

Reverb pedals?

... But does it Jazz ??

Solo Guitar Albums - one guitar only

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Anyone selling a Borys Jazz solid?

Unhappy with sound after installing benedetto ebony bridge

Anyone use a thumb pick for jazz?

Barry Harris Method and The Paradox of Learning Improvisation