Theory

Hendrik Meurkens (warning: harmonica content)

Shoko Nagai plays the piano

Falling Grace by the Mick Goodrick Trio

Chart for "Your Molecular Structure" ?

Giant Steps

Tbh despite what I wrote above I’d just play phrygian dominant, so yeah Db/C# minor The bVI7#11 (A7#11) is a common chord in the minor tonality btw. Comes up a lot. The seventh of that chord is a...

How to improvise over Windows (Chick Corea)

Actually the other week the big band I play in couldn’t find a bass player, so it was me and drums for the first half and a pianist joined us for the second (he was all over the bass) was a...

Don't think that you can play bass just because you're a good guitar player

I enjoy playing bass but wouldn’t inflict it on paying customers… it’s a lot of power and responsibility Ive never had too much trouble with bass clef, but I’d say my reading lags behind my...

Don't think that you can play bass just because you're a good guitar player

Some dude on the internet said there’s an ski lift

Tunes I Claim I Know

It could be considered an application of mode VI of harmonic minor….

Diminished function …. I wish I knew ….

Chord- melody is a technique for an advanced guitarist,not for a beginner !You don’t run before you can walk Start with the basics,we’ve all been there : 1)choose tunes with only one...

All the things you are

It was and here's the evidence.

Guitar Night

I learned the double bass at a music school, but I wouldn't be able to play the musical parts today in a modern big band. I haven't practiced the double bass for 45 years, although I like this...

Don't think that you can play bass just because you're a good guitar player

Loved that, Mark. I want to be you when I grow up!

Giant Steps

Tell us more about the comparative sound of these guitars, please. I've played a bunch of lovely D'Angelicos and Parkers, and a wonderful-sounding Gilchrist, but never in a comparison setting.

Attended a Fun Guitar Oriented Party

It might have just been a semantics problem. I mean, if you don't read bass clef, and there are no written chords, you're really @#$__@$ for the gig, you can only try playing by ear? Good luck with...

Don't think that you can play bass just because you're a good guitar player

Levine was indeed anti harmonic minor, he used to lecture against it. I am not a fan of it either, in particular thinking of it as a scale melodicaly. I do think of the loose 9 note minor hybrid, the...

Is minor "home" (Im) dorian, melodic, neither?

i call the Corcovado thing embellishing the I with a I Diminished. I do it a lot on ballads and intros.

Diminished function …. I wish I knew ….

^ If we're talking doing it like Monk, just power through the tune constantly lol! I did my hour today on Solar and I just ran the tune, soloed, and did bass and comp.

I'm doing the Monk

It's not my band.

Don't think that you can play bass just because you're a good guitar player

Is minor "home" (Im) dorian, melodic, neither?

Is the Forum getting old and tired - or is it just me?

Diminished function …. I wish I knew ….

Now that we have been at this google "best amp" thing for a cope decades

Best cheap dirt

How do you practice phrasing?

Making it in the Small Time.. To Gig or Not to Gig

Marchione Guitars

Shapes vs Notes

The dilemma of Fender guitars

Some Martin Taylor appreciation - and a wish

help?

Neat trick when setting up vintage ES-175 (and other) wooden bridges