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You may remember I posted some photos of a damaged 175 that I purchased from Blue Mountain Guitars. I returned it almost a month ago. Chase opened a dispute but told me today that I may be out of...
Jens Larsen has many videos on jazz comping. You should definitely check them out.
Funny, my experience is the EXACT opposite here. The guys that have to drag a book out are the laughing stock. Who asked you to learn 1000 tunes in all 12 keys; stupid. Nobody does that. Not to...
Correct. I'm looking to supplement my knowledge of the tune with my knowledge of reading to be able to aggrandize the number of songs I can play with others. I find I can do this easily with...
Don't just struggle with the book, put on a recording of the tune and listen so that the notes on the page come alive. Vocal versions are usually the best for this because instrumentalists can become...
I've found that tunes that I've learned by ear, I can not only play more fluently, but can remember. I've found that after playing a theater production, reading a 70 page score, 8 shows a week for 8,...
that's great, if you have the brain space to learn 1000 tunes and to be able to play them at all 12 keys like the old Masters did. It doesn't seem like very many people do that anymore. In most...
Sit with the Real Book and pick an easy song, and sing the rhythms. Pitches are unimportant at this point...sing the harmonic rhythm. Rhythm is what hangs most people up, because they focus so...
Reading is a bugaboo I have struggled with for 40 years as a guitarist. back when I was first learning the guitar, my teacher just did not push reading music, hard enough, and I wasn't intrinsically...
Yup, and there's no getting around this. And unless you're a studio musician or playing a score, don't worry about it. If you're here at the JAZZ forum, you want to feel free to play any flavor of...
Please consider that I'm not saying this to attack you or police your grammar ... The purpose of writing is to communicate. If you write in a non-standard way full of eccentric spellings and...
Looks like I lost $4000 on the 175 from Blue...
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