Chord-Melody

Critic my Jazz Improvisation Solo practice

Bending

How does this sound?

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Best phrases to unlock the 251 progression

For rhythm guitar Bucky Pizarellli suggested a light pick, less than 1mm IIRC. I’ve tried this and it works very well. Difficult for lead though haha. Sounds like it would suit you? Try it. Over...

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Hi to all! Newbie here :) I need help and advice to learn more about jazz guitar playing. I want to know your thoughts on my jazz guitar improvisation practice (to help me improve my jazz guitar...

Critic my Jazz Improvisation Solo practice

Reviving this thread because I’ve been spending a lot of time with both a Polytone brute 12” and a 2nd gen Henriksen JazzAmp from 2006 (with reverb). While the Polytone is still my favorite,...

“Old” Sounds from a Henriksen

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Best phrases to unlock the 251 progression

I use GHS Pat Martino Flatwound 16s.

Flatwound strings preference

Key words here are "wannabe." Pros know that the audience is who pays their check. You seem like you've gigged plenty - I've no doubt that you are an entertainer first and an "artiste" second.

Being entertaining.

It's a different thing. You're not crossing the fret, you're literally pushing the string toward the bridge to slacken it -- that lowers the pitch. You pull back toward the headstock and that raises...

Bending

Thank you to both of you. I get the pre-bends... it just never crossed my mind when i saw this :doh: The other suggestion, the classical vibrato technique, i'm not sure I tried it before; when i...

Bending

Sounds like you described the sitch pretty accurately in your first post: people come there to hang out & converse. After they get a few in them, some want to dance. But others are still there to...

Being entertaining.

I had a Heritage Sweet 16 that hosted three floaters over its time with me: the original Heritage pickup, a Benedetto-label Kent Armstrong Johnny Smith style (small) floating humbucker; and a Kent...

Looking for Recommendations - Floating Humbucker

A Lollar Johnny Smith style pickup is another great option! Johnny Smith Style Humbucker | Lollar Pickups

Looking for Recommendations - Floating Humbucker

Yeah, these are good exercises. I've been doing them on and off for several years. I also like one up, one down interval patterns, like 1-3 4-2 etc. But at least as important are triad and 7th chord...

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

Why the tubes, was your guitar just taken off life support?

Epiphone "Blak & Blu" Casino - Worst Neck Joint in the History of Neck...

Your dog looks exhausted. :fatigue:

Best phrases to unlock the 251 progression

I have one but I'd have a hard time describing it. It's more about the intervals that make up the scales and how those intervals lay out on the fingerboard. Taking scales and playing them in various...

Chord Shapes as a basis for Improv

Will good jazz schools accept a thumb player?

How many watts for an outdoor gig?

If you have to play fast to sound good, you are using speed to cover up other flaws i

A minor and add 11

G string buzzing but adjacent strings don't. Any ideas? (video content)

Have You Met Miss Jones and the rest of Virtuoso by Joe Pass

Being entertaining.

Micro PA?

Epiphone "Blak & Blu" Casino - Worst Neck Joint in the History of Neck...

Martin Retro "Monel" strings?

Tip Me Over The Edge - Henriksen The Bud Six

Gibson L-5 or L-7 acoustic archtop

I hear 3 kinds of "time"...