Ear Training, Transcribing & Reading

Jazz retreat or other intesive?

Obtuse Arguments

No Lick November

Jersey Girl Takutack Tansue

Another Holst clip

Bobby, I don’t mean to be funny, but i am not. Ive been doing this stuff for years at this point, and I credit it with teaching me bop. It took me years to get it down to the point that it is. In...

Bebop Scales — Barry Harris half-steps

Congratulations, nice tone, nice playing ! Hope you get well soon

Another Holst clip

Thanks for the kind words.

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

I don't understand. You told me your goal was to teach it so I tailored my reply to that saying you can probably get to the point to where you grasp everything quickly and then build your command of...

Bebop Scales — Barry Harris half-steps

If you're looking to get more acoustic tones, dunno. Bose S1 even on sale is $600US. Alto might work great but might have more bass than you want. Since you're working with three parametric EQ...

Building a new rig. All that's left is an FRFR cab and I could use some help..

It's still a Squier though, considering the headstock. The listings saying "Fender x Hello Kitty" are misleading

The Hello Kitty Stratocaster

Thanks, James. Yeah, the longer (or more intensive) options seem elusive. Jake Eddy, an amazing bluegrass player (who also used to play a fair amount of jazz) has a really cool homestay program...

Jazz retreat or other intesive?

Well, we've had this conversation before...there's definitely licks in there, they just are malleable...they can come out different in the moment. As for playing the chords, arpeggios, yeah,...

No Lick November

I happened upon this Barney Kessel lesson only this week. I think he's talking about something similar to Jeff. I tried what Barney suggests and failed miserably. Firstly, having let the chord seep...

No Lick November

Thanks guys. Really struggling with depression lately but your cheerful comments definitely help. Much appreciated.

Another Holst clip

Allan posted some nice camps, but they are weekly or weekend ones, and not "a couple of weeks". I know of no such events in the USA, that last a couple of weeks. I found the comment "even a...

Jazz retreat or other intesive?

Sorry to hear about the stress. Seems to me that your reading is coming along nicely. In music, and probably a lot of other endeavors, if you can handle the blows to your self-esteem, even if...

Rhythms Complete Bugs Bower

When I have this impulse, I play either on one or two strings, or play super slow. I think it helps? Guitar is nice because physical limitations are easy to impose, so I usually jump to make my...

No Lick November

Please, more pics!!

Jersey Girl Takutack Tansue

Wow ...

Obtuse Arguments

I-VI7-ii-V7 question

Great swing style players

Which pickup for a Yamaha SA2200?

Bebop Scales — Barry Harris half-steps

Any Gibson L5s or L4s for sale in the UK?

Campellone Special

Trio with bass guitar & drums

Bebop head no. 5

Bemsha Swing from a recent gig

Need advice on the sound of this Gibson L-5 Wes model..

Classical repertoire as a resource in improvisational solo design

Initial impessions of the new Toob Metro 8

Travel headless jazz guitar