The Songs

RIP Nick Gravenites

KA PAF info please

Vintage fuzz on "space" transistors

16" 1920s/30s L5

Amp Covers

"Nick Gravenites, Mainstay of the San Francisco Rock Scene, Dies at 85 "A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at...

RIP Nick Gravenites

They are BH 6th dim moves that were dubbed "monk moves" by the BH guitar book author. Great for short rhythmic comping at high tempos.

BH

I don't see why relating it to the dominant scale versus other scales is any less likely to lead to playing scale-like lines - but I don't use scales as an improvisation tool, only as a reference. ...

Embraceable You - second chord in progression

No one has yet to mention a Zoot Suit: shreddin'

Attire

I have to write out solos perfectly in some of my big band arrangements, because sometimes I'll take a small group tune and expand it to 17 piece jazz ensemble. This is only if I think the solo is so...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Well it’s a paradox isn’t it? Improvisation in jazz is not quite the impulse to play anything you want in the moment, or rather that impulse is focussed through a tradition and social context that...

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Clapton recorded his version of Autumn Leaves years after the original Real Book came out. His version is in Bm by the way, whereas the tune appears there in Em. The history of Autumn Leaves in...

Getting Transcriptions Wrong

This was not even a FUGLY lady. More like a guy with sasquatch type hairy legs. (No Squatch allowed!)

Attire

By that do you mean if you can do Monk moves fast, you can do BH moves fast? And what do you mean by 'Monk moves'?

BH

Nope, not according to what I always read and just saw confirmed: Martin Monel strings have a tin-plated hex core with a nickel and copper alloy wrap wire that reduces the amount of string attack...

Round Core Vs Hex Core Strings

https://youtu.be/mQBwkA-HVUQ also good for warm up. going from slow to fast. I improvise phrases like these ones. Nice phrasing .

Warm Up exercises

Just saw this; FYI; no affiliation: 1991 Gibson ES-175 Electric Guitar #92761453 - Used (soundpure.com)

Biting the bullet on an ES-175

ES-175 + $$$$ in the bank. You will likely always be able to get your cash back out of it if you ever need to; maybe more~ Find one in good shape. I bought one this past year. Almost gave up after...

Biting the bullet on an ES-175

+1 :amen:

The New Campellone fall batch

I had a vanguard for a few years - it looked amazing and played great too. good luck

Andersen vanguard

For those who went to music school, was it worth it?

What beats an L5?

Analysing jazz vocabulary

Came up with an epic tip for improv

The New Campellone fall batch

Developing your own style/sound

Stage setups for larger venues

Thumb pain

Getting hung up on rhythms when transcribing

Emily Remler

Shape of jazz to come/that's here

Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar

Like-New Gibson ES-335s