I am looking for an archtop guitar/amplifier that will give me that Wes Montgomery, (Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, etc. etc.)…
Harmonic Rules for Improvisation (Scott Henderson)
Here you will find the list of scales, modes, arpeggios, and triads required to improvise over any type of chord.…
Fender Greta Amplifier
November 27th, 2012, from http://fauxsuperblogs.com/2181/fender-greta-amplifier/ One of the age old dilemmas faced by guitarists is: “How do I practice at home…
My new fender Greta amps
Here it is, sitting in the center of my living room… on my Klipsch bass sound box… And closed to…
mm to Inch Conversion Chart
mm to Inch Conversion Chart mm Inches (approximate) Simple Conversion To the nearest 1/32 inch Decimal 1 1/32 1/32 0.04 2…
Jazz on the tube
For Bucky Pizzarelli’s birthday we’re featuring his Trio performing “In A Mellowtone.” The tune, composed by Ellington in 1939, has since become a jazz in 1939,…
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted…
Kenny Burrell interview
Originally posted on Ashdown Guitar Lessons:
There’s a great interview with Kenny Burrell in the Guitar Player Vaults. Kenny talks about his early…
Quartal and quintal harmony
In music, quartal harmony is the building of harmonic structures with a distinct preference for the intervals of the perfect fourth, the augmented fourth and the diminished fourth. Quintal harmony is harmonic structure preferring…
Modal jazz
Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework. Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis’s “Milestones”…
