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So your pickups pickup the bass string okay? Did you have to alter the nut and the bridge? Any other mods you have to make to the guitar? The term "alto guitar" (or "Altgitarren") usually refers to an

Once again on reading. When I was a kid I studied with Dennis Sandole. He told me to read from Wolfhart scales for violin. I would have to say that my favorite reading is reading from all of the Real

Hi, I have a slightly different perspective on reading. I was taught by a perfectionist classica/jazz piano player. He stressed reading a piece perfectly. His feeling was that if you play it almost

I saw the Antecedent-Consequent Phrase article in Just Jazz Guitar and have been working on this. It t has been very helpful in helping me to integrate another approach to soloing. I feel it's really

Hi everyone, Before address Dan's post below, I'd like to introduce myself as I've been lurking on this group for a while. My name's Mike Woo and jazz is relatively new to me. I took it up about 3

Hello everyone: I work as an assistant producer (volunteer) for the Charleston, SC Jazz Festival and I'm hoping to help grow the festival over the next few years. I'm also in the process of developing

Thanks for answering, Jimmy! I truly appreciate it. Well you're more lucky and/or agile than I am. with I have -- it's just extremely difficult for me (at the moment), and even if I sort of get it

You obviously haven't been reading the guitar magazines lately! There are instruments (baritone guitars) built specifically for this tuning.

intermediate level right now. I understand most concepts and I know music theory. Right now I am working on single note improvisation mostly. do you come up with what type of chord to use for each

Unless the melody note is not in the triad. At that point, you're either using tensions on top of the triad, using 7th chords, using substitute chords, or using upper-structure triads. Mike Crutcher

jazz_guitar@... wrote: Well, I lied. Sorta. ;) Jimmy will still be around the forum, but is leaving (or has left) for what looked to be a whirlwind short tour. He wrote me he was leaving

Ken, What do you mean by 7th triads? How is that different than 4 string 7th chords? (Do you mean dropping a root or fifth, and substituting the 7th?) I've done some of this myself, and it is a good

Melodic Rhythms for Guitar is a great book - I taught out of it for years. If you happen to be a Band In A Box user surf on over to the Yahoo BIAB group and there is a Zip file there with all of the

Has anyone read the article by Reno De Stefano in the May 2001 issue of 'Just Jazz Guitar' called: "Jazz Improvisation: Antecedent- Consequent Phrases"? It deals with some very basic bebop ideas, but

I use Trancsribe! by Seventh String Software. I've tried a few others, but IMO this is the most stable. It even works in real-time (or near real-time). No messy huge intermediate slow down files to

do you come up with what type of chord to use for each note? I have tried just using diatonic chords to do this but it never works too great. I am interested in this too, and I'm not that great at it,

Hi Jim, Your ideas also work just fine. No matter how good you get you're gonna occasionally find yourself in situations where you have to get through a tune that because of its tempo, harmonic

Check out this book which I think every guitarist should read: http://www.elderly.com/books/items/24-70.htm -Dan http://danadler.com years resting down to simply let fingerboard. LOT of

-That's a good question Paul. I never had that problem. If you truly have the economy picking down you should try practicing it with swing 8th notes. Also, remember about articulations... long notes

That's a good one, too. That's by Bugs Bower. However, there's a more organized method that's pretty much the same methodology called "Melodic Rhythms For Guitar" by Leavitt. It organizes all the 8th