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 Topic: Grant Green |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 54013 |
 Forum: Guitar: Blues, Jazz & Beyond Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:19 pm Subject: Grant Green |
| I agree with you, but I am not bothered at all by his lack of pure technique. It doesn't detract from his musicality -- he's got enough technique to get his point accross.
Neither am I - I lik ... |
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| Topic: Grant Green |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 54013 |
Forum: Guitar: Blues, Jazz & Beyond Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:08 am Subject: Re: Grant Green |
| What do you think of Grant? Does he deserve a place in the jazz guitar family tree, along with Wes, George, Joe Pass, etc? Is he underrated?
Of course he does. I like Grant A LOT. In fact most of ... |
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| Topic: Using a Metronome |
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| woland99 Replies: 12 Views: 77471 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:04 pm Subject: Using a Metronome |
| You can find decent backing tracks on Ralph Pratt's webpage:
http://www.ralphpatt.com/Backing.html |
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| Topic: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 56040 |
Forum: Guitar: Blues, Jazz & Beyond Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:04 am Subject: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
| Yep you couldn't beat Gatemouth for big band swinging blues. He was a genius. I heard about the flood when it happened but don't know what came of it. That's amazing you have one of his guitars...is t ... | |
| Topic: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 56040 |
Forum: Guitar: Blues, Jazz & Beyond Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:29 pm Subject: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
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A few more that I like a lot.. Gatemouth Brown Gatemouth was great. Heard him several times here in Austin in last years of his life. Very beautiful sounding band - round, full and LOUD. It bre ... |
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| Topic: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 56040 |
Forum: Guitar: Blues, Jazz & Beyond Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:39 pm Subject: Blues Influenced Jazz Players |
| Ummm... John Scofield. Perhaps - I have bunch of his albums with Medeski
Martin & Wood and he can be quite funky. Charlie Christian - of course. Herb Ellis had a great blues album "Nothing ... |
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| Topic: Practicing dry vs. the tonequest |
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| woland99 Replies: 2 Views: 38228 |
Forum: Gear Talk Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:43 pm Subject: Practicing dry vs. the tonequest |
| YOu need to ask Mark to clarify but I thought he was talking about
"dry soloing" ie. playing thru changes without backup track which forces you to stick to harmony and imply it in your s ... |
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| Topic: 09 Bon Année - Playing For Change |
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| woland99 Replies: 3 Views: 34924 |
Forum: General Discussion, Chat & Introductions Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:11 am Subject: 09 Bon Année - Playing For Change |
| VERY nice thanks. Good song to start New Year with altho today
I went with T-Bone's 1959 album - fantastic "T-Bone's Blues". Have a swinging 2009, Y'all! JT |
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| Topic: When you transcribe Monk.... |
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| woland99 Replies: 2 Views: 36478 |
Forum: Transcribing & Learning by Ear Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:50 pm Subject: When you transcribe Monk.... |
| ...please do it right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bsCRv6kI0 |
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| Topic: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you WEAK |
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| woland99 Replies: 12 Views: 79249 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:19 am Subject: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you WEAK |
| Thank god players play for the love of music,cause if money was the only factor we would be hurting.I know there is more to the whole thing,but this is just my snap shot of it.
Coming from Eastern ... |
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| Topic: Transcribing Shapes |
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| woland99 Replies: 11 Views: 76850 |
Forum: Transcribing & Learning by Ear Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:41 pm Subject: Re: Transcribing Shapes |
| Has anyone else noticed this or thought of it in this way? Is this a recommended way to learn? It sort of seems that by thinking in this way, you can cover scale practice, arpeggio drills, and trans ... | |
| Topic: Effortless Mastery |
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| woland99 Replies: 6 Views: 146752 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:42 pm Subject: Effortless Mastery |
| I read the book. To sum it up it about the art of Zen as applied to anything you want to master. John G has it down..
Hmmmm... loving every note, eh? You are certainly not asking for a lot her ... |
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| Topic: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you WEAK |
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| woland99 Replies: 12 Views: 79249 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:04 pm Subject: Re: Smooth Jazz |
For the record (so to speak  ), I believe that JT mentioned he just heard "Songbird" for the first time. That surprised me, because Duotones was G-Man's smash album release WAY back i ... |
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| Topic: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you WEAK |
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| woland99 Replies: 12 Views: 79249 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:27 pm Subject: Re: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you |
| (...)not everyone feels that way about PM (different strokes) and some would find the phrase "lowest common denominator music" totally insulting and arrogant as applied to another artist. Th ... | |
| Topic: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you WEAK |
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| woland99 Replies: 12 Views: 79249 |
Forum: Best Study Practices Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:57 am Subject: Re: No one wants to hear a scale or bad music will make you |
For one, I never did quite get PM's tirade against G-Man. Some have even made the case of it being the "pot calling the kettle black."  I suppose it just depends on your point of view. ... |
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