greetings, I have a new album available. https://dougsours.bandcamp.com/album/vernal-dance you'll hear some compositions for guitar, frame drum driven grooves, dark modal improvisations, and some other stuff. hope you enjoy
if you enjoy the clip feel free to check out the full tune here: https://hubs.li/Q04bm7Jg0
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Joe Pass doesn't sound like a Gypsy Jazz guitarist on this album, but this record sure is good still, I picked it up yesterday.
I played a jazz jam recently and they called All Blues but in 5/4. I really butchered the melody! And I normally love this tune so much.
Anyways got me practicing odd meters including 3/4. Wes is so natural and plays beautifully with this feel. Folk always say transcription is the answer so transcribed some Hank Mobley on Someday my prince will come. That has helped alot. This article on jazz advice is great too for those who have not seen it: https://www.jazzadvice.com/lessons/how-to-play-in-3-4-time-hank-mobley-on-someday-my-prince-will-come/
What tips do you have for playing in odd meters? Especially as so much vocab is learned in 4/4. Do you adapt 4/4 language or play intuitively?
Specifically how do you go about adapting a melody composed in 4/4 to a 5/4 or 7/4 meter for example? Other than finding a version in that meter and copying that...
Anyone else prefer the album Bright Size Life by Pat Metheny in Mono. I was wondering how it would sound in Mono so I don't hear one bass on one side and guitar on the other side and I was right that it sounds would sound better in Mono to me. I like instrument seperation sometimes like with a good soundstage and some music mixes, but some mixes just work better in Mono for my ears. I use my Note 9 with Mono settings on sometimes, but I usually don't use Mono.
Hi all! I wanted to share this arrangement of Lullaby of Birdland I have been working on. This tune so clearly outlines the flat 9 sound on the 251. Such a beautiful melody! I combined ideas from a few different versions I've listened to.
Hey all, I used to play guitar for a few years then dropped it then picked it up back up again in October. Never really advanced past learning rock/blues songs and basic pentatonic shapes.
Initially, I really wanted to play blues guitar like SRV and started out learning songs from YouTube. Then I realized I wanted to learn more about theory and expand outside of “pentatonic box 1”. So I started lessons with a local teacher and initially was working through “Blues You Can Use” by John Ganapes and spider exercises.
Then I started to develop an interest into jazz guitar so started working through jazzguitar.be’s beginner Ebook. However, I started to realize that I didn’t really know my way around the fretboard and I had a hard time recognizing chord tones on the fretboard. My teacher is a classical guitarist who studied jazz guitar and he instructed to go through the major scale using the Circle of 5ths naming every note instead of blindly learning scale patterns.
Unfortunately I lost interest just learning/practicing scales and I took a break from lessons.
My goal is ultimately learning jazz guitar and so I was almost about to buy Jens Larsen’s Roadmap.
How do I learn the fretboard and approach learning jazz guitar without getting overwhelmed in scales/arpeggio exercises?
TLDR: I don’t know where to start with jazz guitar and having a ton of decision fatigue.