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Yes, thats true. I probably would go back, as the venue was a more "family friendly" place, and the players were very welcoming too. I hope I get the chance to practise with the other guitarist a bit first on the songs he/I want to play.
I wouldn't play that Georgetown venue, and having been there, I understand your reluctance Doug.
Anyway, I have a few weeks before the next one... wish it was closer.
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Hello Friends;
Well, I finally played my first ' jazz gig / jam session ' in a public venue. Some may recall I've been looking for quite a while for the right players and setting. I recently found a jazz trio (on Facebook ) that plays Sundays regularly at a cafe' , about 45 min drive away. They invite basically anyone to come and play whatever instrument and style they play. After contacting the leader, a jazz guitarist with 50 yrs of playing experience, and sharing some of my recordings and Jazz Studio collaboration videos, he was quite keen for me to attend. I practiced a few tunes ahead that I know well, and showed up early. The group was very friendly, & welcoming. There was a good drummer, bass player as well, who play together regularly. I listened for their 1st set, about 45 minutes, then sat in with them. We played a few tunes I had prepared for , Autumn Leaves, Black Orpheus, Summertime, and a G Blues. I stuck mostly to comping rhythm, except playing melody on Summertime, while the other players took turns soloing.
I had a little trouble hearing the 'changes' , ( drums were loud, right behind me) but I was told I did very well. I though I could have played much better but for the first time I guess it was OK. There was also a very good trumpet player playing with us, which I really liked. So... it was overall a good learning experience ( 'diving into the deep end' as the leader put it) and great to meet and play with some
good musicians. They invited me back anytime, so I left on a positive note. Next time ( a few weeks) I'll know more of what to expect. Cheers; Neil-
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Im sure you'll have a great time and learn a lot Doug 🙂 Neil
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That's very interesting Steve, as you have some really nice instruments, like your trusty ES335 ( that I believe you've had since college) I'd have to agree though that an acoustic guitar ( or acoustic/ Electric, like my Taylor 224ceK- Dlx) would be the was to go, first the reasons you've stated. I would be tough to give up my ES335!
Kindest Regards; Neil
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I had the privilege recently to participate in a virtual collaboration with 8 other players from 5 countries in a jam of "Little Wing" ( Jimi Hendriks) These great players and I are all members of Frank Vignola's Jazz Studio on Truefire. We where all given the freedom to create our own solos, using acoustic flat top guitars I hope you enjoy it! It was fun to do 🙂
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Thanks very much for posting that link 😀 I really enjoyed listening to all of them... it's been years since I've heard them! (Yes Doug, I know the all 😉) It took me back to my Jr. High and high school days and my Mom's '9 transistor ' Sears pocket radio, my first guitar, and trying ( feebly) to emulate the Venturers. 'A blast 😃 from the past", as **** Clark used to say!
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Looks and sounds like a wonderful time 🙂.
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On 8/3/2022 at 6:19 PM, matonanjin said:
Back to seriousness, at least temporarily, I was surprised at the top two. I didn't realize that Kurt Cobain's guitars has surpassed the record set by David Gilmour's Black Strat. Somehow the sale of those two occurred without popping up on my radar.
Clapton's "Blackie" selling for whatever it did, $950,000? is not quite as shocking now. Whose guitar is left to sell at auction? Are a lot of our classic rock pioneers' guitars lost? Or did they switch guitars often enough to where there isn't just one to command that ridiculous premium? BB King didn't, as an example, have just one "Lucille". Hendrix's, Duane Allman's, John Lennon's and Garcia's are sold. Is this why we are now moved from "Classic" rockers' guitars to "Grunge" rocker Cobain's guitars?
Whose guitar is going to sell next for the ridiculous multimillion dollar price? Or are we done with these astronomical prices for Guitar God's Guitars? How many million will @NeilES335's Gibson 335 bring at auction?!? What is everyone's prediction?
@matonanjinI'd take a sizable chunk of cash for me to part with it! I've had it about 10 yrs, and the more I play it (lately every day) the more I love it. Cheers; Neil
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A highly subjective topic ... greatest of all time at what genre? Jazz artist like Joe Pass, with his stunning chord melody playing, and Wes Montgomery's beautiful melodic ' octaves techniques are conspicuously absent from this so-called greatest list. If you've never heard either of them, do yourself a treat and like them up!
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On 8/30/2021 at 4:03 PM, gotto said:
This has been a fun summer for my band. It began with an invitation last October to bring the group to my high school class of ‘ 69’s 70th birthday party and morphed into 6 other outdoor gigs throughout the summer months. We played the birthday party gig a week ago and finish up playing at a street party charity event this weekend. Our 4th of July gig for a closed neighborhood was particularly special. No fireworks this year because of the NW drought conditions, so the fireworks money went to the band…$1200. Hope others here had a chance to get out also and play or watch some music this year .
This pic of the party, a great venue, is at The Summit Lodge in SW Washington. Me in blue. Our first encore!
Greg
Congratulations Gotto on getting out and playing in public with your band. I bet that is fun to do😆
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14 hours ago, matonanjin said:
What great playing Neil! Very impressive. I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you all for your kind comments. It certainly helps to play with excellent players. I've participated in several now, but this was my first as a Trio, and having the melody lead as well. They are fun to do, once you get the hang of it. I am looking forward to the next one 😉 . For the past year or so I've concentrated on learning jazz standards, both rhythm and melodies, and also learning the fretboard even better. I'm also working on a course for solo guitar on Chord Melody style arrangements (playing chords and melody simultaneously) . Lots of new chord shapes and harmonizations!
Never stop learning😉 Cheers; Neil
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On 8/22/2021 at 11:07 AM, Eracer_Team-DougH said:
See you've got the Es going, looks like JP is on a L5 guessing
Not sure what guitar Dan is playing.
Glad to hear you got quite a lead in this group .
I have to figure out how they do that collage video
Doug; Thanks Doug😊 JP Cousineau plays a vintage Washburn, similar to a Gibson ES175.. He told me it's a hand made instrument made in Japan.
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3 hours ago, Wim VD1 said:
That's another nice sounding collaboration, Neil. Are the 3 parts recorded simultaneously?
I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
Wim.
Thanks Wim; It was I think, our best one yet 🙂 . I'm glad you enjoyed it! All three parts, audio and video were recorded in separate locations, and later mixed to produce the video.
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Here's my latest Jazz Studio collaboration; "That's All". This time featuring two fine Canadian jazz guitarists, JP Cousineau (Montreal Quebec), Dan Kozar (Windsor, Ontario) and myself. What a treat to play with these gentlemen. We hope you enjoy listening!
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15 hours ago, Plantsman13 said:
@DianeB Thanks for sharing! Hope everyone has a great experience.
Note: Can you adjust your text color? Currently I’m getting black on a dark grey background and it’s tough to read…@Plantsman13 You can adjust your screen colour/ colour scheme on the site by using the little paintbrush on the main page to the right of your User Name.
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10 hours ago, QuietlyBold said:
Thanks everyone, looks like I'm on the right track 🙂
Im looking forward to the day I have a dedicated studio space too... Plenty of good suggestions here, so you should do well.
For recording gear (as Doug said) I bought the Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 combination kit, with the interface (2 channels in 2 channels out), a good set of over the ear headphones, and a microphone. All great stuff, and the worlds top selling unit. I comes with a raft of "plug in's" (recording software) and all you really need. You'll need to select a DAW, (Digital Audio Workstation) to record this, and after "demo-ing" a few, I settled on REAPER. It's a free to try program with a "sugested" license agreement (not expensive). There are lots of videos on YouTube to show you how to record with it. It''ll take a while to learn, but you dont need to know everything to produce a decent recording.
Recording yourself is a HUGE leap forward, and I strongly recommend it to ANYONE, regardless of skill level. You can hear what you acutally sound like and work on your skills, and playing songs. You dont HAVE TO share it if you dont want to...
Good Luck and Happy Tunes; Neil
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@Wim VD1 Hi Wim; I wonder if you saw my personal message ? Neil
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@Eracer_Team-DougH Good job Doug😊 I know you worked hard on this one. Playing 3 parts, ( plus vocal track ) and getting most notes clean and in time is not the easiest task on this tune. Just a suggestion... I wonder if the tempo was a bit quick.(?) If it was slowed down a touch it could play and sound a bit smoother. Otherwise very good.😉 N.
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On 6/12/2021 at 7:11 PM, rbauer1 said:
Just wondering if someone could help me out.
Couple of days ago I viewed a video that Steve recorded on modes within a major chord. I took to session in but I would like to view it again. Unfortunately I can not find it anywhere within the lesson videos. Can someone direct me in the right direction.
Regards,
If you're speaking about the Learn & Master course, I don't think you'll find any reference to modes in this course. I'm sorry I can't really point you to it off hand. Modes are a more advanced concept. Very basically, the concept is starting a scale on other than the root. For example in key of Cmaj, start on D (2nd ) but stay in key of C (no #s or b's) or E (3rd) but stay in Cmaj. There are 7 modes all with their own names (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aolian & Locrian. ) and each has a distinct sound. There is plenty on line and YouTube about this for you to explore if you wish.
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On 10/21/2020 at 4:09 PM, Limatje said:
Hey Mike, Thanks a lot for the reply.
I Think I have found a good routine now and I improve a lot.
Like I said before, I work with 2 routines. 1 for every week (I try to practice that routine 4 days a week), and 1 routine that I must finish within a month and where I practice things that I struggled with in the past or that I still want to improve. (I try to work on that list for 2 days in a week)
The 7th day is pure for fun...
Every course that I follow and every exercise from the beginning of my guitar journey until now has his own code. For example A14B: Learn and master guitar is course A, The session is 14 and the exercise is B. Or Q1C: a bottleneck guitar course that I follow is Q, the session is 1 and the exercise is C. Or G11: G is my repertoire and the song is the 11th song.....
That List that I work on at monthly bases is too long to post here but this is my practice routine for this week (2 hours a day is divided into pieces, I never practice more then 30 minutes in 1 take):
Oktober 2020/3
Practice Routine: ‘Four Days A week’ (2h)
A13E: Soloing In Different Keys Using The Pentatonic Forms With The Blues Notes (Youtube) (10min) ___/___/___/___
A14A: Sliding Riffs On The 5th And The 6th String (Lesson Book) (5min) ___/___/___/___
A14B: Practice The Major Scale Bending Exercise (Lesson Book) (2min) ___/___/___/___
A14I: Jazz Octaves (Lesson Book) (5min) ___/___/___/___
A14J The Funky Mute (Lesson Book) (3min) ___/___/___/___
A14K: Sliding Exercises: Between Two Notes Of The Same Pitch (Bonus Resource) (2min) ___/___/___/___
A14L: Sliding Exercises: Minor 7th Arpeggio (Bonus Resource) (4min) ___/___/___/___
A14M: Sliding Exercises: With Two Notes (Bonus Resource) (1min) ___/___/___/___
A14N: Sliding Exercises: 50’s Riff (Bonus Resource) (2min) ___/___/___/___
A14O: Cmaj7 Arpeggio Ascending With Hammer-Ons & Descending With Pull-Offs (Bonus Resource) (4min) ___/___/___/___
A14P: Dm7 Arpeggio Ascending With Hammer-Ons & Descending With Pull-Offs (Bonus Resource) (4min) ___/___/___/___
C2: Speed and Agility Workout 2 Intermediate (20min) ___/___/___/___
E1A: Choose 5 1Minute Changes1 7: Cm11 - E2 (barre5 - open) (Practice Map) (1min) __-__/__-__/__-__/__-__
E1B: Choose 5 1Minute Changes2 2: G - D/F# (open - open) (Practice Map) (1min) __-__/__-__/__-__/__-__
E1C: Choose 5 1Minute Changes3 3: E7 - Gsus (open - barre6) (Practice Map) (1min) __-__/__-__/__-__/__-__
E1D: Choose 5 1Minute Changes4 6: F2 - C2 (barre4 - open) (Practice Map) (1min) __-__/__-__/__-__/__-__
E1E: Choose 5 1Minute Changes5 5: Bm11 - Bmaj7 (open - barre5) (Practice Map) (1min) __-__/__-__/__-__/__-__
E7: Open Major 7th Chords & Moveable Major 7th Chords (2min) ___/___/___/___
F7: Functional Ear Trainer (Alain Benbassat Method) (5min) ___/___/___/___
G6: Wonderfull Tonight (Six String Fingerpicking) FS (3min) ___/___/___/___
G9: Sound Of Silence (Six String Fingerpicking) FS (3min) ___/___/___/___
G10: East Virginia Blues (Flatpicking Guitar Country Style) FP (3min) ___/___/___/___
G11: Shady grove (Flatpicking Guitar Country Style) FP (3min) ___/___/___/___
G13: Ain’t No Sunshine (Six String Fingerpicking) FS (5min) ___/___/___/___
G14: Is There Anybody Out There (Six String Fingerpicking) FS (5min) ___/___/___/___
Gx3: Hey Hey My My (Youtube) FP (3min) ___/___/___/___
O3A: Blues Lick 1 from Pattern 1 (1min) ___/___/___/___
O3B: Blues Lick 2 from Pattern 1 (1min) ___/___/___/___
O3C: Blues Lick 3 from Pattern 1 (1min) ___/___/___/___
O3D: Blues Lick 4 from Pattern 1 (1min) ___/___/___/___
O3E: Blues Lick 5 from Pattern 1 (1min) ___/___/___/___
Q1C: Single String Exercises 5-8 With Vibrato— Open D (5min) ___/___/___/___
R3: Ten Fingerpicking Exercises 1-2 (11min) ___/___/___/___
Extra: __________________________________________________________________ ___/___/___/___/___/___/___
Extra: __________________________________________________________________ ___/___/___/___/___/___/___
Extra: __________________________________________________________________ ___/___/___/___/___/___/___
Imho this too much to take on at once. I'd pick maybe 3 things to work on, become very proficient at those things, then move on to 3 more. And don't forget to learn some songs! You'll learn more and have more fun that way; and others may actually want to listen 😊
Happy Tunes; Neil
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On 6/13/2021 at 4:47 PM, Wim VD1 said:
This one is based on a Tommy Emmanual Travis picking lesson on TrueFire. I brought back in a bit of The Animals for the intro and tried to make my guitar sound like a mandolin in the end
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It"s the first recording with my new Fender Paramount PM-2 Parlor Mahogany. It"s a nice small short scale fingerpicker with the neck joint at the 12th fret. Great guitar for fingerstyle blues.
Wim.
Very well done Wim👍 You captured the tune in fingerstyle, not an easy skill to acquire. Your new guitar sounds great too.
(HOTRS was one of the first tunes I learned directly from lifting the needle on the 'newly released' Animals vinyl LP 😉)
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That is some place alright... I would have liked to see more of Gibsons iconic jazz guitars from the past as well as those still made now... and more on the many versions of ES guitars.
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18 hours ago, Strings said:
Thought I’d share a little recording I just did for a Session 10 exercise. I am new to SoundCloud so I hope it comes across ok.
Sounds pretty good @Strings. Now you have that 1-6-2-5 progression down, there are hundreds of songs you could play. Find one you like,and record it 😉 N
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7 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:
Good for you Mike.
USA seems to have "gotten over" covid.
I can't speak for all Canadian's, but I'm just scratching my head as we're still in lockdown.
Can't buy shoes or pants as those are considered non-essential (and too many shoppers congregating) no restaurant open let alone bars and concerts.
I can't even imagine attending a concert till even next year, and I'm sure we'll have tons of restrictions
Looking for a full Tommy report when you go.
Doug and I had tickets to see Tommy in concert last fall neat Toronto, but it was canceled due to the pandemic.. bummer 🙄
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Way to go Doug 👍 When does the album come out? 😉