Hey, BigShooter, I’m about to release a promo video for something that could get a few thousand views.
We were just talking about ‘Gee, we could use a nice indie band for this part’. Would you mind terribly if we used some of your music, got you some exposure? If you agree, I’ll pop it past the other people, and we’ll hash out any details.
Just PM’d you.
By the way - finally watching the video. Cool power-pop song and I enjoyed your playing BigShooter - good job. And yeah, love a cool Tele Custom.
Is that a GFS Loudmouth in the bridge?
Bigmouth. Didn’t go for the overwound, to match the singles. Which are GFS Brighton Rocks, middle being RW/RP.
http://store.guitarfetish.com/Bigmouth-Bridge-Pickup-POWER-with-vintage-Tone-Bridge-Position_p_102.html#
http://store.guitarfetish.com/Brighton-Rock-Pickups-Calibrated-RWRP-Set-of-three_p_1521.html
Thanks man…
Yeah, definitely cool looking pickups, and it sounds like you’re happy with the tone. Sweet.
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xaviere-Guitars_c_185.html
ALERT! GFS BLEM SALE! Clearance!
Hey CWG - how’s it going with this?
On the jazz front, I now have, oh, at least 2 different II-V-I chord changes now with a decent groove to them!*
*for those not jazz conversant, there are, oh, a practically infinite number of chord voicings that jazz cats should know to play those changes. It’s a start 
Hey, Word! Well, it’s going slow, which is OK because I’m in no hurry. But upthread I was reminded of Gbase, and also turned on to Palen guitars. The nearest dealer is in N.J., a 4-hour drive for me, and I don’t know if I’ll ever get there. I also played a D’Angelico New Yorker at a vintage equipment shop in Fall Church (Action Music). Laminated top but very nice tone and excellent playability. I have a bias towards carved tops but I’m sure that some laminated-top guitars outperform some carved tops.
Technically that would be ii-V-I (or ii[sup]7[/sup]-V[sup]7[/sup]-I[sup]maj7[/sup]). I am currently boning up on harmonic minor modes, so trying to burn into my brain those changes in minor keys, which works out to ii[sup]7b5[/sup] - V[sup]7b9[/sup] - i[sup]maj7[/sup]. Stella By Starlight has minor 2-5-1 all over the place. I tend to spend more practice time on solo approach vs. chord voicings, so I only have two voicings for that sequence in minor at the moment.
Cool; best of luck as it plays out.
As for the changes, yeah, what I am doing is setting up a groove so I can solo over it. Basically the jazzish version of Stevie Ray Vaughn rhythm n’ lead groove-ness.
For me, that’s the rub. Soloing in the major scale - which is what I am focused on now - to be SO freakin’ different from blues pent minor. I know - shocking - but I felt so ill equipped to play a simple melody in major it is really interesting to try to go there.
A good way to get started down that road is chord arpeggios. You can’t go wrong playing chord tones over a chord. If you play arpeggios for Dm7, G7, Cmaj7 you are always playing notes in the C major scale.
Yep - I get that. But that’s not my point; when I play in Major, hitting a sequence like VII-V-VI (if it is even written that way - it’s like the Day By Day from Godspell lick. When I play a few chords, I try to sell those types of melodic phrases. Right now I am trying to sell my playing of the vocal line for Beyond the Sea.
Why? No clue; but it’s a cool challenge for me…
Simple question that betrays my ignorance. What does it mean when I’m reading sheet music and I see 2 chords separated by a slash like C+6/A?
Typically it means that you are essentially fingering X chord, but have a Y in the bass note. For those cool, open chords that sound airy and complex, or for passing chords as you climb down a bassline while holding some of the upper-part of the chords constant…
Right–it’s not two chords. (BTW C+6 looks kind of odd to me; C+7 or C6 but I don’t think I’ve ever seen C+6). Common ones might be Dm7/C, or a progression with descending bass like WordMan describes such as in While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
So, it’s an inversion?
I’m not a big Heart fan. But this acoustic version of Dog and Butterfly is just plain nice!
Often but not necessarily.
I’m sort of embarrassed to not know this, but I’ve never had a semi-solid/hollow body guitar. On an ES-335, are the pickups mounted to the soundboard or to the block?