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Do you know about Tommy Teldesco's book
He used to have a column in Guitar Player mag where he told stories about his studio experiences. Haven't seen his book yet, but I will.
Tim
Do you know about Tommy Teldesco's book
Timothy Lawler said:He used to have a column in Guitar Player mag where he told stories about his studio experiences. Haven't seen his book yet, but I will.
Tim
Do you still read Guitar Player these days?
Timothy Lawler said:Once in a while. The main thing I find interesting about it is, if you scan all the full page ads it's like a psychographic analysis of the guitar market.
Relating to the thread topic, I think that Guitar Player has tried many times in its instructional columns to help its readers learn the note names on the fingerboard. So while I find some of their content repetitive, I've got to credit them for that.
Tim
Guess it depends on the particular characteristics of the player.
Timothy Lawler said:I believe that most people benefit from knowing the names of the pitches on the fingerboard, and being able to read fluently too, but people are different... I think the whole thing is best approached with a little sensitivity to how different people think and feel music.
Tim
What about Django,
I read he used a "Mecaffari"{sp?} it was a D hole acoustic with a mustach bridge{a very thin bridge design} I beliveRICK FITZPATRICK said:OH, now your talking about my favorite player...I'm a slut for gypsy jazz
Say, can anyone tell me what kind of guitar the player in the Hot Club of San Francisco uses. It sounds amazingly like the early Django recordings.. love that ..hmmm..how do you describe it? Crisptness? The tonal quality is unlike any guitar I've ever tried, and I've tried hundreds in my life
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Nothing. The problem is assuming they are.What's wrong with musicians these days?
sweetnubs said:What's wrong with musicians these days?
I don't know about the 60 chord system but there is a simple learn 72 chords in 15 minutes system that I learned.Gear_Junky said:Would someone please kindly explain about the "60-chord system"? Did a search on google and didn't find anything. Maybe drop a link?
What's wrong with musicians these days?
I don't know that being able to know the notes instantly has anything to do with being a musician. Being able to tell the difference between E or A without any reference is great for a recording engineer, is great for a piano tuner, but not really necessary to play the piano, guitar, and certainly not the drum either.sweetnubs said:I like Django. I like Grant Green. I'm not even a guitar player and I know all the notes instantly with no need to calculate. I'm not a drummer and I can tune drums better than most drummers. I can even tune a piano. (I used to work for a piano resotoration business when I was a teenager.) What's wrong with musicians these days?
Dracon said:I don't know about the 60 chord system but there is a simple learn 72 chords in 15 minutes system that I learned.
Thank you, Dracon! But I'd say that this "system" is pretty much inherent in any fretboard strummed instrument. I was thinking more along the lines of the CAGED system.
I know all these chords and how to name them and I've learned the various 7th, suspended and 6th chords etc.
The 2 bass strings are no problem at all - that's how I learned the notes on them - by learning the various moveable chords of CAGED and also by playing bass. But the other 4 strings just never came along, so I thought maybe the "60 chord system" is something new.
Surely, anyone can figure out "alphabetically" which note each fret is, but the key to using it musically is to know instantly which note, without referencing, or if referencing, doing the closest note very quickly, like I do on bass - I know certain shapes on adjacent strings and 1 or 2 strings over - I know my octaves, 5th's and 3rd's.
But to me the 4 high guitar strings, especially with B string being 1 fret lower than "anticipated" throws me off. I guess it's only learned by rote memorization and application.
Gear_Junky said:Well, sorry to have wasted your time then.Dracon said:IThank you, Dracon! But I'd say that this "system" is pretty much inherent in any fretboard strummed instrument. I was thinking more along the lines of the CAGED system.
I do know that I don't know anything about any 60 Chord system of any kind, CAGED or un-CAGED.