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Welcome to this life long endeavor. It's a rich path.
Jazz is a vocal genre - the best way to develop the vocabulary is to learn melodies of standards - from fake books, real books, or (best!) by...

I've been lately wrassling with almost the opposite problem - I use my pinky all the time, usually around the 5th fret, so it's unavailable for the 7th fret. I play a lot of more chromatic type...

Muito obrigado for this link! What a beautiful movie.

~Will Patton
wpatton.com

Paddy Fahy's Reel (ala Martin Hayes?)
The Wise Maid?
Chief O'Neill's?
McMahons (Banshee)?
-Appreciate your efforts very much...

This was a really great exchange, Scott. What a cool thing to have these folks in my kitchen. Thanks!

Tenor guitar by Adam Buchwald - G D A E
National Triolian, 1930 or so , same tuning
I play swing, Gypsy, Irish, Quebecoise and folkie stuff - some choro, the occasional tango.

wow - great stuff. Who wrote this tune? All around great playing!

We got to hang out and play music with Bob and Aline in Sauve on a couple of occasions, we are close friends with their good friend Maggie DeMiramon - he is a wonderful and crafty player and I can't...

Hi folks, we'll be visiting Maine for a house concert in Portland on Sat. June 30th at Jay York's great venue, “Last Church on the Left” 58 Wilmot St., Portland, ME
(one block south of Franklin...

I love this CD and all these players. I get to play with Ruthie from time to time and she always knocks it out of the park. We've been playing the Homenaje a me Pueblo, the 1st track from this CD...

wow! Superbe! The ensemble playing, the tonality of the instruments, the composition and the concept - all incroyable. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for that link, Joel - nice site. I love the tangos, and just got a strange gig fall in my lap for Sunday - - - a new bishop is being installed in the Burlington St. Paul's church, they're...

This is just awful, shocking and sad news. I've never met a more generous musician and educator. In his hands music theory became less like rocket science and more like . . . grace. There's a huge...

What a great resource - one of my favorite choro composers, and the full charts really flesh out the harmonies. Thanks for letting us know!

This is very sad. I listened to her for hours and hours. She'll be missed.
-Will

thanks, John - you've just provided me with a syllabus
-Will

oh yeah - I love this. everybody's on the same chromatic slippy slidey wavelength - taking it outside, punctuated by a little funky blues lick or quote. And what great touch from all the players . ....

whoa! amazing, inventive performance and arrangement. Grammy nominee for best use of a 13 b9 chord in a folk tune. The accuracy of the harmonics section was staggering. I'll now retire from music...

ok, o Senhor Hoople, here we come. Take a left at Australia, yes?

A Ginga do Mane was also inspired by the futbol as I understand it (a rudimentary understanding, to be sure). Mane was a futbol star, and a ginga is a way of carrying oneself, or moving, or really,...

What a great interview from an amazing player and gifted educator - this is a master class, right here. Thanks to all involved.
Will Patton

Just a little heads up for Vermont, Mass., N.H area players - The Vermont Lutherie School in Post Mills, Vt. (north of Hanover, NH) will be hosting my trio for workshops and a concert. I"ll be...

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Hey Jim -
I use 42 - 33 - 23 - 13 altho this is more a function of having them around then careful...

[QUOTE=Tom Wright;841618]How many here hold their pick with the index finger tip, and with the fingerboard side of the pick higher while the bridge side is lower?


I do - in many respects...

Does anyone know of a listing of serial #s for National Reso-tenors with corresponding years of production? Can't seem to find anything on the internets closer than "1928-1934" - maybe that's all...