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    Re: Tenor Guitar Gallery & Sightings

    The most info I have seen on them is on the below page; Australian hippies doing fun old timey material. I've had the US version of "Smoke Dreams" for years and I think I have the 7" as well. I...
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    Re: Talent vs. Ability

    Yes I absolutely believe in the great value of the childlike ("beginners") mind.

    An alternative explanation for the decline of that amazing learning ability is that the same period is where self...
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    Re: Talent vs. Ability

    It can be explained. There is a period in childhood - around the same time that language skills are usually developed - when amazing feats of learning can happen in a relatively short time with...
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    Re: 21" vs 23" scale

    I have a 21" Stewart and a 23" Kay Kraft both CGDA. I like them both but the Stewart gets a lot more play time as I can play single note parts fairly well on it (but even then, half steps across...
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    Re: Jetel tenor guitar ?

    No doubt that the zero fret and staggered tuners are not typical for Regal. However they were known for having small minimum orders to do custom runs for a house brand. From that pic, I doubt the...
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    Re: Jetel tenor guitar ?

    that's an oem/rebranded Regal
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    Rufus Harley. I have most of his albums.
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    There's one Merzbow record from the 80s called Live In Khabarovsk, CCCP where on the second side they are joined on stage by two Russian free jazz musicians on piano and drums !

    I like Vinny Golia...
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    Martin I sent you a few links, not sure if they came through OK because I don't see the message in my sent items here.
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    Music really does bring all kinds of people together in all kinds of situations.

    I've got a lot to learn on the instrument yet, but I'm on my way to making some music on the mandola that probably...
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    Free jazz is kind of a home base interest for me. There are many different attitudes about this.

    Early free jazz was clearly a form of jazz, but it's hard to see how that applies to non swinging...
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    The term is absolutely incorrect for those styles. This is one of those situations where you can either be intelligible (to an "average person" who knows little about this) and wrong, or...
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    Re: Differences among music genres?

    Right.

    Also this is something that is more about perceived opinion, tradition, marketing, and eventually, criticism and history, than it is about objective factors like rhythm or whether the...
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    Re: Modes are so confusing

    "Easy" is hard to quantify, but if you want to be a fluid improvisor or to write melodies - and not everyone needs those abilities - you're going to have to deal with scales intimately.

    Whatever...
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    Re: What's the key?

    I don't know if they would have used that term, but I'm sure they were aware of other songs using the same chords.

    That quote is classic expectations setting from a musician who prefers to be seen...
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    If you want to get an idea of the real economic value of music, look at the way that it is used to sell practically anything else that is sold by anybody.

    They don't do that because it doesn't...
  17. Re: What's the difference between a mode and a scale???

    the main reasons are
    1) it helps you see the relationship between diatonic chords in a key and how the same set of notes can produce very different sounding and functionally different chords, and
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    Re: Mizrab (and what about fingerpicks)

    I've experimented with mizrab, and with a different version of the same idea (not sure what it's called, a friend gave it to me, but it's also an all steel wire design with more of a rounded "nail")....
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    Re: What's the key?

    Many many songs use the bVII-IV-I progression in whole or part. Some inescapable ones are Norwegian Wood (verse), Sweet Home Alabama, and Gloria.
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    I'm not familiar with those but just listened to Cooley's Reel. You're referring to something else altogether, modal with notes that are unused and so they have less than the typical 7.

    The whole...
  21. Re: What's the difference between a mode and a scale???

    I kind of agree, but on the other hand there are few if any practical exceptions to that in the music that most people listen to.

    When I think of a scale that defies being looked at or used as a...
  22. Re: What's the difference between a mode and a scale???

    No. Saying a composition is in a mode is a special case - it doesn't have a single exact meaning but it implies that in some way, the specific mode will be used throughout (or at least in most of the...
  23. Re: Is the Era of Free Streaming Music Coming to an End?

    While I have an opinion on this, I can see the chicken/egg aspect of it.

    The thing that comes to mind for me is all of the music that people I know personally download and don't listen to, and the...
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    I can address that from the point of view of one such person (which is not to say that there aren't many other viewpoints), just so you understand that what we as musicians want - surely, a diverse...
  25. Re: Little practice daily vs long practice occassionaly

    There is some science that demonstrates that consistency is more important, and also that is more beneficial to practice not long before you sleep, because your mind can keep assimilating during...
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