This French chanson from 1951 (also known as "Under Paris Skies") is this week's tune in the Song-A-Week social group. As I have recorded it on tenor guitar, it may be of interest here as well. ...
This French chanson from 1951 (also known as "Under Paris Skies") is this week's tune in the Song-A-Week social group. As I have recorded it on tenor guitar, it may be of interest here as well. ...
Here's a clip... next one will include some chords and the lower ranges...
https://youtu.be/Rbc4z_IB9bg
https://youtu.be/Rbc4z_IB9bg
Hi All,
I just got my Collings all mahogany tenor guitar back from the Collings repair shop, where they treated the guitar and me like royalty. No financial interest or ties here, just a very...
Here are some pics from a recent build that I finished for a really cool project out here on Vancouver Island. About 50 different artists made pieces from the same walnut tree.
Here's a great Finbarr Dwyer reel played on the new Herb Taylor tenor guitar. Herb strung it up with flat wound strings but I haven't decided if they're quite my cup of tea or not yet, may swap them...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JwnkNyhIg
Messin with Satchmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roV__-C7EY8
Experimenting with setup and pick selection with my new/old Gretsch TG. I'm off my mark in my playing, but it's all good right? I dropped the action,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWALmsmdTg
Just got her in and strung up. Has serial no. 1938 engraved into top of headstock, so I guess it's a 1934? I've got a link out on a Gretsch forum too,...
Another one I picked up from Eddy Davis on his tenor banjo, from Louis Armstrongs' hot five way back when. Finger style on a 5O's Gibson TG 150. I can try to chart it out if anyone is interested, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1C2ohgAiEg
Hey Fox, I haven't done this one in quite awhile, so I got my real book out. It's pretty close. Many ways to interpret this one. A lot of these 3 note...
So, it really doesn't fit the rock category here, but I don't see a place for funk! I learned Joe Dart's bass part for the wicked funky tune, Dean Town by Vulfpeck. Let me know what you guys think!
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Not to argue with the great D. Stiernberg, but this is how I play it. I use a lot of bar chords. The 2nd part of the B section the G/B7 and G/Bb07/Am/Daug are 1/2 measure each. I'll have to try it...
Hi Nick!
Try G6/G6/E7/E7/A7/A7/A7/A7
Am7/D7-D#dim/Em/Em
A7/A7/D7/Daug
Repeat first line, then C6/Cm7/G6-B7/Em/Am7/D7/G6
best, donnie
As an old man with lots of stuff, I feel the need to chime in.
I have an inordinate stash of mandolins, guitars, books, firearms, and experiences, which I've accumulated over the decades; the...
Aside from all that, I'm wondering if the younger generation is simply tired of looking at too much junk. It's true that antique dealers here in New England are disappearing rapidly. It's also true...
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Solomon Conn's fiddle was carried with him throughout his Civil War career. He scratched into the figured maple back a record of the places he traveled, fought and played during the war.
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Sorry, no CBOMs on this, but I thought after my last post of a Niel Gow tune, people mind like this new recording. I do do this with my mandolin orchestra, but this is just me playing a Brook...
Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiP5Wp7EwUI
Small luthier businesses generally highly ethical businesses and think about the woods they are using in their instruments. Being an amateur luthier, we as musicians should endorse home-grown...
I never knew you had to tune these things. Mine was in tune when I bought it in 1993. Is there a video lesson on tuning?
GDAE on 25" scale is entirely possible. A while ago i showed two instruments - an SG conversion with standard Gibson scale tuned that way for a friend and a 5 string archtop tuned CGDAE (i'll show an...
Trying to get some different ideas under my fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-A5mFZhm-Y
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQJmyWdmOs
I've been listening to my favorite pianist Bill Evans playing his awesome arrangements on this song. I want to play like Bill, but it will take me a...
There is a really wonderful article by Greg Cahill in the current (February) issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine
http://acousticguitar.com/
on Tenor Guitars ... featuring Lowell (Banana!)...
I haven't posted much on the cafe over the last couple months but wanted to make sure people knew that I was still around and actively building. I get a fair amount of emails asking if I'm still...