Bilbo

Yes, mate. One out, one in. No regrets. I have played this one more in one week than I did the 175 in five years. No exaggeration. I am finding the gigs I am doing are fewer and fewer and need something to keep me interested.

I am so enjoying this guitar.

Also, it depends on how you define learning a song. I have songs where I can play the bass part perfectly but couldn't name a single chord whereas a Jazz musician won't define a song as known unless you can play it in all keys and improvise over the changes.

Depends entirely on what it is. I am working on the melody lines of Fugata by Astor Piazzolla and it is taking forever as the lines are really intricate. Recently learned Most Precarious by Blues Traveller and it took five or ten minutes.

[quote name='Yank' timestamp='1492681605' post='3282215'] In bygone days, jazz was vibrant. Today, IMO, it's mostly self indulgent and derivative. It's dead and rigermortice has set in. Send flowers. [/quote] Depends on what you call Jazz.

It has the new contours. I find it perfectly stable and comfortable. I know a lot of people don't like the roundback design but I have never had a problem with it.

That's when it comes into it's own, RhysP. I tend to think of electro acoustics for recording rather than live but I may be going out as a duo playing guitar as well as bass so it's all good.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1492384770' post='3279861'] He did alright for someone who never considered his playing to be as good as he wanted it, and didn't really want to play the guitar. I'd say his voice as a guitarist is the most identifiable out there. He was a magician. [/quote] I guess it was in striving for that which he didn't find that he found what he did.

First heard him on Bruford's Feels Good to Me. I loved Road Games. One of the absolute innovators. Identifiable after two notes. Irreplaceable.

Rock covers gig. We got told to turn down. I've still got it

There is a bluesy rock LP coming out soon on my which I play Fretless throughout. Watch this space.

Put simply, notes are not defined necessarily by their individual location or specific sound but by their context. A flat fifth is not a sharpened fourth even if they are both an F#. It is the notes AROUND the note that tell you what to call it.

I remember being told by a guitar player that 'fretless was dead' in about 1988. I have played one since 1986 (the same one, as it happens). Rock, Blues, Funk, Latin and Jazz, duos, trios, quartets, big bands etc - and all with barely a mwah!. It is an instrument that you make music on just like any other. The music changes, the sounds of the effects added to the instrument changes but the core instrument is no different to the other fretless instruments: double bass, cello, viola and violin.

Here we go. I tried to capture the fear I felt as a child watching those 'Duck and Cover' type adverts of what to do if there is a nuclear bomb falling within earshot. Scared the s*** out of me and ruined an otherwise idyllic childhood. https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/threads

http://youtu.be/6vzZWAd-k_I Listen to this. At the end of Herbie Hancock 's piano solo, Branford Marsalis picks up the closing phrase and constructs an entire solo by buiding on that four note phrase, moving it around his horn. Listen to it closely. That is what a Jazz solo should do.

You are entering a whole new universe with your playing when you start playing Jazz. A solo is not a pretty prepared thing but needs to exist IN CONTEXT. Playing along with backing tracks of any kind is useful but, yes, you need to be able to make it work in real time. You need to get your head around theme and variations, question and answer phrases etc. I recommend you find some real Jazz players and have a chat about what it is you are trying to do.

Strangely, I am currently reading The Massacre of Mankind, an authorised sequel to WOTW.

And we're off again. This one works!! [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/DSC_0133_zpsixwj2e7r.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/DSC_0133_zpsixwj2e7r.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1491659253' post='3274623'] More reliably the last chord but a little late if you're jamming.. [/quote] Even the first chord from the bar before the last one

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1490865157' post='3268566'] Well I'm not sure about violin corners and you don't have them on it [/quote] We are of a like mind!

Try listening to other instruments like saxophone, trumpet, piano etc. Copping your licks off bass resources will provide a fairly narrow outlook.

Them Hereford boys can't read English, never mind music

Tab is not always correct. Best to work on your own fingerings.

I think that this is what they call a first world problem.

Just dropped it off at a DFS place. Won't go until Monday but that's OK. Thomann have agreed to replace without any problems so I just have to wait a little while longer for the dream guitar.