Bilbo

Just to add, the Harley Benton HBO 850 SB e acoustic guitar costs £98, I can't recommend it enough as an entry level option.

After playing it acoustically for a couple of days, I plugged it in. Dead as a dodo. Changed battery. Nothing. Different leads and Amps. Nothing. XLR connection. Nothing. It appears that my electro acoustic guitar is entirely acoustic :-D Buggery bollocks. It's now got to go back to Germany for a holiday.

Yep. And the picking technique book, three different books of solos and several Piazzolla charts. Hours of fun.

I am known on here for advocating reading of music and have seen dozens of threads about the importance or otherwise of the skill. I have recently started working much more intensively on my reading and am now reading treble clef as well as bass. What I am finding is that by slowing myself down, I am learning quicker. I cock about with a chart for days and then, all of a sudden, I am playing it. More importantly, I find that new charts are becoming easier to move around as I become more and more comfortable. I am looking at Al Di Meola stuff, some Piazzolla, two Ravel pieces and some Scarlatti. I stress that I am NOT sight reading these pieces cold but studying them through the learning process. It feels like 'more haste, less speed' as the saying goes. There is so much material out there now, it's wonderful.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490790186' post='3267984'] Hope you've had better luck with them than I have. [/quote] My favourite is the Cielo De Terra book. I can only play one track all of the way through (Enigma of Desire) but the bits I can execute are getting longer and smoother. I guess it is about realising that you don't have to be able to do the whole thing for it to be a valuable learning experience. I also have some of my own transcriptions of his stuff that I revisit occasionally.

I have had a small number of lessons over the years. These have been one with Paul Westwood, two with Dudley Phillips and a few with a guy called Dan Quinton. Dad's were the most useful as they were properly focused on my learning needs. Most of it is self taught.

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1490789313' post='3267974'] Music stand.. With the score to Moondance on it.. [/quote] Or a Pastorale by Scarlatti ;-)

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490788528' post='3267968'] Very nice indeed. Would you like to borrow my Al Dimeola guitar tuition book? [/quote] I already have several

My wife hates Jazz. The last time she came to a gig was about three years ago when I played with Jason Rebello. She sat at a table outside and talked to her fried all the way through. Didn't see a second of the gig.

I am not getting to these lately, I am afraid.

Custom Legend. It's chuffing lush....

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Looks like a bass, sounds like a bass. What's not to like?

Essex guitarist Simon Hurley. A monster player and still getting better. [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Hurley%20and%20palmer%20Three_zpsno34epga.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Hurley%20and%20palmer%20Three_zpsno34epga.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

With saxophone titan Simon Spillett at my Jazz Club Jazz East at The Alex in Felixstowe [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Looking%20up%20at%20Spillett_zpsguwrmplm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Looking%20up%20at%20Spillett_zpsguwrmplm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Simon%20Spillett%20Quartetcolour_zpsthm8hq2e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Simon%20Spillett%20Quartetcolour_zpsthm8hq2e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/FullSizeRender-3_zps6gjvxt9f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/FullSizeRender-3_zps6gjvxt9f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Me and big John last year.

I know a major Jazz artist who auditioned for a major pop act who everyone on here will have heard of. He was told he had got the job and then never heard from them again.

http://youtu.be/7b3ilv2y2JE

I am binging on Ralph Towner at the moment.

It's lovely to see one's work benefitting others so far down the line.

I posted the whole transcription here seven years ago. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/83558-a-remark-you-made/page__fromsearch__1

It's an artificial harmonic. Fret the note and play the harmonic twelve frets higher.

Personally, as a Bruford era Berlin fan, I think his tone sucks nowadys but these are great amps I hope you enjoy it but sound better than JB!!!

The Enid had some great moments. Not seen the programme you are referring to but they were, by chance, one of the first bands I ever saw. Fand was a favourite.