I've read the same thing about Charlie Christian, but, as far as I know, there is no video of him playing. I'm not sure where this information comes from....
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The number one reason of all time that people get moderated in this group is... **** Not deleting excess quoted text in replies to the list! **** So it's time...
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Dear Dave, ... Well, you have a talent to always put your finger where it hurts. ;-) Yes, hearing creatively is a problem I have, not hearing creatively per...
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Bobby: Close. It's spelled Yngwie Malmsteen. But then again, who cares? :) And I agree with you about "all speeded up" guitarists. Why do I admire Benson? -...
http://archtop.com/ac_98fenda_ultra.html ... ============= hi..i saw mark with that guitar as well has his orig daquisto many times...what scale are these...
Hi tom, Right on point, as usual. I think picking technique threads are generally best avoided, and so took a long time before posting. My philosophy regarding...
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... Of course, if the person the student is learning from can't play fast to begin with, then any advice the teacher may give is going to fall in deaf ears....
Hi Juan, I have some of those videos of Wes playing here and there and it looked to me like he used up strokes with his thumb sometimes. Can anyone else...
IMHO, thinking faster happens while you are learning to play faster. It's just a natural consequence of gradually increasing the pace. And for admirers of...
Somewhere I read that our basic reaction time can improve. If we do something enough, neurons keep developing in our brain that facilitate information ...
A easy suggestion to try--one that shocked me with its effectiveness and (almost) immediate results--is one Corey Christianson related at a seminar at a guitar...
"Hi Juan, I have some of those videos of Wes playing here and there and it looked to me like he used up strokes with his thumb sometimes. Can anyone else ...
While a bit off-topic, I believe the subject of "speed" can include other than the fastest of the jazz guitarists--this would include Yngwie J. Malmsteen (he...
Contrary to an earlier report on this newsgroup, Tom Harrell is alive and well. He has quite an extensive tour schedule out, too, so hopefully some of us can...
Also Malmsteen is a huge bebop fan and loves playing jazz at home. He has said in interviews before that one day he will release a jazz bebop album that will...
... Yes, the J is so you don't confuse him with all the other Yngwie Malmsteen's. *kidding!* ... Possibly, although I would say he got a lot of it from Richie ...
... Oh god ... If he plays clean guitar on it, perhaps he can get Kenny G as a guest to help out. ... Really? He's actually said this? So he's going to learn...
Hello, Actually Yngwie is one of the best guitarists of all time. On G3 it was amazing to see how he was like a Locatelli (Paganini's influence) of the...
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"Charlie Christian used all downstrokes, feeling that he sounded more lika a sax that way." The father of a friend and a guitar player had seen Charlie...
... To quote the man himself (OK, the text is credited to Lee Garson): "On occasion the thumb is used in an alternate picking manner with the thumb being...
... It is pronounced just like it is spelled. Ing...vay...Malm..steen, or my favorite, wiggie mouse team, dpking [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Yep he actually said this in a guitar mag interview. I will hunt it out and reprint it here word for word... Col [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Thankfully Tom Harrell is still with us. I received three phone calls and one email on Friday morning from four separate people all of whom are known players...