cheers, played around with the using off notes in melody before but never got it sounding as good as jazz folk, never ever thought about the timing of it!
one thing I didn't say before, I seemed to have noticed a tread of arch tops and economy picking, jim bruno video I watched earlier, did a scale run, looked and felt so smooooooooooooth, makes me wonder how holdsworth picks as his widdle don't sound like widdle, but then he does try and make a guitar not sound like a guitar
if a tail piece makes the string less stiff, does it change the tone?
arch top > 355 (by a mile or 10)
Hi, :)
The tailpiece is not knowingly used as a tone modifier
as far as I know, but the materials of the floating bridge certainly do. All floating bridges have a wooden base, to 'flex' round the arched surface of the guitar top, and transfer as much of the vibration into the body. As for the top half of the bridge, you can use a 'standard' ( i.e. Gibson type ) metal top, or of course, use wood for all of it.
I am really glad you managed to see the Jimmy Bruno DVD ( The " No Nonsense Jazz guitar" one ? ). He is as good at putting the single note stuff in order, as Joe Pass was with the chordal stuff. Of course J.B. gets to that too.
I too noticed that Jimmy uses 'Economy picking' - but also I note that acomplished Jazz players can really
flow- as opposed to just 'speed'. I feel that dexterity is helped by the fact they spend a lot of time
filling between chords - and thinking about joining the ideas together - as opposed to trying too hard to get faster. In Jazz, the culture is such that you get no 'smarty points' for doing the latest famous player's " Speed licks" . The paradox being that when you think more about getting the ideas moving smoothly, you seem to end up 'curing' your speed obstacles . Think 'flow' and you get speed ; Think speed - and you may not get flow.
I love the delivery of that line in the Jimmy B. video, when he has just finished outlining certain basic symmetrical scales e.t.c - when ( addressing the need to get one thing right at a time ) he looks at the camera ; and with that Somewhat daunting / Mafioso type look , says " There can be
NO doubt".
I could watch Joe Pass and Jimmy Bruno stuff, just for their characters alone. I love Joe Pass's dry sense of humour - when it appears.
Cheers !
