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I cut my own small picks out of large fender medium tortoise. I like a three point pick so if it breaks or slips i can turn it in any direction and make it through the tune. I compared picks with Joe Pass once and his was only a tiny bit smaller and ruffly the same shape. Although I don't...

Greetings and welcome from northern California where we have bi polar bears!

I use only high tech moisture wicking clothing when I play and always bring my own fan.:cool:

I like the - for minor also. I would like to say there are three kinds of chords 1.Major chords. 2.Minor chords. and 3. Dominant seventh chords [augmented and diminished] can be found in dominant seventh extensions. I also like to use the French 7 which is not on my keyboard to stand for...

Check it out! Live 04/04/08 Trio action with heavy sambabambamba. No bass player on this gig thats me on my 7 with Paul McCandless on sax and Rich Guardino on drums.Plus I wrote that tune! I hope you dig it and next time be sure to fly a million miles to be there with your live self. :shred...

Sitar is cool in the way that the 6 string guitar is but as we are seven stringers I suggest you check out the Vina for some truly exponential mind expansion the Vina is the King of classical Indian musical instruments and was fashioned to imitate the sounds produced by the voices of the Gods...

Workin tonight with Paul McCandless and Rich Guardino. I mostly gig all by my virtuoso self as my standards* are to high to want to play with most of the local "jazz" hicks and the aforementioned are busy elsewhere most of the year. *I never met anyone who could play Jazz without being...

First Act, Act, act like you know just what you want and how to make it come out the end. Play it safe and charge per hour as you may be grossly incorrect if you charge per project, although a fee for music producer & directer followed up with a bill for studio recording time would be the best...

She is correct C D E F G A B C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 -not "8" it is still c after all if you count it as 8 than D above 2 is 9 that only happens when you are building chords. yes the 12 tone scale is really the 11 tone scale i am nit picking but this is the place for that sort...

Flamenco; 1.Sabicas 'Vol #3' is a classic. 2. Sabicas 'Flamenco Puro'. 3. Carlos Montoya his one hand approach made him famous. 4. Paco is boss now ask anyone (but i like the power and expression of Sabicas on vinyl.) Check out some of the Flamenco action in Peter Sellers movies like...

Welcome to the 7 string headache club.

I've been putting more time into my web site -not easy to find free software that works as advertised-but i have at last posted more examples of my past 7 string playing. (eventually i will go back and convert some 6 string performance on cassette tapes of my early shredding -you know that one...

Yeah Joe was always sayin stuff like "This is Jazz I don't work anything out in advance..I mean you can do that some of the guys do that(in L.A.) .and thats great..but thats not Jazz i think what I'm playing hear tonight is Jazz." One night after he and Herby ripped each other to shreds on some...

Joe Pass in the 70s was a totally cool cigar smoking jazz cat, bebop'n for fun at Dante's on his off time from the studios. He was very kind always stopping at our table and rappin a bit.He even let me tape him with Herby and gang on my pathetic mono cassette recorder and those tapes (over...

Hi every one I am almost new here so i wanted to say hi and good jammin on that 7. I have been playing for over 35 years I started with blues and rock (I saw Hendrix I saw Cream) I still go see Jeff Beck when he is near by and I think the Metal Fatigue disk is still the best in that genre. I...

The best beginning book for this that I have found in my 35+ years of looking and teaching was called Rhythm and background chords it went through the basic jazz chords in the circle of fourths and was by and I'm telling you i no longer have it and i am lesdistic...

Listen to vocals like Anita o day-hottest scat ever and Helen Merrill -1954 album also her disk w/Stan Getz- she who was famous for making her new York side men cry in the 50's, she is so misty blue and silky. Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson are a must for the ultimate jazz guitar seven string...

Ron Eschete, last i heard he was in San Diego. Howard Alden, who is good but never returned my phone call. And of course Me. Also if you can find it you should listen to the late Ted Green who played the 6 like a 7 string angel.

Great guitarist, talented and skillful. He is always trying something creative.

I Remember seeing Partch as a kid 6 or so ,my mom took me and Wow! Who would think a "hobo" ("not a "bum" bum's don't never work") could also be a freaky talented bonker like he was. Later i got to play his instruments when a friend was involved in putting on his transcendental show "The...