I saw that Les Paul with five knobs and had to look it up:
Frank Zappa's Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar | Equipboard(R)
Frank Zappa's Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar | Equipboard(R)
Jakob, thanks for posting this. Any chance you have a link to the study/thesis? I'm having a hard time parsing the test results (limitations of posting to a forum, no slight to you!) and don't want to get it wrong. 1-6 in each test set is the respective track and the numbers are the forced choice selection?
If so, then a binomial distribution isn't the right statistics and essentially impossible to call it forced choice either. I'm not sure what statistical test is appropriate. Adding all the trials across the song selections seems to be pretty balanced. Each track is interesting, and you'd have to do something like an intraclass correlation to see how truly significant the per-song tests were versus the ensemble.
Lydian + Mixolydian
They are great places to go if you feel stuck in a 'blues rut'.
Zappa / Satriani / Vai etc
TCD
Not sure what year Franks LP was but they started making some real junk in the late 70's. I bought one and sold it a few years later.
Of course Frank could make a fence paling with strings sound great.
TCD
Most guitar players think way too much in terms of pitch and harmony, and not enough in terms of timing and use of rests. Most don't realize the music they love and want to be able to play or improvise on is mostly about timing more than it is about pitch. A good music DVD that will get people thinking about time is: Groove Workshop << Hudson Music ...IIRC, a lot of it is on youtube now.
He said he was going to take a very different look at music, and he does. The DVD was titled 'Groove Workshop,' and its about the best thing available for an introductory lesson in musical time. Its not complete in that sense, no one resource is. The two DVD set is worth watching for people interested in learning to play and perhaps improvise pop/jazz/rock/funk/country/etc., any type of pop or dance music. Music with a groove, beat, and or lilt. YouTube
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I think the guys in the class in the DVD video have already done that and a lot more. Its stuff most players don't know how to do themselves, they don't know what to practice to improve that aspect of their playing. Instruction is needed by most. If you can listen to Thelonious Monk and then from what you learned there go in to a recording session and play a different grove with different music in a session, then good for you. I don't think you can. You wouldn't understand how, and you wouldn't be practiced to have the coordination needed.
The real good guitar players initially started on drums, then bass and only switched over to guitar later because they never got the girls at the gigs ;-)
Seriously, I think it's actually best to start with brass or woodwinds to learn musical phrasing, putting weight in the notes played and the notes not played...
Good point. I was mostly responding to Terry's comment about guitarist's getting stuck a rut, which they often do. Once there, changing modes is not necessarily addressing the underlying cause of the rut.
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Had I known what the future would bring I would not have given away my one Albert Ayler album. My first wife banned me from playing it in the house 🙂
"The ARP was great. I still play it today. It was the first keyboard that could be inverted, in other words, when your hands go up, you're sounding down. It's a mirror system where C remains C, D flat becomes B, D becomes B flat, and so on. When you play chords with this, you have to have a good brain. What's good about it is that you get different ideas. Weather Report's 'Black Market' was played on an inverted keyboard. Check it out." Joe Zawinul