What’s anything that you have discovered with your new material this week that you’re excited about? I’ve encountered a couple of ideas from Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner

In the section of post your favorite players on the board here I want everyone to list where your from and who are the best guitarists, or even musicians in General in your area because I want to interview them. So the Shawn Lane of Piano and a fellow Memphian that Shawn talked about in his videos was Phineus Newborn Jr! This guy could really play!

https://youtube.com/shorts/JGQjzW4Pnb0?is=lxrPIeTpWp35Ij9f Something interesting i noticed in this reel involving the fingering of the arpeggios. The standard major arpeggio shapes, specifically the A caged shape, are generally barred which causes problems separating the notes needed for it to be an arpeggio. Notice his fingering of those shapes, he uses his 2 and 1 fingers to finger the bar shape like how you would typically do with a minor shape. So for a descending A caged shape it would be something like 4 1 on the high e and 2 on the b followed by 1 on the g and 2 again on the D. He then goes back 4 and 1 fingers on the A. I think this is cool especially for those becker arpeggios which are quite difficult to give a true “broken chord” sound.

The clues are all coming together. A few steps closer to getting syncopation down

I usually try to avoid newer fan made artist “handbooks”, but these have some really good insight…