Welcome All Jazzers!

[mahayana]

Great to see you here, kawe! I was remiss not to copy down contact info for all the people at ppb, i knew it might go away like the first 4 attempts at recreating this place. Sorry your efforts there have disappeared.

Please feel free to post around here, start new threads, whatever. I meant to tell you that I rarely play with a pick, encourage you to keep on with fingerstyle. Hope you will repost some of your comments and ideas from last week.

If you remember any of the people who were posting on Shawn's site , or e-mailed any of them, I'd appreciate that info. Again, glad you found us.

[kawe]

thank you again for your warm welcome, mahayana!

unfortunately i didn't have any mail contact with any of the new members so far. so i can't help you at that point.
isn't it possible to make a redirection from the old/new board to the new/old board?

kawe

[mahayana]

Truth is, I have no clue as to how to do tricks like "redirect." How did you find us? Jazz guitar messageboard forums was what I searched when I first discovered this place.

[kawe]

i did the same as you. i was searching " jazz guitar forum".

kawe

ps: shawn should be able to make the redirection.

ooops: sorry! i just read about his terrible accident!

[Professor1]

Hi guys,
I'm here finally. It took me about 4 days to figure out how to log in. I play guitar in the rhythm section of a big band. Most of the guys are ancient. Some have actually played with Tommy Dorsey and Stan Kenton. It's fun, and I'm learning a lot.

I play all styles of guitar - Bach to Rock, as it were. I teach private students on classical, and I teach guitar classes at a local community center. I make my beginners learn to read music from about the second class on. I think it's important.

I also believe people should start out on classical guitar. The guys I've seen who started out on electric are missing SO many fundamentals and technique areas. Classical gives them a solid foundation to build on, and provides proper techniques that are vital no matter what style you end up in.

I have a whole bunch of guitars:
Vintage Gibson ES-335
Gibson Les Paul Junior Special
Muddy Waters Telecaster
68 Reissue Stratocaster
Epiphone Joe Pass
Takamine FP350SMCSB
Hirade H-5 classical
Epiphone Viola bass


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[mahayana]

Glad you kept trying, Prof. Somehow, I feel like we've already met!

You'll find a few more things that don't work quite right here (like having to log each time you come over, having to check the box in reply to get an e-mail when someone answers, etc), but it does OK.

I started you an intro thread at test messages, and there's an influences thread that anders started if you're feeling like going way back into your past.

The teaching of others is great. I'm a Frederick Noad fan, enjoy and play classical as well. It certainly helps with all fingerstyle. Reading music helps with everything, we're just recently seeing some treble clefs make their appearance here.

Again, welcome!

[Professor1]

Yeah, I have all the Noad anthologies. They're really well done. I also have some other books that are edited wrong, like not having half notes beamed to the arpeggios, so that unless you studied classical, you wouldn't know to hold those bass notes, which makes some pieces a whole lot easier, but also detracts a bunch, too.

[mahayana]

Hey, folks.

I was reading through this, thought I put some "first" jazz chords in one of these greetings threads. They're on the first page (reply #12).

Some history here, eh? I should really do a thread about JazzGuitarForum's three phases, as Shawn is talking to me about recreating it again.

Cheers for 2005!

[Professor1]

I like the people over here on this board, but it seems to be having more and more problems lately.

[mahayana]

I'd say negative comments about this place probably hurt the worst. If a visitor's first impression is that people here are unhappy, they'll be turned off.

On the other hand, if what they see is posts about music, stuff to play, then maybe they'll stick around.

[mahayana]

Brought this back to outflank that "Is this site abandoned" thread. I like positive stuff, just a bias of mine.

Anyway, change is the only constant, we can make of this messageboard anything we choose.

I know it all needs some updating, and probably some edit work as well. Any suggestions?

Hope you all had a decent Thanksgiving holiday, and are busy learning some new music!