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At 6:15am on July 2, 2008, Chip Flynn said…: hi matt .. horrible news indeed ...

At 10:23pm on July 1, 2008, Matt Zito said…: DAVE CARPENTER (1959 - 2008) R.I.P.

Horrible news

Too damn young

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At 3:21am on June 25, 2008, Chip Flynn said…: wow Matt ... that's very high .. I wonder why ? Carvin still has the CNC program for the one pickup, and will make one if you ask them.
'best
Chip

At 9:45pm on June 24, 2008, Matt Zito said…: Hi Chip,

Check out this listing for an H1T.

I can't believe how high the bidding is.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1996-Carvin-Holdsworth-H1T-Very-Rare-autographed_W0QQitemZ190229900530QQihZ009QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Cheers,
Matt

At 1:05pm on May 19, 2008, Ariel Abramovich said…: Sorry for my ignorance…
By the time I’ve started playing guitar, when I was a kid, I would practice scales and arpeggios and my teacher would ask me to use them over a certain harmonic sequence.
This is, I guess, very common.
According to this approach, there’s a moment when you incorporate all the material you’ve worked with and comes out naturally while improvising.
I’m my humble and brief experience (soon I moved to classical music, which is in many ways not as demanding ; ) scales still kept their character and I never got to the point in which I did things beyond those limits.
I’m in a beginner with no big pretensions, but I’ve observed the same phenomenon in gifted pro players.
Sorry, I’m making it long… bad thing about using a language that isn’t yours…
My question, in short, would be: is there any way of creating your own language right from the beginning, or we necessary need go through scales and licks until we can build something convincing up?
I hope I’m making myself clear… it is kind of embarrassing asking those things to experienced people.
In any case, thanks for your patience!
Salud,

Ariel

At 12:38am on May 17, 2008, Ariel Abramovich said…: Hello, Chip. Greetings from Seville!
I've been following your contributions in other forums, and many things where very interesting, even beyond the guitar world.
You mentioned that you’re not fully happy about how the guitar is taught academically, and while I obviously cannot ask you to resume all your ideas in two lines, I would very much appreciate some tips for getting into improvisation from that prospective.

Sorry for my English, and thanks in advance!

Regards,

Ariel.

At 12:18pm on April 12, 2008, Chip Flynn said…: hello yl .. i don't improvise in this manner - I'm not really a "scalar" improvisor. I work more with tone centers, and the applications of diferrent things over subsets of notes. I look at the guitar as one group of notes, completing itself in two ocatves (24 frets). I look at modes as "formulas" for application against certain note subsets, and harmonic/melodic minor types of things as something I would apply for a note subset. I learn the values and personalities of scales, and just apply them. I'm not a fan of the way the guitar is taught academically. I'm trying to play the melodys and note groups I hear, not working from a scalar concept. It's more of a 12 tone thing I suppose, with tone rows and note groups. Sorry I can't help, but I don't want to mislead anybody - I've defined it to myself, and it might not make sense to anyone else, except Allan ..

'best YL
Chip

At 10:26am on April 11, 2008, YL West said…: Hey Chip! How about chiming in on the discussion about Harmonic minor...I have hijacked it and talked of my struggle to use Melodic Minor even though its supposed to be a staple in jazz. Never sounds right to my ear. Got any ways to break out of this??

At 3:04am on March 25, 2008, Matt Zito said…: HI Chip,

I hope alls well with u2.

Your guitar looks cool.

Cheers,
Matt

At 9:07am on March 17, 2008, Chip Flynn said…: hi paul .. although I have owned six delaps in my life, I have none presently. Had to sell them a few years back due to an illness. The guitar on the chair is Margaret - a Japanese Ibanez s-classic neck which has been re-fretted, radiused to 16 degrees, Planet waves locking tuners, and a new nut, and a custom made hollow body with a stop tail, 59 PAF double screw wound by me, and 250K pots with my own wiring scheme. I have one just like it, and am working on the third presently. I actually lost everything (all my gear) due to an illness, so I bought three of these old Japanese S-Classics and are rebuilding them... where there's a will there's a way . Many students and friends have also helped me gear wise, and I humbly thank them for the support and friendship .. I'll change the photo to include both of the guitars.. 'best
Chip

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