Author: Vic

Guitarist (Occasional Musician)

The Music of Kurt Rosenwinkel

The Music of Kurt Rosenwinkel is an extensive resource with transcriptions, information about his gear, lessons and tons of other interesting stuff. Read more →

Pedals! Two-Rock! Henry Kaiser!

From Vertex Effects, it’s Henry demoing his travel pedalboard into a Two-Rock Classic Reverb. Awesome sounds, and there’s a Jade with multicolored knobs sitting unused in the background…. Read more →

Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets Front Cover

Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets

The idea was just to write a chart…. Between finding chords for modal comping, three-note groups for Generic Modallity Compression, and pitch collections for improvisation it seemed I was endlessly listing sets derived from seven-tone scales. Tired of the repetition, I decided to simply create a table of the relationships between various sets and make it available to other musicians… Read more →

John Groves Music

John Groves Music has a very eclectic collection of solo transcriptions, including some by Barry Harris and Lennie Tristano. Definitely worth checking out. Read more →

Ted Greene’s V-System

I’m digging Ted Greene’s V-System for organizing guitar chords. The shapes he used in Chord Chemistry make a lot more sense now, and no longer seem like random (but incredibly useful) voicings. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re a guitar player. Read more →