Dan Costello

How does this not have a million hits?!? Ha. Amazing, my friend. Love the description up front too-- always love the context for instrumental pieces.

Thanks for watching. You have a suggestion for improvement, perhaps?

Hey, hadn't seen this comment, sorry for the slow reply. It's a 1939 Regal guitar, all mahogany body, with a Fishman floating saddle and transducer. Most of what you're hearing of the guitar in this video is from the pickup. That guitar sounds GREAT acoustically as well... I have some instrumenta...

Agreed. But... uh... it's Neil. Not Mighty Joe. Talk about responsibility, honoring geniuses, homage and respect, and then get the band members wrong? lol Absolutely ADORE this Ella recording.

BTW, tuning... so DADGAD, capo'd on 2nd fret, right? and chords are just straight across on strings 6-5-4?

AWESOME. I'm a disc golfer, so I have plenty of wrist snap... got it spinning again! Thanks for the idea.

So glad these are up. I gotta link these to my page! Great playing w/ you, Sir J.

Can't help but laugh though... "C'mon kids!! We need a change! Back to the way it was 75 years ago!" and the generation before that said the same thing... and the one before that... and the one before that...

Respect the past, but hope for the future to improve. Experiment, fail, learn, try again...

sorta depends how you define it... Yes, it's a 3-octave jump from the lowest note to the highest note through that run at 3:00. Which means... you could say he actually touched the 4th octave if you think of it in ranges. The top note he sings could be considered the beginning of the fourth octav...

I wouldn't actually qualify most of the harmonics he's doing as tap harmonics... he hits a few, but the majority of the ones he plays are called "artificial harmonics," where you touch the string in the right spot w/ a finger on the right hand (to correlate w/ either an open string or a left hand...

It IS. Just not this jacked up gawd-awful bull-sh!t version of it. I studied it in great detail in my Form & Analysis class in college.

Wrong title, dude. I guess I get it if you're dodging the copyright infringement stuff, but I'm trying to research the song "Christmas Time Is Here" and, well, you're muckin' it up. This song you've posted is titled "Christmas Don't Be Late." Please fix it. And Happy Holidays!

The only reason you'd need to use a capo is if you're playing it in the key that Duane Allman originally recorded it. Leo's is in open D (D-A-D-F#-A-D). If you tune your guitar to that, you'll be in the same key as this recording. Kinda frustrating that he doesn't do the second section of it, but...

You mean you tabbed out Metheny's original, right? Or your own arrangement of his tune? Vieaux's arrangement has only been out for a few years... 15 years ago he was about 20 years old and still touring the competition circuit... ?

That's Steve Rodby on bass, correct? Lyle on keys, I assume... who's the dude on the acoustic guitar? And what sort of electric is Pat playing on this one?