CountItOff

CountItOff is the creation of guitarist Charles Carey and bassist Robert Rimmington. They met in 1996 at Boca Music Mart and after quickly realized they had similar musical interests and several compostions that they had never been able to play with a similar minded musician. The Sound of CountItOff is a fusion of traditional bebop study combined with influences ranging from funk to blues to hard rock. Their new CD is entitled "Room 237" and is available on Guitar9 records and CDbaby and many of the tracks will be available via download from this site shortly. Charles is currently the jazz guitar instructor at Palm Beach Community College and Lynn University. He also gives private guitar, bass, music theory, and jazz improvisation lessons at Festival World of Music in Lake Worth, Florida. Recently Charles finished a method book designed to take the intermediate guitarist to the next level. This book, Bridging The Gap, is an attempt to fill the holes that are left by many other method books. The book is not in any way stylistically based and should be equally useable by guitarists of all backgrounds. Topics include, rhythms, reading in all positions of the neck, accompaniement styles for 2-beats, waltz, folk, latin, swing, etc, tips for transcription, scale and chord exercises and help in understanding their impact on each other, using arpeggios, rhythms, and scale forms to improvise, and many other topics as well. The book is written in standard notation, the only respected representation of the musical language, and DOES NOT INCLUDE TABLATURE!!! Presently this book is being solicited for large scale publication but copies can be purchased from Charles for $25 plus shipping. Just use the myspace email to contact. Charles uses and endorses the Buzz Feiten Tuning System and will not play a guitar or bass without it. His main guitars are a Washburn X-50pro, Heritage Prospect with a 25.5 scale neck and basswood center block, and a Heritage 550 archtop. All of these have a Dimarzio PAF Joe in the neck position and a Air Norton in the Bridge. His amplification is provided by a Blackface Fender Princeton Reveb, Fender Vibroverb reissue mounted in a 3x10 cab and a Bogner Shiva head run through 2 Mesa Bogie 3/4 back 1x12 cabinets with Celestion Vintage 30's. Rob is the electric and acoustic bass instructor and Florida Atlantic University and Palm Beach Community College. He also gives private guitar and bass lessons at Boca Music Mart in Boca Raton, Florida.