Gonzalo's rhythm

Bones

Hi Amund,

Actually, Jeff and Gonzalo are American players (well, actually Gonzalo is from Argentina but I think he got his start in GJ as John Jorgensens rhythm player).

Their upstroke is very subtle and close to the 1 and 3. I can't do it that close to the 1 and 3 (yet) so I typically don't try it so that I don't get that galloping effect.

Bones

PS- how do you guys get the quotes in the little boxes to work?

thanks

Passacaglia

Bones wrote:

PS- how do you guys get the quotes in the little boxes to work?

thanks

Bones, hit the quote key, and use quotation marks before and after the username. So it looks like this (using "quite" otherwise you'd just see the quote:

[quite="Bones"]PS- how do you guys get the quotes in the little boxes to work?[/quote]

The thing that's new to me is a silent "up" on the upstroke. I've always done a voiced up and down (making up a beat 1 or 3), and this notion of a muted up is new. I just see such a square, even hand....and a perfection in the tone of each beat. Any variation by command, and not due to wavering in the attack. Hard for me to put properly into words, but from a former life, like practicing sword cuts across bamboo, or a piece of paper (ink calligraphy much the same, actually)...revealing any unsteadiness of mind. Watching Nous'che, with his head down at about 6' ahead, but still grooving...well, I can't help but feel some semblance to a very awake meditation. Anyway, my prism. I was getting ahead of myself, and it's back to slowing down, not being content until some small thing - or rather, each small thing - has captured him well.

AmundLauritzen

Bones wrote:

Hi Amund,

Actually, Jeff and Gonzalo are American players (well, actually Gonzalo is from Argentina but I think he got his start in GJ as John Jorgensens rhythm player).

Their upstroke is very subtle and close to the 1 and 3. I can't do it that close to the 1 and 3 (yet) so I typically don't try it so that I don't get that galloping effect.

I was referring to the American style of old swing music, not to gypsy jazz players of American origin.

Bones

Oh right, yeah that's a totally different thing.

murillo

The guy on the left has really good rhythm. Especially his 2 and 4. It starts aboud 55 sec into the video. Is he doing something special or different beacuse it´s really difficult to emulate it.

By the way, the guy on the right is one of my favorite guitarists. He really swings.

murillo

I forgot to post the video. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIriurKAe6I

kevingcox

I am more and more convinced, what with the profusion of material on the internet, that GJ needs a martial arts style belt ranking system, in which a handful of current top players are awarded black belts and are able to hand out belts of their own to others. You can give anyone a belt of any colour up to your rank.