Minor Swing: Tune of the Month, Dec '05

plankity · December 2005

I just came a across a cool version of this tune via another thread: Christine Tassan, François Rousseau, Martin Tremblay, François Guay and Daniel Labrosse.

Great treatment of the head!

http://www.christinetassan.com/mp3/Minor%20swing.mp3

best,
N--

djangology · December 2005

I love the Minor Swing chord chart in the first Colin Cosimini book that has the moving chord patterns. That is highly recommended by me.

P.S. I think All Of Me would be a good January "tune of the month" because its a major tune and it has a relatively slow key modulation for beginners to learn.

Jack · December 2005

Yeah, I was thinking All of Me, myself. I'm still trying to get a sense of the average ability of most of the board, so don't want to make it either too simple or too heavy; that seems like it might be a good compromise...

Best,
Jack.

pallopenna · December 2005

After You've Gone has some great changes...

BluesBop Harry · December 2005

"All of me", sounds good to me since its a very popular song in jams, and not just in Gypsy Jazz, do you guys play it in C or in G?

Jack · December 2005

C.

On another note regarding Minor Swing, I've lately been messing around with doing it in Dm-I think I stole this idea from Ted, but wherever it came from, it's surprisingly fun...

Best,
Jack.

pallopenna · December 2005

Dm is the key that David Grismann and the other New Grasser's use, with a slightly modified turnaround.

Jack · December 2005

Hi, Paul.

What's the turnaround? I have to confess I've never been into Grisman, though my bandmate has a bunch of his stuff. Let us know.

Best,
Jack.

pallopenna · December 2005

Jack,

Well, my memory isn't what it used to be (as I recall...)

It's not actually a turnaround, but a different B section on the Grisman version. Here are the complete changes:

A:
| Dm | Dm | Gm | Gm |
| A7 | A7 | Dm | Dm ||

B:
| Gm | A7 | Dm | Dm |
| Gm | Gm | E7 | A7 ||

You know, it's funny about the Grisman stuff, I think I appreciate it more than really love it. But I do really appreciate it. Of course, on the early recordings there's Tony Rice, and he's pretty fantastic no matter what the setting. I suspect that hearing one of Grisman's ensembles live would be the way to really get into their music. Not GJ, or course, but top level musicianship. It's the kind of thing you like if you like that kind of thing, I guess.

-Paul