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Challenge: "Swingin' Form One"
Lango-Django
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
OK, group members, everybody's now had a chance to at least look at the Givone book and hopefully you've kicked the tires a little bit by now.
Let's ramp up the excitement with our first group sharing effort.
Looking on page 20, you'll see Givone's "Form 1", the third one from the top. Its matching dominant Form 3 is on the bottom of page 24, but you'll have to transpose it down to D7 position to make it match. (Subtracting 5 from every number in the tab will accomplish that.)
Using Band-In-A-Box, I've made up an ultra-simple eight bar rhythm track for you to woodshed over. It's real slow--- 100 bpm--- and it just uses these four common swing chords:
G6/// D7/// G6/// D7/// G6//G7// C6//Cm6// G6//D7// G6///
Here's your challenge:
1) Using Givone's ideas, or choosing your own notes within his basic shapes, make up some cool swingy licks...Experiment with all the tricks that Django used to such great effect--- triplets, hammer-ons, pick-offs, string bends, sweep picking, DDU strokes, etc. etc.
2) Then record your work and share it with the group by submitting it to our DropBox in the new file folder called "Swingin' Form One".
I'm hoping a week will be about the right amount of time for this project? But, hey, I'm retired! Anyway, if you are pressed for time, whenever you are able to participate will be fine... special bonus points for building on fellow members' ideas... we're trying to learn from each other, right?
If this works out, I hope we'll be swingin' all the other forms in the days to come.
Good luck! And remember, this is supposed to be fun! :!:
Will
PS One thing I found this morning when I was fooling around with form one was that moving the entire 'box' down one fret and then sliding it back up again is a nice way to find some cool tones... especially that major third B note on the E string can sound pretty stodgy--- Bb is a lot cooler, n'est-ce-pas?
It is my theory, though I invite discussion on this, that Django probably must've done a lot of this very kind of sliding his boxes up and down in order to find all the notes with just two good fingers.
Let's ramp up the excitement with our first group sharing effort.
Looking on page 20, you'll see Givone's "Form 1", the third one from the top. Its matching dominant Form 3 is on the bottom of page 24, but you'll have to transpose it down to D7 position to make it match. (Subtracting 5 from every number in the tab will accomplish that.)
Using Band-In-A-Box, I've made up an ultra-simple eight bar rhythm track for you to woodshed over. It's real slow--- 100 bpm--- and it just uses these four common swing chords:
G6/// D7/// G6/// D7/// G6//G7// C6//Cm6// G6//D7// G6///
Here's your challenge:
1) Using Givone's ideas, or choosing your own notes within his basic shapes, make up some cool swingy licks...Experiment with all the tricks that Django used to such great effect--- triplets, hammer-ons, pick-offs, string bends, sweep picking, DDU strokes, etc. etc.
2) Then record your work and share it with the group by submitting it to our DropBox in the new file folder called "Swingin' Form One".
I'm hoping a week will be about the right amount of time for this project? But, hey, I'm retired! Anyway, if you are pressed for time, whenever you are able to participate will be fine... special bonus points for building on fellow members' ideas... we're trying to learn from each other, right?
If this works out, I hope we'll be swingin' all the other forms in the days to come.
Good luck! And remember, this is supposed to be fun! :!:
Will
PS One thing I found this morning when I was fooling around with form one was that moving the entire 'box' down one fret and then sliding it back up again is a nice way to find some cool tones... especially that major third B note on the E string can sound pretty stodgy--- Bb is a lot cooler, n'est-ce-pas?
It is my theory, though I invite discussion on this, that Django probably must've done a lot of this very kind of sliding his boxes up and down in order to find all the notes with just two good fingers.
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Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
