Tritone Substitution

Lango-Django

Never tried it that way, Jay.

This may be a closely guarded secret, but most of us guitar players don't tend to be such great music readers or writers.

OK, let's be honest, 99.9% of us suck! So that wouldn't be a feature that most of us would care about.

You know the old joke?

Q: "How do you get a guitar player to turn down his amp?"

A: "Put some music in front of him."

Bones

Hey Will,

Yeah it would be cool to have, but then I'd have to take the time to figure out how to use it....

I really don't refer back to them much anyway. Usually, after I have played them for a while I play them a bit differently (the parts that I can't do) or find errors/corrections as I practice them and learn things but I don't ever go back and change them so it would be good to have a software tool that I could use to easily make changes.

Maybe someday. Right now I am just trying to use all my free time to practice.

Passacaglia

For what it's worth, I, too have Guitar Pro, and enjoy using it from time to time. One of the things I do - when I'm lazy - is basically plug in arcane chord voicings I come across, and then keep them in a file for later referral. Little compositions, snippets of phrases, or the occasional file from the internet. I agree with Will, it's a great little program.

Bones

I started working thru Paulus' solo on Recado a little bit. It starts on line 3 shown below.

On line 5 there is a really fast 16th note run over the Gm/A7/Dm changes (with even some triplet trills thrown in).

I think I pretty much have the pitches right but it is hard to tell because I can't even play it at half speed the way I have it tabbed.

I have not done many transcriptions except for Django solos so I am not familiar with Paulus' style. Maybe some of the more advanced lead players might recognize the patterns in this fast section and suggest some better fingerings to facilitate being able to play this at speed.

I'll try to attach the mp3 as well. The fast section starts at about 1:35.

Thanks

kittyyang

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Michael Bauer

I want one that detects tortoise shell!

Passacaglia

Michael Bauer wrote:

I want one that detects tortoise shell!

Lango-Django

That spammer kittyang may find that selling metal detecting as a hobby to a bunch of gypsy jazz guitarists is a real tough sell.

If only she'd started with, "As you know, Django and Joseph Reinhardt's day gig was scrap metal sales, and this metal detector was the very one that they used..."

Jazzaferri

a habit that helps with both learning the fretboard and music theory at the same time is to not use any chord charts....figure out the notes of the chord that you want to play ...figure out the voicing.....and then practice it for a while.... takes a while at first ...but worth the effort in the long run