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Swing Gitan: Tune of the Month, Feb 06.
Jack
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Hi, gang.
Last month's [i]Lulu Swing[/i] thread seemed to be a bit of a wash, so I thought we'd get back to a tune more people might be familiar with: [i]Swing Gitan[/i]. Here we go...
A) Harmony: Chords, Chord Shapes, Substitutions
Some basic changes from the Nuages de Swing site:
Some variations:
For the first 3 D7s, instead of two bars of D7, try one bar of Cm6 and one of D7. Really this is just a ii-V leading to the Gm, but it's easier to write Cm6 than Am7b5/C...you can also try playing the root position Am7b5:
-----
-4---
-5---
-5---
-----
-5---
Walks:
In bars 7 & 8, you might throw in a walk from the root position Gm6 to an Ab with a C in the bass (2 beats each until the Ab/C):
--3-----------------------------------------------------------------
--3-----4----8-------9-------------------------------------------------
--3-----5----7---7---8----------------------------------------------------
--2-----4----5---6---6----------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--3-----5----6---7---8----------------------------------------------------
From there you can also walk it back down to the Gm, OR:
try moving to this Gm6 shape to keep the voicing nearby-
--------
--8------
--7------
--8------
--7------
--------
Another walk that's useful under the head, but often gets nasty looks from your soloist if he's trying to improvise:
Bars 13-16, 2 beats each:
---------------|---------------|---------------|------------5-----------
---7---5------|--8-----11----|---10----7----|----8------5-----------
---6---3------|--6------9-----|--11----8----|-----7-----5----------
---7---5------|--8-----11----|---10----7----|----5-----4-------------
---7---4------|--7-----10----|---------------|-------------------------
---------------|---------------|---10----8----|----6-----5--------------
Bars 13 & 14 are just diminished subs for the A; 15 & 16 just walking down the scale back to Gm...
Heads: Fingering & Picking
djangobooks.com/forum/uploads/FileUpload/swing_gitan_516.pdf
C) Improvisation:
As usual, I stink. Some sections I'd be interested in reading about would be how to approach the A7 and the Ab sections...
D) Intros & Outros:
For the outro, we generally just tag the A7/D7 a few times before going out on the Gm. A common variant is to play through to the Gm then run the minor line cliche (Gm, Gm/maj7, Gm7, Gm6) before repeating the whole thing (if anyone wants to notate this one, feel free; I'm too tired).
For intros, try one of these:
----------------------------------------------------------------
--3---1---6---5------------------------------------------------
--3---2---6---5------------------------------------------------
--5---3---5---4------------------------------------------------
--5---3---6---5------------------------------------------------
---------------------repeat 4 times---------------------------
Or:
----------------------------------------------------------------
--3--6---6---5-------3--6---6------5---5---------------------
--3--6---5---5-------3--6---5------5---5---------------------
--2--5---6---4-------2--5---6------4---4---------------------
----------6---5---------------6----------5----------------------
--3--6----------------3--6----------5---------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
--repeat-------------3--2--3--4--5--x--5------------------
---first---------------3--2--3--4--5--x--5---------------------
----four--------------2--1--2--3--4--x--4----------------------
--chords------------------------------x--5----------------------
-----------------------3--2--3--4--5--x-------------------------
If you're not familiar with the above intro, you'll probably find it on several tunes in your collection. One well known variant is often heard on [i]Swing for Ninine[/i], but it works well for most any minor bluesish tune...
I'm also including a live version of Swing Gitan by Angelo Debarre...enjoy!
Best,
Jack.
Last month's [i]Lulu Swing[/i] thread seemed to be a bit of a wash, so I thought we'd get back to a tune more people might be familiar with: [i]Swing Gitan[/i]. Here we go...
A) Harmony: Chords, Chord Shapes, Substitutions
Some basic changes from the Nuages de Swing site:
Some variations:
For the first 3 D7s, instead of two bars of D7, try one bar of Cm6 and one of D7. Really this is just a ii-V leading to the Gm, but it's easier to write Cm6 than Am7b5/C...you can also try playing the root position Am7b5:
-----
-4---
-5---
-5---
-----
-5---
Walks:
In bars 7 & 8, you might throw in a walk from the root position Gm6 to an Ab with a C in the bass (2 beats each until the Ab/C):
--3-----------------------------------------------------------------
--3-----4----8-------9-------------------------------------------------
--3-----5----7---7---8----------------------------------------------------
--2-----4----5---6---6----------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--3-----5----6---7---8----------------------------------------------------
From there you can also walk it back down to the Gm, OR:
try moving to this Gm6 shape to keep the voicing nearby-
--------
--8------
--7------
--8------
--7------
--------
Another walk that's useful under the head, but often gets nasty looks from your soloist if he's trying to improvise:
Bars 13-16, 2 beats each:
---------------|---------------|---------------|------------5-----------
---7---5------|--8-----11----|---10----7----|----8------5-----------
---6---3------|--6------9-----|--11----8----|-----7-----5----------
---7---5------|--8-----11----|---10----7----|----5-----4-------------
---7---4------|--7-----10----|---------------|-------------------------
---------------|---------------|---10----8----|----6-----5--------------
Bars 13 & 14 are just diminished subs for the A; 15 & 16 just walking down the scale back to Gm...
Heads: Fingering & Pickingdjangobooks.com/forum/uploads/FileUpload/swing_gitan_516.pdf
C) Improvisation:
As usual, I stink. Some sections I'd be interested in reading about would be how to approach the A7 and the Ab sections...
D) Intros & Outros:
For the outro, we generally just tag the A7/D7 a few times before going out on the Gm. A common variant is to play through to the Gm then run the minor line cliche (Gm, Gm/maj7, Gm7, Gm6) before repeating the whole thing (if anyone wants to notate this one, feel free; I'm too tired).
For intros, try one of these:
----------------------------------------------------------------
--3---1---6---5------------------------------------------------
--3---2---6---5------------------------------------------------
--5---3---5---4------------------------------------------------
--5---3---6---5------------------------------------------------
---------------------repeat 4 times---------------------------
Or:
----------------------------------------------------------------
--3--6---6---5-------3--6---6------5---5---------------------
--3--6---5---5-------3--6---5------5---5---------------------
--2--5---6---4-------2--5---6------4---4---------------------
----------6---5---------------6----------5----------------------
--3--6----------------3--6----------5---------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
--repeat-------------3--2--3--4--5--x--5------------------
---first---------------3--2--3--4--5--x--5---------------------
----four--------------2--1--2--3--4--x--4----------------------
--chords------------------------------x--5----------------------
-----------------------3--2--3--4--5--x-------------------------
If you're not familiar with the above intro, you'll probably find it on several tunes in your collection. One well known variant is often heard on [i]Swing for Ninine[/i], but it works well for most any minor bluesish tune...
I'm also including a live version of Swing Gitan by Angelo Debarre...enjoy!
Best,
Jack.
Comments
Fabulous work, Jack. I'm sorry I can't contribute much yet to your tune of the month discussions, but I'm benefitting from them.
Questions
1 - Is the DeBarre recording available commercially?
2 - I like those charts at www.visi.com a lot, at least aesthetically speaking. Do you know what software is involved? The chart by Andrew seems similar to the visi.com charts, visually. Other than the charts put together for Chuck Sher's New Real Book series, those visi.com sheets are the easiest things I've found to play from.
PM me if this seems too off topic for the thread
Cheers,
Neil
Glad you're liking it-it's good to get feedback so that these will get better as the months go by. To answer your questions: I don't think the Angelo disc is out commercially, but I could be wrong...it's from a show in Quebec (at least according to mine). Andrew uses Finale to make those charts, and if you can find some more he did for the same event here:
http://www.acousticguitarnetwork.org/au ... 0Tunes.zip
Tunes included are: Dark Eyes Minor Swing Django's Castle
Bossa Dorado Minor Blues Swing 42
Swing Gitan Swing 39 Douce Ambiance
Djangology Daphne
Best,
Jack.
Here's another version, by Stephane Wrembel at Djangofest Northeast 2004, with David Langlois on washboard. For me, this was the show when Stephane really began to get a lot of attention for pushing the boundaries of what gypsy jazz means today, and he's only gotten better since!
As to how it relates to the thread: you can hear the Gm/F/Eb/D intro (but listen too to what he does before that), and the descending minor line on the outro. It may seem to end suddenly, or oddly; that's because during the show he segues into Nuages (and from Nuages into Blues en Mineur), but I've cut it off...maybe next month!
Best,
Jack.
Let me know,
Jack.
Thanks for posting the 'live' Angelo clip! One of my favorite things about Angelo's playing is his brilliant execution of long triplet arpeggio or scale patterns. :shock: Serious ear candy!
TC
Best,
Jack.
I don't suppose anyone's run across a transcription of Angelo's standard intro heard here (just after the four minute mark):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... lo+Debarre
Thanks,
Jack.
I always used the Ab13 with this fingering but it sounds somehow strange.
-----x------------
-----6-----------
-----5-----------
-----4-----------
-----x-----------
-----4------------
How would you play the Ab/C Jack mentioned earlier on?
Any advice would be appriciated
Thx Rookie