Show and tell :-)

kevingcox

What are you using to mix the pre-recorded backing track and your lead line with video? I'm trying to put a video together and I can mix audio but I'm not sure how to capture the video along with it and still have a decent mix.

mntnmike

Guys this is all amazing. Thank you for sharing, and I hope a new poster is welcome here. I'm really new to the style and kind of freaking out as I've been starting to jam with people. Been focusing heavily on rhythm up until recently, when I've been getting into lead lines and more improvising, coming from an American background so it's been so fun to dig into different peoples' style of improvising. Django, Maurice Ferret, Adrien Moignard, and Gonzalo are the guys I listen to the most.

This is Django's Tiger, which I feel weird about posting. What I'm trying to focus on is consistency. Another guy I really admire is Benoit Convert because every lick is the same attack. I mean he plays with dynamics but I mean that the confidence is there. That's something I really want to build up. So I took on a tune that is definitely too much for me and my cheap Asian D-hole. As shemakimoo said, plenty of "panicky phrasing." Over the Ebdim I'm pretty sure I did the same thing every single time... Thanks for checking it out guys!

Shemi

@kevingcox

I just imported the backing track into my DAW and then recorded the lead line with my mic whilst recording the video. I then used iMovie, imported the video and muted the sound, imported the mixdown audio and synced it to the video as best I could. Hope this helps! :-)

Shemi

@Mntnmike Welcome to the thread. I really enjoyed that, thanks for sharing, you have some lovely chops there! You've obviously been playing guitar a long time, do you have a background in jazz? I have more of a classical background so I'm not a very experienced improvisor, but I'm working on it!

Great that you're jamming with people... Not many people around my neck of the woods play this style but it is surely the best way to progress. :-)

mntnmike

@shemakimoo thank you! Glad to be here, I live in Boston so there are a ton of crazy musicians around, I'm headed up to Django in June this year for the first time, feeling a bit behind so I've really been cramming in the django djams as much as I can.
Yeah I've been playing since I was 10, started on classical, played AC/DC riffs for a couple years after that, then got into jazz around 16. I studied with a guitarist in Virginia named Rick Whitehead that opened me up to Charlie Parkers tunes and improvising. Got into Jim Hall after that, and then everybody else. I also flatpick some fiddle tunes and a lot of my right hand comes from learning those tunes, players like Tony Rice and Clarence White.
Loved your improvising, and especially learning transcriptions can really open things up for your own playing. Dig into that, I transcribed a Jim Hall solo a couple years ago, before which I was really stuck in a rut improvising. That solo (this song, right around 1:30) kind of brought in a lot of expression and rhythmic ideas for me. Django then hit me like a ton of bricks probably a year or so ago. Now I'm realizing that I should have started spending time on him a long time ago.

Shemi

I should point out that I'm playing a trancsription from the Rosenberg Academy in my vid!lol I'm learning a lot playing other peoples solos and transcribing Django's stuff which I enjoy doing when I have the time. It gave me a whole other level of appreciation for him. I spend a large amount of time working out why certain licks work and slowly I'm starting to be able to use this knowledge when improvising as opposed to just playing stock riffs. It's been a very liberating experience!

kevingcox

I am a recording troglodyte, but in celebration of my being able to make it to Django in June again this year here is a song called Maison Hantée by Samson Schmitt. It blew my mind so hard that I just had to learn it, with apologies to the man himself for any and all mistakes...

klaatu

Spooky!

Bones

Very cool, never heard that one before. Do you have a tab or chart?

Thanks

kevingcox

Here is the grille I wrote out. This is how I play it, but I can't guarantee that it is correct since I figured it all out by ear. No one I'm in touch with has been able to confirm for me whether it is right or wrong so I live with it. It is a bit tricky for two reasons: 1, he adds a couple of beats during a break on the head and 2, the middle section has 2 phrases of 5 bars rather than 4. It gives it a very off-kilter feel.

Unfortunately I don't do tabs and can't read music, but if you'd like I could do a recording of me playing the theme slowly.