Newer players easier licks?

Charles Meadows

Well he's gypsy enough for me! haha.

Jazzaferri

Interesting indeed. I wonder if they feel that way about Martin Taylor too.

Scoredog

I wonder if it is like NYer's who move out of NY and can't find any good pizza, even if everyone else likes the pizza where the NYer is now located. BTW Santa Barbara does not have any real pizza.

jonpowl

@Scoredog Craig, sounds like something "@NylonDave" might have written. RIP Nylon Dave, didn't own a plectrum, occasionally offensive, but somehow the forum seemed more interesting with him around.

Jazzaferri

Hey @jonpowl what happened to nylon dave

Charles Meadows

I think he left.

Buco

He mentioned someplace that he wouldn't be sticking around for much longer.
Yeah some of his comments sounded pretty offensive but as I read more from him I don't think he ever meant to offend for the sake of it.
True about forum being more interesting with him. There's been some antagonizing members who left after a short while which just wouldn't budge from their position.
With Dave he often found a way to appease as well.
He also made me scratch my head more than once.

I'd like to hear an example of this phrasing differences, it would be fun to see it laid out on the guitar.

This may not be what you found but occasionally I'll learn a phrase by someone else, come up with a fingering that I thought made the most sense only to realize way down the road how much more economical it can be and how I made too hard for me.

Could be that Gypsy guys we listen to came up with their phrasing inspired by other traditional instruments which made it not completely at home on the guitar.

Charles Meadows

My guess, in posting this, was the "newer" players who have some knowledge of scales and fingering patterns would probably generate licks that incorporate these patterns, and thus be "easier" for someone like me (whose fingers also know those basic patterns) to pick up.

Buco

I know what you mean, makes perfect sense. Although sometimes the new guys are bebop inspired and take their ideas from wind players and those can fall very awkwardly on a guitar fretboard.
I'd love it if you had a few examples from the stuff you've been working on.

Jazzaferri

Django's phrasing for jazz pieces sound to me a lot like a European gypsy Imitating horn lines. To me that is what makes it so special. I just love the artistry in that fusion of two cultures.