The GJ Dummy Book

Pompe_ojisan

Hi,
There's a few good resources for charts around, like the Cosimini, the gipsy fakebook or the ireal gipsyjazz playlist. But they all have their quirks - specific writing style, peculiar choice of songs (when was the last time you played 'ding dong the witch is dead'?) inconsistent conventions, overly detailed transcriptions, or even plain mistakes.

As a result I took the habit of rewriting whatever song I came across at jams using my preferred conventions (and I'm sure everybody has a different idea of what a well written chart should look like, but that's another debate...) With time I ended up with a pretty thick set of charts, so I put some effort to proofread, consolidate and make it available it online.
Why 'Dummy'? Because 'Fake' was already taken, and because the charts were kept as bare bone as possible - avoiding embellishments, extensions, slash chords etc...

The main objectif is kind of selfish - leaving a few hardcopies lying around in the places I jam, as an attempt to lure people into challenging less well-known songs. But maybe this can be useful to other players, so I'm sharing it here too:

orientalshuffle.com/gipsy-jazz-dummy-book/

Cheers,
Nicolas

Lango-Django

Fan-F-ing-tastic, Nicholas!

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster caress you with his noodly appendages!


Will

Bones

Nicolas et al, that link would not open for me. Anyone else?

Pompe_ojisan

Hi Bones, thanks for checking it out, but the site has been down for 2/3 hours (great timing!)

After spending quite some time buried in my log files, I realised the problem is not on my side, but an issue with my host provider's DNS server, so nothing I can do until they fix...

(I'm using digital ocean, NOT recommended if hassle-free is what you're after. But you do get to learn of lot of stuff if you go with them .
This is the last straw for me though, I'll move to a more reliable platform asap )

edit: as it's a DNS problem, you shd still be able to access using the IP explicitly

128.199.199.162/gipsy-jazz-dummy-book/

... as long as I don't change machine, which i hope won't be long...

jonpowl

@Pompe_ojisan Perhaps you could post the link for your wonderful "dummy book" on iReal Pro. Thanks for all of the great work, I grabbed it last night while your site was still functional.

Bones

Wow, thanks Pompe!!!

AndrewUlle

For the benefit of musical illiterates like me, can you refresh my memory on the meaning of the chord-modifying symbols Delta, Phi, O, etc. ?

klaatu

Andrew Ulle wrote: »

For the benefit of musical illiterates like me, can you refresh my memory on the meaning of the chord-modifying symbols Delta, Phi, O, etc. ?

The "delta" means maj7; "phi" is half-dimished (or m7b5); o is diminished.

anthon_74

THANKS Nickolas !!!!!! Holy F%^&in' S%^T this is like the holy grail.

Anthony

woodamand

anthon_74 wrote: »

THANKS Nickolas !!!!!! Holy F%^&in' S%^T this is like the holy grail.

Anthony

What he said!

crookedpinky

Thanks for that - excellent resource Pompe-ojisan.