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For those of you who have the Gypsy Picking book, check out Picking Pattern 5. Django is doing a variation of that in this recording.
There are several other variations of this pattern in the Picking book and a few more in the Gypsy Fire book as well.
It's a great lick and Django used it in many situations!
Thanks for pointing us to the Cruickshank book. I've dug out my battered old copy and attached the page with the "If you ever see a duck" example.
Ian, of course, used his own idiosyncratic scheme for representing the notes on the fretboard .
I still find it hard to integrate the concept when soloing on up-tempo tunes but have now been able to record myself including it successfully in slower tunes like Tears.
Awesome, yessss
it reminded me about that whole thing and I started messing with it again as well. One of these days I will make “ If you ever see a duck“ flow like water
that was one of my first ‘Gypsy Jazz’ books. I love the pictures in there as well as the simple presentation, it’s super old-school
I heard the device many times again today in Django's version of Just One Of Those Things, firstly at around 1:22
https://youtu.be/OxS0ZBKgsLg?t=82
Just a moment later at 1:32, the same idea but in a different key
https://youtu.be/OxS0ZBKgsLg?t=92
First one again at around 1:48
https://youtu.be/OxS0ZBKgsLg?t=108
Then he uses it again a fourth time (!) towards the end of the tune, at around 2:42
https://youtu.be/OxS0ZBKgsLg?t=160
I guess this is a reliable "turnaround lick" in Django's brain, because he puts it in the same place these 3 times (i.e. in the turnaround of F). That second arpeggio (Django plays B D Ab B, D) is from the Fdim7, the diminished seventh chord with the key center note in it, an idea that Duved Dunayevsky talks about a lot and mentioned in his online courses for example as a classic Django sound. This gives another way to think about that sound, i.e. functioning as secondary dominant (V/V), given the chord over which Django's placing it.
Hah, there's a big one in After You've Gone, starting at about 1:33 (8 arpeggios!)
https://youtu.be/-rAz7nnnHqo?t=93
https://www.soundslice.com/slices/HT6Vc/
I’ve got that solo transcribed in standard notation in the Stan Ayeroff book! Gonna have to work it out. That is awesome
Cool slice, Wim. Thanks. Interesting on the tuning used (EADGCF). I've only heard the tales of Joseph tuning his guitar for him. Did Django use alternate tunings like that on other recordings that you've transcribed? Is it something you discerned by hearing the pitch of an open string?
Wow thanks Wim! Are you sure he was using that tuning there? Interesting.
Oh Django certainly does not use that tuning (proof). I advise to use the notation, not the tab..