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I’m new here. My name is Steve. I’d like to learn how to be a better rhythm player. Can someone help me learn how to play the accompaniment to Caravan. Specifically, what’s the strumming pattern and how do I train the right way and develop the speed?
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steve Teteak
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Chapter 12:
https://www.dc-musicschool.com/store/gypsy-jazz-rhythm-with-nousche-rosenberg-vol-1/
Saw this come in last night and was also going to look to DC Music School as I was sure there was something there.
There is Benji Winterstein's FREE lesson there as well that addresses the rhumba. Chapter 9. Iwas sure if I dug through all the other gypsy artists, someone would have Caravan? Sure enough, Nousche Rosenberg, Vol 3 has a lesson on Caravan. Can't go wrong learning the tune from the best!
"Caravan" has a life outside the gypsy-jazz world, where it seems to have become a speed challenge, perhaps influenced by the Rosenbergs' tear-ass performance.
Gonzalo Bergara's backing track on YouTube is set at a decent tempo (though still quicker than the Tizol/Ellington original) and makes clear the contrasting pulses of the A and B sections. FWIW, A is generally set as a Charlestonish or samba-feel 2-beat and B is straight swinging 4/4.
Dennis Chang's backing track is a bit quicker than I'd play it , but it also shows off the contrast. (Though I confess that the B sounds a bit square to me.)
The Hank Marvin Gyspy Trio version, for example, retains the sinuous, danceable feel of the original--
Or go back to a 1952 Ellington arrangement, which might be a bit more cha-cha (1-2,1-2-3-and) than Brazillian (and with Tizol taking the melody).
Or there is this version...
This is my favorite
Caravan is kinda advanced rhythm pattern though. How experienced player are you? I mean no reason whatsoever not to try it and practice. As pointed out there are many ways to deal with the A section, various patterns.
Dennis also covers Gypsy Rumba in his vol1 Gypsy Jazz Rhythm course. I'm sure others are good, Dennis maybe has an edge because of his customary in depth analysis of each part.
And when drums stop--bass solo!
@Buco Love, Love, LOVE Boban and Marko Markovic Orkestar.
Saw them at Samois at the end of the night about 15 years or so ago. It was cool to see the late night, tired audience slowly respond until the point where everyone was on their feet and dancing. One of the coolest live music experiences I've been a part of in terms of the audience and the band feeding off each other.
Such a cool performance. Tough how it's going to be a while before these types of shows can start up again...
@billyshakes that's lucky. With that beat going there's no way anyone is going to stay in their seats!! It makes you wanna jump like a crazy person.
As a guitar player this is one of my favorite versions. Not Gypsy, but with Vignola and Lage it's kind of "Gypsy adjacent".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ7aYeU5V-w