Musette guitar accompagnement the right way

scot

I'm with Buco, your rhythm playing sounds great already. And the Astolfi book lays the traditional style out very clearly. His chords for Bourrasque are almost exactly the same as I was shown in central France 30 years ago.

The 3 volumes of "Paris Musette" have really great traditional rhythm playing by Didi Duprat and Didi Roussin, two of the best ever. Those CDs are terrific.

"Impair et Valse" has excellent transcriptions, the versions of Minch Valse and Swing Valse are almost exactly the same as Baro's and are a real challenge.

For a more modern take on the jazz waltz, the late French jazz guitarist Frederic Sylvestre made a CD about 20 years ago called Valses Caprice. The arrangements of musette pieces on this CD are really adventurous especially the harmony. This one is on Spotify.

Don't forget "Dreams" by the Allman Bros and "Tuesday's Gone" by Skynyrd, classic rock waltzes😉

bbwood_98

@scot Has chimed in!

Y'all need to pay attention here!

I would know nothing really about Django's music if not for Scot.

Also - He's a master of this type of accompaniment.

Off to listen to Frederic Sylvestre now!

DoubleWhisky

@scot

Electric guitar is where I come from, especially blues infused like these southern rockers, so those shouldn't be a problem haha

Thank you for the input, now I have a good vision on where to dive in first.