Most common outros?

BluesBop Harry

Hi all,
I`m starting a Gypsy jazz band, and we have already learned quite a lot of tunes but we seem to be repeating the endings.
Could some of you share the outros you know? Im especially interested in the rhythm guitar parts, and I already know the chromatic ending used on tunes like Minor swing, Daphne, etc.
Thanks.

capilano-gypsy

Here are some ideas:

-same thing as intro
-vamp
-fade out
-ritard
-cadenza
-tag (always 3x)
-tag and sequence by whole tones
-tag and sequence by m3rd
-basie endings
-ellington endings

Jack

A fairly common ending, here in G; the rhythm isn't notated below but it's 2 bars and starts with a rest:

------5----6--5---5--4--5------------------------------------
------5----6--5---5--4--5------------------------------------
------4----6--5---4--3--4------------------------------------
------5----5--4---5--4--5------------------------------------
------5----6--5---5--4--5----------------------------------
------3------------3--2--3---------------------------------

For a corny tag-on:
----------------------------------------------------------9-----
----------------------------------------------------------10-----
-------------4-7-5-4-5-6-5-6-7-5-4--------------------9-----
------5--------------------------------5----4-5----------9-----
------------------------------------------5--------------10-------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
then it's whammy time.

More and more my band has been using different segues and vamps to transition between tunes. Sometimes those sections allow a lot more experimentation than the tunes themselves, and people really seem to enjoy that.

If I remember later I'll put up the ending I've been using on Cherokee lately...basically, after the last A section, you'd just repeat it up a half step, then repeat it again up another half (Bb to B to C). As the C version winds down it moves into a series of descending ii-Vs, modulating back to Bb:

Two beats each:
[code]-------------------------------------------------------
--6-5-4-3--5-4-3-2---4-3-2--1------3--------------
--5-5-4-4--4-4-3-3---3-3-2--2------3--------------
--3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2---1-1-1--1------3--------------
--5-5-4----4-4-3-----3-3-2---------3---------------
--------3--------2----------1-----------------------[/code]

Best,
Jack.

BluesBop Harry

Thanx!!!
I`ve borrowed Jack`s idea from a previous post about calling the ends by number (chromatic is 1). Maybe we could establish a system among us for ending tunes at jams.