new video lessons

dennis · September 2008

title says it all:

http://www.youtube.com/djazzrhythm

Adelaarvaren · September 2008

Merci Juanita, awful kind of you

RomKyzar · September 2008

Denis! that was most wonderful of you to do!
Thanks a lot.

BluesBop Harry · September 2008

Nice! Thanks Dennis.

Hey, Have you considered producing some Dennis quality manouche playalongs??
I have what's out there now, but I'm not satisfied...

They are ok... but some of them are out of time, out of tune, too much variation, bad pompe, wrong changes, wrong keys and all are too short for my tastes ( I'd like at least 4 mins to work with).

I don't think anyone has come up with something for Gypsy Jazz to match what Aebersolds are for straight ahead Jazz.

If you ever do them put me down for one order.

pinkgary · September 2008

The Stephan Wrembel ones are pretty good.

http://www.stephanewrembel.com/rhythmtracks.html

I've fed a bunch of them into my Digitech Jamman so they last as long as i like. It's quite effective. If you haven't encountered the jamman, it's great, enables you to do things like this too:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pfF3PZOCPbs

Ooo, the fun.

pinkgary · September 2008

D'oh!

I thought i was being all clever with the you tube embedding, but obviously not!. Hmmm

Jack · September 2008

BluesBop Harry wrote:

Nice! Thanks Dennis.

Hey, Have you considered producing some Dennis quality manouche playalongs??
I have what's out there now, but I'm not satisfied...

They are ok... but some of them are out of time, out of tune, too much variation, bad pompe, wrong changes, wrong keys and all are too short for my tastes ( I'd like at least 4 mins to work with).

I don't think anyone has come up with something for Gypsy Jazz to match what Aebersolds are for straight ahead Jazz.

If you ever do them put me down for one order.

I haven't heard them, but Colin Cosimini was putting out collections of playalongs with a full band...I remember reading that someone thought enough of them to use them as a backing band for solo gigs!

best,
Jack.

BluesBop Harry · September 2008

I have the Cosiminis and they are ok, but they only last a couple of mins per song... also they're occasionally slightly out of tune and sometimes the tempo varies a little.

Wrembel's are great but sometimes feel too short.

The backing tracks for the Selmer 607 album are good. I love "Swing 48", simple, steady and swinging, would be perfect if it lasted a bit more.

I'd love to have something like Jamey Aebersold's playalongs for gypsy jazz.
Enough time to practice, great players backing you, enough variation to make it interesting but not too much so it distracts you.

Right now I make my own with Garage band and it's fine but it would be really cool to have two good rhythm guitars and a double bass so you can not only use them as a backing but also practice learning rhythm from them... and if you have the bass panned to one side and the guitars to the other, it could be used for a lot of situations.

I'm sure sooner or later someone will do it, just thought I might as well suggest it to Dennis.

Jack · September 2008

BluesBop Harry wrote:

I have the Cosiminis and they are ok, but they only last a couple of mins per song... also they're occasionally slightly out of tune and sometimes the tempo varies a little.

All the better to simulate a real gig!

Just out of curiosity, are you talking about the backing track series available here, or the discs that come with the chord books? Like I said, I've never heard the backing tracks, but I always thought the chord book CDs were too short...

best,
Jack.