Bireli Paganini lick

marciero

Not sure it's Paganini, but it;s some classically inflected lick I've heard Bireli do, a harmonized ascending line, mostly in fourths and fifths I think, so would be double stops on a violin (the fifths at any rate) which is why I say Paganini. One instance is at at 4:22 on There Will Never Be Another You from Vienna. The beginning is not that clear though. Dennis or someone else had to have trancribed this, no? This could save me some time and would be much appreciated.

Mike

dennis

it's a technique paganini used often but it's a device called "horn fifths" (an imitation of horn calls)

bireli plays it in E

here it is in ascending order , bottom note first and top note second when a double stop is involved (watch the there will never be vid to get the fingering)

open low E
B
E
F#
E + G#
B
G# + E
B + F#
E + G#

it's good to practice this phrase with a metronome on 8th notes

bireli uses it often over a Bb7 chord of Fm7 Bb7. Such is the case in there will never be another you

he learned this technique when he was doing his PhD thesis on the "music of Palestrina and its effect on german romanticism" at oxford

marciero

Thanks Dennis. You rock.

Your Montreal in March show with Stochelo is def possibility, as I have vacation the week following.

Mike

a

dennis,

are you kidding about bireli + oxford +palestrina ?

marciero

Dennis is pulling our leg here. He may be God, but pretty sure Bireli has only very limited formal schooling.

Mike

V-dub

Thanks Dennis, I've been wondering about that lick for a while.

What's the prefered fingering for that, though:
[code]
---------------------------
------------------5--7--9--
------------1--4--------9--
------2--4--2-----6--9-----
---2-----------------------
0-------------------------- (A)[/code]

or

[code]------------------0--2--4--
------------------------5--
------------1--4--1--4-----
------2--4--2--------------
---2-----------------------
0-------------------------- (B)[/code]?

I'll have to check the archives at Oxford for that thesis. I'm currently pursuing my graduate degree in Quantum Physics and 17th century Basket-Making there.

dennis

the lick is always done on adjacent strings when doublestops are involved...

[code]
--------------------------
---------------------------
------------------9-11--13--
------2--4--6-9-6-9---14--------
---2--------7---------------
0--------------------------
[/code]

wow this thread is starting to look like a star trek convention Q+A ...

"In Episode 2E03, Captain Kirk was clearly seen using his photon X3 gun yet later blablablalba"

a

dennis, how do you know so much about startrek convention Q&As ? ? ?

:?:

V-dub

Clearly Dennis doesn't understand how to work with fixed-width fonts*. Here is a readable version:

[code]-----------------------------
-----------------------------
------------------9--11--13--
------2--4--6--9--6--9---14--
---2--------7----------------
0---------------------------- [/code]

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dennis

i do know about fixed fonts, i just wrote it out really really fast thinking that everything was properly aligned.

doesn't this kinda look like a smaller and chubbier version of Teddy G?

Bones

Can anyone post a sound clip of it?

Thanks