DjangoBooks.com
Welcome to our Community!
Categories
- 18.2K All Categories
- 445 General
- 286 Welcome
- 11 Archtop Eddy's Corner
- 82 CD, DVD, and Concert Reviews
- 38 FAQ
- 9 Gypsy Jazz Italia
- 19 Photos
- 27 Gypsy Picking
- 4 Unaccompanied Django
- 4 Pearl Django Play-Along Vol.1
- 1 Gypsy Fire
- 26 Gypsy Rhythm
- 606 Gypsy Jazz University - Get Educated
- 117 Gypsy Jazz 101
- 192 Repertoire
- 144 History
- 96 Technique
- 40 Licks and Patterns
- Daniel Givone Manouche Guitare Method Users Group
- 17 Eddie Lang Club
- 1.1K Gypsy Jazz Gear
- 700 Guitars, Strings, Picks, Amps, Pickups and Other Accessories
- 352 Classifieds
- 41 Recording
- 39 Other Instruments
- 17 Violin
- 3 Mandolin
- 6 Accordion
- 3 Bass
- 10 Woodwinds
- 223 Gypsy Jazz Events
- 87 North America
- 87 Europe
- 49 International
In this Discussion
Who's Online 0
Today's Birthdays
"Viper's Dream" as Django phrasing exercise
Lango-Django
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
Hope other beginner/intermediate players find this a useful exercise.
(More advanced players may be thinking, "WTF?")
Perhaps players lucky enough to live in an environment immersed in GJ
may take this aspect of the music for granted, because it's just part of the air that they breathe.. but for those of us who are former rock/bluegrass/jazz players, it's a hard thing grip on...
How does Django, even playing a simple 12-bar blues pattern, make his arps and phrases and string bends magically "float"?
As opposed to plodding along tediously like, well, okay, mine.
Listening carefully to the attached clips, I'm thinking that Django's use of little rests between phrases is a big key...?
Good luck and enjoy!
Will Wilson
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
PS I gotta say, nobody has given me any feedback on any of my previous postings in this vein, and these little sound clips are a fair amount of work to create and upload.... So if anyone actually finds this useful, please say so, otherwise this'll probably be the last time I cast any more of my pearls here before ye.... just sayin'.
(More advanced players may be thinking, "WTF?")
Perhaps players lucky enough to live in an environment immersed in GJ
may take this aspect of the music for granted, because it's just part of the air that they breathe.. but for those of us who are former rock/bluegrass/jazz players, it's a hard thing grip on...How does Django, even playing a simple 12-bar blues pattern, make his arps and phrases and string bends magically "float"?
As opposed to plodding along tediously like, well, okay, mine.
Listening carefully to the attached clips, I'm thinking that Django's use of little rests between phrases is a big key...?
Good luck and enjoy!
Will Wilson
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
PS I gotta say, nobody has given me any feedback on any of my previous postings in this vein, and these little sound clips are a fair amount of work to create and upload.... So if anyone actually finds this useful, please say so, otherwise this'll probably be the last time I cast any more of my pearls here before ye.... just sayin'.
Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Comments
The music isn't found in the notes ...... it's found in the spaces between the notes.
Hmmm.... that's odd, because guess what? I'm a Mac user too...
In order for Djangobooks forum to accept these little sound clips attachments, I had to switch browsers, using "Firefox" instead of my usual "Safari"... perhaps that would work for you, too?
Amen, brother...
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Many thanks!
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
So I guess I will have to think about Firefox :oops: :roll: :?
www.mozilla.com/products/download.html
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
I've broken the solo down into little one- or two-bar bits which can be looped endlessly while you attempt to play along note for note... just use keyboard shortcut command-L or choose "Loop" from the QuickTime menu. Chorus 1 phrase 2 took me a good 15 minutes to nail, but by golly, I think I 've got it down.
Luckily, this solo is only 24 bars long, so it wasn't too long a process.
Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
I wasn't aware when I started at the bottom of the list and worked my way up to the top that there would be a limit of ten attachments!
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
great idea - You've started me thinking on how to do this for every lick django ever recorded and to integrate to djangopedia.
blog:http://www.thanassis.com/blog