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"Viper's Dream" as Django phrasing exercise

Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
edited September 2010 in Licks and Patterns Posts: 1,854
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'.
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."
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  • They don't show on a Mac for one thing.

    The music isn't found in the notes ...... it's found in the spaces between the notes. :wink:
    The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,854
    Jazzaferri wrote:
    They don't show on a Mac for one thing.

    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?
    Jazzaferri wrote:
    The music isn't found in the notes ...... it's found in the spaces between the notes. :wink:

    Amen, brother...
    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."
  • periclimenespericlimenes Santa Ana, CANew
    Posts: 140
    I definitely appreciate these! I'm slow to work through them, but they are great.

    Many thanks!
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,854
    You are very welcome, and indeed, thank you sir, for restoring my faith in my fellow GJ-ers...
    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."
  • I get the Safari can't display box and where you have put your inserts a little blue box :o

    So I guess I will have to think about Firefox :oops: :roll: :?
    The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,854
    What the hell, at least it's free...

    www.mozilla.com/products/download.html
    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."
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,854
    Since I'm sick in bed right now, I've had some time to modify this in a way which I hope will make it ever user-friendlier.

    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
    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."
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,854
    Sorry, my previous post missed one sound clip...

    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
    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."
  • aminfidelaminfidel houston, txNew
    Posts: 2
    good work. thanks. keep it up.
    dave
  • thanassisthanassis ukNew
    Posts: 2
    thank you!
    great idea - You've started me thinking on how to do this for every lick django ever recorded and to integrate to djangopedia.
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