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J'attendrai Solo Transcription
paulmcevoy75
Portland, MaineNew
Hello all
I've been working on this hopefully note for note and stroke by stroke transcription of the solo from the J'attendrai video. I haven't seen a ton of others to compare it to. If anyone is interested in proofreading it for me and seeing if there are errors I'd appreciate the help. I think I have most if not of all of it buy who knows. The camera dips away for frustratingly long periods of time so I just filled in the parts based on the the parts where you can see what he's doing.
I definitely learned a lot about Django's playing through this. Picking is clearly a downstroke on every string change plus more downstrokes, plus some downstrokes :)
Anyway, it's attached, let me know if you have any comments.
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Sorry Paul but it's a standard music notation and I'm afraid Michael and Dennis are too busy these days.
Gilles Rea transcribed this video on his Soundslice channel (the Django accompaniment part): https://www.soundslice.com/slices/TYTcc/
Denis Chang transcribed the Grappelli violin part here: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/fV8Vc/
And I've started a transcription of the Django solo: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/tN3Nc/
It's much nicer to make a Soundslice version than a PDF, because the former lets you hear the original audio synced. That makes it easier to learn from and, for the transcriber, tends to highlight errors in the transcription (especially with note durations/timing).
Adrian
I confess I much prefer a pdf that I can print, save, mark up, put away, look back on again, email to someone and make easily available online. But thanks for the links.
Those soundslice links are rotted now, unfortunately.
Gilles Rea's video is still available.
Or this one I found useful:
J'attendrai - Django Reinhardt | Gypsy Guitar Tab
I made this video, for someone who prefers to learn by ear. I'm one of those, tabs sort of scramble my head and I'm extremely weak at reading music.
Also Django accompanying Stephane, which for me was always as interesting as his chord melody (but it has exactly 10% of views of the first one)
Buco, that video is great for a blind guy like me. THe chords are still kinda hard to figure out though. Could you do that by ear without looking? If you have any time at all, do you mind doing that video again but with arpeggiated chords? No pressure at all, but I'd really appreciate that if you got around to it some time. That intro is gorgeous. Also I assume you are using the Ivanovski in that video as always?
@VicBulbon Yes, it's my Ivanovski. That's the only Selmer style guitar I have. Eventually I'll get another one from Risto, I really like what's he's been building recently.
As far as figuring out the chords, I think it depends on how familiar you are with these voicings. Plus the way I made a video, I get real close to the camera as I'm playing slowly so there's a close-up visual as well. These I figured it out by ear from the old film. But some years back it would not be possible for me to do the whole thing by ear. Or it would take me five times as long and it would have tons of mistakes.
Yeah man, I'll do an addendum video. I can arpeggiate everything but I can also name the notes. Let me know.
Back then when I made these videos, I purposely didn't spell the notes as I played. Because I feel there's too much handholding with music instructional videos. Not enough using one's ears. So for people that might use my video to learn something, I usually put a note somewhere to let me know if there's a part that needs additional explanation and then I'll spell it out.
Really appreciate that. Any time is fine. I'm in no hurry. ANd you are probably right about the need to train our ears. Saying the frets or notes would be the easiest of course, but I think arpeggiated is a good step to be in. Still takes a little to figure out, but not as hard as a full chord.