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"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'.
I live in a little tourist town called Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada, which is about twenty miles north of Niagara Falls.
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
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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...
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
Many thanks!
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
So I guess I will have to think about Firefox :oops: :roll: :?
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If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
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
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
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
If you are ever planning on visiting the beautiful Niagara area, feel free to PM me and perhaps we can get together and do some jamming.
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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