Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: djl on June 30, 2012, 02:25:50 PM
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Did a fingerstyle thingy with these, just thought I'd show how great they are on the soloy stuff too
http://soundcloud.com/djl1/summertime
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Excellent ! The fish were really jumpin' on that one . 8)
Incidentally, as you have brought a remarkable level of Jazz playing to the forum, I am curious as to what your Jazz evolution / path of knowledge was. It is a nice chance for me to understand the specifics / development of what has obviously been very effective for you. :D
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Thanks, I really appreciate it.
From a jazz point of view, the main things that I got into were Martin Taylor (he used to do an awesome fingerstyle jazz section in guitar techniques- really good transcriptions of jazz stds, and not just obvious ones). Also Howard Morgens books (particularly the Gershwin one) are very good. Obviously Joe Pass, and I do some stuff with a female singer so I tracked down the Ella and Joe Pass cds which are well worth tracking down. I think I've accumulated most of his stuff over the years.
From the single note stuff point of view, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass and Pat Martino are all players that I think it's worth learning solos for note for note and stealing licks. You probably know all that already though.
Actually one thing I found really got me to improve was learning one particular progression (like a jazz blues) inside out, and learning every possible substitution over it and then figuring out what notes you can play in which bit to get a particular sound. Once you've done that with one set of changes, it's relatively easy to apply that knowledge to other changes. So I found it best to focus on one tune really intensively, rather than try and learn lots of different ones. That said, you do get sick of the same changes after a while.....
Anyway, thanks for asking, take it easy
David
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... I found it best to focus on one tune really intensively, rather than try and learn lots of different ones.
Whilst I gained a lot from reading your full reply, the sentence above really made me smile. :) As you may have gathered, I share that sentiment ! 8)
Nothing you said was 'old news' - and as a ( somewhat absent minded, middle aged ) novice to all this, I appreciated your detailed reply - which I have copied to 'Notepad' for reading at leisure over a cup of tea.
Cheers ! :D
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Cheers!
Well here's a link to me playing over the blues progression, trying out a few lines
http://soundcloud.com/djl1/jazz-blues
It's a prs hollowbody with stormy mondays (again)
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That TONE! What amp did you use?
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Very nice indeed- what a tone! There will come a time when I think about my 339 and I think I know which way I am going to go with it.
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wow could there be a more sweet and pleasant clean tone ever? beautiful! seriously thinking about putting a stormy in my duesenberg starplayer (semi hollow).
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wow could there be a more sweet and pleasant clean tone ever? beautiful! seriously thinking about putting a stormy in my duesenberg starplayer (semi hollow).
The Stormies are indeed sweet. :) I would say that for absolutely clean and sweet - the Manhattans are the 'Secret Weapon' . Both Stormy Mondays and Manhattans bring an elegance and sweetness to this sort of stuff. I would have enjoyed hearing djl playing these pieces with Manhattans and his 'usual' amplifier.
Incidentally, I believe djl said / wrote ( in the text of another Stormy Monday clip ) - that he was using a Carr 'Viceroy' as the amp on these . :)
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I love this! Playing and tone are brilliant.
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give the man a cigar! awesome work
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Great tone and playing.