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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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10-17-2023 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by sgcim
So, he's a one to three note guy. I'm a two to four note guy. We agree on two and three notes.
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I am a huge Freddie Green fan. I keep his autograph in my guitar case each time I gig, so I feel his presence each time. There is a ton of information to be found at the Freddie Green website
The Freddie Green Web Site
Some things I learned from Freddie and try to do so in bigband practice :
* time is only time, rythm is something completely different. A bigband guitarist prime role is to play rythm
* playing the wrong note/chord is half so bad as playing the out of rythm/sync
* the band needs to hear me above all, all others not so much
* lock in with the bass, drums and piano
* stay out of eachothers way, especially the pianist.
* keep it simple, less is more.
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I agree with everyone here, playing in a big band is a blast. I haven’t done it in decades, but when I did it was incredible. Go for it, and let us know how it turns out!
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Originally Posted by hotpepper01
So, at times it wasn't a full chord, three notes, or even two notes, but it wasn't quite one note either. Apparently, he was good at pressing down on the D string while only lightly touching the others, getting some tone and some thunk. The thunk notes were from the chord, not random. That gave him a percussive sound that was in tune with the band.
There's a parallel to Wes. His octave sound requires the muted string in between the two notes an octave apart. You can't get his sound by plucking, say, the B and A strings. The thunk is part of it.
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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