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The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.pdf
this is the tune writed by the master himself,59 bars,3 tonal centers, and rythm changes :2/4,3/4/4,typical of the French compositors of this period.
If you analyse the Johnny Smith version,it's much more simplified, essentially in order to exhibit his technical virtuosity.
The original tune is more a question of the installation of a atmosphere
Here's the version for guitar on the James D'Aquisto #1219 from 1990:
Last edited by Hyppolyte Bergamotte; 06-18-2018 at 05:41 AM.
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06-18-2018 05:18 AM
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For reference
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Originally Posted by DRS
Lenny Breau used harmonics to play these close voicings that have major and minor seconds in the lower voices.
I used tricks like that to play the exact voicings Oliver Nelson used on Stolen Moments. Every other guitarist I've ever heard play that song butchers the harmony when they play the melody to that song, because they don't use Nelson's voicings, which is what makes that song so great.
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Originally Posted by DRS
John Galich
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The stretching is just a means to create the music.
I just happen to really like JS' arrangement but some passages are difficult.
sgcim voicing works but you have to play all notes simultaneously with your fingers which is a different sound than JS gets with his pick.
It's all good as I am also inventing my own voicings. But "Maid . . ." is definately a feel song where your playing adds a tremendous amount of emotion.
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Hey DRS
here a full jazz analysis of the tune
I do not know if it is necessary to push things so far,but ,anyway ,it's interesting
cheers
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Originally Posted by DRS
JS started to use these types of voicing as he got older, and wasn't capable of stretching like he used to.
While CG players generally love JS, they can get a little testy when it comes to playing pieces from the classical literature like MWTFH. I loaned a copy of my Foursome LP to a friend of mine who was studying with a well-known CG player in college, and got him to play it for his teacher.
His teacher said he didn't like it, and that he had done a much better arrangement of MWTFH!
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The tab on that sheet music is plain wrong IMHO- those first chords are on the wrong string set, I think. They should be moved one string over, using the B string on top of the chords- or voicing with open strings as others have mentioned. Johnny Smith had medium sized hands.
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Originally Posted by DRS
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here is ted greenes version..note he tuned down to Db..no mention of what guitar he played...
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Here's a straightforward arrangement for classical guitar. For recordings, Christopher Parkening has a nice one.
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Originally Posted by DRS
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Originally Posted by jrethorst
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My transcription is in drop D.
I re-learned it in standard and all those big stretches on the low E string are easier. You loose the bottom on a few big chords. Easier for my hobbit hands.
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