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I think C and I are going to have to agree to disagree. As someone who gigged in funk bands for over a decade, I wouldn't call this version of Sunny a funk tune. All of the academic postulation...
I think that’s kind of Christians point. We don’t need everybody to be everything. Peter Bernstein isn’t a funk guitarist but I love listening to him play that vibe. (And your above...
It's not that hard: "Sunny" was straight, and that "Blues for John" was swung. Have you ever heard some of the "true-blue" jazz guys trying to play a funk type thing or even swung 16ths? MANY...
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Sunny is a straight funk feel, the track James posted is a shuffle. the first has an equal division of 16ths and the second has an inequality, a “swing” if you will. As in ‘hey guitarist, stop...
Theres a whole thread on this fwiw Thoughts on triplet-swing.
Neither of which are straight-time feel, so I'm not sure what point it is that you are trying to make.
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I think someone is arguing about what swing feel is. I didn't realize, after decades of playing jazz, that there is an empirical measurement to be met. I'll get onto Amazon and order my swing-o-meter...
I mean, people have different definitions of swing, but in empirical terms there is a 16th note inequality in the track James posted and not so much in the Sunny video. In terms of being able to...
Are we really arguing about whether Sunny swings? Does it need to?
Thanks Johnny Mac, I did send the Gibson Custom Shop an email on this with the serial number. Definitely strange as I’ve looked up any image on LeGrands from all years that can be found on the web...
Mark... very relaxing feel Love the superimposed vids Thank you...
Whipporwills looks like a very fun gig!
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