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I made this for my students to strum along to and improvise over. The first two are my own arrangements, the third and fourth from Early Jazz and Swing Songs by David Hamburger. Feel free to jam over them, if so moved. Or decry me from the rooftops for having the wrong kind of pompe!
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02-08-2019 12:17 PM
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wrong pompe.
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I struggle mightily with bossa and manouche rhythms. I’m afraid that criticizing your playing would seem totally pompe-ous of me. ;-)
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I am enjoying the music. But the pompe looks like it could use a slight trim.
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Forgive me for being next to brutal ... but this isn't swing. It's "gypsy jazz," which has somewhat of a rhythmic sensibility, but which is nowhere the easy lope of real swing. Gypsy jazz reminds me of a comment that the critic, Gene Lees, made many years ago: "Jazz has a 12/8 rhythm to it, an exciting yet satisfying drive. Other kinds of music have none of that drive, simply a squared-off rhythm that just goes up and down in one place." The clipped dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythm of much gypsy jazz reminds me of that. Good tracks overall, but stylistically not swing.
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Well, gypsy jazz certainly swings, but it's kind of the notes between the notes that make it so. I mean, it's the same thing for American style Freedie Green rhythm...it's 1-2-3-4, but it's not...that doesn't make any sense...but the swing works because of the 1-2-3-4...or something. I try not to overthink it...
Rob, RE: your pompe, the Django police would probably say those chords are ringing out way to long, but I still had fun jamming over All of Me a few minutes ago.
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You guys! It's just a bit of fun. Jam along, or do your own. I've heard too many varieties of pompe to argue there is one way. And my students are well aware I'm no specialist in the genre. No teacher around here is, though there are some good players.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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for what it's worth my comment was joke; i don't give a shit haha sounds fine
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by joe2758
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I think it's decent Rob, but I'd avoid temptation to accentuate 2 & 4 too much, it happens sometimes.
More even strokes, and yes, more percussivness to the tone would help too. But otherwise cool!
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Originally Posted by robertm2000
Last edited by Roberoo; 03-08-2019 at 07:33 PM.
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Originally Posted by Roberoo
One reason I deny playing gypsy jazz. No swing!
Actually I don’t really like classic Hot Club rhythm playing either lol but it’s less badLast edited by christianm77; 03-09-2019 at 05:19 AM.
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I'd have thought the simplest swung jazz rhythm was simple half or quarter beats, then add syncopation to taste. Presuming it's being played solo without a rhythm section.
Blues is good for rhythm playing because you can legitimately slide into almost everything.
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It seems you can't just have a bit of fun playing GJ. Is there any other musical style where absolutely no one agrees with anything anyone else does?
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Rob, I'm no expert but I think the point was that there's a difference between Gypsy swing and jazz rhythm from the Swing era. It wasn't clear which style you were demonstrating.
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
Unless you ignore all the bs and just play of course :-)
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I was demonstrating Le Pompe MacKillop, which I executed to perfection, and enjoyed doing so.
Anyone else who wants to say I'm not doing what they think I should be doing, should either make a video demonstration of Le Pompe MacKillop, so I can learn from you how to be me, or bugger off :-)
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la pompe (f)
Sorry, Rob, I know it's not fair :-)
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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No, shan't
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Well, time to go fishing
Sure doesn't sound like they are enjoying themselves at all.
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