The Summer of Rhythm Guitar 2024

[Webby]

The best "book" I can recommend about this style is this diploma thesis about the role of the guitar in the count basie rhythm section.http://https://www.google.com/url?sa...u3uhozV8R9g-Z4
I printed the whole thing and worked through it as a teenager. In a lot of ways it explains how and why this style of playing works so well. For me a lot of that stuff were Real eye openers.


Paul

[pcjazz]

The best "book" I can recommend about this style is this diploma thesis about the role of the guitar in the count basie rhythm section.http://https://www.google.com/url?sa...u3uhozV8R9g-Z4
I printed the whole thing and worked through it as a teenager. In a lot of ways it explains how and why this style of playing works so well. For me a lot of that stuff were Real eye openers.


Paul

Sure, it’s very good, but the OP said he was not looking for Freddie Green style rhythm in particular.

[mr. beaumont]

It's important to note Freddie developed his spare style over time...Freddie Green didn't always play Freddie Green style.

Webby, that link didn't work for me, but Phil, I'd definitely consider anything Webby suggests regarding rhythm guitar.

[pcjazz]

Webby, that link didn't work for me, ...

You can find it on the Freddie Green site.

[pcjazz]

Webby, that link didn't work for me...

You can find it on Petterson’s FG website.

[AllanAllen]

https://www.freddiegreen.org/techniq...man_thesis.pdf

[mr. beaumont]

Oh it's that article/thesis? Then yes, it's absolutely worth checking out.

[Jwr]

Hi.
I guess participating in this means to post at least one clip:
this is me practicing to get the third string under control,
tune: on the street where you live.

Dropbox

[pawlowski6132]

Hi.
I guess participating in this means to post at least one clip:
this is me practicing to get the third string under control,
tune: on the street where you live.

Dropbox

I think that sounds really good.

Can you tell me what chords you're using for the bridge?

[Jwr]

Pawlowski6132:


But I probably played some notes that didn’t fit. The Ireal comp is just too quiet on the ipad speakers.

[pawlowski6132]

thanx much,

i hope to post same song this weekend (out of town now)

also, don't forget to charge your phone.

jrp

[mr. beaumont]

Talking about simplifying things and "On the Street Where You Live"

[pawlowski6132]

Talking about simplifying things and "On the Street Where You Live"

Hell yeah. This was great.

[mr. beaumont]

One more, just for anybody who hasn't played in this style before and who needs a little push to "get off the fence."

[pcjazz]

Wayne Wright plays rhythm with George Barnes, Ruby Braff and Michael Moore


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[mr. beaumont]

Holy shit is that good! ^^^^^^

[mr. beaumont]

Sunday fun: rhythmic "hits" and really honing in on those inside strings/the guitar is a piece of tuned percussion.

[mr. beaumont]

Wednesday afternoon musings on varying the amount of notes in chords.

[2bornot2bop]

I’m pretty familiar with this one, so I went for 2 note chords. Then I noodled around.

That was purely nice! Just think of the music our grandparents were listening to. Life was simpler, and the music was supreme.

[2bornot2bop]

Wednesday afternoon musings on varying the amount of notes in chords.

Jeff, that was really really nice! The entire song came through! You could have been playing that while assisting Diana Krall. In fact, you look a bit like Anthony Wilson from 2001!

[AllanAllen]

That was purely nice! Just think of the music our grandparents were listening to. Life was simpler, and the music was supreme.

My grandparents liked polka, they were dancers. Grandma liked Frank Sinatra too, but no other jazz as far as I know. If the radio was on at their house, it was polka or the police scanner. What I wouldn't give to sit at the table again while she cooked chicken noodle soup and pirogis.

[mr. beaumont]

My grandma liked Polka, Julio Iglesias, and pretty much anything in Spanish. Which of course she didn't speak a word of.

Figuring out her beef noodle soup recipe over time is one of my life's great achievements.

[mr. beaumont]

All the things you can dance to:

[L50EF15]

Ok, Stella part 1. This one will need a few visits.

That Kay sounds wonderful.

I’m late to this, but I will try to contribute. I feel a bit of an obligation, given that I’m a Charleston native, like Freddie Green—who was boyhood friends with my grandfather.

Stella is interesting to me because I “hear” it in more extreme forms. The first time I heard the tune was on a Jimmy Raney album (I think it was In Paris, Vol. 1), so a purely bop uptempo take, Derek Bailey also played it on Ballads (and of course, his approach is not for everyone, much as I like it. But note that this album is solo acoustic and he’s getting an incredible sound from a vintage Epiphone…).

As more relevant to the subject of the thread, I also play tenor and plectrum banjo. And doing so has shown me just how much Freddie Green and his contemporaries brought to rhythm guitar from tenor banjo.

Maybe I can post something taking on the same progression on guitar, tenor, and plectrum banjo.

[AllanAllen]

Jeff, did you do a rhythm changes yet? Hint hint