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Both of these sound good! There's less fluency than when you rely on licks, but it's all very solid. Makes me think I should have focused on licks at the start too.
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12-12-2024 05:14 PM
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Thanks Allan. It remains a long slow journey, but I feel like I'm making progress. I know the list of areas requiring focus remains vast, and in some areas I think I've regressed, but to be able to at least play something over Don't Mean A Thing and Djangology, neither of which I really know or have practiced much, and to sound musical is progress.
My toolbox now has a few things in there and I'm starting to try and use them all rather than just relying on the same few tools. Naturally there will be some hesitation and lack of fluency and, sadly, swing, but it'll come together eventually.
Hoping for some more gigs in 2025!
Derek
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I’m now taking the few licks I know through changes. Going to try and hammer them into all the square holes at Saturdays gig.
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I have the last gig of the year later today. Not a jazz gig per se, but I'm sure we'll slip in a few. It makes a measly ten gigs for the year - although to be fair I never went looking for any gigs in 2024 as I'm more in a woodshedding than playing period of my life. Still, at least it's double figures :-)
Only one "gig" in the diary for 2025 so far and that's a solo guitar wedding gig at the end of the year. That gives me incentive and time to work on some chord melody stuff. I am reasonably proficient at thumb picking, but I'm not sure ragtime will be what the order of the day is, so I have some work to do. Just been rustling up basic arrangements of Autumn Leaves and FlyMe To The Moon over Christmas. I think it will be good for me.
Not gigging makes it hard to justify buying new gear - any of my guitars are fine for playing in the kitchen! But I did buy that cheap Loar LH400 and I'm really liking it as a rhythm guitar. I think that one day I could even be happy just tucking into the pocket in a big band, of which there are a couple around these parts, if ever the rhythm guitar chair became free (and, again, given a lot more woodshedding).
I think there will be a focus on transcribing next year. I'm aware of where I need to improve and where the gaps are. Just need to go to work on it all, really
Derek
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Everybody gets the blues in January...
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I dropped this one in the "Just Melody" thread where it disappeared without trace. But I like the tune and there are a couple of bits I want to remember and work on, so I've dropped a new version here as well. It's usually played a little faster and with a little more swing than this - but you can see and hear that this is currently the tempo my brain works at when trying to figure out chords and lines :-)
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Sounds great!
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Very slowly working up a "cocktail" set for a wedding at the end of the year. This will be some old standards and some pop tunes done in a solo guitar style. I will want to have the bass line and the melody going together so that's a challenge, especially as I'm not allowed to do my "bouncy" thing, as SWMBO calls it. I might get to slip in a slow version of The Entertainer, but any other ragtime / ragtime blues / thumb-picking is likely to be out.
So here's one that won't make the cut, but is fun to play anyway. We may incorporate this into the duo, instead.
Last edited by digger; 02-22-2025 at 02:14 PM.
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Not much jazz in this one, I'm afraid, but I borrowed a bass guitar for a project that I'm helping someone else with and as I rarely get chance to play along with a proper bass I thought I'd better lay something down, as they say. It's an old favourite that I've posted before, but here with a very big nod to all the flat-pickers I've been listening to (whom, along with the finger-pickers and clarinet players do distract me from my swing playing, I admit).
Derek
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Complete Jazz Collection & Blues - YouTube
Added here as a note to myself, but also so all you good people can find this stuff, too. It's the outtakes and alternate takes and rehearsal sequences and so on. Great resource for studying Charlie. No idea why all this stuff is free on YT these days!
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ohh excellent
Originally Posted by digger
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Thanks for posting this. I am listening to it now while I make breakfast. I used to have the Charlie Christian LP Columbia Records put out in the 70's with many of these tunes on it. It just shows how much all these cats could swing back in the day. Originally Posted by digger
As for it being "free" I would assume the channel is monetized and receives money from ad's? However I am not an expert in these matters. 
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