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There’s some good footage of Wes’s right hand knocking around. I’ll see if I can find it.
To my eyes The angle of the thumb doing rest strokes into the strings is very similar to the way a Gypsy jazz player picks.
He also uses the fabled thumb upstroke but generally the same way a Gypsy player would, as a recovery stroke from a downstroke, not to start a string.
This type of technique seems to me to encourage this type of phrasing. You have to slur to descend, but not so much to ascend. Lots of slides too.
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11-12-2020 10:42 AM
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I mean, really, it is one basic skill players should acquire in their teens, first couple of years playing the instrument.
Or, at about the same time decide it's all irrelevant BS that will in no way make them play better, what they want to play.
In essence, for what pages and pages are being wasted = learn to play starting with upstroke on (down)beat (1,2,3,4, ...)/ downstroke on upbeat ("and" ).
Or you can learn to alternate pick "properly" and accent with upstrokes.
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Chad's claim that the "dooden" -- accenting the downbeats in ascending lines is common practice is false.
He himself accents the upbeats in the majority of his ascending lines when he plays his Etudes!
The majority of the time Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins accent their upbeats when ascending.
Of course there are instances when they accent downbeats, typically specific tones, but the clear majority of continuous eighth note phases they play accent the upbeats
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Might be more illuminating to share some example phrases from the greats? This stuff is really just exercises until you hear it in the wild.... or not.
Although I don’t think YouTube timecodes work on JGO?
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11-13-2020, 07:30 AM #105DaShigsta Guest
Did anyone here study (in person or via mail) with Banacos or one of his students ?
Originally Posted by dasein
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there are any number of great phrases that illustrate the issues perfectly here
it's not that you stress downbeats ascending and upbeats descending - it's that you can stress downbeats ascending and upbeats descending.
ascending phrases will tend to 'pivot' on strong beats - but not descending ones
and - oh my god !! - this playing is the best thing I've heard in years and years. (I'm having a good week!)
the wonderful thing is that a player this good (and I haven't heard anyone who isn't dexter, sonny or hank who are this good) is a great teacher and has loads of great teaching materials readily available
I heard this solo for the fist time last night and I'm almost scared to put the sonny version from the MJQ record on.
I didn't know you could be this good nowadays! I thought it had gotten lost.
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what's that wonderful Parker blues with the phrase that repeats three times?\
can't remember the name!
well - that is a good example
lots of pivots on strong beats on ascending parts and plenty of opportunities to stress weak beats on descending parts
- how about his two examples - shoe shine boy - and - cheesecake?
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Now's the Time?
Homework: where does Bird put the accents?
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Originally Posted by docsteve
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cool blues - thanks
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and the piano player is right up there with him
my goodness gracious
and did anyone notice the bass player?
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The main melody theme in “Now’s The Time” features strong tonic note downbeat accents. During Parker’s solo the majority of his continuous eighth notes accents are on upbeats.
John Coltrane, Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Wynton Kelly, and Wynton Marsalis for examples all accented the upbeats in their ascending lines the majority of the time. However, accents also often occur on the highest note of a phrase, on a quarter note; often the last or first note of a phrase, also typically the first note of a triplet. Also, sometimes some accents are placed on the downbeat to make particular phrase sound more emphatic (Now's The Time main head phrase) or to add contrast to all them upbeats. Dizzy said you can "never have enough upbeats".Last edited by rintincop; 11-14-2020 at 12:05 AM.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
Developing an Individual Style
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