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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
This is interesting and also questions the authorship of the song .
"A Child is Born" | Stories of Standards - KUVO
The Thad Jones, Bill Evans and others' versions are very slow. That seems to me to reinforce this idea of a sleeping newborn child. That's why I did it so slowly. Even I, aka Mr Slow :-), found myself jumping ahead with the notes a little.
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06-25-2021 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Originally Posted by PickingMyEars
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More thoughts:
Rp, I definitely liked the swung 8ths in your second take...whole thing has a looser feel which i assume is you just getting more comfortable. I like it.
And John, RE: the Martin...unfortunately this guitar will end up costing me $...as I've figured the 000 is the perfect size for me...now I want a "nice" one.
But I won't be getting rid of this one. Great sounding guitar, plays nice too.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
I recorded the two takes one after the other.
For the first one, I prepared. I printed out the RB chart and I wrote in notes about what to play over each chord. More like guidelines than rules. So, for example, I wrote in Gb over the Ebm. I wrote in Ebmelmin over Ebm6/Bb. I wrote in Gminmaj over the first D+7 and then Eb7 Ab7 over the second D+7. Over F7sus4 I wrote in Cm7 Dm7. Then Cm6 over F13. Over Gb6#11 I wrote Bbm and added the C when I played the solo - I could have written Bbmadd9, but it didn't occur to me at the time.
I almost never do this, but I was thinking it might elicit some different sounds than usually occur to me. I think it was John who mentioned that it sounded a little more outside than usual. That's why.
Then, for the second take I did what I usually do. I didn't think about any of that. Instead, I relied on feel to be consistent with the harmony and I tried to make melody. That is not a reliable recipe for success.
I think writing in alternative changes (to have vocabularly) is a good idea, taught by Hermeto Pascoal, among others. But it's for the shed. The other approach strikes me as more for the bandstand. Of course, as you internalize your vocabulary it's supposed to become automatic.
So, the point is that thinking differently made a noticeable difference. Go figure.
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Very nice takes from all. This really is a delicate tune and needs to be handled like a precious baby! While looking for inspiration I found this golden nugget from Dave Stryker. The octave solo crescendo is worth the price of admission.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Seattle, c'mon! It's supposed to be COOLER up north
How is it in Chi-Town, Mr. B.
Lovely takes all around. I want an acoustic, but that purchase is gonna have to wait because... God Bless the Child that's got HER own Singing and dancing, that is
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Originally Posted by PickingMyEars
I will argue that Chicago is the best city in the U.S. at pretty much everything-- except weather. Our weather blows for about 48 weeks a year.
Starting usually in May, coinciding with my seasonal allergies, I shut all the windows and let the AC regulate our temperature and humidity in the house, as from May to September Chicago has 2 types of weather, generally: Hot and humid, or cooler, even more humid, and raining.
We were in a wicked drought of hot humid days that could never seem to rain, and now mother nature seems hell bent on catching us up on 6 months of rainfall in one week. Last weekend we even had a tornado in a highly residential area in the burbs, about 15 miles west of me.
But in the house it's 70° and my guitars are all happy
Re: alternate changes write ins-- yes, RP, I do that a lot, but I try to never look at anything when I do my take...its a false impression of really knowing the tune, as it's just in "short term" memory, but it least it allows me to be free of the paper.
But im a BIG fan of writing a tune out when learning it, and annotations.
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So here is my take, played on a Flamenca, but not at all Flamenco. Took it down a half step to A.
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Noise, clack or click... is from... a grounding issue, your action or your picking.
What is sounded like to me was... your attacks. The actual force. Seems to change a lot.... and when the volumes up you can hear the... differences. And when your picking has lots of downward force, you need higher action.
I've had all the problems. Not so much live but when in studios... recording, you hear everything.
If it's a results from your picking... do you pick downward. Better picking technique is more of a horizontal movement over the strings. Creates less bounce etc...
Experiment... should be simple to detect where or why it's happening.
If it turns out to be a grounding issue. It's a simple fix. Make sure the wiring is right, the pods etc... and using copper foil under pick guard to create a large ground works great.
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Simple is good.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont;[URL="tel:1130548"
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Actually, having posted that vid, I'm not sure I'm not missing the point of the tune. Too many altered notes, etc. So probably it ought to be more like this. Although I know people do it differently.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Here it is folks! Trying to chill on a hot and humid sunday morning.
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This is a bit meandering I'm afraid.
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I got around to listening today!
Picking my Ears, love those long sustaining notes. Very effective.
John, love the tone and the way you play the whole neck of the instrument with ease and freedom.
Rp, nice use of motifs to build your solo and great tone. Love that guitar!
Jeff, I dig your vibrato and touch. Such a melodic solo!
Rag, you always navigate through chord changes so smoothly, great quality to have!
Fep, I like the soul in your version. And on piano also...great! Nice Yamaha Revstar, I also have one and really like it.
Triple jazz, I like the Dave Stryker version. I've been listening to him a lot lately. Inspiring player!Last edited by Ronstuff; 06-27-2021 at 08:58 PM.
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I wasn’t totally familiar with this tune but I’ve heard it before. It’s so beautiful I decided to arrange a chord melody. I imagine this is the music floating through my kids minds as they drift off to sleep.
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I enjoyed all of your contributions here - lots of good playing!
Nice ballad and I really enjoy playing the changes but somehow me and that tune don't seem to work with each other. My attempts at improvising always sound pedestrian and lame so I guess I better skip this one...
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Hey, Tommo, I don't think you should skip it. It's not difficult and there's room for bluesy stuff. Forget the tune, just play the chords. Something'll come out, bound to.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Oh, we want to hear you!
I just did this for fun... at least, I think it's fun
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