I love this tune. I used to accompany a friend on clarinet on it before he passed away. The Duke Robillard version that the OP links to is really nice.
Here’s my attempt on solo guitar. I’ve been doing a lot more gardening than practicing lately, so it’s rough. I’ll try to work on finger mechanics and clean it up.
It's been awhile since i last logged in here, but there's a strange synchronicity in that i was just playing
'If I Had You' a couple of days ago, and here it is as this month's standard...
and so, off to the shed i will head, since there are still a few days left in the month!!!
In any case, here's a quick 'baseline' recording, playing the melody and changes from memory, and
without the benefit of my 2nd cup of am coffee:
Hopefully it will get a little better...
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Hi nevershouldhavesold it! In one of your posts you asked me how I was able to determine the unit weights for RotoSound strings. Unfortunately I've forgotten which post it was, so if you don't mind a...
yeah. i just went to the freddiegreen.org site to check the date. i did the same thing back in oct. 2002. i used transcribe, how time flies.
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I'd expect that, indeed, and I think there's definitely a bit more zing in the plain strings now on mine. Plus the old Spectrum D and A that I had started to find to sound a bit too dead even to my...
New interview from the Dr. Jazz Talks interview series, this time Leni Stern – superb guitarist and composer, with a great last album Dance…talk about Leni's beginnings and influences, being a...
Think I’m starting to get better results with a lower input looking at between -12 and -18 db as you good folks suggested. I’ve still tried a combination of ways to record using a Blig Amp1 with...
Attached is tab of my preferred fingerings for the A Section.
A problem I see with breaking this up into 4 bars is that the most efficient way to finger a section will depend partly on where it's...
We seldom talk about "cover bands" in Jazz. We're all proudly playing the same compositions that thousands have played before us.
When a composition depends on the voice of the songwriter, then it...
On guitar, I'm still just shedding, pretty much.
Yeah, you're right that the rootless chord voicings can sound pretty stark or unidiomatic when playing solo.
To me, that's a cue or an...
You can hear it on this recording as well (Barry Harris on piano lol.)
https://youtu.be/tEZgnN2S9ug?si=OqXlYObaWUKpGeQ-
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FG def playing one note on a few recordings at least…. It’s the sort of thing that sounds good in context but a bit weird on its own.
I often comp this way, gives piano plenty of room.
The...
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