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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I am happy to learn that you get better results. Congratulations! Having the right signal strength, not too loud, not too quiet is a good starting point.
Next step is finding an amp sim that...
I have to say I've just listened to quite a few versions now and it's not true that everybody does it, quite the contrary. Some play that line as it appears on the sheets, others do their own kind of...
Changing where I play a melody after I’ve learned it is standard procedure for me. How often do you transcribe something in the most economical fingering the first time? Is this something I get to...
I mean tbh as soon as I read the OG article on that site I couldn’t really unhear it… it seemed to stand out really clearly to me esp in moments like that with sparse instrumentation (which is often...
I switched to roundwounds nearly 20 years ago. They’re way less forgiving on our technique, especially for recording which seems to amplify every squeak and scrape, but the benefits are so much more...
Yup. Have always LOVED the TONE of the 335: it's unique amongst all others IMO. But I HATE those Mickey Mouse horns! And also, at this point in my life, I like more normal-sized guitars; large...
Well I just noticed you were using roundwounds. Do you use them when playing amplified as well? There seems to be a trend among jazz guitarists towards roundwounds and brighter tones.
Because not all of them are the same. In any case, the unreliability of the old RB is legendary, although in this case I don't think it's just a misreading. That line is significant and I think...
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