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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Yeah ok so there’s a fair amount to talk about here, but the important thing is that the fingering must reflect the phrasing. So an added note scale is a musical phrase. It doesn’t make any sense to...
Yeah. I guess the part I found difficult mostly was the halfstep rules, especially the sequence presented: single key, adding a scale degree at a time. I initially wanted to woodshed those in single...
WAIT, you aren't plugging it into an amp? What are you plugging into? a DI or computer? It's a pedal meant to be plugged into an amp, it's not an actual amp simulator pedal the like the Tech21...
I'll but a pedal or a note in the bass to mark the time, a kind of counterpoint with the voices in the higher or middle registers. So there's a note, it's still steady eighths, but the rhythmic...
Just to offer an alternative for discussion.
To go from a Cmaj to Cmelmin, I know that it's the same scale except for E > Eb. I know where every one of the 7 notes in C or Cmelmin is on the...
Surprised they don't get *more* attention. JV from Archtop has said they're the best kept secret in arch tops and Fisch & Fred's book (in particular Benedetto's foreword '30s-50's epis are second to...
The scale is standard Gibson 24.75" but I guess you mean it's 'long neck' with the 19th fret neck joint instead of the 16th fret neck joint of the ES-330/Casino.
I slightly prefer the 16th fret...
Another advantage of one octave scale mapping is that if you want to change for instance a major scale into a melodic minor, all you need to do is count up three and lower that note by a half step -...
It’s not that hard (at least the improvisation stuff) but the way the guitar is conventionally mapped is not helpful. I don’t think Reg’s positions would be helpful. They are too big.
I figured...
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