Tommy Emmanuel & Matteo Mancuso: Sunny

[Hep To The Jive]

Yeah I mean, the swing thing for me is not so central. I think Matteo has accurate time when soloing…. More than me haha. Let alone the chops …

There’s a lot of internet hype for some players … but there’s people who I feel deserve more hype than they get.

As a listener there’s some very notey players around who also really engage me musically, I really enjoy Pedro Martins for example. Such a talented musician and such a central part of the Caipi band. I saw him with this project with Kurt and I had no idea he was such a shredder lol. Shades of Allan of course. On a rickenbacker apparently (???)

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Shades of Allan? More like Allan reincarnated, copied to a tee! Not necessarily bad, I rather like the song, but you know...

But I even more impressed by the video! Someone tell me how difficult to make a video like that, the cost, the effort? I wanna copy this production style for my tunes.

[Strat-itis]

He also calls those sort of medium-slow swing tempos -- maybe 90-110 or something -- "adult tempos." Those slower tempos being harder to swing without double timing.

Do good players not double time these tempos? Seems like most do in order to swing well. Or by double time I mean introduce 16th notes (or faster) to tempos slower than ones that will swing with only 8th notes and 8th note triplets.

[pamosmusic]

Do good players not double time these tempos? Seems like most do in order to swing well. Or by double time I mean introduce 16th notes (or faster) to tempos slower than ones that will swing with only 8th notes and 8th note triplets.

Sure they double time those tempos but hopefully not in order to swing well. Hopefully they can swing with eighth notes and the double time is a choice to give some variety.

And there’s sort of an uncanny valley in tempos. Maybe like … 80bpm to 110 or something? Depends on the person. But a range of tempos where double time is pretty fast and probably can be overbearing but where it feels like the 8th note swing drags if you’re not really in the pocket.

if you’re playing a walking ballad at 75bpm then the double just swings like anything else would. If you’re playing a nice medium swing at 120 then your eighth notes can smooth out a little and it’s easier to sit in the pocket

[Christian Miller]

Shades of Allan? More like Allan reincarnated, copied to a tee! Not necessarily bad, I rather like the song, but you know...

But I even more impressed by the video! Someone tell me how difficult to make a video like that, the cost, the effort? I wanna copy this production style for my tunes.

Well, I'm not cool enough to know.

[Strat-itis]

Sure they double time those tempos but hopefully not in order to swing well. Hopefully they can swing with eighth notes and the double time is a choice to give some variety.

Right. To me it sounds like it pops off better tho when the full range of rhythms are used, and not just smoldering along with 8th notes in a slow med tempo even if they're swinging as much as possible.

[pamosmusic]

Right. To me it sounds like it pops off better tho when the full range of rhythms are used, and not just smoldering along with 8th notes in a slow med tempo even if they're swinging as much as possible.

Ah yes. The poppin rhythm.

Point is more that you need a swinging eighth note to make the rhythm pop off. Not that you should use only eighth notes to make the rhythm pop off.

[James W]

What do you think about Dan Wilson?

He's great.

Thanks for posting this.

[Christian Miller]

Dan's feel is flipping wonderful