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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at the start it's a slow 6/4, definitely not 4/4. Which I tend to feel as a bar of 4/4 followed by a bar 2/4. The piano notes are felt as sixteenths.
By the 2m mark it's a clear 12/8 (3, 3, 3,...
McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style, Asymetrical G7Alt Pentatonic, Forward Motion, 2nd inversion
This is the 2nd inversion of the Ab Melodic minor asymetrical pentatonic scale along with a couple...
Jim Hall. “Turn Out the Stars.” Album: “Intermodulation” w/ Bill Evans piano.
https://youtu.be/OTZ1VT29Kpk?si=GFftqBOJdMVVvIYE
Jim Hall. “I Hear a Rhapsody” Album: “Undercurrent” w/ Bill Evans...
There were also the ES-275 thinline hollowbody range, which came and went in 2-3 years. I personally liked them, except for the too narrow for me neck. The signature L5s were nice too. The only...
Bah, humbug! :) If we skip the question how you'd even quantify quality objectively there's still the question that you simply can't know all the luthiers who achieve that level (esp. not if you take...
I have a bridge jack that I made from a paint can opener, free from the home improvement store. StewMac sells a bridge jack of similar design for much, much more money. The end is curved, and slips...
Grant Green. The tune “Exodus.” The album “Sunday Mornin’.”
https://youtu.be/A67SqWICnt4?si=WO7ja_aHlKt7nJbS
Grant Green. “Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho.” Album “Feelin’ the Spirit.”...
As Paul said, absolutely follow the piano. It's playing the same basic thing all through and the drummer's faster rhythms don't change that.
Here's the opening salvo anyway, without sustain...
McCoy Tyner / Mike Brecker style, Asymetrical...
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