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3d โขย
What's everyone been working on?
Back home until January!! (Finally a break from travelling!!) I've been drilling things with the metronome... Still not perfect... But give it another week! I find it's best to set goals, and work on things to meet the goals... I'm almost up to tempo with Jimmy Rosenebergs version of "Chega De Saudade"
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@Thomas Wollersen Very nice! I got through the process of creating an account and gave it a brief listen ๐
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@Thomas Wollersen thanks, I'll hold off on that until you do a Gypsy jazz session and will check it out then :)
2d โขย
December 27th, come jam with us!
๐ FREE Jam Session with me & Eva Slongo on December 27! ๐ถ Join us for a PLAY-ALONG LIVE JAM SESSION with 4-bar trading (Trading 4s) on ๐ Saturday the 27th at 5 PM (Madrid time). Itโs our Christmas gift to all musicians! Tell us in the comments which tune youโd like to jam on! INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BIG DAY: - Click on the link in the calendar and introduce the Password - Play the melody with Eva (with a few harmonizations) - Or accompany with Jimmy - Then improvise during the 4-bar trades when itโs your turn! This session is open to all instruments! No special technical setup is needed โ your microphone will stay muted so everyone can play along without audio interference.
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Hi Jimmy -- will this be on a platform where we can actually play together (unlike Zoom) and is there a fee (which would be fine)?
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@Jimmy Grant Nice! I will try to "jine" in ๐
6d โขย
Away!
Hey Everyone, I've been in the US for the holidays, heading back to Spain now, and will be adding new content sooN! -Jimmy
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Spain sounds good right about now! It didn't quite reach freezing today here in NJ. Spain and Portugal are the only places I've ever been to outside of North America, and that was decades ago. A friend and I ended up living for a week in a pup tent in a little fishing village north of Porto. We were very low on cash. I didn't know about fado music, so I never checked it out, but a Gypsy jazz band here in the Philly area recently did a couple of fado songs, in 6/8 time.
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@Jimmy Grant I just learned from the Interwebz that Valencia is the birthplace of paella (what about Valencia oranges ๐?). I got hepatitis from a paella in Miami, and now I hold Valencia personally responsible! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
13d โขย
Coquette
Hi everybody! There are several chords to play Coquette. Which chords as beginner can i start to practize? .
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@Jimmy Grant Nice performance! I use the same chords as youze guysez. I'm guessing there's little disagreement about the changes for that one. When I'm soloing on the B section, I play a Bm6 arpeggio over the E7 and Gm6 over A7 -- both hacks I got from a $35 Soundslice tutorial by Duved Dunayevsky.
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@Rick Spence Another interesting idea from the Duved tutorial: With a 7th chord, try playing a diminished run that starts on the fourth (rather than the third) of the chord. I analyzed this and found pretty much none of the notes correspond, and on 7th chords in many parts of a progression, it doesn't sound right. But as an example, in "I'm Confessin' " in G, when you get to the E7 in the B section, try playing a diminished run that starts on A. I do this all the time on this song and think it sounds great ๐
Nov 5 โขย
La Partida
I just learned this, though not at that speed, yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJPFiQA6aG4&list=RDEJPFiQA6aG4&start_radio=1
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Ah ... is it possible he was there and u missed him? That happened to me with Dario from Italy. We determined we'd been there the same year but never laid eyes on each other.
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Jimmy and I figured this out: My first year at Django in June was 2013, when Rino van Hooijdonk was there. Jimmy's first year was 2014. Anyway, this gave me a pretext for reaching out to Rino, and he remembers me well! This is him when he returned in 2015 demonstrating something in a class, with me off camera playing rhythm. I asked him if it was OK to share it to YouTube and he said yes. Once in a while a prominent player would rather you not, so it never hurts to ask: Rino and Bob - YouTube
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