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  • Re: Is this too hard for a beginner?
    Board >> Discuss Lessons >> For Sephora
    Actually, asking myself the same question - not For Sephora specifically (though I love it) but the idea of working songs one may love and want to work on - but they happen to be the more "advanced" pieces, at speed. E.g., for some reason, not too gaga for All of Me or Honeysuckle, more gaga for Them There Eyes, Belleville, and other, more "difficult" pieces.

    If I can piggyback, asking a similar question - even if not as hot for some of the easier pieces, as a teacher would you recommend these anyway, or would you give a kind of pedagogical green light to work the more difficult, and more loved, pieces, albeit slowly?
  • Re: TNX!
    Board >> Discuss Lessons >> Them There Eyes
    I love this tune. The additional benefit that it's one of the tunes from the Nous'che course, so I'd like to tackle it. Which raises a point.

    Very little lead experience - everything for about 1 1/2 years now has been rhythm. Common sense would be to pick a slower tempo tune, simple harmonic structure (Honeysuckle comes up quite a bit), but this tune, and another in D, Belleville, just grab me.

    Christiaan, if you're reading this, pedagogically....even if one is a bit bored for the moment to hit the more common "standards," do you think some of the slower tempo tunes should nevertheless be gotten in first? Or, something like this tune(Them There Eyes, or Belleville, at speed, for example)...just a tune that piques interest, though daunting to get it in, especially at speed...approaching via your recommendation of very slow, few measures at a time...any specific thoughts?



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  • Re: 6/9 voicings
    Board >> Gypsy Jazz Real Book
    Ah, I see. Thank you, Christiaan, that's really interesting. I appreciate your commentary in this way in the Nous'che material as well - the shared notes between the bassist and rhythm, these subleties. It's a new world for me.

    Paul
  • 6/9 voicings
    Board >> Gypsy Jazz Real Book
    I'm curious on the notion of 6th or 6/9 chords, without the use of the thumb, apparently. Douce Ambiance, for instance - I'm really accustomed to using the thumb on the root, so a G-6 would be 35535X; my earlier understanding is that the m6 as 3x2333 is considered a "beginner" approach to GJ rhythm. I do have a preference for the thumbed voicing, but in the Real Book, the Nous'che course, and watching a lot of RT vids, I do see Nous'che using the 3x2333 shape quite a bit; and also using the "thumbed" shape, just no thumb...e.g., G6 as x5545, as opposed to 3x5545, thumb on the G (not all the time - but I'll often see what looks like a thumb mute, in the case of the G, thumb muting the low E string at the 4th fret).

    Christiaan, can you talk about this?

    Thanks,

    Paul