Keith Jarrett I Hear a Rhapsody

This is a trancription of Keith Jarrett's solo on I Hear a Rhapsody from the album Standards in Norway.
Lots of chromaticism and there is some side-slipping going on. I have only transcribed the "right hand" so you can play this on any instrument. It goes a little out of range if you play a regular guitar like me, I had to change octaves a couple of times to play along with the recording. The tempo is pretty fast so I slowed it down a bit using 'transcribe'. As usual when lifting Keith's solo I leave out his grunts and groans. :)

Keith Jarrett Rhapsody

Enrico Pieranunzi - Canto Nascoto

I have been working on a Keith Jarret solo for a month. Almost ready, but while we are waiting: here is a song I lifted.
Enrico Pieranunzi - Canto Nascoto. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQdudWY1sM 


Canto Nascoto pdf

so see you soon when the Jarret solo is ready.

My Charts

Good news:
I just released an album on Canadian Jazz label Addo records.
http://www.addorecords.com/
I thought it could be a good idea to put some of my own charts on here. Feel free to use them and play my tunes as much as you want.

willowbrookpdf

Keeper of the Tobiko

Learning from Jesse Van Ruller

Jesse Analysis

Jesse Van Ruller solo on Cedar's Blues

Here are a couple of choruses of Jesse's solo on Cedar's Blues. Jesse Van Ruller is a great Dutch jazz guitarist that everybody should check out. Cedar is obviously the great hard bop pianist Cedar Walton. This solo can be found on Jesse's recording Here and There. This solo showcases a lot of Jesse's skills:

blueslicks, bebop vocabulary etc. I will do an analysis later.

You can find a lead sheet of the tune on Lucas Pickford's website.

http://www.lucaspickford.com/transcedar.htm

Jesse Van Ruller solo

Gypsy Jazz Guitar stuff

I have really learned a lot from practicing Gypsy Jazz. Even if you don’t plan to become the next Django you can still learn so much form studying how these guys play and it will improve your technique.
So what are these techniques I am talking about?
First lets look at what the right hand is doing.

Just as the infamous 'sweep pickers' we will start every picking pattern with a downstroke when switching strings. But we will do it every time! So when playing across the strings from the highest to the lowest it becomes the opposite of sweep picking. And the idea is not to let the pick 'fall' to the next string in order to develop speed. It's simply a natural way to play and by using reststrokes one can get a really loud attack a la Django.

ok what about the left hand?

Most people know that Django could only use 2 fingers (1st and 2nd) in his line playing and this has influenced many gypsy jazz players and others as well. I find that those two fingers are 'stronger' and by using those more one can again develop a better technique. Look how Django lets one finger run chromatically over the frets in this (only?) footage of him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY
The trick is to apply just the right amount of pressure to the strings and develop a good coordination with the picking hand. I see guitarist like George Benson, Pat Martino and Jake Langley do this kind of fingerings in their playing.

Here is one lick from the DeBarre solo where I give you the fingerings and picking patterns. These are my fingerings and I don’t know what DeBarre is doing but its based on the 'rules' I talked about.

Good Luck!

Gypsy Guitar Techniques

Its been a while but I finally have a new transcription. Some more Gypsy Jazz. A solo by the great guitarist Angelo Debarre. The tune is Les Gosses De La Rue
from the album "Romano Baschepen".

Les Gosses de La Rue