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Topic: Joaquin's Yearnin' solo transcribed |
Mike Neer
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Posted 7 Nov 2015 6:24 pm |
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I don't think I've ever posted a link to this here, but I was just looking this over again this evening. Give it a look and listen to the tune via YT link (that is my video, I though it would be cute instead of a bunch of JM pics). I did the transcription and I think it's pretty spot on, IIRC.
This is one of Joaquin's greatest solos IMO from a terrific 10" Spade Cooley LP titled Dance-O-Rama.
http://www.mikeneer.com/lapsteelin/2014/01/17/joaquin-murpheys-solo-on-yearnin-transcribed/
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Stephen Cowell
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Posted 7 Nov 2015 11:38 pm
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Thanks for your labor-of-love... it's pure Murph, must have taken many hours to do.
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Stefan Robertson
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Posted 8 Nov 2015 1:28 am
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Talk about patience.
I also noticed in Jazz in general that a lot of arpeggios solos are actually easier then they sound. I use to believe it was the long scale runs but I'm finding short arpeggios joined together more often.
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Jim Fogarty
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Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2015 2:32 am
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He sounds so much like a clarinet here......so fluid, spritely and just floating through the time. I noticed the same thing in some of Vance Terry's playing.
Thanks, Mike. While this is waaaay beyond my technical abilities, there's tons of small tidbits to take out of it. |
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Andy Volk
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Posted 8 Nov 2015 4:30 am
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Fabulous job, Mike. I f I had the McGann book to do over again, I would have suggested a few different solos than we included like this one. Joaquin;s playing here is proof, I think, that it's not the specific scales and/or arpeggios we most respond to ti's the rhythm and the execution that cause the goose bumps. The positions are all basic, idiomatic C6th positions.
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 8 Nov 2015 5:39 am
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| Stephen Cowell wrote: |
| Thanks for your labor-of-love... it's pure Murph, must have taken many hours to do. |
Stephen, actually the more you do it, the better you get at it. i don't recall this taking more than an hour and a half or so. The rhythms are all pretty straight forward and the notes all pretty diatonic and lay out easily. Sometimes what takes more time is when I'm not convinced of the positions and I try to find alternative "fingerings". My goal is to always present it the way I believe the artist played it.
I once transcribed the Buddy Emmons solo from Gentle On My Mind and had the whole thing notated and tabbed within an hour or so. That was nuts!
It is a great solo with very dynamic phrasing.
One of the things I love about his playing is that he actually sounds like a horn player of the 1940s in terms of his "breathing". By breathing, I mean listen to the first 3 bars of the solo: as he descends the strings, the notes on the lower strings sound lower in velocity that the upper strings. As horn players extend their lines, they tend to get out of breath and the notes diminish in volume. Joaquin, at least to my ears, picked rather lightly.
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 8 Nov 2015 9:42 am
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| Thanks a lot Mike! It really encourage to learn and transcribe Joaquin's stuff! |
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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