[Dixielandjazz] philosofy?

[Bill Gunter]

And how about the guitar technique of resting the fingers of the left hand 
lightly across all the strings to dampen the notes. The result is a very 
pleasant percussive effect.

The guitar player can move his fingers up and down the fingerboard to (1) 
get a different percussive sound and (2) impress the audience with his 
dexterity and articulation.

This is the technique used by Andre Segovia,Christopher Parkening, John 
Williams, and Julian Bream and me.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "works with a banjo too" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com



>From: "Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
>To: "Peter Sr. De Bruyn" <peterdebruyn at gmail.com>,"Cees van den Heuvel" 
><heu at bart.nl>
>CC: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] philosofy?
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:30:27 -0500
>
>Re: the less important notes
>
>I think all E flats should be left out when written as D#.  The alternative
>is to take it up an octave and leave it out.  Many routinely play B# as a
>silent note using a slight grunt instead.  Very effective in Latin music.
>That's why they write a B# on the end of their tunes so the band will shout
>Ugh! at the right time.  Occasionally they write an E# and someone hollers
>Tequila!  These are little known Latin notes made popular by Xavier Cugat.
>Larry
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Sr. De Bruyn" <peterdebruyn at gmail.com>
>To: "Cees van den Heuvel" <heu at bart.nl>
>Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] philosofy?
>
>
> > Interesting point of view.
> > I suppose You mean You don't play the "less important notes", leaving 
>them
> > to the public's imagination, and only play the essential notes ?
> > KISS -technology ?
> > Very Dutch, indeed !
> > :-))
> >
> > Groetjes,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > 2006/9/26, Cees van den Heuvel <heu at bart.nl>:
> >>
> >> Not the notes that you play are important. the notes
> >> that you leave out and that the audience feels, are
> >> the beautiful ones. Less is more. Ducking....
> >>
> >> Cees van den Heuvel
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