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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 25 Jan 2017 4:03 am    
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Here's a classic Sol Ho'opi'i lick he used on a number of his recordings. Thanks to Mike Neer for help with timing and positions.



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Brian McGaughey


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Post  Posted 26 Jan 2017 5:33 am    
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Hey Andy, thanks for taking the time to dissect and notate this.

In listening to the sound clip I found the last bar to be different rhythmically than you show. I hear a dotted eighth and sixteenth on one, followed by quarter notes on 2, 3 and 4.

I got curious to hear it when I saw the eighths sharing the flag separated by the sixteenth rest.

Posted in the spirit of learning and open to correction.
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 26 Jan 2017 7:35 am    
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Posted in the spirit of learning and open to correction.


And taken that way, Brian. Being self-taught, notating rhythms is the hardest part of music notation for me and I sometimes make things more complicated than they need to be. Guy Cundell and I have discussed this offline a bit.

Here's the lick re-notated as you suggest. Better! Thanks. Smile


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Jonathan Lam

 

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Post  Posted 27 Jan 2017 7:22 am    
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notating rhythms is the hardest most tedious part for me in transcription. Thanks, andy!
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Miles Lang


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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 7:23 am    
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Over what chord(s) would you use these examples?
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 7:37 am    
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It's basically a very fast series of arpeggios the include neighbor tones that outlines a C major harmony.
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Brian McGaughey


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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 8:04 am    
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Strikes me that in the key of F that run would be over the five chord or C ( like Andy said) and then the next bar (not shown) would be the root or the F.

V chord leading home to I.
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James Kerr


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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 11:37 am    
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I like Sol too, had a go at one of his slower tunes, Tin Roof Blues. On a 1929 Student Hawaiian Guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FaJNcRZngU

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