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andy...@mailinator.com

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May 9, 2008, 7:17:31 PM5/9/08
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I enjoy this type of music too , and when i was a kid used to listen
to fats waller. here is a guy doing it on guitar ....its great if you
also youtube a piano too first like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LK4tEA0oGc


then check out the guitar version ,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjY10TgMaw

I am very interested in this older rag style of jazz, can someone give
me a quick handle on the harmonies with the rag style of music? I'm in
a bit of a rush and know im supposed to do this myself!

a link to the guitar tab would be amazing too.

Pat Smith

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May 10, 2008, 12:17:16 AM5/10/08
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Guy Van Duser has done transciptions for guitar ...I think it is a Mel
Bay book

j_ns...@msn.com

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May 10, 2008, 11:45:40 AM5/10/08
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> I am very interested in this older rag style of jazz, can someone give
> me a quick handle on the harmonies with the rag style of music?

For actual ragtime, which was popular before Waller was born (which
was before jazz was popular), there's a lot of 16-bar and 12-bar
progressions that begin V-V-I-I-V-V-I-I and have faster harmonic
motion near the end. That's true of guitar rags and non-guitar rags.

Some examples of guitar rags are "Barbershop Rag" by William Moore,
"Georgia Rag" by Blind Willie McTell, "Cincinnati Flow Rag" by Rev.
Gary Davis, "Wilson Rag" by Elizabeth Cotten, "Fat Boy Rag" by Bob
Wills, and "Guitar Rag" by Earl Hooker.

Joseph Scott

GregD

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May 10, 2008, 2:32:06 PM5/10/08
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On May 9, 7:17 pm, andy-...@mailinator.com wrote:
> I enjoy this type of music too , and when i was a kid used to listen
> to fats waller. here is a guy doing it on guitar ....its great if you
> also youtube a piano too first like this...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LK4tEA0oGc
>
> then check out the guitar version ,
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjY10TgMaw

While the dynamics of a guitar's tone and piano's tone is different
enough to sound like a different song at times, that guy has the piano
blues thing on guitar down to a science; whew!

Greg

GregD

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May 10, 2008, 2:34:43 PM5/10/08
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On May 9, 7:17 pm, andy-...@mailinator.com wrote:

And to prove that type of playing 'aint just for white players or
black bluesmen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y76AJ8cpTxk&feature=related

Greg

GregD

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May 10, 2008, 2:40:03 PM5/10/08
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On May 9, 7:17 pm, andy-...@mailinator.com wrote:

Oh great... Youtube rabbit trails... your vids eventually lead to
Carter family vids, Johhny Cash, Carlene Carter, and on and on... :)-

Greg

tomb...@jhu.edu

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May 10, 2008, 5:28:58 PM5/10/08
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I have learned many, many pieces like this. I work like crazy to get
two minutes of music down, and then if I don't play it every day I
totally forget it and all that work is down the drain.

But if you want to go down this rabbit hole:

http://www.melbay.com/product.asp?productid=99245BCD

Good book of arrangements. Lasse also has a nice web site with some
freebies in Tabledit format.

Tadd Off

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May 11, 2008, 9:11:48 AM5/11/08
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Check out Leon Redbone. I saw him last week in KC and was really
impressed with his guitar playing. He was solo when I saw him but he
sometimes plays with a combo. His playing is sometimes compared to Blind
Blake.He plays some Fats Waller tunes.

andy...@mailinator.com

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May 11, 2008, 4:59:01 PM5/11/08
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thx all and especially tom , i will buy it.
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