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Im Forever Blowing Bubbles(for Jimmy Wyble and Jack Grassel)
Arranged by David Oakes
Since last December, I have been studying many of the books
written by Jack Grassel.Jack is one of the great guitarist of our
generation. I encourage you to visit his website:
http://www.jackgrassel.com/ I highly recommend adding his method
books and CDs toyour music libraries.
The techniques that first caught my ears were Jacks ability to
seamlessly move between
solo guitar single line runs, comping with bass lines and then
playing bass lines while atthe same time playing single note lines
over top of the walking bass. What I did with this
chord melody arrangement is my first attempt at combining these
techniques in a chordmelody arrangement.
One of Jacks strategies for playing solo guitar is to make the
listener think they arehearing a bass line, chords and a solo all
being played simultaneously but he is onlyplaying one or two of the
parts at any given time in the solo. He has developed the
ability
to switch back and forth every bar or two and keep all the
threads of a good solo, compand bass line intact.
This arrangement has been written with this strategy in mind. I
am using Jimmy Wybles
two line techniques and moving into walking bass lines and then
adding some four to thebar comping while all the time implying the
melody. My feeling about this arrangement
is that it brings a very full pianistic quality to the
arrangement.
Thanks Jack, and I hope everyone that takes the time to learn
this arrangement will studythese techniques further. Remember that
if you steal from one musician, it is plagiarism.
If you steal from everyone, it is research!
David OakesMarch 2010
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