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Jan-01-2009, 5:00am
JazzMando Tips and Tricks - A couple weeks ago, we introduced you to National Fiddler Hall of Famer, Shelby Eicher in our Tips and Tricks column. He offered us a brilliant and timely example of chord melody playing of the seasonal "Christmas Time is Here (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/000945.shtml)." The holiday season now behind us, we thought it would be great to start off the New Year with another of Shelby's timeless audio gems, a clever Johnny Smith-like rendition of "Moonlight in Vermont," recorded on Eicher's terrific custom jazz mandola (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/images/EicherDola.jpg).
Shelby shared with us in an earlier correspondence, "I've been fascinated with substitutions for dominant chords. The common ones are: 5minor, augmented, 9th--more outside thinking: b9 #9, whole tone scales, b5 subs, go up a half step and play a minor scale (this makes a b9 #9 Aug). These are all used in soloing." Remaining the perpetual student, the accomplished musician confesses, "Playing electric is new territory for me. I've always been a acoustic player but I dig the possibilities that this lends me that the acoustic does not and vice versa."
The Western Swing specialist has slowed this ballad down to something you can learn yourself; he's even scratched a helpful TAB chart to give you some fingering tips. We're looking forward to hearing more of Shelby's thoughts and tips the rest of 2009!
Enjoy audio: http://jazzmando.com/images/sound.gif"Moonlight in Vermont" arr. Shelby Eicher (http://jazzmando.com/sound/SE_Moonlight.m4a)
Download http://jazzmando.com/images/pdf_sm.gif TAB PDF (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/print/Moonlight_Eicher.pdf)
Read... (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/000954.shtml)
Article courtesy of JazzMando.com (http://www.jazzmando.com/)
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=131&pictureid=1077 (http://www.jazzmando.com/)
Shelby shared with us in an earlier correspondence, "I've been fascinated with substitutions for dominant chords. The common ones are: 5minor, augmented, 9th--more outside thinking: b9 #9, whole tone scales, b5 subs, go up a half step and play a minor scale (this makes a b9 #9 Aug). These are all used in soloing." Remaining the perpetual student, the accomplished musician confesses, "Playing electric is new territory for me. I've always been a acoustic player but I dig the possibilities that this lends me that the acoustic does not and vice versa."
The Western Swing specialist has slowed this ballad down to something you can learn yourself; he's even scratched a helpful TAB chart to give you some fingering tips. We're looking forward to hearing more of Shelby's thoughts and tips the rest of 2009!
Enjoy audio: http://jazzmando.com/images/sound.gif"Moonlight in Vermont" arr. Shelby Eicher (http://jazzmando.com/sound/SE_Moonlight.m4a)
Download http://jazzmando.com/images/pdf_sm.gif TAB PDF (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/print/Moonlight_Eicher.pdf)
Read... (http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/000954.shtml)
Article courtesy of JazzMando.com (http://www.jazzmando.com/)
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=131&pictureid=1077 (http://www.jazzmando.com/)