Soundslice is an amazing web app allowing synched audio/video with music notation and guitar tab.
Soundslice has many amazing features including:
- Pick from different audio sources using the “Audio Source” button on the bottom
- Use the “cog” icon (bottom right) to view full screen, adjust volume, even transpose
- Loop sections easily by clicking and dragging across the notation
- Enable fretboard view (bottom right) by clicking on the fretboard
- There a many more features, see here for more information
Você e Eu - João Gilberto (Kenny Poole arrangement)
Here's a transcription of the great guitar player Kenny Poole's arrangement of this lovely bossa Você e Eu from his album "Heritage"
Ted Greene - Approach Chord Blues
Here's a Ted Greene Blues study in E using approach chords. I love his voicings in this!
Oh, Little Town Of Bethlehem
I had a go at arranging this popular Christmas Carol for guitar. The tune was adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from an English folk ballad called "The Ploughboy's Dream" which he had collected from a Mr. Garman of Forest Green, Surrey in 1903
Johnny Smith - My Romance
Here's Johnny Smith's amazing arrangement of "My Romance" I wanted to include the original version but can't find it on youtube! There's some painful stretches in this one!
Django Reinhardt - Swingtime In Springtime. Solo 1947
Here's the theme and solo from Django's 1947 "Swingtime In Springtime". You can toggle between my version and the original 1947 recording.
Danse Norvegienne Intro (contrary motion etude)
Here's a short intro to "Danse Norvegienne" using some of those Ted Greene contrary motion ideas from my last video. Could also work as an outro!
Ted Greene Diatonic Contrary Motion Studies
Contrary motion studies in outer voices. In other words, the bottom line descends and the top line ascends. I've been practicing these for a while now and at last they're starting to appear spontaneously in my playing!
Original here: tedgreene.com/images/le…
Here's a composite chorus of Django's "walking bass" style of comping taken from his accompaniment to Stephane Grappelli's solo on "Them There Eyes" from 1947
Don't forget you can slow it down and loop sections!
Here's a quick Django Reinhardt ii-V-I lick in G. It's from his recording of "Ton Doux Sourire"
The key to getting this lick to sound nice and crunchy is the double downstroke on the top E string.
Here's a transcription of Django's unaccompanied solo piece from 1949: Improvisation #4. Curiously left out of Michael Horowitz's excellent book Unaccompanied Django.
I've recently rerecorded the piece and uploaded it into Soundslice. You can view the interactive notation below. Use the Audio source button on the bottom to toggle between my version and Django's original.
“In The Mists III:Andante” by Leos Janacek, transcribed from piano for classical guitar
“Douce Ambiance” Intro 1947
“Time On My Hands” Intro 1939
Here’s Django’s Solo from “My Melancholy Baby” recorded in Rome 1949
You can toggle between Django’s version and my version on youtube using the “Audio Source” button at the bottom
View it full screen by using the cog icon, bottom right
Here’s Django’s melody and solo on “It Had To Be You” from 1947
Use the “Audio Source” button at the bottom to toggle between my version and Django’s original
Here’s Django’s solo on “I Surrender, Dear” from 1949
You can toggle between an audio of me playing it, and Django’s original
I’ve started transcribing some of Django’s intros. Videos are on my Instagram stream
Night And Day Intro 1939
Jeepers Creepers Intro 1939
Shameless Plug:
My “10 Minor Swing Guitar Exercises” course is now on Soundslice:
https://www.soundslice.com/lessons/10-minor-swing-guitar-exercises/
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You can view a preview of the course below