GREAT POST
These are the areas that are so difficult to figure out. Videos would be so helpful to those of us teaching ourselves. Thanks for the great idea and continue to pursue it.
Here is a song I have been working on. I have the basic melody figured out, but can't seem to put the fill notes in place. If this song could be broken down into parts, it would be the piece of the puzzle that is missing. I've included a link. Let me know what you think.
I missed this topics... great post Nedro, I am completely agree with you.
As I said in an other topic, cajun melodies are not very difficult to get. We can confess honestly than, like other traditional musics I study, the melodies are very simple (due to the diatonic scale and because, at the origin, this kind of music were just done to make people dancing on it more than to listen to).
BUT, like other traditional music, all is about rhythm, variations and ornements, so TIPS and LICKS, and that the point!
I personally agree with you Nedro and I try to build me a bank of licks and tips that I can use in my whole repertoire.
But, like everybody, I learn cajun music alone in my part of the world, isolated from other braves, and I have already reach my limits in this way of learning...
So you proposition is great and I would like also to see that kind of discussion in this forum.