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Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Hey!! Very nice, Bryan. +1 for the use of the #1 button also.

Thanks for leading the way!

John in Oregon

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Bryan I remember watching and studying your first version in my early days of learning to play this one, you've definately improved on it and it flows like a good waltz should, like john I'm always impressed with low notes thrown in- it must take alot of practice to do that comfortably.

Can anyone help me out with the lyrics to this one?
I've been using quite a simple two verse set- can't remember where from, not quite as basic as the Buckwheat version- which I am very fond of all the same.
Is there a standard set of lyrics that most cajun players prefer?

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Bryan, I like your expansion of the melodic line to follow the vocal melody. This seems to be uncommon in Cajun music (case in point: Madeleine). Nice work!

I know where you can get a C box built, but the builder requires 10 months lead-time minimum, and a substantial deposit. You do, however, get a choice of ducks or fleurs. :-)

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Thanks. Ned, 10 months...I wish.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

this is an an older version, just playing around one night. http://youtu.be/GlmvLVkyJy8 i hope the link is still good

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Ned, I have no idea what this means. I just play. "expansion of the melodic line to follow the vocal melody"

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Nedro's comments are to "Cajun accordion playing" as Andrew Zimmerman's comments are to "Bizarre Foods".

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

I can can hear the singer in your melody, I cannot hear that in the typical accordion part. Yours is more melody than the typical counter-melody.

CB's remark is incomprehensible, but not unexpected.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Bryan, compare your melody to this one. Yours is more complex.



Keep on "just playing." You've got it right.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Nedro... un critique de musique. Il est complex. Seance a la toilette et jouant de la accordion.

Hahaha... man.. I'm finally starting to get my french going.

John in Oregon.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Would the wisdom from the water closet whisk by the one who wonders?

Est-ce que la sagesse de l'eau placard fouet par celui qui se demande? (Google French)



Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

I'm having the opposite reaction. I just don't hear the melody to this song, the way that it is sung or played on fiddle, on the accordion. I keep hearing harmony notes where I am expecting to hear melody notes. And that's the case whether it's Bryan's version, or Octa Clark's on youtube.

The first time that I suggested this song at a jam none of the accordion players could play it. Do the melody notes just not lie well on accordion?

- Ron

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

I was never attracted to the song, partially because it IS such a standard, and people might ask for that like they ask for Jambalaya (in my experience, people will ask for Jambalaya much more often).

When I did sit down to learn it, it really was not falling together well under my less experienced fingers, and someone else on here warned me that the B part was even more difficult.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Freebird!!!

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

I love the song, but it's one of those played so much I get kinda tire of it. But not nearly to the degree I've come to cringe anytime I hear La Port En Arriere.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Steve Riley calls this a "hard song" in his intermediate lesson CD. The way he plays it, one must agree. However, there are as many interpretations as there are players, but I still find this to be a difficult song to be so basically simple.

Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

Here is my very humble but earnest attempt at learning this by ear. Rough but I am learning.


Re: August 2014 Song of the Month - Jolie Blonde

links have a slightly different vocal version. http://youtu.be/MTDW2AECoKI



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