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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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