A bit of house keeping

POSTED BY: Jean-Paul Bataille

POSTED ON: 04/06/09 04:49:24

Spring is coming, I decided to clean this page, remove some entries, change the tunes order...
This way you don't have to crawl to the bottom of the list to hear something new.

I wrote a lot of new numbers this winter, but didn't recorded them yet.

Three muted resonator tunes

POSTED BY: Jean-Paul Bataille

POSTED ON: 02/19/09 04:26:51

Afro-caribean mood, with a few percussions, this is the single cone steel resonator.
I dig the sound of this guitar when muted.
Three numbers : "Tete Seconde", Reso Rouge" and "Green Mute Biscuit"
This is the "Tune The World" serie.

Two cartoon tunes

POSTED BY: Jean-Paul Bataille

POSTED ON: 02/08/09 21:32:02

This week I was in funny mood. Two new tunes so far, in the Drop G serie.
Up-tempo, one on the Macaferri : "Os a Noel", the other on the tricone, with a capo on the 5th fret : "Vive Les Dents".

I won the first prize !

POSTED BY: Jean-Paul Bataille

POSTED ON: 10/05/08 07:03:40

The Montreal Guitar Grand Prix was last week-end. This is a solo guitar competition. There were about 90 guitar players in 4 categories : classical, jazz, rock and acoustic.
I participated in the acoustic categorie, and... I WON ! What a feeling !
I played a medley of some of my tunes, on the tricone. I was the only resonator player.

The performance had been put on You Tube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQScGm9sI8
The sound is actually quite bad, but there is a better recording (although not by much, and audio only...) on the Montreal Guitar Grand Prix web site :
http://www.grandprixdeguitaredemontreal.com/gagnants_2008_en.aspx

"Hush Little Baby" arrangements

POSTED BY: Jean-Paul Bataille

POSTED ON: 01/15/09 00:32:33

I recently came back to a few instruments that hadn't see the light since a long time (about 30 years is considered quite long measured to the human life scale...)
So the fiddle and the 5 strings banjo leaved the closet, and I worked out arrangement on the traditionnal lullaby Hush Little Baby.
So came out an appalachian version (fiddle and old-time banjo) : "Hush Clawhammer".
But then, since there was no guitar here (I hope nobody will be offensed on this board...), I made one version in the Piedmont guitar style, on a biscuit bridge single cone resonator guitar : "Hush Piedmont", and finally, to come back to my usual style, one in the form of a waltz/java, more "parisian", on the tricone : "Hush Java".
This belongs to the "Tune the World" serie that began 3 months ago.

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