@jimpianored hey sorry for the super late reply, but the piece is in 16/16, and the predominantly 8th-note melody line is juxtaposed against the ostinato bass line, which consists of dotted 8th, dotted 8th, 8th, 8th, dotted 8th, dotted 8th notes. thanks for checking out men!
this is great! i love dusan's stuff. you did a nice job. can you describe how you place the staples over the strings. what size staples etc. is the preparation all described in the sheet music? thanks
yes, another dusan lover! preparing the guitar is easy; place 1 standard-size staple over 1st and 2nd strings, and another over 3rd and 4th right before the bridge (you wanna bend/tighten the staples so that the string vibration doesn't snap them off). the entire piece actually doesn't call for a prepared guitar, but dusan showed me this piece once with a prepared guitar, so i've been playing like that since.
and i also remember kannengaiser play some african pieces with prepared guitar w staples a long time ago, saying that he was trying to imitate the mbira, so i also kind of had that somewhere in my head
this is the second movement from 4 african bagatelles written by serbian guitarist/composer dusan bogdanovic. he writes a lot of neat stuff that synthesize classical, jazz, ethnic and folk music elements. you should definitely check it out. i have 2 staples placed over 1+2, 3+4 strings near the bridge to further imitate that metallic mbira sound, by the way...
Excellent ! Info about the rhythmic structure would be really useful and interesting.
Thanks,
jimpianored
jimpianored 1 year ago
@jimpianored hey sorry for the super late reply, but the piece is in 16/16, and the predominantly 8th-note melody line is juxtaposed against the ostinato bass line, which consists of dotted 8th, dotted 8th, 8th, 8th, dotted 8th, dotted 8th notes. thanks for checking out men!
mrmet5 10 months ago
Bravo!Ecxellent idea!
gisnopa 3 years ago
thanks!
mrmet5 3 years ago
this is great! i love dusan's stuff. you did a nice job. can you describe how you place the staples over the strings. what size staples etc. is the preparation all described in the sheet music? thanks
neve1073 3 years ago
yes, another dusan lover! preparing the guitar is easy; place 1 standard-size staple over 1st and 2nd strings, and another over 3rd and 4th right before the bridge (you wanna bend/tighten the staples so that the string vibration doesn't snap them off). the entire piece actually doesn't call for a prepared guitar, but dusan showed me this piece once with a prepared guitar, so i've been playing like that since.
mrmet5 3 years ago
and i also remember kannengaiser play some african pieces with prepared guitar w staples a long time ago, saying that he was trying to imitate the mbira, so i also kind of had that somewhere in my head
mrmet5 3 years ago
sounds cool, i just listened to dusan, his stuff sounds really cool
skeletor7 4 years ago
I'm glad you like his stuff... He is so underrated that it's not even funny. Hopefully you get more into it
mrmet5 4 years ago
where can i get the sheet music?
MFRedeemerp2 4 years ago
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visit dobermaneditions dot com and you can find the score listed under the solo guitar section
mrmet5 4 years ago
this is really cool
did you write it?
MFRedeemerp2 4 years ago
this is the second movement from 4 african bagatelles written by serbian guitarist/composer dusan bogdanovic. he writes a lot of neat stuff that synthesize classical, jazz, ethnic and folk music elements. you should definitely check it out. i have 2 staples placed over 1+2, 3+4 strings near the bridge to further imitate that metallic mbira sound, by the way...
mrmet5 4 years ago