ZIMNICKI GUITARS - Valle's Musette - Rob Bourassa

Zimnick Selmer Maceferri Type Guitar. http://www.zimnicki.com/gypsy_main.html

Not a misspelling of the French "Valse Musette", but rather, an original musette, I wrote for my mother, Valle Bourassa.

I did about 20 takes, and was working up a sweat. I look like something the cat drug in, and tried some weird filter on my camera, but it now looks like a painting.

I don't feel like recording it again tonight, so this will have to do. LOL

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[batfink777]

Simply amazing.*****

[robbourassaguitarist]

You have some great stuff sir. Too bad you live in Edmonton. If you were in Detroit, we would have some gigs together.

[batfink777]

Very kind of you to say. A gig with you would an honor but you're so damn good I'd probably just want to sit and listen to you play.=) I had my eye on a Gitane, are they a decent Selmer type?

[robbourassaguitarist]

Every one is different.

I have played some great ones, and some lousy ones, and they were the same models.

Your singing is your ticket. You could work wherever you wish.

[batzic]

Rob, I'm baffled.

Not only you nail the style and sound of the valse musette/java (and this sound soothed my childhood since I'm french), but you manage to play that style with a thumb/index combination (or am I wrong - the video is... ahem, artistic...)

Now I'm flabbergasted.

Jean-Paul

[robbourassaguitarist]

I write tons of musettes, but they are not very popular anymore. I find them to be great theoretical exercises for improvisation.

I have very hard nails, and I use a firm thunbpick, so I have learned to replicate a flatpick sound with my fingers and thumbpick. I am left handed, and didn't learn to use a flatpick well, since I have less control in my right hand.

I can use one now, and may throw the thumbpick away at some point for this stuff, but not yet.

[bigericandcheese]

Wow Rob, that is just incredible, amazing and extraordinary. Beautiful tune.

I remember being fascinated by the way you worked the thumb pick and your fingers and articulated each note so clean even when you were 21 and we were playing those rock tunes.