AcornHouse
Venerated Member
For an upcoming Jazz Ensemble concert (and mini-tour), I need to do a lot of Freddie Green comping. Thanks to James Chirillo’s videos, I pared my voicing down to just 2 notes (and yes, it really works best.) But I was having trouble strumming just 2 strings without getting extraneous noise from the other strings. I’d resigned to finger picking; effective, noiseless, but hardly authentic.
But when I tried it on my NS Aristocrat, it all fell into place. I don’t know if it was the fretboard radius (compared with my A-350 and X-150) or my position, or things just clicking, but there it was. I’d been thinking about using this guitar anyway, so that works out (and I don’t have to fret about something happening to the A-350 on the road.)
(Here’s his video about the Freddie Green style, in case you’re interested. So many other’s videos try to use too many notes.)
But when I tried it on my NS Aristocrat, it all fell into place. I don’t know if it was the fretboard radius (compared with my A-350 and X-150) or my position, or things just clicking, but there it was. I’d been thinking about using this guitar anyway, so that works out (and I don’t have to fret about something happening to the A-350 on the road.)
(Here’s his video about the Freddie Green style, in case you’re interested. So many other’s videos try to use too many notes.)