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🦋 Viola, sing the blues for me
Listening to "Sweet to Mama" in the car today, and then replaying it in my head all day at my desk. And thinking, that's really a song I could play pretty well on my violin. I came up with a nice-sounding rhythm part consisting of an eigth-note rest followed by a triplet of sixteenths followed by eighths -- it sounds catchy and unusual. So when I got home I tried playing it on my violin -- and was a bit disappointed in the sound. Put it down, and an hour or so later I wanted to try it again, but only the viola was handy -- so I picked it up and was amazed by how natural it sounded. The key is G minor, which I think fits just as well to a violin as a viola; but something about the lower register is just fantastic for this song.
 Update: Well, tonight I tried it on the violin in D minor and it sounded just as good -- so it was a matter of finger positions rather than register. Unfortunately it seems pretty hard for me to sing it in either G or D, I'm going to need to work out fingerings for it in some other key.
posted evening of Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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great article jeremy. I agree with your point about the 8th and
16th notes. i have tried a pattern like that on the bass and it
sounded cool
posted afternoon of March 19th, 2008 by big whompy fan
Good deal, bwf. Glad to hear your bass playing is coming along, we
should jam out next time we meet up. Oh but I guess that will be in
CA and we will not have instruments. But sometime soon.
posted afternoon of March 19th, 2008 by Jeremy
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