From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1177 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, August 22 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1177 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Joni on the radio [Susan Tierney McNamara ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:21:15 +0000 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Joni on the radio Great stuff Dave ... Have you heard Go Tell The Drummer Man? I wonder if that's a shuffle ... Bob posted a link earlier in the week. Susan Tierney McNamara email: sem8@cornell.edu - -----Original Message----- From: Dave Blackburn [mailto:beatntrack@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:14 PM To: Susan Tierney McNamara Cc: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com; LC Stanley; joni@smoe.org Subject: Re: Joni on the radio 6/8 and the shuffle feel are quite different, Sue. A shuffle, aka swing, extends the first eighth note and shortens the second in each pair so there is kind of a bounce to it. A well known example of a shuffle would be "Kansas City" or "Revolution." You can also swing 16th notes which is sometimes heard in funk and hiphop. The backbeat is usually on 2 and 4 but sometimes on 3, in which case it is called a half-time shuffle, like Toto's "Rosanna" or, famously, Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters", coined "the Purdie Shuffle" by Bernard Purdie, whose ego makes Joni's look like Mother Teresa's! On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Susan Tierney McNamara wrote: > I think Night in the City is a shuffle but I could be wrong ... in one early cafi recording she says something like "I wrote this in rollicking gospel 6/8 but I think I'm playing it in lumpy 3/4 ..." or something like that. I know it took me a while to get the strum down, but it feels like a shuffle to me. > > Susan Tierney McNamara > email: sem8@cornell.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bob.Muller@Fluor.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:41 AM > To: LC Stanley > Cc: joni@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Joni on the radio > > I love the sashay, strut and sway, beat of Number One.> > > One of those "shuffle" songs...Sue and other guitarists - was "Be Cool" > the first song she wrote that had the shuffle rhythm? Nothing earlier comes to mind. I feel like she employed it a lot after that. > > Bob > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. > ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1177 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------