Double Bass Simplified changes to "I thought about you"

[Tom Lane]

... is American commercialized music with (accidentally?) some Bossa nova in it.

Such a great quote! Just a sprinkle here and there! Nothing wrong with that as long as it's not presented as being authentic to the original style. Commercial music and jazz should borrow and steal as much as they can to evolve.

 

[Carl Hillman]

I was interested more in WHY the transcriber had decided to change the song's time signature in the "midstream."

The copyist is probably coming from the legit world.

Note the "freely" marking of the first part. If this were an orchestra chart, there would be a conductor indicating what's going on in the semi- (or fully) rubato section. I think it's a little easier to follow a four beat pattern when the time is slow and elastic.

Once the tempo starts, it's in 2 because - why not? - it's a 2 feel.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Once the tempo starts, it's in 2 because - why not? - it's a 2 feel.

Here is another question about the same song.
Is it normal to omit time signature?

 

[Whousedtoplay]

which for me is American commercialized music with (accidentally?) some Bossa nova in it.

Are you telling us that in Europe, there is NO commercialized music?
What about Commercialized Music in Japan, South Korea, Australia?
I'm still trying to figure out your statement.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

The Partido Alto of Bossa Nova.
Partido Alto is a Samba-like style with an anticipated 4 and 1 of the following bar in every second bar of two.
Even though there is also some string candy in it, I like that a lot more than the example Don Kasper posted, which for me is American commercialized music with (accidentally?) some Bossa nova in it.

Currently, it's my favorite "pop" album.

Hélène Labarrière : Double-Bass(!)

The following track has a lot of "sprinkled" Latin rhythms, and I have NO PROBLEMS with it.



My favorite "3-part track" from my (currently) favorite album, full of so much SPRINKLED elements of World Music:
(Here is how I hear that beautiful track)
1. "Witches' invitation"
2. "Dancing with Witches in Hell."- 3:42
3. "Hangover-ish awakening". - 6:53

 

[DoubleMIDI]

Are you telling us that in Europe, there is NO commercialized music?
What about Commercialized Music in Japan, South Korea, Australia?
I'm still trying to figure out your statement.

Of course not.
But it sounds American to me and the Bossa nova wave got highly commercialized in America. And this recording is from this time period.
My statement is that there is not much original Bossa nova left in that recording because of the priority of making a well selling product.

 

[DoubleMIDI]

Currently, it's my favorite "pop" album.

Hélène Labarrière : Double-Bass(!)

The following track has a lot of "sprinkled" Latin rhythms, and I have NO PROBLEMS with it.

I like the groove from the first one. Very similar to my piece “Circular” that I wrote about 30 years ago and arranged it for big band about 10 years ago. (Sorry, no recording available.)
I miss a bit structural development in the rhythm in your example. It’s almost the same over the piece (at least the first half). Sounds a bit like pieces of Garbarek with Jon Christensen several decades ago.

The interesting thing with Latin rhythm is that the instruments don’t play a common rhythm but their different rhythms combine. So the bass does not the same as the piano and percussion instruments differ in their rhythms too.

As a bass player I anticipate the 1 in Salsa by a quarter note (and the 3 by an eighth note).
In Brazilian music it’s only an eighth note anticipation for the 1. Similar to what Esperanza Spalding does (I have seen some transcriptions) and she knows Brazilian music well.

 

[Carl Hillman]

Is it normal to omit time signature?

Not really. I mean, you can look at the first few measures and figure it out, but in a formal arrangement, the time signature is usually indicated.