Bert Jansch - In The Bleak Midwinter, live
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2023
- Selected from this full programme: • Bert Jansch, Stefan Gr... , recorded for Danish TV in 1975. I've tweaked the aspect slightly and synchronized the audio with the video. To skip the tuning, the false start and the re-tuning - go to 1:28.
Also present (L-R), Jan Akkerman, Stefan Grossman and Ralph McTell.
To see my own demo (with Shine The Light added): • In the Bleak Midwinter...
his physical genius makes it so easy makes it look so easy and it is so easy when you're in the groove. Great Guitarist are always very subtle and he was one of the best!
Good point. This is not one of his most difficult pieces to play, but to make it look that effortless is another level entirely.
Bert almost becomes the archetype. The trickster. He doesn't play chords like others. He plays fragments of harmonies. Implied notes. His music turned me onto folk music so so many years ago. Yet he remains above. Undefined. People say, "oh you like Pentangle, you must like this...."
No. I liked Bert and John. There's a magic within the steel and wood.
Of course there is magic in Bert' s unique guitar playing but neither he or John was good singers. They all needed Jacqui as a lean on, as a perfect pitch. There was magic in Jacqui' s voice too. But if you don' t like Pentangle, l can see your point.
Greetings and happy new year from Sweden
Two gobsmacked musicians listening in awe to the master! R.I.P. BERT JANSCH.
Mr. Bert Jansch you are amazing. Only the Holy One could provide such real talent. What gifts have tou been bestowed with. Thank you!
LOVE THE WAY STEFAN IS WATCHING HIS PICKING MOVES LOL HE KNEW THE BRILLIANCE OF BERT
Mid 70s woe beats nearly anything and everything now and the 30 or so years.Have this on an Xmas CD Comp it's brilliant.Bert is Scottish its like Folk his Voice and Playing is crazy whose the audience need to get into it from this performance.Happy Holidays and to all over Our World 🌎🌍 go and enjoy
Thanks, Jon. I’ve been doing a simplified version of this and am thrilled to have such a close look at his fingers. Btw, my wife got me both volumes of transcriptions for my birthday last month. It should keep me busy for the rest of my life!
Check out my demo (link in the comments) for an even closer look at the fingering! (which I got from peering at Bert's of course.) 😉
Thankyou for tweaking this ancient footage, which I have watched hundreds of times and wished the audio and video were syncronised. Now it's much better, nice job Jon.
Love this!!! Thanks for uploading.
He tunes his b string so low, like 15-20c
Well spotted! He once said in an interview that the B string is the problem one, although he didn't explain why. I'd be surprised if he really tunes it that low though. Is that a purely aural estimate? Or did you check? I.e., as an open string, tuning it 14 cents flat would put it exactly in tune with the G, but it would then be too flat in relation to every other note. That's just the crude science though. A musical ear as good as Bert's hears all kinds of other factors too. (That's why I love that out of tune intro and his reaction.) I'm guessing that, if he did tune his B low, he knew how much harder to fret that string to get it tune on fretted notes - and chose keys and chord shapes which meant the open B was very rarely needed.
EDIT: I just checked (as well as my ear and software allow) and the main problem point is between 5th and 4th strings. It happens at 0:33 first, he pauses, checks the 6th string, starts again - and the same dissonance occurs again at 0:50, which is what makes him go "wow!" It's when 4th string is fretted at 7 above the capo, which is an octave above the open bass note and there are distinct beats which shouldn't be there. Given that the A and D open strings both seem to be fine, it must be that he is just fretting the note too hard - which seems odd. He then spends some time checking all the strings, as if not sure which one is wrong - hard to tell which he is adjusting - and he seems satisfied after that. Do you have any insight on what's happening there? (At 1:34 it's obscured by his voice, but at 1:44 I'm not sure it actually sounds any better. At the same points later (2:43), he seems to just hold off a little on the fretted note.)