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mr. beaumont · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 907 Location: chicago

Check it out, let me know what you think...it's called villa mandarinas...

www.jeffmatzguitar.com/music.html
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trotsky · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:09 pm Post subject:

Wow ...really outstanding.
Congrats on being such a wonderful player and composer.
I just returned home after a week of training that was so far removed from what I love that it left me kind of shell shocked.
Listening to your playing this morning has really helped bring me back and now I can't wait to pick up my guitar.
Thanks for the gift man
Gene

PaulD · Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 1130 Location: Chicago

Very nice tune Jeff, I enjoyed it! Cool tone too.

Paul

Jazzy · Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 1660 Location: Norway

Sounds great Jeff. Nice tune!

mr. beaumont · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 907 Location: chicago

thanks gents.

I plan on recording some original tunes "for real" this summer-- guitar (sometimes doubletracked) bass and percussion. Everything I'm writing seems to have sort of a latin feel, so I want to do a whole collection of it...
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Jens · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:24 am Post subject:

Nice tune! Good tone! on the hofner, I presume?

Jens
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patskywriter · Joined: 23 Jul 2010 Posts: 17 Location: Durham, NC, USA

for crying out loud, i thought your name was mr beaumont! so who the heck is mr beaumont, LOL?

i listened to "villa mandarinas" and i find your chord changes odd -- which means that i like them very much! nice tune! Smile

so, which came first -- the chords or the melody?

mr. beaumont · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 907 Location: chicago

mr. beaumont's an internet handle I've used for too long to get away from now, really...It was actually the name of my college electronic music project, beaumont music, which was dedicated to two fictional characters--Jeffrey Beaumont, Kyle MacLachlan's character in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," and to Mr. Ward Cleaver, played by actor (and later pastor) Hugh Beaumont.

All intended to be nonsensical, of course. You know how college kids are.

Anyway, Villa Mandarinas-- The chords that made up the beginning part of the A section came first (basically a Bm11 sound and then an A dominant sound) and I played around with those for weeks before anything else came to me.

The rest of the song was "melody first."
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“For the guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.”

Andres Segovia

jazzfix · Joined: 29 Mar 2011 Posts: 13

New here...this is outstanding. You have a broad understanding of the guitar and quite an impressive set of chops there, sir. This has everything going for it. Variation, tone, creativity, and a great REC. Is it D/I or a mic/amp combo?

mr. beaumont · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 907 Location: chicago

thanks jazzfix,

The backing guitar was recorded direct (it's a yamaha silent nylon) and the lead guitar was a hofner verythin thru a henriksen jazzamp with a redstone speaker cab, a good old SM-57 a bit off the grille.
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Andres Segovia

steve · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 867 Location: oz

Nice.

I checked out your Days of Wine and Roses and loved it!!
i'm listening to it a second time as I type. Love the tone, love the dynamics, LOVE the expression and passion, and great feel. Top marks for this one.
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mr. beaumont · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 907 Location: chicago

Thanks Steve.

I gotta hang out here more, I hadn't even seen you had posted about that! I like to thank folks where it's due (when it's due) so sorry for the delay on the reply.
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Andres Segovia