Hi Kombrig,

You said:

” And right away I have a question to your, guys. Maybe I'm mistaking, but I suppose that the time-signature for the swing or blues music can be non other, but 6\8?!?!”

You also said:

“Do you feel a swing drive there, guys?

If you don't, we have an alternative here:
1. You are completely deaf (I'm sorry!), OR
2. I have no idea how IS A SWING RHYTHM pattern sounds!”

There is no Swing Rhythm Pattern if you talk about Swing as a style of jazz, played some 70 years ago by Benny Goodman Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller and many others and to some extend up to the present time. This style of jazz was mainly played in the time measure of 4/4 or other binary measures. There are a good number of exceptions.

There is swing or swinging, a way of playing jazz in relation to rhythm and timing. This is only apparent in the performance of the music, it can not be notated

There is the dance style Swing, which has lots of variations. Many variations are danced in 6/8 time. I am no expert here. My wife tells me, that on the dance floor, I appear to have two left feet and my legs are totally without any coordination.

If you take a 4/4 song, you can divide each beat into triplets with perhaps some adjustment to the melody line. If you then split each bar into two bars, you have 6 beats to each bar. You have now a song with twice the number of bar in 6/8 time. This is the case for instance in your arrangement of Blue Moon. The phrase structure consists now of 16 bar groups, rather than the normal 8 bar groups. This is a give away for the conversion. It sounds really good, but I think, that you would get a different, more rhythmically pronounced effect, if triplets were used in the melody line and four beats to the bar for the accompaniment, without splitting each bar, but leaving the song in 4/4. Your arrangement would clearly be better for dancing.

So far, I have assumed that your accordion is one of those newer Hi Tech instruments with a midi connection. This is not at all clear from your arrangements. I have however noticed that the left hand of your scores could often not be played by an ordinary piano accordion. Perhaps, you could give a detailed description of possibilities, techniques and limitations of a Bayan. Midi recordings from your instrument would be appreciated if this is possible


Marry Christmas and lots of success for the New Year,

Herbert