Django's Tiger is a gypsy jazz standards written by the great Django Reinhardt. The original recording features Stephane Grappelli on violin. In my gypsy jazz lesson you will learn how to improvise over the changes and learn the main theme note by note as well as the improvisation.
A short lick designed to naturally mix techniques together. Test your sweep picking, hybrid picking and legato. The Chop Shop is designed to give you fresh ideas to break away from boring scale practice and worn out ideas.
Minor Blues or "Blues En Mineur" is a composition by Django Reinhardt recorded in 1935. Django had recorded it several times,
but this time we are going to focus on his legendary solo over this minor blues progression followed by 2 progressions of my own composed
improvisation in the gypsy jazz style.
This is the lesson covering my song called An Old Modern Time from my solo album Let It Out, released in 2006. It's a cool Neoclassic kind a piece with lot of alternate picking, string skipping, sweeping, few legato licks etc.
Great alternate picking and sweep picking exercise written in 3/4 time signature. Wether you are begginer or advanced player you will be challenged with this one!
Hora Martisorului is one of the most famous Romanian dance compositions for violin composed by Grigoras Dinicu. This version is adjusted for acoustic guitar in gypsy jazz style.
In this lesson I have included my TOP 12 favorite gypsy jazz licks that I like to use when I outline the 2-5-1 progression in major. All examples are in C major.
In this lesson we are going to see how to play as accurately as possible the fantastic solo that Ian Bairnson played in the song "Eye in the Sky", by Alan Parson.
