In this lesson, you'll learn how to improvise with octaves and build structure in your improvisation. We will learn the octave chorus of Django's solo over Minor Swing from 1947. This improvisation is arranged in a unique structure that gives us a glimpse into...
Bireli Lagrene was fun, friendly and brilliant when we played together last week. Most of all, he was an inspiration, sending out musical ideas that I’ve been enjoying playing with and I’m very happy to share some of them with you, so you can...
In this lesson, you'll learn how to build structure in your improvisation. We will learn the beginning of Django's solo over Minor Swing from 1947. This improvisation is arranged in a unique structure that gives us a glimpse into the genius of Django's playing....
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to hold the pick like Gypsy guitarists do to get the greatest sound when playing jazz!...
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to make your playing more swinging and groovy. It’s about a special ornament, adding a ghost note on an open string just before the note you’re playing....
In this lesson I will show you how to improve your improvisation by basing it on the structure of the melody. I'll walk you through this method over Blues for Ike and over Coquette. ...
In this video, I show you how paying attention to the harmonic movement, direction and energy of a song transforms your solos into beautiful music. Make your jazz improvisation very melodic, rather than just playing ascending and descending arpeggios all the time....
In this lesson, we’ll learn the beautiful ballad, Django’s Castle (Manoir de Mes Rêves), by Django Reinhardt. We’ll start from the basics so everyone can follow and move on to more advanced topics – melody, harmony, chord melody, tips for improvisation and practical, yet exciting,...
The triad improvisation method allows you to simply improvise over any note you like, chromatically and diatonically in a simple and fun way, by visualizing and mastering the three shapes of triads all over your fingerboard. Than you can play around the triad notes to...
The first phrase of Django’s Tiger is so beautiful that I just had to understand it. It makes it easier to see it over the following chord shape: ...