Description
🎁 Download the FREE PDF with the TAB, bends, ornaments and picking details:
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Why can you play the right notes and still not sound like Django?
In this lesson, I take the opening phrase from Django Reinhardt’s legendary 1947 ‘Minor Swing’ solo and play it two ways. The notes are exactly the same—but when I remove four expressive techniques, all the Django character disappears.
The good news is that it isn’t actually magic. It is how the notes are played.
The four techniques that give you the Django sound are -
1. Bends
2. Vibrato
3. Ornaments
4. Gypsy Picking
In the lesson, I’ll show you:
• how to target the 9th and bend up into it over a minor chord
• how fast Gypsy Jazz vibrato gives a note vocal quality and character
• how to play a classic Django-style ornament
• how rest-stroke Gypsy picking adds volume, momentum and attack
• how all four techniques work together inside a real Django phrase
The PDF includes the TAB together with the bends, ornament and picking details, so keep it beside the video and practice the phrase slowly.
Go deeper with my complete ‘How To Make Your Solos Sound Authentically Gypsy’ course inside The Gypsy Jazz Club:
► https://www.gypsyjazztransfusionclub.com/how-to-make-your-solos-sound-authentically-gypsy
00:00 Why You Still Don't Sound Like Django
00:17 The Same Notes, Different Sound
01:10 Free Django PDF
01:22 Django Bends
02:20 Django Vibrato
03:37 Django Ornaments
05:18 Authentic Gypsy Picking
08:22 Sound Like Django
Have a go, take it slow & stay inspired 🎸
Robin
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