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🎁 Grab your FREE ‘Godfather’ Lick PDF with TAB here:
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Biréli Lagrène is a monster player. The good news is that you do not need to be one to play this lick.
In a live performance of ‘Minor Swing,’ Biréli takes the melody from ‘The Godfather’—something nearly everybody already knows—and lays it beautifully across the opening move from A minor to D minor.
The notes are surprisingly simple. What makes the lick sound so cool is the way Biréli anticipates the phrase, bounces it against the beat and makes it swing. Then, over D minor, he adds the minor-major-seven chord—the classic James Bond sound—which gives the whole thing another bit of flavor and drama.
In this video lesson, I’ll show you:
• the complete ‘Godfather’ lick note by note
• exactly where it fits in the opening four bars of ‘Minor Swing’
• how the melody follows A minor into D minor
• why the right notes can still sound square
• how Biréli’s anticipation and bounce create the groove
• the D minor-major-seven ‘James Bond’ chord at the end
• how to learn the notes first and add the swing afterwards
The free PDF gives you the TAB, so you can keep the phrase in front of you, take it one little piece at a time and get the notes under your fingers before you add the timing and feel.
If this gives you a taste for more Biréli, the complete ‘Biréli Licks for Everyone’ course inside The Gypsy Jazz Club takes you through six carefully chosen licks from six standards. You hear each phrase slowly, follow my detailed breakdown, practise it with the backing track and learn the idea behind it—so you can eventually make phrases of your own rather than simply copy the notes.
Go deeper with ‘Biréli Licks for Everyone’ inside The Gypsy Jazz Club here:
https://www.gypsyjazztransfusionclub.com/birelli-licks-for-everyone
If you would like my help taking these ideas into your own playing, that is what The Gypsy Jazz Club is for. I keep teaching, answering questions and helping you decide what to work on next. Every new member also gets a one-on-one Zoom call with me, and that call remains available if you want to use it later.
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