Swing Gitan - Leigh Jackson

[insanitystudio]

I would like to thank some old ass xbox game for showing me this music.

<3 Voodoo Vince

[TheHornet79]

@insanitystudio same here! Captured that Gypsy feeling didn't it

[insanitystudio]

@TheHornet79

It sure did. Wasn't a bad game either XD

[melodietjes]

Still love this song after 1000 time listening....:-)

[kontrahylian]

Love it its so dreamy makes me feel like traveling europe

[pskerries]

OMGypsyjazzlovely!

[dybbuk4640]

tasty

[Django5198]

you're amazing

[brian137]

@Cool56776 and woody allen movies

[JD3s]

can anyone tell me what is the scale or scales used on this song?

is it only gypsy?

[LimboShrimp]

@JD3s To learn this song, it'll take some time learning the manouche jazz style. I can point you to a good site that will help a lot with this. If you try to dive directly into playing this song, you'll get confused and frustrated.

Read through the site starting at the top, and (only when you're ready), check out the gypsy jazz section (link on the main page). As with anything, learning this style will take much patience, practice and time.

ht tp://ww w.oreshko. co. uk/ lessons. htm

[austing12]

@LimboShrimp Sweet Thanks a lot for posting this site.

[LimboShrimp]

(as is evident, remove the spaces from the url)

[babaluboo123]

Damn that was good!

Totally unexpected...just hit a recommended vid and went on the ride.

Really fits too, cause we're heading north out of Jackson to Yellowstone in the a.m.

[jazlyn015]

That was Sick... Sensational Song makes me feel like im walking along in wonderland in Disney land



[casuuall]

Very nice..!!!

[MrCraigary123]

Can I use these song in on of my videos???

[MrCraigary123]

I like it!!!! Reminds me alot of jerry garcia with grissman grateful dawg

[pskerries]

Fantastico..:)

[belfastgypsy1]

nice

[ntalgas]

now play that with two fingers

[katsika84a]

can someone share the guitar scale that he is playing ?

[Luisrox123]

@katsika84a its basically all arpeggios

[puddleduck8051]

@katsika84a Which one? haha. 

[spike4379]

sounds great but that first bend sounds a little shy of where it wanted to go by my ears

[puddleduck8051]

@spike4379 That's the nature of Gyspy swing. Search Gyspy Swing in Youtube and have a listen. It's great stuff.

[JDavidNix]

This dude shreds. I wanna learn to shred like this. I have looked at other versions of this on you tube and this guy has it down the best. All the subtle nuances are here. Top notch phrasing. -jeff metal-

[kpgpwi64]

@JDavidNix well it's not really shredding, it's more like very precise and fast melodies, not much blind, linear improve..

[detroidxl]

@kpgpwi64 shredding means to play fast. you say blind, linear improv, but i say first of all, if you worked your ass off to be able to play that fast than you deserve the right to play THAT fast. and also i doubt the human mind can think of melodies to go with specific chords when you are playing notes in a flurry of that speed. Just because someone is playing fast doesn't mean they arent musically talented. they've obviously put in alot of effort and time.

[puddleduck8051]

@detroidxl Agreed. I think phrasing, dynamics and playing somewhat mellifluous (just like the guy in this video) is more important that blazingly fast arpeggios. I think there's a lack of appreciation in here of how hard it is to play Gypsy swing! Fantastic playing.

[vraetorian1]

Has anyone tried to tab this out? I got the first part sounding good.. but then his hands go too fast! :)

[StephenVyas]

@vraetorian1

I'd really like to see a tab of this as well!!!

That way I can play along with Leigh Jackson in this video for practice. Too bad i live in canada, otherwise I'd join in his classes

[AcousticBruce]

@vraetorian1 It is mostly from this Astuces Manouche book 1. But sounds like he improvied a lot of it.

[WhateverCorpOfficial]

@Cool56776 You're kind of uncultured, aren't you?

[ganemgg]

is that a selmer maccaferri??? nice tone and awesome interpretation!!

[DIM0RI]

This reminds me of Spy vs Spy video game.

[ahmedeus]

nice playing mate

[Xavier288]

like the way you swing

[MeepullStewray]

relic

[SRibb0ns]

@MeepullStewray I get to play arianna! I am so excited! >.<

[EveryMoveIsMagic]

u play good man..

[Melisshashy]

oh, yeah!

[blueckaym]

This is contagious ! :) Awesome

[TheGitaristgitarist]

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuperrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrr!

[thedukeofjohno]

What would you (or anyone else who wants to reply) recommend to work on gypsy jazz scales and soloing? The chords I guess you just have to learn.

[SuperKilluminati1986]

I was so keen do give the infidels final blow on the medieval total war video game,but nooo because my Dad has to listen for this all day

[iMihaiCiprian]

@SuperKilluminati1986 That cracked me up!! Infidels :))))



[bobburford]

Beautiful guitartistry!

[Jerikore]

HES MY GUITAR TEACHER!!!!

[tasara1989]

@Jerikore NooO?!?!

[Jerikore]

@tasara1989 Sarcasm?

[tasara1989]

@Jerikore Lol, Kind of...



[webusecom]

@Jerikore WHY IS EVERYONE WRITING LIKE THIS

[Phillipmorrisonc]

@Jerikore Lucky SOB. :( I want to learn this stuff!

[bluelightproductions]

You've got a good feel,Leigh.Lots of guys in this genre (Django started a whole Genre!!??!) play too much,too hard,etc.Unfortunately for you,you're the real deal.

[Jackolafrite]

Ca swing vraiment pas...

[bunchie1966]

Superb!

[jazzand]

Great playing. I'm more of a bebopper, but just recently picked up a Gitane John Jorgenson model and was looking for some stuff to learn in this style. I'm really enjoying this!! :-)

~ Rick Stone

[Styhn]

Hahaha @jtack19791. One of the best Youtube comments I've read lately, my hat goes of to you.

[bestjolie]

super cool!

its chill!

[blumely]

Thanks for the video. See Emmakuel Kassimo - gypsy jazz licks

[MilchschnittenHero]

:D

[CanadasNrGProduction]

awsome:)

[CanadasNrGProduction]

awsome:)

[ReadingWeirdo]

I love this. <3

[shadowboy667]

This is unbelievably awesome !

And if you start breaking everything down, it's not that hard to play this.

It's amazing how simple notes and a few bends can create such pleasant music.

[vydeva]

playing swing without swing...remarkable

[FuerstnD]

Where can i buy a CD from this wonderful musician?

I cant find any helping link!

[TheJeanieBottle]

amazing :)

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

This was Really, Really nice!

Very well done.

[Dragonlady6714]

His fingers are doing all the talking

[gdxsiempre]

who scale do you use?

[san5a89]

Can I use gipsy strings in a normal acoustic guitar?

[zeQHCF]

@san5a89 If you're acoustic guitar is a classical guitar > don't, at least not without mounting a tailpiece.

[san5a89]

@zeQHCF oh no no an acoustic not classic, I know the classic guitar can't support these strings because it doesn't have the truss rod...that'll brake the neck into two pieces!

I've got an acoustic epiphone AJ-15

[dudewhosaysarrh]

@san5a89 hmm the neck is not the only problem, although it would be warped by the pull of the strings. The main problem would be the tailpiece and the guitar top, because the string tension of steel strings on a classical guitar would probably tear the bridge off, thus breaking the top of the guitar. Maccaferri Style guitars have a steel tailpiece that compensates the tremendous pull. 

[san5a89]

@dudewhosaysarrh well okay truss rod+tailpiece will compensate the pull of the steel strings..but I'm talking about the sound: the most of maccaferri sound is from the neck and the top and not certainly from the strings or other things..so an acoustic guitar will not ever sound like a maccaferri

[SexyItaliano20]

@zeQHCF it's not the same !!

[SexyItaliano20]

@san5a89 no you can't !

[san5a89]

@SexyItaliano20 I made it and the sound is not bad...but there's not a great change.. It's just the acoustic guitar with a bit more bass frequences..just this..

I think most of the sound it's from the cedar top of the Maccaferri and not certainly from the strings or the turtle pick...Materials used in classical guitars add some classical tune to the guitar

[SexyItaliano20]

@san5a89 yes but its not same

[san5a89]

@SexyItaliano20 I think so :)

[joelkeaton]

is that a Greenfield?

[mattsuzo]

how can anyone not like this?? It is just lovely!!!!

[TheWildHouseBlues]

Very nice! Congrats!  What guitar model is this?

[blakielawless666]

what kind of scales do you use for that?

[jazzymcjazzerton]

very nice

[Emerealsword]

Beautiful!!!!

[CorpusHunter]

do you have tabs??

[Leedysgladstones]

Just found out about this kind of jazz style freakin' rocks thanks for posting

[j0rr]

where could we get the tabs?

[MyAle1971]

SIII

[pins1257]

thanks a lot of france ! great graet great !!!! i love this chorus. Is it possible to have a tabs of it.

thank you for answer. to pascal :

fimogest.conseils@wanadoo.fr

[Ganbyorn]

Im high!!!!! Shiiiit!!!! :DDDD

[CooperCarr87]

Oh you can still say gypsy. At least in America. Wahahahahahah! Romas....silly

[2wingo]

@CooperCarr87 Romas is grammatically incorrect. Roma is plural, Rom is singular, Romany is the adjective.

[illlite]

too bad you can't say gypsy any more, great music

[2wingo]

@illlite Compared to some of the names they still get called in much of Europe, Gypsy is almost politically correct.

[Mardreu]

can you put the tabs please ?

i cant get all the notes and wtf is that fast pentatonic like scale?

thanks

[kazath]

@Mardreu

Play the Harmonic minor scale and add som blues notes when you feel like it. Worked for me. :)

[JuanmitaCai]

oh my god...ouu yeaaaaa, jander nawerrrrrrr yyyyyyeeejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[louismanouche]

I love this tune; great changes.

manoucheguitar.co.uk

[nananaalgoodaye]

haha never thought i'd see a fellow kiwi playing gypsy jazz!

[kazukimiyu]

I like your play !!

thanks good music!!

[kazukimiyu]

@kazukimiyu 

[yanivpr1]

AMAZING!!!!

[existentaeinutila]

Very nice!Manus/Gipsy Jazz,I just discovered this type of music.It makes me feel relaxed and pozitive.

[kratos123100]

it reminds me of morroc haha..nice video i like it...it sounds like a dark version of happiness...

[318825768]

very cool

[MsTutguy]

Brilliant, but the chord at the end sounded really out of place, in my opinion. Was it a 7#9 chord?

[sosippus]

what do you call this type of guitar? does it have a specific name? thanks

[stinsens]

@sosippus

Gitande D500 all steel strings.

[sosippus]

@stinsens thanks!

[Mjollnir50]

@sosippus ...It's called a Maccaferri or Selmer after the original designer and builder, although Selmers haven't been made since about 1950. This is a newer guitar, probably by a boutique luthier. Try wiki under Selmer Guitar.

[sosippus]

@Mjollnir50 thanks so much!

[Ojoe2010]

Nice vid and great play! Encouraging, I'm practicing hard to get there too.

[DiemOniak]

what a play

[andrefreakincreator]

Beautiful!

[yootesa1515]

pretty great :D

[jtack19791]

lol. I love this. In my dreams, this is what plays while Im waiting in the elevator. When it stops and makes that little bong noise, down the marble hall and into the foyer I go for one hell of a gun battle. I need the money that safe full of diamonds will bring. I dont need the elevator to go back down. I brought a rope, some explosives and my old lady is a helicopter pilot.....Baby's dont sleep this well.

[wungabunga]

@jtack19791 strange. it put me in mind of a nice picnic.

[Brucy6666]

@jtack19791 you high?

[jtack19791]

@Brucy6666 Nope. lol, I don't don't drink, smoke, or use any drugs. I'm an all natural lunatic with a vivid imagination and a very unhealthy diet of too much television. :)

[gladevil]

@jtack19791 give me your dealer´s phone number... I want to smoke whatever you´re smoking!

[jtack19791]

@gladevil I don't do drugs, I just watch more television than I probably should. Imagination is a hell of a drug.

[OkInsanity]

@jtack19791

better start on the drugs then, way better then television i garantee.

[mabyenot]

@jtack19791 things like acid will let you explore your imagination ALOT more than television. TV kills imagination

[jtack19791]

@mabyenot I'm a freelance writer so I spend lots of time exploring my imagination. I have friends who use LSD and it's not for me. I do enjoy watching them do the most bizarre things they deem necessary at the time. My favorite was watching Dave karoke "I had the time of my life." to a mini our lady of Guadalupe nite lite in his hallway. Great fun! :)

[Ganbyorn]

@jtack19791

Well, you should see a doc.

:)

Kidding, I dream Pamela Anderson x100. :)

[markokov]

You forgot virtuoso Benny Goodman

[artwom]

Usually listen to rock / metal and stuff, but this video made me like gypsy jazz so much : ) awesome man.

[Kpro4]

I guess the art of music is not dead yet, thanks for keeping it alive!

[shakagenghis]

Wonderful playing! I'm having a hard time with the fast run at the beginning, can't tell exactly what notes at 0:17, any help? where from E flat you descend chromatically and into some pentatonic who knows what?

[chapoid]

Elegant !!!!

[willy1986tralara]

ole oleee

muy bonito!

[rollero007]

Sweet,

[TylerMonaco]

django reina

[JimmyDeLocke]

Great pickin' -- By the way, here's a message for all you neophytes, tyros and tenderfeet out there -- There's no TAB for the "second section" -- in fact, there's no second section in this tune -- it's just a 32 bar gypsy swing tune in g minor.

[firulamen]

fantastic

[melodymaker65]

My Uncle use to play this type of Gypsy guitar playing.....we would call it pretty guitar playing.

[j0rr]

omg really, this dude must be sick.... i would give everything to get this skill on guitar :) django's style reaches the sky in the guitar world .... thanx django =)

[PiN12]

Killer tune baby !!! ^^ Nice work !!

[foudou7]

amazing

[whakairotu]

Jeez man yr awesome. Which part of Kiwi are you in? Theres some funny comments eh.

[NAWOICH]

bonjours pourriez vous me la jouer o ralenti pour ke je puisse l'apprendre merci.

[Lennon970]

legal

[NartMakhsida]

Amazing solo!! Tremendous!! Would you please share the sheet music?

[Guitomaniac]

Learning tabs might help visualizing motifs, but being able to play this requires a complete understanding on intervallic relations, tensions, dynamics, melodies, rythmic functionality and cadences.And i'm not counting all the technique to play those ideas.

[2ktkot2]

my favorite

[ADAMAKAGORE]

wow!!!amazing.

[Stinolko]

Where i can see tabs?)

[gtrs4m]

@Stinolko there was an article on this in a recent Guitar Techniqies mag, had a load of ideas tabbed out :)

[dejff444]

I love that one more and more everytime listening !

[NAWOICH]

i like it !pourai tu s'il te plait me la jouer o ralenti pour ke je l'aprenne sa me ferai super plaisir!assure!

[dearmalika]

Love this music!

[bluesjaye]

Hi, G minor. Jay

[sleepinggiant210]

so im downloading this video and putting it on a flash drive so when im cruzing in my 62 meteor this is the first thing im going to hear ... oh and the old mean women next door so all she'll hear is this blasting and me peeling out!!

[kristofor12345]

what key(s) is this i?

[Trumpetplayer60076]

GREAT!!!!

[naith1984]

Is there tabs available for this? the 2nd section im having difficulties learning.

[rollie1277]

@naith1984 tabs? are you fucking serious? this is pretty much all improv

[naith1984]

@rollie1277 oops that post wasnt meant for this video. of course this is improv.

[mojicat76]

Excellent!

[Hugskes]

Amazing

[MissAnnabeast]

Mr Jackson, You have the coolest shirt ive ever seen!! and your guitar playings not bad either ;)

[chapoid]

Sweeeeeet!!

[dejff444]

One Great Playin'

[ConstantinGustavJose]

This song and a lass of whiskey is all i need on a saturday afternoon! excellent

[timo906]

very nice. All improvisation?

Greetz

[goldfinger28700]

Hi fromFrance! I love your way of playing! I'm looking for a Guitar Pro tab of this tune, but it seems difficult to find now.

Best regards

Clement

[lp239]

@goldfinger28700 ultimateguitar com

[JuissB]

Nice job

[parrakm]

Other Than Django could you recommend some artists or CD's I could purchase to hear more music like this?

[guitarpicka1]

....just keep on checking out the YouTube postings...re. Gypsy Jazz Guitarists...You are in for a real treat...But `other than Django `...man in not too much time you wont be able to get enough pf Django..!!(WORD)..!!

[genericname2200]

@parrakm Hi Parrakm,

some of my favourite guitarists of this genre are: Robin Nolan Bireli Lagrene, Frank Vignola Joshco Stephan. there are many other fantastic players of this music all of those men have stuff on youtube that you can check out!