GYPSY JAZZ GUITAR (Gypsy Bop) - Autumn Leaves

5 short clips of me practicing over a chord progression based on "Autumn Leaves" (March 2007) in the early AM after just waking up and still in my pj's. I listened to a lot of Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown growing up and then become mesmerized with Django Reinhardt's playing 2 1/2 years ago...now both styles are beginning to slowly morph, for better or worse! It's a lot of fun trying to bounce be-bop lines around within the context of the gypsy swing style. Hope some of this can be of value to someone!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gypsy
• swing
• jazz
• guitar
• django
• reinhardt
• autumn
• leaves
• bireli
• lagrene
• manouche
• bebop
• be-bop
• martino
• debarre
• stochelo

[Xiphosss]

Good work man! I have a question: Where do you learned those scales? I want to learn it too, i'm little beginner in gypsy jazz, i know a lot of arpegios, but i want scales now.

Thanks,

Stefan.

[TheLostGadjo]

Thanks Stefan for the kind words. I never really studied scales, per se. I worked on playing melodies string by string and eventually connected everything. Patterns fell into place naturally, as they do with everyone over time. Definately spend time on the major scale first and play it everywhere on the neck while over some basic chords in the background. Start on diiferent notes within the scale (modes). There's a lot of music hanging out there in the major scale, as boring as it may seem.

[Lastikas]

have you recorded the progression? where i can found it? thanX

[TheLostGadjo]

I recorded it over a year ago as a practice track and eventually erased it...sorry, but thanks very much for listening!

[UncleIrv]

Wow, is that a Selmer?

[TheLostGadjo]

It's actually a Dupont MD50M (with maple back and sides)...a copy of a Selmer .

[caranauba]

some music teachers tell you to get familiar with each string individually like try doing a solo on one string.

[Electricgypsyboy]

Nice P.J.'s

[FLYBYNIYT]

pretty good if u had a better acoustic it would be prime! but im sure your already in love with the one you got

[jackblasio]

You get a great sound, like eveness of tone.I see that you are using a very thick pick-it seems to like add contour to the thinner strings- sort of leveling the range out, I guess?Very,very smooth sprinting flury of notes-I've never seen anyone get such good use from a super heavy pick! GREAT PLAYING!!!!

[themanhootch]

Wonderful.

[shuckslbj]

Pretty much every song I wrote several years ago had chords quite a lot like these. It's a beautiful thing.

[FreeGuitarLicks]

Great! I love the fusion.

[MrFrancisAlexis]

Really natural

*****



[EroSennin506]

i do not know much about guitars. but how come the sound hole thingy looks different then other guitars? is this a different king of guitar?

[Jhendrix444]

excellent

[123jesse123]

Great! I really like it