Gypsy Jazz Bites - Free Django Reinhardt Style Guitar Mini Lessons with JONNY HEPBIR.
These mini lessons contain different techniques for improving left/right hand co-ordination whether you're a beginner or more advanced player.
I've been recording the next batch of these free lessons which I'll be releasing over the next few months, the video above is the seventh.
Gypsy Jazz Bites 7 –
A very easy eight note phrase that's good for working on picking, stamina and accent shifts over a '5-1' sequence of four bars of C7 & then four bars of F.
In this video I play the phrase in quavers over a 'C7' chord starting with the note C on the third fret on the fifth/A string. So I play C, D on the A string then move up to the fourth/D string starting with the second fret playing the notes E, F, G, F, E, open D.
This is repeated four times over the C7 before repeating the same fingering pattern starting on the third fret of the fourth/D string over four bars of 'F'. The notes being F, G on the D string then move up to the third/G starting with the second fret playing the notes A, Bb, C, Bb, A, open G.
In the first part I'm demonstrating the phrase in context over the first 16 bars of the chords to the standard 'Avalon' in F.
In the second part I play the phrase slow with a click demonstrating the fingering and picking I use.
In the third part I have the click at the same tempo but hearing it on the 2 and 4. This pushes it to double time and gives the phrase more of a syncopated/swing feel.
In the fourth part I improvise the phrase throwing in chord stabs, accent shifts etc to mix it up a little.It's really good fun to play around with it like this and breaks up the 'exercise' element of the phrase.
As with all the Gypsy Jazz Bites videos, the phrases/rhythms can be used in different contexts over songs played in a Gypsy Jazz style.
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