{"id":118,"date":"2019-07-10T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/en\/?p=118"},"modified":"2021-09-11T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T09:48:35","slug":"blues-minor-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/blues-minor-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Minor &#8211; Django Reinhardt&#8217;s solo transcription-tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very bluesy chord progression as 1-4-1-5 , mostly called &#8221;Blues Minor&#8221;(Blues en mineur)<\/p>\n<p>Easy to learn the rhythm guitar but solo&#8230; Django&#8217;s solo is never easy to learn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I suppose we have time to learn this song and it always takes time to develop the skill. So let&#8217;s take it easy and learn slowly.<\/p>\n<h2>SOLO<\/h2>\n<p>This is the original one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe title=\"Django Reinhardt -  Blues en mineur\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoaJprTBYRc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And this is the transcription. I tried to be accurate but I changed a few part because that&#8217;s how I learnt ages ago. Probably that was a different version..<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe title=\"Blues Minor   Django Reinhardt&#039;s solo transcription : tab\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ABcN1vg3a0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>From the last note of 34th bar, this is a typical gypsy jazz lick so remember it. We often use this at the end of bars to end the solo or to go to next chorus.<\/p>\n<p>Also the part I underlined , it&#8217;s called Enclosure, this makes your solo more gypsy jazzy. if you are not familiar with Enclosure , please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/how-to-use-enclosure-in-gypsy-jazz-solos\/\">How to use enclosur<\/a>e to see what it is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/11-min.png\" alt=\"\u30b8\u30e3\u30f3\u30b4\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3\u30cf\u30eb\u30c8\u3000blues en mineur \u30bd\u30ed\u3000\u30bf\u30d6\u3000\u697d\u8b5c\" width=\"744\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Rhythm Guitar and chords<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1034 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-09-at-15.09.28-min.png\" alt=\"blues minor sheet music\" width=\"456\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the chords mainly used. But these are not the only ones you can play, of course. I&#8217;m making a lesson about how to improvise the chords . It will be published soon enough!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447\" src=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blues-min.png\" alt=\"blues en mineur\/ blues minor chords\" width=\"1144\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Backing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/minor-blues-backing-min.png\" alt=\"blues en mineur\/ blues minor chords,tab\" width=\"1167\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 12th bar, I used Bbm6-D7 but this could be Eb7-D7 or Gm6-D7. Original is just D7.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the PDF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blues-minor.pdf\">blues minor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ep-box es-BiconBg icon-pushpin bgc-VPlime\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/items-for-gypsy-jazz-guitarist\/\">Must Have Items for Gypsy Jazz Guitarists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/czardas-solo-lesson\/\">Czardas &#8211; Guitar solo tabs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/misirlou-lesson\/\">Misirlou &#8211; Theme song of pulp fiction tab<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very bluesy chord progression as 1-4-1-5 , mostly called &#8221;Blues Minor&#8221;(Blues en mineur) Easy to learn t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcription"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}