{"id":557,"date":"2019-11-05T04:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/en\/?p=557"},"modified":"2020-06-21T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T10:42:04","slug":"minor-swing-solo-lesson-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/minor-swing-solo-lesson-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Swing solo lesson for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the lesson for the guys who just started playing guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Minor sing is a must-know-song in gypsy jazz and everybody wants to play. So in this lesson, you will learn to play solos with arpeggios like Django did.<\/p>\n<p>I purposely often use 6th and 7th arpeggios because it sounds gypsy jazz when you use them.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a beginner the you can skip this lesson and try them!<\/p>\n<div class=\"simple-box1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/minor-swing-django-reinhardts-solo-tab\/\">Minor Swing &#8211; Django&#8217;s solo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Transcription<\/h2>\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe title=\"minor swing for beginners\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MV28wQBg1z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There are the chord notes I use.<\/p>\n<p>Am6\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbA C E F#\uff08F# is the 6th note \uff09<\/p>\n<p>Dm6\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbD F A B\uff08B is the 6th note\uff09<\/p>\n<p>E7\u30fb\u30fb\u30fbE G# B D\uff08D is the 7th note\uff09<\/p>\n<p>Also I use the fret board all over. Sometimes I see people playing just 1 position like between 4th fret and 8th fret which is ok though , but I always wonder why not use more frets when you have ?<\/p>\n<p>Also Django used all over the fret board , but in his case he had to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t explain details of arpeggios and scales this time , so please have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/category\/scales-and-arpeggios\/\">Category &#8211; Scales and arpeggios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Technique of gypsy jazz<\/h2>\n<p>This is a very common technique in gypsy jazz as you can see Stochelo or Joscho Stephan and any gypsy jazz guitarists use.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-557-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minor-swing-beginner.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minor-swing-beginner.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minor-swing-beginner.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/33402943491c7514329b7d66cddbc812.png\" alt=\"common technique of gypsy jazz\" width=\"1220\" height=\"346\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gipsyjazznyumon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/99b44e382c61fc0c30a18cbd94fcda01.png\" alt=\"licks of joscho stephan\" height=\"340\" \/> We play first picking of each set of notes which has four notes is up picking then 3 times down pickings.<\/p>\n<p>So picking goes <strong>\u2191\u2193\u2193\u2193\u3000\u2191\u2193\u2193\u2193<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you play this down pickings , it&#8217;s like you move your arm downward. Some people just move their wrists which is ok but it doesn&#8217;t look like gypsy jazz way of playing.<\/p>\n<p>When you finish this lesson , you can also try other lessons!<\/p>\n<div class=\"simple-box1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/category\/for-beginners\/\">Category &#8211; for beginners<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/daily-arpeggio-practice\/\">Daily Arpeggios practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/category\/chord\/\">Must know gypsy jazz chords<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the lesson for the guys who just started playing guitar. Minor sing is a must-know-song in gypsy jazz and everybody w [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-beginners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manouche-jazz-lessons.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}