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What's everyone been working on?
Back home until January!! (Finally a break from travelling!!) I've been drilling things with the metronome... Still not perfect... But give it another week! I find it's best to set goals, and work on things to meet the goals... I'm almost up to tempo with Jimmy Rosenebergs version of "Chega De Saudade"
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@Xavier Van droogenbroeck I’m working on the same thing 1947 version. All the little details….do you have the soundslice transcription? I have the A sections - just working through the bridge but am now in NY without a guitar… grr.
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@Xavier Van droogenbroeck on soundslice you play along with the real recording. And can loop it and slow it down. So it’s perfect for all those little things you mention.
Coquette
Hi everybody! There are several chords to play Coquette. Which chords as beginner can i start to practize? .
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@Bob Kelley That's interesting - I'll play with that. Thanks.
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@Bob Kelley Will get to this - thanks.
Fingering
Jimmy - this is a Django lick from Si Tu Savais - 1947. Would you finger that starting with the index finger on fret 7 on the B string? We were discussing this elsewhere. You might need to zoom in to see the entire lick.
Fingering
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Different lick but the same issue. It's a different feel but I am getting into it. There are few other places in Si Tu Savais where he plays some interesting enclosures and it seems easier with sliding the index. Any one else want to jump in?
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@Ben Loper Yeh thanks. That's the conclusion I came to. I'm seeing lots of places now where I need to change my fingering.
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m always grateful about how gypsy jazz breathed new life into the guitar for me, it holds me accountable for having good technique What are you grateful for in the musical world?
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Beautiful gypsy guitars.
Chords
Good day everybody. It is here 18.40 in the evening. I have a question In several songs there is for example an A and a D and E , Am and Em. Do you use then A6 en D6. Am6 and Em6? Thnx gr. From Holland
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Arie if your question is whether you can add a 6 to a chord, where it is written as just major or minor (and the chord symbol does not include the 6), then the answer is usually yes, and it gives the gypsy sound you are looking for. But there is one exception - if the mi chord is the ii in a ii V, you should not play mi6. In this case the chart should read mi7 - and you can't replace that with a mi6. It's to do with the chord which is following which is a 7. For example: Ami7 D7 GMa don't play Ami6 there. The 7 in the Ami7 is G. The following chord is D7 which has an F#. The ear needs to hear the move from G to F#. If you played Ami6 there that has an F# already, so you don't hear that move. It's easy to hear than to write!
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