About This Course
Add Rhythmic Variety to Your Playing!
Back in Django Reinhardt's day, you wouldn't find DJs blasting bass-thumping beats from a laptop. It was up to the musicians playing live music to get people up out of their seats and on to the dance floor. Musicians had to push and break convention to get people swingin'. With the emergence of Hot Jazz and Swing, there was an explosion of rhythmic variation. Musicians tried out many different ways of playing. The results were gloriously bouncy and endlessly interesting.
In this follow-up to my Introduction to Gypsy Jazz course, we continue right were we left off and get into basic syncopation and rhythmic variation. We will explore techniques that will help you to start experimenting with simple nuggets of music in order to
create your own musical words and phrases. We will dive right in with a series of exercises which will start to get your solos swingin'!Â
Recognize, learn, and create your own rhythmic variations for soloing and more!
Begin to enhance your solos with thematic melodic development!
Make your solos "talk"!
Course Curriculum
14 Lectures
Instructor
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John B.
The material in this course was very limited and could have been placed in another course. I cannot see spending ~ $60 dollars retail for the amount of material in this course.
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Edgar X.
Very detailed demonstration of the technique! I like it! too short
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Maria T.
Alex is a great Gypsy jazz guitarist!
The course is very easy to follow and exciting to learn from this further.
I highly recommend his courses to anyone who wants to improve guitar skills!
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Warren S.
I've already gained an important (yet technically simple) insight that can add variety to my head-playing, an area I want to improve. And a couple of other tips about swing.
Alex has a knack for isolating key concepts and explaining them through very clear and simple examples. Excellent course!
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Antony M. T.
Enjoying the course The chords printout etc are on the web