{"id":66,"date":"2004-04-02T08:57:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T08:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2004-04-02T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T08:57:44","slug":"lesson_3_enclosure_pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/lesson_3_enclosure_pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson #3: Enclosure Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s lesson is based on Picking Pattern #2 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/gypsy_picking\/\"><i>Gypsy Picking <\/i><\/a>book. This pattern uses strict alternate picking to play an even number of notes per string (in this case four notes per string). <\/p>\n<p>Lesson 3 uses Picking Pattern #2 to play enclosures around a G major arpeggio. An enclosure is when you play a note one step above and a half step below a chord tone. Django used this idea often and it has become part of the vocabulary of most contemporary Gypsy guitarists. At slower tempos eighth notes are too slow, so you&#8217;ll have to double-time it so its all sixteenth notes (listen to Django&#8217;s performance of <i>Del Salle<\/i>). Because this pattern uses straight alternate picking, you can play it extremely fast.<\/p>\n<p>This idea can work over a variety of chord progressions. Try this idea anytime you&#8217;re playing over a Major or Dominant chord for several measures.  It also sounds nice over Rhythm Changes tunes like <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/play_along\/songlist\/\">Swing 42<\/a><\/i>. Sometimes I use it over the A section to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/books\/play_along\/samples\/\"><i>Djangology<\/i><\/a> and <i>Oh! Lady Be Good<\/i>.  You can also transpose this idea to work over other chords (minor or Dominant).  Have Fun! -Michael<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Enclosure4.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Enclosure4.html','popup','width=900,height=212,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Enclosure-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"47\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Enclosure.mp3\">Audio Example<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This month&#8217;s lesson is based on Picking Pattern #2 from the Gypsy Picking book. This pattern uses strict alternate picking to play an even number of notes per string (in this case four notes per string). Lesson 3 uses Picking Pattern #2 to play enclosures around a G major arpeggio. An enclosure is when you [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}