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Which instructional course for lead has real world examples?

constantineconstantine New York✭✭✭✭ Geronimo Mateos
edited September 2008 in Gypsy Jazz 101 Posts: 485
I have studied courses from mehlig, jorgenson and wrembel. There all good, but for example the Wrembel course shows you like 1000 arpeggios over different chords, but very few correlations to actual songs. I realize the importance of these excercises but am also looking for a course that mostly applies techniques to specific django songs. Your input is highly appreciated.
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  • Joli GadjoJoli Gadjo Cardiff, UK✭✭✭✭ Derecho, Bumgarner - VSOP, AJL
    Posts: 542
    Next step is to learn licks, or to invent your own over the play-along tracks.
    Tchavolo Schmitt plays tons of them, and tunes like Django's Dark Eyes and Blues Clair are full of it.
    Try to see how these licks relate to your arpeggios.

    There's a lick section on the forum, there are some in the Wrembel book.
    Mickael has a book with some, as well as Andreas Oberg and Robin Nolan, I am sure Dennis Chang left a minegold of licks in his DVDs and Yann has some on his website :
    http://www.serendipity-band.com/misc/ma ... ans-en.htm
    - JG
  • Posts: 597
    I'd think that the best thing to do is to just learn a bunch of tunes. Learn tunes and then start applying the licks. Bake the cake, and then put the icing on it. :wink:
  • Matthias LenzMatthias Lenz Lucklum, GermanyNew
    Posts: 101
    Hi constantine,

    Here are my recommendations :

    1. Gypsy Picking by Michael Horowitz

    Generally the best tutorial on playing lead when it comes to "proper" technique. Not a vast amount of real life examples, but I personally wouldn´t want to miss the great insight into the fundamentals of playing in this style. It´s great to have this together with the Wrembel book.

    2. L´Esprit Manouche by Romane & Derek Sébastian

    this one is a tome (over 300 pages), it is full of exercises, theory lessons on harmony, and includes a lot of full length transcriptions (13 songs) from real life Romane recordings(also included on the CD that comes with the book).
    The translation is sometimes quite funny, and of course, it is almost exclusively about Romane´s compositions (except for "Montagne St-Genevieve"). But if you work through this big thing, you´ll have a lot of real life examples under your fingertips. I think this is what you´re looking for...

    3. Unaccompanied Django by Michael Horowitz

    21 detailled transcriptions, mostly Django solo recordings, also some Stochelo Rosenberg solo tunes...all the book is real life examples, and the transcriptions give good advice on fingering and picking directions. Also quite a thing to work through, I´d say. Depends if you´re interested in learning solo-guitar pieces in this style...


    I hope this is valuable information to you.

    Best wishes

    Matthias
  • BluesBop HarryBluesBop Harry Mexico city, MexicoVirtuoso
    Posts: 1,379
    http://www.hyperhipmedia.com/HM0011.html
    it's what your looking for!!!
    I also suggest the Gypsy picking and Gypsy fire books.
  • constantineconstantine New York✭✭✭✭ Geronimo Mateos
    Posts: 485
    wow this is a great forum!
  • steven_eiresteven_eire Wicklow✭✭✭✭ Dupont MD50
    Posts: 172
    One book that doesn't get mentioned often here but is great, is daniel givone's book. it's got a lot of great licks in it and they are shown in the context of different chord changes.
  • djangologydjangology Portland, OregonModerator
    Posts: 1,018
    Who is daniel givone? The only Daniel I have heard of is the guy that sometimes plays rhythm with Mozes Rosenberg?
  • MichaelHorowitzMichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator
    Posts: 6,152
  • RomKyzarRomKyzar BaltimoreNew
    Posts: 12
    Daniel Givone's sound is amazing as well! Warm and
    rich.
  • BonesBones Moderator
    Posts: 3,319
    Constantine,

    Which Wrembel course did you study with all the arpeggios?

    thanks
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