Best Gypsy Jazz Beginner Lessons (Django Reinhardt - Manouche)

[@johnfair62]

Thank you very much for taking the time to teach us. It is very very much appreciated.

[@pooner61]

Love your sense of being so humble. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and your talent

[@keithpetersen9196]

Instantly recognized the manoir de mes revês chords when you were showing your guitar haha

[@mikesciacca]

Your presentation is so clear, even your subtle points come through well.

[@marketherton2296]

Excellent overview. I have shared this on a group I joined on FB. I am an advanced player with limited theory, but I understand what I need to. I play - PLAY! Keep them coming Denis - excellent…

[@joshanddamion]

I appreciate the way you explained learning techniques. I don't read music, or really understand theory. I've been learning gypsy guitar with memory, ear, and devices. Like you said in this lecture, you start seeing patterns, and it becomes easier to understand, learn, and see what will likely be next. Also your very to the point. Better than being overly nice. Cheers, Josh

[@任思奇]

I really love your lessons in Dc musicschool, they are really helpful for me. Thank you for your sharing! It's a great pity that gypsy jazz lovers from mainland China cannot go to the festival this year... Wish I could attend the festival in a couple of years :)

[@faiyazhasan4797]

Jeez louis this was such a fantastic lesson!

[@johnrothfield6126]

Fabulous fiddling at the end!

[@eha11oran]

Denis! I love your style of teaching - meeting the learner where ever he she or it happens to be. We have something else in common - I know another Schenkerian scholar (that’s about as close as I care to get - one degree of separation). This tease to your course for beginners is so rich - thanks, my friend!

[@carlosaguirre2575]

Thank you Denis, you encourage me to keep going. Even Im feeling frustrated from the slow improvement.

[@raphaelkurun885]

great video! thanks for your clear explanation

[@gibful8671]

Great video! Love your work and Christiaan's too

[@sergiojaenlara2091]

Another educational monument.

[@HawaiianSteelGuitar]

I agree 100% that this described method is the way to go, well done, Denis !

[@KylieChoy]

second the teaching approach !

[@billharrity6121]

Denis- great approach for beginners- thanks so much. I have lots to think about, and change my approach. A question for anyone who may be reading this- at 47 minutes, you describe a song called "David"- I recognize all the other songs you discussed, but not this one. I couldn't find more info on it via internet search- does anybody have more details? Thanks again!

[@SaccoBelmonte]

I would advice to learn songs with the root on the 6th and also on the 5th string...Not that I do routinely but it might happen someone plays a song with the root on the string you're not used to and by doing that you can re learn the song in an easier way. Practicing on all 12 scales is useless IMHO, is better to focus on how/where to invert chords so you can adapt to any situation. Learning tonal function, playing, listening and getting familiar with how the different functional recipes work is a great way to understand how this music is generally done. When you learn the basic and intermediate tonal functions then you can spot those that aren't common and you can say "aahh that's cool" instead of "uhh I don't get it"

[@robertbrawley5048]

Hey! Thanks for the tip

[@TheDjangofan]

Brilliant lesson. I teach in a similar way to my jazz students. The adage I use is "imitate, assimilate, innovate." The language analogy is spot on. I want to know what your opinion is on beginners learning "out" licks with more dissonance. Is it necessary to learn basic harmonies first before more advanced ones? Or is it just simple vocabulary building like any other lick?

[@rkhan5725]

Ok lesson starts about 45 mins in

[@rkhan5725]

Correction 70-75 mins in

[@displaychicken]

I think the fact that gypsy jazz is somewhat codified is its great strength from the perspective of a student. The reason is that there is an established pedagogy in place which provides a relatively straightforward path to get you to from noob to decent to good. I am a victim of my own genre a.d.d. I do fingerstyle, classical,funk,blues, rockabilly. I play Bach pieces on my ukulele and I clawhammer banjo. As you can imagine I’m extremely mediocre at all of it. I recently decided to really focus my efforts on mastering a specific genre. I like all forms of hot and New Orleans jazz but focusing on gypsy jazz was the obvious thing to do because the established pedagogy makes the learning path so obvious. All you need to do it travel down it as quickly as you are able. It’s a small community but it has an unrivalled teaching element. Only classical guitar can really claim a similarly effective teaching system.

[@Bowwylad]

thank you so much for this!!!!!! WHAT A TUNE!

[@atomaalatonal]

omg that guitar sounds great. and it looks great too. paulus schaefer had really great lesson excerpts once, but theyre no more online., and no wonder they were too good to be free, the man must earn his moneys ;D. would like to see him on your channel. its funyn that you mention christiaan, yaakov asf, i have them all subbed and check them regularely too

[@mrhomer4501]

OH you play video games !good !cool man! what games would you tell me some?

[@seckhoffable]

I love it when Denis kisses a guitar.

[@rkhan5725]

Why is it necessary to use a special guitar for Django music ?

[@pauls_guitartrip]

It’s not. But there is quite a big difference in sound between a Manouche guitar and a western guitar. Advantage of the Manouche guitar, all areas on the fretboard are more balanced soundwise. Means high positions will sound equally loud as low positions. The projection and loudness of Manouche guitars is higher than western guitars. At the other side their tonal spectrum is more narrow and focusses on easily audible mid frequencies.

[@marcus2515]

Brovo scat riffing off the melody of Minor Swing @ 1:13 +/-

[@mrhomer4501]

So do you afraid that with so many languages internalized will give you a multiple personality?

[@LIRY2012]

Dommage qu'il n'y ai pas un sous titrage en français :(

[@ChristiaanvanHemert]

Ja en ik will een ondertiteling in het Nederlands!

[@gibful8671]

@@ChristiaanvanHemert lol good one

[@nicholasmarin5945]

Nishhhhh!

[@sipalingpaham]

From quebec? Maybe your grandfather is an eskimo.

[@danh7739]

Man, is this guy lonely, 52 minutes he plays three chords.

[@robertbrawley5048]

Nobody care about this jazz violinist any more . He teamed up with Your Drango Rinehart long before anybody else did . Prewar. I for got his name kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6XXfaepmdN-bbM Was it Joe Venuiti? Sounds familiar I'm not sure Yea Joe Venuiti that's probably it

[@PaintByMonster]

I like you, Dennis. But I find you really wordy. Also, while I appreciate the idea to question everything and to find your own truth, there is a level at which that is incorrect. For instance, if someone did not tune their guitar to the standard of tuning, but always only tuned to their own guitar, or didn't even bother to do that, then they will never sound good or be able to play with others. You may say, well, that is ridiculous and is a given, but these exceptions make some of your broad sweeping statements incorrect. There are some fundamental truths that are not "your truths" or "my truths" but are simply TRUTHS that cannot be ignored if a student wants to progress, regardless of learning style.