Blues en mineur - how to improvise

[@1000000trs]

This is the one. This is the only video i need for the next three years. The doors for my journey from my limited pentatonic world to real deal gypsy have just been thrown open in 14 minutes and 17 seconds of Sven J masterly teaching. All of a sudden I understand what I'm hearing when when I listen to gypsy jazz: All of a sudden I know what I have to do. If I were stranded on a desert island with only my guitar and 5 KZbin videos - I'd want this to be one of them. Thanks Sven.

[@alistairtearne9518]

This is hilarious and totally true. It looks like 2 years have passed. Did you make it happen? I'm just beginning to unpick this video.

[@1000000trs]

@@alistairtearne9518 Totally!👍 If you're really conversant with improvising in the pentatonic only (and maybe you've been living by it for seasons, or even years like I had been) then this fantastic gem of a tutorial is the thing to live by next. This short set of *de-mystifications* has enabled me to find a huge new level of personal guitar satisfaction, and to *mystify* my musical friends since the first day I saw it _(please don't tell them_ 😂)

[@MartinLawson]

Exactly what I was thinking! A gem. See you in three years.....

[@petestaron4235]

Lol. Ich hatte zwei Jahre Unterricht bei einem der bekanntesten deutschen Jazz Gitarristen und nix verstanden. Sven erklärt es in 14 Minuten und alles ist klar. Ein fantastisches Video!!

[@SvenJungbeck]

Na ich frag besser gar nicht nach dem Namen!😜 Vielen Dank und viele Grüße!

[@Ludwig_Cox]

Hands down best lesson on gypsy soloing on KZbin. This is also a perfect tune for beginners like myself to get in to gypsy swing because it has only 3 chords so you can really work on your arpeggios/scales. so a great pick from Sven to choose this tune for demonstrating, thanks mate great stuff!!!

[@thierrychomette1222]

Merci, super vidéo, simple et efficace, même si je ne comprends que la moitié de ce que tu dis... 👍👍👍

[@essaasmr310]

Thanks 🙏

[@ziuzidion]

Wirklich schnell auf den Punkt gebracht ohne lange Erklärungen und zudem direkt angewendet. Hut ab!

[@jdavis6650]

Great work! You've helped me with a new approach to finding hidden melodies. Been playing guitar for decades and piano for 5 years. You have taught an old dog new tricks. Thanks again.

[@SvenJungbeck]

Good to hear, we never grow to old for learning, I guess.That's the cool thing about it. I love that feeling of ahhhhh! 😀👍🏼😀👍🏼

[@geraldkrau2650]

ein sehr guter lehrer👍👍

[@kebarius6760]

Amazing video ❤

[@mikedenton8835]

Absolutely fantastic stuff. Been banging my head against the wall with gypsy jazz for a decade. Really explained that well. Thanks n

[@jackwilloughby239]

Yeah Sven. I put a link to this video on my Muse Score Transcription of Steph playing Minor Swing. You pretty much explain what for me was pretty difficult to analyze. Great insight! Thanks, Jack.

[@Krads-tk7kd]

Great information, thank you very much!

[@Locke19901]

I hope you keep doing these and that they catch on even more. Good luck Sven.

[@gerrypower8350]

Thanks Sven, great lesson, thanks.🎼🎵

[@elguapo8888]

Over th top lesson

[@aybabtu2834]

Super klar danke dir

[@chimpansi2]

Thanks svempa, nick name for Sven in Sweden👍🏻🇸🇪

[@themusiccovenant]

Brilliant

[@maineguitarists]

Sven! So cool. Thanks also for this i learned alot. I knew you played la pompe very well and have alot of video's playing the rhythm parts of gypsy songs but i see you are very capable on the lead part also. MT

[@robertgreen3702]

Splendid lesson!!!

[@emlyngriffith5846]

An excellent lesson. Thanks a lot 👍

[@marioteodoropizzorno3721]

Bravo! Ciao da Teo da Genova.

[@conormckenna]

Great video - very practical and helpful advice!

[@justakj96]

amazing video, thank you!

[@dingoswamphead]

Great ideas and beautiful solos to demonstrate them.

[@nathanmort1816]

Great tips. Thanks - I will be re-watching this one a lot.

[@joeiscoffee]

Sounding good in Nashville, Sven.

[@johnrothfield6126]

Great content and inspiring playing!

[@budandbean1]

Alright! This was really informative, thanks so much! Buddy

[@polyphil506]

hast mir grade meinen abend und mein spielen versüßt. Danke dir!!

[@Naikonul]

Wow. Just wow. So goddamn amazing.

[@tomasholub.]

finally good explain what to do :D thanks

[@novagas1788]

Thank you for posting the video !!

[@Wyrdo999]

I just found your channel and its actually the best one I've found on gypsy jazz. I didn't think players like Stochelo, Jimmy Angelo, thought about the important notes of the chords, or enclosures?

[@2HimTru]

From what source did you purchase your Gypsy Jazz Guitar, and how much did you pay for it in U.S. Dollars? Thanks.

[@phmusik9131]

sehr geil, mehr davon!!! vom real deal ;-)

[@pierpaolo7735]

Great lesson. Could you tell what brand is the guitar you used in the video?

[@petermckay4362]

Thanks Sven another great tutorial thank you. What brand and model guitar are you using in this video please?

[@Naikonul]

I do have a question though. How do you begin to study for this stuff? What's the practice curve? I dabble in guitar with learning the pentatonic scale, learning how to make chords from scales, adding my 2 and 6 notes to my minor pentatonic to make the scale, and so on. What's the practice routine for getting this system down? E.g. : first, you need to learn all the notes on the .. first string; second, you need to learn all the arpeggios. OR. you start with one major scale, say.. C. learn all the notes on the fretboard. What's the best path to learning this stuff?

[@j.garnergtr]

Great lesson and great tone on that Grand Bouche. What make is it? Edit: Ah, I see. It's a Volkert! You're playing with Joscho. Congrats! Sounds so good. I will get the new trio album.

[@gregowens1005]

Hello - Is that a pick-up you have clipped to the inside of the sound hole - connected to an end pin jack? If so which one? Thanks,

[@christophercunningham3972]

Your videos Sven. Is there away I could purchase a pdf of them .Sincerely Chris Cunningham

[@SvenJungbeck]

Hi, I have some chord charts I can send you, these are very detailed and go along with my "proper chords" videos. Just write me an email : [e-mail]

[@hermanncordes2866]

Sehr gut erklärt! Warum machst du die Videos nicht auf Deutsch?

[@SvenJungbeck]

Hi, Weil 12.000 meiner 14.000 Abonnenten nicht aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum sind! LG Sven

[@wandajames143]

3:26

[@jazzmanouchee4585]

i just passed 40 second advirtisement whatever middle of the video

[@jazzmanouchee4585]

and while goes biger and biger

[@alternative-yi6gh]

The melodic minor scale is incorrect.... its flattened on the descent...

[@SvenJungbeck]

You probably read that in a classical music theory book, that melodic minor turns to aeolian while descending. I can assure you, that in various musical styles of the last 200 years this is not necessarily true, especially when practicing the fingerings and positions, it doesn’t even make sense at all. Transcribe a couple of lines on minor chords, played by great jazz players and you will soon realize that everything is possible. Advice from a worldwide touring jazz musician: Practice licks, chops and phrases more than theory ;) Think of how infants learn their mother tongue. A little theory is surely good to know, but it’s not making you a player. Playing does. Don’t have a problem with what you wrote concerning the descent but saying the melodic minor scale is „incorrect“ is incorrect itself 😅 Greetings, Sven

[@alternative-yi6gh]

@@SvenJungbeck yes i more than read it in a classical music theory book ,i practised it that way for 10 years for exams here in UK. Possibly it (melodic minor classical style ) doesn't make sense in a jazz context, i have read the justification for it (raised leading note and avoidance of augmented 2nd interval) and its a bit hard to see in practice , but there you go. I've never been able to understand it personally, but its quite exiting having a scale that's different ascending and descending no? I'm just getting into Django - i play violin so many of the tutorials are referring to the guitar neck so i have double work to do to understand what's going on! My breakthrough in understanding has been through doing a transcription of the Blues en Minor head - its amazing and looking at the chords i understood it was based on a minor 6 chord. Wow , this is a scale I've never played, and to my mind I'm not sure Grappelli went much into the territory, playing safe with pentatonic and flashy arpeggios etc. The genius of Django was beyond memorising scales etc - we all know that - and i feel let down by players that just solo by rehashing scales and arpeggios , to me the missing link is how do we put heart soul and personal feeling into our solos. Django was always left footing people ie he was unpredictable and deserved full attention; how do we mine into our own ingenuity for solos that go beyond the practise routine of scales and arpeggios, that fly with imagination?

[@SvenJungbeck]

@@alternative-yi6gh I think most people break up imitating to early! Again, think of a language! You have to be able to really speak it, fluently with all those details, and you have to listen to great speakers, read great books understand them, have conversations, copy phrases learn to win arguments and then you can be a writer, creator or whatever. We are all told to be creative and unique nowadays way to long before we grow up as players. That’s not working. Django really knew about Louis Armstrong, Kreisler, Debussy and all the music of his time , long before he got famous! Imitate, Assimilate, Inovate! Also it’s not only about „what“ you play! That’s so overexposed in contemporary music education. The „how“ is way more than people think, articulation, timing, technique… the vast majority of all famous players through any style are virtuosos! The vibrato, the tremolo everything has to become so classy, and you see people talking complicated scales and theory that can’t play a single phrase right 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

[@alternative-yi6gh]

@@SvenJungbeck thanks for your thoughts Sven, def something in what you say- like learning a language..... as you say Django was aware of many players eg Armstrong who wasn't a guitarist so there is some cross over between the instuments possible?

[@JPhi]

Great vidéo, In the title you forgot a letter. (MineUr)

[@SvenJungbeck]

thx!

[@BurninSven1]

Den andra versionen låter som svensk folktjosan

[@keyboardjungle]

you have excellent videos, but you strum when you are talking. this makes it harder to follow. i would get a lot more out of your videos if you would explain your concepts without playing over top of them.

[@SvenJungbeck]

Good to know, I will try to optimize that in future!

[@rickystinson4602]

Bro you don't know how to play yourself so why do you try to teach others something you can't do ???