Gypsy Jazz Backing Track in Em

Tutorial about the harmonic minor scale and diminished arpeggio:
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Tutorial about the diminished scale and arpeggio:
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This is an educational and enhanced guitar backing track in the style of Gypsy Jazz played by guitarist like Django Reinhardt, Stochelo Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, Fapy Lafertin and Stephane Wrembel. For guitarists who want to improvise in different keys and modes like the E harmonic minor scale, E minor scale and diminished arpeggios. This beautiful swinging Gypsy Jazz backing track let ‘s you play with modes and arpeggios that are visualized onscreen. Excellent for improvising, learning modes, scales, chords, licks and arpeggio's. This Q JAM TRACKS jam track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in the music. Extra theoretical information is shown in the video. It is a high quality backing track and handy tutorial (lesson) at the same time.
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Useful tutorials about the Gypsy Jazz Style:
Christiaan van Hemert:
Dim Arpeggios in Gypsy Jazz Improv - The Definitive Guide:
• Dim Arpeggios in Gypsy...
Django Chord Tricks: spice up your II-V-I:
• Django Chord Tricks: s...
Channel: / @christiaanvanhemert
Paul Provosty:
Gonzalo Bergara Arpeggios EXPLAINED: Part 1 (Gypsy Jazz Guitar Lesson):
• Gonzalo Bergara Arpegg...
Channel: / @paulprovosty
Gypsy Jazz Secrets:
Gypsy Jazz Secrets - What Scales To Use In Gypsy Jazz? - Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets:
• Gypsy Jazz Secrets - W...
Channel: • Gypsy Jazz Secrets - W...
Used:
Ibanez JEM 7v (www.Ibanez.com)
Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars
Rode Microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
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Text from the video:
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Improvising over Gypsy Jazz
Rather than using scale patterns (like we do in rock solos) we tend much more towards using arpeggios over Gypsy Jazz chord progressions. These arpeggios are played in a typical manner.
Still there are some scales which can create that typical Gypsy Jazz sound. One of them is the minor scale and the other one is the harmonic minor scale (especially over dominant and diminished chords) .
The Dominant Phrygian scale
If we play a E harmonic minor scale over the dominant B7 chord, we're creating the B dominant phrygian scale by starting the E harmonic minor scale on the note B.
In other words: the B dominant phrygian scale is the 5th mode of the E harmonic minor scale.
The same effect is created over the D#dim chord,
because B7 and D#dim7 are very much related..
The Diminished Arpeggio
Over the D#dim7 chord and over the dominant B7 chord we can use the diminished arpeggio.
This arpeggio consists of the 4 notes from the D#dim7 chord and you can start the arpeggio on any of those 4 notes.
D#dim7 = d# f# a c
Simply playing these arpeggios up and down won't generate a Gypsy Jazz sound. First of all try to make rhythmic figures and let the arpeggios flow into the diminished arpeggio over the next diminished or dominant chord.
Achieving a more Gypsy sound
There are lots of ways to create the gypsy sound and you'll find an equal amount of amazing tutorials on KZbin. Check them out if you're interested (see description).
Still I want to give you some modest starting points.
Alternative starting point for the diminished arpeggio
In Gypsy Jazz it's common practice to start the diminished arpeggio on the root of the dominant chord.
Over a dominant chord in E minor start the D#dim7 arpeggio on the note B (root of the Vth degree).
Chromatic approach for the diminished arpeggio
Like we just saw, over the dominant chord we can start the diminished arpeggio on the root of that dominant chord.
Typical in the Gypsy Style is to start with playing around this root note of the dominant chord with two chromatic notes.
Total Recap
So with the harmonic minor scale, the minor arpeggios, the diminished arpeggio and the ways to play them, you have a modest starting point to get familiarized with this beautiful and powerful Gypsy Jazz style guitar playing.

[@cap10nado70]

Best video for learning gypsy jazz i’ve ever seen since i discovered it a few weeks ago, the little slides with information are so good! Thanks a lot really

[@big_forehead_fish]

Great backing track. Funny, that it contains basically I, IV, V chords, but firstly it seems like an alien ship :)

[@QJamTracks]

Haha, yes... life can be so simple right?

[@big_forehead_fish]

@@QJamTracks Yeah) Our perception matters :) Thank you one more time!

[@essexchillis2980]

Sounds great, good fun to play around with, however it feels more reggae than gypsy jazz, but still appreciated.

[@matiboyx]

Me salió la tremenda melodía 🤩 buenísimo

[@jt.189]

Wanted something different to sing lyrics too . And this seems to be hitting the right spot . Thank you

[@januszwu973]

i dont get it, its too hard

[@MetalDoraemon6]

awesome. thank you

[@QJamTracks]

You're welcome :)

[@johnhighstreet5199]

I want to use this for a student, how do I buy it???

[@QJamTracks]

I don't sell my backing tracks, but what exactly do you need it for?

[@johnhighstreet5199]

I picked up a trombone student who is just starting out and I wanted to demonstrate how quickly one can go from learning scales to improvising- this is the perfect format for showing that transition. I feel it's important to teach that learning can be fun and not so threatening.

[@istillsuckatguitar]

Love it.