Teaching Gypsy Jazz Guitar - Beginner Lesson - Dark Eyes / Les Yeux Noirs

[@fortstandre]

Follow Dc . Highly recomended

[@joshq4000]

Amazing lesson...I love how you capture from bare bones at the beginning to a level most amateurs could aspire to attain by the end. Shows that it's possible, and how it's possible, so logically. Thank you, Denis!

[@justinnguyen203]

Thank you for showing me the way !!!

[@haiducable]

Fantastic lesson, thank you Denis!

[@PaintByMonster]

Thank you!! One day, I will also be a monster gypsy jazz player.

[@murrayatuptown353]

James Carter...polyphonic master...saw him when he was about 19 at (1988 or '89?) a little restaurant (Blue Sky?) in or near Detroit (long time ago) - with Wendell (clarinet) Harrison, George (sax) Benson & a gold-toothed drummer with a hub cap cymbal (it WAS Detroit!). James was even more explosive then. Not overpowering, but close. You'd see the eyebrows on the older guys go up, but then they'd smile.

[@garygreer5365]

Thanks Denis. Your videos always worth watching. And the material on the DC Music School is solid.

[@Del_Puerto_Musica]

Keep these videos coming!! Thanks to you we know The Way!

[@siegpedde6563]

Great rendition, Denis!

[@florianobrecht]

Great stuff!

[@kike409]

Muchas gracias, maravilloso.

[@LucasAraujo-qk7bh]

Great lesson

[@blankpagealltherage2392]

Thanks Denis!

[@gerrypower8350]

Thanks Denis 👍

[@adambatty7480]

Great lesson! One to come back to again and again!

[@PaulPaterson]

Another great lesson. Stay safe. 👍

[@francoisorscour973]

Merci Denis!

[@philmorris7974]

Thanks Denis

[@jaktron]

super!!!

[@bester34]

Wonderful presentation

[@doglivebilly]

Thanks you..for he lesson

[@molesaver]

You are doing good work, Dennis.

[@80sMeavyHetal]

Wow, what a lesson! Those improvisation were 😗👌

[@paulgibby6932]

Unmistakeably James Carter. He enlivened Samois some years back. What a fantastic musician!

[@PanosKapetanidis]

Killer guitar!

[@rafiqmazen9187]

Thank you for the amazing lesson

[@changhong6028]

Yeah Denis!

[@scottbookman]

you can tell you've been practicing...killer playing Denis !

[@DenisChangMusic]

That intro video is over 5 years old haha

[@RobertMatichak]

Hi from Montreal ..... Great stuff thanks!

[@Wyrdo999]

Your info is Great, so concise, and informative, regarding info guys like me love anyways. Like the chord info about Django for instance, and how the tunes changed. I would love to see you break down "Double Jeu," all the different versions, how they change the rhythm, and the different approaches both Romane, Stochelo, and the guest players use. Like the scales and the hybrid scales they mix with their arpeggios. The head is GREAT and the song is great for improvs. Thx again Dennis for ALL you do.

[@mr.atticus393]

Merci 🙏

[@Denis-et8zi]

Thanks!

[@erimsee]

Nice!

[@Clomwellschimdt]

All these little possibilities

[@jacoba.moritz1192]

Nice. That stuff is pretty much what i've done for 2 years now many tunes. Very interested in how you'd continue from there.

[@FerKenobii]

I'm definitely stealing a lot of phrases hahaha (love the 40:17 phrase) great great jazz lesson !!!

[@FaNatiKBoYxxxx]

Thankssssssssss

[@jakeskolnick]

Tak Arakushi sent me your way and i love your vids!!!

[@DenisChangMusic]

He's a great player!!! Thanks :-)

[@Alexander-rj8rr]

💪

[@jamesmaguire9992]

Good stuff! I never really “heard” the Bb 😂

[@chrisjacobson6853]

I looked at the Soundslice videos and they were still full price.

[@DenisChangMusic]

It’s the DC Music School lessons that are on discount

[@szolnokbencedaniel5641]

cinco estrellas

[@sgazzz]

First off, thank you for the great lesson on this song. Question, for the phrases over A7 and Dm7, was there a particular scale you were using to make those up? You mentioned a few times you were just making up the phrases almost as you were going, and recommended we could do the same, so was wondering if there was a shape you suggest we use? I recall you said to note the shape of the underlying chords in those areas, were they chord shapes, arps, a scale? Thanks in advance!!

[@DenisChangMusic]

Hello! While it would be possible to analyze in terms of scales, it is actually not part of my thought process for this style of music. A huge portion of it comes from having listened to this style of music for many years and paying very careful attention to all the nuances related to the style. So in other words, I spent a lot of time over the years figuring out all the common clichés of the style. After doing this for a while, your ear begins to hear the same clichés, and then as you continue like this, your ears naturally hear variations as well. For instance, one typical thing you'll notice when you study this style is that the actual masters of the style rarely (if ever) use a harmonic minor scale ascending, it is almost always descending. It's just one of the idiosyncrasies of the style. Does that mean you should never ever play a harmonic minor scale ascending? no, you can do whatever you want, of course, but it's just very very very typical not to do that. So in this style there are subtle details like that. Purely, using the scale/modes method of thinking to make lines will miss out on these nuances that you can only catch by very careful listening, and experience. Hope that answers your question! Once you have some of these nuances in your ears, then actually, yes you could use knowledge of scales and arpeggios to find new pathways.

[@blankpagealltherage2392]

26:24 phase two

[@lamigueri2391]

À bas l'algorithme

[@fredanthony5805]

Is the fingering being used here for the melody, especially in the lower octave, what you would use to play the tune normally? Or is it just for demonstrating the sound?

[@DenisChangMusic]

I would say that I often try to find new ways to play melodies quite often but I do like playing it around that area.

[@miroslavsafin]

Let's trick the algorithm!!

[@gregsmith3676]

Algorithm!!!

[@adrienkable]

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[@zelenapotvora]

What Is that beautiful phrase from your solo immediately after the Sax solo? The first one. Sounds like E7 to me. But there is no E7 chord in dark eyes. Very Django like.

[@zelenapotvora]

Django is playing the same notes here over g kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5TVYaV_d5l6p5o

[@DenisChangMusic]

The first song I’m playing is Minor Swing actually haha.

[@DenisChangMusic]

I see what you are refering to now. It’s to lead in to the Am chord but you can also do it during the Am. It’s playing the melodic minor scale startying on the 5th and on an offbeat. It is very typical Django style phrasing and also in swing music

[@Theworkingbassplayer76]

Let’s trick this KZbin algorithm. All go rhythm 😉😉😉😉😉 💵💵💵💵💵

[@murrayatuptown353]

Algorithm got no rhythm...but these cats do.

[@quasitaliano]

trick

[@edwinchng]

Stochelo Rosenberg, Jimmy Rosenberg, Kanye West... ??! Did I hear wrongly? 26:18

[@DenisChangMusic]

the great Kanye!!!

[@edwinchng]

I will start listening to the great Kanye now

[@murrayatuptown353]

I heard "Kayne West...no"...but maybe my timing was off. I been not listening to him since before it was cool to not listen...

[@dudeabides3860]

algorithm

[@adrianjensen935]

A comment

[@GizzyDillespee]

26:18 yeezy

[@musik102]

Denis, just because a person likes gypsy jazz guitar, it doesn't follow that he will also like a squealing sax solo. What a dreadful way to start: indeed, I bet quite a few people didn't make it past the sax player.

[@sophialove100]

Great stuff!

[@andychongks]

Let's trick the algorithm!!

[@Clomwellschimdt]

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