Use This Simple Arpeggio Exercise To Improve Your Gypsy Jazz Solos

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Here's a simple Arpeggio Exercise you can use to build beautiful solos over gypsy jazz tunes.
It's important to apply this exercise to music so in this lesson I've showed you how it works over 'Minor Swing'.
We humans love to complicate things and come up with lot's of fancy names and ways of looking at music but this lesson gets back to the basics. It shows how you can create powerful and beautiful solos by simply playing the basic arpeggio from each chord.
Content:
0:00 - Introduction and Number 1 thing you have to do to get better at soloing is 'Play Over Tunes'
0:45 - The 3 basic chords to 'Minor Swing' and the 3 basic arpeggios Am, Dm, E7
2:30 - Here is the exercise that we apply to the 3 arpeggios from 'Minor Swing'
5:30 - News about the upcoming Gypsy Jazz Breakthrough Retreat in LA
6:45 - Demonstration of exercise over the 'Minor Swing' backing track
8:48 - Demonstration of using space between phrases and swinging the notes
Here's how to do it:
Play the basic arpeggio for each chord Am,Dm & E7
Learn the pattern descending
Learn the pattern ascending
Now play it straight along with backing track or metronome
Finally start to swing the notes and leave space between each phrase
Have fun!

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[@michaelandersson1904]

wonderfull lesson! I have always loved Django Reinhardt and gypsy jazz but never understand the concept. Thank you very much!!!

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Michael Andersson you’re welcome Michael really glad the lessons help.. stay inspired! Robin

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love you too Dawn stay inspired! Robin

[@martynharveythepoet5114]

Absolutely brilliant tutorial - thanks Robin! As a classical fiddler (with a few years of bluegrass thrown in) I was "brung up" on the scales and areggios - absolutely essential - the guiding lattice on which the vines of beautiful and artful music grow... However, when it came to learning guitar (some 50 years' experience now) I did it off my own bat, listening to records (1st-time around vinyl!) and copying.. working out the complexity of six strings with a dodgy B (as opposed to the simple, regular 4 string fiddle) as I went. Now, aged 60, I'm just getting into jazz (it finds you in the end) and Gypsy Jazz. Funny thing is - I always loved it, just never knew what it was! (My daughter played Clun Penguin on a Gameboy many years ago and there is a superb bit of gypsy Jazz in that game soundtrack - forgive my ignorance but is it Django??) Anyway, now starting to revisit the "classical" approach and paring everything back to the bare bones - the keys... the scales...and really enjoying starting all over again. There are plenty of videos on KZbin explaining soloing (in every genre) but this simple explanatory video takes the biscuit! Simple, basic, yet tantalisingly taunting in the slick bits played from those basic I, IV, V chord arpeggios, towards the end! Brilliant! Thanks

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Sweet & simple chords that make your ear perk up. Who would have thought. Thanks Robin.

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Good info and easy to understand..

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Thanks Karam glad it helps! Robin

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I'm only repeating what so many other people have said, but you have managed to make something which up until 10 minutes ago would have sounded impossibly complicated, comprehensible and , after a bit more practice, re-producible. I'm already sounding jazzier than I ever thought possible. Now i'm going to light up a Gauloises and bask in the afterglow.

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Chris x fantastic Chris so happy the lessons help... stay inspired! Robin

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glad it helps man stay inspired! Robin

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I agree with almost all of the comments below, and would like to add: this is such a good way to learn arpeggios, and how to use them!

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always trying to keep things simple mate! Robin

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glad it helps Steven! Robin

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welcome man all the best to you! Robin

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I'm on the cello but this works... This is pretty good step by step instruction on what you should focus on first to gather the familiar muscle memory needed to be able to improvise. Thanks for the tips

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I love this been experimenting and it works great with a diminished chord - Thanks Robin another gem!

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help me a lot, thanks

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This is so cool to play. love it. it really enhances my soloing. ty

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This is a fantastic exercise. Really good. Thanks.

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That's a great lesson, I was practicing arpeggios to all of me last night, when I have them fully learned I'm going to apply them this way. cheers!

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Super, at last I have undestood how the magic of ascending/ descending gypsy music works ! "Merci infiniment", that is great lesson Let"s go to work now :)

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charles dbg great! So happy the lesson helps.. Robin

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@@GypsyJazzSecrets yeah applying this concept to Bossa Dorado and learning the cliches of the tune. Tremendously helping me.

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It seems so simple now!

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Hardest Man In Tarot that’s great... always trying to simplify! Robin

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Hello Robert! GREAT video. Most of the guitar videos that I watch don’t offer me very much, stuff that, while I’m by no means an expert with, cover ground I’m familiar with already. Segment by segment, this video offers more information in a very short time than most online tutorials. I’m using this with my mandolin, this gives even more gypsy feel than guitar (though I’m going to learn it on guitar as well). Keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!

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So glad it helps Ken all the best! Robin

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Yep

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GREAT TUTORIAL ROBIN KEEPING IT STRAIT FORWARD AND MINIMAL IS A GREAT WAY TO START YOU HAVE TO WALK BEFORE YOU CAN RUN THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND GYPSY ON SOUNDS GREAT MY BEST REGARDS DR.K

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Kevin Ishikawa really glad it helps Kevin! Robin

[@torekholm9542]

Really great lesson! Is it enough to remember the pattern for each chord or do you have to remember where 1, 3 and 5 are located in all the places? I mean do you think about what chord tone you are playing or do you think about the patterns more? Greetings from Sweden

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sorry for late reply! I think about both the pattern and the 1 3 5 chord tones.. stay inspired!

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Thank you Mr Roben.You are cool.May be you are Django reinhart who was reincarned!!

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You’re welcome Claude all the best! 🎸❤️Robin

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@@F20ization we only have PDF's and music plus Private Coaching in the Gypsy Jazz Club Claude ... more info here: www.GypsyJazzClub.com

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Credits to Martin G and his wonderful channel "Guitare Improvisation" for the backing track, right?

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Same formula for all other chord types will work, methinks? Or is there a flaw in that thought?

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Absolutely Dave have a go take it slow and let me know! 🎸💕Robin

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Hello. For right now I rrally cant understand what you are saying at all but I really do want to learn from this contents. If I m at the level that I cant even understand what you are saying... what do you suggest to practice? Like.. I know open chord.. but you just saying hey let s play these chords at these all different frats, that s whrre I feel lost. And when you say "ok so this technique will sound like this" and just only playing the technique without explaning how it goes... I dont knkw how to understand it. Maybe im not at enough level to understand it. What should I do? Btw thank you for spreading good knowledge and hope i learn more!!

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홍시호 hello! Best is to go here www.gypsyjazzcrashcourse.com and start with learning the tune ‘Minor Swing’ happy to help! Robin

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jamesha175 it is louder yes! Swing 42 Gypsy Polak Guitar 🎸

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Reminds me of Joseph Joseph the chord progression. Am i wrong?

[@GypsyJazzSecrets]

‘Minor Swing’ and ‘Joseph Joseph’ both in Am going to Dm with an E7 😃

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9:10

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😎

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Minor Swing Am Dm E7 16 bar sequence - make sense? 🙏💕🎸Robin

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Link not working, Robin.

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While this is cool, I don’t think Django thought in arpeggios. Maybe, I could be wrong.

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wanda James he thought in sounds without names .. the master! Robin

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Yeah I can read now, but I started with sound. I think from sound to symbol is best. I hear a lot of Bach, Spanish and Satchmo. There is the key. Bach was the master of harmony for sure!

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wanda James yes absolutely!

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I have no idea where you are on the guitar

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Like what strings what fret I keep having to rewind

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Ryan Harvey yes rewinding helps and we all do that when learning from video. You can also slow the speed to make it easier.. cheers, Robin

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I gave up bc I can't always tell. In the future could you say something like 3 string fifth fret. I played a few instruments before so I understand the concepts but I'm new on guitar.

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Ryan Harvey will do

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I’m hard of hearing. Old man I guess. Anyway I hear a 4 chord pattern. But you say only 3 chords. What’s wrong with me.

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Bruce Jeric the 3 chords are Am Dm E7 what 4 chords do you hear?

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I don’t know how to say it I guess? There may only be 3 basic chords but the musical phrase ( or what ever you call it) does not end on the 3 rd chord in the progression. The resolution is in the 4 th bar and/or thd 8th. Which I think repeats the first chord. So I was confused when I first listened to your lesson and then your actual playing on the changes. I went to the piano and figured out what was going on and why I was confused. Thanks and don’t mind me.

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