Developing Natural Jazz Guitar Shred Technique 

The intro song is Made for Wesley by Rinus Steinbach (former bass player for Jimmy Rosenberg). Patil Zakarian on piano, José Fernando Seifarth on rhythm guitar. Check out my Gypsy Jazz guitar technique book: www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Jazz-Guitar-Picking-Secrets/dp/B0BQ99L5NH/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LFWNANEND9LJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bkAWF29I-6LsJzuIu7GYXe70TdSdRmzrDBCCe_9GD-GKejrW1OENQYa70zHPVi8LvEVafVhUqtfvIobfSVfZ2Q.0jVx6CGgL0y-QHWBMkg2hYg-xuFudgwXzoidj6E8ukc&dib_tag=se&keywords=dennis+chang+gypsy+jazz+guitar+technique&qid=1712876023&sprefix=denis+chang+gypsy+jazz+guitar+techniqu%2Caps%2C294&sr=8-1

The opening performance was a wonderful surprise for me. Really liked how the Bach prelude was incorporated.. artfully done. Thank you

Beatifull version of Made for Wesley and again amazing vid! Denis you are one of the most generous musicians and teachers to be found in the world! Very gratefull for all your work, thank you!!!

That Bach prelude is Kool 🎉 nice intro jam too,hope you are well God bless 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐

Very important, thank you.

More jazz famous jazz guitarists that prioritize 3 finger technique: Grant Green, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow. I like how you relate 3 finger technique to violin--as a proper technique and not "sloppy/ lazy." Jimmy Raney used to play cello and his son noticed that the left hand positioning and way he shifted across the fingerboard was influenced by cello technique. 3 finger technique helps you explore the guitar neck outside of the positional box and open up the range of the instrument. There's a misnomer about playing "in position" that is almost as damaging as "playing a finger per fret." I have yet to see one jazz guitarist play strictly in position when playing single line solos. Even the best solo jazz guitarists of present day, like Steve Herberman and Andy Brown--they strategically shift across the guitar neck out of position when they play lines. Hey, when you say wrist movement for picking technique--are you still talking about forearm rotation or purely wrist movement up and down parallel to the strings? I remember from our on off lesson together that you mentioned being able to "see the palm of your hand." The issue with picking technique for bebop and bebop adjacent styles of playing is that most of the vocabulary is not idiomatic to the guitar. Most of these "picking studies" on the internet are related to metal or even Gypsy Jazz technique--both of which are completely idiomatic to the guitar. They are still incredibly demanding styles to play, but at least there's more breadcrumbs to follow--you know what I mean?

Some killin' playing Denis!

Great video Denis, i look forward to these 😊. You mentioned revisiting topics already discussed, and you’re videos about jam sessions come to mind. I loved those. Thanks 😎

Great video thanks! When I switched from guitar to bass, I realized how weak my pinky was compared to the other fingers. With bass you have to use the pinky a lot ;-)

Great insights as always

Nice playing. What picks do you use?

It's funny, I had a very similar experience with that kind of 1-4-3-4 left hand pattern a while back. I was browsing RU-vid and saw a transcription of an Andy James (?) solo that had a very fast line on a single string that included a bunch of that kind of pattern repeated: 1-4-3-4, 1-4-2-4, etc. It's not a pattern I play a lot, but I kind of wanted to see if I could get it up to speed. I was able to play it at tempo, but it just exhausted my left hand. I looked a little closer at the accompanying video, and noticed he was using his first three fingers for it... I find that a little unnatural though, especially when the outer interval was a major third. It made me think that maybe I ought to get better at that kind of three finger playing though.

Hello Denis, this is another great video, thanks a lot! When you play your archtop you seem to favor benson picking. Why is that ? Is it for the tone or an other reason ? Also, I am learning gypsy picking on an archtop with flatwounds, do you think the flatwounds change something technique wise with the gypsy picking ? I love the feel with the left hand, but not so much with my right one. Edit : I just saw your answer in one of your comments, so my only question is concerning flatwounds

10:00 sowwy sowwy hahaha

Which Bach prelude was that?

I’ve always felt like Romain Vuillemin picks more from the elbow and less from the wrist on fast single note lines. For example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A5xydXy7RFM.htmlsi=CgMfUDmNyRWbPLvI

You respectfully, you talk tomorrow much .... show more please