Gypsy Jazz Guitar Chords: How To Play "La Pompe" 

The guitar tabs and chord diagrams for the INTRO are available here 🡆 www.jazzguitar.be/blog/gypsy-jazz-chords/

That opening makes me feel so very happy.

The opening 45 seconds of this video is the best thing ever

First Gypsy Jazz tutorials I could follow. Thanks a lot for this. Checking out the home page.

You write me online all the time but I did no realize what a GREAT teacher and player you are!!! Thank you so very much!

What an absolutely wonderful demonstration! Thank you so much! Manouche pour toujours

thank you somebody that gets right too the lesson instead of talking,

Way to go Jacob, love the lessons and the sound of the drums demo at the start was great!! Keep up the good work!

VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN... OLDER, BUT EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE!!!! ;-) YOU ARE SIMPLY THE BEST!!! CIAO FROM ROMA, ITALY.

Thank you so much. Learning a new style is great fun and you are a great teacher.

That was wonderful and informative. Last progression really made me smile. Thank you.

Thanks a lot, this is so far the best lesson on rhythm I've seen.

Wonderful, so clear and helpful, my heart is brimming with excitement to play, hooray!!!!!! Thank you!!!

great guitar player...but even better teacher...thank you..so precise

Yes!!! I love this stuff!!! Makes me happy!

An excellent teacher.

Really love this lesson. Big thanks, sir!

Terrific lesson, thank you so much! Very good instruction!

What an excellent lesson, this has opens some doors for me. Thanks

excellent teaching! you manage to keep it simple but also share a lot of information great playing too thank you for this video!

Sounds great!

Una de las mejores lecciones que he visto! Gracias

Bravo. You have done a remarkable job at communicating what is important here. It was also very easy to learn by the way you presented the demonstration.

Best teacher and tutorials on gipsy guitar i have found on youtube! thank you very much

Thank you so much for this! Great lesson!

I love this! and what a beautiful guitar.

Great lesson! Enjoying practicing this.

I got a call to play a gypsy jazz gig. I told them that I've never done it, but they were willing to have me try. So, I went on line to try to figure out how to play the style. I watched several videos, but this one stands head and shoulders above the others. Yakov's rhythm playing sounds startlingly great. Then he breaks it down, piece by piece, showing exactly what he's doing. I had to slow it down a few times, but, by the end, I could play along and, to my non-gypsy ear, I was somewhere in the ballpark of le pompe. It also gave me new insight into the depth of the style. I know this is more of a lifetime of dedication than watching a video, but I'm going to play the gig and we'll see how it turns out. Thank you!

I love your videos man! Thanks!

Is that intro piece the best bit of guitar I've heard in my entire life?

You are Masterteacher !

Excellent video for somone who want to start learning Gypsy Jazz! Well done and Thank you!

You are the best! Thank you so much! Nice sound and explain!!

Oooo I'm so excited to get this up to speed. Gonna take a while. Thanks for the great video.

You are a great inspiration!

This so awesome. Thank you so much ❤️

I agree, best I have found so far. Thanks

Number 1 !! exellent !! Pedagogique !

Difficult but great challenge! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge...

The best gypsy jazz teacher on youtube!

Thank You Yaakov! I have practiced a lot of gypsy rhythm with much less success... Yet with your valuable insight, I found the chord combinations sincerely accurate for the correct intonation...Best Regards and Recommendations to anyone interested, I hope to continue the material in the link soon! Brian Hensley

Great beginning!

Great tutorial!

Man, you're great! Many thanks!

Excelent class! I'll try! Thanks!

You made this so easy to understand! Thank you so much. I subscribed and rated thumbs up!

hehe i can just see that little smirk on your face as your frothing on those chords~! Love it

Such a good lesson , such a fun style

I have an ERG manouche guitar (actually it is a Yacov Hoter signature model) and it is one of the most toneful, yet wonderfully punchy and full manouche guitars I have played. I love it, and totally recommend them! (no I am not endorsed by ERG guitars...just a fan of a well made and great sounding guitar).

You are the best!!!! And also so sympatique!

Thank you so much it was very helpful!

Yes very enjoyful. Thanks a lot Yaakov!!!

I feel at home while living this video. mazing!!!

Neat little demo that you started off with!

Excellent!!

always great master !

Fabulous stuff many thanks

Brilliant!

Great tutorial

Bravo!!! 😎　Greeting from Kobe JAPAN. Masaki SHIMAZAKI

Great work thank you so much.

Hears intro ... *Leans forward*

Thank you so much for this lesson. That Gadd6add9 is just an impossible chord.

Dude. You rule!

Who is this guy,???.. he actually plays in one of the few was I like in the modern Gypsie jazz players I have heard...and teaches really well

Congratulations! Nice tutorial. You are very talented. Greetings from Italy

excellent ! merci

Thanks so much mate!

That is awesome ! Petit coucou de Belgique :)

thank you so much for this introduction! great video

Thanks for the excellent video

This is really incredible! I love it! I am trying to start learning gypsy jazz and I would like a guitar like yours. What would you recommend?

You are my hero!

Thank you for this! Any chance you can show us the intro and variations you do at the beginning? But either way, thanks!

Awesome

Bien Hecho Amigo!!!

Mate you rock

Great stuff! A guitar player who can actually PLAY gypsy jazz... As apposed to a guitar player...who THINKS he can! 😬

Buen vídeo!

9:04 starts the play-a-long!

makes me feel sooo goooood :))))))

Excellent Lesson. For the G/B chord I prefer a open C Major barred at the 7th fret.

I love the look of those guitars ... the bridge looks like Django's moustache :-D

Yaakov, thank you so much for this. What is the name of the first tune and progression played at the beginning of the video? Is it an original piece? Thanks

תודה על המדריך אחי

Great

GOOOOOOOD AND Thanks ！But first chord is really difficult！

very interesting moviments

Jaco seems like a beautiful person. This really helps me on my mission to learn gypsy jazz.

soul crushing difficulty, what a mirror to stare into to, I need to learn to practice😭😭😭

Thanks, this is a great tutorial. I have a question about the chord changes. When playing a chord for 1 bar and the changing to the next chord: Do you change to the next chord already at the "4 and" of the current bar or at the "1" of a new bar? I find it very hard to change in between the upstroke note at "4 and" and the "1". hope i made that clear. here's a tab to make it maybe more understable x|1--2-x3--4-x|1--2-x3--4-x|... => chord change at the "x" or at the "1"?

Beautiful! What a nice thing was played in the beginning?

thanks for the lesson, first chord at 4:38 destroyed me but the lesson was great

Very nice video thanks ! But I have a question about the rhythm pattern, I saw on some other videos that the two up down 8th note strokes are placed on beat 2 and 4 and not on beat 1 an 3 , does it matter ?

try this at home and i feel my hands are so useless at the beginning... nice tutorial, clear enough for me :')

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your technique is excellent! what kind of pickup do you use?

Marvellous. Brilliant ideas. Martin Schmidt-Hahn with his very good warm clarinet- sound could fit as well !!

Danke Jakob.Tolles Video

Great lesson! What tune is this progression used in? Thanks!