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

That intro video is over 5 years old haha

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

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

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

the great Kanye!!!

I will start listening to the great Kanye now

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...

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.

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.

Django is playing the same notes here over g ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ycr0rIB4Gq8.html

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

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

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