Here is the summary of our gypsy jazz method. If you have any question, ask them in our english spoken forum section: Do you speak Gypsy Jazz?

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• Starting Manouche guitar
• Advices to work out more efficiently
• Equipment

Right hand techniques

• wrist and right hand Position

For Accompaniment

• The standart pompe
• typical accompanying rhythm guitar in different styles
• Some tips for a vigorous accompaniment
• Some examples of roulés or chord tremolos

For Choruses

• Rest-stroke
• Playing "ternary", the essence of swing
• Alternate_picking
• -v-v- or how to play two downstrokes in a row
• -v-v- licks examples
• The -v-v-v- movement or how to play three consecutive downstrokes
• The Sweeping
• Work out the tonicity of the right forearm muscles

Left hand techniques

• The "grip" and the thumb

Typical chords

• Major chords
• Minor chords
• Half-diminished chords (m7/5b)
• Diminished chords

Arpeggios

• Minor Arpeggios
• Major Arpeggios
• Arpeggios m6 and m7/5b
• Arpeggios 6 and m7
• 7 (dominant seventh)
• 7M (major seventh)
• diminished
• augmented

Typical Scales

• The Typical Scales
• Scales workouts
• Chromatic scale
• Minor pentatonics à la Manouche

Approaches of arpeggios

• Introduction
• over a major chord
• Over a minor chord
• Over a dominant 7th major chord
• Variants (Rosenberg, Debarre, Lagrène)

Embellishments and typical effects

• Appogiaturas
• Cut
• Vibrato
• Bend
• Percussive effect

Voicings

• Voicings starting from a chord
• Voicings on inversions
• Voicings on scales
• Voicings on cadences
• Typical voicings
• Stealing other people's voicing ideas

Techniques for both hands

• Playing with harmonics