How To Start Your Solo (at a Gypsy Jazz Jam Session)
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How To Start Your Solo - Live Replay Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets
You might have been in a gypsy jazz jam where there's 25 guitarists and a LONG wait till your turn to solo. Your arm can get tired of playing rhythm and then when it comes to your turn you mess it up.
Here's some tips to overcome that problem.
1. Stop playing rhythm before it gets to your turn
2. Think of a lick or phrase you are going to start with
3. It should be rhythmically solid and melodic and technically easy for you to play
Try to learn and practice a few ways to open your solos to the tunes you know. :-)
PRACTICE OVER CHORD CHANGES
If you really want to get good at soloing over chord changes then zoom into small sections of the progression and become comfortable and fluent at defining those chord changes before moving on.
Also don't forget that It will really help you to progress and get good at gypsy jazz guitar when you practice with a metronome.
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Robin, this is a terrific idea for a lesson - so rooted in the real world and the problems it can present! I used to think of the first phrase of my solos back in the late 1970's when I was backing singers in clubs, and it made for way better solos than going forth blindly. I so glad you reminded me of that which I'd forgotten over the years. The examples you offered are beautiful and it's great to see you online again. It's been a long time, or seems like it to me. Welcome back, I've missed your lessons!
Rick Gordon cheers Rick thanks for the kind words! Robin
Hello from Japan!, always amazing!!!!!!!!
C Dalton welcome! Robin
Generous and helpful as always - thanks Robin !
Brian O'Sullivan welcome Brian! Robin
The gipsy kitchen... Applause! :-) (You are fantastic man!)
haha thanks Mariano! Robin
@@GypsyJazzSecrets Sei un grande... Bravo!
Greetings from the future. I am currently in the UK, but back to France in a week. Fantastic advice, as always, Robin.
cjh600 welcome! Robin
I guess another beautiful way to start a solo could be to listen to the solo that has been played before. Than startwith a phrase that references the last phrase of the previous solo... right? That can glue solos together- and one person won‘t be talking about „apples“ and the next one about „railway stations“😂❤️🎸
Tina Jäckel absolutely Tina that is the best way! Cheers, Robin
Playing with a pick-up since half a year. Hard work. I'm actually learning the whole solo memorizing it.
Parrot Jazz Guitar Solos nice man stay inspired! Robin
Hi Robin, Thanks for going into this.
Now, as one of the more nerdy Transfusion Club members (don't worry, the other guys and gals there are really cool) I have been trying to track Django's version of MS that has this intro. In my comprehensive (5 box sets!) Ted Kendall collection and all the other random Django LPs, CDs (and one 78! ;^) and even Google, I can only find acoustic versions from '37 and '49, and one electric version from '49. Wikipedia says he recorded it six times, though.
BUT Stochelo Rosenberg did a great snappy solo starting with this intro in 1993: ruclips.net/video/RtSUDYf2ZBY/видео.html.
Ian Date said he was there and also loved it.
Perhaps the lick originated with jimi Hendrix. It is fun to start Minor Swing with Jimi's Am9 All along the Watchtower lick.
I would love to be wrong. Can you prove me?
dingoswamphead check this guy out playing the solo w 2 fingers a la Django! ! ruclips.net/video/zVrstlsV82s/видео.html
@@GypsyJazzSecrets Wow! Christophe is incredible. So Jimi copied Django!
Very useful as always Robin! Thank's 🌹 Now I need to tell you about the indexfingertroubles that I have finally identified as one of the most challenging things playing (soloing) gypsyjazz. It does not come naturally for me to sort of "lead" and move up on the frets with my indexfinger! It's so different from playing other stuff. The index finger seem to be (is!) so important in being able to get speed, playing arpeggios, landing on frets (ready to play for ex. the three-fingered chords so common in the genre.) Please do a video on how to clense my mind of the "standard" way of fingering when soloing. Maybe it's just me, but some muscle memory from playing "classical" or "standard" rock gets in the way. In a BIG way.
And why not throw in 10 minutes of showing the 3 most common chord voicings (that you always jump between, even in your walkthroughs of a song 🙄🤔😬🤷🏻♂️😆😊). I have never seen you use the same voicings for even ex. minor swing 🤦🏻♂️🐣🙆🏻♂️😊).
good idea Peter will try and make a video about chord voicings.....index finger hmmmm....I think i know what you mean! cheers, Robin
Hey, Robin, it would be great if you posted a live jam session that you're playing in, so we can see what goes on in a jam session.
Eddie yes nice idea!
You start your solo and it all sucks...
I know the feeling...
Hi Englehard, so do I. One day I will have another feeling. 🙄🎸
Why not just start with the basic melody, maybe with a few ornamentations? I just saw a video in which Joscho Stephan did just that (and nobody could claim he did it for lack of technical ability.)That would be easy enough to allow a confident entry, and would contrast nicely if the preceding soloist is of the "I'll play all the notes; you pick out the ones you like" school of shredding, or played mostly arpeggios that are more like an accompaniment than a solo.
JD LaBash excellent suggestion 🎸❤️Robin