Do Gypsy Jazz Guitarists Actually Improvise? Licks vs Improvisation
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Learning the lines/licks is important to learning the language, I have found, but ultimately, a player wants to be able to skate, or tap dance all over the fretboard, swing while doing so, incorporating the arpeggios, scale, and lines, that the player has branded into his muscle memory, and subconscious mind. I LOVE your channel, if it wasn't for educators like YOU, Robyn Nolan, Christian Van Hemert, I NEVER would have made the progress, so quickly - its 3 yrs now - and I LOVE this music. Thx again!!!
This improv approach with stock licks or patterns reminds me a lot of bluegrass. I used to memorize “G runs” and “tags” and then you figure out how to fit them in to different standard songs. Lots of hours trading solos with a friend and eventually it began to sound like I knew what I was doing. Each time a little different but with a pretty small stock of actual vocabulary
I think inserting licks or ornaments in parts where you know they will fit is certainly a form of improvisation!
Paco de Lucia the famous flamenco guitarist used this to great effect as well as real-time composition! And he said he owed a lot to jazz for that 😁
Always spot on! Thank you Denis!
Denis, great channel! I’ve been a DC music supporter for years & had no idea you had this channel-until now! I am subscribed & am enjoying your great work 👍
Love these videos Denis!!
Favino is amazing, isn't he? He achieves so much with so little in terms of core vocabulary - and no, I'm not trying to make that sound like a bad thing. Denis: thank you for the music, man. From the days of Hyperhip Media and now DC Music School I have enough reference material to last a lifetime. (Good job I'm going to live till I'm 125)
One can also make the same case about 'regular' Jazz, or Blues for that matter. It hard to take the training wheels off no matter the style or genre.
Man, as always your videos are pure gold
Super chaine Denis, merci beaucoup pour ta vision de la musique et ta manière de la transmettre d'une manière aussi personnelle que la tienne ! Ca a pas l'air comme ça mes tes vidéos font vraiment du bien à sortir du format des autres musiciens youtubers, y,'a une authenticité qui est vraiment chouette dans ce que tu fais ! En tout cas merci beaucoup pour ton travail et ta passion et bon courage pour la suite :)
Et ben un très grand merci à toi d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire ce message! Ca me touche!
Je trouve ça incroyable toutes les cultures que vous assimilez, bonne continuation!👍
Another great video! Thank you Denis✌️
“Manipulating things at the cellular level”
“Muscle memory and being able to react by instinct”
Ive been following your channel for a while. I'm an accordion player and trying to learn Gypsy Jazz, this channel has helped a lot. Thanks for all those great contents!!!
Thank you for your generosity and passion.
A other great video thanks @ Denis the gypsy Jazz guru 👌🎶🎶🎶🎸😎👍
Manipulating known patterns or licks in the moment
Pay attention to where you start the phrase
Lots of great practical advice
Thanks
Have many many DC lessons and they are simply the best on the planet (have almost all Bireli lessons !) - I teach EXACTLY the same on Introspection Academy (Greg Howe style) - Greg uses “pathways” (you call it patterns) - took me 10 years to find them almost all, takes my students a few weeks now to get going !
I'm done with scales, asperggios and altered extensions: licks over cadences it is.
salut denis , tu es toujours interessant Cutting edge of this stuff ! Great ! tres interessant ! i m so thankfull pour tout le insight que mon parcours Django and his people and descendants !!! Et donc , apres 20 ans dans cette bulle ( woah time flies ) la chu pret a me reploguer, lespaul , strat , dans des ptits amps a lampe avec la mentalité de ceux qui se sont ploguées comme ca , fin 60s 70s, mais qui avaient grandi sur Django ! Je serais presque pret pour une ptite guitare en plastic !!!! lol - So im still alive and digging ! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK DJANGO CHANG !!!
Great video Denis!
Magnifique! Merci Denis on a de la chance quand même :)
This is great thank you so much for these lessons I've been learning favino through dc music school thanks to you
Definitely hard to do on improvisations. Thanks for this video Denis!
Love your teaching Denis. Thank you!
“From a guitar geometry point of view, you fill the holes” or gaps between arpeggio notes
Great video! 👍
Love your DC school. Keep up the great work.
Hi from Montreal.
Well we just had our first Django festival and it was great!
You’ll have to play at the next one! Maybe a masterclass while you’re at it? 😀
Thanks again for this video.
I’ll be checking out your recommendations on DC music school.
Thx again!
Love you
Gypsy 4 life all I know is Joscho Stephan is the goat and I'm learning from him
Interestingly, I was reading about much revered rock guitarist David Gilmour. It appears that he will record a pile of improvised takes on a new theme/song/idea and then take his favourite bits from them to create an ideal/finished product.
For me, the truth is somewhere in the middle of the triangle of - on the fly music writing (by inspiration, magic of the moment, etc..), muscle memory and conscious using of music theory - all 3 is needed. Btw I play more like "common" swing/jazz than gypsy, I'm pretty bad in learning licks, or transcribed stuff
Great stuff!!
Merci Denis!
Hi Denis!
Licks are vocabulary. Longer licks are quoted phrases. Extemporaneous speakers use vocalulary and commonly used phrases to speak publicly without preparation. Musical improvisation is the same thing. Its just a musical conversation using whatever musical vocabulary the musicians know.
What a good lesson!
I love youe acoustic archtop sound! What amp you have? 😃
Favino ! Amazing !
superbe, merci Denis
hey.. Denis, you've just confirmed what I've always claimed... my mistakes are actually me 'manipulating' the thing! :) saved! Thank you. XD
So in a nutshell: Start at a very young age, quit school, play and practice the whole day every day and eventually, with a bit of luck, you could become a decent gypsy jazz player. lol
Merci Denis, as tu l’occasion de faire des Master class.? En France ou en Belgique. Exposé très pertinent.
Fantastic 😍🎸👌🔥
Interesting thoughts, inspiring lesson, thx. Ehat guitar do you play in the video, looks like an old Gibson Charlie Christian. Can‘t read the logo.
It’s a Martin Tremblay
It is indeed a Tremblay Gibson ES-250 copy!
Intéressant!
Well, was Beethoven or Bach improvising? Well, the answer is yes! They would start improvising on an idea or theme and build up a piece from there. It's what I hear that interests me.and not the process Whether a performance piece is part prepared - or wholly prepared -is fine with me as long as it sounds great.
Great lesson Denis!!
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What amp are you using. Sounds good. Maybe it's the guitar😅
What type of guitar is that also?
Nice mellow tone.
yeeeeeeeeeeeee Denis!!!!
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“Symmetrical shapes”, diminished chords and arpeggios
Also check out Messians modes of limited transposition, there are many symmetrical scales
luv it
Harmonic direction!
All music is based on a language, scales. How you digest and relay that language is up to the person. Rock, Blues, Bluegrass, and everything in between has a scale system. So yes, it is a system. The real trick is can you make it speak to someone outside yourself!!! Stop being so critical and just have fun!!!!
@@bradejensen you just said the same thing I said. That's fine you still have to be able to make it connect with other people!
Dorado Schmitt... on DC music??
Oops hahah, it’s very difficult for Dorado to play guitar for long periods of time these days so it’s hard to do something with him :-(