Gypsy Jazz Guitar - Introduction to Arpeggios and the Rest Stroke Picking
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In this lesson you will learn about rest stroke picking and how to use arpeggios in the gypsy jazz style over the standard Minor Swing.
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The best teacher I have found online! thanks so much!
This is the clearest explanation of rest stroke picking I have found.
Some people have a way of over complicating things with "half rest stroke" "double down etc etc"
Start with this first.
A few comments down someone was asking why you play this way?
Because it sounds different! You won't sound like a gypsy player if you don't follow these rules.
It's all in the right hand and the attack on the strings, focusing on arpeggios and embellishments.
Immediately obvious when someone is doing it right.
Thanks so much!
This is the best gypsy jazz guitar teacher! the best
Beautiful work mate.Thank you for posting this lesson
Some really amazing sounds you've designed. So happy to have discovered you here. Thank you so much and see you soon!
I love watching these vids, you do make it look so easy!
Love these videos. I really struggle to get my head around jazz, but this style is the link for me because of the Harmonic minor scale and minor 9 arp. Sweet
Hi Yaakov, i watched your courses since several years, and it's always a real pleasure to listen you...Your approach is very good as guitar teacher...i live in new caledonia, and hope one day, met you maybe...see you, and thanks, Morgan
Great lesson, I will check in again, thank you!
yaakov thank you for all the great gypsy insight!
amazing teacher! love your playing!!!
This lesson has helped me tremendously. Thanks. I love your playing!!!
Great lesson on how to practice and what to practice!!!
That left hand dances. That simple opening Em run is a delight. From somebody else (eg me) it would be a boring cliche.
You are a great master...you know the idea..
Great way to approach this maestro.
Love your videos. Many many thanks for sharing your talent and passion. 👍👍🎈
Super video. Your soloing is so melodic and rhythmic, even though you’re only using a handful of notes.
👍Thank you, great lesson.
What a brilliant lesson very well explained
אין עליך אתה ממש עוזר לי תודה רבה!!
Great lesson. Inspirational guitarist.
Around 6:05 Yaakov shows a detailed fingering of a 3 octave Em9 arpeggio. He uses different fingerings for ascending and descending. In ascending he plays E F# G all with the 2nd finger on the B string.
Fantastic video.
inspiring to watch this, I think I'll start going harder on my arpeggios!
Thank you ❤ so much
You're welcome 😊
Great! Thank you for sharing. Very understandable and inspiring.
real very good!!!
Cool thanks for the tips this guy is top level.
real good!!
Thanks for the great video. Just curious, when I lookup E9 it says that there is a D in the chord. Just wondering why you dont play the D note in the arpeggio.
Tx for your video. Good performance
awesome teatcher tank you so much
good teacher
can you make a list of the 75 arpeggios?
Great lesson on how to play the Em9 arpeggio in 3 octaves!!
The ascending includes E F# G all on the B string in ascending.
The ascending has a bunch of sweeps.
Descending cleverly has 6 down ups in a row! 2 notes played on each string
from the high E:
E B on E String
G F# on B String
E B
G F#
E B
G F# E on low E string
Our teacher uses the 3rd and 4th fingers on the descending.
If playing with 2 fingers, would you play the descending the same ?
One question the example with minor swing when he plays am then the arpeggio is called am9?
Thank you!
Hi Yaakov great !
I am blues guy trying to learn gypsy jazz. My main question is - please tell me why this style of picking is needed, rather than alternate picking. I just do not get why. Even if Django did it this way, during a run of, say 10 - 12 notes in a row, upstrokes and downstrokes will be plentiful in both the gypsy picking style or alternate picking. Are we to believe that the listener will actually say "oops, I can tell he went to another string on the third note of that lick, and he upstroked it instead of downstroked it"? I don't get the why. As an alternate picker, one thing I really appreciate is that I have taught myself to keep my wrist relaxed and always play from my wrist, rather than stiffen my wrist and play from my elbow. It seems that if I learn the gypsy picking style I will have to stiffen my wrist on all the downstrokes and play from my elbow. I just am confused as to why that is preferred. It can't possibly be faster. Or is it ?
Trent Turner ever heard of sweep picking? Downstrokes have a significant effect on the phrasing of arpeggios. It feels very natural and more percussive
HeiA yes , but sweep picking is usually done (correct me if I am wrong ) with only one note being played on each string as you go from thick string to thin string. I get that. That makes sense. What I am asking about is when playing multiple notes per string, why have a rule where each time you go to a different string you play a downstroke ?
Two reasons I think. Volume and note length. It's like rest stroke in classical guitar where the thumb pushes through the string and ends on the next string. You get a much louder note, and because you're focussing on moving all the way to the next string you leave the notes ringing as long as possible probably with alternate picking on a single string you could be faster but when sweeping down through strings you're already in contact with the next string here so you are more efficient. Descending sequences are harder though.
Thanks for the video. The song you mention towards the end is beautiful but I didn't catch the name of it. Could you tell me please? Thankyou!
Jamie Murray It's Kali Sara
Not trying to sound sarcastic, but you know how he mentioned "practice 75 different arpeggios" can someone tell me where I can find the rest of these?
gracias ! :)
Thank you for sharing! How high is the action on your guitar sir? I am new to Gypsy guitar and would like to know what the ideal string height is for strings?
Whatever you feel comfortable with is the ideal height. There is no such thing as an Ideal height or feeling for any style or genre other than that which you are comfortable with.
Hi Jakow.
Greetings from England.
Could you tell me the name of the song you play at the end. The Em, Am6, B7.
Such a beauty. !!!
Love your videos dude. You play superb!
Ah it's django reinhardt song forgot the name lol
@@Zoemin I mean the one at the end of vid. Before minor swing. Sounds like he's saying Kalersal. Or something???
@@gutbomb7617 I was wondering the same thing. Have you found out yet what the title is?
@@zeevogel still I haven't found the title of the tune!
@@gutbomb7617 Well I just have, good friend ;) It is Kali Sara.
Yes great lesson :)
I understand that Django only used two fingers, but why would one want to use two now? That seems like a strange waste of fingers
I didn't understand it that way... it was more like, "you can do it with 2 fingers (like Django, if you wish)"...
Its hard to find someone who understands how to teach the diagonal approach of laying out the arpeggios. Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery both utilized this approach and I have been trying to understand how to use it correctly for some time. Its much different than the caged system which seems to trap me in patterns
I hear you. I learned the 7(?) positions. It was great for sight reading and learning the notes on the neck of the guitar. But when I wanted to improvise more freely, I ran into many ruts. A couple of suggestions. One, there is a Johnny Smith Guitar Method e-book that you can still buy from MelBay. He goes over "long form" arpeggios and scales. Two, pick up "The FIngerboard Workbook" by Barry Galbraith. Hell, pick up the whole series--Galbraith was a genius of a musician and a hell of a teacher (look up who he taught). Third is a controversial one, but this helped me tremendously. Pick up Segovias Major and Minor Scales. Jazz musicians hate it, and classical guitarists think the system is moot. I loved the book because it taught me how to open up the fretboard with shifting. Getting shifts together is a game changer. Fourth, we live in the time of CZcams--my friend. There are a couple of videos that capture Jimmy Raney's shifting and fretboard wizardry close up. Jimmy was a shifting monster, he approached the guitar like a cellist. There are even videos on Wes's hand as he navigates the fretboard. Well, there you have it. Leave a tip at the door :) Seriously, hope these suggestions help. I was in the same position (haha, pun on words) myself--so were most students of jazz guitar. Keep at it and keep on keepin on!
@@pickinstone Thanks I check it out. Which videos about Jimmy Raney's approach like a cellist and Wes's hand navigating the fretboard do you mean? Thanks again
@@Sorter777 Check these three Jimmy Raney videos to start:
czcams.com/video/feyV9E7aJIc/video.html
czcams.com/video/Ubq-jI9OXAY/video.html
czcams.com/video/rJlSYM2_qLc/video.html
The Wes clips should be easier to fine. Jon Raney describes Jimmy's technique here:
www.jonraney.com/
That should help :)
can we play gypsy jazz in the acoustic steel stringed guitar?
Yes you can....to get the sound play the strings in between the sound hole and the bridge in the back of the guitar.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmer_guitar:
Gypsy jazz players usually couple the guitar with light, silver-plated, copper-wound Argentine strings made by Savarez (or copies of these), and heavy plectrums, traditionally of tortoiseshell.
Where can i find all the arpeggios?
Can anyone tell me the name of the song referenced at 9:18?
Miming Django maybe an option. But if you are happy to have all fingers sane, why should you do? Just the admirance for Django ain't enough, I think. It should be obvious, playing is much easier using 4 fingers.
Why not use alternate picking for this arpeggio? Rather than trying to sweep it, seems an over complication
Leonardo Bourne I was thinking 'bout the sweep technique those days n seems very crucial for kind of Jazz styles... I mean, listen to Animals as Leaders, imagine their sound without sweep; the same for gypsy jazz (although u have alternated too)
its to get the proper sound. People like the style of music, the technique is fitting to a particular style. You can alternate and it is still a pretty arpeggio or lick but this is how Django developed his sound.
that a huge far reach to mention animals as leaders as they use mostly use 4-5 string sweeping arpeggios (not tom mention electric guitars, completely different style). In this case I understand that its for the particular sound for the way the pick attacks the strings on a down stroke, but it seems so unnecessary to do a 2 string sweep. 3 strings makes sense though, for example I use a 3 string sweep for the first lick in 'Tamacun'
1 2 b3 5 - 1-2-b3-5..on and on.. and reverse..
So this is called m9 arpeggio?
Yes, these are minor 9 arpeggios.
real good!!!