Anyone into gipsy jazz???

[JohnSykes]

 

[lettmusic]

Man, Bireli sounded great here. I got into his playing years ago, he's a true genius on the guitar. What sets him aprt from other Gypsy Jazz guys is his uncanny ability to play any style convincingly. he's a true chameleon who always absorbs stuff into his playing and make them his thing.
His tone here is great too, must be the P-90 in the neck and a nice amp setting, real smooth creamy but still has a real single coil bite to it.

 

[USofguitars]

great playing man!!!
Gypsy-Jazz is something I'm becoming very interested in recently.....what are the main scales used in that kind of music?

the same scales that we all use, but they embellish heavily with chromatics and chromatic passing tones, which is the cool thing about Gypsy jazz, they got it from louis Armstrong and early jazz palyers. Also lots of arpeggios to help cutting the fast chord changes.

Yeap! Exactly. I mostly used some A harmonic minor, A melodic minor, D melodic Minor, E phrygian dominant and some chromatisms and passing notes applied to arpeggios... Basically I just flow with the chords. But I'm still a noob and there's more you can do, inside and outside playing as well.
I mean... Have a listen to the Django improvising on Coquette. It's just fantastic what the guy could do!

 

[USofguitars]

Angelo Debarre x2

I wish I was as half good as he is!!! Haha
Thank you though. And thank you everybody for your positive feedback. I truly didn't expect that. Thanks!

 

[USofguitars]

Hey man very nice!!

Great playing that first video was amazing. I havent been into this much but have been recently looking into more jazz and classical stuff.

Yeah, like everyone said, there's so much you can take out of this style. It's just huuuuge. And the guitarists from the style are usually killer players indeed.