Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt Solo GYPSY JAZZ

Sign up and get more free lessons now: In this lesson, you will learn how to play Django Reinhardt’s solo over “Minor Swing“, note by note and slowly. In his solo, Django demonstrates a few of his well known techniques, like glissando, glissando with chords, tremolo, octave playing, chromatic scale and a few of his melodic ideas like the use of triads, the minor 6 sound, diminished 7, enclosure with various trill variations and the half tone approach and an octave up lick. I discuss Django’s unique fingering and the influence of the use of only two fingers (in case you didn’t know - Django lost control over three of his fingers after a fire in his caravan in which he got injured) on his technique.