The Secrets of Gypsy Jazz Guitar

Learn a classic gypsy jazz minor progression in a minor key, moving from Am6 to E7 with a half-diminished shape, exploring tension, inversion, and resolution back to a minor.

Explore a major-key chord progression in Gypsy jazz, from G to G sharp and A minor seven to D seven, with a steady pump groove and a 2-5-1-2 in G.

Master the down stroke and sweep gypsy jazz guitar by guiding your elbow with a floating hand, minimizing wrist motion, resting on the strings, and coordinating pick and finger contact.

Explore upstroke and major scale techniques, contrasting wrist-driven upstrokes with elbow-led downs, and demonstrate sweep, alternate picking and rest-stroke picking across string changes.

Master the D minor 9 arpeggio, common in gypsy jazz guitar, using a two-finger down-up sweep across strings and deliberate fingering choices to outline the arpeggio.

Master a sweeping arpeggio with a focused right-hand sweep and triplets, using C sharp and omitting G to speed up improvisation with less effort.

Explore the minus six arpeggio as a horizontal arpeggio, one of the 72 arpeggios, to create more phrases, with F sharp diminished ideas and inversions guiding your practice.

Learn a famous gypsy jazz lick from the DiMaio manual, focusing on a specific shape. Try the pinky-on-the-nose technique and the major seven sequence, then repeat as a double-stops exercise.

Explore a dim7 lick over dom7 in gypsy jazz, using a three-note diminished-chord shape with B on string one and C sharp on string three, across three frets.

Learn dom7 lick #2 for gypsy jazz guitar through ornaments, including down strokes, hammer-ons, and fast roll phrases that resolve on the flat seven of the chord.

Master three basic minor triad shapes by linking minor positions to major positions, applying third degree step below, first inversion concepts, in the key of d.

Master dark eyes with triad shapes through etude #1 in gypsy jazz guitar, guided by a numeric practice sequence '1 2 0 1 2 3' and a road-themed motif.

Explore dark eyes through triad shapes in etude #2, applying gypsy jazz guitar concepts from the secrets of gypsy jazz guitar course.

Explore Dark Eyes improvisation through lick-based etude #3, mastering triad notes, minor lines, and diminished patterns. Practice mixing phrases into flexible improvisations, creating variations like a puzzle.