Tips and tricks for practicing with Djangolizer
Special licks and tricks of Django
Beside arpeggios and scales, there are many options to make your solo play more interesting and juicy.You can ask your guitar teacher or watch the fingers of the Gypsy Swing heroes on YouTube.
Recently, Lollo Meier opened a online Gypsy Jazz Academy, where he shows you the right techniques.
Some of the specialities are:
- Licks in octaves as played in the theme of "Daphne"- Chromatic notes as fills in scales and arpeggios or as speedlick over two octaves
- Syncopic play with chords as Tchavolo Schmitt likes to do it
- Overtones (Flageoletts)
- Diminished arpeggios over dominant 7 chords. For example A#dim7 over the A7(b9) chord
- Doubling a note on the fifth fret with a fast tremolo on the two strings
- Halftone bendings
- Fast vibrato