Product Number:
9798561451904
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Intermediate-Advanced
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
110
Binding:
Perfect Binding
Size:
8.5 x 11
ISBN13:
979-85614-5190-4
Publisher:
Musix
Date Published:
11/11/2020
Learn 29 great swing standards in the style of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. 110-page book plus play-along audio. Download and jam along with a great Gypsy Swing band, learn mandolin chords, comping, melodies, then let the band back you up as you solo. We will jam all night long! Learn moveable closed-position swing/jazz chords and the swing mandolin rhythm comp. Printed music includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords, lyrics. Almost 200 minutes of play-along audio plus bonus downloadable music and exercises. Read along as you play along.
Each recorded song is presented at slow and regular speed. First, you will hear the melody played at a slow speed with just guitar backup, then it is repeated at regular speed with the band. The backup band is a classic Hot Club-style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars and string bass. (The ensemble also includes rhythm mandolin.) Finally, the band plays several choruses, and you play all the leads. Songs may be repeated, at slow or regular speed, as many times as you wish to perfect phrases, melodies, and solos in a band context. Potential for improvement is unlimited. Beginners in the style can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops, each at their own individual learning pace. Aimed at intermediate to advanced mandolinists. Also available for guitar.
Introduction
Gypsy Swing and Hot Club Rhythm
How to Work with the Book and Recordings
Swing Guitar Rhythm
Avalon
Some of These Days
After You’ve Gone
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home?
Swing in Minor
Chicago
St. Louis Blues
The Sheik of Araby
China Boy
Rose Room
Dark Eyes
Swingin’ Like ’42
Limehouse Blues
Chinatown, My Chinatown
St. James Infirmary
Clouds and Shadows
Modifying Chord Forms
Margie
Whispering
El Choclo
(Back Home Again in) Indiana
Django’s Djazz Blues
Red Wing Swing
Stumbling
Tiger Rag
The Mysterious Diminished Seven Chord
21st Century Blues
The Japanese Sandman
My Melancholy Baby
A Note on Improvising or “Now what do I play?”
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
Django & Stephane’s Recorded Solos & More
Alphabetical Index
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