Course Description

"Melody is the king" (Quincy Jones).

Django Reinhardt was a master in playing melodies- almost transforming them into his own original compositions with his astonishingly new and fresh versions.

In this course, you will learn how to do it too!

Follow in Django’s footsteps - learn how to play Django’s full solo over the song “When Day Is Done,” note by note, slowly. This is a beautiful piece of music, a masterpiece in itself, and there is so much to learn from it!

The course examines Django's unforgettable version, extracting from it 11 important and practical tools to create your ownimprovisation around a song’s melody and, taking it a step further, building your improvisation around a song’s melody, just like Django!

Learn the original melody of the song, the accompaniment with inversions, substitutes and guides for improvisation in the same shapes that Django used!

Learn how to color your melody with notes from the chord, or color your improvisation with fragments from the melody.

You’ll learn how to implement your new skills on other songs, such as “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

Important - This course contains parts of lessons 26-31 from my previous site. It also contains many new lessons and lots of exciting new material!

Course curriculum

    1. King Melody - Avalon

    2. Avalon

    3. Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

    1. 1.1 Introduction to the Course

    2. 1.2 Basic Melody

    3. 1.3 Chord Progression

    4. 1.4 Mastering the Melody

    5. 1.5 Mastering the Chord Progression

    6. 1.6 Advanced Accompaniment - Complete Etude

    7. 1.7 Advanced Accompaniment - Etude - First A

    8. 1.8 Advanced Accompaniment - Etude - Second A

    9. 1.9 Chapter Summary - PDF

    10. 1.10 PDF download

    11. 1.11 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

    1. 2.1 The Concept

    2. 2.2 Melody Inside Chord Shapes - Complete Etude

    3. 2.3 Melody Inside Chord Shapes - First A

    4. 2.4 Melody Inside Chord Shapes - Second A

    5. 2.5 Improvising with chord shapes around the melody

    6. 2.6 Arpeggio Review

    7. 2.7 Arpeggios over Chord Shapes

    8. 2.8 Improvisation with Arpeggios over the Melody

    9. 2.9 Chapter Summary - PDF

    10. 2.10 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

    1. 3.1 Django's Melody – Introduction

    2. 3.2 Django's Melody - Complete Etude

    3. 3.3 Django's Licks - First A

    4. 3.4 The first A part

    5. 3.5 5 Django's Licks - Second A

    6. 3.6 The Second A part

    7. 3.7 Django's Melody in our Chord Shapes

    8. 3.8 Improvising over Django's Melody

    9. 3.9 Chapter Summary - PDF

    10. 3.10 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

    1. 4.1 Introduction

    2. 4.2 Tool #1 Rhythmic Division

    3. 4.3 Tool #2 Rhythmic Unification

    4. 4.4 Tool #3 Anticipating or Delaying

    5. 4.5 Tool #4 Bends

    6. 4.6 Tool #5 Slides

    7. 4.7 Tool #6 Enclosure

    8. 4.8 Tool #7 Half-tone Approach

    9. 4.9 Tool #8 Arpeggios or Triads

    10. 4.10 Tool #9 Sweeping

    11. 4.11 Tools #10 & #11 Changing Octaves

    12. 4.12 Chapter Summary - PDF

    13. 4.13 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

    1. 5.1 Chord Progression

    2. 5.2 Melody

    3. 5.3 Melody inside Chord Shapes

    4. 5.4 Improvising over the Melody - Complete Etude

    5. 5.5 Improvising over the Melody - First A

    6. 5.6 Improvising over the Melody - Second A

    7. 5.7 I'll See You In My Dreams Etude - PDF

    8. 5.8 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!

About this course

  • $187.00
  • 70 lessons
  • 5 hours of video content

Reviews

Matthew Materazzi

5 star rating

“Once again, Yaakov gives you the necessary tools to become a solid guitarist within the Gypsy Jazz genre. The best online teacher out there.”

“Once again, Yaakov gives you the necessary tools to become a solid guitarist within the Gypsy Jazz genre. The best online teacher out there.”

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Richard Williams

5 star rating

“This a fantastic course for anybody that struggles with improvisation. A real eye-opener that makes you see the fretboard in a new way (at least for me) and recognize the harmony within each chord. I highly recommend this to any intermediate to ad...”

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“This a fantastic course for anybody that struggles with improvisation. A real eye-opener that makes you see the fretboard in a new way (at least for me) and recognize the harmony within each chord. I highly recommend this to any intermediate to advanced players. Although the information here is invaluable I believe it would be a tough course for a beginner.”

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Ulrich Mayer

5 star rating

“This course is a great thing and like your other courses it is widening my horizon. You generally give me a lot of reasons to change my way of playing in some ways fundamentally. It is a lot of work, but I think it`s worth it. Greetings Ulr...”

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“This course is a great thing and like your other courses it is widening my horizon. You generally give me a lot of reasons to change my way of playing in some ways fundamentally. It is a lot of work, but I think it`s worth it. Greetings Ulrich ”

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