Course Description
HOW TO dive into a song and play it the way you imagine it, WITHOUT becoming repetitious, EVEN IF you catch yourself playing the same licks over and over again and EVEN IF you feel that there is an annoying blank spot in your brain that seems to just keep holding you back.
Because, If you're like me, you love the feeling that you're playing the song just as it should be played, just like a pro. You have an intense desire to understand and feel that you speak the language like a native speaker, not like someone repeating phrases from a phrase book or dictionary.
Discovering these 7 elements and IMPLEMENTING them over 7 of your favorite songs will make you ENJOY this process and be able to use it with any song you like.
Master these 7 wild cards for each song:
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MELODY: Play the basic melody and add beautiful embellishments
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HARMONY: Discover the most wonderful chords that lead right into the next target chord by the use of passing chords, substitutes and three note voicings.
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IMPROVISATION: How to play over chord changes knowing what's just right for each chord and how to find interesting lines connecting chords and sound good
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RHYTHM: Master the unique rhythm of each song and keep it consistent without drifting off the tempo throughout the entire song
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ARRANGEMENTS: Make your performance vivid and exciting and discover my ideas for each song and how I love to play over it
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INTROS AND OUTROS: Wrap up the song like a precious gift and add your extra-personal touch to each song
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SONG ORDER: How to build a set-list, the stories behind the songs for your audience, my personal insights into the world of professional playing, plus special tricks that'll spice your playing
Songs Included
HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
Django's version of this Fats Waller composition from 1929 is famous thanks to Django's astonishing arrangement and playing. You will learn the song, its arrangement, how to embellish the chord progression and the melody, and how to improvise and create your own shining solos in the spirit of Django's ideas, using triads, arpeggios and guide-tones.
DOUCE AMBIANCE
One of Django's most beautiful compositions from 1943 combines Django’s musical Gypsy roots, Jazz and the French flavor. You will learn the song, and how to simplify the chord progression to allow you to improvise freely in either swing or Balkan feel. You will learn the intro and outro and get chord and improvisation studies at a variety of levels and tempos.
CLAIR DE LUNE
Time to play a ballad! This beautiful ballad by J.Kosma was recorded by Django in 1947. Its simple and beautiful melody and chord progression gives us the opportunity to explore and master special techniques to decorate the harmony and the melody. You will learn how to create a harmony arrangement in two voices, how to embellish the melody and how to create beautiful improvisations using Middle-Eastern techniques and sounds.
COQUETTE
This 1928 hit has one of the most common forms and chord progressions that composers used in that era. Thus, learning it deeply gives you a free ticket to improvising over lots of other songs! Learn how to play the original melody of a song, while everyone else is improvising and then how to embellish the melody and harmony. Plus, you will get four super-cool exercises for improvisation that you can implement over any song, over a large range of difficulty levels and tempos.
BRASIL
Latin rhythm has a place of honor in Gypsy Jazz. Jazz musicians have always been enchanted by Latin rhythms. You will learn how to implement the Tumbao, one of the most common conga rhythms, on the guitar and how to play either rhythm or percussion guitar with this fun Latin feel. As with all other songs, you will learn the harmony and melody of Brazil and get useful improvisation etudes.
AFTER YOU'VE GONE
This catchy hit was first recorded in 1918 by Marrion Harris and later on by many other jazz musicians, including Django. Today, it is a standard at almost every Gypsy Jazz gig/ jam session.
You'll learn how to deal with a fast-tempo song and how to add Gypsy Jazz embellishments to your accompaniment and melody playing. You'll learn to use secondary dominants, to build tension in your improvisation over musical breaks with slides and rolls and to master all the examples with a few etudes in different tempos.
ANOUMAN
"A new man" is one of the suggested explanations of the name Django Reinhardt gave his beautiful ballad, Anouman, which was recorded on Jan. 30, 1953, only a few months before he passed away. This may be one of his most beautiful melodies; Django uses superimposed chords (arpeggiating a different chord over the song harmony), creating a very special color over the basic chords that are in the accompaniment. You will learn Django's solo and ten exercises for improvisation using Django's superimposed chords and more.
What You Get:
An online course with seven modules for 7 songs
102 video lessons with a total length of over 6.5 hours
94 PDF pages in 41 PDF files - all the material and etudes
Course curriculum
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1.1 Basic suggested chord progression
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1.2 Basic suggested chord progression- PDF
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1.3 Basic Melody
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1.4 Intro
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1.5 Embellishing the melody #1
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1.6 Embellishing the melody #2
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1.7 Embellishing the harmony - Harmony and chord study #1
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1.8 Embellishing the harmony - chord study #2
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1.9 Embellishing the harmony - chord study #3
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1.10 Embellishing the harmony - chord study #4
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1.11 Embellishing the harmony - chord study #5
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1.12 Embellishing the harmony - complete etude - slow
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1.13 Embellishing the harmony - complete etude - fast
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1.14 Embellishing the harmony - complete etude PDF
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1.15 Ending
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1.16 Improvisation study
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1.17 Improvisation study - PDF
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1.18 Improvisation Etude
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1.19 Improvisation Etude - PDF
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1.20 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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2.1 Basic suggested Chord Progression
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2.2 Basic Suggested Chord Progression - PDF
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2.3 Basic Melody
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2.4 Harmonic study - Simplifying the chord progression
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2.5 Harmonic study - Simplifying the chord progression - PDF
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2.6 Improvisation study #1- the basic shapes
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2.7 Improvisation study #1- the basic shapes-PDF
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2.8 Improvisation study #1-creating melodies
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2.9 improvisation study #2 - creating melodies
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2.10 Improvisation study #1-2 -creating melodies-PDF
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2.11 improvisation study#3 - Balkan B part
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2.12 Improvisation Study #3 - PDF
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2.13 Improvisation etude - medium tempo
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2.14 Improvisation etude - Medium tempo -PDF
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2.15 Improvisation etude - fast tempo
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2.16 Improvisation etudes- fast tempo - PDF
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2.17 Chord study #1 - intro
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2.18 Chord study #2 - A parts
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2.19 - Chord Study #3 - B Part
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2.20 - Chord Study # 4 - Ending
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2.21 - Complete chord etude
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2.22 Complete Chord Etude - PDF
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2.23 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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3.1 Basic Chord Progression
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3.2 Chord Progression - PDF
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3.3 Basic Melody
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3.4 Decorating the melody
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3.5 Decorating the melody - PDF
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3.6 improvisation study#1
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3.7 Improvisation Etude#1 (slower)
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3.8 Improvisation Etude#1 PDF
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3.9 improvisation study#2
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3.10 Improvisation study#2- Pdf
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3.11 Improvisation Etude#2 (faster)
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3.12 Improvisation Etude#2 PDF
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3.13 Chord study #1
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3.14 Chord Study #2
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3.15 Chord etude -PDF
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3.16 two voice accompaniment
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3.17 two voice accompaniment + melody
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3.18 Two voice accompaniment with Oud
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3.19 Clair De Lune by Swing De Gitanes
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3.20 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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4.1 Finding the original melody
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4.2 Basic melody
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4.3 Basic suggested chord progression
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4.4 Basic suggested chord progression- PDF
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4.5 Embellishing the melody
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4.6 Embellishing the harmony - chord etude
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4.7 Embellishing the harmony - chord etude - PDF
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4.8 Improvisation study #1
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4.9 Improvisation study #2
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4.10 Improvisation study #3
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4.11 Improvisation study #4
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4.12 Improvisation study #5
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4.13 Improvisation study - PDF
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4.14 Complete exercise for improvisation study#1
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4.15 Complete exercise for improvisation study#2
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4.16 Complete exercise for improvisation study#3
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4.17 Complete exercise for improvisation study#5
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4.18 Complete exercises for improvisation studies- PDF
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4.19 Improvisation etude - slow
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4.20 Improvisation etude - slow -PDF
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4.21 Improvisation etude - fast
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4.22 Improvisation etude - fast – PDF
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4.23 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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5.1 Rhythm practice
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5.2 Latin rhythm - PDF
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5.3 Chord progression
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5.4 Chord progression - PDF
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5.5 Basic melody- lesson
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5.6 Basic melody- demonstration
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5.7 Embellishing the melody
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5.8 Embellishing the melody - PDF
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5.9 Improvisation study#1
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5.10 Improvisation study #2
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5.11 Improvisation studey#3
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5.12 Improvisation study - PDF
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5.13 Improvisation etude - Slow
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5.14 Improvisation etude - Slow -PDF
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5.15 Improvisation etude - Fast
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5.16 Improvisation etude - Fast - PDF
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5.17 Guitar percussion study#1 - Tumbao rhythm
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5.18 Guitar percussion study#2 - Tumbao rhythm
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5.19 Tumbao rhythm - PDF
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5.20 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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6.1 Chord progression and harmonic analysis
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6.2 Lead sheet-PDF
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6.3 Accompaniment in fast tempo, break, roll and slide
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6.4 Advanced accompaniment with substitutes and inversions
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6.5 Advanced accompaniment - PDF
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6.6 The melody
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6.7 Embellishing the melody with chords
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6.8 Melody with chords - PDF
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6.9 The pick-up break#1
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6.10 The pick-up break#2
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6.11 The pick-up break#3
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6.12 More pick-up breaks
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6.13 The pick-up breaks -PDF
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6.14 Improvisation study#1
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6.15 Improvisation study#2
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6.16 Improvisation study#3
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6.17 Improvisation study#4
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6.18 Improvisation studies - PDF
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6.19 Improvisation etude- slow
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6.20 Improvisation etude- slow- PDF
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6.21 Improvisation etude - Fast
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6.22 Improvisation etudes-Fast - PDF
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6.23 Community Discussion - Ask Questions, Comment and Share Your Thoughts!
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About this course
- $287.00
- 150 lessons
- 8 hours of video content
FAQ
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Can I download the digital course to my computer and save it for life? Do the lessons work on tablet and smartphone?
Yes! the course is yours and you can use it as long as you wish! You can download it and you can watch it online. You can view the course from any device. You just need your email and password to sign in.
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I have other courses of yours, Yaakov, do I need this course too?
This is a unique course, with unique content that you don't have in other courses of mine. Do you need it? If you have enjoyed my other courses and you want new content that will enrich your playing over new songs and get more lessons that relate directly to the previous lessons you have learned from me and enhance them, the answer is: YES!
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For what level is this course?
The course is suitable for all levels. The difficulty increases as the course progresses.
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Can I pay in Installments?
Yes, you can pay in up to five installments.
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Is this course going to be available again?
Last time I sold this course was 17 months ago, so I really don't know when it's going to be available again. If I do sell it without a special deal (like the one I'm offering you now), the price is much higher and without bonuses. So this is the best deal for you.
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I am very busy. How much time do I need to devote to this course each day?
It's up to you. The benefit of a digital course is that it's there for you forever to watch and learn at your own pace.
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What if I decide that this course is not for me?
You will get a refund! You have my 30-day money-back guarantee. Just send me an email and I will send you a full refund! No questions asked.
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What feedback can I get to monitor my progress?
One-on-one direct feedback in the discussion within the course and a LIVE group Zoom session to see how you're doing. I'm also available by email, so you'll have my help as you go along.
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I don't have a Gypsy guitar. Can I learn this on my classic/ acoustic or electric guitar?
Yes! Don't ever let your guitar hold you back. Do you know that Django played a concert on a toy guitar once? It happened when he was sure that his brother brought the guitar for him but he didn't. Did you know that Charlie Parker played on a plastic sax because he pawned his instrument? So, don't let the guitar stop you. Let the love of music be your guide.