Newby to guitar

Jim Kaznosky

Django's version of Honeysuckle Rose is pretty great. I've gotten quite a bit out of his solo (and solos in general) as etudes for practice. I'd spend some time with this one in particular. Personally, I practice the few solos I know by rote with just a metronome once I have the phrasing down pat.

kevorkazito

jkaz wrote:

Django's version of Honeysuckle Rose is pretty great. I've gotten quite a bit out of his solo (and solos in general) as etudes for practice. I'd spend some time with this one in particular. Personally, I practice the few solos I know by rote with just a metronome once I have the phrasing down pat.

I'm looking forward to it myself. I immerse myself in all the modern players and have to keep reminding myself to return to the source!

Jim Kaznosky

I've done virtually no transcriptions of modern players, unless you count some lick mining from RA. I figured I'd get about 10-15 Django solos under my fingers before I start moving on. For the most part, I've been learning and practicing these with 2 fingers. Honeysuckle Rose unlocked some things for me on the fretboard...that is using two fingers.