Django's triplet chromatic run in Minor Swing

Rob MacKillop

Yes, exactly! Incredible control is needed to bring this entire passage off cleanly and with passion. It's beyond me just now, perhaps always, but I do enjoy working on it, assuming that it is doing me good, even if I never manage to pull it off.

Buco

Chiefbigeasy wrote: »

I forgot to mention this in my earlier post, but I'm surprised no one has brought it up: I think the biggest and perhaps most obvious stumbling block to getting this phrase down correctly is the fact that we are moving from a gross motor skill to a fine motor skill.

Yes, well put. That's what I've been trying to isolate and find out what happens when I can play something on it's own but not with the rest of the song.

Buco

By the way, excellent video with the most common techniques of gypsy picking:

JohnVB

How has everyone progressed with this run? Interested to hear updates as I've recently been tackling it and feel stuck around 170bpm.