Sources for learning Gypsy swing MANDOLIN?

Rob MacKillop

I have a mandolin student who took one look at my Eastman DM1 and declared he wants to learn Gypsy swing on the mandolin. The only resources I can see on Amazon are written-out solos. Is there a single book that will introduce him to a basic to intermediate level of rhythm and soloing?

t-bird

Tim Connell of Stumptown Swing here in Portland is an outstanding mandolin player and teacher. He is especially known for Brazilian choro, but is great with gypsy swing and I believe he has been an instructor at Django in June.

Contacting him may point you in a good direction.

https://www.timconnellmusic.com/
https://stumptownswing.com/

Rob MacKillop

Thanks, t-bird.

Rob MacKillop

PS Nice rendition of Minor Swing on the Stump Town website, Tim! You guys were having fun.

adrian

I'm biased, because I helped produce some of these, but...

The Don Stiernberg jazz/swing mandolin courses are top notch. Much better than a book, too, because you can watch video and hear how the music sounds.

https://www.soundslice.com/store/teachers/don-stiernberg/

Rob MacKillop

Thanks, Adrian.

MichaelHorowitz

The late, great John McGann produced this series of Django lessons for Mandolin

http://www.djangobooks.com/Category/mando_lessons

Rob MacKillop

Thanks, Michael. I'll pass the link on to the student.

NylonDave

Inspiration is always good, I like Jason Annick here on electric tele style mandolin (sorry Rob, I know you're going to want one, so cute).

D.

Rob MacKillop

Haha. I'll pass

Rob MacKillop

I actually bought "Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Violin" by Martin Norgaard (Mel Bay publications) which looks really excellent, and obviously the same tuning as the mandolin.