paid online courses designed exclusively for gypsy jazz

rafapak

hi guys

I know that Andreas oberg has a section devoted to gypsy jazz in his guitar universe. There are few paid online courses for jazz for instance -the one created by jimmy Bruno. Are there any paid online courses designed for those who are interested in gypsy jazz? Please, let me know

dennis

i'm actually working on that at the moment, but it will be a while before the site is launched!

rafapak

thanks for reply!

crookedpinky

What about Lollo Meier and Fapy Lafertins Gypsy Jazz Academy and Stochelo Rosenbergs online site and also Robin Nolans online course.

Alan

Jim Kaznosky

Jimmy Bruno's site is currently down and I understand he is in the process of creating a new one. He separated from the group that also backs Oberg's and Martin Taylor's site and he promises a new delivery. Bruno focused on what he termed "pitch collections" as opposed to the regular theory that we are all typically subject to. There were a series of five scale patterns (akin to CAGED) in which arpeggios and pitches can all be derived from. Once you learned the inside notes and mastered the arpeggios inside, you started to focus on the notes outside (#/b 5, 9, etc). It's a good system for learning the guitar and there were a ton of high quality videos and pdfs that clearly explained the concepts. The bonus was that you had the option to take the "master class": Start by submitting a video of you playing all 5 positions of a pitch collection, then improvising using the positional pitch collection over ii-V-Is. Bruno would either film a video response or send you feedback as to where to go next. I found the comments to be very helpful and he noticed some things in my technique that I was able to improve on. From that point, you start improvising over songs and using the method in earnest. In general, it was a very organized approach.

The Gypsy Jazz Academy was reviewed several times on this site, but my take is that there are players of varying ability looking to take advantage of Lollo and Fapy's comments. The lesson videos are good and there is definitely a lot of nuanced knowledge to be learned. The real benefit of this site, as I see it, would be to submit videos for Fapy, Lollo, and the other academy members to respond. There is some pretty constructive criticism given and this is where the site should focus its strength on. My take is also that I enrolled in GJA having a good idea of what I was looking to improve upon. I don't need a set of videos to tell me that I have to learn arpeggios-I believe this is implicit in this music and they must be learned in order to grow and gain a better understanding of the instrument and the harmonies of songs. This site doesn't go down that route and that's good because there are a number of resources out there that already accomplish this efficiently. It does pinpoint some of the particulars of this music that are often overlooked and gives a beginning player sense of how to perform it right and the intermediate player with a path for how to improvise authentically in this style.