easy gypsy jazz standards, suitable for covering

rafapak

hi guys

lets say that one is intermediate level guitar player and has a friend who is at the same level. They both want to play together easy covers of gypsy jazz standards. Can you guys recommend few gypsy jazz songs that can be covered by two intermediate guitar players assuming that one is playing chords and the other one is playing melody and does soloing. Please, help me in this matter. I know already few titles but don't know it they are relatively easy for playing or not.

regards
rafal

matty42

There is deinitely an overwhelming amount of songs! But in my humble opinion I would say some good songs are, "All of Me", "After You've Gone", "I'll See You in my Dreams", "Minor Blues", and of course "Minor Swing" (even though its the "Stairway" of gypsy jazz... sorry!). Also, if you are looking for material, the Robin Nolan books are really good.

Graham_Fellows

I've always found minor tunes easier to play, so might be worth having a few simple ones in there like:

Anniversary song (aka Danube)
Dark Eyes
Si tu Savais
Sunny
Songe D'automne
Minor Blues (AKA Blues en Mineur) - speed up and play Swing 48 at the end with the same chords
Bernie's Tune (look up the art pepper + eleven recording of this, awesome!)

Some Major ones in G as well maybe like:

Dinah
Lady be Good
Stomping at Decca - you can pinch lines for the B section from Sweet Georgia Brown, or any rhythm changes based tune.

rafapak

thanks guys for reply!

zeddyfree

Also do check this http://www.grilles-manouches.net/ site.
Their playing might be lacking in some respects, but I often use the site to see what songs I like and as an easy way to learn the chords. Start there!

Good luck!

croth

zeddyfree wrote:

Also do check this http://www.grilles-manouches.net/ site.
Their playing might be lacking in some respects, but I often use the site to see what songs I like and as an easy way to learn the chords. Start there!

Good luck!

I had never seen this site before so thanks for the reference.

While they may not be the absolute best players in the world, i was wondering what motivated the need to qualify their playing ability? I thought they were pretty good actually, at least the lead player. The rhythm guy was certainly adequate. I'd like to be half as good as them.

crookedpinky

Whatever their playing ability, these guys should be congratulated for providing a great resource for the rest of us. They provide good arrangements, chord sheets and useful, good quality playalongs - all for free. We can't all be Stochelos but these guys are at least offering something which might help and encourage practising newbies to move up a level.

Alan

croth

crookedpinky wrote:

Whatever their playing ability, these guys should be congratulated for providing a great resource for the rest of us. They provide good arrangements, chord sheets and useful, good quality playalongs - all for free. We can't all be Stochelos but these guys are at least offering something which might help and encourage practising newbies to move up a level.

Alan

Absolutely agreed.

rafapak

crookedpinky wrote:

Whatever their playing ability, these guys should be congratulated for providing a great resource for the rest of us. They provide good arrangements, chord sheets and useful, good quality playalongs - all for free. We can't all be Stochelos but these guys are at least offering something which might help and encourage practising newbies to move up a level.

Alan

agree!

rafapak

crookedpinky wrote:

Whatever their playing ability, these guys should be congratulated for providing a great resource for the rest of us. They provide good arrangements, chord sheets and useful, good quality playalongs - all for free. We can't all be Stochelos but these guys are at least offering something which might help and encourage practising newbies to move up a level.

Alan

agree!

klaatu

croth wrote:

While they may not be the absolute best players in the world, i was wondering what motivated the need to qualify their playing ability? I thought they were pretty good actually, at least the lead player. The rhythm guy was certainly adequate. I'd like to be half as good as them.

Same here. The lead guy seems to have very solid technique and some nice ideas. So he's not Stochelo - who among us is? I'd be very happy to be as good as he is. They are to be congratulated and thanked for the tremendous effort that went into this.