New Gypsy Jazz Fiddle Lessons

Fri, 12/02/2016 - 6:51pm
Written by ArtistWorks

gypsy jazz fiddle lesson - minor swing

We're excited to announce we've just added some new Gypsy Jazz fiddle lessons! Recently Darol visited the ArtistWorks studios to teach some of the most popular tunes from the Gypsy Jazz repertoire. Accompanied by renowned picker (and teacher of our free acoustic guitar lesson series) Scott Law, each song has in-depth analysis from Darol, plus duet performances with Scott and fiddle notation. Darol has particularly unique and rare insight on these tunes having learned them directly from the great Stéphane Grappelli himself. 

Each of these has their own lesson series, find them in the Learning Channel or click on the links below:

Minor Swing
Swing 42
Djangology

Spotlight on Gypsy Jazz Guitar

Fri, 08/05/2016 - 9:54am
Written by ArtistWorks

Most people think of jazz as a quintessentially American genre of music. Within the jazz world, though, gypsy jazz sits as an important piece of the picture that can be traced to gypsy musicians in Western Europe. Its style builds around the gypsy jazz guitar and violin, and through its stages of development has retained a melodic, flowing style, and a focus on gypsy jazz guitar as both the lead instrument and the rhythmic engine. And while many musical styles come from several pioneers, gypsy jazz guitar indisputably comes through one specific source.

Emergence of Django Reinhardt