Phrygian + Dim = Gypsy Jazz!

Hey Chris!

Wow really great lesson thanks

The original video was one of the most useful lessons I have learnt in Gypsy Jazz. Use the lines from that all the time on gigs. Great to revisit it 👍

Did you ever run into similar exercises in violin method books?

Thanks!

I love your channel because you take something that could be simple and make it incomprehensibly complicated in the best way.

Great content
Often in bop we use phrygian dominant especially if the dominant resolves to minor or doesn't resolve to the tonic

Very very nice exercice,sound great,excellent for neck knowledge!!!

Just curious why you finger the second position the way you do? Seems like Stochelo always starts that with first finger then second note second string (ab) etc not using the pinky at all. I'm sure you use both. Often times I'm curious about these small details so never mind if it's too finicky.

It was using the Diminished scale in Gypsy Jazz. That video gave me 3 yrs ago the keys to FLOW in Gypsy jazz. Trad jazz players DO NOT hardly EVER use that sound. I never encountered it with Joe pass, etc, he uses diminished scales and whole tone, but not like the Gypsy players, only did I play diminished arpeggios in Neo classical Metal. You showed us the Dutch and French style diminished runs. I naturally gravitated to the french way, its what came naturally to me. Swing Gitane for instance will sound like CRAP if a player doesn't play runs like that, I think. Actually, that would make a good video, who can play Swing Gitane all the way through without playing 1 diminished run, or whole tone scale and sound good. LOL!!!

Any playeer in Gypsy jazz, who doesn't know or use what you just taught, is going to make LEAPS and BOUNDS in their progress now.