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Gypsy Classic by Victor Young This time we prepared “Sweet Sue, Just You”, because it’s a typical Gypsy Swing Standard. Django Reinhardt and Oscar Alemán played this tune back in the 30s. If you want to hear a version without the Selmer Style Guitar sound, we would recommend the Versions by Errol Garner and Miles Davis. In […]

In this lesson we talk about a Django-Classics. A song from Django Reinhardts Repertoire called “Sweet Chorus”. Its in at 90 Bpm, but as always there are a lot of things happen. This time we prepared a special playback for practicing the theme (one chorus). You can download it directly here. Separately there are the familiar […]

Want to play a xmas-tune on your gypsy guitar at christmas eve? Impress your friends/family and start learning Joscho Stephans gypsy version of  “Winter Wonderland”. Winter Wonderland There are really nice gypsy jazz standards you can play, but its also nice to “break the law” and interpret songs from different genres. This tune by Felix Bernad […]

Joscho Stephan follows the footsteps of Jimi Hendrix playing “Hey Joe”. In this lesson we leave the gypsy-standards for a moment and discuss this US-Folksong, which becomes a classical rock song covered by Mr. Jimi Hendrix. Music should be fun…this song makes fun! Even if the songtext isn´t happy and fun at all – its about a […]

Hey Guys, we´ve just updated our Honeysuckle Rose Lesson. Solo: Joscho wrote an nice solo over this beautiful tune. Its a complete chorus (Form A A B A). What? You can download the transcription, rhythm tracks, play with joscho tracks and the solo-track directly from the lesson page. Furthermore, we did two videos of explanation, […]

Watch Joschos new “Lick Library“-Lesson, based on the chord structure of “Exactly like you” and see how you can work with the lessons that are already avaliable at the GypsyGuitarAcademy. This special lesson it important to understand, how you can improve your solo playing. Every player has got his licks, but how do you get […]

3 hours of Caravan lesson online! Including: Advanced & Basic Solo ——————- UPDATE: BASIC SOLO CARAVAN – ONLINE ——————- We´ve just uploaded a new lesson… “Caravan”. Have a look on our trailer videos and start learning caravan. This lesson will be continued with the next update…there will be a Basic & Advanced Solo on the […]

Dear Gypsy-Friends, as you can see, we´ve updated our website! New Design and new features like the integrated audio player and a better navigation thru the lessons. Have a look and if you like mail us your feedback.