Song List:
Preface
Introduction
The Guitars
The Strings
The Picks
PART 1 -- RHYTHM GUITAR
Rhythm-Exercises -- Introduction
Finger-Exercise 1 with Extended Chromatics
Finger-Exercise 2
Rhythm Exercises -- Lesson 1
Rhythm Exercise 1 -- Comping Straight Quarter-Notes
Rhythm Exercise 2 -- Comping Eighth-Notes
Rhythm Exercise 3 -- Comping Eighths with Added Dead-Notes
Rhythm Exercise 1/1 -- Comping "La Pompe"
Rhythm Exercise 1/2 -- Comping Valse
Rhythm Exercise 1/3 -- "La Pompe" (csardas)
Rhythm Exercise 1/4 -- Extended Comping "La Pompe"
Rhythm Exercise 1/5 -- Comping Extended "Swing-Pompe"
Rhythm Exercise 1/6 -- Comping "Staccato Eighths" with added Dead-Note
Rhythm Exercises -- Lesson 2 - Minor Swing
The Blues Cadence
Exercise 2/1 ("La Pompe" -- Rhythm, Example: "Minor Swing")
Chord Substitution
Exercise 2/2 ("La Pompe" Rhythm, Example: "Minor Swing")
Gypsy Chords
Lesson 2/3 (Chord Substitution, Example: "Minor Swing")
Lesson 2/4 (Chord Substitution 2, Example: "Minor Swing")
Rhythm Exercises -- Lesson 3 -- Songs for practice
Lesson 3/1 -- "Minor Swing" (Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli)
Lesson 3/2 -- "Douce Ambiance" (Django Reinhardt)
Lesson 3/3 -- "Good times (Schukar ziro)" (Bertino Rodmann)
Lesson 3/4 -- "Blues en mineur" (Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli)
Lesson 3/5 -- "Valse a Bertino (Le grand escalier)" (Bertino Rodmann)
Lesson 3/6 -- "Blues Clair" (Django Reinhardt)
Lesson 3/7 -- "Swing 48" (Django Reinhardt)
PART 2 -- SOLO GUITAR
Introducing Solo Guitar
The Right Hand Placement
Solo / Lesson 1 -- Picking Technique
Picking Technique
1/1 -- Reststroke Picking
1/2 -- Up and Down Reststroke Picking
1/3 -- Sweepstroke Picking
1/4 -- Arpeggio Picking
Solo / Lesson 2 -- Scales (Part 1)
2/1 -- Simple Pentatonic in Am
2/2 -- Pentatonic in Am with added sixth (Am6)
2/3 -- Minor scale in Am with additional 6th note
2/4 -- Major scale in D
2/5 -- Seventh scale over E7th
2/6 -- Diminished scale over E7th
2/7 -- A7th scale over A7
2/8 -- Gmaj7 scale (F# locrian)
2/9 -- G major scale (Django style)
Solo / Lesson 3 -- Arpeggios
3/1 -- Am arpeggio
3/2 -- Am6 arpeggio
3/3 -- Am6 arpeggio (variation)
3/4 -- G major arpeggio
3/5 -- G major arpeggio (variation)
3/6 -- G major arpeggio (D shape)
3/7 -- C minor arpeggio
Solo / Lesson 4 -- Solo-Licks (excerpts from "Minor Swing")
4/1 -- Lick 4/1 (Am6)
4/2 -- Lick 4/2 (Dm6)
4/3 -- Lick 4/3 (E7)
4/4 -- Lick 4/4 (Am6)
4/5 -- Lick 4/5 (Am6 / Dm6)
4/6 -- Lick 4/6 (E7 / Am)
4/7 -- Lick 4/7 (Am6 / Dm6)
4/8 -- Lick 4/8 (Dominant-7th over F7/E7 to Am6)
Solo Transcriptions for Practice
Exercise 4/9 -- "Minor Swing" (Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli)
Exercise 4/10 -- "Blues en mineur" (Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli)
Exercise 4/11 -- "Douce Ambiance" (Django Reinhardt)
Solo / Lesson 5 -- Tips & Tricks
Lick 5/1 -- "Trill"-Effect
Lick 5/2 -- Arpeggio in Am
Lick 5/3 -- Arpeggio in Am (2)
Lick 5/4 -- Gypsy-Lick (Gm6 over C7)
Lick 5/5 -- Lick in D-harmonic minor + Arpeggio in Dm
Lick 5/6 -- Lick in D-harmonic minor over dominant-7th-chord (A7)
Lick 5/7 -- "Trill"-Effect (2)
Solo / Lesson 6 -- Scales (Part 2)
6/1 -- Minor pentatonic scale in C minor
6/2 -- Minor-Pentatonic-scale in C with added Blue Note (addb5)
6/3 -- Minor pentatonic scale in C (over three octaves)
6/4 -- The blues scale in C
6/5 -- The harmonic minor scale in A
Solo / Lesson 7 -- The Use of Scales and Arpeggios in Gypsy Jazz
7/1 -- Cm6 arpeggio in Django style
7/2 -- Gm scale in Django style
7/3 -- Dm6 arpeggio in Django style
7/4 -- Dm arpeggio in Lollo Meier style
7/5 -- Diminished scale in Lollo Meier style
7/6 -- Harmonic minor in Django style
7/7 -- C major arpeggio in Django style
7/8 -- Arpeggio Repetitions in Django style
7/9 -- Chord Substitution in Django style
7/10 -- Arpeggio sequences in Romane style
7/11 -- Combination of scales and arpeggios in Lollo Meier style
7/12 -- Diminished scales in Stochelo Rosenberg style
7/13 -- Cm6 arpeggio in Django style
Solo -- Transcriptions for Practice (2)
Exercise 8/1 -- "Blues Clair" (Django Reinhardt)
Exercise 8/2 -- "Good times (Schukar ziro)" (Bertino Rodmann)
Exercise 8/3 -- "Valse a Bertino (Le grand escalier)" (Bertino Rodmann)
Exercise 8/4 -- "Swing 48" (Django Reinhardt)
Epilogue
About the Author
Glossary
Sources / Thanks
CD - Track list
