Heres an exercise using the basic arpeggios of a minor, d minor and b diminished, essential building blocks for soloing over this tune. Piano arrangement of minor swing by django reinhardt jazz guitar and stephane grappelli jazz violin. Swing guitars django reinhardt lead sheet 1 pdf arranger. Jun 18, 2015 20 minor swing elia bastida sant andreu jazz band joan chamorro dir scott hamilton duration. Minor swing lead sheet world free sheet music pdf, midi. Minor swing by django reinhardt django reinhardt digital. A guy what takes his time sheet music christina aguilera. Music notes for guitar tab sheet music by django reinhardt django reinhardt. Minor swing sheet music stephane grappelli violin solo.
An arrangement of django reinhardts minor swing piano accompaniement by me. Displaying 1 322 of 322 piano sheets created by jan kolacek for easypiano. Choose and determine which version of minor swing chords and tabs by django reinhardt you can play. Django himself had recorded minor swing 4 times during his career and can be considered as one of the most covered compositions and most famous piece in the gypsy jazz period. I shall tell you how i first became interested in this. It is common when soloing on this tune to substitute the e7 with a b diminished chord the two are very closely related so.
All of these are chord tones ct, and therefore, these are not tensions. Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed after an injury in a fire, reinhardt invented an entirely new style of. Dont forget, if you like the piece of music you have just learned playing, treat the artist with respect. Iim 3 key g minor yeardate of composition yd of comp. Minor swing arpeggio exercise tim robinson this exercise covers the arpeggios of the main chords of minor swing. Learn how to play django reinhardt songs for bass, acoustic guitar, flute, tenor, piano and clarinet online. The minor swing uses a simply repeating 8 bar pattern. Minor swing is a gypsy jazz tune composed by django reinhardt and stephane grappelli. It was recorded four other times throughout reinhardts career and is considered to be one of his most covered compositions, as well as a gypsy jazz standard. Transcribing from solos is the most effective way to learn to improvise. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. Sometimes a song becomes so well known and widely played that it becomes a jazz standard. I made this as part of a gypsy jazz training course in which i participated.
Jan 31, 2014 switch out the regular twooctave majorminor scales for a minor pentatonic blues scale. Minor swing django reinhardt there are only 3 chords you need to play this tune here they are. Minor swing sheet music for piano download free in pdf or. This transcription dates back to a session in paris on the 25th november 1937, the first of many django recordings of this tune and the only quintette recording to feature grappelli on violin subsequent recordings pair djangos guitar with clarinet, but it is this version that is considered by many to be the quintessential take. Chorus played by django reinhardt on minor swing in 1937, this is an adaption for piano, so i had to approximate sometimes. Minor swing 1937 sheet music download free in pdf or midi. Jazz piano basics dan davey tensions are non chord tones that are added to a chord to change the colortexture of the chord. Using shell voicings without any extensions with a four to a bar comping feel. Shop our newest and most popular django reinhardt sheet music such as minor swing, brazil and honeysuckle rose, or click the button above to browse all django reinhardt sheet music. Minor swing sheet music for piano download free in pdf. Download and print minor swing sheet music for violin solo by stephane grappelli from sheet music direct. Below is a list of common jazz chord progressions that you will find in a lot of a jazz songs.
Minor swing chord study 3 shows the most common way to play the chord progression. Minor swing, music written by django rienhardt and performed by. Minor swing chocolat soundtrack version reinhardt, django. Django reinhardt minor swing chords learn the song with the online tablature player. So simple, essentially just three chords, but a lifetimes study. A popular gypsy jazz tune composed by django reinhardt and stephane grappelli. Fiddle play grappelli april 1st b4, kent st, birmingham 18th littleton,walsall. For more advanced students, have them play a 12 or 16bar blues form underneath.
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The study exclusively uses shell voicings on the middle strings of the guitar. Ii,iii, and vi degree of the major key i,iv and v degree of the natural minor key ii degree of the melodic minor key. Minor swing chords by django reinhardt songsterr tabs with. Christina aguilera from burlesque movie, tv, pop, soundtrack, swing. The pentatonic blues scale is built upon three dominant chords. In the case of c pentatonic, the three chords are c7 f7 g7. Using shell voicings without any extensions with a four to a bar comping feel creates a great and authentic gypsy jazz feel. It is common when soloing on this tune to substitute the e7 with a b diminished chord the two are very closely related so this is what i have done here. Its completely free to download and try the listed sheet music, but you have to delete the files after 24 hours of trial. Django reinhardt free sheet music to download in pdf, mp3. Musicnotes features the worlds largest online digital sheet music catalogue with over 300,000 arrangements available to print and play instantly. Note that scale degrees 10 is the same as 3, 12 the same as 5, 14 the same as 7, and 15 the same as and root.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Django reinhardt free sheet music to download in pdf. Iv degree of the harmonic minor key in the next page there are minor 7th chords in all keys and in 4 inversions play them many,many times. From djangology, recorded in 1949 and released by rca bluebird. Instrumentation clarinet, violin, double bass, piano. Sheet music is available for piano, guitar 1, guitar 2 and 1 others with 4 scorings and 2 notations in 5 genres. Minor swing django reinhardt video tutorial video n. This pdf contains a minor 251 line transcribed from a chet baker recording.
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