LESSON } Gypsy jazz
REMI HARRIS
This month Remi Harris of Fundamental Changes concludes his series on gypsy jazz showing some cool ideas over II-V-I changes.
Remi Harris playing a beautiful oval-hole Maccaferri style guitar by Fylde
We’ve worked through a collection of licks you can play over static chords, so now it’s time to explore a series of licks that work over the most common progression in gypsy jazz – the II-V-I sequence. These licks are played over both Major and Minor II-V-Is, in two of the most popular keys in the gypsy jazz repertoire:G Major and A Minor. If you develop some good vocabulary around Major and Minor II-V-Is, you’ll have something to say on a vast amount of the gypsy jazz repertoire, because nearly every tune uses these cadences.