Gypsy Guitar - The Secrets Vol. 1 (incl. CD)

A series of tips, tricks, and techniques as used by the masters introduces the gypsy guitar style of playing. The first section covers the various tra ditional accompaniment rhythms such as pumping, waltz, bolero, bossa nova, and rumba. Part two introduces solo playing with techniques used in gypsy jazz: damping, sweeping, rolling, chromaticism, and more. The book ends with six pieces played by Angelo Debarre and accompanied by Samy Daussat. An ai d to practicing soloing, the play-along tracks can be found at the end of t he CD along with all the exercises.