Folky Fridays #39 - How to to make your trad backing sound like Django Reinhardt!

Folky Fridays #39 – How to to make your trad backing sound like Django Reinhardt!

In this week’s Folky Fridays free online guitar lesson live stream from Folk Friend I will be showing you the formula you can use to make any tune or song sound like gypsy jazz! This technique is a lot of fun and can be easily applied to any song or tune (traditional or otherwise!) – all it needs is a bit of music theory knowledge and a few new chord shapes!

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