- 17/04/2026When you learn a nice Dominant Lick (have you checked your Essential Licks Crash Course?), sometimes it sounds like it…
- 21/03/2026Take a Major Tonic chord, like G Major in "Lady Be Good", and you can change that to the (Minor)…
- 07/01/2026A quick tip for your bowing on I Surrender Dear
- 02/01/2026Hi folks! Happy New Year! Here is a reminder of what we have to do with our bows, as we…
- 19/12/2025I explain what a Trumpet Note is, and how Grappelli uses it on his Djangology solo
- 15/12/2025I found out, that when you slide a note (play two notes with one finger) on the off-beat, we always…
- 25/10/2025Grappelli points the way how to end a phrase in a jazzy way: with one note, repeated rhythmically. Either on…
- 11/10/2025On request, here is Coquette's melody the way I would play it.
- 26/09/2025How long can we play separate bows before we HAVE to throw in a slur? Here is the answer.
- 19/09/2025When you play 3 consecutive chromatic notes, bow the first note Separate and the next two Slurred.