Workshops
To reserve you workshop space, please contact Nick Lehr: 1-877-DJANGOFEST, 650-366-1078 or
nlehr@msn.com
Robin
Nolan Gypsy Jazz Licks Workshop
Robin Nolan
will be holding a series of 2 hour "Gypsy Jazz Licks" workshops.
He has given these workshops in numerous countries from Iceland to Canada and
has enjoyed great success.
This workshop will feature a unique collection
of hip Gypsy Jazz "licks" which are applied to some of the most popular
standards being played in the Gypsy Jazz scene today. These licks will allow you
to begin soloing over the changes immediately without being bogged down by academic
rhetoric or theoretical approaches which characterize so many study books in the
genre and render them a frustrating waste of time and money. You will be
learning the basic vocabulary of Gypsy Jazz itself. The very building blocks that
make up the language. You will be playing MUSIC!.... not scales, not arpeggios,
not complicated harmonic theories or life threatening technical exercises! It's
Gypsy Jazz, not rocket science! We want to help you enjoy the music and show a
few things that will definitely impress your friends...
Gonzalo Bergara - The Gypsy Swing Workshop
My main interest is to show you how to teach yourself to play this stuff, share all the advice that has helped me tremendously through all this time. There are two main subjects I'd like to cover, technique and knowledge.
During the technique section we'll talk about both right hand and left hand. We all know how important the right hand is for this style so we have to get that right. The left hand we'll cover fingering, ways to connect all together, vibrato, timing and whatever else we can think of.
The knowledge section is about getting really familiar with the notes on your guitar. You need to know the neck of the guitar better than you know your name. How to practice!!! There are many many tips on how to practice more efficiently. I also want to talk about swing!! Django was always swinging.
Finally we'll cover melodies, how to be more musical, to understand TENSION AND RELEASE and to start making music in a guitar solo.
Mathieu Chatelain - Rhythm Tips & Tricks
After ten years of studying rhythm with the gypsies and playing with people such as Dorado & Samson Schmidt, Tchavolo or Angelo Debarre, Mathieu Chatelain now feels ready to transmit what he has learned over a comprehensive workshop which will cover topics such as "chord sound", right hand and left hand technique, gipsy voicings, typical grids, how to read, work and develop those grids, rhythm effects. Also to correct typical mistakes non-gipsies tend to have when they start rhythm. All that in English which will help understand things correctly.
Fabrice Martinez - Gypsy Style Violin
Fabrice is a gifted fiddler who plays with Fishtank Ensemble and travels Europe in a mule-drawn caravan collecting and playing folk music with the group Croque Mule. Originally from France before living in the caravan, his special love is Romanian folk music. He also plays Gypsy, Hungarian, Swedish, and many other kinds of music.
Lulo Reinhardt - Gypsy Swing & Latin Rhythms
German-Sinti guitarist and composer Lulo Reinhardt will be giving an exciting workshop on gypsy swing and Latin rhythms. In this workshop, Lulo will cover basic to advanced swing rhythm techniques used by the gypsies in the "Django jazz" genre. Additionally Lulo will show players how to implement various Latin rhythms into their gypsy swing playing. Examples will range from bolero, bossa nova, rhumba, tango and more. This workshop will surely provide the gypsy swing player with additional tools to spice up their rhythm playing as well as strengthen their swing and right hand.
Lulo Reinhardt joins us from Koblenz, Germany where he has been playing traditional gypsy music and gypsy jazz since he was 5 years old. Aside from his mastery in gypsy swing rhythm, he has in more recent years performed in Africa, South America and Spain collaborating with musicians of various Latin based genres. His last two projects featured his own Latin compositions and flamenco and bossa nova guitar work. His latest CD "Latin Swing Project", features new compositions of Lulo's which brilliantly preserve gypsy swing while implementing Latin rhythms for a truly unique sound.
Daniel Weltlinger - Jazz Violin Improvisation Workshop
Joining us from Sydney, Australia, Daniel Weltlinger will be holding a workshop on improvisation for jazz violin. In this workshop Daniel will give valuable tips on improvising and transcribing in the jazz genre. The blues element which is essential in most all jazz music (including Gypsy-Swing) will also be covered as well as philosophy behind jazz violin and improvisation. The class will also work together improvising over specific chord progressions while focusing on ways to improve phrasing, improve swing, implement other stylistic flavors into one's jazz improv (ie. klezmer, hungarian, gypsy, etc...), and get more mileage out of your ideas. This will be a very "hands on" class which fiddlers of all levels will not want to miss.
Daniel Weltlinger has performed all over the world including the US, Europe and China. His own projects include the groups "Zohar's Nigun", "The Asthmatix" and "The Ticklers", which fuse traditional Jewish music with many contemporary styles such as Jazz, Hip-Hop, Funk and even New Orleans Rhythm n' Blues. In recent years his collaborative efforts with German-Sinti guitarist/composer Lulo Reinhardt have fused Latin, Jazz and Gypsy music. He frequently collaborates as a solo recording/performance artist with some of Australia's top musicians in a variety of different formats and is highly sought after both nationally and internationally for his technical and musical mastery over his main instrument and equally so for his keen sense of humour, originality and easy-going nature.
Adrien Moignard - Gipsy Jazz Guitar Workshop
Adrien Moignard is a young jazz guitarist, playing gipsy jazz and more modern stuff ( Zaiti, Costel Nitescu... ). In his master class, he offers to practice around Django's music and other American standards: work about the chords of gipsy jazz, typical licks, different techniques of right hand and left hand, different arpeggios, scales for this kind of music, practice around the sound, and a work about the different rhythm placements. The way of this workshop is to help you to develop your technique and to open your vocabulary on the guitar.
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