Book Description
This deluxe songbook includes six songs from their famous Fillmore East gig on New Year's Eve, 1969: Changes * Machine Gun * Message to Love * Power to Love * We Gotta Live Together * Who Knows. Features a special 24-page section of full-color photos and the interesting story behind this recording.
Book Description
This massive book offers a comprehensive study of the Gypsy jazz or Manouche guitar style as perceived by French guitarists Derek Sebastian and Romane, two of the finest modern day practitioners of the Django Reinhardt style.
Each of the book's thirty-six progressive chapters consists of four parts: A.) Technique developed through exercises, chord progressions/diagrams, and illustrations of fingerboard positions; B.) A harmony lesson with leads in the Manouche style; C.) Soloing techniques based on the harmonic structure of a given theme; and D.) Self-testing materials with answers provided at the close of the book.
The companion CD for L'Espirit Manouche is unique in that it provides 98 play-along MIDI files that exactly parallel the order of the exercises, examples and pieces in the book as well as audio tracks of excerpts from eighteen Romane favorites from the Gypsy jazz repertoire. The MIDI tracks, which can be accessed via most audio players on PC or Macintosh computers, allow the student to play along with both short phrases and extensive rhythm tracks- at any desired tempo; The audio tracks on the companion disc can be played on any CD player.
L'Espirit Manouche not only makes Gypsy jazz accessible; it offers an opportunity to master the Manouche style. While many exercises and tunes appear in both standard notation and tab, not to mention chord or fretboard diagrams, standard notation is predominant.
Customer Reviews:
Best way to get into gypsy jazz manouche.......2007-03-18
Being a Django Reinhardt's music aficionado and guitar player for years, this is the most comprehensive and coherent book on that style of music I have known. Pieces of music of high complexity are divided into small parts to allow the access and learning step by step and always intoducing the theoretical content in a practical way.
I do not know of any other instructional book that teach more and give the solid foundation this book offers.the next step is logically, to follow with Reinhardt's songbooks.
Xavier Tijuana
This is the only guitar book you need ! .......2006-03-13
In its foreword, the authors wrote "we sincerely believe we have created a major paedagogical and cultural work". After owning the book for a couple of week, I can sincerely say that this is a true statement. The autors introduce you not only in a detailed, meticulous fashion into the world of gypsy (jazz) guitar, but they provide from all jazz guitar methods I have so far seen the most understandable introduction into jazz music and its application to guitar. Granted, the typical jazz guitar book has the concept of introducing you to about 247 x 16 different scale and harmony patterns, with no prospect to learn anything playable within the first 15 years. Mostly, you are tortured with far to complex chord and harmony arrangements, and in the gypsy jazz literature, the typical procedure is apparently to start playing with Django standards, which leads you to nowhere, unless you are an extremely talented player, or have been adopted by Reinhardt family members somewhere in Alsace. This book, for example, starts with a four chord song (Swing for Ninive), and you are teached an arpeggiated solo over an Am/Bb6/E7 chord change. Harmonics are explained in detail and in a very clear and concise way. The fact, that Romane uses, with a few exceptions, his own songs in the book allows him to arrange the lecture patterns for a particular effective learning curve. I see this as a plus, not as a deficit. The material, although, is far from easy. Mastering the first song at 65% speed requires already a significant level of guitar proficiency. If you devote, say, two to three years of your life to this book,you will, however, achieve something. The wonderful situation is that it is all there , mapped out, nothing to guess, no enigmatic embellishment, you just have to pick up your guitar and study it. All the material is covered by original cuts from Romane albums on the CD which comes with the book, and in addition, all practice exercises are on the midi file. The comment of my fellow author (with the one star review) about the midi files is completely off, since the midi files are a a valuable tool to learn the beat and the phrasing of the exercises at any speed. If you don't like them, you can also slow down the original tracks by, e.g., using the windows media player and selecting a lower speed. The only thing which the book lacks, in my opinion, as a practice tool, would be an additional recording with only the rythm tracks of the songs, so that you can play along. Sure, as the authors recommend, you can record them by yourself and then play along. This is also likely part of the practice, but its more fun to play to a nicely laid out ryhtm track. Also, don't expect to much about rhthm playing itself (the "chompe"). I you are looking for that, you would need to search elsewhere. Apparently, Romane wrote also a treatise about that, but I did never had a chance to look into this. All in all, a true masterpiece.
Buy This Book!!!!.......2005-05-27
I just received my copy last week, and I can't put it down. L'Esprit Manouche has been translated into English from French so occasionally the grammar sounds a bit silly, but what this book offers is invaluable, from the very basic rhythms to the most complex harmonies. And there's even tests you can take to keep you honest! A very nice edition every Gypsy Jazz guitarist should own.
Django would turn over in his grave.......2005-02-24
This book is not very good .Beware of the midi CD. Yes all the examples in the book are played on the cd with midi and it sounds terrible. I would not recom
mend this book to anyone.
Buy this book.......2004-08-20
This massive (330+ pages) book has been out for a while, but only in French. This English translation is superb; the entire gypsy jazz manouche style is broken down by Romane, a french non-gypsy who was taught at a young age by Manouche guitarists. The vast majority of the compositions that are taught in the book are Romane's own compositions, but he seems to use his tunes as a vehicle for teaching theory and tecnique. Even in translation, Romane comes of as a natural teacher of the jazz manouche style. I would recommend this book to any serious musician . Most of the music is in tab and standard notation, but some stuff is only standard notation.
Note: I am an amateur musican, and not really that great at all at jazz manouche. But this book still kicks butt.
Customer Reviews:
Everything's coming up roses!.......2000-07-23
I agree with everything in the previous review, especially the Russell versus Midler versions of the movie. This is a wonderful show, and I am the lucky woman who gets to play Rose in my local theatre's production. I bought this book because Tams-Witmark sends out "sides" for each role -- a small book that includes only the character's lines with just a few words of the cue before. Having the full script is a great help, but be aware that this book is slightly different from the version used by Tams-Witmark. I'm marking the changes in my full script and using it, though, because it's much more convenient.
Do get the memoir Gypsy by Gypsy Rose Lee. It's amazing to see how much of this show was taken directly from the pages of her autobiography. Rose and Herbie were somewhat romanticized in the show, as was Tessie the stripper and many other aspects of the story -- hey this is Broadway! There can't be *too* much misery! But the cow really did come to Rose in a dream and really did get them on the Orpheum Circuit. They really did bleach a gaggle of girls' hair blonde. Both books are great reads.
Perhaps the Best Book Musical Ever!.......2000-07-07
I am a student in Chicago's New Tuners Workshop, an organization devoted to the writing of new works of musical theatre. In our first year, we are required to read GYPSY. Our artistic director, John Sparks, considers GYPSY to be one of the finest book musicals ever written.
The lead part of the Mama Rose is often considered the musical theatre equivalent of Lady MacBeth or Hedda Gabler. Lucky is the woman who gets to play her. Three women have played her on Broadway: Ethel Merman (in the original production), Angela Lansbury (in a 1970's revival) and Tyne Daly (in a 1990's revival). Lansbury and Daly both won Tony awards for their perfomances. Merman lost in 1960 to Mary Martin in "The Sound Music." She was robbed!
Musical highlights of the show include the character defining "Some People," the desperate "Ev'rything's Coming up Roses" and the tour-de-force finale, "Mama's Turn." A majority of the songs are Mama Rose's, the result, apparently, of Ethel Merman's ego. Nevertheless, it works brilliantly.
If you are looking for a version of this show on video, AVOID the Rosalind Russell version from the early sixties, in favor of the recent Bette Middler version. Not only is the Middler version more faithful to the original play, Bette does her own singing (Lisa Kirk sang for Russell) and her performance rivals Merman's.
If you love musicals, you will love this book. Read it yesterday!
Customer Reviews:
What's the point?.......2001-11-13
Why bother with a book that has incorrect information. Mr. Garebian didn't bother to read most of the articles he cites in his bibliography or he simply didn't do the research. In GYPSY, there are four songs, which were new written for the musical, and the rest are "trunk" songs (pulled from Styne's repertoire). It's a fairly well known fact which ones are "trunk" sings & which ones aren't, and Mr. Garebian gets it wrong, wrong, wrong.
It's really too bad. The idea for the book is a nice one, but it's so poorly executed you wouldn't want to rely on any fact in this book without checking and rechecking it against other sources.
Disappointing.......1999-03-08
What a disappointing book. There's nothing new here at all, and it's a chore to get through this book even though it's awfully short. There are also a number of factual errors. Don't waste your money.
Product Description
This book focuses on the key elements of the Django Reinhardt Gypsy jazz or jazz Manouche guitar style. The information revealed here was gleaned from years of experience jamming with French Gypsies and studying with masters of the style. A native of France, Stephane Wrembel acquired his skills entirely by ear and has taught scores of musicians worldwide using the method that appears here in text and notation for the first time. Written in English, German and French with all musical examples in standard notation and tablature, Wrembel conveys his knowledge in a logical step by step manner, exposing the reader to the authentic Manouche style as it continues to evolve in France and Holland. Medium to advanced in difficulty, this method is designed for the guitarist who is already familiar with jazz harmony and note locations on the fretboard.
Customer Reviews:
dannys opinions.......2006-07-01
petty good would have helped more to put the exercises in to action with tunes, overall is done well.
Product Description
This book contains practice tips, a helpful glossary, a short essay on the Gypsy touch and a fine assortment of approximately 50 annotated traditional Gypsy tunes from Russia, Romania, Hungary, and Bessarabia. Based on many years of research, travel, and participation in slavas or Gypsy jam sessions, this long-anticipated book makes a significant and colorful contribution to the violin repertoire while providing a thorough grounding in the characteristic elements of the passionate Gypsy style. The CD is a stereo recording of every song in the book at performance tempo with piano accompaniment. Intermediate to advanced.
Customer Reviews:
Best gypsy book I know!.......2006-02-03
My 12 year old son was keen to play some gypsy violin. I play guitar (rather badly - can read chords but not classical scores)
We tried several but this is THE best we found.
We played a third of them so far and every single one is a gem.
When we performed at concert then lots of kids and parents asked us what the book was - they really liked the tunes. There were a couple of really spectacular slides in one of them - some people said later they never heard anything like this.
This is not a beginner's book. After 3-4 easy pieces (grade 4?) the rest are for violin level Grade 5-6 UK - (includes 5th position and higher in places). Saying this my kid was so keen on playing them he just had to learn to play in these positions - and he did - BEFORE his teacher taught him any!
Guitar part is simple (sometimes I simplify it even more when I can't play fast enough) but is very nice - there are few slash chords specified (such as A/C# - A major over C# in base) which make standard wamp (I used all the time) sound much more interesting.
If anyone knows a better gypsy/traditional book I'd really want to know - it is so much fun to play through this one!
zhyzs@hotmail.com
PS.Thanks to the author for this great book!
PS2. And NO - I am NOT the author of his best friend!
Wild Gypsy Fiddle for All!.......2005-05-02
If the sound of a wild Gypsy violin moves your spirit, Mary Ann Harbar's Gypsy Violin, a tunebook and CD set, is a great place to learn the technique.
The book alone is a wonderful resource. It's packed with about four dozen tunes, many harmony lines and variations included. Guitar chords are a must, and Harbar provides them throughout.
Although not bogged down with text, the book provides brief histories of some tunes, as well as tips for performing them. A brief introduction describes the differences between a Gypsy violinist and her classical or folk counterpart, and suggests tips for practicing in this style. There's also a quick reference chart at the end, since the markings on a Gypsy tune differ somewhat from some styles.
While it might be possible to learn Gypsy techniques straight from the book, the companion CD makes the learning process easier. ... While it might be possible to learn Gypsy techniques straight from the book, the companion CD makes the learning process easier.
This is an exciting style of performance, and we could certainly use a few more fiddlers out there who can play with Harbar's skill and spirit. Fortunately, she's willing to teach us how.
An awesome book recommanded for any violinist.......2005-01-02
I am a classically trained violinist ( Level: Advanced- But NOT Expert ( Heifetz)). Since I have moved to the US, I have been playing Bluegrass, jazz, folk ( Balkan), and persian music on my fiddle. I got "Gypsy Violin" book with it CD in the mail on New Years Eve. It was the best gift that I could get. I haven't been able to put the book and my violin down since then.
I have a little complain about the CD though. I wish the Violin was recorded on one channel only, so I could practice with accompaniment.
Gypsy Violin Undertaking.......2004-12-16
I was so excited to see that this book existed. I purchased it and opened it up immediately. I was classically trained years ago and play folk fiddle, Irish fiddle, old-time, etc... currently. Most people think I'm pretty good, but not at all on a classical scale. Those of you classically trained know what I mean. I'd be intermediate level to a classical musician.
Anyway, this book is NOT for beginners or intermediate players. I would say it is for advance/professional violinists. There are extensive passages in very advanced/high positions and the music is extremely fast. If this is what you are looking for then this book is for you. I actually enjoyed Fiddling Around the World by the same author better (and found the pieces easier to learn).
Book Description
A guide to the playing style of the famous Gypsy guitarists, and information on many of the leading exponents of this unique style.
Customer Reviews:
Sketchy, but useful.......2003-07-25
There are a lot of great photos of the various great Jazz Manouche guitarists here, and there's also a fair amount of information. It's not particularly well organized, and there's no theory or explanation; what you get are a few basic licks, a library of chord shapes, and a few tunes rendered in tablature.
This is a good resource for the intermediate or advanced player familiar with the genre who just needs a leg up to get started, but it's not really quite basic enough for the beginner looking to emulate Django. Still, a motivated beginner with a good ear and a good library of Django Reinhardt recordings might find this to be just what he or she needs.
Great intro to learning Django's guitar style........1999-06-15
This book isn't very big but it did help me get a good idea about where I needed to go with my guitar playing. There are about 40 pictures of Django, family and friends playing Selmer, Gibson and Macafferri guitars and rough transcriptions two two or three songs and about 20 solo licks in tablature. There is also a few stories about Django and his life and one paragraph biographies of about 15 gypsy style players. This book made me realize how important triads are to playing this style of music! This book is a gem to read, I guarantee you will enjoy it.
Product Description
8 vocal selections from the Broadway standard, including: All I Need Is the Girl Everything's Coming up Roses Let Me Entertain You Little Lamb Small World Some People Together Wherever We Go You'll Never Get Away from Me.
Customer Reviews:
Full Vocal Score.......2006-05-03
As the title says, this is the full vocal score to Gypsy by Styne and Sondheim. Like most show scores it isn't a partitur, but a piano reduction with instrumental cues. All the vocal lines and lyrics are present as is all underscoring and dance music. What the score doesn't contain is a breakdown of the orchestration, but that is accessed easily enough by visiting Tams-Witmark online.
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