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Old 01-23-2012, 09:35 PM
 
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Help hi, i am new help please

hello, i am liam. i would really like to learn how to play the gypsy jazz guitar but i dont know where to get one and where to start. any tips?
thanks alot
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Old 01-23-2012, 09:56 PM
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Look at gitane and cigano. They get it right


Join djangobooks.com. look at everything Dennis Chang has on YouTube. Seek out john jorgensons books.

And go to the source. .listen to so much django (and baro and fapy and boulou and videlicet ) as possible. .. until you can sing it in your sleep.
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Old 01-24-2012, 07:03 PM
 
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Alright, thanks alot
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I am left handed, will this have issues buying a guitar? Could I just get a right hand one an switch the strings around?
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Old 01-24-2012, 07:23 PM
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Unfortuneately it's not that simple, and the cutaway would be on the wrong side as well.

But I'm pretty sure djangobooks carries some of the gitane models as leftys...check out their online store.
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Old 01-25-2012, 04:58 PM
 
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I have never really play regular guitars much, will this be a set back trying to learn gypsy jazz?
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Old 01-25-2012, 06:52 PM
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What do you mean by "regular guitars?"
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