Sweet Georgia Brown

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this course, you’ll dive into Django Reinhardt’s iconic interpretations of Sweet Georgia Brown and uncover the secrets behind his swinging phrasing and inventive harmony.

  • You’ll learn how to navigate dominant chords with confidence
  • Internalize the tune’s chord changes
  • Choose the right scales for expressive improvisation
  • Blend blues language into your solos—and much more.

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  • 2 Lessons

  • This is great! I love this song. I have a question. How should we properly think of the logic of the chord changes through the first 16 bars? Does it go V7 to I until we get to G? Or does it start on a dominant 7 and keep going up in 4ths until we get to G? And how much does it matter how we think of them?
    And not to be nitpicky, but I think the 2nd note in the first bar is an F# instead of F natural.
    Thanks!

  • Hi Tom. I see that the first bar has a conflict with tab vs note marked. I believe the F# is correct. Must be a tabulating error. The F neutral didn’t agrees with my ear when I played it…

  • Mauny, you’re right, the tab is correct. I didn’t notice because I usually only read the notation. The tab does indicate F#, which must be correct, because like you say, F natural sounds wrong. Also, F# fits the chord, F natural does not.

  • I like this song ! I´m looking forward to the next videos and explanations about this great tune. When I just practice courses about certain scales its difficult for me to use them on a concrete song. For me it´s better to have a song that I like and then understand the scales and arpeggios to use with Yvonnicks explanations. Greetings, Björn

  • Hi Yvonnick, please continue this course in the new year, that would be great ! I worked on the theme and your great improvisation, it was great fun ! Greetings, Björn

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