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“Big Band” Style Ending in C

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This Big Band style ending in C is a classic, but I learnt it from Bireli Lagrene. It’s especially useful at a slow to medium tempo and really swings.

You chromatically slide the shape up the neck until you reach your home key, adding the little voicing at the end rounding it off very nicely. It’s classy and will suit any song in a major key (that’s alot!). Practice it in all keys and it will come in really useful.

Let me know how this works for you. Leave me a comment or question on this page. Cheers.

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37 comments - add yours
simon

November 6, 2009

hey thats cool Robin, i´ll try and get it in my playing
simon

Janet

November 6, 2009

Thats really good practising NOW!
Janet

Gene Turcotte

November 6, 2009

I could use half of this as an intro at the next “Garden Party” gig!

Gene

Adrian Holovaty

November 6, 2009

Thanks, Robin!

Louis Matthee

November 6, 2009

Thanks Rob! I’ve got just the tune to use it with!

Cameron Jones

November 6, 2009

Really usefull Robin thankyou. Intros and ending tend to get overlooked in a lot of instructional books. Keep them coming

Don Price

November 8, 2009

Thanks Robin.

Arnaud

November 8, 2009

merci, Robin encore et toujours de quoi travailler….

Ovsyanikov Sergey

November 8, 2009

Thanks a lot !Robin!
I like it!
Cheers from Kiev!

jean

November 8, 2009

Thanks Robin, I can use some good endings. People are always glad I stop the song ;-)

Oscar

November 8, 2009

Great Robin!! Thanks!! Salut napolitaine

Steve Suttee

November 8, 2009

Cheers Robin! I’ll definately tack that on to a couple of tunes I doing at the moment! Congratulations for your new baby son Salvador!

Tom Knyff

November 8, 2009

Thanks Robin
Love it

sylvain louvel

November 8, 2009

cheers robin ,that’s pretty cool !!

i’m working on it

all the best

Nicolas Junca

November 8, 2009

Great!! hope you can spare a few more…

jane

November 8, 2009

Amazing.

jim Schaller

November 8, 2009

Robin, always good to hear from you. Congrats on your boy. Thanks for the lesson tip. Your stuff has really helped a lot! Hope to see you soon live. Thanks!!!

doc40

November 8, 2009

great fun !
is the first chord a g13 fla9 ?
frank

Ira

November 8, 2009

Sweet, Rob!

Olivier Erb

November 8, 2009

Thank you robin,I like this chords and i’ll use it

wilfred

November 8, 2009

thanks again for a nice bit of music .
i play rithem but im sure that my m8 the soloist loves things like this.
we will use it in our songs.
and frank, dont talk nonsense, just play it in flat chords, but gipsy stile………

Sunny

November 8, 2009

thanks for this lesson, hopelessly we see more lessons
very nice !

sunny

Dangerous Brian

November 8, 2009

Love wot u are doing, on your site, i wish you were doing it when i was 7 when D’j. R. came on the radio playing Mari-Alaina and from that moment i wanted a guitar to play like that. and 51 years later i still love Gypsy Jazz!
thank you for your great interpretation of this great music.

Alf Gjessing

November 8, 2009

Hi Robin, Nice to see you attending your teaching skills again. I have been using this in Melodie Au Crepuscule and a variant om Tears from your wonderful gig book. Thank you for beeing generous and shearing your skills. Alf from Norway

Michel

November 8, 2009

Thanks

I will definitely use this ending. Great

Archtop Eddy

November 8, 2009

Rob –You the man! I’ll use the ending on a song next gig.

Michal

November 8, 2009

Robin,
It a wonderful extension to the Big band sound chord chart from your Essential licks Volume 1…it sounds smashing…danke

Michal

mark lomax

November 9, 2009

i love it. WHAT A MAN.i am just learning and really crap,but could you show me minor swing in the smallest amount of proper jazz chords,just to get me started.thanks for a great lesson. regards.lomax.

Jack Buckley

November 9, 2009

Nice one, Robin … I’m watching it at work (!) and don’t have my guitar with me but I’m eager to try it out. Good snappy endings are invaluable; the ending is often what the audience remembers most about a song.

Rod Buckle

November 9, 2009

Many thanks Robin. This tips are so useful as I can use them in so many contexts. Congrats on son hope your getting some sleep.
Cheers
Rod

Chip

November 9, 2009

This is great hearing from you so much with these tips, songs and licks. It is keeping me much more motivated. Hope all is well, Chip

Erik

November 9, 2009

Sharing is good! It’s a gypsy thing.

emiliozinho

November 9, 2009

Hi Robin,

Thank you for your lessons.
Learned a new chord too.
:D
Cheers!

miles

November 9, 2009

Very nice, thanks..congrats on your son!

Mike

November 9, 2009

Thanks Robin, I’ll definitely use it!

Regards from Santa Barbara, Ca.

Robert Zunic

November 11, 2009

I don’t know if you have the time to read this comments, .. but, thanks from down under.
Robert

Kristinn Nielsson

November 16, 2009

Thank you. This is useful indeed.

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