Gypsy swing style warm-up – CAGED – Key of G major

[Jean-Michel G]

Here is nice warm-up: traversing all the CAGED shapes in the key of G major and using swing-style phrasing (30’s swing, Western Swing, Gypsy Swing).
Note the mixture of scale runs and arpeggios, as well as the indispensable triplets.

…if your guitar doesn’t have a cut-away (like mine), you’ll have a hard time with the E form all the way up the neck! I usually stop at the G shape.
Of course, since this is all based on CAGED, you can transpose all these phrases in other keys.

You can see this warm-up played by Dance Givone here.
Daniel Givone is great French Gypsy Jazz guitarist.

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