Some typical licks

Many other licks are also available on Michael Horowitz's forum. Strongly recommended!

Yet another Gatsby's lick

(730 KB). A nice lick to be played over a dominant 7th chord (A7 here).

A lick from Biréli

(660 KB). In order to be played at high tempos, this lick must be picked with both upwards and downwards sweeping, without foloowing the usual downstrokes rules. This is an example among others that shows how Biréli can get off the beaten tracks.

Another Gatsby's lick

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Romain Brizemur lick on Django Tiger (slightly tuned down)

(1.360 KB) The ideal lick to practice alternate picking (strictly alternate in here).

Yorgui Loeffler lick over Minor Swing

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Stochelo lick over Blue Bossa

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Rythme Futur (Stochelo version)



This version performed by Stochelo proves tp which extent he masters what I call "v-v", even at 160 bpm. Work at a tempo slow enough to play cleanly.

My transcription of the video available on YouTube, the GuitarPro4 file and the Midi file.

Plan over a waltz

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Stochelo lick over E7 (Black Eyes style)

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Chromatic licken taken from Stochelo over A7

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Lick over Am7

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Tchavolo lick

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Biréli lick in Vienne over Blues Clair

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Another Yorgui's lick (well I think) over Dm

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Lick in E7 stolen from Gatsby (a splendid guitar player from http://www.manoucheries.com/phpBB2/index.php)

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Recent Stochelo lick

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Moses Rosenberg's lick

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Stochelo lick

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Stochelo lick (from Bossa Dorado again)

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Stochelo lick (from Bossa Dorado)

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Yorgui Loeffler lick

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Stochelo Rosenberg lick in Em

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Angelo Debarre lick over a Bb

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Typical lick to complete a ii-V in E

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Bebop lick (here in F6/9)

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A Jimmy Rosenberg's lick (here in F6/9)

Pay attention to the first v-v at the beginning, the upbeat is on the C.
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Yet another Yorgui Loeffler's (here on a ii-V in G)

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Little quickie lick (here in Bm6)

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A Yorgui Loeffler's (here on a ii-V-I in G7M)

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A Stochelo Rosenberg's lick on Viajeiro (ici Bb)

One of the few cas of downstrokes on a string change. This is because the upstroke is on a downbeat and because the pace is really fast.
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Another Serge Krief's lick on Minor Blues (here in Cm6)

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A Serge Krief lick on Minor Blues (here in Gm6)

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A Stéphane Neidhardt's lick alias Cuisino Schmitt on Manoucheries.com (here in A7)

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A Yorgui Loeffler's lick with an open string (here in E7)

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Another lick with pull-off (here in A7)

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Lick with pull-off with an open string (here in D7)

To play faster, a pull-off is used.
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On a dominante 7th (here G7)

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Another simple lick on a dominant 7th (in E7 here)

To be played all in alternate picking.
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A simple lick that sounds good

Simple and efficient, I think that one swings a lot.
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A Biréli lick (in D)

This lick that comes from Biréli stress the notes of the major D chord on the 5th fret. All played in alternate picking, the difficulty is to pick accurately despite the many string skips.
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Chord chromatism on a II-V-I (in G here)

This lick is used by solists to stress the harmonic progression of this cadence with a chord played in glissando.
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Typical lick

This lick is often used to stress the notes of a chord by first playing a half-tone under. That can be used with any 3-note chord.
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Typical lick

This very typical lick is widely used among Manouche guitarists in different flavours.
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A Tzigan lick

A 3-note Tzigan lick.
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Lick with augmented fifths

To be played over a dominant chord (in G7/5+ here).
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A 7M chord lick

A typical Rosenberg lick that can be played over any 7M chord with root on the A string (E7M here).
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A lick one note

Another typical Rosenberg lick where the same note is played three times on the B string then three times on the G string (with a glissando on the fourth note).
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A dissonant lick that comes from Django

No major problem here excepted on the right hand because only two strings must ring at a time in alternate picking.
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Lick from Minor Blues (in A)

A few -v-v- here and there.
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Ascending and descending chromatisms

The tough point is to keep a regular pace on the part in glissando (unlike me umph!). Execution speed can be very fast once the movement is mastered. There's still some work for me especially when played with only two fingers on the left hand (the one that most sounds Manouche)!
Ascending (1.080 KB)
Ascending with two fingers and a glissando on each string (1.420 KB)
Descending (1.190 KB)

Diminished lick on three strings

A lick often used by the Rosenberg. The fast part is directly taken from Les Yeux Noirs in the Django version.
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Diminished lick on three strings

A lick played by Angelo Debarre. Harder than the previous one because of the -v-v- movement with string skipping.
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A Rosenberg lick

A lick from Stochelo Rosenberg on Viajeiro. To be played over a 9 chord (A9 here).
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Typical Manouche lick with 4 notes per string

A lick that definitely sounds Manouche but that you should not overuse or play on two octaves as is the case here. All played in alternate picking. String change is the toughest part of it.
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Typical lick

To be played over a dominant 7 chord (in A7 here).
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Typical lick

A Rosenberg-like plan. To be played over a m7 chord (in Bm7 here).
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