I love this aspect of Raneys playing with the odd note groupings and polyrhythms :) At some point I should do a video on Doug too 🙂 Content: 0:00 Intro 0:50 Lick #1 - Making Lines with Repetition and Odd-Note Grouping 0:57 Analysis 1:15 What I love about the later Jimmy Raney Albums 2:46 Lick #1 - Slow 2:53 Lick #2 - Stay Off The Beat on a Blues 3:02 Analysis - Shifting Motifs in a line 5:35 Lick #2 - Slow 5:46 Lick #3 - Chromatic Enclosures as a motif 5:54 Analysis 7:15 Across the Barline - delaying resolution 7:46 Lick #3 - Slow 8:25 Lick #4 - Sliding into the Blues (with Polyrhythms) 8:29 Analysis 9:56 Lick #4 - Slow 10:02 Lick #5 - from Blues to Altered Dominants 10:08 Analysis - Decoding a brilliant shifting idea 11:22 Lick #5 - Slow 11:32 Like the video? Check Out My Patreon Page!
I was fortunate to know Jimmy Raney, hanging out with him, studying with him, and listening to him. I even have a hand-written copy of an instructional book book he never published. Thank you for helping to keep his sensational artistry alive. I’ll leave you with one of the many wonderful comments he made to me: “You can tell when a guitar player isn’t listening to what he’s playing. Because if he were, he wouldn’t be playing it.”
Jens, you’re killing me! Jim Hall lesson and now Jimmy Raney. These are my top two dudes. Love Jimmys sound but have always found his lines hard to analyze. Thanks for the lesson
Great video Jens. The blues lick at 11:22 is a variation of the George Benson lick you demonstrated recently. I like playing it a whole step up using the G and B strings to give it a fatter, jazzier sound.
My teacher who I used to have has said that repetition of licks is not that good for Jazz, but as I see here and even listening to Wes Montgomery my brain has liked some repetition of rhythms or licks sometimes even in Jazz. Playing too much different stuff at once can not always be good for my ears, but a balance of not to much repetition too can be good for my ears sometimes.
I think you will find a lot of repetition in Jazz, but I don't know in what context your teacher was saying that, there is creative repetition and not knowing anything else to play 🙂
Loved the analysis. Couple of things .. there is a similarity in the solos of What is this thing called love .. Raney and Grant Green... not saying anything specific except that i just noticed that :-). Also kudos on ur reference about the pronunciation of "what is .." at around 6:00 hahaha.
I think that line is almost like a country line(talking that bluesy lick on the C Major). Being from Kentucky I think Raney might have gotten some bluegrass or country type of influence in his playing.I cold be wrong, but that's how I hear it!
Perhaps I have been living under a rock...I have never heard of Jimmy Raney before today, and he seems like an important musician to check. Thanks Jens. Perhaps maybe you can have a video not talking theory, not talking lines, but maybe compile a 50 list of musicians you reckon are important to listen to...spanning over time from history to modern players.
I once played Jimmy´s version of "Billie's Bounce" here for Nicolai Gromin (I think this was in 1985). Nicolai didn't like it. "Elvis Presley", he sneered . LOL. Too bluesy/hard-hitting for him, I suspect. But he admired Jimmy as well as Doug (who he played with).
Haha! Strange response. I really listened a lot to one of Nicolai's albums before I went to the conservatory also learned some of his lines on Sentimental mood 🙂
@@keepemlo Nice of you to apologize for that inadvertently rude comment. Sorry to sound pontificating but these are free lessons and one can always click a button to move on. but again i am pointing this out because rarely do i see people come back and apologize.
I love this aspect of Raneys playing with the odd note groupings and polyrhythms :) At some point I should do a video on Doug too 🙂
Content:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Lick #1 - Making Lines with Repetition and Odd-Note Grouping
0:57 Analysis
1:15 What I love about the later Jimmy Raney Albums
2:46 Lick #1 - Slow
2:53 Lick #2 - Stay Off The Beat on a Blues
3:02 Analysis - Shifting Motifs in a line
5:35 Lick #2 - Slow
5:46 Lick #3 - Chromatic Enclosures as a motif
5:54 Analysis
7:15 Across the Barline - delaying resolution
7:46 Lick #3 - Slow
8:25 Lick #4 - Sliding into the Blues (with Polyrhythms)
8:29 Analysis
9:56 Lick #4 - Slow
10:02 Lick #5 - from Blues to Altered Dominants
10:08 Analysis - Decoding a brilliant shifting idea
11:22 Lick #5 - Slow
11:32 Like the video? Check Out My Patreon Page!
Yes, Doug deserves his own video. Amazing guitarist, a little forgotten and one of my favourites.
@@videnteloco Next week! :)
Jimmy was a top guitarist.... unbeatable lines and perfect 16th notes....
I was fortunate to know Jimmy Raney, hanging out with him, studying with him, and listening to him. I even have a hand-written copy of an instructional book book he never published. Thank you for helping to keep his sensational artistry alive.
I’ll leave you with one of the many wonderful comments he made to me: “You can tell when a guitar player isn’t listening to what he’s playing. Because if he were, he wouldn’t be playing it.”
Perhaps you can see if his ? Estate would allow it to be published posthumously. Would be wonderful.
@@golds04It’s published now by Sher Music
Jens, you’re killing me! Jim Hall lesson and now Jimmy Raney. These are my top two dudes. Love Jimmys sound but have always found his lines hard to analyze. Thanks for the lesson
That's really great to hear Todd! Who else? :)
Jens Larsen Haha no more! This is already months of work 😁
Great lines. Thanks for introducing me to a guitarist I had never heard of. And of course, thanks for highlighting some of his great ideas.
Glad you like it, Rene!
Dig the album drops in this video, should consider more of this! I used to find it very difficult to find more records by some of these artists
Thank you! I will keep that in mind, mostly I am only using material from one track though 🙂
Great video Jens. The blues lick at 11:22 is a variation of the George Benson lick you demonstrated recently. I like playing it a whole step up using the G and B strings to give it a fatter, jazzier sound.
Thanks Tom! It doesn\t really ring a bell with the Benson video, but I also have made a few videos in between :)
Great to see Jimmy Raney getting a mention, incredible player,. Would love to see more of him in your videos. The Master was 1983 I think.
Thanks 🙂 I thought it was mid 70's? Maybe I looked it up in the wrong place
Avery cool, He was not on my radar but is now... The rhythmic motifs are quite compelling and going into my bag of tricks! Thank You! 😎
Thanks Jens, one more great video!👏👏
You're very welcome! Glad you like it!
Awesome Lesson! Love everything He's put out. I think i hear alot of Jimmys lines in Pasquale Grasso's playing 👍
Thank you! I never thought about whether he was an influence on Pasquale
I love Jimmy Raney. This is great.
Thank you! Glad you like it!
Thanks for such a deep video on my favorite player
You're very welcome! 🙂
The first ever DVD I owned was Two Jims and Zoot with Jim Hall and Jim Raney, so long since I listened to that :o
@@pickngrimace2726 i still own the DVD.... so long since I listened to it not sure if it still works.
Never checked out that album. I will look it up 🙂
My teacher who I used to have has said that repetition of licks is not that good for Jazz, but as I see here and even listening to Wes Montgomery my brain has liked some repetition of rhythms or licks sometimes even in Jazz. Playing too much different stuff at once can not always be good for my ears, but a balance of not to much repetition too can be good for my ears sometimes.
I think you will find a lot of repetition in Jazz, but I don't know in what context your teacher was saying that, there is creative repetition and not knowing anything else to play 🙂
Loved the analysis. Couple of things .. there is a similarity in the solos of What is this thing called love .. Raney and Grant Green... not saying anything specific except that i just noticed that :-). Also kudos on ur reference about the pronunciation of "what is .." at around 6:00 hahaha.
I think that line is almost like a country line(talking that bluesy lick on the C Major). Being from Kentucky I think Raney might have gotten some bluegrass or country type of influence in his playing.I cold be wrong, but that's how I hear it!
Perhaps I have been living under a rock...I have never heard of Jimmy Raney before today, and he seems like an important musician to check. Thanks Jens. Perhaps maybe you can have a video not talking theory, not talking lines, but maybe compile a 50 list of musicians you reckon are important to listen to...spanning over time from history to modern players.
He is certainly worthwhile checking out :)
You mean a video along these lines: ruclips.net/video/rewhHzkr8K4/видео.html
@@JensLarsen Awesome, thanks for the link...precisely the kind of vid
I missed this one, somehow!!
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Glad you like it! 🙂
Sorry I was "too"harsh...just commenting on talk to music ratio..you are a great teacher
Thanks Master
Glad you like it 🙂
Of course, on a lot of his later album his sound - or the way it was recorded -was more interesting and dynamic.
This is one of the later albums right?
Hi Jens. In your gear section in the description you don't mention what kind of guitar you are playing. What is the company and make of your guitar?
Thanks Willy! That does change, but mostly I am using this one which is an Ibanez AS2630 from 1977 :)
@@petedavid5127 I guess it did. But I don't know for sure if the two models didn't co-exist at some point?
Thanks
You're very welcome! 🙂
The Master is a 1983 album (not 1975).
True, I don't know how I managed to look that up wrong. Maybe it feels '75 😄
I once played Jimmy´s version of "Billie's Bounce" here for Nicolai Gromin (I think this was in 1985). Nicolai didn't like it. "Elvis Presley", he sneered . LOL. Too bluesy/hard-hitting for him, I suspect. But he admired Jimmy as well as Doug (who he played with).
Haha! Strange response. I really listened a lot to one of Nicolai's albums before I went to the conservatory also learned some of his lines on Sentimental mood 🙂
I never thought of Raney as being influenced by Scotty Moore. Gromin performed with Doug Raney in Copenhagen in 1988. It is available on YT.
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I should have taken up brain surgery. It's definitely easier.
And just as fun at parties 😁
Talk to much
You mean "talk too much right?" I think you have an "o" too little? 😄
Sorry ..I was harsh..great lesson just your talk to music ratio
No worries. I think we have different ideas in terms of what the goal with the video is though :)
@@JensLarsen Who the hell is 'much' and why are you talking to him? Are you talking to HIM? Huh!? :-D
@@keepemlo Nice of you to apologize for that inadvertently rude comment. Sorry to sound pontificating but these are free lessons and one can always click a button to move on. but again i am pointing this out because rarely do i see people come back and apologize.