I've been playing guitar for over 40 years. Self taught. Mostly Blues. (I'm a Chicago boy.) This cat has taught me a TON about the Jazz aspect of Blues! I've stumbled on a lot of this while trying to play what I heard in my head without understanding why it sounded... "Jazzy". Now it's starting to make sense. Thanks! You're an awesome teacher.
I first learned how to fake a Jazzy vibe on guitar by sliding up or down to a note in the Blues scale from a half step above or below instead of bending -- like Albert King, Buddy Guy, and other Blues legends. This cat has taught me how to incorporate the Major 3rd, 9th, Sharp 9, and the mysterious 13th.
yeah we didn't create we only borrow ..standing on the backs of others who came before..and those who was before even then..and add to and make our own.. thanks for he gift of what you know and passing it on man..
very tasty playing great tone and breaking down solo's over the changes great video love it man , EXCELLENT INFO , REMINDED ME OF HOWARD ROBERTS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAV MELODIC JAZZ PLAYERS
Great lesson .....Thanks Henri .You offers all we need to understand and play close to our dreams . You have a wonderful tone and your voice is Blues sank in Jazz .
0:15 blues 1st formation 0:40 0:50 grant green did in 60s his vocab in blues 1:12 next area 1:26 1:45 overall blues areas of activity using f7 inversion 2:19 pentatonic blues info Play with chords extensions so it can add color example #9 or with 13s, pentatonic with #9 and 9 pentatonic with chromatic sounds nice 4:10 10:25 10:44 11:40 11:55 12:07 Motif waiting and listening for rhythm section before coming in 12:30 13:16 13:30 14:10 15:30
Indeed the chromatics are a great way to hook up all this stuff together. Miles used it. You hear it with Robben Ford. Used appropriately you can get a lot of mileage out of some straightforward stuff. Peace...
“Areas of activity” … he’s playing 5 inversions of F7; he’s using CAGED but starting on E-shape of F7 for EDCAG. So play on the top 4 strings only (to make it simple, DGBE) so F7 (3241), D7-shape of F7 (3545), C7-shape of F7 (7868), A7-shape of F7 (10-8-10-8), G7-shape of F7 (10-10-10-11), and E7-shape of F7 again at the octave (15-14-16-13). So any chord can be played these 5 different ways, and there will be a scale shape that goes with each of these shapes. That’s how you play all across the fingerboard. You find those 5 CAGED shapes, in this case if a Dominant 7 chord. Then you find the Mixolydian scale (123456-b7) that goes with them. Add in b3 and b5 from the Blues scale and that’s how you play all over the neck. Find those 5 “areas of activity” (CAGED, AGEDC, GEDCA, EDCAG, or DCAGE).
It is Henry’s signature model Heritage guitar, built at 225 Parsons Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Heritage Guitars, built by the craftsmen who had built all the best guitars ever produced in Kalamazoo.
Danibolical 1: OR... it could simply mean that a) I like the way he plays and b) I didn’t recognize the headstock and simply wanted to know what kind of guitar it is... Not at all relating his guitar to his talent.
@guitarsurfer2010 Thanks bro, I really appreciate your kindness. I'm really trying to change my playing style from improvisatory blues noodlings, but I find it quite difficult. I love the clean sound of Jazz, too, but it's knowing where to begin, scales, chords, phrasing etc. 😁🎸
Merci beaucoup /thank you very much....G. Benson, R. Ford ect ect ect style 👌+ couleur Django Reinhardt.... Magnifique cover for débutant ....merci bien Henry & True Fire ☺ 👍.....F(M)7(m) !?🇫🇷...lol.....MERCI 😊
Copy this down: in the key of C, C(1-8), Db (b2-b9), D (2-9), Eb (b3-#9), E (3), F (4-11), F# (#11)/ or if called Gb (b5), G (5), G# (#5)/ or if called Ab (b13), A (6-13), Bb (b7), B (7). That’s how intervals are named. Once that makes sense to you in the key of C, then do it for all the keys (start with CAGED). Here’s A: A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G# (1234567) … continue from there.
@Protean Polymath I've been playing the guitar for decades and fairly early on could improvise quite good on the blues/minor pentatonic scale, but struggle with other scales and talk of chromatic and other scales just confuses me! I feel the 'set-in-your-ways' guitar playing is the major problem for 80% of all guitarists. Do you know what I mean?
Some helpful advice for new players! Something you need to do is to NOT be intimidated! Hearing someone ask you for some "exotic complex chord" can be VERY intimidating for sure! One reason for that is the fault of "labeling" every darned thing about playing those 6-strings (most cases!) on a guitar! We label the scales, the frets, the chords, the intervals, the arpeggio's, and more! Sadly,, we need names/labels to identify music in order to reproduce it live! And then,, there's the subtle-mystification(s) of every other player, who (meaning well! LOL!) causes you to add MORE mental-hurdles which really "aren't there" with there own views on music/guitar! Take the time to understand your guitar, how it works/is played. Don't just start picking the strings like your hero guitarist!!! Here's the simple advice that was handed to me by 3 guitar players who I've been fortunate enough to get close enough to, to have some real interchange of guitar studies/advice,, Larry Carlton, Vince Martell (The Vanilla Fudge), and Robben Ford. 1) Every song ever written is waiting for you to play on that fretboard! 2) There are 8 tones (full octave!) only variation(s) are in the minor scale(s). It repeats itself over and over, and so do EVERY chord position(s). DON'T LET THE NAMES OF SCALES/CHORDS/MODES CONFUSE YOU~!~ Focus on memorizing the notes on every individual string and fret, starting at the open string notes*, and working down and up the fretboard. After that, you will have a better understanding of building chords, from 2 note pedal tones, which Johnson uses alot of in jazz playing, to full 6 note chords/inversions. An easy way to begin this work is to start in the *F bar position 1st fret. Lastly, what makes all of these guitar greats, "great", is LOTS of practice! And with that practice comes the ability to find the notes, and the chords that you want, when you're soloing, both as a soloist, and, as a great harmony/rhthym player! Remember..... every song is waiting on your guitar fretboard for you to play~!~!~
HENRI 's lesson turns around blues in F and he starts showing ascending shapes of F7 ( with 4 notes ) on the four upper strings ....and then illustrates each shape with melodic examples , blues lines and blues licks which are the essential vocabulary .
The first chord is the “Charlie Christian” inversion. Just the F7 in 1 without strings 5 and 6. This is the Charlie Christian, Wes, GB school by someone that knows it very well indeed, and is too much of a gentleman to roll around the mud with yahoos that wouldn’t know clay from bum putty.
really enjoy how Henry explains his approach. makes it easy to grasp
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years. Self taught. Mostly Blues. (I'm a Chicago boy.) This cat has taught me a TON about the Jazz aspect of Blues! I've stumbled on a lot of this while trying to play what I heard in my head without understanding why it sounded... "Jazzy". Now it's starting to make sense. Thanks! You're an awesome teacher.
I first learned how to fake a Jazzy vibe on guitar by sliding up or down to a note in the Blues scale from a half step above or below instead of bending -- like Albert King, Buddy Guy, and other Blues legends. This cat has taught me how to incorporate the Major 3rd, 9th, Sharp 9, and the mysterious 13th.
The wonderful down to earth, Henry Johnson. Real breakdown of his blues.
Henry's natural blues language in a jazz idiom is pretty sweet. A lot goes into those few notes, knowing how to make them sound that way.
This dude is the real deal
How he makes it sound is magical.
I came without Notes Reading and Knowing enough about them . But i' m deep in Love with Them .
And forever
Real deal! Sweet tone and nice touch ...everything is there
Maestro! great teacher.
Greetings Sir. I bought your lesson and the dvd. Love your tone and the way you explain everything. Thank You Sir.
yeah we didn't create we only borrow ..standing on the backs of others who came before..and those who was before even then..and add to and make our own.. thanks for he gift of what you know and passing it on man..
He’s amazing! Love the way he approach each phrase and explains how it works in different chord structures and progression
Very clear and easy to understand. Well done!!
Very good lesson. Great teacher.. keeps it concise and gives solid foundation info.
wow, its amazing following this trip full of cool deep suggestions, thank's professor
What a fantastic teacher (and player)!
very tasty playing great tone and breaking down solo's over the changes great video love it man , EXCELLENT INFO , REMINDED ME OF HOWARD ROBERTS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAV MELODIC JAZZ PLAYERS
Thank you Henry Johnson
Love the relaxing harmony ❤️
Great player! Great teacher! 👍🎸😃
Wow... what a great teacher.
Great lesson .....Thanks Henri .You offers all we need to understand and play close to our
dreams . You have a wonderful tone and your voice is Blues sank in Jazz .
Beautiful tone.
Anxiousjune so much dept wow
But also what a tone! Like it's coming out of smoke
Great lesson. Brilliant playing
Very cool explanation of the jazz tonalities added to blues and phrasing.
Great blues guitar phrases easy it sounds really good.
very good teacher. thanks.
0:15 blues 1st formation
0:40
0:50 grant green did in 60s his vocab in blues
1:12 next area
1:26
1:45 overall blues areas of activity using f7 inversion
2:19 pentatonic blues info
Play with chords extensions so it can add color example #9 or with 13s, pentatonic with #9 and 9 pentatonic with chromatic sounds nice
4:10
10:25
10:44
11:40
11:55
12:07
Motif waiting and listening for rhythm section before coming in 12:30
13:16
13:30
14:10
15:30
Great Teacher!
been one of my favs for years
Great lesson! Very good teaching style.
Excellent teacher and lesson!
Good lesson full of great motifs, thanks again friend
Great lesson, thanks Henry Johnson.
I watched 30 seconds of this and then went and bought the course.
What a Great Guitar!!
Even greater player i must say~~~
You are know so much about music. I bet you can really play the piano too. Thank you!!! Did you have formal training?
Indeed the chromatics are a great way to hook up all this stuff together. Miles used it. You hear it with Robben Ford. Used appropriately you can get a lot of mileage out of some straightforward stuff. Peace...
Herb Ellis is another one who relied heavily on chromatic tones
Chromatics are very important
great !! indeed ! thanks Henry
Thank you so much for your share. Very Good Personn and talent.
Gorgeous guitar -gracious!
“Areas of activity” … he’s playing 5 inversions of F7; he’s using CAGED but starting on E-shape of F7 for EDCAG. So play on the top 4 strings only (to make it simple, DGBE) so F7 (3241), D7-shape of F7 (3545), C7-shape of F7 (7868), A7-shape of F7 (10-8-10-8), G7-shape of F7 (10-10-10-11), and E7-shape of F7 again at the octave (15-14-16-13).
So any chord can be played these 5 different ways, and there will be a scale shape that goes with each of these shapes.
That’s how you play all across the fingerboard. You find those 5 CAGED shapes, in this case if a Dominant 7 chord. Then you find the Mixolydian scale (123456-b7) that goes with them. Add in b3 and b5 from the Blues scale and that’s how you play all over the neck. Find those 5 “areas of activity” (CAGED, AGEDC, GEDCA, EDCAG, or DCAGE).
wow, the tone of that guitar is magic... he's got the touch! what is that guitar?
jlr022159 The headstock looks like a Heritage.
Nice melo sound
It is Henry’s signature model Heritage guitar, built at 225 Parsons Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Heritage Guitars, built by the craftsmen who had built all the best guitars ever produced in Kalamazoo.
Danibolical 1: OR... it could simply mean that a) I like the way he plays and b) I didn’t recognize the headstock and simply wanted to know what kind of guitar it is... Not at all relating his guitar to his talent.
Just how many of those old craftsmen do you think are still at 225 Parsons Ave?
This is crackin stuff! Cheers
Henry Johnson, excellent teacher and jazz performer. I'm looking at those f-holes, are those covered?
@guitarsurfer2010 Wish I could see him perform live, I live on the West Coast.
@guitarsurfer2010 Prevents feedback.
My friend Roy Sainsbury does the same.
@guitarsurfer2010 What scales is he using and what key is this in?
@guitarsurfer2010 Thanks bro, I really appreciate your kindness. I'm really trying to change my playing style from improvisatory blues noodlings, but I find it quite difficult. I love the clean sound of Jazz, too, but it's knowing where to begin, scales, chords, phrasing etc. 😁🎸
that guitar has a distinct tone.....sweet
My head hurts, but I think I get it
Excellent explanation and sweeet guitar sound. Great
love this. Great teacher
First time hearing you Henry awesome
paulb7 that tone is sweet
Check out his stuff with Joe Williams
Sharp 9! That’s right! Ain’t minor. It’s sharp 9 on dominant 7 chord. Cat daddy is cognizant. I subscribed behind this.
What a tone!!!! O yeah!
Excellent. Thank you!
Great vid my friend! Very informative!
Cute sound guitar.. Own a les paul. But I would like to buy one of these semi hollow babies.
Super helpfull, Thank you Henry!
Use your chromatic tones to always lead into a resolving note.
HJ = Excellence!! Love it
Diggin it all the way great info
Merci beaucoup /thank you very much....G. Benson, R. Ford ect ect ect style 👌+ couleur Django Reinhardt....
Magnifique cover for débutant ....merci bien Henry & True Fire ☺ 👍.....F(M)7(m) !?🇫🇷...lol.....MERCI 😊
Hi, Can you tell us all something about the strings your playing here? - FANTASTIC tone!!!
Very nice indeed
I've seen many jazz guitarists hold a pick like that and supporting fingers on guitar top. Is it easier to play jazz licks with this technique?
Listen to Henry’s solo on sun goddess with Ramsey Lewis , you will see what this guy is all about
Great teacher! Where can I find more of his lessons ?!
Very cool….💖💕🎶
Nice cat....beautiful guitar as well. Florentines rule lol
cool lesson.
Awesome!
Very neat 👍🏽
The Ragtime scales! lol one of the secrets best for blues!
Thanks
Done well
Go and put this stuff on your playlist Like right now hhaha I really Reccomend it.
At 8:20 he says he used a Charlie Parker lick. I think it was actually Sonny Rollins, Tenor Madness. Right out of the head.
СПАСИБО тебе Человек!!!
my favorite: 3:04 3:24 3:54
Copy this down: in the key of C, C(1-8), Db (b2-b9), D (2-9), Eb (b3-#9), E (3), F (4-11), F# (#11)/ or if called Gb (b5), G (5), G# (#5)/ or if called Ab (b13), A (6-13), Bb (b7), B (7).
That’s how intervals are named.
Once that makes sense to you in the key of C, then do it for all the keys (start with CAGED).
Here’s A: A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G# (1234567) … continue from there.
Hey GREAT!!
I think you are awesome
Chi Town Jazz Blues Hip tones
Excelente
Greatttttt
Took me ages to realize that the F hole is a painting of an F hole and it's covered (to prevent the problem that the Les Paul solved) feedback
Do you give personal lessons
What's up with f-holes? Decals? The guitar sounds great.
@Protean Polymath I should have known that. This is a great lesson.
Putting clear over the cuts can help with feed back.
Is that a semi hollow or just f hole stickers
Finally someone who knows who grant green is!! It’s hard being into this music when you’re 18 and all of your friends are listening to hot garbage.
I understand. Stick to your heart. You'll go far...
Manos de diferentes colores
1:03
what guitar is he playing?
The penny dropped! I get it.
What gauge strings do you use ????
What scales is he using and what key is the Blues in here? Cheers.
@Protean Polymath I've been playing the guitar for decades and fairly early on could improvise quite good on the blues/minor pentatonic scale, but struggle with other scales and talk of chromatic and other scales just confuses me! I feel the 'set-in-your-ways' guitar playing is the major problem for 80% of all guitarists. Do you know what I mean?
Some helpful advice for new players! Something you need to do is to NOT be intimidated! Hearing someone ask you for some "exotic complex chord" can be VERY intimidating for sure! One reason for that is the fault of "labeling" every darned thing about playing those 6-strings (most cases!) on a guitar! We label the scales, the frets, the chords, the intervals, the arpeggio's, and more! Sadly,, we need names/labels to identify music in order to reproduce it live! And then,, there's the subtle-mystification(s) of every other player, who (meaning well! LOL!) causes you to add MORE mental-hurdles which really "aren't there" with there own views on music/guitar! Take the time to understand your guitar, how it works/is played. Don't just start picking the strings like your hero guitarist!!! Here's the simple advice that was handed to me by 3 guitar players who I've been fortunate enough to get close enough to, to have some real interchange of guitar studies/advice,, Larry Carlton, Vince Martell (The Vanilla Fudge), and Robben Ford. 1) Every song ever written is waiting for you to play on that fretboard! 2) There are 8 tones (full octave!) only variation(s) are in the minor scale(s). It repeats itself over and over, and so do EVERY chord position(s). DON'T LET THE NAMES OF SCALES/CHORDS/MODES CONFUSE YOU~!~ Focus on memorizing the notes on every individual string and fret, starting at the open string notes*, and working down and up the fretboard. After that, you will have a better understanding of building chords, from 2 note pedal tones, which Johnson uses alot of in jazz playing, to full 6 note chords/inversions. An easy way to begin this work is to start in the *F bar position 1st fret. Lastly, what makes all of these guitar greats, "great", is LOTS of practice! And with that practice comes the ability to find the notes, and the chords that you want, when you're soloing, both as a soloist, and, as a great harmony/rhthym player! Remember..... every song is waiting on your guitar fretboard for you to play~!~!~
That os the First chord? F7? Can't understand the shape. TKS!
Uou... Just got It...
HENRI 's lesson turns around blues in F and he starts showing ascending shapes
of F7 ( with 4 notes ) on the four upper strings ....and then illustrates each shape
with melodic examples , blues lines and blues licks which are the essential vocabulary .
The first chord is the “Charlie Christian” inversion. Just the F7 in 1 without strings 5 and 6.
This is the Charlie Christian, Wes, GB school by someone that knows it very well indeed, and is too much of a gentleman to roll around the mud with yahoos that wouldn’t know clay from bum putty.
Is it just me or do I hear a lot of kenny burrel in his playing?
Miran Öztürk well cant help but see n hear the comparisson ya
Check out RUclips where you can see Henry playing with Kenny.
yep, defo KB flavoured :)
tabs?
#grantGreeneBlues #musicalVocabulary
Waooo
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