Robben Ford 'Help The Poor' V-I licks lesson (part 1) - How to Play it, Why it Works

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  • Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
  • In this video I'm looking at a great Robben Ford V-I blues jazz guitar lick from his solo on Help The Poor (from the album Talk To Your Daughter). Full transcription of the line in 'Extras' here: www.buymeacoffee.com/petecallard
    The timings are as follows:
    0:00 Intro
    0:15 Lick
    0:33 Transcription
    0:49 Lick analysis:
    0:55 Chord sequence
    1:46 Altered line over A7#5 chord
    6:43 Resolution over Dm11
    8:14 Full lick slowly
    8:54 Lick - half speed (close up)
    9:10 Lick - full speed (close up)
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    Help The Poor is an original composition by J.B.Lenoir recorded on the 1988 Robben Ford album Talk To Your Daughter. This tutorial video is intended for tuitional purposes and no part of the original recording or live version was used in this video. I don't own the copyright to this composition
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Комментарии • 44

  • @PeteCallard
    @PeteCallard  2 года назад +1

    Hope you’ve enjoyed this - you can find part two here: ruclips.net/video/7A1T6J2yEfo/видео.html and the breakdown of another brilliant Robben Ford lick here ruclips.net/video/sY3QVq0rhuM/видео.html

  • @fsback1965
    @fsback1965 Месяц назад

    Can't thank you enough for putting this up here - it's a big help to tonal challenged people like me!!

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  Месяц назад

      Thanks man, much appreciated!

  • @theviciousheadsociety4923
    @theviciousheadsociety4923 3 года назад +1

    Love this! Great explanation as always.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад

      Thanks Graham! Much appreciated

  • @aljustal7577
    @aljustal7577 3 года назад +4

    Great stuff Pete, detailed analysis and perfect tone as always 👍 I remember learning this line back in the day and not really knowing what was going on, but now I do 😄 Robben is the perfect crossover from blues to jazz, looking forward to part two 😃

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад

      Thanks Al Just Al! It’s such a classic, perfect line, & so beautifully played. Robben Ford is a sublime player

  • @keithmitchellguitarlessons585
    @keithmitchellguitarlessons585 3 года назад +1

    That tone - oooh my....

  • @PeteCalandra
    @PeteCalandra 3 года назад +1

    Really good stuff Pete. Also like the rearranged studio set up and lighting.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад

      Thanks very much Pete - it's actually a new studio, took a bit of setting up but it's getting there

  • @j.r.goldman3279
    @j.r.goldman3279 11 месяцев назад

    Great lick

  • @JazzStrat781
    @JazzStrat781 3 года назад +1

    Thanks Pete, always excellent 👍🎸 hope you are well brother!

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад +1

      Thanks JazzStrat, all good thanks. Hope you’re ok

  • @giacomocastellano-official
    @giacomocastellano-official 9 месяцев назад

    Great channel!

  • @ChrisGeden
    @ChrisGeden 3 года назад +1

    Another great vid, Pete. Loving the background lighting, too.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад +1

      Thanks very much Chris! Glad you like the background lighting - I need to get some tips from you

    • @ChrisGeden
      @ChrisGeden 3 года назад +1

      @@PeteCallard please give me a call or email anytime if you want some tips.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  3 года назад +1

      Thanks Chris, I’ll be in touch…

  • @GuitarSmartsPodcast
    @GuitarSmartsPodcast 2 года назад +1

    Hey Pete, really enjoyed this, downloaded your tab and spent some time getting it under my fingers. Really great stuff!

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  2 года назад +1

      Thanks Matt, and thanks for the coffees! They’re such great lines aren’t they

    • @GuitarSmartsPodcast
      @GuitarSmartsPodcast 2 года назад +1

      @@PeteCallard Amazing lines, I've always loved his playing, walks that line between Jazz and Blues really well. Some of my fav lines of his come from his solo on Imperial Strut on the Yellow Jackets album, and I bet you know the lines that I mean too! Would be great to hear your breakdown of some of those lines.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  2 года назад

      @@GuitarSmartsPodcastThanks Matt, I'll bear that in mind... He's amazing isn't he - I did a video a few months back on a great line of his from a live version of Tee Time For Eric with the Yellowjackets at Montreux

  • @scotttucker9346
    @scotttucker9346 7 месяцев назад

    Pete, your demonstration and analysis of this great Robben Ford lick is excellent! I have one comment: I think that "ghost note" may be a Db (from the A7b5 chord) rather than an Eb. And I think the reason that it is very faint could be that rather than using his 2nd finger for that note, he is switching to his 1st finger to get ready for the next lick. That's because the pull-off from the F would be easier. At least the lick is much easier for me to play that way.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks very much Scott! I must admit I’d always thought that the ghost note was a Db/C#, but on re-transcribing it for this video it really sounded like an Eb, despite my best efforts to convince myself otherwise! That’s not to say I’m correct, just that that’s what it sounded like to me

    • @scotttucker9346
      @scotttucker9346 7 месяцев назад

      Pete, I think either the Db or Eb sound fine in that spot. I want to add that the way you employ hammer-ons and pull-offs sound identical to way Robben uses them, as best I can tell. I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  7 месяцев назад

      Thanks man, I tried to channel Robben as best I could. You’re right, both notes are from the same scale & work over the A7 chord so either is good

  • @Rocker72
    @Rocker72 10 месяцев назад

    That tone is sublime. Check out Allen Hinds if you don’t already know him. Should be right up your alley. Great lesson! 🙏

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks very much! Allen Hinds is a very classy player, he taught at the music college I went to

    • @Rocker72
      @Rocker72 10 месяцев назад

      @@PeteCallard Nice. I had him as a private instructor on one occasion when I went to MI back in ’95.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  10 месяцев назад +1

      We went to the same college

  • @wilberramirez8051
    @wilberramirez8051 9 месяцев назад

    great tone what profile do you use on your Kemper?

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  9 месяцев назад

      Thanks man, I think it was a Matchless profile

  • @edcrow58
    @edcrow58 2 года назад

    Great lesson! Do you also have a copy of the chords chart too? Love to have a copy.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  2 года назад +1

      Thanks very much Eddie! I don’t have a copy of the chord chart, but off the top of my head the verse/solo chords are something like Dm7 A13sus A7#5 Dm7 G7 Bb7 Dm7 A7#5 Dm7, & the middle 8 is Gm7 Dm7 Bb7 A7#5. There’s a transcription of this and the other Help The Poor video lick on my buymeacoffee.com/petecallard page in ‘Extras’

    • @edcrow58
      @edcrow58 2 года назад +2

      @@PeteCallard Cool! Thank you very much.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  2 года назад +2

      You’re welcome, have fun with it

  • @j.r.goldman3279
    @j.r.goldman3279 11 месяцев назад

    robbin thought about that lick

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  11 месяцев назад +1

      It’s beautifully constructed

    • @asarcadyn2414
      @asarcadyn2414 5 месяцев назад

      @@PeteCallardSo it wasn't improvised? I'm beginning to realise my guitar heroes actually put in a lot of work planning set pieces. I need to do the same.

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  5 месяцев назад

      @@asarcadyn2414 it could have been improvised, but it feels like something preconceived, or at least played around patterns and shapes that he’s practiced. It’s like language - we all use phrases and variations on phrases that we’ve used before, but they’re so much part of our vocabulary that we don’t necessarily pre-plan them, and they don’t have any less meaning or relevance because we’ve used them before

  • @alfonsocrisostomo1366
    @alfonsocrisostomo1366 11 месяцев назад +1

    Frank Gambale: "Improvisation Made Easy". All problems solved with this book

    • @PeteCallard
      @PeteCallard  11 месяцев назад

      Frank Gambale’s a brilliant teacher