Funny, that version of Little Wing is what got me working on chromatic/outside playing when it came out...and Hiram was always a hero of mine. Got to know him online before his death, what a sweetheart of a guy. For 25 years, I've been playing in a funk horn band and I always find trading solos with the horns pushes me into new improv mindsets. It definitely influenced me to think more about outlining the chords, as my natural tendency is to be very scalar.
I became a big fan of Hiram when he was in the "house band" for David Sanborn's sunday night tv show. I met him late one night on a NY City subway and got a chance to tell him how much I enjoyed his playing. He deserved way more recognition than he received.
jakollee he did some funny stuff on SNL too. Loved him on Letterman, and I loved seeing him with the guests on that show Sanborn had for a while with Marcus Miller on bass and Omar Hakim on drums.
Great video Shawn....I remember lifting some McCoy Tyner piano chord voicing and lines from Miles records. Mike Stern told me once to lift everything I could from Jim Hall.
I saw Hiram Bullock live at a small jazz club in Oslo in my teens, and i have been fascinated by his attitude and solo lines ever after. Your aproach towards listening to and pinching parts of riffs from saxophone players and others, is a killer tip! This approach must have been a base for Hirams soloing as well i think. Mixed with more «ordinary» guitar ways like pentatonic and blues scales freshens up soloparts and makes things sound almostkinda new. Wich is kinda odd in itself. This used to be the way to go in jazz circles way back in time - get inspired by other musicians. Maybe we should all listen more to other instrumentalists these days. You really makes these lines sound smooth and useable. The Marsalis sax part -wich is all jazz, almost sound «country» on your guitar. I like 😀👍
Holy crap moment here ... this sounded vaguely familiar, couldn't place it until you fessed up to where you grabbed it. Years ago my pal gave me dozens of albums which he had gotten the disc of, and the Sting album was among them. I see Little Wing on there and like any good guitarist went straight there. I had a true WTF was that ! moment right where you said. I've always struggled with this outside stuff, and tried mightily to cop it but failed. What a cool lick it is, and now I got it ... except I just turned 70 and have arthritis but I'm still gonna give this a shot. Thanks Shawn, you & Andy Most are the coolest on YT !!
You have fun sense of humor. Tell Persimmon I said hi. I've made Pat Martino's signature lick my own. I've integrated enclosing chord tones to come up with ideas. While I was locked down during the heart of the the plandemic I worked extensively with Jerry Bergonzi's The Jazz Line book which is an in-depth study of bebop scales. Initially is was a lot of work but it did wonders for my phrasing. He doesn't mess around.
I love the sound of the trumpet. That's where I get a lot of my licks from. Wynton Marsalis, Clifford brown, chet Baker are some of my favorite players
Branford called... he wants his lick back :O) On a serious note, this speaks on 2 subjects: 1. Listen! Other musicians are doing great things that you can "re-purpose". 2. This also goes to the "everything is now copyright because there's nothing new". I feel that the whole music world needs to re-define what "copyright infringement" means, or soon we'll ALL be too afraid to write a song in case someone thinks it's too close to theirs. There are only 12 semitones..... Thanks Shawn for a great vid, AND teh one about your recording / creative techniques.
Yeah, well there are only ten single digit numbers, and look at what can be done with them! Practically infinite. The sun will burn out before we've exhausted the possibilities of digits 0-9. Us musicians have *Two* more! That compounds it exponentially. We can , and will write new stuff, but we'll always repurpose old because that's where our musical voices came from. Peace, Homie!😎🤙
Awesome Video! I love Brecker for inspiration for lines, I wish I could phrase like him in real time! That's the dream! Thanks for the video Shawn, I've already made a phrase up just by watching and not quite picking up the line you shared! Thank you!
Great video! I" borrow" from Neal Schon and Eddie Van Halen! I get the best of both worlds! I'm careful not to use the word "steal" because I don't want to be known as a thief! Lol!!!😁😁😁😀😊😊
I just recently discovered your videos, Shawn (thanks to Levi's transcription stream) and I absolutely fell in love with your playing. You make playing outside so approachable and musical which inspired me to try to come up with my own outside ideas based on your approach (and maybe steal some of your licks) to incorporate in my rock and blues playing as well as my metal stuff. My biggest issue with drawing from sax players in a jazzy context is that my ears absolutely not tuned to jazzy chord progressions and I have an extremely hard time to put the lines into harmonic context (and thus utilizing them in my own playing).
SO GLAD someone FINALLY brought to light that branford solo from little wing. ... its been one of my fav's for years .. highly recommend people hear it
Well after I took a jazz appreciation class I started the gravitate more towards jazz and fusion guitar players but I also really picked up on artist like Art Tatum and monk and Charlie Parker... unfortunately for me they're playing was a bit over my head so trying to translate it to guitar is something that I haven't quite attempted to tackle yet I'm not sure I have it under my hands...
This is a very cool tutorial! I had to slow the video down to about 50% to learn the riff, but I finally got it. Low and behold, you slowed it down for us any way toward the end. Thanks btw. But lately, I've been getting into Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I really want to incorporate that funky organ phrasing into my playing. It seems Delvons melodies are fairly pentatonic based, but the phrasing is so funky, for lack of a better term, that it's soulfully vocal. For a more outside tonality influence, Brecker is definitely the goal.
Great playing as usual ! That first lick you played over A is great. I like to find the 1 chord it works over , but then play it over that keys v chord, in this case E 7 . And then , play it half step out , or repeat lick ever four frets like you would with diminished licks. Ive been stealing licks from Mike Stern, Larry Carlton and Shawn Tubbs ( no lie) For years! Your playing is so good and tasteful on your Demos I want to buy whatever your demoing ! Thanks dude, I look forward to your vids.
What up Shawn! Man,.......Those licks are right in the ballpark of some modal stuff I've been working on!Go figure! Also my brother I'm building an sss strat style guitar from mostly Warmoth parts. I went for a pre wired p guard with my choice of John Suhrs pickups. I can tell you the guys name is Rothstein who does these professionally. What a masterpiece of a job he has done man. It's all copper shielded (wrapped)on back with impeccable wiring. WOW!!! Just wanted to tell you friend. Wanted to share because I'm SURE you would have appreciated this nugget of info. Guitar players unite!! When I get it done I'll try and get a vid done. Bless you homie.
What an awesome video, Shawn! I hope you do more of these conversation type videos, I really enjoyed it! Me personally, growing up in New Orleans, I took a lot from horn and sax players and a little piano where I could. :)
Great as always man. I've definitely taken a lot from saxophone players. The first thing I took was the doubled note false fingering thing which sounds cool on guitar. I find trumpet lines sit quite well on guitar also
fantastic vijeo there, Tubbs enjoy every one we come at this Instrument from different directions, You Cromaticism, Me, well Schencker, and leslie west started me off I am a "tone and a half stretcher, which don't exactly fit your style :)
Jimmy Page said somewhere at some point that when he looked for solo ideas, he looked to sax players...that sax solos "work" just like guitar solos. Don't hear ppl discuss this much.
Always great videos! The bigger problem for me is once you get one of your licks (or anyone's for that matter) under your fingers, how to remember the when and how to use it when playing. In other words, how do you keep the lick ready to go? If it is truly something new for me...like some of your outside stuff...unless I pound it over and over I forget it pretty quick. How do you keep new stuff you learn ready to go?
Shawn is one of very few, that when he grabs that vibrato bar, does it tastefully, and doesn’t sound like he’s having an epileptic seizure in an electrical storm. You know who I’m talking about! Lol.
Shawn, I wanted to ask- Have you ever had the chance to play with Guthrie Trapp? I’d love to hear that! Similar stylistically but different enough to be an awesome jam
I took Van Halens Running with the Devil solo and combined it with the nightly news to come up with my own lick. No can even tell the lick is related to anything.
That tone! I've stolen the most from Hendrix, Paisley, and John Mayer Lol I need to branch out to other instruments for "stealing" licks. Don Felder used to do that with Sax players as well
“Oh! There’s something I need to work on!” Tell me about it. Solid advice here: study the masters and perfect your touch: string vibrato, bending, chord tones. Listen to non-guitarists. For me it’s been Coltrane and OH HI PERSIMMON!
I steal shamelessly from Eric Johnson and Steve Morse only because I have listened to them both since the 70's. I wish I could play like you and Robben Ford. You guys have a tasteful sense of outside harmony. My axe murdering of Little Wing: soundcloud.com/4pickupguy/tributelittle-wing
Is the joke that Sousa invented the saxophone? (iirc..) ... and, says he doesn't know theory, but pretty quickly knows that B is the 6th degree in D major without having to count on his fingers.
Dude you gotta baby us thru it with your mouth words, cos it's actually difficult to follow exactly what guitarists' fingers are doing, especially when you don't know the scale shape you're in. It's a phenomenon kinda like magicians' hands. They can be right in front of you it you still can't quite make out what they did..! You gotta take a great big lungful of patience when you're a teacher..
A lot of that just shot right over my head, but I genuinely appreciate your approach and your willingness to share. You’re a great player
Another great one. I grew up listening to a great pro sax player (and keys) practicing next door. You are so right about them.
Dude your playing is soo fluid and smooth. You kill it every time, and are super inspiring. I am a fan. Very interesting stuff as always.
Thanks Shawn. You help me not suck more and more with every video....
I stand out!!! I stink!! Ol' knuckles!! Still killing it and making fun of yourself!!!! I'm so glad to see you doing this!!! Thanks John Mullen
SUper pumped to log in and find there's a new video to watch. I always love your content.
Brilliant stuff man. Please do a book or something with all of the shapes you use! Would be unreal
When I need to steal some stuff. This is the channel I go to. Thanks Shawn!!!
Funny, that version of Little Wing is what got me working on chromatic/outside playing when it came out...and Hiram was always a hero of mine. Got to know him online before his death, what a sweetheart of a guy. For 25 years, I've been playing in a funk horn band and I always find trading solos with the horns pushes me into new improv mindsets. It definitely influenced me to think more about outlining the chords, as my natural tendency is to be very scalar.
I became a big fan of Hiram when he was in the "house band" for David Sanborn's sunday night tv show. I met him late one night on a NY City subway and got a chance to tell him how much I enjoyed his playing. He deserved way more recognition than he received.
jakollee he did some funny stuff on SNL too. Loved him on Letterman, and I loved seeing him with the guests on that show Sanborn had for a while with Marcus Miller on bass and Omar Hakim on drums.
@@AZFunk Thanks for reminding me about Hiram on Letterman! But that Sanborn show was so good, really a shame it didn't last that long.
Great video Shawn....I remember lifting some McCoy Tyner piano chord voicing and lines from Miles records. Mike Stern told me once to lift everything I could from Jim Hall.
I saw Hiram Bullock live at a small jazz club in Oslo in my teens, and i have been fascinated by his attitude and solo lines ever after. Your aproach towards listening to and pinching parts of riffs from saxophone players and others, is a killer tip! This approach must have been a base for Hirams soloing as well i think. Mixed with more «ordinary» guitar ways like pentatonic and blues scales freshens up soloparts and makes things sound almostkinda new.
Wich is kinda odd in itself. This used to be the way to go in jazz circles way back in time - get inspired by other musicians.
Maybe we should all listen more to other instrumentalists these days.
You really makes these lines sound smooth and useable.
The Marsalis sax part -wich is all jazz, almost sound «country» on your guitar.
I like 😀👍
Holy crap moment here ... this sounded vaguely familiar, couldn't place it until you fessed up to where you grabbed it. Years ago my pal gave me dozens of albums which he had gotten the disc of, and the Sting album was among them. I see Little Wing on there and like any good guitarist went straight there. I had a true WTF was that ! moment right where you said. I've always struggled with this outside stuff, and tried mightily to cop it but failed. What a cool lick it is, and now I got it ... except I just turned 70 and have arthritis but I'm still gonna give this a shot. Thanks Shawn, you & Andy Most are the coolest on YT !!
You have fun sense of humor. Tell Persimmon I said hi. I've made Pat Martino's signature lick my own. I've integrated enclosing chord tones to come up with ideas. While I was locked down during the heart of the the plandemic I worked extensively with Jerry Bergonzi's The Jazz Line book which is an in-depth study of bebop scales. Initially is was a lot of work but it did wonders for my phrasing. He doesn't mess around.
I love the sound of the trumpet. That's where I get a lot of my licks from. Wynton Marsalis, Clifford brown, chet Baker are some of my favorite players
Great playing and thanks for the free lesson. And just for a laugh...you look like Rob Lowe and Greg Kinnear put together. Ha
Glad is listened to the end. Was way confused about calling a sax a sousaphone.
Branford called... he wants his lick back :O) On a serious note, this speaks on 2 subjects: 1. Listen! Other musicians are doing great things that you can "re-purpose". 2. This also goes to the "everything is now copyright because there's nothing new". I feel that the whole music world needs to re-define what "copyright infringement" means, or soon we'll ALL be too afraid to write a song in case someone thinks it's too close to theirs. There are only 12 semitones..... Thanks Shawn for a great vid, AND teh one about your recording / creative techniques.
Yeah, well there are only ten single digit numbers, and look at what can be done with them! Practically infinite. The sun will burn out before we've exhausted the possibilities of digits 0-9.
Us musicians have *Two* more! That compounds it exponentially.
We can , and will write new stuff, but we'll always repurpose old because that's where our musical voices came from.
Peace, Homie!😎🤙
Awesome Video! I love Brecker for inspiration for lines, I wish I could phrase like him in real time! That's the dream! Thanks for the video Shawn, I've already made a phrase up just by watching and not quite picking up the line you shared! Thank you!
Great video! I" borrow" from Neal Schon and Eddie Van Halen! I get the best of both worlds! I'm careful not to use the word "steal" because I don't want to be known as a thief! Lol!!!😁😁😁😀😊😊
I just recently discovered your videos, Shawn (thanks to Levi's transcription stream) and I absolutely fell in love with your playing. You make playing outside so approachable and musical which inspired me to try to come up with my own outside ideas based on your approach (and maybe steal some of your licks) to incorporate in my rock and blues playing as well as my metal stuff.
My biggest issue with drawing from sax players in a jazzy context is that my ears absolutely not tuned to jazzy chord progressions and I have an extremely hard time to put the lines into harmonic context (and thus utilizing them in my own playing).
Thanks so much for checking out my channel! I appreciate the encouragement!
Love your playing and the "Demolition" album. A t shirt with that album cover on it would be a big seller.
Really love the tone of guitar. Very much enjoyed the lesson, looking forward to mastering that lick. Thanks!
Shawn do you use any kind of device, other than your brain, to slow down the licks that you're learning? Thanks!
SO GLAD someone FINALLY brought to light that branford solo from little wing. ... its been one of my fav's for years .. highly recommend people hear it
What a unique perspective on learning licks.....great lesson Shawn. A+.....sounds a bit like Frank Gambale, a legend...
Well after I took a jazz appreciation class I started the gravitate more towards jazz and fusion guitar players but I also really picked up on artist like Art Tatum and monk and Charlie Parker... unfortunately for me they're playing was a bit over my head so trying to translate it to guitar is something that I haven't quite attempted to tackle yet I'm not sure I have it under my hands...
This is a very cool tutorial! I had to slow the video down to about 50% to learn the riff, but I finally got it. Low and behold, you slowed it down for us any way toward the end. Thanks btw. But lately, I've been getting into Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. I really want to incorporate that funky organ phrasing into my playing. It seems Delvons melodies are fairly pentatonic based, but the phrasing is so funky, for lack of a better term, that it's soulfully vocal. For a more outside tonality influence, Brecker is definitely the goal.
Great playing as usual ! That first lick you played over A is great. I like to find the 1 chord it works over , but then play it over that keys v chord, in this case E 7 .
And then , play it half step out , or repeat lick ever four frets like you would with diminished licks.
Ive been stealing licks from Mike Stern,
Larry Carlton and Shawn Tubbs ( no lie)
For years! Your playing is so good and tasteful on your Demos I want to buy whatever your demoing !
Thanks dude, I look forward to your vids.
Thanks so much! Hope you're staying safe.
What up Shawn! Man,.......Those licks are right in the ballpark of some modal stuff I've been working on!Go figure! Also my brother I'm building an sss strat style guitar from mostly Warmoth parts. I went for a pre wired p guard with my choice of John Suhrs pickups. I can tell you the guys name is Rothstein who does these professionally. What a masterpiece of a job he has done man. It's all copper shielded (wrapped)on back with impeccable wiring. WOW!!! Just wanted to tell you friend. Wanted to share because I'm SURE you would have appreciated this nugget of info. Guitar players unite!! When I get it done I'll try and get a vid done. Bless you homie.
Dudenheimer, Paino. Symphony. Star Trek. Movie Scores. Poltergeist. Pop Music. I've borrowed everything I know! Which isn't much! ;)
What an awesome video, Shawn! I hope you do more of these conversation type videos, I really enjoyed it! Me personally, growing up in New Orleans, I took a lot from horn and sax players and a little piano where I could. :)
Welcome back Shawn
Great as always man. I've definitely taken a lot from saxophone players. The first thing I took was the doubled note false fingering thing which sounds cool on guitar. I find trumpet lines sit quite well on guitar also
Yeah I love that stuff!
Terrific video Shawn. I am gonna steal this idea! 😎
great video, I also love your chord voicings!
I love listening to Miles, i kinda used something from kind of blue, might have been C, Adderly. Not quite the same but used the interval.
Nice chops! Thanks bro!! 🎸🎸👍
what kind of guitar is that and what pickups are in there? It sounds amazing!!!
Thanks very much! That set is the "dirty blonde" SSS by Lollar Pickups.
THE DUSTY SPEEDBUMPS! If that ain't a great band name I don't know what.
fantastic vijeo there, Tubbs
enjoy every one
we come at this Instrument from different directions,
You Cromaticism, Me,
well Schencker, and leslie west started me off
I am a "tone and a half stretcher, which don't exactly fit your style :)
Sax solo from black cow and dr wu from steely dan, soprano sax from power over me by Mr mr,
Really nice video, more of these!!
Outstanding video, thanks so much! Best to u man!
Jimmy Page said somewhere at some point that when he looked for solo ideas, he looked to sax players...that sax solos "work" just like guitar solos. Don't hear ppl discuss this much.
It's something old jazz players used to recommend frequently, and it's still incredibly valuable advice.
Jaco Pastorious (bass) did for certain!
Great lesson! Great playing
Always great videos! The bigger problem for me is once you get one of your licks (or anyone's for that matter) under your fingers, how to remember the when and how to use it when playing. In other words, how do you keep the lick ready to go? If it is truly something new for me...like some of your outside stuff...unless I pound it over and over I forget it pretty quick. How do you keep new stuff you learn ready to go?
You honestly have to do exactly what you mentioned. Do the lick over and over until it becomes muscle memory.
Shawn is one of very few, that when he grabs that vibrato bar, does it tastefully, and doesn’t sound like he’s having an epileptic seizure in an electrical storm. You know who I’m talking about! Lol.
cyanidejunkie Yeah, me!
Shawn, I wanted to ask-
Have you ever had the chance to play with Guthrie Trapp? I’d love to hear that!
Similar stylistically but different enough to be an awesome jam
Thanks very much for the question. Guthrie would bury me alive! He's just top shelf!
awesome information! thank you!!! :)
Do you ever do finger stretches ..not on the guitar just stretching before or after playing.
I didn't when I was younger, but as I've gotten older I always try and do finger stretches before I play.
Killed it brother!!
Wow,a cool looking Shaun.
Fantastic vid! Cheers!
Pick'n out Tv commercials & TV show theme songs & ol standard songs patriotic songs hymns….help break out of gtr licks rut.
Great!
Oh nice. A new video. Yay!
I took Van Halens Running with the Devil solo and combined it with the nightly news to come up with my own lick. No can even tell the lick is related to anything.
That tone! I've stolen the most from Hendrix, Paisley, and John Mayer Lol I need to branch out to other instruments for "stealing" licks. Don Felder used to do that with Sax players as well
Watch this video like 10X 🤩
...at half-speed!
Great playing, but show us more of the cat please :-)
Persimmon agrees!!
Amazing
in this video were you also using j rockett majestic as an overdrive or another pedal?
I was using my Rockett Pedals Blue Note for this one.
Shawn Tubbs Your timbre is fantastic. I bought a blue note for your influence. Thank you very much for answering.
I like copying vocal lines 🤘🏽sax is another great instrument to follow/ mimic and....muted horns that’s fun with a wha😀
8:33
🤘🏻 🌟 🤘
what a sound...
“Oh! There’s something I need to work on!” Tell me about it.
Solid advice here: study the masters and perfect your touch: string vibrato, bending, chord tones. Listen to non-guitarists. For me it’s been Coltrane and OH HI PERSIMMON!
0:00、3:20、4:52、5:01、5:18、6:09、6:23、7:12、m8:47、9:46、10:00、m10:38
...string weight, please?
10-46 D'addario NYXL
@@ShawnTubbs ...thanks :)
Thanks Shawn, now it sounds like I blatantly ripped off Shawn Tubbs🤟🏽
Pat Metheny!
I steal shamelessly from Eric Johnson and Steve Morse only because I have listened to them both since the 70's. I wish I could play like you and Robben Ford. You guys have a tasteful sense of outside harmony.
My axe murdering of Little Wing:
soundcloud.com/4pickupguy/tributelittle-wing
Is the joke that Sousa invented the saxophone? (iirc..) ... and, says he doesn't know theory, but pretty quickly knows that B is the 6th degree in D major without having to count on his fingers.
I can sometimes count to 6 in my head. Not always...;) Thanks for watching!
NOOOOO YOU ARE NOT A THIEF!!!!!!!! CLOSE THAT CURTAIN DONT LET US SEE WHATS BEHIND IT!!!
Yeah is it me? do alot of you Noodle alot? I do it all the time.
Dude you gotta baby us thru it with your mouth words, cos it's actually difficult to follow exactly what guitarists' fingers are doing, especially when you don't know the scale shape you're in.
It's a phenomenon kinda like magicians' hands. They can be right in front of you it you still can't quite make out what they did..!
You gotta take a great big lungful of patience when you're a teacher..
Pssshhh giving a free lick that he knows sounds like Pooh at the speed of normal human fingers. Your not fooling me Shawn haha