More videos on Charlie's playing coming soon, but hope you enjoy this one on his approach to minor chords. Experiment with the ideas, they are great to get into your playing.
It is truly wonderful to find a devoted disciple of Charlie's playing. I have listened to the studio B sessions approximately 1 million times. I never get tired of that stuff
Great presentation--thanks so much. Christian listened a lot to Lester Young and imitated his style to some degree. He probably knew of Eddie Durham's guitar playing also. Your demonstrations of Christian's rhythmic ideas and variants are very clear and useful.
A great introduction to Charlie Christian. He's such an amazing and unique guitarist, especially when you consider that all his fantastic recorded work was done in only 3 years from 1939-1942 when he died at the young age of 25. In terms of his influence on every great jazz guitar player in history since, Charlie is right up there with Django Reinhardt. Like Django, his harmonic and rhythmic sense is completely unique. In listening to and trying to learn his solos I'm always blown away by how great he was.
@@jazzguitarwithandy The guy who wrote his biography was named McKinney, Charlie wanted to play sax but a music teacher at school got him on the trumpet he didnt like it because he thought it would deform his lip, he was also quite a proficient sportsman.
Andy, I am so happy to have found your channel. I love these "Chord Lessons"! Like the recent lesson on the Minor 6 chord, this was full of brand new ideas for me on how the minor chord can be used. I really like the simple idea of adding those additional chord tones and focusing on chord tones. I also really liked you illustrations showing how Charlie Parker used these in his music. Those lines of his were really nice! Your video’s really show your depth of knowledge in addition to your desire to really help folks make real strides in this very challenging music genre. Thanks and Best Wishes, Bill
Thanks again for you comments Bill. It's great to receive them. My main motivation is to try to pass on things that have helped me and sometimes even the smallest bit of information can make such a difference. Happy practicing :)
More videos on Charlie's playing coming soon, but hope you enjoy this one on his approach to minor chords. Experiment with the ideas, they are great to get into your playing.
It is truly wonderful to find a devoted disciple of Charlie's playing. I have listened to the studio B sessions approximately 1 million times. I never get tired of that stuff
His playing still sounds so fresh!
Great! I've decided to study CC ... begin at the beginning yay! Thanks
Learning some of his solos is the way to go
This has got to be the most "economical" lesson I've ever done on RUclips. So much out of some shapes. Thanks for making and posting!
My pleasure! Practice these ideas alongside studying some his solos and you can really get a lot out his way of playing 👍
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Great presentation--thanks so much. Christian listened a lot to Lester Young and imitated his style to some degree. He probably knew of Eddie Durham's guitar playing also. Your demonstrations of Christian's rhythmic ideas and variants are very clear and useful.
Thanks Gary. Yes, I agree re the Lester Young influence. I also think T-Bone walker to a lesser extent.
A great introduction to Charlie Christian. He's such an amazing and unique guitarist, especially when you consider that all his fantastic recorded work was done in only 3 years from 1939-1942 when he died at the young age of 25. In terms of his influence on every great jazz guitar player in history since, Charlie is right up there with Django Reinhardt. Like Django, his harmonic and rhythmic sense is completely unique. In listening to and trying to learn his solos I'm always blown away by how great he was.
It's crazy how influential he's been given the short period in which he recorded. I agree, always blown away by the rhythm in his solos!
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Thanks a lot for the lesson! Didn't know cc used a lot of maj6/dorian over minor chords
There's a couple other CC videos on my channel that might help too.
Great video, thank you for sharing, love that L5 🙏
Thanks for watching 🙏
Charlie was the top cat, so glad he gave the trumpet away and picked up the guitar , and as they say the rest is history.
I didn't know he started out on trumpet. That's interesting. I was trying to find a biography of him yesterday.
@@jazzguitarwithandy The guy who wrote his biography was named McKinney, Charlie wanted to play sax but a music teacher at school got him on the trumpet he didnt like it because he thought it would deform his lip, he was also quite a proficient sportsman.
Thank you for this great lesson..
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This was great! And that is one good looking guitar.
Thanks! I've always loved blonde Gibsons!
Great lesson!
Thanks Joshua 👍
Great Videos... Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Andy, I am so happy to have found your channel. I love these "Chord Lessons"! Like the recent lesson on the Minor 6 chord, this was full of brand new ideas for me on how the minor chord can be used. I really like the simple idea of adding those additional chord tones and focusing on chord tones. I also really liked you illustrations showing how Charlie Parker used these in his music. Those lines of his were really nice! Your video’s really show your depth of knowledge in addition to your desire to really help folks make real strides in this very challenging music genre. Thanks and Best Wishes, Bill
Thanks again for you comments Bill. It's great to receive them. My main motivation is to try to pass on things that have helped me and sometimes even the smallest bit of information can make such a difference. Happy practicing :)