As a trumpet player, I especially liked Sergio's solo (but I loved the other two as well). It was very lyrical and flowing, and it wasn't a chop buster; no screaming high notes, etc. He knew what he was doing and created a beautiful lyrical solo - a great one to learn from. Gracias, Sergio
Mike Outram gave a fresh new look at 'How to' play a solo. Those exercises are fun and useful. Thanks to every one for their melodic solos, You all make it look easy.
Very interesting, and nice that this wasn't presented as a competition. Mike's solo seemed to me to be closer to the swing versions of the song 'Indiana' from whose chords 'Donna Lee' was derived. Jens was coming closer to a post- hard bop style: in the absence of accompaniment, I thought that of all the solos his more angular and less obviously melodic lines might have benefited most from a faster tempo. The two horn players occupied a middle ground, closer to the bop/ hard bop period and the 'expected' sound. A worthwhile exercise, I thought.
Great idea/video. I really liked Jens Larson's solo ideas, esp "out" things like at 2:58, but wish he played it with a more legato feel, like a horn player. Like Jazz Duets, which also was a great solo.
This is awesome! Nice little ideas in there. I'm graduating music school this year and gotta play this tune in my final bass exam (head, comping + solo). Not shitting myself anymore as much as i was so thank you!
I really enjoyed how Outram's chorus was so different thant he transcript. lol There was so much variety of accent placements, articulations and their mesh with line countour - which, in my opinion - make more difference than the exact note choices. Duet, also. In Guitar-speak, Outram''s slurs, many of whch were accent upbeat lead-in notes were accented, but it was hard to tell, in one listening, how many of these downbeats were actually picked,and how many were hammers and pulls. The techniques served the melodic flow in a way that created a real Bebop feel.
I can't really hear the swing in Jens's solo. It's so strange that he made this decision of taking out all the bebop feel and just playing straight with no rhythm ideas. It sounds more like an exercise. Obviously it's just a personal opinion, I'm just trying to understand
Great as always. Thank you! I'm interested in your phrasing, by the way. Your ghost notes are frequently completely silent (like rests). Did you practice that, or is just a natural part of your expression?
Thanks, well I have not practiced this methodically for years. I do love the way ghost notes can create rhythms and nuances- I remember hearing trane in his early recordings
Hi Nick, what a great idea and a great video. I am a guitar player and i was working on this tune for quite some time and had real difficulties to improvise on. I learned the solos of you all (except the one of Sergio yet) and it gave me musical ideas and i start to hear lines when attempting to improvise. A question i have for you all, unless it is a typical guitar player issue, when improvising do you think or visualize all materials (scales, arpeggios, triads...), or you let your ear guide you and thus, land sometimes on scales, sometimes on triads, sometimes on enclosures...etc ? and would it be very beneficial to learn scales for each chords (Ab ionian, F mixolydian, Bb mixolydian...) or learning solos and analysing them could be enough ? Thank you all
Thanks, I recently learned spanish as an adult. I continue to learn words , expressions etc, and then try to incorporate them naturally when I speak. When I started it was super hard, and I had to think what person it was and tense. So the idea is to learn all the chords, triads scales etc, but then at the time of improvising fly and create be free. .The purpose of the video was to offer this same freedom but without the pressure of having to do it in real time.
Thank you very much for your response. That's a very good answer ! Improvising is for me a very frustrating process but little by little, i think i understand how great improvisers do. As a guitar player, i love saxophone !! You play beautifully and your videos are very very helpful. Cheers.
Hey, just chiming in - the thing I did here is sort of like a middle ground, as I am improvising, but within the game of trying to hit the 3rds of each chord on the downbeat. So that's a thing you might try when you learn new things - try to use it right now somehow. And that kind of works with Nick's language analogy - whatever your level of vocabulary, you can still express something and use what you know. In real life it will probably be a struggle at the beginning because it's all so fast and you have to speed up your thinking & familiarity, but you can design your practice to simplify the arena. E.g., if you were practising Spanish conversation you might limit the topic to work on a specific thing. Same thing in working on improvising, and that's what I'm demonstrating in this solo.
anyone else finds it weird, that they are all playing it too slow? i count their solos at something between 170 and 180, except nick's which is around 190 bpm. i thought 220 bpm was a normal tempo for donna lee, and i find their lower tempo a bit boring for this song. i am not saying you have to be able to play insanely fast to make some good music, that for me, the tempo you chose, doesn't fit this composition
Thanks for having me as a guest in the video! 👍
Jens The Man Larsen!!!!
Jens your stuff is great. This solo was a great share
Thank you! @@latinkeys1
As a trumpet player, I especially liked Sergio's solo (but I loved the other two as well). It was very lyrical and flowing, and it wasn't a chop buster; no screaming high notes, etc. He knew what he was doing and created a beautiful lyrical solo - a great one to learn from. Gracias, Sergio
Mike Outram gave a fresh new look at 'How to' play a solo. Those exercises are fun and useful. Thanks to every one for their melodic solos, You all make it look easy.
Outstanding teaching video - very professional, clear and relevant - with a human, very approachable delivery! Thank you!
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I really loved the approach focusing on the thirds. Singing the thirds playing the thirds was tough!
Very interesting, and nice that this wasn't presented as a competition.
Mike's solo seemed to me to be closer to the swing versions of the song 'Indiana' from whose chords 'Donna Lee' was derived. Jens was coming closer to a post- hard bop style: in the absence of accompaniment, I thought that of all the solos his more angular and less obviously melodic lines might have benefited most from a faster tempo. The two horn players occupied a middle ground, closer to the bop/ hard bop period and the 'expected' sound.
A worthwhile exercise, I thought.
Great idea/video. I really liked Jens Larson's solo ideas, esp "out" things like at 2:58, but wish he played it with a more legato feel, like a horn player. Like Jazz Duets, which also was a great solo.
Grande Sergio!!!! Poca gente con semejante musicalidad... increible...
Feat. Jens instant thumbs up!
WOW ! This is amazing !
15:23 Story of my jazz guitar life...
This is such an awesome video, keep posting!
a great video ,and greats solosss
Wow!!! Thank you for another amazing video!
This was just wonderful!! Loved it -- will watch it many times. Thanks so much!
This is awesome! Nice little ideas in there. I'm graduating music school this year and gotta play this tune in my final bass exam (head, comping + solo). Not shitting myself anymore as much as i was so thank you!
I really enjoyed how Outram's chorus was so different thant he transcript. lol
There was so much variety of accent placements, articulations and their mesh with line countour - which, in my opinion - make more difference than the exact note choices. Duet, also.
In Guitar-speak, Outram''s slurs, many of whch were accent upbeat lead-in notes were accented, but it was hard to tell, in one listening, how many of these downbeats were actually picked,and how many were hammers and pulls. The techniques served the melodic flow in a way that created a real Bebop feel.
Nice one, Nick - Thanks for putting this together :)
Sounded killer Mike!
Thank you Mike, it is always a privilege and honour sir.
@@cameronskerrow1417 Cheers, Cameron!
Definitely a jazz standard. I am a guitarist and really enjoy the groove in this song.
Great idea!! Thanks for sharing. I now have some excellent material to study 🙌
Thank you to all of you! But a special thanks to Mike Outram. His final contribution is so precious!
Cheers, Johnny! Thanks for saying that; hope it helps :)
what a wonderful channel
Este canal es de lo mejor del RUclips !!!
love it
Thanks for sharing the solos great vid!
Matteo manuscript does an incredible version
I can't really hear the swing in Jens's solo. It's so strange that he made this decision of taking out all the bebop feel and just playing straight with no rhythm ideas. It sounds more like an exercise. Obviously it's just a personal opinion, I'm just trying to understand
Ive heard the same as you... I would add it more swing and silences. Maybe its his style or not, I dont know other stuff from this musician so...
It is for lesson, so it does not have any swing, phrasing etc. Thats his style to do the lessons. He has the chops believe me.
Jarri Laurila that’s what i was thinking. been watching jens for awhile and I was taken back for a second
It looks like Jens precomposed the solo and is reading the notes while playing it. This may be an explanation for the missing swing-feel.
Great video, many thanks. Please make one on octave displacement while soloing.
Usted sabe mucho!.
This was great
Esse canal é muito top!
Muy buen vídeo! Como todos tus vídeos! Gracias Nick Homes!
Great!!!
Is it possible to get Nick Homes' solo? There are links to the three other solos but not to his. Many thanks for this wonderful resource.
Pretty Interesting the non-swing solo
Jens is actually from Denmark . He just lives in Holland
Which is why he is always so cranky 😄
Solos 1 and 4 best IMO.
Great as always. Thank you! I'm interested in your phrasing, by the way. Your ghost notes are frequently completely silent (like rests). Did you practice that, or is just a natural part of your expression?
Thanks, well I have not practiced this methodically for years. I do love the way ghost notes can create rhythms and nuances- I remember hearing trane in his early recordings
Cool vid.
Saludos!
thanksss
Hi Nick, what a great idea and a great video. I am a guitar player and i was working on this tune for quite some time and had real difficulties to improvise on. I learned the solos of you all (except the one of Sergio yet) and it gave me musical ideas and i start to hear lines when attempting to improvise. A question i have for you all, unless it is a typical guitar player issue, when improvising do you think or visualize all materials (scales, arpeggios, triads...), or you let your ear guide you and thus, land sometimes on scales, sometimes on triads, sometimes on enclosures...etc ? and would it be very beneficial to learn scales for each chords (Ab ionian, F mixolydian, Bb mixolydian...) or learning solos and analysing them could be enough ? Thank you all
Thanks, I recently learned spanish as an adult. I continue to learn words , expressions etc, and then try to incorporate them naturally when I speak. When I started it was super hard, and I had to think what person it was and tense. So the idea is to learn all the chords, triads scales etc, but then at the time of improvising fly and create be free. .The purpose of the video was to offer this same freedom but without the pressure of having to do it in real time.
Thank you very much for your response. That's a very good answer ! Improvising is for me a very frustrating process but little by little, i think i understand how great improvisers do. As a guitar player, i love saxophone !! You play beautifully and your videos are very very helpful. Cheers.
Thanks. It takes, I was very frustrated for about 2 years learning spanish
Hey, just chiming in - the thing I did here is sort of like a middle ground, as I am improvising, but within the game of trying to hit the 3rds of each chord on the downbeat. So that's a thing you might try when you learn new things - try to use it right now somehow. And that kind of works with Nick's language analogy - whatever your level of vocabulary, you can still express something and use what you know. In real life it will probably be a struggle at the beginning because it's all so fast and you have to speed up your thinking & familiarity, but you can design your practice to simplify the arena. E.g., if you were practising Spanish conversation you might limit the topic to work on a specific thing. Same thing in working on improvising, and that's what I'm demonstrating in this solo.
Fantastic ideas jazz is a language !!!
I vote for Sergio
after the thirds , we can study with the sevenths? ,,,,,,, which are the notes that you recommend to sudy the chords changes?
thanks !!!
Hi! What resource does Sergio use in bar 7, on the Eb7. It ´s like a A pentatonic major.
Matteo Mancuso:
ruclips.net/video/C367szWkdGc/видео.html
Jens Larsen’s eight notes sound straight?
They are :)
Jens' solo doesn't swing. It's strange that he chose to play straight 8ths.
Tom Giles I noticed that too!
similar to pat martino
That is indeed a style choice. Pat Martino and Wes also plays pretty straight :)
Easier to cop his lines and make it sound your own :P
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5:00
5:09
Loved the trumpet solo. Unfortunately, Larsen's solo felt very uninspiring.
the chords in the (awesome) trumpet solo are wrong ...
Subtitles en spanish please😓
Listent to that solo If you want to get smashed in the head : ruclips.net/video/U4GP9yXearA/видео.html
anyone else finds it weird, that they are all playing it too slow? i count their solos at something between 170 and 180, except nick's which is around 190 bpm. i thought 220 bpm was a normal tempo for donna lee, and i find their lower tempo a bit boring for this song. i am not saying you have to be able to play insanely fast to make some good music, that for me, the tempo you chose, doesn't fit this composition
I didn't think the tempo was too slow. Why play like everyone else does? The solos swung, and you know what Duke Ellilngton said.
@@MrRezillo it aint mean a swing if it aint a thing
It
It's just Indiana for crying out load stop stressing
Hello , as for me, the wind instruments solos are far better , cause they are outlining the...melody. That's my opinion. Thanks
3rd has no feel, straight eights notes, sounds like a robot is playing