How fortunate are we to have discovered this man's music. His musical vision is something very few people possess and of course his technical proficiency means he can execute his ideas perfectly. There are many other great guitar players, not many are the complete package like Larry. Are the 28 people careless with their mouse or from a different planet than me?
When would I have ever thought, back in the day, that one day I would be getting a Larry Carlton guitar lesson for free, or at all!! Thanks for posting TrueFire
Wow, never expected Larry to be so cool and humble. Way to go Mr Carlton, much props and respect!! I'm learning alot here in addition to software for scales training. Luvin' it....!! Never too late, I just picked up a Strat after 9 long yrs without one, 2 mths ago!! Life is good!! :):)
So Smooooooth."I see it just before I get there" ---- perhaps the only true secret to any great improvisation solo. There's just one problem for the majority of we mere mortals ... but I doubt that I need to write any more.
In an attempt to answer the question- LC sees the scale notes that will work over the upcoming chord ‘just before’ he gets there. If we could see the full lesson (which is probably on truefire) he may be saying a bit more about how the chords in this simple jazzy progression share a lot of common (scale) tones but, as he does say here, near the end, ‘the music happens’ because he knows which note(s) to change/play as the chords change. Sometimes it’s just a single note change... I’ve looked at many approaches to jazz/jazzy playing over the years and there’s sometimes semantics type debate about chords and scales, also the ways to approach learning to play smoothy (and musically) through the changes. Larry’s a fave-fave player and I enjoy the way he explains things in his lessons. For years I’ve told musician friends that Larry’s guitar neck only has the Sweet Notes notes on it 😊. Lessons like this help show why. imho.
Nice, nice, nice. Soloing based on common tones, and using them well. In these days of modern jazz where dissonance is very common, its nice to just hear someone playing "inside" notes sometimes. I am going to check on this DVD.
I don"t know what else to add to all the great comments here, I would to say thank you Larry for takeing the time to do this .......What a great lesson. My best regards!!
Nice to see his hand shaking with nerves and some slipped notes after all this time of playing on all stages with all the best, he's still human and flawed. Amazing player, one of my all time faves.
Larry's playing is so lyrical it's easy to close your eyes and imagine that his guitar is Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holliday singing. ... He's the GOAT IMHO.
@davidsonghello Not necessarily a note in the base chord, but something that fits the chord scale and isn't an outside or tension note. When he holds that Ab. Over I it's the 5th, over VI it's the 7th, over the II it's the 11th, he moves it up to an A over the V, because it's a 7b9 or some altered dominant, so he moves up to b9 and resolves it back down.
Jazz-blues!! The common I-IV-V blues-pattern is extended by a variety of jazzy-sounding chords (which contain the 9, 13, are half-diminished or 7-minor). The result is a sound that floats between both musical forms. Beautiful, heh?
Fantastic video - great lesson, great playing. Larry makes the simplest stuff so musical, but here we get an idea of how much of his sound comes from his wonderful, personal technique. Great vibrato of course, but what about bending a whole step into the final F of the phrase at 1'11. Or playing an E and an F distinctly by bending rather than fretting each note at 1'45" And then repeating the same notes & technique an octave higher at 1'51". Simply an incredible musician! And a great teacher!
incredible lesson and playing. beiber's music fulfills another role... i truly believe that before you even take this lesson on you should just sing notes aloud and then play them on the guitar. but Carlton probably assumes beginners have long ago done that... if you can sing it (and it's literally 'possible' on your chosen instrument which some things aren't) you can PLAY it.
Just had an interesting experience. Got the chords to this in the comments and made a little jam track with them. Played around with it and thought what i was doing sounded pretty good. I then went back and listened to what Larry was doing. He beat anything i was doing with one note, oh dear :-)
Common tone - I believe he's referring to tones that are common to more than one chord. The chords he's playing are Dbmaj7, Bb7#5, Ebm7, Ab13b9, at least that's what I'm hearing. For instance Dbmaj7 is spelled Db F Ab C Bb7#5 is Bb D F# Ab, There's a common tone between those chords, the Ab
Hah. Yeah. I've been a musician for almost 60 years, and a guy like this shows me that I still know very little. I understand everything he's doing, but knowing exactly what to do and when, like he does, still escapes me.
Its quite complicated to explain in a few sentences, but I will try my best... Every chord has a corresponding scale that can be played over it, or "chord scale". A chord scale has every degree, all eight notes. If we call a chord augmented this implies it has a #5. However, a b13 chord ALSO has a natural 5 so if we called it augmented it would imply that the natural 5th is unavailable.
I’m not sure if Larry did this at all, but a good technique that I go by sometimes is if there is an altered chord (like the Ab7b13b9 in the progression), then I literally play the Ab altered scale, which means I’m just playing A melodic minor since altered is the seventh mode of melodic
Right. That's exactly what Larry does over the vi chord. The V chord which is the Ab13b9 doesn't have a b13 in it though. It has a 13. The altered scale wouldn't work over that. Try a half-whole dim scale instead.
@@adamfurnish8481 No, if we're strictly speaking which scale is most appropriate, it would be the half-whole diminished scale because it has a natural 13 in it. The altered scale has a b13 therefore it would not work over a chord that has a natural 13 in it. Is that making sense? Yes, both the half-whole dim scale and altered scale contain a b9, but only the h-w dim scale has a natural 13 which makes it the best fit. Ha and the whole tone scale has a 9 and a b13 which is not going to work over Dom13b9 chord ;) Go and use these scales if you want haha. Whatever floats your boat. But, for purposes of accuracy for other people reading this, the half-whole dim scale is the most appropriate scale to use over the Dom13b9 chord that Larry uses as the V chord in this video. Don't take it from me, he even says it himself. Cheers!
Mike Mcdonnell Just never stop playing, learn as many styles of music...you will a LOT. But it won’t hurt to open a book and learn a few scales. But don’t ever stop. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve known who stop for months...only to be back at square one
the "x" represents not playing a note. the "#"'s are the frets. You read it from left to right, starting with your low E, A....etc. There are ways to fret these chords, however, that will probably be very difficult to you. For instance you have to the Ab13b9 (name of the chord) needs you to pull your thumb over to fret. If you're a newbie, this is probably a bit over your head though.
@manuorchestra 'Cause in this case the VI chord is not minor but instead is a 7b9 chord, a secondary dominant that goes to the II chord. In other words it is the "V of II", got it? :) So you can treat it as an altered resolving chord and you can play Bb/A# superlocrian (in other words B melodic minor: B C# D E F# G# A#) which has got the b5, #5, b9 and #9 of the V chord in it (plus obviously the root, the major third and the minor seventh). This is a typical jazz scale choice on altered chords.
Oh my god dream like sound!!! Perfect hands, divine brain and such feeling! Does any body know what amp he's using? His timbre is out of this world. I know it's mostly his hands and soul but I'd really like to know what sort of gear he's using.
@Ibik Yeah, get yourself on the TrueFire site, where this lesson came from and have a look around. There are some fantastic lessons for all levels of players. If you're on your own, you'll have a hard time just playing through the Real Book. Taking a few lessons with a good teacher would be very helpful. If he's decent, he can identify what you like and how to go about learning that, and how it fits in with the rest of jazz. SIncerely, good luck to you!
The only thing I have in "common " with this video is I have a guitar and that's about it. I'm emotionally confused after watching this, part of me wants to go practice and the other part of me just wants to just give up.
At some point, a long time ago I had to admit that I was never going to Master The guitar and suddenly a wave of relief came over me and now I can enjoy the Masters without envy.
@@unclexeres It's kind of like learning your times tables. It sucks because you just have to remember it and do it with high precision. Once you got it though, it's like nothing.
It's advanced, don't beat yerself up. If a 4 chord progression is a bit much, stay with a 2 chord. Mainly try to see how's he thinks. He's a master. Try applying it to the blues too.
So it's simple. Know your chords, know your scales, know where all the notes are on the fretboard and when soloing have target notes and find interesting melodic ways of getting there ☺ ...then practice for 1000's of hours to sound as sweet as Larry.😊
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a legend at work.
Who else can send shivers up your spine just _demonstrating_ improvisation?
David Thorpe yeah makes me want to quit. Lol
@Blind Jack Cotton BLUES lol. If you are wise enough to be this humble, you hsve lived a valuable life. At least so far
Marty Friedman
@@nyclear That's totally the wrong response. It should make you want to play and inspire you to become better.
His sense of melodicism is so spot on. Always.
How fortunate are we to have discovered this man's music. His musical vision is something very few people possess and of course his technical proficiency means he can execute his ideas perfectly. There are many other great guitar players, not many are the complete package like Larry. Are the 28 people careless with their mouse or from a different planet than me?
The only debate about Larry is whether he has more knowledge of his instrument or more soul. Truly one of the all time greats.
I think he has both
When would I have ever thought, back in the day, that one day I would be getting a Larry Carlton guitar lesson for free, or at all!! Thanks for posting TrueFire
We live in amazing times, that's for sure !!
This is like a relaxation session - drift away - listen to those flat 9's - seek solace in Larry's knowledge. Strangely comforting.
I could honestly listen to this for hours even with larry talking in fact he is so smooth it makes it even better
His lessons sound better than any solo I've ever played.
This is one of the most beautiful improvs ive ever heard...
Wow, never expected Larry to be so cool and humble. Way to go Mr Carlton, much props and respect!! I'm learning alot here in addition to software for scales training. Luvin' it....!! Never too late, I just picked up a Strat after 9 long yrs without one, 2 mths ago!! Life is good!! :):)
Pure heart and soul. Mr. Carlton thank you for inspiring us and teaching us.
So Smooooooth."I see it just before I get there" ---- perhaps the only true secret to any great improvisation solo. There's just one problem for the majority of we mere mortals ... but I doubt that I need to write any more.
Please expand. See what before he gets there. Notes of a chord - or a scale?
In an attempt to answer the question- LC sees the scale notes that will work over the upcoming chord ‘just before’ he gets there. If we could see the full lesson (which is probably on truefire) he may be saying a bit more about how the chords in this simple jazzy progression share a lot of common (scale) tones but, as he does say here, near the end, ‘the music happens’ because he knows which note(s) to change/play as the chords change. Sometimes it’s just a single note change...
I’ve looked at many approaches to jazz/jazzy playing over the years and there’s sometimes semantics type debate about chords and scales, also the ways to approach learning to play smoothy (and musically) through the changes. Larry’s a fave-fave player and I enjoy the way he explains things in his lessons. For years I’ve told musician friends that Larry’s guitar neck only has the Sweet Notes notes on it 😊. Lessons like this help show why. imho.
Playing over charges,make it musical and melodic.
What a artist
Nice, nice, nice. Soloing based on common tones, and using them well. In these days of modern jazz where dissonance is very common, its nice to just hear someone playing "inside" notes sometimes. I am going to check on this DVD.
Blows me away how he just throws this theory out there as if were nothing.....love it!
I don"t know what else to add to all the great comments here, I would to say thank you Larry for takeing the time to do this .......What a great lesson. My best regards!!
Nice to see his hand shaking with nerves and some slipped notes after all this time of playing on all stages with all the best, he's still human and flawed. Amazing player, one of my all time faves.
Larry's playing is so lyrical it's easy to close your eyes and imagine that his guitar is Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holliday singing. ... He's the GOAT IMHO.
@davidsonghello Not necessarily a note in the base chord, but something that fits the chord scale and isn't an outside or tension note. When he holds that Ab. Over I it's the 5th, over VI it's the 7th, over the II it's the 11th, he moves it up to an A over the V, because it's a 7b9 or some altered dominant, so he moves up to b9 and resolves it back down.
This is fantastic! Very accessible. Thank you, Larry! I listened to you from your days with the Jazz Crusaders. May you live to be 120!
I could watch larry play all day this is some really good stuff
Jazz-blues!! The common I-IV-V blues-pattern is extended by a variety of jazzy-sounding chords (which contain the 9, 13, are half-diminished or 7-minor). The result is a sound that floats between both musical forms. Beautiful, heh?
Kind of like listening to Bob Ross speakas he paints. He makes is seem so easy . Just relax, sublime.
+ReverendRicktaScale its your own little world man
I'm never get tired of watching this.Thank u Mr Carlton
Fantastic video - great lesson, great playing. Larry makes the simplest stuff so musical, but here we get an idea of how much of his sound comes from his wonderful, personal technique. Great vibrato of course, but what about bending a whole step into the final F of the phrase at 1'11. Or playing an E and an F distinctly by bending rather than fretting each note at 1'45" And then repeating the same notes & technique an octave higher at 1'51". Simply an incredible musician! And a great teacher!
man, lessons from a guitar master. how awesome is that.
Great to get the chance to see how this master thinks while on the job.
Fantastic lesson! Amazing to see how he thinks about his note choices and connecting changes! 👍🎸
BEAUTIFUL ... THE REASON I LOVE GUITAR ... JAZZ / BLUES MY FAVORITE ... GREAT EXPLANATION OF HOW TO GET INTO IT
a super - master and his instrument.... larry c. is one of the true guitar unsung heroes!
It makes you cry knowing how little you know after years of playing.
This sounds like a yoga lesson with his ease and finesse of the language.
+Larry Markel He is so dang cool dude.
Love his note choices. Amazing depth and knowledge.
creator/writer of many Steely Dan's great guitar solos, especially "kid Charlemagne!" not to mention all his magnificent solo records...... So many!
don't forget his work with the crusaders his old buddy Joe Sample too
incredible lesson and playing. beiber's music fulfills another role... i truly believe that before you even take this lesson on you should just sing notes aloud and then play them on the guitar. but Carlton probably assumes beginners have long ago done that...
if you can sing it (and it's literally 'possible' on your chosen instrument which some things aren't) you can PLAY it.
Just had an interesting experience. Got the chords to this in the comments and made a little jam track with them. Played around with it and thought what i was doing sounded pretty good. I then went back and listened to what Larry was doing. He beat anything i was doing with one note, oh dear :-)
The Master of the turnaround, so smooth and beautiful.
Common tone - I believe he's referring to tones that are common to more than one chord. The chords he's playing are Dbmaj7, Bb7#5, Ebm7, Ab13b9, at least that's what I'm hearing.
For instance Dbmaj7 is spelled Db F Ab C
Bb7#5 is Bb D F# Ab, There's a common tone between those chords, the Ab
I love this lesson..i dont know why but it calms me whenever I may feel uptight !
great guitarist and great 335 tone.
Wow I actually didn't mean to click this video but when I heard the music It tranced me into it.
a legendary guitar player
Super fantastic....it’s my final frontier in my guitar playing....and I love it!....thank you so very much!....
Fire side chat simultaneous playing with a mellow cool cat, awesome! Best YT video in along time 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
knowing soooo much,he is the master in explaining clearly!
Constant awareness is key, it's something I've finally realized after years of wondering 'how do they do it!'.
Do this progression twice, then follow it up with Abm7 - Db7b9 - Gbmaj7 - Gbm7. Then Fm7 - Bb13b9 - Ebm7 - Ab13b9.
Such musical phrasing. sigh...
I love that final lick.
Hah. Yeah. I've been a musician for almost 60 years, and a guy like this shows me that I still know very little. I understand everything he's doing, but knowing exactly what to do and when, like he does, still escapes me.
Its quite complicated to explain in a few sentences, but I will try my best... Every chord has a corresponding scale that can be played over it, or "chord scale". A chord scale has every degree, all eight notes. If we call a chord augmented this implies it has a #5. However, a b13 chord ALSO has a natural 5 so if we called it augmented it would imply that the natural 5th is unavailable.
Larry The genius and the gentleman.
Larry has never played a ‘common’ tone in his life 😂. Truly extraordinary
Beautiful - I'm ready to play over these chords for a couple of hours again, great practice!
Saw Larry 20 years ago at Wolftrap with some other notables...Nice to come here and still pick from his brain...cool
how does he get to sound so amazing with just 1 note??!!!!!! howwwwww??!!!!
3:10 sounds so much like a sax line
Dbmaj7 - Bb7b9 - Ebmin7 - Ab13b9. They are the correct chords.
You're right. To clarify, the Bb7b9 also has a b13 in it. That's the B melodic minor chord Larry was referring to. fyi for any theory nerds out there.
I’m not sure if Larry did this at all, but a good technique that I go by sometimes is if there is an altered chord (like the Ab7b13b9 in the progression), then I literally play the Ab altered scale, which means I’m just playing A melodic minor since altered is the seventh mode of melodic
Right. That's exactly what Larry does over the vi chord. The V chord which is the Ab13b9 doesn't have a b13 in it though. It has a 13. The altered scale wouldn't work over that. Try a half-whole dim scale instead.
Altered would still work given that a b9’s present, though it might not be as strong. Whole tone is also a good scale for altered chords
@@adamfurnish8481 No, if we're strictly speaking which scale is most appropriate, it would be the half-whole diminished scale because it has a natural 13 in it. The altered scale has a b13 therefore it would not work over a chord that has a natural 13 in it. Is that making sense? Yes, both the half-whole dim scale and altered scale contain a b9, but only the h-w dim scale has a natural 13 which makes it the best fit. Ha and the whole tone scale has a 9 and a b13 which is not going to work over Dom13b9 chord ;) Go and use these scales if you want haha. Whatever floats your boat. But, for purposes of accuracy for other people reading this, the half-whole dim scale is the most appropriate scale to use over the Dom13b9 chord that Larry uses as the V chord in this video. Don't take it from me, he even says it himself. Cheers!
@siznach DbMaj7 (x46564), Bb7b9b13 (6x6777), Ebm7 (x68676), Ab13b9 (4x4565)
Only starting to understand why his music touches me so deeply.
Thanks for sharing Larry, sleep walk was the first song that lead me to you bless.
I saw Larry recently in Ozoir, he's really a great musician.
Larry makes the guitar talk! Wow!😳
Dbmaj7 - Bb7b9 - Ebmin9 - Ab13b9 , the note F is common to all of the chords. the note Ab is common to Dbmaj7 - Bb7b9 - Ebmin11 - Ab13b9.
The only thing I learned it how much I suck
Docmansound Music no, you don’t. You’re far better than you were before you started playing, and I bet you’re better than you were a year ago.
Tom Mulroy III i was just joking.
@@DrJoshGuitar man doi u have to learn all those scales?
Mike Mcdonnell Just never stop playing, learn as many styles of music...you will a LOT. But it won’t hurt to open a book and learn a few scales. But don’t ever stop. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve known who stop for months...only to be back at square one
@@mjsmcd There are only a few scales, the rest are slight deviations. Learn the deviations not the scales.
So melodic and sweet!
Love tone n phrasimg of Mr. Larry Carlton, Salut 👍
Common tones nice..His motives are awesome
I have this. I’m going to start using it seriously later today!
Got no words!
I mean D flat major 7, B flat 7 flat 9, E flat minor 7, A flat 13 flat 9.
Very very relaxing and easy to listen to...reminds me of B. B. King's playing....great stuff...Jack Baker NYC
I saw Larry at the goldenbear in Huntington Beach calif. before his accident ... A true artist.
the "x" represents not playing a note. the "#"'s are the frets. You read it from left to right, starting with your low E, A....etc. There are ways to fret these chords, however, that will probably be very difficult to you. For instance you have to the Ab13b9 (name of the chord) needs you to pull your thumb over to fret. If you're a newbie, this is probably a bit over your head though.
@manuorchestra 'Cause in this case the VI chord is not minor but instead is a 7b9 chord, a secondary dominant that goes to the II chord. In other words it is the "V of II", got it? :) So you can treat it as an altered resolving chord and you can play Bb/A# superlocrian (in other words B melodic minor: B C# D E F# G# A#) which has got the b5, #5, b9 and #9 of the V chord in it (plus obviously the root, the major third and the minor seventh). This is a typical jazz scale choice on altered chords.
Great guitar player and also is a great teacher.
Oh my god dream like sound!!! Perfect hands, divine brain and such feeling! Does any body know what amp he's using? His timbre is out of this world. I know it's mostly his hands and soul but I'd really like to know what sort of gear he's using.
Too beautiful.
I've been playing since I was 13. I'm pretty good overall on chords and scales. I have no idea what he is talking about. But its cool.
@Ibik Yeah, get yourself on the TrueFire site, where this lesson came from and have a look around. There are some fantastic lessons for all levels of players. If you're on your own, you'll have a hard time just playing through the Real Book. Taking a few lessons with a good teacher would be very helpful. If he's decent, he can identify what you like and how to go about learning that, and how it fits in with the rest of jazz. SIncerely, good luck to you!
To think this is “breezing” chord progression..And he sounds nothing like Benson..Thats gold
Beautiful piece...kudos for the left hand closeups!
Magic touch indeed
Thank you, Larry
The only thing I have in "common " with this video is I have a guitar and that's about it. I'm emotionally confused after watching this, part of me wants to go practice and the other part of me just wants to just give up.
At some point, a long time ago I had to admit that I was never going to Master The guitar and suddenly a wave of relief came over me and now I can enjoy the Masters without envy.
@@unclexeres It's kind of like learning your times tables. It sucks because you just have to remember it and do it with high precision. Once you got it though, it's like nothing.
It's advanced, don't beat yerself up. If a 4 chord progression is a bit much, stay with a 2 chord. Mainly try to see how's he thinks. He's a master. Try applying it to the blues too.
Fantastic Guitar player!!!Fantastic teacher!!!Thanks Larry!!!!!
Lovely playing with an excellent concept. Thanks Larry!
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"But the music comes from knowing the common tones"
Beautiful work! What would be the possibility of a lesson on how to play "The Fez"?
Sublime mastery!
this made me sleepy cos its so soothing
i wanna give him a BC Rich Warlock.. with full of gain from the amp.. i know for sure, he gonna make it sound sweet like usual..
MY LOVE FOR EVER LARRY!!!
@morimori335 yes. Db-Bb-Eb-Ab. there is no reason for 7 sharps. 5 flats are enough :)
So it's simple. Know your chords, know your scales, know where all the notes are on the fretboard and when soloing have target notes and find interesting melodic ways of getting there ☺ ...then practice for 1000's of hours to sound as sweet as Larry.😊
Mr 335! Awesome
Beautifully melodic! Awesome lesson.
The man has class.......
This is so cool and mellow
Thank you Larry