i always say blues is about taking 8 notes and trying to express yourself the most out of those notes, and jazz is trying to play all the notes in one song to try to express yourself.
Blues is the Root, without a blues music there wouldn't have been no rock and Jazz! my opinion blues is the best music, although there few of type of blues there is shuffle blues and rock blues, and slide blues, but jazz is more for dance.
I kinda get what he’s saying if you play blues and go fancy you turn it into jazz you go heavy it becomes rock... so... what kind of blues am I goin to play? O.O
I got to open for Melvin in a dive called the Blue Goose in rural Maine of all places, back in the mid 90s. One of the best sounding live bands I ever heard, put on a great show. Really nice guy too. His bass player blew the speakers in my cab he borrowed. :)
I used to see Mel and the Slack Band at Rosa's during that era. He was the top dog imho on that guitar during the mid late 90's into the 2000's. Amazing memories. Amazing players.
crby101 I mean u can still learn blues scales and cords. Sounds like he was an asshole lol. Once u meant a few scales and cords play with it. And when u play think of something sad in your mind. And play to that emotion. I learned how to do this when I was 15 years old In love with a girl. I played my guitar when sad and happy. Emotions are your fuel and when u can use those as an instrument u can input it into your guitar.
You right to jazz is cleaner but I don't know about the lifestyle of the early jazz players some of them guys didn't have no money and got ripped off pretty badly so in the end a lot of them did have the Blues
Attended Melvin's concert on October 5, 2010 in Lviv, Ukraine. Since then, I have attended many performances of famous stars and no one has approached Melvin in terms of skill. I really want to see him play again.
Having played all these styles (more heavily on Blues), I am going to say that, while they both have their standard forms and improvisation, Jazz differs from Blues, in that it's more complex, musically. Jazz has more chords and Jazz musicians typically "follow" the chord changes, whereas Blues players are typically thinking of playing in key. Jazz also differs in that the soloist may imply certain chord substitutions. There is Fusion too, btw, where Jazz/Blues/Rock can be combined, in terms of approaches. You can have someone take a jazzy approach to playing over Blues, where they follow the chord changes, targeting various tones, or have a chord substitution on their Blues, for example. Rock ranges from simple - like Blues Rock to more sophisticated.
Music has the same attributes humans have...even humility and pride...i thought about this for years...im a rock musician...i love rock but im also from new orleans la...home of jazz and blues...I saw how jazz music was revered as the "sophisticated" or "intelligent" music...and blues the "low-level" or "humble" sound....all american music started on the slave plantations in the south...and after slavery, the musicians went up the mississippi river to Chicago and Detroit...and jazz was popular there...our people played jazz to impress whites...funny how whites used that to create rock and show that no matter how dirty or sloppy you play...just do it in love...because we all are dirty in some way...noone is better than the next...and if you dont believe me, listen to how Angus Young of ACDC talks about learning from Chuck Berry, or the Who talk about BB King or The Beatles and muddy waters....most rock musicians learned from afro americans but taught them the most important lesson they needed to learn...which is music is love...no matter how its played. This is why I love and prefer rock music over both...rock Is electricity...the introduction to electric guitar became a defibrillator to the lifeless souls....our bodies are 80%water anyway....but thats another convo in itself. Rock is life....I love rock music
When something is harmonically complex, it is reflective of the person itself. If someone can demonstrate a lot of practical theory, they’ve been able to spend time studying their instrument as well as probably are culturally informed. In shorter words, music that’s harmonically complex tends to be a little more “refined, classy” because it would require some time and resources to refine instrument playing to that point. So in a way yeah it’s fair to call Jazz a major development of blues. Just my opinion.
Well Sister Rosetta Tharpe probably had the first rock song, she was a gospel and blues player. Country itself is a derivative of blues, it used to be known as hillbilly music, to dinsinguish it from "race music" as they called it which was just an amalgamation of different styles of music played by black people
hey melvin when you are reffering to "play what you feel" it also lies on the fact that i still gotta play notes that make sense on the scale right ???
Not as much as you'd think... You discover the scale as much as you follow it. Certain notes won't be on the scale yet sound good on certain chords... The scale is the basic template, the blues is limitless!
He plays good and all, but I think, I ThiNnnnnk his opinion on jazz is simply poor. Somehow he's got skill, experience and knowledge, but not perspective. inmyopinion
Yes i heard that jazz was originated from blues. But to my ears jazz and blues are very much different. Jazz is probably a much evolved blues so that sometimes there is no traces of blues left. And so that is why it is possible for one to love jazz yet hate blues. Thats me. I feel furious whenever I listen to blues. Something in my soul rejects blues. But I love jazz. Some types of jazz though, because I also hate the bluesy jazz. Hate is a strong word, but ... Thats what I feel.
@@UndecimeBeatitudo i really do feel that way. When I listen to blues, I get annoyed, and sometimes feel angered, because something in my soul rejects it. So i think I hate blues.
I ve got the exact opposite. I dont know why but jazz sounds much more chaotic to me. It feels like it doesnt make any sense. Blues got some type of emotion to it. But i’m surely no music expert so this is solely my opinion.
@@TAIQ7, I feel ya, man. You're correct in a way. You've gotta have at least some grasp of upper-intermediate music theory and have some immunity to dissonance to appreciate jazz. It's not that it's chaotic. It's more like jazz is pretty complicated music at times.
@Ayustria Salma I know a decent amount of music theory but even if I didn't, surely if you want people to get into jazz you wouldn't tell people that they don't like it because they're too musically lame to understand it. It was a joke I made over a year ago and you're acting like I've offended your entire family. Just chill out
i always say blues is about taking 8 notes and trying to express yourself the most out of those notes, and jazz is trying to play all the notes in one song to try to express yourself.
Very close. Jazz is ordered chaos.
Blues is blue.Jazz is purple
That sexy prurple
h.h holmes. Lol
That helped a lot
Grey
Deep Purple or Purple Rain? What about Pink Floyd/Pink? Or the song Pink, or the two musicians Pink Floyd named themselves after?
When he started playing the Blues... I said Yes even before I wanted to say Yes.
i just want to listen to him play blues all day
I'm more into jazz tho. Anyway, that's just different taste we have
This dude is incredible just playing around
I love Melvin and wish he were as popular as he deserves. Love his style, which drives my playing.
Blues is the Root, without a blues music there wouldn't have been no rock and Jazz! my opinion blues is the best music, although there few of type of blues there is shuffle blues and rock blues, and slide blues, but jazz is more for dance.
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I kinda get what he’s saying if you play blues and go fancy you turn it into jazz you go heavy it becomes rock... so... what kind of blues am I goin to play? O.O
You play the blues you feel like playing at that exact time
Jazz is to hard to play except for Educated musicians because Jazz genres are all about fast riffs that build dynamics. :)
Blue's Clues! 🐶
@@xenoidaltu601 lol Clifford 👹👺
I’d love to hang out with this guy and just learn so much about this stuff.
I got to open for Melvin in a dive called the Blue Goose in rural Maine of all places, back in the mid 90s. One of the best sounding live bands I ever heard, put on a great show. Really nice guy too. His bass player blew the speakers in my cab he borrowed. :)
I used to see Mel and the Slack Band at Rosa's during that era. He was the top dog imho on that guitar during the mid late 90's into the 2000's. Amazing memories. Amazing players.
I have been searching for someone who could really explain this concept. Thank you!
You should see him play in person. He is one of the best guitar players. And, he gets the least attention.
Love his Jazz lines
my friend plays the blues and once tried to teach me. all i learned is that good blues cant be taught.
crby101 I mean u can still learn blues scales and cords. Sounds like he was an asshole lol. Once u meant a few scales and cords play with it. And when u play think of something sad in your mind. And play to that emotion. I learned how to do this when I was 15 years old In love with a girl. I played my guitar when sad and happy. Emotions are your fuel and when u can use those as an instrument u can input it into your guitar.
@@davidjd123 great explanation!
@@davidjd123 that's it right there u summed it up
Man! That is really cool! Melvin is, in my mind anyway, one of the best guitar players tat has ever lived! You go Brother!
Explained really well, it totally makes senes right now.
You right to jazz is cleaner but I don't know about the lifestyle of the early jazz players some of them guys didn't have no money and got ripped off pretty badly so in the end a lot of them did have the Blues
Man, he's a really good jazz player.
Jazz: relax when listen, explode when playing (too many brain cells)
He is GREAT at both jazz and blues 👁👄👁
Attended Melvin's concert on October 5, 2010 in Lviv, Ukraine. Since then, I have attended many performances of famous stars and no one has approached Melvin in terms of skill. I really want to see him play again.
Mel is one of the best uptown (west side) blues players of all time. Nobody knows this except a select few.
I see jazz as spicy blues
Jazz is what you get when you're warming up to do the Blues!
Thank you very much for the explanation :)
Yes.Sir you are 100% right!!!! Peace & Love.
That shirt looks comfortable.
"blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll" can't agree with you more.
its a muddy waters song
@@youssef7253 ah maybe that's why that phrase seems familiar.
godbless, Mel- mega informative.
One of the greatest.
Thanks, Melvin, for the mesmerizing explanation! One day, hoping you'll return to Ukraine so we can hear you again live.
I wish the electric was turned up when you played your jazz runs. That was amazing.
Great metal playing
Having played all these styles (more heavily on Blues), I am going to say that, while they both have their standard forms and improvisation, Jazz differs from Blues, in that it's more complex, musically. Jazz has more chords and Jazz musicians typically "follow" the chord changes, whereas Blues players are typically thinking of playing in key. Jazz also differs in that the soloist may imply certain chord substitutions. There is Fusion too, btw, where Jazz/Blues/Rock can be combined, in terms of approaches. You can have someone take a jazzy approach to playing over Blues, where they follow the chord changes, targeting various tones, or have a chord substitution on their Blues, for example. Rock ranges from simple - like Blues Rock to more sophisticated.
Mel, you're one of the best. You should have 100k followers fans on RUclips. The future will catch up to you at some point, right.
Thanks for explaining!
Blues all day
Jazz gives me headaches
Music has the same attributes humans have...even humility and pride...i thought about this for years...im a rock musician...i love rock but im also from new orleans la...home of jazz and blues...I saw how jazz music was revered as the "sophisticated" or "intelligent" music...and blues the "low-level" or "humble" sound....all american music started on the slave plantations in the south...and after slavery, the musicians went up the mississippi river to Chicago and Detroit...and jazz was popular there...our people played jazz to impress whites...funny how whites used that to create rock and show that no matter how dirty or sloppy you play...just do it in love...because we all are dirty in some way...noone is better than the next...and if you dont believe me, listen to how Angus Young of ACDC talks about learning from Chuck Berry, or the Who talk about BB King or The Beatles and muddy waters....most rock musicians learned from afro americans but taught them the most important lesson they needed to learn...which is music is love...no matter how its played.
This is why I love and prefer rock music over both...rock Is electricity...the introduction to electric guitar became a defibrillator to the lifeless souls....our bodies are 80%water anyway....but thats another convo in itself.
Rock is life....I love rock music
The blues had a child and they named it rock n roll!
Damn thats deep
@@romeohio19 agreed!
Jazz=Happy
Blues=Sad
i think thats more like a speed difference, Blues can make you feel relaxed, or in peace too
blues is jazz without being anxious
what is the song he is playing at 01:17?
So awesome !!!
When something is harmonically complex, it is reflective of the person itself. If someone can demonstrate a lot of practical theory, they’ve been able to spend time studying their instrument as well as probably are culturally informed. In shorter words, music that’s harmonically complex tends to be a little more “refined, classy” because it would require some time and resources to refine instrument playing to that point. So in a way yeah it’s fair to call Jazz a major development of blues. Just my opinion.
Thanks much Man!
Jazz is not only playing fast 😂😂. The chords and scales are changing my friend. I wish it was that simple 😢😢😢
@4:55 does he say "boogie children"?
Greatttttt videoooooo
Beautiful fingers
i heard rock came from a mix of blues and country
Nah... just play blues and up the tempo
The Stones e.g. started as a blues cover band - and they had been my starting point to discover all the "real guys"
Well Sister Rosetta Tharpe probably had the first rock song, she was a gospel and blues player. Country itself is a derivative of blues, it used to be known as hillbilly music, to dinsinguish it from "race music" as they called it which was just an amalgamation of different styles of music played by black people
If I'm not mistaken,Bobby Womack wrote a song for the Rolling Stones
hey melvin when you are reffering to "play what you feel" it also lies on the fact that i still gotta play notes that make sense on the scale right ???
Not as much as you'd think... You discover the scale as much as you follow it. Certain notes won't be on the scale yet sound good on certain chords... The scale is the basic template, the blues is limitless!
Whoever introduce the horn in blues music may have been the one to help create blues as well. The guitar players started mimicking the horn.
B.B. King studied Louie Jordan. You are right.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTED HIM TO FINISH LA GRANGE???
Is that you, Melvin Taylor? I used to come see you play at Rosa's in the 80s.
So which came first? Blues or jazz?
:55 So, jazz is jazzy. 😋
8/26/21 RIP, the greats.
blues was back before the electric gt. louis armstrong etc...
Okay, but why is this on green screen?😂
so that any one can edit it haha
Wowwwww
Sounds to me like jazz is fancy blues
Muddy Waters is the real king of Rock n Roll 🤘🏼John Lee Hooker is right up there at the top as well
dommage qu'on entende pas bien la guitare
who is this man?
Blues is soooooo much better
Can't hear the guitar
Blues turned into the most famous songs ever imagined. Jazz became garbage you hear in elevators. No competition
Just think simple one..
Jazz add bebop idea.
Blues commonly does not use it.
He sounds eerily like Thanks Obama..
He plays good and all, but I think, I ThiNnnnnk his opinion on jazz is simply poor. Somehow he's got skill, experience and knowledge, but not perspective.
inmyopinion
¿Cuál es la tuya?
Yes i heard that jazz was originated from blues. But to my ears jazz and blues are very much different. Jazz is probably a much evolved blues so that sometimes there is no traces of blues left. And so that is why it is possible for one to love jazz yet hate blues. Thats me. I feel furious whenever I listen to blues. Something in my soul rejects blues. But I love jazz. Some types of jazz though, because I also hate the bluesy jazz. Hate is a strong word, but ... Thats what I feel.
I'd rather you'd say "don't like" or something, man. Cuz, yeah, "hate" is a strong word. Unless you really feel like it, though.
@@UndecimeBeatitudo i really do feel that way. When I listen to blues, I get annoyed, and sometimes feel angered, because something in my soul rejects it. So i think I hate blues.
I ve got the exact opposite. I dont know why but jazz sounds much more chaotic to me. It feels like it doesnt make any sense. Blues got some type of emotion to it. But i’m surely no music expert so this is solely my opinion.
@@TAIQ7, I feel ya, man. You're correct in a way. You've gotta have at least some grasp of upper-intermediate music theory and have some immunity to dissonance to appreciate jazz. It's not that it's chaotic. It's more like jazz is pretty complicated music at times.
Blues sound like some tried to do a mashup of different songs but the songs don’t go together at all and is so off beat
Blues uses 3 chords, jazz uses 300 chords.
Ridiculous, LOL.
Who said, "If you don't understand Jazz now, you never will" ??? Was that Dizzy Gillespie?
Dude literally shreds and then compares blues and jazz
If Obama played the guitar ‼️
Jazz sounds jazzy, blues does not. Nice
Blues incorporates only the I, IV, and V.
The difference is, jazz is somehow *more* meaningless
@Ayustria Salma ok
@Ayustria Salma I know a decent amount of music theory but even if I didn't, surely if you want people to get into jazz you wouldn't tell people that they don't like it because they're too musically lame to understand it. It was a joke I made over a year ago and you're acting like I've offended your entire family. Just chill out
ha ha ha ha
Sorry but I love blues more than jazz
Jazz is just a copy of blues
Pack a lip, bro?
the reason blues was looked down upon because it was black music