A LONG time ago I bought Sheets of Sound 1 and 2 and it was beyond my understanding. Years later I’m chewing through them. Thanks for doing what you do.
Nicely broken down. This kind of playing has mystified me for longer than I care to remember. It's very liberating to have it unveiled in such an easy to understand manner; I can hopefully wander from the pentatonic plateau into the jazz jungle a little further now. Cheers.
I am a teacher myself and this is a really good approach to teaching improvising without going into a bunch of theory. Obviously there is a lot going on from a theory standpoint. Great lesson!
I find this video to be quite well done. I enjoyed it. To those who think Jack is showing off, I say this: he is showing how to correctly apply the techniques he is demonstrating. Would you rather he played it badly to make you feel better about your own playing? Jack is an excellent player and this video teaches a lot of good things simply. My only critique? Jack, where is your head? It has disappeared!! :-)
+Ken Karsh Nice comment. I find it sad and ironic that so many musicians diss other musicians for "showing off";l they set themselves up for psychological barriers to performing at their best when they do that. By definition, musicians are "show offs", and we should stop pretending it is wrong to be proud of what you put thousands of hours into mastering. Wanting to share and have others appreciate what we do is such a basic human drive that everyone has it, whether a plumber, a guitarist, a divorce lawyer, or a marine biologist. We are social beings, and naturally enjoy each others' interest in what we do. Playing in front of anyone is "showing off". I say we call out the stigmatization of it. Obviously there is some ego involved, since humans have egos, and it is involved in anything we do, but there is also intelligence, fun, love, humor, excitement, joy and pathos. It isn't excessively egotistical to share what you can do and be proud of it. The haters reveal more about their own damaged egos than those they criticize when they call a player out on "showing off".
By the way, your instruction is among the best I've seen on the Internet. Clear, concise, to the point and easy to understand. It's a refreshing alternative to the self-centered approach. Thanks again.
Jack...you just did more for me in 10 minutes than anything I've seen or heard on this topic in months and months..!! STUPENDOUS...I'm so fired up. Not only did I pick up a few of your specific lines and shapes...but I was able to apply these ideas to some of my own little structures I've been using with anemic results !! I'm on fire now...with a whole new vocabulary!! I owe you MY LIFE....(well...almost) !! Stevie Kuykendall
Great lesson. I think it's worth pointing out that when playing out by side-slipping like this, Jack almost always gets back into key by using a chromatic enclosure on one of the notes of Am7. Maybe this was obvious to most people, but it was kind of a breakthrough realization for me so hopefully this helps someone else too.
I love how you included rhythmic ideas such as hemiolas and displacement - not just the vanilla _"oH yOu jUsT pLay uP a sEmiTonE fRoM tHe oRigiNaL chOrD tOnEs, yOu sEe!"_ response I usually hear lol. Great day sir.
THANKS JACK. I'm deleting all previous bookmarks on jazz guitar instruction and watching yours only, (at least for now). This is the first time I've begun to understand what, or HOW to make phrases sound jazzy. I cannot thank you enough. If your selling something, I'll buy it.
GREAT lesson series. I like how you also emphasize how important phrasing is for playing outside and what notes are on and off the beat. Great job! Thanks for all the amazing vids Jack!
I learned quite a lot from this video. For the longest time, I wanted to incorporate outside playing into my repertoire. This is a great tutorial for that. Keep these informative videos coming!
Good lesson. He gets right down to business. Too many of these guys spend 5 or 10 minutes talking about what they're going to do before playing a note. He assumes you already have some knowledge and technique. Very good player.
you made the concept of playing outside very easy to grasp. i"m not a jazz musician, but the ideas the music presents is very intriguing to me. so thanks for the lessons!!
It augments something that I have been exploring lately which is playing solos and staying away from playing the root tonic as much as possible, and never on the 1 and 4 beats. I will couple this concept with what you have presented in this excellent lesson. Thanks 🙏🏾🎸🔥🔥👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Excellent lesson ! What I particularly liked the most was your break down of every other lick you were playing plus the point you made by demonstrating what happens if you don't return to the chord and keep playing outside.
Great lesson! I find your approach perfect for anyone who already has the basic scale patterns under their fingers. The concept of moving a half step is great. I've been experimenting with this idea with good (and very fun) results! Rock on!
I tried to learn this and it took me a year to get the hang of it. At first it sounded too boring and I get sleepy every time I practice. Now I appreciate this tutorial very much, it changed my view of the guitar and yes I can do this now. Thank you sir!
I've been curious on how to jazz up my minor pen over 7ths for awhile. The tidbit about using the half step diff throughout the scale is incredibly useful. Thanks
This is a GREAT lesson! GREAT! Such a reasonably simple way to explain a rather modern concept that virtually defines a great many styles of jazz and post-rock playing. I've never see it elucidated so well. Thanks! Ornette Coleman-ism, here I come!
Wow I am so happy I found this page. I have already learned a ton just from watching a few of your videos! It cracked me up when you said if you stay outside and don't come back it just sounds like you don't know what youre doing hahaha. I think Ive been there! Thanks brother!
This is great stuff ! Ive been playing a long time and Ive grown bored of the confines of pentatonic and minor scales in rock music. Ive long wanted to get that "outside" feel but have not had much luck. This half step idea as a stepping stone really helps. I will learn to play bebop guitar one of these days....thank you JZ !
its a bit fast but thats what the slow down settings are for. Incredible lesson!!! people tell you about this but he breaks it down to how it an actually sound good
Cool! Jack ...it seems like part of the magic of smoothly slipping in and out of the pentatonic thing, as you demonstrate, is in the turnarounds. That is, the modulations are often preceded by a note 1/2 step above and below. I've messing with this since seeing your video.
Thanks for the lesson. I was transcribing All the things you are by Bird and I was lost a bit then I realise he moved a half step deceiving my ears and fingers lol! But then I remember this... Music has no rules just good taste.
thanks Jack. a different aproach than the overly complicated analytical approach taught @ u. of akron years back. you should get the gtr head position there! Would re-enroll!
I love this stuff. Based on this video I tried to get a bit of this sort of outside playing in part of my latest video (slow blues guitar). I'm not really pulling of the phrases like you can though. I think it must be something to do with the timing of when your moving the scale outside and inside. I keep coming back to this vid every few months to rehear your phrasing. Great stuff.
a pivot is typically a note that is in common between the two keys but in the case of half-step displacement you can shift up or down a half step (a pivot) back to the original key
THE best demonstration/explanation of this I've seen.
A LONG time ago I bought Sheets of Sound 1 and 2 and it was beyond my understanding. Years later I’m chewing through them. Thanks for doing what you do.
thanks so much for commenting!
Nicely broken down. This kind of playing has mystified me for longer than I care to remember. It's very liberating to have it unveiled in such an easy to understand manner; I can hopefully wander from the pentatonic plateau into the jazz jungle a little further now. Cheers.
I am a teacher myself and this is a really good approach to teaching improvising without going into a bunch of theory. Obviously there is a lot going on from a theory standpoint. Great lesson!
I find this video to be quite well done. I enjoyed it. To those who think Jack is showing off, I say this: he is showing how to correctly apply the techniques he is demonstrating. Would you rather he played it badly to make you feel better about your own playing? Jack is an excellent player and this video teaches a lot of good things simply. My only critique? Jack, where is your head? It has disappeared!! :-)
+Ken Karsh Nice comment. I find it sad and ironic that so many musicians diss other musicians for "showing off";l they set themselves up for psychological barriers to performing at their best when they do that. By definition, musicians are "show offs", and we should stop pretending it is wrong to be proud of what you put thousands of hours into mastering.
Wanting to share and have others appreciate what we do is such a basic human drive that everyone has it, whether a plumber, a guitarist, a divorce lawyer, or a marine biologist. We are social beings, and naturally enjoy each others' interest in what we do.
Playing in front of anyone is "showing off". I say we call out the stigmatization of it. Obviously there is some ego involved, since humans have egos, and it is involved in anything we do, but there is also intelligence, fun, love, humor, excitement, joy and pathos. It isn't excessively egotistical to share what you can do and be proud of it. The haters reveal more about their own damaged egos than those they criticize when they call a player out on "showing off".
+Ken Karsh Showing off? He is letting us steal his licks! :D
Thanks for this useful info. As a kid, my mother always told me to play outside. ;-)
Haaaaaaaa
LOLOLOLOL - laughing my head off!! Wonderful quote
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa u made my day dude
That just killed me. Haha. Noice
an introverts worst nightmare is outside the box, it's comfort zone
How I usually say, you are a great master. Always having some interesting stuff to teach.
Thanks, I'm going to start going back and doing some more lessons!
By the way, your instruction is among the best I've seen on the Internet. Clear, concise, to the point and easy to understand. It's a refreshing alternative to the self-centered approach. Thanks again.
Jack...you just did more for me in 10 minutes than anything I've seen or heard on this topic in months and months..!! STUPENDOUS...I'm so fired up. Not only did I pick up a few of your specific lines and shapes...but I was able to apply these ideas to some of my own little structures I've been using with anemic results !! I'm on fire now...with a whole new vocabulary!! I owe you MY LIFE....(well...almost) !!
Stevie Kuykendall
All your videos are clear, precise - and very useful. Your playing is sublime throughout.
GREAT lesson!! Thanks for laying out some pragmatic, practical guidelines for playing outside.
The "start on the upbeat" tip is brilliant.
Definetely one of the best lessons on the subject. Thx Jack!
Great lesson. I think it's worth pointing out that when playing out by side-slipping like this, Jack almost always gets back into key by using a chromatic enclosure on one of the notes of Am7. Maybe this was obvious to most people, but it was kind of a breakthrough realization for me so hopefully this helps someone else too.
I love how you included rhythmic ideas such as hemiolas and displacement - not just the vanilla _"oH yOu jUsT pLay uP a sEmiTonE fRoM tHe oRigiNaL chOrD tOnEs, yOu sEe!"_ response I usually hear lol. Great day sir.
THANKS JACK. I'm deleting all previous bookmarks on jazz guitar instruction and watching yours only, (at least for now).
This is the first time I've begun to understand what, or HOW to make phrases sound jazzy. I cannot thank you enough. If your selling something, I'll buy it.
GREAT lesson series. I like how you also emphasize how important phrasing is for playing outside and what notes are on and off the beat. Great job! Thanks for all the amazing vids Jack!
finally listening to this video... took me 2 years to feel like I could grasp what is in here.
I learned quite a lot from this video. For the longest time, I wanted to incorporate outside playing into my repertoire. This is a great tutorial for that. Keep these informative videos coming!
Good lesson. He gets right down to business. Too many of these guys spend 5 or 10 minutes talking about what they're going to do before playing a note. He assumes you already have some knowledge and technique. Very good player.
you made the concept of playing outside very easy to grasp. i"m not a jazz musician, but the ideas the music presents is very intriguing to me. so thanks for the lessons!!
It augments something that I have been exploring lately which is playing solos and staying away from playing the root tonic as much as possible, and never on the 1 and 4 beats. I will couple this concept with what you have presented in this excellent lesson. Thanks 🙏🏾🎸🔥🔥👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This lesson changed my life! Started learning this technique in 2013.
Excellent lesson ! What I particularly liked the most was your break down of every other lick you were playing plus the point you made by demonstrating what happens if you don't return to the chord and keep playing outside.
Great lesson! I find your approach perfect for anyone who already has the basic scale patterns under their fingers. The concept of moving a half step is great. I've been experimenting with this idea with good (and very fun) results! Rock on!
Jack Zucker where have you been all my life , Man this is the lesson I needed , Thank you so much
Besides being a great player, Mr. Z is so gracious to afford us an insight into some very intricate playing.
FINAFIRKINLY a cogent and well articulated lesson on Outside playing for noobs. Subscribed.
I tried to learn this and it took me a year to get the hang of it. At first it sounded too boring and I get sleepy every time I practice. Now I appreciate this tutorial very much, it changed my view of the guitar and yes I can do this now. Thank you sir!
I've been curious on how to jazz up my minor pen over 7ths for awhile. The tidbit about using the half step diff throughout the scale is incredibly useful. Thanks
This is a GREAT lesson! GREAT! Such a reasonably simple way to explain a rather modern concept that virtually defines a great many styles of jazz and post-rock playing. I've never see it elucidated so well. Thanks! Ornette Coleman-ism, here I come!
Great lesson ! I watched all the 4 parts of " this series"and am learning much more every day
Thanks for posting !
Excellent - love the Rhythms.
Like your sound on this Guitar by the way!
Practical, down to earth Lesson that sounds good right away when used.
Thank you !!! I got more from YOU than any other all...lessons ..........THANK YOU !
Thanks for explain the concept so well! Years searching for something like that. Cheers from Chile!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Jack. Love your playing. And just bought your book. I’m so excited
A very articulate explanation of a sometimes intimidating topic. Thanks!
Wow I am so happy I found this page. I have already learned a ton just from watching a few of your videos! It cracked me up when you said if you stay outside and don't come back it just sounds like you don't know what youre doing hahaha. I think Ive been there! Thanks brother!
This is really cool and very useful. Thank you
In the city I live in, those who play out don't play out!😄 But as a musician, I find this interesting, thank you!
This stuff makes me want to practice right now
A really excellent lesson. So glad I found it. Thank you.
This is great stuff ! Ive been playing a long time and Ive grown bored of the confines of pentatonic and minor scales in rock music. Ive long wanted to get that "outside" feel but have not had much luck. This half step idea as a stepping stone really helps. I will learn to play bebop guitar one of these days....thank you JZ !
Lessons from a headless man are always epic! Jk, very helpful. :)
Just subbed, I've been looking for this for years. At last!!!!
Jack's books are amazing! I highly recommend buying them. A lot of information in them.
@@JackZucker KInd of you to say. I really like the book.It's giving me fresh practice material. Great work.
its a bit fast but thats what the slow down settings are for. Incredible lesson!!! people tell you about this but he breaks it down to how it an actually sound good
Excellent ideas and explanation. Thanks
great tutorial, and great tone too.
great lesson! I'm gonna study this one. It shows me a way to move from blues to jazz.
This is a great lesson series of lessons on how to play/ improvise and sound "jazzy" or "bebop-ish?"
I shouldn't type whilst drinking!
so good! clear, concise and very applicable!
Cool! Jack ...it seems like part of the magic of smoothly slipping in and out of the pentatonic thing, as you demonstrate, is in the turnarounds. That is, the modulations are often preceded by a note 1/2 step above and below. I've messing with this since seeing your video.
Thanks for the lesson. I was transcribing All the things you are by Bird and I was lost a bit then I realise he moved a half step deceiving my ears and fingers lol! But then I remember this... Music has no rules just good taste.
It's really great and easy to understand, even if not yet easy to play as you are;-)
Txs a lot!
Thanks for sharing what you know. How I wish youtube was around when I started playing.
Keep posting,great job!! Finally I understood the concept.
Interesting stuff. Looking forward to trying this. You’re a very good player.
thanks Jack. a different aproach than the overly complicated analytical approach taught @ u. of akron years back. you should get the gtr head position there! Would re-enroll!
Jack Zucker sheets of sound and these vids get more attention than those little know professors around cleveland. sad state of affairs. politics.
Very useful lesson, thanks.
Excellent lesson! Also like that ax!
Fantastic Lesson!!! Thanks!!! Immediate subscriber!!!
That i needed...thanks zack
thanks Jack, it's a great piece of teaching)))
You are great, thanks
thanks. Just trying to pay it forward!
Thanks man! way to break it down. Also nice playing!
very interesting indeed. thanks for shairing...
Great stuff! Thanks for doing this... taking just these concepts alone will keep me busy for awhile...
I learned more from this, than from John Stowell's entire production.
john stowell is great, but he is a freaking weirdo and not fun to experience.
So Cool Mun👍🏻!!!
Thank you so much for explaining this!!
Thanks Jack I needed this vid!
Big Al
Great lesson!
Amazing stuff...Gracias Maestro!!!!
Incredible valuable. Thank you very much.
That was so excellent !
i'd just like to say how difficult it is to solo over one chord and keep it interesting. A testement to your playing, great lesson!
the rhythmic stuff is great in this (and the rest too)
awesome video, thanks!
Thank you, I do feel Pat Martino influence.
Very very cool
I love this stuff. Based on this video I tried to get a bit of this sort of outside playing in part of my latest video (slow blues guitar). I'm not really pulling of the phrases like you can though. I think it must be something to do with the timing of when your moving the scale outside and inside.
I keep coming back to this vid every few months to rehear your phrasing. Great stuff.
Excellent amigo, thanks for that.
Thats great thanx good giy giving that info thank you
Beautiful guitar😍
Hi Jack .at 2;45 mins you mention pivot to get back to original key.I have a vague idea what pivot means !Can you explain please . Great Video!
a pivot is typically a note that is in common between the two keys but in the case of half-step displacement you can shift up or down a half step (a pivot) back to the original key
wonderful lesson. thanks!
Great lesson. Love the feel of slipping out. Check out John McLaughlin's "Now Here This" recording for a master of this style.
BrianShive share the url. Mclaughlin , one of my favourite players
wow, how great! thank you.
Great lesson!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!
Very good lesson, helped me a lot - thank you
is this same with altered scale but played with tricky way?
btw this is very great lesson.
great stuff Jack!
Awesome lesson!
VERY GOO D Teacher Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Great stuff!
Good lesson !! THNKS man !!!
Sounds so much like what Metheny does. Great lesson !
great lesson... thanks
Fantástico! Muy bien explicado.