Ted Greene Baroque Improv - Part 4
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2009
- Rare footage of Ted giving a guitar lesson (6/26/96) and the topics cover the Baroque period, Bach and guitar improv.
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Amazing! Students at a music conservatory study years to get that counterpoint down to be able to compose in this style. And it takes them an hour at least to finish four bars. And here comes Ted Greene IMPROVISING in perfect baroque counterpoint on an electric guitar!! And he even has a small talk simultaneously!!
This is beyond me. To understand Harmony on this level and it being on an improvised level... jaw dropping
Mr Greene is one it the rarest breed of guitarist who understand that guitar is a musical instrument - thus only the mean not the goal. The goal being music itself.
I'll never get tired of listening to this man....
He makes it seem so effortless. Imagine if they had converted his brain waves into video imagery. All the neurons firing away composing two melodies that communicate and dance with each other. Beautiful.
I still have my Album LP from him called: Ted Green solo guitar, where he plays through a Leslie speaker, amazing stuff, I probably got that album over forty years ago. Indeed he was a virtuoso, his understanding of melody, harmony and rhythm is unparalleled. R.I.P. 🙏🏼🎼🎶🎵🎸🎼🙏🏼
Ted Greene, a truly underappreciated genius of the guitar . He could also coax whatever sound he needed from his Tele .Thank goodness these videos are available.
stunning! You can tell he really studied the genre and knew all the harmonization possibilities before he played a note. I still have my old CHORD CHEMISTRY book from 1974. Now to finally see and hear the real person has been a treat. Guess the modern world's not all bad.
Ted says that you should practice this for 3 hours every day and then it's possible. But it's so hard to imagine how a human being can improvise two melodies at the same time. And with the result so beautiful you could listen to it forever. I've never heard an electric guitar sound so divine.
3hrs a day?💀
@@joelstephenson8017 3hrs is rookie number
Hi May - I've made a playlist of transcribed Baroque Improv Excerpts on my channel. You might enjoy checking it out : ruclips.net/p/PLoLOItWSclTUZ-IkiD3vKWWujieIOfFKY
He was saying it takes three hours a day for a week to regain finger strength to play this style for any amount of time after having not played it for a while.
i just love when Ted would improvise in a baroque manner. i used to ask him, is this TG Bach and we would share a laugh. truly Ted was as high as you could go in the guitar realm!
Hi Ron - I've made a playlist of transcribed Baroque Improv Excerpts on my channel. You might enjoy checking it out : ruclips.net/p/PLoLOItWSclTUZ-IkiD3vKWWujieIOfFKY
Ted and Lenny ❤️❤️
An absolute genious
Name me one guitar player in the history of the instrument that can improvise chord melody like Ted (keeping in mind that ANY tune you ask him to play he could pull it off in ANY key you ask him too) ON TOP of that can improvise in baroque counterpoint AND Ive seen him do a fugue staying in form.Its a rhetorical question because we all no the answer: NO ONE !!! INCREDIBLE
I witnessed several times Stepan Rak do the same: to improvise in perfect baroque three voiced counterpoint. But he is a classically trained guitarist and a thoroughly educated composer.
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Perhaps Lenny could.
Check out Lenny Breau if you don't know him.
This is truly a genius at work. What a loss when Ted died. Thankfully his students had the foresight to record things so the world can still learn from and hear Teds words.
Did he ever record these Baroque improvisations and release them on an album? I could listen to this all day. Just wonderful.
notice how ted holds the guitar and the angle of the neck-- this type of playing requires super technique and the classical influences are of course a given, but this amazing playing is all ted greene
If you watch Ted play in casual settings he's almost always making sure to position the guitar in such a way that the wrist of the fretting hand doesn't have to be bent to play normally. The guy probably played for like 10 hours a day and knew enough to understand that if his physical form was bad then he'd be doing real damage really fast.
The lost art of improv. Back in the day composers used to give total improvised concerts.
You hit the nail on the head! At some point the classical music method lost improvisation and in turn lost it soul. This man brings it back for a moment.
@@The_Invisible_Man I have been practicing counterpoint improv on the keyboard for a couple years now and it is really amazing how you can hit that flow and you are into this counterpoint world where your fingers seem to make these voices by themselves. I read some very old manuscripts fro cpe Bach and other musicologists from that time about how to imrpovise this and it all comes down to following the bass voice. Today we look at chords as these independent entities that can be filled in but back then they used to look at the bass line as the guiding voice and stacked their voices on top of it and the chords are a natural result from that.
Start with a simple descending bass voice like C B A G and keep that on a loop. Then start with 1 voice on top of that, just 1:1 notes that follow basic counterpoint rules (only thirds and 6ths can move parallel) and try to find all the possible harmonies. Then start adding in more notes on the top voice, instead of 1:1 you do 1:2, 2 notes in the top voice for every 1 note in the bass. Then do 1:4, 4 notes in the top melody for every 1 note in the bass. And all this on the same bass figure C B A G.
Eventually you add more voices and at some point you can do 4 part counterpoint that sounds pretty authentic.
Also another major hack is to understand suspended notes in counterpoint. It is a bit too much to explain right here but if you understand it just know that if you use that principle in the top voice and always resolve the suspended notes to a 12th from the bass (octave + 3rd) you can very easily improvise melodies that sound really complex and authentic. This was one of JS Bach’s favorite improv techniques according to CPE Bach.
Wow, I didn't know that!
@@LesterBrunt wait can you elaborate more on the suspension thing?
@@justanothernguyen2334 Look
up John Mortenson, he has several videos on it that explain it way better than I can here in text. I think he calls them sequences.
absolutely incredible... thanks.
Ted is amazing!!! Love these videos...Thanks for sharing
This guy was just truly AMAZING and one of a kind
So beautiful!!!
Just stunning playing here. Wow.
Oh, Ted, you make it look so easy. You really were the greatest.
Agreed, he's the G.O.A.T.
Precioso !
What a genius!
Божественно!
I can not believe this has only received 7 comments, this is an invaluable source of information. Its like a lesson with Bach himself captured on camcorder. So glad I am one of the few who can appreciate it. I am transcribing it now, got about a minute of it written out today. Hard work but SOOOOO worth it!!!!!!
Hello! now is 2016. I'd like watch the transcription you did
Lindsey Blair Hey hey, 2017 here. We're the efforts of transcription worth the wait?
Hi Lindsey - I've made a playlist of transcribed Baroque Improv Excerpts on my channel. You might enjoy checking it out : ruclips.net/p/PLoLOItWSclTUZ-IkiD3vKWWujieIOfFKY
Hello, 2023 here. I want the transcription so bad!!!
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Does anyone know happened to Ted's Prized Telecaster? I think it should be in a hall of fame or museum somewhere.
Tim Lerch has one of his guitars.
Ryan Madrid where does Tim live and do you know any good cat burglars in the area?
So missed...
P.S, I wonder if Guitar World Magazine has ever done a special on Ted Greene. If so, what issue and if not I wonder if they would still consider it.
It's really interesting the way he talks about "the bass" when he's playing above the 7th fret on the guitar... What he means is "the bass voice", but we tend to think of the bass as a particular frequency range, rather than a lower-pitched voice relative to the melody.
Okay, so now, in addition to struggling through my standards, I can think about THAT for a few years!
Hi Comrade Crab - I've made a playlist of transcribed Baroque Improv Excerpts on my channel. You might enjoy checking it out : ruclips.net/p/PLoLOItWSclTUZ-IkiD3vKWWujieIOfFKY
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Plating guitar.
Bellissimo.
Ancient Christic race manifested in Ted 🕉️🙏
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@@basicsforbaroqueimprovisation 😃🙏
FANTSATIC ! 5*
what recording is the song at the beginning from?
what is the opening tune?
BVW = Bach Very Wonderful.
Who knows this music name & # ?
Listening weekly to Ted sure is excellent medicine for modern living !
hey nelson have you found out the # of the piece?
It is stated by the video and by Ted himself that these are improvisations. I think he explains it in Ted Greene Baroque Improv Part 1. He focuses on the melody then on the bass when he hears it, gets lucky with accompaniment sometimes. He says how it's the culmination of playing a million little things.
And actually in this video "call it improvising, all I'm doing is recombining things. (but he's definitely improvising, "recombination" as he is doing takes an immense amount of skill.
Hi nelson - I've made a playlist of transcribed Baroque Improv Excerpts on my channel. You might enjoy checking it out : ruclips.net/p/PLoLOItWSclTUZ-IkiD3vKWWujieIOfFKY
holy fuck
Would love to understand how he is doing this.
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I couldn't agree more, I feel annoyed that something this special is so hidden, but at the same time I'm proud of my search that uncovered such an intelligent approach to beautiful music. Any chance you transcribed it onto a program? I'd be ecstatic if you could send it to me, my transcribing efforts have failed once again.
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What is this Bach piece ? What is the BVW # ?
There is a picture of J.S. that looks just like Ted here playing his music !
Same smile ; same joy in the flowing themes ; same wonder.
I need the music to study & enjoy. Where is it available ? Thankyou.
nelson hollins
i may be wrong but i think it's an impro. Nevertheless he is using, as he explains, some of back favorite chord progressions, mainly IV V I
+nelson hollins It's just Ted Greene improvising!!!
Improvisation, Bach did the same. Its a lost skill in baroque/classical music.
Ted Greene was the modern day Andres Segovia! Actually, I'd say Ted was even mere talented than Andres.
He is improving here which is sick!!!
Ted was completely on Bachs level. I legitimately believe that, he's up with the 0.01% of cats that only come along a few times in an era. Ted would likely call me crazy, but he's too modest to be trusted in this regard looking from the outside in.
Jesus
Better than Jesus, surely Ted Greene is an archangel!
Ted. renowned for piss poor recording if he'd spent half as much of his energy on getting the recording sweet
he'd have been a multi millionaire.
Honest question, what are you referring to here? He recorded one album, direct into the desk, and it sounds perfect really.
cool but still not as intense as the ol JSB
bach is bach, nothing is as intense
He is coming up with this on the spot. It is beyond ridiculous.
Obviously as Bach is the greatest artist of all time. However Ted is at the absolute highest height of improvisation. Bach would approve. Bach was legendary for his improvisation skills.