I studied with Ted Greene for 4 years. Like Tommy says, for "Watch What Happens" two bars before the bridge , regular chord changes are EbM7 EM7 FM7 F#M7 heading to GM7, but what Ted does is EbM7 Ab7 Am7 D7, top notes are G Ab A Bb. Ted uses this chord change when he wants to modulate up to M3rd. Hope more people will know about Ted,
I learned a lot from one of Ted's books of chord progressions. There were two volumes of those plus Chrod Chemistry. All great. Also, another great book when I was learning was "Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar-A Modern Method in How-to-Play Jazz and Hot Guitar." Baker was a lot like Ted Greene but his books came out 20 years earlier in the 50s. Great stuff.
@swald175 Thanks for posting this, Tommy is a fantastic player, and I thank him for sharing his knowledge with all of us...and Ted Greene should be known by every single serious guitarist..! RIP Ted
This speaks a lot about T.E. human greatness, giving credit to T.G. who although a genius ,was and still is almost unknown out of guitar geeks community
Ted Greene was a humble man; his work on chords is the tip of the iceberg which is harmonic possibilities. The Mendeleev of musical harmony is Allen Forte.
Yeah, maybe so, but if you're missing Lenny Breau, you're missing the GENIUS of chords. Ted Greene, one of my heroes too, has 3 vids up here on YT trying to explain a bit of how Lenny incorporated Bill Evans piano chords into his playing AND Ted is Chiming the bass note on all the chords... try that. Bro., if nothing I'm fair, and will check out Allen. But if it's more complicated than Ted or Lenny, I'm out. I don't have that large of a brain.
Wow I love Tommy. Ted Green was from another planet, if you can find it Teds book modern chord progression is very good as well. A space ship pick up Teds soul a few years ago, but I am happy he live on our planet.
That progression sounds like one of the sections in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Which is really interesting to me because I know that Gershwin was one of Ted's favorite composers! Wow
you are so right--mickey baker's book is a perfect place for someone who wants learn some great and very usuable jazz chord voicings and a bit on how to apply them...the single-note section is good too...i am currently working (really slowly) out of mickey bakers method part two, which focuses on counterpoint and really touch stretch voicings (as i like to call the, torture chords. ted greene took this to a whole other level. this is great stuff...
my brother had an old copy of Ted's chord chemistry, I bought him a copy of The Lucifer Chorda & my bro said he preferred it coz, it was just as good but a lot less complicated, a lot easier to get in to!
@MiezoT incase nobody has answered you yet, he is showing Ted Greene's version of "Watch What Happens" off his one and only solo jazz guitar album. It's my favorite solo guitar album ever, look it up!
chord philosophy is to deep to understand by aspiring guitarist. i think by learning by hearing different kinds of music like jazz, blues, rock, etc. will help open their minds to topics such as this.
The Chords are (tell me if im wrong), Emaj7 (fifth on top), A7#9 (flat fifth on top), Abm7b5 add 6 (sixth on top), Eb9 (fifth on top) and the last one is a really big Gmaj7. You could also see it as a G power chord with a Bm triad on top ;)
The chords at 1:07 are: Ebmaj7, E/D, A9/C#, D7#9b13, Gmaj7 x6x333, x5x454, x4x455, x5x566, 3x7x77 There is a full transcription of the song showed in the video in a website called "soundslice". Just search "ted greene circle of fifths".
Thank you! Now that I listen to it again, I think it is a little wrong. The third chord is actually A7/C# (x45x55), and the last one I'm not sure, but I think it is Gadd9 (3x7x07)@RyanMcQuen
Great little section from Ted Greene for "Watch What Happens. Tommy goes on to mention ... "I've been playing a song called *COUGH* of Love all my life..." Does anyone know the name of this tune?? It would be appreciated... Thanks!
Ted is often referred to as a "great guitarist" ... he wasn't, and he didn't like to be referred to as a guitarist. He was a "guitar researcher" and playing the guitar was just a necessary part of that process.
I met Joe PASS several times in the seventies when he was touring Europe and went into France . For me JOE and TED were in the same field with encyclopedic knowledge of STANDARDS and musical theory . The main difference is that jOE was touring worldwide while TED spent his life to research . JOE just played his ideas while TED explained his own research and jumped constantly from one to another one . He was deep in an educationlal trip to achieve complete methods .and his legacy is priceless and more than huge .
Ted Greene was a human encyclopedia of music..R.I.P. Ted
Also one of the most sublime guitarists I've ever heard. Send In The Clowns on his solo album is my favourite guitar tune at the moment.
Ha! Great comments from the camera man, check them out:
0:54 "Jesus, wow!"
1:17 "Good grief!"
Ted Greene was an absolutely brilliant guitarist. He is without a doubt my favorite of all time. A genius!!
Agree with you as to #1.
I studied with Ted Greene for 4 years. Like Tommy says, for "Watch What Happens" two bars before the bridge , regular chord changes are EbM7 EM7 FM7 F#M7 heading to GM7, but what Ted does is EbM7 Ab7 Am7 D7, top notes are G Ab A Bb. Ted uses this chord change when he wants to modulate up to M3rd. Hope more people will know about Ted,
Thats a lot to unpack
Oh wow that's not what tommy plays here, guess we get to pick
This is great, thank you for posting about Ted! Tommy is AMAZING!
Please visit the official Ted Greene Archives RUclips Channel for all things Ted.
It came out around 71, awesome still have it. Tommy’s love and fascination for the instrument still shines thru. The learning goes on and on.
I just got the book yesterday. It mskes me want to cry.
I relate so much 😂😂😂😂😂😂
They should have put that as a quote on the back cover.
I learned a lot from one of Ted's books of chord progressions. There were two volumes of those plus Chrod Chemistry. All great. Also, another great book when I was learning was "Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar-A Modern Method in How-to-Play Jazz and Hot Guitar." Baker was a lot like Ted Greene but his books came out 20 years earlier in the 50s. Great stuff.
I used to own that book. I’ve had better luck understanding the click languages of Africa.
Lmao, yep, Modern Chord Progressions had the same effect on me.
Ha! True dat.
Thank God. I thought it was just me. lol
lmao glad im not alone!
We should start a Ted Greene book owner support group.
man i find it so awesome that one of my favourite guitarists is referencing another guitar legend it's all love man
@swald175 Thanks for posting this, Tommy is a fantastic player, and I thank him for sharing his knowledge with all of us...and Ted Greene should be known by every single serious guitarist..! RIP Ted
The song is Watch What Happens. Thanks for sharing btw :)
Had that book since the later seventies,great reference material.TG was the absolute master on intervalic harmony
This speaks a lot about T.E. human greatness, giving credit to T.G. who although a genius ,was and still is almost unknown out of guitar geeks community
Ted Greene was a humble man; his work on chords is the tip of the iceberg which is harmonic possibilities. The Mendeleev of musical harmony is Allen Forte.
Yeah, maybe so, but if you're missing Lenny Breau, you're missing the GENIUS of chords. Ted Greene, one of my heroes too, has 3 vids up here on YT trying to explain a bit of how Lenny incorporated Bill Evans piano chords into his playing AND Ted is Chiming the bass note on all the chords... try that. Bro., if nothing I'm fair, and will check out Allen. But if it's more complicated than Ted or Lenny, I'm out. I don't have that large of a brain.
Wow I love Tommy.
Ted Green was from another planet, if you can find it Teds book modern chord progression is very good as well.
A space ship pick up Teds soul a few years ago, but I am happy he live on our planet.
Nice tribute to an awesome guitarist.
have Ted Greene Vol. 1 Jazz book.....from 1991. But, time flew from my fingers..........
That progression sounds like one of the sections in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Which is really interesting to me because I know that Gershwin was one of Ted's favorite composers! Wow
you are so right--mickey baker's book is a perfect place for someone who wants learn some great and very usuable jazz chord voicings and a bit on how to apply them...the single-note section is good too...i am currently working (really slowly) out of mickey bakers method part two, which focuses on counterpoint and really touch stretch voicings (as i like to call the, torture chords. ted greene took this to a whole other level. this is great stuff...
soyghost1 Who's been watching a certain Robben Ford interview.
As long as you got the same Mickey Baker book - he wrote a few of them !!
have that book. so lucky
my brother had an old copy of Ted's chord chemistry, I bought him a copy of The Lucifer Chorda & my bro said he preferred it coz, it was just as good but a lot less complicated, a lot easier to get in to!
I got that for my students, they like to dip into it and make their own runs up.
This is exactly why we're not Ted…can't even hear it, much less play it... really miss him.
Well said... agreed.. hearing is the gift..
For TE to cite TED GREENE! Guitarists: you MUST seek out Ted's music!
@MiezoT incase nobody has answered you yet, he is showing Ted Greene's version of "Watch What Happens" off his one and only solo jazz guitar album. It's my favorite solo guitar album ever, look it up!
Lateral thinking in chord construction. Brilliant!
What IS thé chords progression You borrows to Ted Grenne, thanks a lot Tommy for your answer.
chord philosophy is to deep to understand by aspiring guitarist. i think by learning by hearing different kinds of music like jazz, blues, rock, etc. will help open their minds to topics such as this.
The Chords are (tell me if im wrong), Emaj7 (fifth on top), A7#9 (flat fifth on top), Abm7b5 add 6 (sixth on top), Eb9 (fifth on top) and the last one is a really big Gmaj7. You could also see it as a G power chord with a Bm triad on top ;)
Eb maj7, E/D , A{7}/C sharp ,D 7 plus 9 plus 5 ,G maj 7.
No one played like Ted Greene…ever
Thanks Andrew. Off to my stack of fakebooks to search for it. :0)
Is there a pdf for the chords at 1:07? I can't find those chord names or make out them in slow mode.
The chords at 1:07 are:
Ebmaj7, E/D, A9/C#, D7#9b13, Gmaj7
x6x333, x5x454, x4x455, x5x566, 3x7x77
There is a full transcription of the song showed in the video in a website called "soundslice". Just search "ted greene circle of fifths".
@@glb1995 Got it, thank you very much.
@@stephencraig8578 You're welcome!
Thank you! Now that I listen to it again, I think it is a little wrong. The third chord is actually A7/C# (x45x55), and the last one I'm not sure, but I think it is Gadd9 (3x7x07)@RyanMcQuen
Great little section from Ted Greene for "Watch What Happens. Tommy goes on to mention ... "I've been playing a song called *COUGH* of Love all my life..." Does anyone know the name of this tune?? It would be appreciated... Thanks!
UnitedEffect Secret Love :-)
Beyond comprehension how Tommy's brain processes notes, fingers, sounds ....
Watch What Happens... It happens music! :-))
I'm embarrassed to ask, but still: what song is he talking about/playing?
what song is he breaking down?
secret love
TED GREENE not Ted Green…ffs
lol, i was just about to say that...Oh well i'm 5 years too late !!
The "spiced up circle of fifths" Tommy plays sounds like part of a Beach Boys song we all know. Any guesses???
I Get Around?
paul harris Friends-from 1968
God only knows which song you’re thinking of
Oh man, he was just getting to the other good parts...
Why did you stop it there? It was just getting very interesting! Well, ok, it already was interesting, but to stop it there is just wrong.
Circle of fifths 00:44
damn that ended too damn fast.......
Ted is often referred to as a "great guitarist" ... he wasn't, and he didn't like to be referred to as a guitarist.
He was a "guitar researcher" and playing the guitar was just a necessary part of that process.
whatevers, he was a great guitarist all things considered
Greene.
الان و با این توضیح فهمیدم چرا تد اینقدر نابغه بوده!
Joe Pass took lessons from Ted Greene and Tommy has his book.
Enough said
I never heard that Joe studied with Ted. I don't think that is accurate. I knew Ted, and this statement sounds wrong.
Pretty sure Joe Pass was self taught. And didn't take lessons with anyone. But who knows?
ya, who the hell is Ted Green.... & do I need to wear a shirt like that to play like him ?
Ted is Al's bro. It doesn't matter what you wear , just as long as you are there.
Good grief
CHORD HELL
boring...joe pass is better than ted green
I met Joe PASS several times in the seventies when he was touring Europe and went into France . For me JOE
and TED were in the same field with encyclopedic knowledge of STANDARDS and musical theory . The main
difference is that jOE was touring worldwide while TED spent his life to research . JOE just played his ideas
while TED explained his own research and jumped constantly from one to another one . He was deep in an
educationlal trip to achieve complete methods .and his legacy is priceless and more than huge .
There is only different, oh to be the gatekeeper of taste.
Just different... Harmonically? Ted wins..
I didn't know they were competing against one another. I don't think they knew, either.
This statement reveals your lack of understanding.