Jazz For Rockers ep 5: Mahavishnu Orchestra

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025

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  • @tomscotland
    @tomscotland Год назад +3

    Eric, you are by far the best music teacher on RUclips, nobody else ever teaches expression the way you do.
    With that in mind, I’ve often wondered how you’d approach the swing of early AC/DC. Many have tried, few have ever succeeded in translating the apparent simplicity of the timing and feel, and most importantly of all, how to make it swing and look easy.
    Sorry for the tangent.

  • @mattgilbert7347
    @mattgilbert7347 Год назад +2

    Mahavishnu got me into whole-tone. I can't play it properly, but I know what it sounds like. Unmistakable. Cheers.

  • @jaltsch1
    @jaltsch1 Год назад +5

    You just turned this series up to eleven with this one. Love it!

  • @thorvelizelos
    @thorvelizelos Год назад +3

    Great video! Love Mahavishnu! And very nice take on the solo! Keep it up man!

  • @trioguitar
    @trioguitar Год назад +5

    That chord progression is insane, and what you've played over it sounds fantastic!

  • @honeychilerider
    @honeychilerider Год назад +7

    Eric, thanks so much for doing this series.
    Feeling musically exhausted and uninspired to play at all after a kind of grueling recording run and a bad gig, this series has me off my ass and playing like myself again.
    Great stuff, man!

  • @macsarcule
    @macsarcule Год назад +4

    Oh man, I am loving this series! Loved learning the double approach! So spooky, moody, atmospheric, melancholy, kinda gothic in the very best way, like an old hammer horror film, omg, my new current addiction is double approach!
    Such a cool lesson! Thank you Eric! ✌️😌🎸.

  • @torontolarrivee7965
    @torontolarrivee7965 Год назад

    Eric you are fantastic- killer teacher, killer taste, killer player. Best guitar lessons on RUclips, hands down.

  • @ER-yq1lc
    @ER-yq1lc Год назад +2

    No arguments here, I like the way you think. This old rocker is learning some new tricks for sure, thank you!

  • @mycroft174
    @mycroft174 Год назад +2

    my main focus right now has been trying to remember how songs go so i can play through them, the way you think about it as you go through it might be the most helpful kind of thing ive come across

  • @scottkidwellmusic9175
    @scottkidwellmusic9175 Год назад +3

    Thank you, Eric 🙏🏻
    I may have to come back to this one...
    Be good to you
    🤍💛✌️🍕

  • @mantashaft
    @mantashaft Год назад +3

    Why on earth haven’t I seen a Haugen vid in forever!!!! What have I been doing?

  • @GladmanNow
    @GladmanNow Год назад +2

    Your RUclips on what to practice got me to pick up my guitar two days in a row (so far) and the cage stuff also got me fooling around with some changes in fun ways. Thanks, Eric.

  • @boomerdell
    @boomerdell Год назад +1

    Eric. You done and doggone done did it again. Absolutely brilliant.

  • @Thr3-Words
    @Thr3-Words Год назад +1

    I probably write this every time, but man, that guitar sounds so beautiful!

  • @hemmelight
    @hemmelight Год назад +1

    Loved your most-excellent and tasty solo at the end! Great lesson.

  • @JasonQuackenbushonGoogle
    @JasonQuackenbushonGoogle Год назад +2

    Mahavishnu. Damn dude, that learning curve just turned a corner. What’s next, comping the Giant Steps changes with a back beat? I kid of course, but this is really great.

  • @patrickhodgen9933
    @patrickhodgen9933 Год назад +3

    In College we studied a class on Improvisational Jazz. My tutor was a savant and he introduced us to Mahavishnu Orchestra, and it was at that point where I reverted from “okay I get this whole theory thing” to “okay I play this chord now and then that chord after etc etc.” I was well and truly lost, but I was content. I think that’s where I’m at with this series now!

    • @OM10PYE
      @OM10PYE Год назад

      Did you ever learn how to improvise? I'm so lost man.

    • @heatherperleberg7816
      @heatherperleberg7816 Год назад

      ​@@OM10PYE improvising is a lot less scary than it sounds. I'm no 'savant' or anything, but all I needed to start improvising was some knowledge about chord progressions, modes, and a few scales. The beauty of improvising is it can be as complicated as you want. It's all up to you.

    • @OM10PYE
      @OM10PYE Год назад

      @@heatherperleberg7816 I'm going from blues to jazz improvisation and I'd like to sound as competent as I do in blues with jazz. No easy feat haha

    • @heatherperleberg7816
      @heatherperleberg7816 Год назад +1

      @@OM10PYE One day at a time, my man. It's not rocket science, just a lot of pattern recognition. Oh and for the love of God don't bend, jazz cats hate that

  • @tonyevans9999
    @tonyevans9999 Год назад +1

    I am still smitten with this gorgeous piece of music. Learning these chords by ear off a turntable was such a great thing for me, because it is such a slower and more examining way to learn, at least for me. I use the thumb but mute the A string as on my amp set up it's too much, I like the openness. I have to go play now! thanks

  • @ditchgator1
    @ditchgator1 Год назад +3

    Love that the BobCat can be played so well that far up it's neck😃👍
    Sounds great👍
    😎👍❤🖖

    • @TheRealJanKafka
      @TheRealJanKafka Год назад

      The word you were looking for is "its". A possessive pronoun, not the contraction of "it is". Unless you really meant to say, "Love that the BobCat can be played so well that far up it is neck".

    • @ditchgator1
      @ditchgator1 Год назад

      @@TheRealJanKafka
      😎👍
      You are absolutely right 😉
      In the future I promise that I will pay better attention to what my library (of words most often used) offers before accepting 😉👍
      😎👍❤🖖
      🤣

    • @EricHaugenGuitar
      @EricHaugenGuitar  Год назад +1

      Yeah! I had to try that solo on all of my guitars and that's the only one that sustains that well up high!
      The Firebird was a close 2nd :-)

    • @ditchgator1
      @ditchgator1 Год назад

      @@EricHaugenGuitar
      Am pleased with this quality on new Yamaha Revstar RSS02T 😉👍
      Like butter with a large side of sustain😉👍
      😎👍❤😞

  • @r0bophonic
    @r0bophonic Год назад

    This is fantastic thank you 🙏

  • @CKJones-uu2or
    @CKJones-uu2or Год назад +10

    Hey Eric, longtime fan, first time caller. Loving this new series as an indie rock-oriented guitarist trying to expand his horizons. Are you familiar with the band Karate? '90s-early 2000s Boston post-hardcore trio that were heavily influenced by jazz (IIRC the members went to Berklee). Highly recommend some of their stuff, especially the album Unsolved, for music/guitarwork that splits the difference between rock and jazz really elegantly!

    • @EricHaugenGuitar
      @EricHaugenGuitar  Год назад +12

      Yeah! My band played with them back in the day! Aaaaand I remember the drummer was in the same world music percussion class with me!

    • @CKJones-uu2or
      @CKJones-uu2or Год назад

      @@EricHaugenGuitar Wowww! That's amazing, I'm very envious. Keep up the good work -- definitely the best guitar channel on youtube!

  • @leifkeane
    @leifkeane Год назад +1

    Zappa was fond of the whole tone scale. Sounds very Frippy too.
    Oh, by the way Eric, nice take on the changes there at the end.

  • @gregorymichael9031
    @gregorymichael9031 Год назад +1

    Great content dude; thank you!!🎉❤

  • @LSDis4me
    @LSDis4me Год назад +13

    We were warned a couple weeks ago, "You end up in the deep end real fast." I can't touch the bottom.

    • @EricHaugenGuitar
      @EricHaugenGuitar  Год назад +1

      Yeah I felt that happen as I prepared this one!
      ooops!

  • @alphanumeric1529
    @alphanumeric1529 Год назад +1

    19:19 I KNOW WHY, WEED!
    Don't know why I'm yelling though. Think I'm just happy to see a familiar face. Also, waldo is RIGHT there!
    GOT HEEM!

  • @moogsick
    @moogsick Год назад +2

    my brain feels a bit fuzzy now, i need a cold beer

  • @semajdis
    @semajdis Год назад +1

    Great video as always! How are you finding that Supro Amulet, Mr. Haugen? They are just starting to become widely available in the UK and they are looking mighty enticing.

  • @nealpike6611
    @nealpike6611 Год назад +3

    Can we get some post hardcore stuff one day please eric

  • @dimensionstomorrow
    @dimensionstomorrow Год назад

    Interesting. I’ve been following along, but found myself confused as to how you picked the modes for each chord change when you came up with those licks. Specifically what key were you working off of and how did you go about choosing the particular mode (specifically for the non-Dorian modes)? Sorry for the questions. The solo sounded really cool by the way! Very prog rock sounding.

  • @beckwith5880
    @beckwith5880 Год назад +1

    lovin' the series but had to shudder with the use of A# when everything else is Bb. it spins my head in unnatural ways :)

  • @headlandfestival3237
    @headlandfestival3237 Год назад +1

    Algorithmic relevance bump

  • @TheRealJanKafka
    @TheRealJanKafka Год назад +1

    What he calls a "double approach" is known as "enclosure" in the jazz world.

  • @frankvaleron
    @frankvaleron Год назад +1

    Thelonius Monk was no stranger to the whole tone

  • @alphanumeric1529
    @alphanumeric1529 Год назад +1

    It's MF PIZZA DAY, BICHES!

  • @jrpipik
    @jrpipik Год назад

    I was just thinking about John McLaughlin this morning. I have to admit that he is the most revered guitarist with which I'm almost completely unfamiliar. Paul Simon's "Allergies" was running in my head and I was thinking about McLaughlin's stellar work on it. I am sorry to say "Resolution" seems to me almost a parody, the same phrase repeated a step higher to the point of absurdity. I like your solo, though.
    As for the changes, let the bass player handle the Bb and just play short form chords over it on the guitar. It's nice to be in a band.

    • @SoWhat.BigDeal.
      @SoWhat.BigDeal. Год назад +1

      Sounds like you're evaluating solely on technical terms. He made this song because he liked the way it sounds, or what he feels it says... not as the usual Mahavishnu tour-de-force. Do you dismiss that?

    • @jrpipik
      @jrpipik Год назад

      @@SoWhat.BigDeal. I'm not sure how you know why McLaughlin wrote the song, but you may be right. I only said that was the way it seemed to me. Probably the same for you.
      And as I said, I'm not that familiar with McLaughlin or MO.