Barney Kessel. On the double stop I have several videos on a little different way I use that I learned from Joe Pass. I call it "my favorite blues lick." I show how it can be used on the 4 and 5 of the song and on the lower registers. Rock players use it a little different way which I also demonstrate that I learned from James Burton. I can't provide a link but check it out.
Ahh Jazz Blues, a fun blend of my favorite 2 two genres! Quite fun to see how many of the jazz greats took from Blues. I think there's an argument to that blues is responsible for a lot of the guitar-centric genres we know and love today. Great analysis!
Thank you, Jens, for helping me begin to get the transition from Blues chord strumming to how my vocabulary can open up into phrases and making my guitar sing Jazz note by note. I'm beginning to finger pick. Frankly it's scary but I'm opening myself up by playing your videos over and over, like I did when I was listening to my first guitar DVDs that taught me Blues chord progressions. I learned enough to write my own songs (I am a poet and writing songs comes easily.) using Blues chord progressions the way Bob Dylan does. I had a friend who played with me; he had been playing for 35 years and he chose the music. We had a 4 hour gig every weekend, playing with my singing at a Mall... It was good. He's gone. Now I have to learn from you. Thank you for your RUclips videos. You are helping me understand how the complexity of Jazz is simple when broken down into phrases that repeat and grow into beautiful music.
You have a gift for breaking things down to their simplest components and then building up from there. I listen to music differently now, and I enjoy it more. Thank you.
Funny, after 40 years finally learning about music theory and scales to now hear that I always have done the things you mention. I just played on ear/feel and use slides continu to go up or down a note if I "gambled" wrong. I have done that so long that it became natural and it does not sound as a mistake. Sometimes I just leave it wrong, take a few more fast wrong notes to end at the right key. I never really thought about it until you mentioned it. That is probably why I like my totally flat-wounds. Sliding is so easy and silent.
Ray Manzarek's solo in Riders on the Storm: Dorian, minor pentatonic, and blues scales, almost certainly influenced by Sun Ra's Advice to Medics (1957). Randy Brecker's soulful lines in Laura Nyro's sublime I am the Blues (1976). I have Joe's album on vinyl - so good.
Favourite Blues is Joe Pass Blues for Joe that you´ve analized in a previous lesson. But Joe Pass "No cover no minimun" in the Catch me album is a blues that seems an orthodox jazz blues, but is not when you try to follow the harmony
I still gotta give Benson a chance. I've only barely listened to the Breezin album. I'm gonna HAVE to finish that half note album. Pat Methany mentioned it as being very life changing for him.
Thanks, Jens - again ... 'Billie's Bounce' from 'Giblet' I have been listening to almost every time I have been walking the dog this summer. And 'Smoking At The Halfnote' I listen to again and again. So, to hear you explain all the hows and whys of those licks is so cool! You make the best, shortest, funniest videos on jazz guitar!
Groovy video again Jens. 😊 I'm a fairly pedestrian sight reader but grateful to have even that ability. I'm very notation oriented (as well as listening to tonal elements). I usually re watch a video with my guitar 'on.' I pause and play notated examples, look at where they come from and where they (may) go to. Then I think of how I might apply examples to my playing. I've always been a motivic development nerd too. It opens a lot of doors for me. I would have loved to see the looks on the audience's faces when Wes played his repeating verse length quarter note double stop. They must have been thinking 'What's going on ?' Meanwhile Wes (I think likely) thought 'I'm gonna stir up the audience !' 😇
Major Pentatonic , Minor Pentatonic , Blues Scale [ Minor Pentatonic with a Flat 5 ] and Myxolydian . Nine out twelve and three more as passing tones . Everybody has the same twelve notes . Listen to T Bone Shuffle , the first 12 bars are the head , the second 12 bars has a sax solo . Those 24 bars are a wealth of melodic education .
Jazz Blues is one of my favorite sounds in the jazz world, even more so than the ballad. Have you ever listened Grant Green? I think he has one of my favorite Jazz Blues sounds
Hello Jens, I live in the Netherlands and can play a little Blues on Guitar, but I want to start with Jazz Guitar. What is the best book for a beginner and which books come next? Which CD-Video Jazz music can I buy to listen to? If you have already put all this on RUclips, what RUclips videos could I watch? There are thousands of patreons, but I don't have the money to donate to all those patreons.
It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
@@JensLarsen Thank you very much for your answer! Now I know, you are from Holland. Ihr musiktheoretisches Wissen ist beeindruckend, ebenso ihre Spieltechnik und Ausdruck. Ihr Kanal natürlich ebenso. Wünsche ein schönes Wochenende!
Big question. How does reading sheet music without tablature enhance your perception of music? Do you find it important to be able to read music in order to learn more quickly?
I always say that I don't like the blues in its most basic form, as I find the style harmonically uninteresting (not to mention depressing). Jazz Blues, however, is something far more sophisticated, and I think Charlie Parker remains its master. Before Bird, there was, too, Lester Young, my favourite tenor player. Both expanded the blues' harmonic and melodic range, making it much more stimulating to those of us who like standards in the Kern and Porter mold. I love how Bird borrowed a phrase from bars 7-9 of his solo on the master take of his own"Yardbird Suite," which is of course not a blues, to create the head for "Cool Blues" -- a great jazz line! Kessel, Burrell and Pass are probably the guitarists I listen to most for jazz blues. Though more basic but very swinging, tenor guitarist Tiny Grimes, too, is a favourite.
"Why Their Jazz Blues Solos Always Sound Better Than Yours" I mean, I'm probably the worst player in my country, anyone will sound better than me lol. Looking forward to the video!
i feel like any day now all jazz people are going to admit its not really music and they were trying to trick people into listening to garbage on purpose
Because I suck. Sure, I can imitate Billy Gibbons, and don't get me wrong, Billy Gibbons is a great guitar player, but I can't play guitar anywhere near the way Charlie Parker played sax because Charlie Parker is in a whole other league.
*Who is you favorite with Jazz Blues?*
Joe Pass and the Perfect Jazz Blues Solo: ruclips.net/video/PBOpRy6ghJs/видео.html
Barney Kessel. On the double stop I have several videos on a little different way I use that I learned from Joe Pass. I call it "my favorite blues lick." I show how it can be used on the 4 and 5 of the song and on the lower registers. Rock players use it a little different way which I also demonstrate that I learned from James Burton. I can't provide a link but check it out.
Kenny Burrell immediately comes to mind. But Wes makes my musical heart happy.
Ahh Jazz Blues, a fun blend of my favorite 2 two genres! Quite fun to see how many of the jazz greats took from Blues. I think there's an argument to that blues is responsible for a lot of the guitar-centric genres we know and love today. Great analysis!
Thanks Ron! That is certainly true!
Wes makes me smile too
Thank you, Jens, for helping me begin to get the transition from Blues chord strumming to how my vocabulary can open up into phrases and making my guitar sing Jazz note by note.
I'm beginning to finger pick. Frankly it's scary but I'm opening myself up by playing your videos over and over, like I did when I was listening to my first guitar DVDs that taught me Blues chord progressions.
I learned enough to write my own songs (I am a poet and writing songs comes easily.) using Blues chord progressions the way Bob Dylan does. I had a friend who played with me; he had been playing for 35 years and he chose the music. We had a 4 hour gig every weekend, playing with my singing at a Mall... It was good.
He's gone. Now I have to learn from you.
Thank you for your RUclips videos. You are helping me understand how the complexity of Jazz is simple when broken down into phrases that repeat and grow into beautiful music.
Sliding and bending into your target notes .. love it! I just tried that and it sounds great.
Thanks Jens much appreciated 👍👌🎸🎶🎶🎶🎸👍
You have a gift for breaking things down to their simplest components and then building up from there. I listen to music differently now, and I enjoy it more. Thank you.
Thank you very much Carol! I really appreciate that!
Funny, after 40 years finally learning about music theory and scales to now hear that I always have done the things you mention. I just played on ear/feel and use slides continu to go up or down a note if I "gambled" wrong. I have done that so long that it became natural and it does not sound as a mistake. Sometimes I just leave it wrong, take a few more fast wrong notes to end at the right key. I never really thought about it until you mentioned it. That is probably why I like my totally flat-wounds. Sliding is so easy and silent.
Exactly right. Try something new and if you hit a clunker, slide it up a fret and act like you meant it.
Grant Green is my fave for this style. Even on straight jazz numbers, he plays in a very bluesy way. No surprise that SRV cited Green as an influence.
Ok! I actually hear more Bebop in his playing.
Masterful presentation !!! Thank you !
Glad you liked it!
Your smile at ~8:06 is priceless.
It is cool how good he can sound with not much more than a power chord.
I don't know his whole catalogue but I always liked Freddy Robinson.
This youtube update that shows what song is playing in which section of the video is so helpful
Ray Manzarek's solo in Riders on the Storm: Dorian, minor pentatonic, and blues scales, almost certainly influenced by Sun Ra's Advice to Medics (1957). Randy Brecker's soulful lines in Laura Nyro's sublime I am the Blues (1976). I have Joe's album on vinyl - so good.
Nice!
Wonderfully instructive, encouraging and yet without a hint of "dumbing down" the music. Remarkable - and tremendously generous too.
Thank you very much! :)
Favourite Blues is Joe Pass Blues for Joe that you´ve analized in a previous lesson. But Joe Pass "No cover no minimun" in the Catch me album is a blues that seems an orthodox jazz blues, but is not when you try to follow the harmony
Great insights as always Jens. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video Jens! Very informative! I've heard Fried Pies many times yet never realized it was simply a blues.
Glad it was useful! 🙂
I still gotta give Benson a chance. I've only barely listened to the Breezin album. I'm gonna HAVE to finish that half note album. Pat Methany mentioned it as being very life changing for him.
An awesome lesson. Love this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, Jens - again ... 'Billie's Bounce' from 'Giblet' I have been listening to almost every time I have been walking the dog this summer. And 'Smoking At The Halfnote' I listen to again and again. So, to hear you explain all the hows and whys of those licks is so cool! You make the best, shortest, funniest videos on jazz guitar!
Great! That is essential listening 🙂
Great video Jens. Love jazz blues and billie's Bounce 🎉
Thanks Enrico!
hello😊 so helpful lesson!! thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Jens thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lots to unpack in this one Jens.... 😎
Thank you 🙂
Groovy video again Jens. 😊 I'm a fairly pedestrian sight reader but grateful to have even that ability. I'm very notation oriented (as well as listening to tonal elements). I usually re watch a video with my guitar 'on.' I pause and play notated examples, look at where they come from and where they (may) go to. Then I think of how I might apply examples to my playing. I've always been a motivic development nerd too. It opens a lot of doors for me. I would have loved to see the looks on the audience's faces when Wes played his repeating verse length quarter note double stop. They must have been thinking 'What's going on ?' Meanwhile Wes (I think likely) thought 'I'm gonna stir up the audience !' 😇
that major blues scale was the first thing I ever learned haha
So you already sound like this them? 😁
@@JensLarsen haha, maybe, but definitely not a good version of it 😂
The first riff he discusses made me think of Charlie Christians , A Smooth One. Maybe it goes without saying but these phrases all swing
thanks again for your good explanation .Namaste
You are very welcome
The phrase-riff used by Benson on "Billie's Bounce" .39-.47 similar to ones used by tenor sax man Dexter Gordon. Nice
Great lesson 👌🏽
loving joe pass and wes Montgomery
Thank you Jens
Hi from Mexico!
Good morning Eduardo!
Great video Jens! Thank you! My favourite Jazz Blues Player? I really like Josh Smith and Jack Ruch when it comes to modern day players.
Glad you like it!
Major Pentatonic , Minor Pentatonic , Blues Scale [ Minor Pentatonic with a Flat 5 ] and Myxolydian . Nine out twelve and three more as passing tones . Everybody has the same twelve notes . Listen to T Bone Shuffle , the first 12 bars are the head , the second 12 bars has a sax solo . Those 24 bars are a wealth of melodic education .
Jazz Blues is one of my favorite sounds in the jazz world, even more so than the ballad. Have you ever listened Grant Green? I think he has one of my favorite Jazz Blues sounds
awesome video
Thanks!
Thank you Steve! Glad you like it and want to support the channel! 🙏
Hello Jens, I live in the Netherlands and can play a little Blues on Guitar, but I want to start with Jazz Guitar. What is the best book for a beginner and which books come next? Which CD-Video Jazz music can I buy to listen to? If you have already put all this on RUclips, what RUclips videos could I watch?
There are thousands of patreons, but I don't have the money to donate to all those patreons.
It is difficult to give too specific advice because everybody is different and at different levels, but maybe check out this post: jenslarsen.nl/how-to-learn-jazz-guitar-suggestions-to-begin-studying/
All correct. What you explain.
Verstehen nur die Wenigsten.
Ein Versuch ist es wert.
Haben Sie eine Professur an einer
Universität?
Glad you like it! I have worked at a conservatory here in the Netherlands, but I stopped to do this 🙂
@@JensLarsen Thank you very much for your answer! Now I know, you are from
Holland.
Ihr musiktheoretisches Wissen ist
beeindruckend, ebenso ihre Spieltechnik
und Ausdruck. Ihr Kanal natürlich ebenso.
Wünsche ein schönes Wochenende!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Great to see you here!
Since this is categorised as Jazz Blues, can there be a blues jazz then? Where to put T-Bone Walker ?
To me, T-bone Walker is a Blues musician, not a Jazz musician, but that is of course only how I hear it.
Big question. How does reading sheet music without tablature enhance your perception of music? Do you find it important to be able to read music in order to learn more quickly?
Reading sheet music well is hearing what it says, and understaning what is going on. tabs are just practical numbers.
@JensLarsen think you for answering. And for your Chanel to. It's my base actually on learning guitar 🎸 tks
What a beautiful guitar, which model is it?
Thank you! It is an Ibanez AS2630!
Grazie, great channel Jens!
@@paolod1057 Thank you!
jens, do you play chords fingerstyle and solo with a pick? I usually see you doing both things in your videos.
Yes, I do both.
Actually I also solo with my fingers and play chords with a pick. It depends on the situation.
do you have any videos on how you differentiate? I am still super new to jazz lmao@@JensLarsen
@@dreamcity7514 No, because I have no idea. I just go with what I think fits, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Learn some songs! 😁😁
I always say that I don't like the blues in its most basic form, as I find the style harmonically uninteresting (not to mention depressing). Jazz Blues, however, is something far more sophisticated, and I think Charlie Parker remains its master. Before Bird, there was, too, Lester Young, my favourite tenor player. Both expanded the blues' harmonic and melodic range, making it much more stimulating to those of us who like standards in the Kern and Porter mold. I love how Bird borrowed a phrase from bars 7-9 of his solo on the master take of his own"Yardbird Suite," which is of course not a blues, to create the head for "Cool Blues" -- a great jazz line! Kessel, Burrell and Pass are probably the guitarists I listen to most for jazz blues. Though more basic but very swinging, tenor guitarist Tiny Grimes, too, is a favourite.
"Why Their Jazz Blues Solos Always Sound Better Than Yours" I mean, I'm probably the worst player in my country, anyone will sound better than me lol.
Looking forward to the video!
Well, see it as a chance to move up the ladder then, if music is a competition 😁
Sliding up to the 3rd... sliding down to the 5th... double-stops... what is this? A bluegrass video?!
Almost! 😁
i feel like any day now all jazz people are going to admit its not really music and they were trying to trick people into listening to garbage on purpose
I work. Watch later?
Sure! It doesn't go away again!
Because I suck. Sure, I can imitate Billy Gibbons, and don't get me wrong, Billy Gibbons is a great guitar player, but I can't play guitar anywhere near the way Charlie Parker played sax because Charlie Parker is in a whole other league.
To much t a l k