George Benson's BUTTERY Bebop Lines!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- In this lesson, I analyze the various bebop line ideas that George Benson uses in his solo over “So What”. I present four examples discussing chromaticism, 3-note approaches, superimposed dominant chords, and more. You'll get great insight into how to add these Benson-isms into your own playing. Click the links below for the free PDF for this lesson and more resources.
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0:00 Intro
0:54 Ex. 1
4:27 Ex. 2
7:26 Ex. 3
8:47 Ex. 4
I get it. Jazz is not super popular, but goodness me, this channel is criminally undersubscribed. Stellar content, good sir. Thank you.
Haha thanks Mike! 🙏 The channel is growing fast, started this year at 5,000 subs, so give me a year or two to get to 100,000 😄
@@ChaseMaddox 🥳🥳🥳 didn’t realise the channel was so new. Very best wishes. You’re a natural educator 👍
I appreciate it! I’ve been teaching longer than I’ve been playing guitar 🤘
Really appreciate how you focus on the practical execution of these ideas!
Absolutely! To me the theory is only important as long as it helps us play better 🤘
Great lesson! Lots of great lines with great insight! Also, loving The Stormlight Archive books in the back!
Thank you! Sanderson’s the best! 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox yes he is! That man has a skill for grabbing you and never letting go. Just like Benson lol
Great video, thanks.
Thanks! 🤘
Really excellent work thanks Chase again. I like the new bebop book very much. I am now on the seceond phase of the 60 lines book. . I reallylike the way in that phase 2 you produce the lines in the 5 positions it helps to relate to the chords positions and fretboard knowledge. I agree with Mike Stellar content on all of your books. You have signifcantly improved my playing!!!
Thanks David, and I really appreciate your support and positive feedback! 🤘🤘
Hey Chase just purchased the new book. Loving these master lines. Would be cool to see a video regarding these new beboop lines. Do it using the G dominant so we can incorporate into C major! ha ha i'm being selfish. Thanks again Chase. FYI the master arpeggio book has really opened up my playing. And combining with prior master 2-5-1 and melodic minor lines is gold. C ya
Right on Nick! Appreciate the support and so glad you’re finding the books so helpful 🤘I think that’s a great idea, and might end up being next week’s lesson 🤔
Cool...
Well explained. Wish you could explain Wes Montgomery's solo on Nica's Dream. I've tried to understand the theory or lack of theory behind some parts
Thank you 🙏 I’ll listen to that solo and see if there are elements I could clarify.
Your teaching is great and such a natural extension of your study and practice and playing, man. Really good stuff. Have you explored the Barry Harris stuff on this channel?
Thank you, Julian! 🙏 I haven’t directly although some of the concepts I’ve talked about are big ones for Barry Harris, like bebop scales. Any specific Barry Harris concept you’d like me to dig into?
@@ChaseMaddox well, his way of using the chromatic scale is pretty magical, especially if you mix it with arpeggios. Are you familiar with the rule, something like: include missing semitones until you get to a naturally occurring one and then skip to the next note in the scale, before looping back to the missed note, and continue? It creates this perfect balance between chromatic lines and interval skips. He really was a genius. His whole way of thinking about the 12 notes as being two whole tone scales fit together symmetrically, out of which the diminished chords emerge, and how his 8 note scales give you these repeating patterns of major or minor 6th chords alternating with diminished chords is just like he found a doorway into an alternate musical universe! I love fooling around with it, but in terms of comping on standard progressions, how he uses those substitutions to create movement is something I have yet to understand how to apply effectively.
But with the chromatic rules-it’s another nice way of creating vocabulary; like practicing each arpeggio up and then chromatic down (and vice versa) in position and seeing how it intersects with ii V I movement. It’s a cool deviation from more predictable arpeggiating.
Super professeur bon guitariste. Merci beaucoup.Peux-tu nous expliquer l’improvisation sur Spain de Chick Corea.Merci.De Tahiti.
I’ll add “Spain” to the list! 🤘
Does your book have audio for the licks in the new book?
Hi Nic, it does not have audio for the exercises. Everything is eighth-note based and very straightforward to play with the picking notation and fingering listed.
Lots of hep sounding Benson lines. Thanks for breaking them down.
Absolutely! You’re welcome 🤘
Here is something I never really understand, are they coming up with these types of lines completely on the fly? Or have they written/memorized specific patterns to deploy in a seemless way that sounds like it is on the fly?
I can’t speak for how Benson approaches it, but I’ve studied personally with a lot of top level guitarist you would know and there is a big element of “practiced” lines that then are modified in actual improvising. Sort of like having a good outline to make a speech from and then letting the exact words be off the cuff.
It’s a language. When you speak it fluently like Benson it just comes out. There’s no thinking involved.
Heei ! “Master Dominant Bebop Patterns and Scales Book” : are there explaining videos in this Ebook ?
Hey! There are not any videos in this. There is a 'preface' and 'how to use this book' section and the lines and exercises themselves are all very self-explanatory with music notation, guitar TAB, fingering, and picking notated 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox audio files (to listen to the lines) could be a good idea !!! Or videos !!
i dont know much about Benson. can u suggest me his best albums to start listening ? kudos and cheers from Italy!
I’ll think about which are the best ones I’d recommend and do a video on it 🤘
nice legato
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Definition I found online…
Butyrate: a short-chain fatty acid that's produced in the small intestines
Ps: loving some G Benson!
Look up the full word! Butyraceous: (adj.) of or like butter 🧈
Great! What is your guitar model?
Thanks! It’s an Ibanez AG85 🤘
@@ChaseMaddox thank you! Cheap guitar but great sound!!
Yes it is! It was my first main guitar about 15 years ago and it’s been great since then.
"booty-raceous"
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Dude, you made George Benson look like a drag queen in the thumbnail.
Lol how? I only added a crown, the rest is what he was already wearing.