Wilson R.B.Liberal (Brazil) - Inspiring! I have an internal judge who never goes into recess! I try to use that as an incentive, but when it goes overboard it affects my motivation, especially since I don't have a natural talent for music. This video helped me balance my self-assessment. Be a little condescending to myself! Thanks.
I have been watching your videos for one year and a half. I am surprised when you start talking about chords and I can sort of follow the conversation :D
I liked this a lot. What better than tearing your own performance apart from ten years ago? You have grown. I can hear it when your play examples on your "new" guitar. I learned a few things from this. And the scorecard was great. I could score bore you did. That meant I learned something. I understood what you were conveying. Lesson learned. The only criticism is selfishness on my part... it would have been nice if you had a link to the uninterrupted performance, Brent. So, if anyone is watching this and doesn't know Brent Vaartstra, he's a professional jazz musician based in NYC, and he is damn good. Oh.... about going overboard on playing solos.... Brent mentioned this in the video, and it is most important as you grow IMHO... first, do well with 8ths notes first... keep in the cord/key and aligned. Then venture out to fast triplets and 16ths. That's a good point. I followed that myself in later life. And, it reminded me of this: Oscar Peterson was so comfortable and good at keeping alignment with everyone else when he played those riffs 16th to 32nds (really), it seemed he played it all the time and it would start to rub you raw. The beauty of Chet Baker's music was he would use it when it was necessary for the music, not for him. As a result, his playing sounded more emotional, like a human voice. So much so that he could sing what he could play. And it would be amazing when he broke out like Oscar, not expected. Not to take away from Oscar... still love the guy... and both are missed.
Clapton is probably my favorite guitarist ever and has probably had the biggest impact on my of all my heroes and I have tons of them in tons of genres. My favorite Clapton era is the Cream stuff and I could literally listen to them every day of my life and the funny thing is that Clapton has said that he can't go back and listen to it. That definitely proves the adage of being your own worst critic.
I once found a video from about 25 years ago. Was not pretty. I still hold on to some of the ideas I used to play. Weird. Brent, I truly didn't like the way that you played the melody. Just too much. BUT, I thought your soloing and comping was great, including your volume. I thought the mix was nice throughout. The Kurt Rosenwinkel chromatic slurs we're awesome. It's something I use. Something that I picked up from the late Wilbert Longmire. As for the 1/16 notes, maybe not all perfect, but you were going for something. I thought it was cool. On the trading fours thing that you hated... I gotta disagree with you. It changed the dynamic without losing the groove. I thought it was lovely. It's trading fours, it's improv and doesn't have to be perfect. Overall, nice performance and enjoyed your reaction. I did go watch the video in it's entirety before I commented. I liked it. Nice Victor Baker guitar BTW.
Awesome video Brent
Would be nice if you could do a video about guitar tone, how hard you pick, how to dial eq, etc
Cheers
Wilson R.B.Liberal (Brazil) - Inspiring! I have an internal judge who never goes into recess! I try to use that as an incentive, but when it goes overboard it affects my motivation, especially since I don't have a natural talent for music. This video helped me balance my self-assessment. Be a little condescending to myself! Thanks.
I have been watching your videos for one year and a half. I am surprised when you start talking about chords and I can sort of follow the conversation :D
Glad you can follow!
Thank you for sharing Brent.
My pleasure!
I liked this a lot. What better than tearing your own performance apart from ten years ago? You have grown. I can hear it when your play examples on your "new" guitar. I learned a few things from this. And the scorecard was great. I could score bore you did. That meant I learned something. I understood what you were conveying. Lesson learned. The only criticism is selfishness on my part... it would have been nice if you had a link to the uninterrupted performance, Brent. So, if anyone is watching this and doesn't know Brent Vaartstra, he's a professional jazz musician based in NYC, and he is damn good.
Oh.... about going overboard on playing solos.... Brent mentioned this in the video, and it is most important as you grow IMHO... first, do well with 8ths notes first... keep in the cord/key and aligned. Then venture out to fast triplets and 16ths. That's a good point. I followed that myself in later life. And, it reminded me of this: Oscar Peterson was so comfortable and good at keeping alignment with everyone else when he played those riffs 16th to 32nds (really), it seemed he played it all the time and it would start to rub you raw. The beauty of Chet Baker's music was he would use it when it was necessary for the music, not for him. As a result, his playing sounded more emotional, like a human voice. So much so that he could sing what he could play. And it would be amazing when he broke out like Oscar, not expected. Not to take away from Oscar... still love the guy... and both are missed.
I was much better 20 years ago... but I was gigging a couple of times a week.
I think people play better when they play often with others. That is something I need to get back into myself.
Great video!
Thanks!
Clapton is probably my favorite guitarist ever and has probably had the biggest impact on my of all my heroes and I have tons of them in tons of genres. My favorite Clapton era is the Cream stuff and I could literally listen to them every day of my life and the funny thing is that Clapton has said that he can't go back and listen to it. That definitely proves the adage of being your own worst critic.
what name chords this jazz?
very educating to draw lesson tips from real performances. Maybe you could do something similar commenting on other players.
Hi Pat! Thanks for the feedback. We recently released another reaction video. You might wanna check it out:
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I once found a video from about 25 years ago. Was not pretty. I still hold on to some of the ideas I used to play. Weird.
Brent, I truly didn't like the way that you played the melody. Just too much. BUT, I thought your soloing and comping was great, including your volume. I thought the mix was nice throughout. The Kurt Rosenwinkel chromatic slurs we're awesome. It's something I use. Something that I picked up from the late Wilbert Longmire. As for the 1/16 notes, maybe not all perfect, but you were going for something. I thought it was cool. On the trading fours thing that you hated... I gotta disagree with you. It changed the dynamic without losing the groove. I thought it was lovely. It's trading fours, it's improv and doesn't have to be perfect. Overall, nice performance and enjoyed your reaction. I did go watch the video in it's entirety before I commented. I liked it. Nice Victor Baker guitar BTW.
Thanks, Richard! I appreciate your feedback