Tho that's a bit of a smartarse and uninteresting answer... .I think Bill Evans will always feature pretty highly in my pantheon. Also, you have to say Louis Armstrong, because he invented it. Of course, back then, they were just popular tunes, which raises the question what is a standard? So Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau etc have fun with that... The idea you sometimes come across, that standards are enshrined in the real book is pretty poisonous... People used to play the tunes they heard on the radio and at the movies. I'm not sure if the Mehldau version of Wonderwall quite works for me though :-)
In terms of reharmonisation - the Bill Evans version of Without a Song I think is amazing, that rubato intro has some beautiful harmony in it ... It's fun to compare it to the relatively straight reading by Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall
Emily Remler is one of my biggest guitar heroes. I was so excited to see you do a video on her and it lived up to my expectations! Great video and thank you!!!
Much has been made of Emily’s sense of swing, thanks for pointing out this side of her amazing playing. While living in NYC In 1985 I saw an ad in the Village Voice, ‘Emily Remler now accepting students’. At that time I had no idea who she was. I just wanted to learn about jazz. Talk about getting lucky. She was a force of nature. Every lesson was like an odyssey. Because my understanding of jazz was very basic, she had me keep the harmonic work fairly simple and focus on timing and feel. She was such a good soul. She seemed to take a genuine interest in the musical development of a real jazz beginner (me). She always treated me with respect and tailored the lessons specifically for me. Her hand written lessons and recorded cassette tapes from each lesson were some of my Most treasured objects. Sadly, they were stolen along with my beat up strat. While I was only blessed with a little less than a year of lessons with Emily, her influence on me was profound. RIP Emily. Those lessons with you were some of the happiest moments of my life! When I read of her passing in Australia, I sobbed like little kid.
This is my favorite from Emily. I was lucky to see her many nights in NYC in the eighties, often with Larry Coryell. She knocked me out, always. What a beautiful soul, gone too soon. Thanks so much for making this video, it’s a beautiful tribute!
@@JensLarsen Well... I've been obsessing about Tim Miller for few years now. He's very interesting musician. Interesting approach to chromatic lines. That could be an interesting topic?
Absolutely love Emily Remler's playing, her beautiful tone and sense of swing. Just purchased Take Two and Firefly on vinyl, and if I can find East to Wes, where that excellent version of Softly is from, I'm gonna buy it as well. Sad she is gone, happy to have her beautiful music.
Did the TH-cam algorithm recommend this album to you too, Jens? ;) Emily Remler was incredibly inventive. Catwalk is another great album of hers, her playing was starting to transcend her straight-ahead roots and go in surprisingly modern directions by then.
Well taught! Not just the notes but the thinking behind the playing. I've studied this solo for years and you could do a, lesson on every single section. I've spent the past 2 months during quarantine time l earning her solo on Gerrys Blues. I'm trying to learn her thought process and the note choice against the chords. In addition her articulation was a revelation in learning that solo. I've heard the solo a million times but playing it brought out the way she pulses the swing, just amazing.
Thanks! I've been wanting to learn those changes for a long time. Emily was cool. She left some great instructional videos. My band teacher, Dave, remembers her from Berkeley School Is Music in Boston. What a pity she left us so early. If only she, along with so many others, could have taken care of herself a little better.
@@JensLarsen According to the Wikipedia article, Emily died of heart failure, but her addiction to heroin and opiates are also noted as likely contributors, if she didn't OD directly. www.wikiwand.com/en/Emily_Remler . So unnecessary. My ex is a clinical pharmacist and once told me that no one needs to die from opioid overdose. She said that opiates are straightforward to manage and that anyone can be weaned off them with proper care and medical supervision, but they also have to treat the underlying cause of the pain they're trying to medicate. As far as I'm concerned, Emily was another victim of the stupid and inhumane "War on Drugs".
IMHO this is the greatest improv in all jazz. Amazing buildup and release and then builds again. Stunning. She's my muse. Would love you see a video on how to practice her 16th note runs in the middle. I've been working on them for awhile and can't touch her speed.
Jens, because I'd never heard Emily's recording, I had to pause this video when you demonstrate the reharm, as I had to look up her version to find out just how her changes sounded in time. A very interesting, kind of spooky take on Softly. ... And so different from how, say, Johnny Smith took the standard changes to create "Walk, Don't Run." ... I'll have to check out more Emily -- thanks!
Jens Larsen one of the great jazz guitar duet recordings is Together Emily and Larry Coryell! Had a chance to see them in concert... now they are both gone. RIP
Thank you! I was thinking about doing something on Brecker at some point, but the video on Chris Potter didn't do so well so I need to find a good way to approach it :)
@@JensLarsen Well, we could try, just for variation, some of the guitarists who's kind of left field, stylistically..like James Blood Ulmer, Frank Zappa...or even Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid uses some pretty advanced stuff in his solos, just listen to "Times UP" from the same album. If we have to stay "closer to home" I would like to see some stuff of Doug Raney (Jimmys son), from the "Somethings Up" album.
Wonderful lesson. She is one of my favorites, so inventive, actually untethered, I love your take on this song, I've always thought there was some Monk in there too... Thank You!
Jens Larsen haha, I have been accused of having a very active imagination... 😎. I’ll see if it’s anything I can pin down and articulate or if it’s just a passing thought.
Hi Jens, rough draft, Thelonius Monk Live in Japan 1963, "Evidence" and "Epistrophy" I can't break it down but I'm hearing lots of similar motifs at work. The actual track I had in mind is not Monk it's Coltrane With (I think) Mcoy Tyner on Piano, "Live at the Village Vanguard 1961, V2". Like I said I have a very active Imagination... Thanks for the kick to listen to some old dust offs, between our Jam earlier and the homework assignment I had a great day of music!
Keith Jarrett, Kenny Rankin , Pat Martino , Larry Coryell … Kenny Rankins version of Round Midnight is sublime. He was a masterful guitar player too-underrated.
To expand from my previous comment, in listening to George Benson's cover of 'Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise' I recently found a far better than The Real Book harmonization of the 'A' section. The melody fits naturally over it. Thus: //Cm7 /Dm7 /Cm7 /F7 /Fm7 /G7 /Cm7 /Dm7b5 G7// etc. etc. Of course, the last bar of the second 'A' section goes /Fm7 Bb7 etc. to go into the 'B' section. Interestingly, the last 4 bars of this new 'A' section adopts chords of the last 4 bars of Gershwin's Summertime. I hope guitarists and musicians get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. Because such a haunting melody deserves something better than a repeating 2 bar chord vamp.
Thank you veru Much, Lars! This kind of harmonisation Is used in my Favourite thing s I guess, it is also possible to push it even a bit further to go to use(as long it is not clashing too much with the theme...)Em7 Fmaj7(implies Aminor key in a way)F#m711 instead of this I guess possible would be Em7 F#m711 G#m711(a Emaj7 is implied)this is actually happening when my favourite things turns to major, but during minor key it is called Picardian third...
Emily's version evokes a 'soft' sunrise (perhaps with a storm approaching behind) which other covers fail to do with their inappropriate fast bebop tempi. George Benson's is also an atmospheric version. th-cam.com/video/nnOUzo9hl0I/w-d-xo.html. It's just a modal Cm7 Dm7 Cm7 Dm7 etc. in the "A' section on the melodic theme if in the C minor key. But on his improvised solo it sounds like chords of the last of 4 bars of Gershwin's Summertime have been used in the chord progression which gives it a nice soul or gospel flavour. The 'B' section uses the conventional chord changes. Here's an alternative 'A' section chord progression based on Benson's the melody fits nicely over: //Cm7 /Dm7 /Cm7 / F7 /Fm7 /G7 /Cm7 /Dm7b5 G7 /etc.
Hi Jens, First of all congrats on your lesson book on Amazon with Joseph Alexander! I have several of his books in my que, but haven't purchased yet because I have "so" many books and material already and don't have the time. I'm trying to resist the temptation to buy more although I'm sure I'll have to pick up your book. Ironically, I heard about your book on a podcast I listen to for self publishing. Joseph Alexander mentioned you in an interview in one of the episodes. Later your book popped up in my email through Amazon as I subscribe to Alexander as an author. I thought that was all pretty cool and how this is such a small world. Believe it or not that is not why I am commenting. I wanted to chime in regarding this video. First of all thanks for introducing me to a new guitarist. I saw her do a lesson on youtube years ago but never heard her really play until I googled this song and have become hooked. Initially I only listened to the first part of this video but later went back and... you provide quite a break down of this song which I love and am now working on. So thank you again! I found a transcription for the full solo which is pretty accurate so I've actually dropped some other stuff I was working on for the moment, and have a new project for the next few months. I have dozens of books on Jazz and have had a few teachers but you have been one of the biggest inspirations for me for Jazz, particularly with two previous videos, arpeggios for II V I and arpeggios for autumn leaves. Although those lessons were simple, for some reason I really connected with them and embraced that material and spent a good amount of time working on it. That has motivated me to play a lot more jazz, something other teachers and books never really could do. (I'm mostly a fingerstyle and blues player) I'll be stopping by your donation page to make another donation (and I encourage others who benefit from your lessons to do the same) but I just wanted to say thanks and Happy Holidays! - Robert
That's super interesting Robert! What podcast was that? I'd be curious to hear it :) It is really great to hear that you find the videos useful (I take it you did see that there are PDF's for a lot of them on my website, though not for this one..) And I am also happy to hear that you really spend some time with the stuff, which of course is needed if you want to learn from it! Have a great christmas!
Jens Larsen FYI.... the interview with Joseph doesnt start until about 30 minutes so if its not interesting, you may want to skip ahead.... www.thecreativepenn.com/2018/11/19/how-to-scale-your-author-business-with-joseph-alexander/
I don't know that one, sorry :) I actually did videos like this every week for more than a year, but had to stop because there was very little interest from the audience, so I can't promise that I will make more like it.
Hi Jens, greetings from Mexico. I’d like to suggest a gear video. I have some trouble to find a “classic” jazz guitar sound from my guitar besides I think I have a very “jazzy” guitar as a Sheraton. Maybe some pedals or some advices about sound. Thanks for this video!
Awesome lesson as always, will you do a lesson on George bensons cover of take 5, as it has some fantastic, super fast lines in it, it’s a real treat !
Jens, I'm looking for the PDF again, but can't find it. I looked here: facebook.com/groups/JensLarsenPatreon/files/. There must be someplace else that you upload files to. I think you told me but I forgot. :( PS - I already have on my computer a file with the .gp extension, but I don't know how to open that. Forgot where I downloaded it from.
If you are so sure, can you give us the references from where you got that information? What I am 100% sure is that it has become a morbid game to suggest, whenever she made something nice, that she stole it from somebody. Even Jens cannot avoid to make a useless suggestion referring to Wes. There is a difference between stealing and being inspired by. Everybody starts by learning solo's form the masters. Even Wes had a time where he just replicated Charlie Christian note for note. *But of course, that was a man and not some Jewish babe, a woman who dared to play jazz guitar, which was a privilege for men at that time.* And other scoffs she had to endure in her lifetime, until today, long after her sad death. I spent countless hours studying her work, and I'm 100% sure that the concept behind this song is in the line of a personal vision about harmony that she was developing.
Who is great at interpreting standards in a personal way? 🙂
Dexter Gordon
One of my favorites is My Funny Valentine by Jim Hall an Bill Evans. Not really reharmonization, just a very different tempo and feel.
Every great jazz musician worthy of the title.
Tho that's a bit of a smartarse and uninteresting answer... .I think Bill Evans will always feature pretty highly in my pantheon. Also, you have to say Louis Armstrong, because he invented it.
Of course, back then, they were just popular tunes, which raises the question what is a standard? So Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau etc have fun with that...
The idea you sometimes come across, that standards are enshrined in the real book is pretty poisonous... People used to play the tunes they heard on the radio and at the movies. I'm not sure if the Mehldau version of Wonderwall quite works for me though :-)
In terms of reharmonisation - the Bill Evans version of Without a Song I think is amazing, that rubato intro has some beautiful harmony in it ... It's fun to compare it to the relatively straight reading by Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall
Emily Remler is one of my biggest guitar heroes. I was so excited to see you do a video on her and it lived up to my expectations! Great video and thank you!!!
Very pleased to hear that! If you are on Facebook then consider joining the insiders group :) bit.ly/InsidersFBGroup
I can't get enough of her music, lately. Beautiful tones, all around.
Transcribed this for one of my practical exams, Emily was/is truly one of the greats.
True! Nice choice :) 🙂
Much has been made of Emily’s sense of swing, thanks for pointing out this side of her amazing playing. While living in NYC In 1985 I saw an ad in the Village Voice, ‘Emily Remler now accepting students’. At that time I had no idea who she was. I just wanted to learn about jazz. Talk about getting lucky. She was a force of nature. Every lesson was like an odyssey. Because my understanding of jazz was very basic, she had me keep the harmonic work fairly simple and focus on timing and feel. She was such a good soul. She seemed to take a genuine interest in the musical development of a real jazz beginner (me). She always treated me with respect and tailored the lessons specifically for me. Her hand written lessons and recorded cassette tapes from each lesson were some of my Most treasured objects. Sadly, they were stolen along with my beat up strat. While I was only blessed with a little less than a year of lessons with Emily, her influence on me was profound. RIP Emily. Those lessons with you were some of the happiest moments of my life! When I read of her passing in Australia, I sobbed like little kid.
Those are some really beautiful memories you have! What a fabulous musician Emily was.
This is my favorite from Emily.
I was lucky to see her many nights in NYC in the eighties, often with Larry Coryell.
She knocked me out, always.
What a beautiful soul, gone too soon.
Thanks so much for making this video, it’s a beautiful tribute!
Emily was indeed amazing! Glad you like the video 🙂
This is one of my favourite jazz guitar solos of all time. She's just amazing! Love her phrasing and touch.
It is indeed a great solo! Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
@@JensLarsen Well... I've been obsessing about Tim Miller for few years now. He's very interesting musician. Interesting approach to chromatic lines. That could be an interesting topic?
Very true! I was thinking about doing a video on him too 🙂
Are you in the FB group? bit.ly/InsidersFBGroup
@@JensLarsen No, i'm not.. I've been on facebook boycott for about two years now, and i'm very happy with my decision. :D
All cool! If you ever change your mind you are very welcome!
I love this recording by Emily. One of my favourites!
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
Emily Remler is one of my biggest guitar idols. So excited to see you do a video on her
Thank you! I hope it can live up to your expectations
@@JensLarsen Of course! Your videos are always great. As is your book that I picked up a few weeks ago!
Thank you Zachary! If you want to help me and have a few minutes then write a short review on Amazon. That's a huge help for the book :)
I really appreciate this kind of videos focused on one tune
Glad you like it!
Emily was great miss her so much, thanks for doing a video on her.
Glad you like it!
Absolutely love Emily Remler's playing, her beautiful tone and sense of swing. Just purchased Take Two and Firefly on vinyl, and if I can find East to Wes, where that excellent version of Softly is from, I'm gonna buy it as well. Sad she is gone, happy to have her beautiful music.
Exactly! :) Beautiful music, worth celebrating!
I will love Emily forever.
Nice video
Thank you! 🙂 Glad you like it!
Thanks for bringing that powerful intro to life!
Just found this! She's one of my desert island artists!
Yes Emily was great I love her old lesson also . Rip Emily
Thanks Olivier! Yes, she was a fantastic player!
thank you Jens Larson for this video.
You are so welcome!
Did the TH-cam algorithm recommend this album to you too, Jens? ;)
Emily Remler was incredibly inventive. Catwalk is another great album of hers, her playing was starting to transcend her straight-ahead roots and go in surprisingly modern directions by then.
No it didn't :)
I need to check out Catwalk, I don't really know that album. Thanks
Well taught! Not just the notes but the thinking behind the playing. I've studied this solo for years and you could do a, lesson on every single section. I've spent the past 2 months during quarantine time l earning her solo on Gerrys Blues. I'm trying to learn her thought process and the note choice against the chords. In addition her articulation was a revelation in learning that solo. I've heard the solo a million times but playing it brought out the way she pulses the swing, just amazing.
She’s one of my guitar hero’s. Thanks so much for making some content on Emily.
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
Ok. I don't know anything about him actually, What is a good album?
Ok :)
Thank you so much for this lesson. I love Emily Remler improvisations. She has a great feel for rhythm and melody. Greets Ardi from Patreon.
Glad you like it, Ardi! :)
Thanks! I've been wanting to learn those changes for a long time. Emily was cool. She left some great instructional videos. My band teacher, Dave, remembers her from Berkeley School Is Music in Boston. What a pity she left us so early. If only she, along with so many others, could have taken care of herself a little better.
Thanks Lawrence! Did she not die from an illness, I thought it was heart disease?
@@JensLarsen According to the Wikipedia article, Emily died of heart failure, but her addiction to heroin and opiates are also noted as likely contributors, if she didn't OD directly. www.wikiwand.com/en/Emily_Remler . So unnecessary. My ex is a clinical pharmacist and once told me that no one needs to die from opioid overdose. She said that opiates are straightforward to manage and that anyone can be weaned off them with proper care and medical supervision, but they also have to treat the underlying cause of the pain they're trying to medicate. As far as I'm concerned, Emily was another victim of the stupid and inhumane "War on Drugs".
What a wonderful study. Thanks for posting this.
You are very welcome!
i like these guitarist she was great
She certainly was 🙂
Thanks Jens for introducing me to a new guitarist that I already love
You're very welcome! Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
IMHO this is the greatest improv in all jazz. Amazing buildup and release and then builds again. Stunning. She's my muse. Would love you see a video on how to practice her 16th note runs in the middle. I've been working on them for awhile and can't touch her speed.
Love this lesson, I liked her very much especially for the mix of bluesy and jazzy phrases -
Thank you Francesco! Emily is indeed great!
I saw Emily play live not too long before she passed away, she was a great musician.
Wish I had managed to see her live! 🙂
Hard to believe that such a sweet-looking girl ended up being a heroin addict.
Ah, didn't know that. That's really sad!
@@JensLarsen she died while on tour in Australia.
@@kerrybarnes7289 Ok. I didn't know that.
It's okay to play in E when the horns aren't around ;-)
Very true 🙂
Reharm chords in Em and lines remind me of Nardis.
Thank you for another fun, informative and interesting video! You are the king!
Thank you Jume! Glad you like it!
Jens, because I'd never heard Emily's recording, I had to pause this video when you demonstrate the reharm, as I had to look up her version to find out just how her changes sounded in time. A very interesting, kind of spooky take on Softly. ... And so different from how, say, Johnny Smith took the standard changes to create "Walk, Don't Run." ... I'll have to check out more Emily -- thanks!
Certainly worthwhile checking out! This album is really great!
Jens Larsen one of the great jazz guitar duet recordings is Together Emily and Larry Coryell! Had a chance to see them in concert... now they are both gone. RIP
I was just about to recommend you to do a video on Emily's music!! Thanks for reading my mind Jens!! haha
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
Great lesson! A video on Michael Brecker licks would be cool.
Thank you! I was thinking about doing something on Brecker at some point, but the video on Chris Potter didn't do so well so I need to find a good way to approach it :)
Shes in my top three all time greats With Pass and Sco.
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
@@JensLarsen Well, we could try, just for variation, some of the guitarists who's kind of left field, stylistically..like James Blood Ulmer, Frank Zappa...or even Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid uses some pretty advanced stuff in his solos, just listen to "Times UP" from the same album. If we have to stay "closer to home" I would like to see some stuff of Doug Raney (Jimmys son), from the "Somethings Up" album.
I really like Vernon actually, but I don't think it would make a very nice video for this audience :)
@@JensLarsen True....but really check out the Doug Raney album "Somethings Up" if you don't already know it, it's just the coolest thing.
Thanks Lars! I wil get to Doug at some point! Don't think I know that album, but I do know a few others. I'll check it out :)
Wonderful lesson. She is one of my favorites, so inventive, actually untethered, I love your take on this song, I've always thought there was some Monk in there too... Thank You!
Thanks! That's interesting I don't hear any Monk in this arrangement at all?
Jens Larsen haha, I have been accused of having a very active imagination... 😎. I’ll see if it’s anything I can pin down and articulate or if it’s just a passing thought.
No worries. Just curious if you had an idea, I might learn something too :)
Jens Larsen glad to try, an interesting bit of homework on a player I love... thanks!
Hi Jens, rough draft, Thelonius Monk Live in Japan 1963, "Evidence" and "Epistrophy" I can't break it down but I'm hearing lots of similar motifs at work. The actual track I had in mind is not Monk it's Coltrane With (I think) Mcoy Tyner on Piano, "Live at the Village Vanguard 1961, V2". Like I said I have a very active Imagination... Thanks for the kick to listen to some old dust offs, between our Jam earlier and the homework assignment I had a great day of music!
great lesson Jens really melodic & watchable , good to be inspired by Wes Montgomery .Emily Remler is good...also i love the sound of your guitar...
Thank you Mike! Glad you dig the video and of course my guitar 🙂
I was sad to read Emily Remler had died in 1997 , thanks for the introduction .She was such a great player and her music will last forever...Thanks.
Wasn't Softly.... on her Retrospective, Volume One album? I may have missed it on Firefly... Great channel Jens
It's on East to Wes 🙂
Keith Jarrett, Kenny Rankin , Pat Martino , Larry Coryell …
Kenny Rankins version of Round Midnight is sublime. He was a masterful guitar player too-underrated.
...you’ve got a great library!
Thank you very much, Richard!
Woooow, this a GREAT surprise.
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
@@JensLarsen I would love to see a Frank Zappa video!
@@lander.96 That's a bit far away from Jazz though :)
@@JensLarsen I know... im just trying, hahahah!
One of my favourite guitarists, check out her solo version of Afro Blue and what she does with that.
Glad you like the video. Do you have a link or an album where that is on?
Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
@@JensLarsenit's on a hard to get album called Take Two but here's a link th-cam.com/video/SsuWPIXIfHo/w-d-xo.html
Some nice reharmonisation here too
@@JensLarsen I'd like to see a video on Peter Bernstein
Thanks! Peter Bernstein is certainly on the list!
Emily was a fan of Wes Montgomery.That’s why her soli were So sensitive. I remember her in one of her videos she said that he had « heavenly » sounds.
Yeah, I think you can really tell the influence from Wes in some of these phrases :)
Great insight, thanks for the info. Regards, Jimp
Glad you like the video. Who else would you like to see a video on? 🙂
To expand from my previous comment, in listening to George Benson's cover of 'Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise' I recently found a far better than The Real Book harmonization of the 'A' section. The melody fits naturally over it. Thus: //Cm7 /Dm7 /Cm7 /F7 /Fm7 /G7 /Cm7 /Dm7b5 G7// etc. etc. Of course, the last bar of the second 'A' section goes /Fm7 Bb7 etc. to go into the 'B' section. Interestingly, the last 4 bars of this new 'A' section adopts chords of the last 4 bars of Gershwin's Summertime. I hope guitarists and musicians get as much enjoyment out of it as I have. Because such a haunting melody deserves something better than a repeating 2 bar chord vamp.
Thank you veru Much, Lars! This kind of harmonisation Is used in my Favourite thing s I guess, it is also possible to push it even a bit further to go to use(as long it is not clashing too much with the theme...)Em7 Fmaj7(implies Aminor key in a way)F#m711 instead of this I guess possible would be Em7 F#m711 G#m711(a Emaj7 is implied)this is actually happening when my favourite things turns to major, but during minor key it is called Picardian third...
Emily's version evokes a 'soft' sunrise (perhaps with a storm approaching behind) which other covers fail to do with their inappropriate fast bebop tempi. George Benson's is also an atmospheric version. th-cam.com/video/nnOUzo9hl0I/w-d-xo.html. It's just a modal Cm7 Dm7 Cm7 Dm7 etc. in the "A' section on the melodic theme if in the C minor key. But on his improvised solo it sounds like chords of the last of 4 bars of Gershwin's Summertime have been used in the chord progression which gives it a nice soul or gospel flavour. The 'B' section uses the conventional chord changes. Here's an alternative 'A'
section chord progression based on Benson's the melody fits nicely over: //Cm7 /Dm7 /Cm7 / F7 /Fm7 /G7 /Cm7 /Dm7b5 G7 /etc.
If I'm not mistaken, this song (Softly...) was on the "East to Wes" album, not Firefly.
Hi Jens, First of all congrats on your lesson book on Amazon with Joseph Alexander! I have several of his books in my que, but haven't purchased yet because I have "so" many books and material already and don't have the time. I'm trying to resist the temptation to buy more although I'm sure I'll have to pick up your book.
Ironically, I heard about your book on a podcast I listen to for self publishing. Joseph Alexander mentioned you in an interview in one of the episodes. Later your book popped up in my email through Amazon as I subscribe to Alexander as an author. I thought that was all pretty cool and how this is such a small world.
Believe it or not that is not why I am commenting. I wanted to chime in regarding this video. First of all thanks for introducing me to a new guitarist. I saw her do a lesson on youtube years ago but never heard her really play until I googled this song and have become hooked. Initially I only listened to the first part of this video but later went back and... you provide quite a break down of this song which I love and am now working on. So thank you again! I found a transcription for the full solo which is pretty accurate so I've actually dropped some other stuff I was working on for the moment, and have a new project for the next few months. I have dozens of books on Jazz and have had a few teachers but you have been one of the biggest inspirations for me for Jazz, particularly with two previous videos, arpeggios for II V I and arpeggios for autumn leaves. Although those lessons were simple, for some reason I really connected with them and embraced that material and spent a good amount of time working on it. That has motivated me to play a lot more jazz, something other teachers and books never really could do. (I'm mostly a fingerstyle and blues player) I'll be stopping by your donation page to make another donation (and I encourage others who benefit from your lessons to do the same) but I just wanted to say thanks and Happy Holidays! - Robert
That's super interesting Robert! What podcast was that? I'd be curious to hear it :)
It is really great to hear that you find the videos useful (I take it you did see that there are PDF's for a lot of them on my website, though not for this one..) And I am also happy to hear that you really spend some time with the stuff, which of course is needed if you want to learn from it!
Have a great christmas!
Jens Larsen FYI....
the interview with Joseph doesnt start until about 30 minutes so if its not interesting, you may want to skip ahead....
www.thecreativepenn.com/2018/11/19/how-to-scale-your-author-business-with-joseph-alexander/
Thank you!
Fascinating thanks! Just to point out , the song is not on the album Firefly 1981, but rather East to Wes in 1988
Glad you like it! Yes, in this spotify age I sometimes don't pay too much attention to what album it is.
Brilliant - now the same about her approach on Snowfall please 🙏
Still Cant figure out this drop D tune. 😅
I don't know that one, sorry :)
I actually did videos like this every week for more than a year, but had to stop because there was very little interest from the audience, so I can't promise that I will make more like it.
Fantastic stuff as always Jens ! Perhaps you could do a lesson on Joe Diorio ?
Thank you Josh! Glad you like it! At the moment I am not doing this type of video.
Great video. Keep it up. Have you considered making a video about niklas knudsen?
Thanks! I havn't really thought about doing a video on him. What would be a good album? 🙂
@@JensLarsen i'd suggest the first ibrahim electric album or brothers of utopia.
Hi Jens, greetings from Mexico.
I’d like to suggest a gear video.
I have some trouble to find a “classic” jazz guitar sound from my guitar besides I think I have a very “jazzy” guitar as a Sheraton.
Maybe some pedals or some advices about sound.
Thanks for this video!
Thank you Diego! I will make a video on sound and instruments. It's tricky for me to make, but I will try to make one.
Another good one, Jens. Emily Remler was great. (Just to check, did you get my recent 100E donation? Thanks for all the great lessons).
Thanks Brad! I did not see that, but it is there. I just checked on PayPal. Thank you so much, don't know why I didn't see the e-mail.
Awesome lesson as always, will you do a lesson on George bensons cover of take 5, as it has some fantastic, super fast lines in it, it’s a real treat !
Thank you! I will do more on Benson for sure, I was actually thinking more of another tune. What album is this from?
Jens Larsen, it’s off ‘bad benson’ album , cheers 🍻
Yeeeeeiiiii She's such a hero! Do yo remember carenia?? hahaha
She is :) and no I did not forget Carenia 😄
The reddish guitar on the wall looks darn like one of Emily's guitars.
Jens, I'm looking for the PDF again, but can't find it. I looked here: facebook.com/groups/JensLarsenPatreon/files/. There must be someplace else that you upload files to. I think you told me but I forgot. :(
PS - I already have on my computer a file with the .gp extension, but I don't know how to open that. Forgot where I downloaded it from.
Hi Larry, I sent you the link over on Patreon 🙂
The gp files are for GuitarPro, but is the same as the PDF so don't worry about those.
Let me know if you found it! :)
@@JensLarsen yep. I forgot it's on Google drive. But I didn't really need it after I watched the video again. Thanks
You should use the 335 more. I feel like it gets no love
I need to find time to have it setup properly, but I am really busy with gigs and TH-cam all the time. It will come 🙂
In the intro She played solar?
No, it is from the song in the video, but she is playing root root maj7th which you could hear as the first 3 notes of that melody.
Em = A7 to the power of Albert Einstein
Exactly!
I'm pretty sure that Emily's arrangement was one Barry Galbraith's.
So she learned this from Barry Galbraith? That's at least new to me 🙂
If you are so sure, can you give us the references from where you got that information? What I am 100% sure is that it has become a morbid game to suggest, whenever she made something nice, that she stole it from somebody. Even Jens cannot avoid to make a useless suggestion referring to Wes. There is a difference between stealing and being inspired by. Everybody starts by learning solo's form the masters. Even Wes had a time where he just replicated Charlie Christian note for note. *But of course, that was a man and not some Jewish babe, a woman who dared to play jazz guitar, which was a privilege for men at that time.* And other scoffs she had to endure in her lifetime, until today, long after her sad death. I spent countless hours studying her work, and I'm 100% sure that the concept behind this song is in the line of a personal vision about harmony that she was developing.
Wow that’s creepy. I was just thinking about this exact topic.
Well, I hope you like the video :)