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Thumbs Up, Doc! Your teaching is as cool as the jazz you play. it would be helpful if i could hear your voice a little louder. Sounds like you are not trying to wake the baby. :) Lot of advice in this one video.
Great advice. I will say that practicing scales for hours and hours has made it a whole lot easier for me to pick up melodies and chords; and practicing drum beats on my guitar is also super helpful with rhythm. But there is a limit to all these exercises and I spend too much time on scales and would say I'm ready to follow a method such as the one you're suggesting. And yes, it all starts with listening.
Great advice, thanks. Question. When I see jazz guitarists on youtube, it looks like their strings are closer to the frets, hence requires less distance from the time you press on a string until it hits. Do you happen to know the distance between the high and low E strings at the first and twelfth frets? I'm think I may need guitar leveling to make lower action work well. So, any help you can provide on guitar setup would be appreciated, thanks.
I prefer relatively low action on electric instruments, but higher action on acoustics. Remember, you only push to the fret, not the fretboard. Otherwise, you'll be out of tune. As to setup, you can sight down the neck from the headstock and see if there are any bows or twists in your neck. Or just place a straight edge along the frets and see if there are gaps. A setup by a professional guitar tech is usually worth the money.
@@GeorgeHessMusic thanks, I've been setting up my guitars for decades. The question is the distance between your strings and the top of the frets. How low can you get yours? If I can't reach your numbers, I need to have my frets leveled.
@@GeorgeHessMusic Let me try it this way. Joe Bonamassa sets his guitars up no lower than 0.078 or 5/64ths on both low and high side. I've been using that approximate range for electric guitar for many decades. But when I go to try jazz... 5/64ths is not "low" for the high E, and is still kind of high for the low "E". So, "low" being relative...I was hoping you knew how your guitar was setup. If you know the numbers that make it easy to play for you..then we will know if we are in the approximate range for what you think makes playing easy enough that you aren't fighting your guitar just to play it. Does that make more sense?
@@RickMcCargar To be honest, I don't measure action. Each of my guitars is different and has a different action, but I basically set them by how they feel and how I play them. My Johnny Smith has the highest action as it lets the guitar resonate more. My Peerless Gigmaster is laminate so the body isn't as resonant, and I set the action a little lower. My LP Custom is a little lower than the Peerless as I don't use it for rock.
What about learning tune in original form? Isn't that difficult from recordings because they're always interpretations. I was told recently by a professional pianist to learn the original first.
Listen to multiple versions and interpret it for yourself. The notes on a lead sheet are just an approximation. I would expect it to start out pretty close to the melody and then evolve over time
Hi George. I really enjoyed this video. I’ve been studying jazz guitar for over three years, and feel like I’m making progress, but also feel kind of stuck. I would like to chat with you about a personal learning plan, and some private lessons. How might we chat? Roger Ford
@ Thanks, George. I appreciate your offer, and I’ll take you up on that sometime in January. I’m in Danang right now spending the holidays with my family, but I’ll be back to you after we get home to Sarasota. How do I sign up for the lesson?
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Thumbs Up, Doc! Your teaching is as cool as the jazz you play. it would be helpful if i could hear your voice a little louder. Sounds like you are not trying to wake the baby. :) Lot of advice in this one video.
Thanks for the heads up. It always seems a little loud to me when I'm producing it.
Great advice. I will say that practicing scales for hours and hours has made it a whole lot easier for me to pick up melodies and chords; and practicing drum beats on my guitar is also super helpful with rhythm. But there is a limit to all these exercises and I spend too much time on scales and would say I'm ready to follow a method such as the one you're suggesting. And yes, it all starts with listening.
I spent many hours practicing scales as a kid, but I don't have time for that now. All of my practice time is spent learning and working on tunes.
Learning from different You Tube teachers has helped me!
Yes, but be careful not to get sidetracked
"Working out their own insecurities"...... SUBBED!
;-)
Great advice, thanks. Question. When I see jazz guitarists on youtube, it looks like their strings are closer to the frets, hence requires less distance from the time you press on a string until it hits. Do you happen to know the distance between the high and low E strings at the first and twelfth frets? I'm think I may need guitar leveling to make lower action work well. So, any help you can provide on guitar setup would be appreciated, thanks.
I prefer relatively low action on electric instruments, but higher action on acoustics. Remember, you only push to the fret, not the fretboard. Otherwise, you'll be out of tune.
As to setup, you can sight down the neck from the headstock and see if there are any bows or twists in your neck. Or just place a straight edge along the frets and see if there are gaps.
A setup by a professional guitar tech is usually worth the money.
@@GeorgeHessMusic thanks, I've been setting up my guitars for decades. The question is the distance between your strings and the top of the frets. How low can you get yours? If I can't reach your numbers, I need to have my frets leveled.
@@GeorgeHessMusic Let me try it this way. Joe Bonamassa sets his guitars up no lower than 0.078 or 5/64ths on both low and high side. I've been using that approximate range for electric guitar for many decades. But when I go to try jazz... 5/64ths is not "low" for the high E, and is still kind of high for the low "E". So, "low" being relative...I was hoping you knew how your guitar was setup. If you know the numbers that make it easy to play for you..then we will know if we are in the approximate range for what you think makes playing easy enough that you aren't fighting your guitar just to play it. Does that make more sense?
@@RickMcCargar To be honest, I don't measure action. Each of my guitars is different and has a different action, but I basically set them by how they feel and how I play them. My Johnny Smith has the highest action as it lets the guitar resonate more. My Peerless Gigmaster is laminate so the body isn't as resonant, and I set the action a little lower. My LP Custom is a little lower than the Peerless as I don't use it for rock.
What about learning tune in original form? Isn't that difficult from recordings because they're always interpretations. I was told recently by a professional pianist to learn the original first.
Listen to multiple versions and interpret it for yourself. The notes on a lead sheet are just an approximation. I would expect it to start out pretty close to the melody and then evolve over time
Hi George. I really enjoyed this video. I’ve been studying jazz guitar for over three years, and feel like I’m making progress, but also feel kind of stuck. I would like to chat with you about a personal learning plan, and some private lessons. How might we chat? Roger Ford
Sign up for a free lesson and let’s find out.
@ Thanks, George. I appreciate your offer, and I’ll take you up on that sometime in January. I’m in Danang right now spending the holidays with my family, but I’ll be back to you after we get home to Sarasota. How do I sign up for the lesson?
@@RogerHayesFord click this link and choose a convenient time. lessons.jumpstartjazzguitar.com/freejazzguitarclass
:Looking forward to meeting you