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I thought that I was pretty decent blues/rock guitarist. My first attempts at playing jazz guitar were disastrous to say the least. I wasn’t “hearing” the changes, and as I gradually got better at negotiating jazz harmonies and feeling like I was making progress, I realized that I wasn’t even all that good of a blues/rock guitarist because I wasn’t really “hearing” that music either. I had just gotten luckier with blues and rock because there were fewer chances of playing wrong notes over minor pentatonic based three chord rock tunes than over a typical jazz standard. Once I figured out how to play jazz, my entire approach to playing rock and blues changed and I became a much better player all the way around.
It's been a long time since I was playing in blues and rock bands, but I suspect I wasn't all that good either. I hear so much more than I did back then.
@@GeorgeHessMusic As my late father used to say, “Too soon old, too late smart”. I wish I knew then what I know now. I’ve always had a good sense of time. It was really easy to be cocky and wank around utilizing the minor pentatonic box over simple I-IV-V7 changes back in the 70’s. I vividly recall working in a record store (remember those?) in 1976 and putting on a promotional copy of the Crusaders album Those Southern Knights, and hearing the heretofore unknown (at least to me) Larry Carlton wend his through the harmonic minefield on the first cut “Spiral”. I realized right then and there, that I was just a piker.
Something else that I realized much later in life that I wish I had realized earlier, is that there is nothing mysterious about the recorded product of someone’s improvisation, (although I initially found some of Scofield’s ideas to be daunting) it’s about the process. Transcribing someone else’s solos might help in putting the language under one’s fingers and into one’s ears, but the bottom line is, that particular solo that you transcribed worked at that particular moment, with what that particular rhythm section was doing. As you have said, it’s all about listening. What will any one of us choose to do at any particular moment, with just 12 notes, in whatever configuration we happen to find ourselves in. That’s the where the rubber meets the road.
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Love the energy of the vid! Nice job!
Thanks.Much Appreciated
I thought that I was pretty decent blues/rock guitarist. My first attempts at playing jazz guitar were disastrous to say the least. I wasn’t “hearing” the changes, and as I gradually got better at negotiating jazz harmonies and feeling like I was making progress, I realized that I wasn’t even all that good of a blues/rock guitarist because I wasn’t really “hearing” that music either. I had just gotten luckier with blues and rock because there were fewer chances of playing wrong notes over minor pentatonic based three chord rock tunes than over a typical jazz standard. Once I figured out how to play jazz, my entire approach to playing rock and blues changed and I became a much better player all the way around.
It's been a long time since I was playing in blues and rock bands, but I suspect I wasn't all that good either. I hear so much more than I did back then.
@@GeorgeHessMusic As my late father used to say, “Too soon old, too late smart”. I wish I knew then what I know now. I’ve always had a good sense of time. It was really easy to be cocky and wank around utilizing the minor pentatonic box over simple I-IV-V7 changes back in the 70’s. I vividly recall working in a record store (remember those?) in 1976 and putting on a promotional copy of the Crusaders album Those Southern Knights, and hearing the heretofore unknown (at least to me) Larry Carlton wend his through the harmonic minefield on the first cut “Spiral”. I realized right then and there, that I was just a piker.
Something else that I realized much later in life that I wish I had realized earlier, is that there is nothing mysterious about the recorded product of someone’s improvisation, (although I initially found some of Scofield’s ideas to be daunting) it’s about the process. Transcribing someone else’s solos might help in putting the language under one’s fingers and into one’s ears, but the bottom line is, that particular solo that you transcribed worked at that particular moment, with what that particular rhythm section was doing. As you have said, it’s all about listening. What will any one of us choose to do at any particular moment, with just 12 notes, in whatever configuration we happen to find ourselves in. That’s the where the rubber meets the road.
To old for Rock? Your absolutly right.. 👍😏 i´m 66 so i can verify that..
Us old guys have to stick together
Old ppl stuff...right at my level 😅😂
Funny old men
Thank you very much, I'll be here all week.