So I created a guide for helping you with setting up your guitar for tapping 5591ad.myshopify.com/products/how-to-setup-and-or-optimize-your-guitar-for-two-handed-tapping-the-complete-guide
30 years ago I was mesmerised by Stanley Jordan two tapping Eleanor Rigby. This morning I am mesmerised by your two tapping jazz improvs. I love your poker faced humour and no nonsense teaching. Boy I’m excited that I’ve discovered you. Your ideas are so digestible the way you explain them 🙏🥂
5:02 playing mostly chromatics 7:44 trying to stay in one position as much as possible 9:50 ascertain what to play on the change first 13:48 which means building rapport on individual tunes and developing escape mechansims 14:39 having the techniques to connect things 21:06 leaving space and repositioning on the neck / thinking ahead 29:00 build more artisic viewpoint and set of tools
Your insane! Lets go to Eeyore's Birthday Party sometime! Just for a walk along the scale of things. I don't get to know a lot of people who get it, but I am so glad I found you! You remind me that it's all right there in front us, and that is so good. My fucking brain is happy again!
I can’t even believe what im hearing. Absolutely mind boggling….Saw a lesson for the first time 2 days ago. About 20 seconds in, my brain said…”holy hell…whaaaat the hell is going on here?…Is this real?” Astounding
Thanks, yeah, a lot of my influence in various ways of approaching this kind of comes from Chick Corea and kind of visualizing the guitar as sort of a Rhodes piano. Oddly enough, when I was thinking of it more pianistically there was some type of mental block going on...
I was watching Stanley Jordan and someone mentioned Tory Slusher in the comments. WOW I'm blown away, you are phenomenal Tory, your tapping technique is incredible.
Sylvain Luc was my favorite guitarist. But now, Sylvain Luc and you are my favorite guitarists. Such creativity, it opens our ears. Alan Holdsworth was creative, too. But nobody understood what he played. But in your case, your musical phrases are so well built that we understand perfectly your language, even if the notes are "out". My respect, madam.
I saw an interview you did with some guy, and his questions just got in the way! I much prefer listening to you just expound about what you’re doing, what is interesting to you. These talky videos reveal your passion and really explain your soul for music. So entertaining and informative, thanks so much for taking the time, you’re brilliant! Keep going!
You are amazing and so down to earth. That tapping technique is mind blowing, with such ease. I'm a jazz flutist and I'm totally loving your flow. So much interesting content in your solo rhythmically, intervals, note choices, shapes ... flowing beautifully! Thank you!!!
Tory, you are 2 of the best things I like in a teacher, completely down to earth…and not of this world. It’s a rare and wonderful thing to see. Thank you!
Thanks, I just basically have this continuous improvement type of thing that I do on a day-to-day basis. Years ago it used to be this mad dash to try to improve dramatically as quickly as possible, but that can make you very miserable... The piecemeal approach is probably more sensible for modern day life... That type of aesthetic sort of just integrates with your personality and the way you deal with people, especially musically
@@TorySlusher that makes total sense, I do the same, explore an idea just for fun, see what it brings that day. And I can’t think of a better way to deal with people than musically. Dig ya later!
You're a legend Tory, found you a few days ago and have noticed a good bump in subscribers since then, hopefully this is the beginning of a wider audience and world fame, ♥from Australia
@@TorySlusher Its looking promising, hopefully your persistence is paying off and the algorithm is giving you a fair go. I checked social blade and says you've had over 3k subs in the last 30 days and nearly 50k views in the last week.🤠🤟
Kudos to the teaching technique: explaining an extremely complicated task into simple terms that average musicians can get. I think you’ve taught the equivalent of piloting a 747 in a half hour, with this lesson.
Are there others from the plant that you and Alan are from? I am honestly..... your skill (and more importantly artistry) with and around scales, melodies, rhythms are in themselves prodigious - and then you add the two handed insanity on top of that. Very very few times in my life have I been left completely speechless. God bless you, it makes me livid that you only have 6K subs. I have been following guitar legends for years being a middling guitarist myself and I only discovered you today. So I really hope the algorithm is beginning to smile on you.
I don't know and I don't care why you call at me in the musical heart. Wow, you have done the homework and not much means more than that to me sometimes, and loving it enough to know. The guitar is all about arpeggio stuff. Other Instruments, less so for sure. I just love how you get it. Thanks!
i don’t assume you take requests, but i would absolutely love a dedicated video on your incredible chord + melody tapping technique. keep the videos coming, they’re always incredible and so informative!
Thanks,.... No, I do take requests.. okay, that's an interesting video concept, I would say that it has a lot to do with thinking from the perspective of something like a fender rhodes...
Hey Joe sounded nice! Hendrix prepared me for jazz back in the day.. Only problem was once I heard Miles and Trane I was done with rock for a long time. Still love Hendrix, Santana, early Johnny Winter, I get nostalgic and emotional in my old age.
I'm going to a rock analogy here, but it is the same thing, rock genre: You probably know this song; I first heard it when I was 8 years old, and it was not long after Best of Cream came out...there is this Eric Clapton/ George Harrison song called Badge on that album. When listening to that solo in that song, and then in my late forties, or early 50's telling myself "I've always loved that solo, so I'm going to learn it"...I wasn't using tabs, I was just listening, and slowed it way down on my computer, because I wasn't getting what he was doing. A lot of that solo is doing a lot of stuff in the same vicinity on the fret board, then changing position to a different vicinity, then staying there and doing a bunch of stuff within that area. He had a keen sense of switching back and forth from major to minor, depending on what the underlying chord was, and that progression is just a 4 chord progression, but when you are copying how someone else thinks, it can be tough. Learning the how is one thing, and grasping why it sounds so good and is so effective, so you can apply that way of thinking into what you already know how to do, is another; it can open up musical directions that you didn't know how to do before, and even can cause a person to come up with an original thing that is really good.
Miss Tory You are absolutely INCREDIBLE !!! The licks that You play... the way that You play with 2 hands on the neck ... the Magical flow of all the notes that You play with such ease ... CONGRADULATION !!! The Best is on your way , because You deserve the Best !! Keep Going !!
You're seriously one of the best if not the best guitar player I've ever seen my life, I'm not talking about just skill your creativity is way beyond anything I have the pleasure of listen to. I have one question, you seem to have some form of gk3 I don't know if it's the exactly model mentioned but I would like to know what's the purpose of it, if you're using it seems to be very subtle. Another thing did you ever think about experimenting with microtonality? specially with a fretless guitar looking for the "wrong notes" instead of the usual frequencies, If I would choose someone to pull it off it would certainly be you. I know harmonically speaking microtonality it's a different beast but given how comfortable you're when improvising on very odd and complex chords it should be easier for you than for most musicians.
Do you have any guitarists or musicians in general, like pianists or saxophonists,trump players,etc to listen to, and learn their music by ear? I just found your channel a few days ago and you are amazing! Very informative and super helpful with my guitar playing. I grew up on rock metal and blues and I got into jazz these past few years and I can’t wait to learn more from your channel!
I love your content so much, been binging for the last few days. Curious, what advice would you give someone stepping into jazz from learning tabs (for mostly metal/prog metal stuff)? I know a most of the fundamentals of music theory, but actually stringing stuff together is tough, you make it look so effortless while sounding amazing and graceful!
Thanks. ... I don't know if there are any real short cuts, basically just learning tunes and stealing licks from the best players you can find... Perhaps focus on some players or specific stuff that you really enjoy versus stuff that you feel like you "need to know", at least at first, in order to keep the interest and excitement level high.
@@TorySlusher Appreciate it, not shy of the grind, this instrument is a labour of love! Keep posting awesome stuff, so many ideas coming from your videos!
Same here. I randomly came across this channel a week or two ago. I also come from the metal scene and am now learning jazz standards. I've already watched about 30 of Tory's videos, including interviews. It really seems like reaching that level demands decades of dedicated practice - not just playing, but also transcribing, understanding, and practicing incredibly complex music from various genres. I've never seen anything like that on guitar before, I am totally amazed...
@@TorySlusher thank you ill check it out I played piano a bit so i know what chords are but finding them on the guitar outside of open chords is much more difficult
I just found your channel, your tutorials are amazing, you’ve convinced me to start practicing my right hand touch technique, simply out of this world sound, thank you very much!
I look forward to your videos so please keep them coming! We had a lesson recently...I'd like to see basic touch guitar technique videos with PDF tab but I know it's more work...exercises for each hand, sample solo over standards, right hand arpeggios, left hand chord voicings, etc. The exact fingering, pull offs, hammer ons would have to be notated especially for right hand. Trying to figure out the best way to lay out arpeggios and other lines since I don't seem to have the barring capability on right hand since we're hammering on the notes.
Yeah, if I ever start pulling a profit then it would make sense to do that kind of thing, I just don't have the time right now cuz I have other things I have to be doing
@@TorySlusher That would be great! As much as I'd like to pick apart this video and learn all the different concepts you've mentioned, I probably just won't have time. If you could do something focused on just one strategy for flowing over a single chord or a shorter progression, that would be fantastic. Thanks for putting all these videos out! You're an amazing player.
This helps me. I’m very limited. I find a lot of inspiration from vids like this. Nice to hear you yapping. From a guitar fumbler from across the pond. Thanks for this.
Cool cool, basically yeah, I envisioned these episodes of something like hanging out with me as I explain something or just play some stuff... I think it's a little more engaging than doing something that's very rigid and regimented, ie. - here is a specific example that I have prepared which has an included PDF file... Nothing wrong with that, but, the spur of the moment stream of consciousness thing is lost, which kind of detracts from the spontaneity of the art itself...
@@TorySlusher I, like the others are jealous of your talent. You have a great gift. I like how you show and tell… beats dull pdfs for sure. Hope all is well. Nice to meet you. Andy.
Yeah, at some point I'll go over all that stuff, trying to do stuff that has a wider appeal to the greater guitar community outside of the technique itself, that's just how I play
OmGosh you are awesome amazing i just found u by accident Wow yer playing is just Top notch ive been playing for 40 years and just heard of u im so glad i did where do u perform at ? Or teach? I would love to be a student of yours do u teach this i can play with a pick some jazz but not this style ❤ thank u please keep making videos
Wonderful stuff, especially enjoyed the insightful comments on Joe Zawinul (and methinks you would sound great on a Scott Kinsey track, but digressing). The "Hey Joe" progression is a not-so-common, but not uncommon R&B / rock / pop device (Stevie Wonder, and others, used it too) but you make it sound new again with the chords at about 34:12 - 17 here ... wow, what would you call those (awesome)?
It's something I've seen chick corea do... A bunch of little tight clusters, one of them is based on like a 7#9, with the tritone, and the other one is just like a suspension, sus 2
Yes, I heard some "quartal" type sounds in there, which may also be referred to as a sus 2, but those are interjected on top of the chords supporting the progression, making for some very spicy sounds, harmonically and rhythmically@@TorySlusher
thanks for pointing that part out. i transcribed it as best I could - looks like cluster of root, 5th and 2nd eg. A Bb E, G G# D, D E A, C D G, Bb C F. Starts on high 3 strings then the next lower set of 3 strings. The G G# D can be seen as part of the E7#9
If you would only come out with a pdf of these scales/arpeggios vs chords , so I could absorb more of what you are doing. Great video...PLEAse.. (I mean actual examples left and right hand)
I think what I'm going to do is imitate the bartok mikrocosmos pieces and just write some little miniatures with sheet music attached.... Sort of contemporary classical quirky little pieces etc
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha funny! Approx. 7:00 in to watching and those images of Lego and food stuff came in to the screen! Ha ha ha ha nuts! I like the teaching info. Crazy and freaky. I LOVE the freaks of the of world 🙂 And crazy? There is order in chaos. My aim is not to offend but to outreach with a smile and a flutter from my heart. Wishing you well Tory, Ty. PS Super teaching and view points expressed. And, my favourite of all of 'em, Jimi Hendrix. Coolest cat ever - freak - and adore his thinking about life stuff and, of course, what we both enjoy, his playing and his MUSIC.
Yes, agreed. it helps the viewer watching and listening to the general ideas you are feeding them. Food for thought. You've spent a long time with your guitar learning. I enjoy listening to your playing as do all the other cats. Cool cat Tory. @@TorySlusher Present for you Cherokee played by John McLaughlin th-cam.com/video/Om6HDUKBbzE/w-d-xo.html
You are phenomenal. I’d love to know how you became interested in the guitar etc. Your skill is incredible and must have taken a lot of work but I suspect your a natural something I could never be ❤
Tory, you are an awesome player,. I would ;ile to explre your tapping style further, but I am curious what I need to do to set up a guitar for that. I see a link at the top of the comments but it apparently is inactive.
Aside from a select few artists, I think TH-cam is really just a place to do like a video podcast talk session type thing... In fact, I find myself looking for similar content all the time, sort of educational or tutorial based as well, even the games area is more or less *hanging out with so-and-so as they play something*
@@TorySlusheralso as they say the best way to understand something better is to verbalize your experience while trying to explain it to others. Plus it's super fun!
It is nines, but there's no filing, it's all truss rod and saddles, nut, etc. In my personal experience any guitar that gets down to Fret filing it's probably one that's not worth pursuing.... It means that the process they use didn't include any type of fret leveling
4:20 - 4:41 feels. It's so hard to do well for me. For you to follow up with 5:00 is nuts to me. I can play chromatically but I just can not retain the key scale awareness once I wonder outside of it. I lose where I am/was/should be/ want to be/ what I hear where I should go. lmao at 7:16 the images for context
OK, so I finally have a real question: Do you get the chord progression down first, as in what you are doing with the left hand...or better way to ask, maybe: if you were tasked with teaching what you are doing here to someone, would you have them get the left hand progression down first, and then add the right hand work after the student was really solid with the left hand progression?
Well, it's kind of a bit of both, they kind of flip back and forth between the two. The left hand chord progression being down cold is very important, although sometimes the right hand is coming from the left or leading first, it just depends on what the situation is or what I'm trying to do with the musical texture being used at the time. If I'm going to do any improvisation on it in a traditional sense, it's kind of like a left hand controlled thing at least for a while.
@@TorySlusher Hey Tori, thanks for replying back. That causes me to speculate (speculate, because I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention) that there could be role switching with what you are doing with each hand, depending on the given situation: example: Right hand doing the chording, if it would be easier/ more advantageous for the left hand to do a run of single notes/ take the lead? Kind of a "what ever will work the best for the player in the given situation" type of thinking. Regardless, thanks again.
Hi, I play sax and I was wondering about the way your able to flow with melody from one chord to the next in the chromatic exercise that you shared.when moving between chords are there any particular notes that you'll choose first for the upcoming chord? I'm doing chromatic enclosures around chord notes for arpeggio target notes and so far I'm ending up just chromatically adding notes hat lead to to the nearest chord tone of the next chord ( thats nearest).and even though I'm hearing the chord change in my melody, Im not making it a fluid transition and I'm looking for "flow". I sound like every chord is telling it's own seperate story. Is there any particular thing you think I should work on to connect my chords better? 25:11 . In the video an inversion is mentioned as being chromatically connected to the next chord. I know what chord inversions are but how would I connect an inversion chromatically to "flow" to the next chord? Any constructive feedback would really, really helpful. Not a lot of practice time over here😅.I'm working on it 😒
The way I do it is basically wherever you land try to shift chromatically into the next note, and then occasionally maybe think "arpeggio shift" for one or two of the changes. By and large though, I think just landing where you land and then moving up chromatically but then completely changing the arc of the line. I think what this allows you to do is to anticipate exactly what's about to happen geometrically, but then as you do it more you start thinking stuff like....*well you know I could try a bunch of these intervals on the next chord shift* etc. ...
i wasn't choosing one arpeggio in relation to the next. I was too busy thinking about each chord tone! I'm starting to see a bigger picture now. Thankyou for the reply!
I like what you say about the notion of epic or grandiosity. If it is for epic's sake it can border on pretentiousness, and like you say, have a kind of adolescence and become the opposite of impressive. Like the final notes in Bach's Prelude piece in the cello suite, it's every note that leads up to it, which makes the final notes so pleasing. Or the final note in a Whitney Houston song, which is only epic because of the notes leading up to it. If every note was 'epic' the final note wouldn't have the same meaning, and the whole song could be boring. It's usually the artists who enjoy themselves who end up being epic without trying so much.
Yeah exactly, but also just looking down the line at all of the stuff that came before.... What's happening nowadays in the guitar community is exactly what happened in the mid to late '80s.... I'm not really saying anything is better than anything else it's just that there's kind of this disingenuousness going on, and people are doing things based on how bombastic it is rather than staying true to any type of actual artistic vision or concept. The analogy is the same with songwriting, I think where they say if you want to be a better songwriter don't write the lyrics about yourself....
Yeah, there's so much going on in the world to write about, and writing is meant to make people think about life, but people can get caught up in writing about themselves or only playing to be bombastic and trying to be epic and it becomes tiresome and uninteresting. Two of the best guitarists in history could be like Hendrix and Dimebag Darrell, but they didn't show off much if taking the songs 'Wind Cries Mary' or 'Cemetery Gates' as examples, these songs have just the right amount of notes to compliment the songs.
@@TorySlusherWhy did you sell it? You had me wanting to get one (Sweetwater =$42 a month for 48 months), but those new squire affinities look good for $249, and it looks like the squire works for you! 🧐squire $249, Strandberg $2000?
I just invested in a GP-10. (Thanks to you lol) 15% off at MF. So here's my question: As a fellow Tele player (I have 3) Did you have to do anything special to the bridge to mount it? Is it velcro or something else? I don't have the ashtray bridge so I think it looks like your situation. Seems out of place that the wire would come out the top and not the bottom of the bridge? Hopefully I'll get it within the week. As a Bossa Nova lover, that split bass for the lower 2 strings will be very useful. Now I have to sell that Boss OC-5.
Yes actually, I had to drill a hole in the middle bridge down near the bottom of the bridge pickup, but once you do that you can screw the thing in and it's solid as a rock, although you might have to put a shim in the neck joint like I did. I just cut out a piece of pick guard instead of wood like people normally use.
So I created a guide for helping you with setting up your guitar for tapping
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I laugh very much when you add effects like explosions or digressions or whatever.
30 years ago I was mesmerised by Stanley Jordan two tapping Eleanor Rigby. This morning I am mesmerised by your two tapping jazz improvs. I love your poker faced humour and no nonsense teaching. Boy I’m excited that I’ve discovered you. Your ideas are so digestible the way you explain them 🙏🥂
your tapping technique blows my mind wtf
Tj helmerich stuff
🤯🤯🤯
5:02 playing mostly chromatics
7:44 trying to stay in one position as much as possible
9:50 ascertain what to play on the change first
13:48 which means building rapport on individual tunes and developing escape mechansims
14:39 having the techniques to connect things
21:06 leaving space and repositioning on the neck / thinking ahead
29:00 build more artisic viewpoint and set of tools
Your insane! Lets go to Eeyore's Birthday Party sometime! Just for a walk along the scale of things. I don't get to know a lot of people who get it, but I am so glad I found you! You remind me that it's all right there in front us, and that is so good. My fucking brain is happy again!
Amazing tecnic and phrases developing
You lure a lot of us metal people into jazz, I'm sure! What a pleasure!
Tory's is one of the top 5 jazz players of all time
I can’t even believe what im hearing. Absolutely mind boggling….Saw a lesson for the first time 2 days ago. About 20 seconds in, my brain said…”holy hell…whaaaat the hell is going on here?…Is this real?”
Astounding
You flow, lady. You surely flow.
No one has come close to Stanley Jordan until this. Beautiful work.💛👌👍👍
This isn’t even tapping, this is straight up turning the guitar into a piano 🎹 absolutely brilliant work. Keep it going!
Thanks, yeah, a lot of my influence in various ways of approaching this kind of comes from Chick Corea and kind of visualizing the guitar as sort of a Rhodes piano. Oddly enough, when I was thinking of it more pianistically there was some type of mental block going on...
I was watching Stanley Jordan and someone mentioned Tory Slusher in the comments. WOW I'm blown away, you are phenomenal Tory, your tapping technique is incredible.
You are an amazing musician. I am inspired every time I see your playing and I hardly get inspired these days. Thank you for putting these videos out
My pleasure
Sylvain Luc was my favorite guitarist. But now, Sylvain Luc and you are my favorite guitarists. Such creativity, it opens our ears.
Alan Holdsworth was creative, too. But nobody understood what he played. But in your case, your musical phrases are so well built that we understand perfectly your language, even if the notes are "out".
My respect, madam.
🤔☺️👌🤨🧐☺️👍🫡
Tory, in your own unique way , every note you play makes the world a better place. Thank you!
I saw an interview you did with some guy, and his questions just got in the way! I much prefer listening to you just expound about what you’re doing, what is interesting to you. These talky videos reveal your passion and really explain your soul for music. So entertaining and informative, thanks so much for taking the time, you’re brilliant! Keep going!
That must have been the StreetWise channel
@@TorySlusher yes, I kept thinking, “Just shut up and listen, quit interrupting!”
...don't mean a thing if....caught you again, groovin'! Lovely.
It's crazy to first imitate legends and then rise above their style. Thanks for the lesson.
Your technique is insane, people need to know about this, I'm going to show all my friends :O
You are amazing and so down to earth. That tapping technique is mind blowing, with such ease. I'm a jazz flutist and I'm totally loving your flow. So much interesting content in your solo rhythmically, intervals, note choices, shapes ... flowing beautifully! Thank you!!!
Cool, we should Collab maybe....
Tory, you are 2 of the best things I like in a teacher, completely down to earth…and not of this world. It’s a rare and wonderful thing to see. Thank you!
Thanks, I just basically have this continuous improvement type of thing that I do on a day-to-day basis. Years ago it used to be this mad dash to try to improve dramatically as quickly as possible, but that can make you very miserable... The piecemeal approach is probably more sensible for modern day life... That type of aesthetic sort of just integrates with your personality and the way you deal with people, especially musically
@@TorySlusher that makes total sense, I do the same, explore an idea just for fun, see what it brings that day. And I can’t think of a better way to deal with people than musically. Dig ya later!
You're a legend Tory, found you a few days ago and have noticed a good bump in subscribers since then, hopefully this is the beginning of a wider audience and world fame, ♥from Australia
G'day... Yeah, there has been something of an uptick in the last 20 days
@@TorySlusher Its looking promising, hopefully your persistence is paying off and the algorithm is giving you a fair go. I checked social blade and says you've had over 3k subs in the last 30 days and nearly 50k views in the last week.🤠🤟
Mind blowing.. i don't even watch the extra terrestrial technique because the phrases are so well thought . Truly inspiring.
Honestly, I would be pretty thrilled if someone transcribed some of these lines / things and just played them in a standard way.
Kudos to the teaching technique: explaining an extremely complicated task into simple terms that average musicians can get.
I think you’ve taught the equivalent of piloting a 747 in a half hour, with this lesson.
Are there others from the plant that you and Alan are from? I am honestly..... your skill (and more importantly artistry) with and around scales, melodies, rhythms are in themselves prodigious - and then you add the two handed insanity on top of that. Very very few times in my life have I been left completely speechless. God bless you, it makes me livid that you only have 6K subs. I have been following guitar legends for years being a middling guitarist myself and I only discovered you today. So I really hope the algorithm is beginning to smile on you.
I don't know and I don't care why you call at me in the musical heart. Wow, you have done the homework and not much means more than that to me sometimes, and loving it enough to know. The guitar is all about arpeggio stuff. Other Instruments, less so for sure. I just love how you get it. Thanks!
Your playing is beautiful, compelling, musical and on fire. Wow.
Incredibly clean two hand tapping
finally someone who plays original sounding lines! You are insane in the best way possible!
i don’t assume you take requests, but i would absolutely love a dedicated video on your incredible chord + melody tapping technique. keep the videos coming, they’re always incredible and so informative!
Thanks,.... No, I do take requests.. okay, that's an interesting video concept, I would say that it has a lot to do with thinking from the perspective of something like a fender rhodes...
Tory you are UNIQUE. Have been sharing this video with all my friends.
Hey Joe sounded nice! Hendrix prepared me for jazz back in the day.. Only problem was once I heard Miles and Trane I was done with rock for a long time. Still love Hendrix, Santana, early Johnny Winter, I get nostalgic and emotional in my old age.
Exact same journey for me. Hendrix -> Miles + Coltrane.
I'm going to a rock analogy here, but it is the same thing, rock genre: You probably know this song; I first heard it when I was 8 years old, and it was not long after Best of Cream came out...there is this Eric Clapton/ George Harrison song called Badge on that album. When listening to that solo in that song, and then in my late forties, or early 50's telling myself "I've always loved that solo, so I'm going to learn it"...I wasn't using tabs, I was just listening, and slowed it way down on my computer, because I wasn't getting what he was doing. A lot of that solo is doing a lot of stuff in the same vicinity on the fret board, then changing position to a different vicinity, then staying there and doing a bunch of stuff within that area. He had a keen sense of switching back and forth from major to minor, depending on what the underlying chord was, and that progression is just a 4 chord progression, but when you are copying how someone else thinks, it can be tough. Learning the how is one thing, and grasping why it sounds so good and is so effective, so you can apply that way of thinking into what you already know how to do, is another; it can open up musical directions that you didn't know how to do before, and even can cause a person to come up with an original thing that is really good.
Watching you play and continuing to describe myself as a guitar player is impossible. Wrekt.
Just keep at it, you'll get there
i need so bad a tutorial of ur tapping technique 😮💨😮💨
Something like that is on the way soon as I get time
It's amazing how you make techniques so clean looks extra easy when, in fact, they're very hard. Truly a master! GTZ!
Miss Tory You are absolutely INCREDIBLE !!! The licks that You play... the way that You play with 2 hands on the neck ... the Magical flow of all the notes that You play with such ease ... CONGRADULATION !!! The Best is on your way , because You deserve the Best !! Keep Going !!
You're seriously one of the best if not the best guitar player I've ever seen my life, I'm not talking about just skill your creativity is way beyond anything I have the pleasure of listen to.
I have one question, you seem to have some form of gk3 I don't know if it's the exactly model mentioned but I would like to know what's the purpose of it, if you're using it seems to be very subtle.
Another thing did you ever think about experimenting with microtonality? specially with a fretless guitar looking for the "wrong notes" instead of the usual frequencies, If I would choose someone to pull it off it would certainly be you.
I know harmonically speaking microtonality it's a different beast but given how comfortable you're when improvising on very odd and complex chords it should be easier for you than for most musicians.
This was incredibly enlightening for me. Thank you! Astounding as always!!!
Sooooo awesome to watch. Never seen tapping technique like this. So unique.
I thought only Stanley could do this!
Your are an amazing musician. Best wishes for your future musical exploits.
I freaking love your videos, and your playing is fantastic! Keep it going.
Awesome, glad you're liking it...
Do you have any guitarists or musicians in general, like pianists or saxophonists,trump players,etc to listen to, and learn their music by ear? I just found your channel a few days ago and you are amazing! Very informative and super helpful with my guitar playing. I grew up on rock metal and blues and I got into jazz these past few years and I can’t wait to learn more from your channel!
I love your content so much, been binging for the last few days. Curious, what advice would you give someone stepping into jazz from learning tabs (for mostly metal/prog metal stuff)? I know a most of the fundamentals of music theory, but actually stringing stuff together is tough, you make it look so effortless while sounding amazing and graceful!
Thanks. ... I don't know if there are any real short cuts, basically just learning tunes and stealing licks from the best players you can find... Perhaps focus on some players or specific stuff that you really enjoy versus stuff that you feel like you "need to know", at least at first, in order to keep the interest and excitement level high.
@@TorySlusher Appreciate it, not shy of the grind, this instrument is a labour of love! Keep posting awesome stuff, so many ideas coming from your videos!
Same here. I randomly came across this channel a week or two ago. I also come from the metal scene and am now learning jazz standards. I've already watched about 30 of Tory's videos, including interviews. It really seems like reaching that level demands decades of dedicated practice - not just playing, but also transcribing, understanding, and practicing incredibly complex music from various genres. I've never seen anything like that on guitar before, I am totally amazed...
@@whatsmyageagain91 My intention is to make it a lifelong pursuit, I don’t even really have anything I want to get out of it, just enjoying the ride!
Just stumbled across your channel .. wow! so impressed, wonderfully gifted :)
i just started playing a month ago how do i learn more about those chord shapes? my mind is overwhelmed and amazed
I recommend the guitar grimoire
@@TorySlusher thank you ill check it out I played piano a bit so i know what chords are but finding them on the guitar outside of open chords is much more difficult
not only your are amazing musician I think you are really hilarious haha
Really nice breakdown of the process. Theory is all the possibilities, and harmony is a blend of some of the options
Yeah, which arguably is what pretty much everybody ends up doing anyway
Your playing is incredible. Thank you for posting these videos.
I just found your channel, your tutorials are amazing, you’ve convinced me to start practicing my right hand touch technique, simply out of this world sound, thank you very much!
Cool, I've really tried to angle this stuff so that people who use conventional techniques can get something out of it too....
I look forward to your videos so please keep them coming! We had a lesson recently...I'd like to see basic touch guitar technique videos with PDF tab but I know it's more work...exercises for each hand, sample solo over standards, right hand arpeggios, left hand chord voicings, etc. The exact fingering, pull offs, hammer ons would have to be notated especially for right hand. Trying to figure out the best way to lay out arpeggios and other lines since I don't seem to have the barring capability on right hand since we're hammering on the notes.
Yeah, if I ever start pulling a profit then it would make sense to do that kind of thing, I just don't have the time right now cuz I have other things I have to be doing
Enjoying the sounds! I’m always attempting solos, but my classical technique takes me in strange directions in my standard classical guitar
Vamp on one chord....
Major scales beautifull jazz lines great master sound Very good.incredible
Fabulous!
You're Jazz Guitar Master Yoda.
Exactly what I thought seconds before I saw this comment
Oh damn! I was just watching your last video and wanting to know more about how you come up with long lines.
This is a very dense topic, as it turns out. I'll probably do a ton of videos in this series and then put them in an individual playlist...
@@TorySlusher That would be great! As much as I'd like to pick apart this video and learn all the different concepts you've mentioned, I probably just won't have time. If you could do something focused on just one strategy for flowing over a single chord or a shorter progression, that would be fantastic. Thanks for putting all these videos out! You're an amazing player.
Omg laughing so much 😂 such great advice! I can’t wait to see more
Thank you! You are my new favorite! I have much work to do. Lol
You are insanely good
This helps me. I’m very limited. I find a lot of inspiration from vids like this. Nice to hear you yapping. From a guitar fumbler from across the pond. Thanks for this.
Cool cool, basically yeah, I envisioned these episodes of something like hanging out with me as I explain something or just play some stuff... I think it's a little more engaging than doing something that's very rigid and regimented, ie. - here is a specific example that I have prepared which has an included PDF file... Nothing wrong with that, but, the spur of the moment stream of consciousness thing is lost, which kind of detracts from the spontaneity of the art itself...
@@TorySlusher I, like the others are jealous of your talent. You have a great gift. I like how you show and tell… beats dull pdfs for sure. Hope all is well. Nice to meet you. Andy.
Thanks for your insight, really appreciated 🔥🔥🔥
Mellifluous!
Great video! Could you do a video on how to do your chord and lead tapping technique?
Yeah, at some point I'll go over all that stuff, trying to do stuff that has a wider appeal to the greater guitar community outside of the technique itself, that's just how I play
OmGosh you are awesome amazing i just found u by accident Wow yer playing is just Top notch ive been playing for 40 years and just heard of u im so glad i did where do u perform at ? Or teach? I would love to be a student of yours do u teach this i can play with a pick some jazz but not this style ❤ thank u please keep making videos
I'm just mostly doing videos these days
thanks very helpful
Great lesson.
Wonderful stuff, especially enjoyed the insightful comments on Joe Zawinul (and methinks you would sound great on a Scott Kinsey track, but digressing). The "Hey Joe" progression is a not-so-common, but not uncommon R&B / rock / pop device (Stevie Wonder, and others, used it too) but you make it sound new again with the chords at about 34:12 - 17 here ... wow, what would you call those (awesome)?
It's something I've seen chick corea do... A bunch of little tight clusters, one of them is based on like a 7#9, with the tritone, and the other one is just like a suspension, sus 2
Yes, I heard some "quartal" type sounds in there, which may also be referred to as a sus 2, but those are interjected on top of the chords supporting the progression, making for some very spicy sounds, harmonically and rhythmically@@TorySlusher
thanks for pointing that part out. i transcribed it as best I could - looks like cluster of root, 5th and 2nd eg. A Bb E, G G# D, D E A, C D G, Bb C F. Starts on high 3 strings then the next lower set of 3 strings. The G G# D can be seen as part of the E7#9
Thank you Tory ! Are you familiar with the work of Lennie Tristano (jazz pianist)? You are very talented to say the least
Yes, that's somebody else that I've heard before, but haven't listened to in a while
G.O.A.T
NO 💩
This is so inspiring; I really feel lucky to have found her; I imagine that's the typical response to her beautiful playing!
If you would only come out with a pdf of these scales/arpeggios vs chords , so I could absorb more of what you are doing. Great video...PLEAse.. (I mean actual examples left and right hand)
I think what I'm going to do is imitate the bartok mikrocosmos pieces and just write some little miniatures with sheet music attached.... Sort of contemporary classical quirky little pieces etc
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha funny! Approx. 7:00 in to watching and those images of Lego and food stuff came in to the screen! Ha ha ha ha nuts! I like the teaching info.
Crazy and freaky. I LOVE the freaks of the of world 🙂 And crazy? There is order in chaos.
My aim is not to offend but to outreach with a smile and a flutter from my heart.
Wishing you well Tory,
Ty.
PS Super teaching and view points expressed. And, my favourite of all of 'em, Jimi Hendrix. Coolest cat ever - freak - and adore his thinking about life stuff and, of course, what we both enjoy, his playing and his MUSIC.
I find it a little bit of graphical additions just kind of makes it a little more entertaining at times
Yes, agreed. it helps the viewer watching and listening to the general ideas you are feeding them. Food for thought.
You've spent a long time with your guitar learning. I enjoy listening to your playing as do all the other cats. Cool cat Tory. @@TorySlusher
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Really incredible stuff. Thank you for sharing your extensive insights with us.
Great video
You are phenomenal. I’d love to know how you became interested in the guitar etc. Your skill is incredible and must have taken a lot of work but I suspect your a natural something I could never be ❤
I started off with rock music and then became interested in the blues... And it all just sort of went in a different direction from there
Holy!!! Clean tapping
Tory, you are an awesome player,. I would ;ile to explre your tapping style further, but I am curious what I need to do to set up a guitar for that. I see a link at the top of the comments but it apparently is inactive.
Yeah sorry, I took the guitar setup guide down off the Shopify. Just email me at lessonswithtoryslusher@gmail.com
Yea... I like the christmas record martino did with Patterson... came to really like patterson a lot
I haven't heard that one
Huge fan 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
amazing. Talk is as fascinating as music. Thank you so much!
Aside from a select few artists, I think TH-cam is really just a place to do like a video podcast talk session type thing... In fact, I find myself looking for similar content all the time, sort of educational or tutorial based as well, even the games area is more or less *hanging out with so-and-so as they play something*
@@TorySlusheralso as they say the best way to understand something better is to verbalize your experience while trying to explain it to others. Plus it's super fun!
Do you use 9's on this Tele? Also curious if you had the frets filed down to enable the super low action?
It is nines, but there's no filing, it's all truss rod and saddles, nut, etc. In my personal experience any guitar that gets down to Fret filing it's probably one that's not worth pursuing.... It means that the process they use didn't include any type of fret leveling
Very Nice
4:20 - 4:41 feels. It's so hard to do well for me. For you to follow up with 5:00 is nuts to me. I can play chromatically but I just can not retain the key scale awareness once I wonder outside of it. I lose where I am/was/should be/ want to be/ what I hear where I should go.
lmao at 7:16 the images for context
I guess it's just something you get used to
Awesome!!
OK, so I finally have a real question: Do you get the chord progression down first, as in what you are doing with the left hand...or better way to ask, maybe: if you were tasked with teaching what you are doing here to someone, would you have them get the left hand progression down first, and then add the right hand work after the student was really solid with the left hand progression?
Well, it's kind of a bit of both, they kind of flip back and forth between the two. The left hand chord progression being down cold is very important, although sometimes the right hand is coming from the left or leading first, it just depends on what the situation is or what I'm trying to do with the musical texture being used at the time. If I'm going to do any improvisation on it in a traditional sense, it's kind of like a left hand controlled thing at least for a while.
@@TorySlusher Hey Tori, thanks for replying back. That causes me to speculate (speculate, because I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention) that there could be role switching with what you are doing with each hand, depending on the given situation: example: Right hand doing the chording, if it would be easier/ more advantageous for the left hand to do a run of single notes/ take the lead? Kind of a "what ever will work the best for the player in the given situation" type of thinking. Regardless, thanks again.
Miss Tory You are absolutely INCREDIBLE !!!👽I want to believe^_^
Hi, I play sax and I was wondering about the way your able to flow with melody from one chord to the next in the chromatic exercise that you shared.when moving between chords are there any particular notes that you'll choose first for the upcoming chord? I'm doing chromatic enclosures around chord notes for arpeggio target notes and so far I'm ending up just chromatically adding notes hat lead to to the nearest chord tone of the next chord ( thats nearest).and even though I'm hearing the chord change in my melody, Im not making it a fluid transition and I'm looking for "flow". I sound like every chord is telling it's own seperate story.
Is there any particular thing you think I should work on to connect my chords better? 25:11 . In the video an inversion is mentioned as being chromatically connected to the next chord. I know what chord inversions are but how would I connect an inversion chromatically to "flow" to the next chord?
Any constructive feedback would really, really helpful.
Not a lot of practice time over here😅.I'm working on it 😒
The way I do it is basically wherever you land try to shift chromatically into the next note, and then occasionally maybe think "arpeggio shift" for one or two of the changes. By and large though, I think just landing where you land and then moving up chromatically but then completely changing the arc of the line. I think what this allows you to do is to anticipate exactly what's about to happen geometrically, but then as you do it more you start thinking stuff like....*well you know I could try a bunch of these intervals on the next chord shift* etc. ...
i wasn't choosing one arpeggio in relation to the next. I was too busy thinking about each chord tone! I'm starting to see a bigger picture now.
Thankyou for the reply!
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I like what you say about the notion of epic or grandiosity. If it is for epic's sake it can border on pretentiousness, and like you say, have a kind of adolescence and become the opposite of impressive.
Like the final notes in Bach's Prelude piece in the cello suite, it's every note that leads up to it, which makes the final notes so pleasing. Or the final note in a Whitney Houston song, which is only epic because of the notes leading up to it. If every note was 'epic' the final note wouldn't have the same meaning, and the whole song could be boring. It's usually the artists who enjoy themselves who end up being epic without trying so much.
Yeah exactly, but also just looking down the line at all of the stuff that came before.... What's happening nowadays in the guitar community is exactly what happened in the mid to late '80s.... I'm not really saying anything is better than anything else it's just that there's kind of this disingenuousness going on, and people are doing things based on how bombastic it is rather than staying true to any type of actual artistic vision or concept. The analogy is the same with songwriting, I think where they say if you want to be a better songwriter don't write the lyrics about yourself....
Yeah, there's so much going on in the world to write about, and writing is meant to make people think about life, but people can get caught up in writing about themselves or only playing to be bombastic and trying to be epic and it becomes tiresome and uninteresting. Two of the best guitarists in history could be like Hendrix and Dimebag Darrell, but they didn't show off much if taking the songs 'Wind Cries Mary' or 'Cemetery Gates' as examples, these songs have just the right amount of notes to compliment the songs.
I like the analogy with the auctioneers, lol, that's funny. :'')
Love you
What tone!
Dang, what happened to the Salen strandberg ? (Sorry if I missed a video about the topic)
Sold it
@@TorySlusherWhy did you sell it? You had me wanting to get one (Sweetwater =$42 a month for 48 months), but those new squire affinities look good for $249, and it looks like the squire works for you! 🧐squire $249, Strandberg $2000?
Superb lines, Superb Skills!
I just invested in a GP-10. (Thanks to you lol) 15% off at MF. So here's my question: As a fellow Tele player (I have 3) Did you have to do anything special to the bridge to mount it? Is it velcro or something else? I don't have the ashtray bridge so I think it looks like your situation. Seems out of place that the wire would come out the top and not the bottom of the bridge? Hopefully I'll get it within the week. As a Bossa Nova lover, that split bass for the lower 2 strings will be very useful. Now I have to sell that Boss OC-5.
Yes actually, I had to drill a hole in the middle bridge down near the bottom of the bridge pickup, but once you do that you can screw the thing in and it's solid as a rock, although you might have to put a shim in the neck joint like I did. I just cut out a piece of pick guard instead of wood like people normally use.
Wow !
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Well that's the craziest shit I've seen in a long time.
Tabs are a good way to get people on Patreon.
Noted
Now I would do patreon with her!
You Best !