"What are ya doin"? The same thing I've asked for decades and still don't know. Only one Ted, one Lenny, one Ed Bickert...all geniuses above the pale of we regular folk. And thank goodness for that! Ted's Brain is so large, his love for music and chords will inspire me until the end.
Hi Cathy, what a privilege must have been to have performed with Ted! You're both absolutely brilliant together in the videos I've seen here... I wish I could have been at some of those gigs so bad! Stay blessed. 🙏🏻
Ted would throw in some chicago style blues chords/licks in a multi-key progression just to open my thinking of what is possible..most of us can play a progression perfect..but cant seem to HEAR what else is possible..after years of going over his "tear out" sheets..I have been able to hear what "else" is there..thank you Ted Greene
Even though Ted checked out way too early, he is and always will be, an absolute genius...I have only really just got into Ted, but man, I love this guy. i have read his book by Barbara and got all the other genius books he wrote..I already really miss him...
Please forgive my chatter! After all, it was from my private lesson with Ted and I believe he would not have played all that cool stuff without our interaction as such. To put this into context, my lesson starts out as having Ted help me cop some changes from Lee Ritenour's version of "Dindi" for my band chart. Check out "A Twist of Jobim" for the song! As the lesson progresses, it becomes a preview to his planned book on American Harmony. Thanks REM1956 for explaining the obvious.
I see all the papers, videos, etc in the background and wonder if that's MCP volume II and so on. By the way, I've been working on MCP once again as well as the Single Note Soloing books and I'm loving it.
I was just thinking the same thing. Ted gets cut off in mid sentence a few times. Still yet, I have to thank this guy for sharing the footage. It's important.
It's an L5 he is playing I think. As someone who has had significant wrist and back problems I am always looking for a good way to support the instrument . So my question is how is this guitar supported - I can't see a strap, is there some kind of cushion arrangement behind it? Wonderful playing as usual from Ted
I think I can see his heel supporting the lower bout? I don’t find them that big a guitar compared to, say, a dreadnought acoustic. Modern ones are surprisingly heavy though.
The term "rock 'n roll" was a euphemism for the word "fuck", so that's certainly not a new concept. Always a pleasure to hear Ted play ..... lovely chord voicings here.
@@Danielvanderpoll If you read the biography(chord chemistry),Barbara mentions a few books that were started and never finished.Magazine articles were also problematic.
He asks - "What are you doing?" Ted responds with "American harmony" and you can see he was about to explain in more detail... BUT buddy has to interrupt with his comments about emails. Doesn't even wait for a complete answer to his question... which I would have loved to hear, as i'm sure others would have as well. Thanks for the video(s) though, it is appreciated. Very generous act in sharing them. :0)
1:54 to 2:11 What's happening there? All those chords have something in common - I can't articulate what it is. I would intensely appreciate an explanation.
ted once explained to me that the chords to Nirvana's Lithium had never shown up before in western music and that he genuinely liked the music. ted may seem conservative in this video - most likely placating to this guy's nerdy and simple minded take on rock music - but Ted was actually a uniquely cool guy.
well im a student and i have some teachers, and i stay in hypnose when theyre talking, but by the otherside i give some classes 2 and its funny, how sometimes i got some students that spent they own money tryin to convince me that they know something instead of listen of im tryin to say. any OK, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO DUDE lol, yeah ur right
@mikesomething He is teaching by example. The student is asking questions that Ted is not only answering, but is demonstrating his answers on the guitar. He was one of the greatest teachers of all time. I think YOU are showing off. You are showing your ignorance.
As much as Ted Greene is a hero of mine, I have to disagree with his sentiments regarding rock music. Not that he isn't spot on about rock audiences, who in general can be very rowdy. It's that I don't think this rowdiness is a reason to not listen to the music. I grew up during the grunge era, and as a 14 year old kid was listening to Nirvana religiously before I'd ever heard of Wes or Bird. But I got out of grunge within two years. Initially, being stepped on by two guys with a combined weight of 500 lbs in a mosh pit had something to do with it. But as I got more into jazz and classical music as a listener *and* a musician, I revisited the music I liked prior to listening to those genres. I found that I still liked a lot of 60s rock and blues (this is still true today), but when I looked back on grunge and I asked myself "do I really like the music?". The answer was "no". It had nothing to do with those mosh freaks in the end. It had to do with the fact that I was bored listening to Nirvana. I had no interest in what they were doing musically. When I started to think about this some 20 years ago, I realized that most Americans don't listen to music: they listen to an audience. They get into music not because of its inherent qualities or components, but because they want to belong to the group it's marketed to. I can't relate to that notion. I love Doc Watkins and Chet Atkins, and this despite not having grown up in the south and never owning a cowboy hat. Same is true of funk and r&b: I love Sly & the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield despite not having grown up in a black inner city. All of these audiences have pretenses that interfere with the music. If you listen to those pretenses rather than the music itself, you're in for trouble. So it may be true that rock music has the effect on people that Greene notes, but I don't think it's because of something inherent in the music. I can listen to Zeppelin or Hendrix with some degree of detachment; headbanging or violence isn’t an automatic reaction to them. Just because the idiot next to you at the rock show is behaving like a moron, that doesn't mean the music is telling him to do that. Sometimes an idiot is just an idiot.
If you look at society before the 1960s when rock really caught on, there was not so much death from drug overdoses and the associated other problems. Rock seems to cradle all that destruction. It wasn't in our society as much before.
figuring out cobains music i discovered it was as though he used chords that sounded wrong intentionally and i knew at that point he was creating progressions i had never heard before i think that is why ted mentions him, he was playing new progressions no one ever used before
amen brother. a fucking men. can't stand that kind of stuff. one of many things i've learned from these videos is to shut the fuck up when im in lessons. thanks ted!
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Love his train of thought here. And what a player. He may have been our most all around accomplished guitarist to date. Incredible range.
"What are ya doin"? The same thing I've asked for decades and still don't know. Only one Ted, one Lenny, one Ed Bickert...all geniuses above the pale of we regular folk. And thank goodness for that! Ted's Brain is so large, his love for music and chords will inspire me until the end.
Thank God Ted allowed his students to film these incredible lessons! He was so far ahead of most folks.Maybe all folks!
and by the way, this footage is sooooo beautiful! Thanks for posting! What a love, what a great artist. My heart is stirred.
Hi Cathy, what a privilege must have been to have performed with Ted!
You're both absolutely brilliant together in the videos I've seen here...
I wish I could have been at some of those gigs so bad!
Stay blessed. 🙏🏻
@@tonyjasilbrazz362 Thanks Tony! You're sweet. I loved Ted...he was a beautiful soul.
What a blessing it is to see these glimpses of a true genius!!!
Thank You (-:
Man this guy is a genius!!!
Wish he did that book he was talking about :(
what a character, hilarious and brilliant at the same time -- as his guitar talks alongside him...
Ted was truly amazing ! When the guy said "What are you doing" I'm sure Ted heard that every single day
Thank you for recording this.
Thank you for sharing this with us all
Ted would throw in some chicago style blues chords/licks in a multi-key progression just to open my thinking of what is possible..most of us can play a progression perfect..but cant seem to HEAR what else is possible..after years of going over his "tear out" sheets..I have been able to hear what "else" is there..thank you Ted Greene
Ted doesn't seem to mind the interaction at all. I believe this is a tape of Nick's lesson, not a recital. It's his dime and his time.
this is awesome, to see some humor!
I think the Q&A element is just fine and that Ted likes/ needs a little verbal prodding.
Excellent videos!
Plain awesome, tnx for sharing this vid!!!
That's a good musician. Never underestimates any genre, artist and etc.
The bit he does "demonstrating" the supposedly French style is hilarious!!!
Even though Ted checked out way too early, he is and always will be, an absolute genius...I have only really just got into Ted, but man, I love this guy. i have read his book by Barbara and got all the other genius books he wrote..I already really miss him...
yes,Master ted the genius pushing us to improve as always
Priceless!
Please forgive my chatter! After all, it was from my private lesson with Ted and I believe he would not have played all that cool stuff without our interaction as such. To put this into context, my lesson starts out as having Ted help me cop some changes from Lee Ritenour's version of "Dindi" for my band chart. Check out "A Twist of Jobim" for the song! As the lesson progresses, it becomes a preview to his planned book on American Harmony. Thanks REM1956 for explaining the obvious.
DId you ever get an idea of some non american sounds?
So glad you did.
Yes thank you so much!
You were asking all the questions I'd ask! No worries!
Love it 😺
Awesome !
I see all the papers, videos, etc in the background and wonder if that's MCP volume II and so on.
By the way, I've been working on MCP once again as well as the Single Note Soloing books and I'm loving it.
I was just thinking the same thing. Ted gets cut off in mid sentence a few times. Still yet, I have to thank this guy for sharing the footage. It's important.
yeah! round the world with ted greene!
Did this book about harmony in America ever come out?
0:00 and on... Name of that song please?
I've heard Metheny say something similar about Cobain. Interesting.
I like that he mentions Kurt Cobain's chord progressions and I agree with him. They are interesting
Yes, i think he was hinting at the bridge of Teen Spirit. That dissonant "yeah" part.
Does anyone know if the book he's talking about ever got released or if anything from it is anywhere to view? It does sound interesting!
It's an L5 he is playing I think. As someone who has had significant wrist and back problems I am always looking for a good way to support the instrument . So my question is how is this guitar supported - I can't see a strap, is there some kind of cushion arrangement behind it? Wonderful playing as usual from Ted
I think I can see his heel supporting the lower bout? I don’t find them that big a guitar compared to, say, a dreadnought acoustic. Modern ones are surprisingly heavy though.
Check noodling(other ted movie), i think it is a major diatonic with flath 7 or so
Was the book that he talked about ever written?
The term "rock 'n roll" was a euphemism for the word "fuck", so that's certainly not a new concept. Always a pleasure to hear Ted play ..... lovely chord voicings here.
Did he ever wrote that book ? ??
i'd love to hear more about the book Ted said he was working on. did he finish it? or could an unfinished version ever be released.
Such a shame he never wrote that book....it would have been unputdownable !
Truth and great word bud 👊
Where is the book ? Even the start ? He said he had done 3 years at this point !!
@@Danielvanderpoll If you read the biography(chord chemistry),Barbara mentions a few books that were started and never finished.Magazine articles were also problematic.
Always thought the same way about french music, seriously!!:))
cool
@mikesomething Thanks for the super duper cool tips.
He asks - "What are you doing?" Ted responds with "American harmony" and you can see he was about to explain in more detail... BUT buddy has to interrupt with his comments about emails. Doesn't even wait for a complete answer to his question... which I would have loved to hear, as i'm sure others would have as well. Thanks for the video(s) though, it is appreciated. Very generous act in sharing them. :0)
Talent, modesty, soul. Beauty.
1:54 to 2:11 What's happening there? All those chords have something in common - I can't articulate what it is. I would intensely appreciate an explanation.
Interesting take on rock music
does anyone know where the music at the begining of each videos are from?
joe putte I've been wondering the same thing.
what guitar is that?
Will anyone out there try to research This? The Book of Ted Green is Another book of Mozart A Beauty of my life
lots of accordians. classic!
@Dudleyrulz whoops just saw the response to the same question asked previously.
ted once explained to me that the chords to Nirvana's Lithium had never shown up before in western music and that he genuinely liked the music.
ted may seem conservative in this video - most likely placating to this guy's nerdy and simple minded take on rock music - but Ted was actually a uniquely cool guy.
@MokshaIS "Um, American harmony" :]
@jazzman3071 no :(
'What are you doing?' My question exactly.
well im a student and i have some teachers, and i stay in hypnose when theyre talking, but by the otherside i give some classes 2 and its funny, how sometimes i got some students that spent they own money tryin to convince me that they know something instead of listen of im tryin to say. any OK, THANKS FOR THE VIDEO DUDE lol, yeah ur right
anyone know the name of that cobain song he was playing?
Pretty sure he was taking a stab at 'Aneurysm'. Power chords: F#, C, B, A...
@mikesomething He is teaching by example. The student is asking questions that Ted is not only answering, but is demonstrating his answers on the guitar. He was one of the greatest teachers of all time. I think YOU are showing off. You are showing your ignorance.
As much as Ted Greene is a hero of mine, I have to disagree with his sentiments regarding rock music. Not that he isn't spot on about rock audiences, who in general can be very rowdy. It's that I don't think this rowdiness is a reason to not listen to the music.
I grew up during the grunge era, and as a 14 year old kid was listening to Nirvana religiously before I'd ever heard of Wes or Bird. But I got out of grunge within two years. Initially, being stepped on by two guys with a combined weight of 500 lbs in a mosh pit had something to do with it. But as I got more into jazz and classical music as a listener *and* a musician, I revisited the music I liked prior to listening to those genres. I found that I still liked a lot of 60s rock and blues (this is still true today), but when I looked back on grunge and I asked myself "do I really like the music?". The answer was "no". It had nothing to do with those mosh freaks in the end. It had to do with the fact that I was bored listening to Nirvana. I had no interest in what they were doing musically.
When I started to think about this some 20 years ago, I realized that most Americans don't listen to music: they listen to an audience. They get into music not because of its inherent qualities or components, but because they want to belong to the group it's marketed to.
I can't relate to that notion. I love Doc Watkins and Chet Atkins, and this despite not having grown up in the south and never owning a cowboy hat. Same is true of funk and r&b: I love Sly & the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield despite not having grown up in a black inner city. All of these audiences have pretenses that interfere with the music. If you listen to those pretenses rather than the music itself, you're in for trouble.
So it may be true that rock music has the effect on people that Greene notes, but I don't think it's because of something inherent in the music. I can listen to Zeppelin or Hendrix with some degree of detachment; headbanging or violence isn’t an automatic reaction to them. Just because the idiot next to you at the rock show is behaving like a moron, that doesn't mean the music is telling him to do that. Sometimes an idiot is just an idiot.
If you look at society before the 1960s when rock really caught on, there was not so much death from drug overdoses and the associated other problems. Rock seems to cradle all that destruction. It wasn't in our society as much before.
@@RobertPearson777 It wasn’t, or it wasn’t promoted?
God .......
Kurt cobain was a musical genius. Drug addict, sure, but a musical
Gem and perhaps even a little bit prophetic
figuring out cobains music i discovered it was as though he used chords that sounded wrong intentionally and i knew at that point he was creating progressions i had never heard before
i think that is why ted mentions him, he was playing new progressions no one ever used before
i think we can all agree that nick stasinos is a nincompoop.
What are you doing? lol how many times must you have asked that?
Circle of fifths.
amen brother. a fucking men. can't stand that kind of stuff. one of many things i've learned from these videos is to shut the fuck up when im in lessons. thanks ted!
ur with greene and want to know how to sound?please stop talking.