cool ideas. Having studied counterpoint this past school year, I've been thinking about how I might some of those ideas. This is a good place to start, thanks for posting!
Hi Glenn! I am working on it this month! It should be out in the next few weeks. I'm actually going to have to buy a new camera. Thanks for watching the videos and for being a musician.
***** Hey Ben. Thanks for the response... There's a lot of good info you share on your channel. Very cool of you! Not everyone can access the information you give, or afford to pay for lessons or tuition at college etc. I tell my students and guitar playing friends to check out your channel (along with a few other favorites). I've subscribed myself. Your series on Giant Steps gives a solid foundation for getting to know any tune. Especially for those without prior experience or well structured practice habits. Thanks again for all you share. Blessings! :0) -Glenn
Glenn Michael Thompson Wow, thank you! I really appreciate that. I feel like it's hard to make an informed decision about whether or not to invest in music school or lessons if you don't know a bit about what's out there. So I am very glad that you say these lessons are helping people without prior experience. I wish you many great jams and thank you so much! -Ben
Great Lesson! Thanks so much for making these practical exercises to help break open this very opaque subject. I do have one question: Is there any particular advantage to the fingerings you've chosen? I find myself wanting to move some notes to the 2nd string instead of stretching. I was wondering if you think doing so would be cheating the sound or the techniques being developed in the exercise? Thanks again. I'm going to check out more from your channel! ((subscribing........... NOW!)
The challenge is to fit together two melodic lines into a cohesive whole. Although trial and error sometimes works, you might prefer to try several more formalized approaches which involve counter subject, call and response, and variations. These are just to name a few.
The big question about guitar improvisation is like, say Scotty beamed you down to a gig with the Hot Club de Paris, or Tony Williams lifetime or the Aristocrats and you didn't see the charts in advance, how would you improvise a solo by ear alone?
Personally, i would listen, then put my finger in a string, sliding to the note i want to hear, or going there directly if i know where it is. Now i know that perfect ear is probably just musical memory. I'm starting to think that almost anyone who actually loves to listen to music has an untrained relative ear, at least. If he remembers the song and can hit the exact fq it was, it's perfect ear (untrained). It's a big myth this talent stuff, we all could sing the A note that sounds when someone hang out the phone, without any need to hear it more. If you have developed your own creativity, then everything should flow in the right way. But hey, what i say is valid if you like the music you are improvising with. In sone contexts i just wouldn't want to, is a very personal thing to be espontaneous, it's absurd to fake it
Where did you get a Jem with an Inlay pattern like that? dots and the tree of life? What model is that Ibanez? I have never seen inlays like that on a Jem.
Awesome counter point ideas and your example sounds really damn awesome! Also, I have the exact same guitar :) Have you got it plugged into your pc and using software for the effects?
I like how the video on counterpoint has two parts.
That’s pretty inventive
Try playing them at the same time
Just had my counterpoint exam two days ago, so now I can watch this without too many rules having over my head!
The rules are super useful, but not for this :) Good luck with your studies and jam on!
Ben!! Your channel is gonna blow up bro. Keep uploading. Peace from southern California
Thank you for making these videos.
Subscriber #10k! Your teaching style is very effective and I plan to utilize your methods to the fullest. Happy Guitarin'!
Woo! Thank you, that's cool!
THANK YOU so much for providing transcriptions. This is a very cool and useful concept!
Very interesting stuff, thank you!
Very informative. Thank you.
cool ideas. Having studied counterpoint this past school year, I've been thinking about how I might some of those ideas. This is a good place to start, thanks for posting!
you are not fake indeed you a genius and legend
Excellent exercises! I'll apply these to my piano playing.
Very interesting lesson!
Cool vid definitely going to do this
Thank you
Some cool ideas.... is there a part 2? I can't seem to find it... :0/
Hi Glenn! I am working on it this month! It should be out in the next few weeks. I'm actually going to have to buy a new camera. Thanks for watching the videos and for being a musician.
*****
Hey Ben. Thanks for the response... There's a lot of good info you share on your channel. Very cool of you! Not everyone can access the information you give, or afford to pay for lessons or tuition at college etc. I tell my students and guitar playing friends to check out your channel (along with a few other favorites). I've subscribed myself. Your series on Giant Steps gives a solid foundation for getting to know any tune. Especially for those without prior experience or well structured practice habits. Thanks again for all you share. Blessings! :0)
-Glenn
Glenn Michael Thompson Wow, thank you! I really appreciate that. I feel like it's hard to make an informed decision about whether or not to invest in music school or lessons if you don't know a bit about what's out there. So I am very glad that you say these lessons are helping people without prior experience. I wish you many great jams and thank you so much!
-Ben
What's the piece at the end of the video? It's probably the coolest thing I've heard in a while!
Wicked sound that you ended up with...:-)))
Great Lesson! Thanks so much for making these practical exercises to help break open this very opaque subject. I do have one question: Is there any particular advantage to the fingerings you've chosen? I find myself wanting to move some notes to the 2nd string instead of stretching. I was wondering if you think doing so would be cheating the sound or the techniques being developed in the exercise?
Thanks again. I'm going to check out more from your channel! ((subscribing........... NOW!)
Cool stuff, was already doing some of this with out really knowing it, but this video was great on explaining it. Thanks
The challenge is to fit together two melodic lines into a cohesive whole. Although trial and error sometimes
works, you might prefer to try several more formalized approaches which involve counter subject, call and response, and variations. These are just to name a few.
why are you such a genius?!?!
That intro was sick!
wtf58 Thank you, I'm glad you dug it!
Hi, very nice :-), greetings, Mike
The big question about guitar improvisation is like, say Scotty beamed you down to a gig with the Hot Club de Paris, or Tony Williams lifetime or the Aristocrats and you didn't see the charts in advance, how would you improvise a solo by ear alone?
Personally, i would listen, then put my finger in a string, sliding to the note i want to hear, or going there directly if i know where it is. Now i know that perfect ear is probably just musical memory. I'm starting to think that almost anyone who actually loves to listen to music has an untrained relative ear, at least. If he remembers the song and can hit the exact fq it was, it's perfect ear (untrained). It's a big myth this talent stuff, we all could sing the A note that sounds when someone hang out the phone, without any need to hear it more. If you have developed your own creativity, then everything should flow in the right way. But hey, what i say is valid if you like the music you are improvising with. In sone contexts i just wouldn't want to, is a very personal thing to be espontaneous, it's absurd to fake it
that first one sounds super dramatic. expecting a big legato downward at the end like "aaaarggghhhhh"
this was awesome!
Where did you get a Jem with an Inlay pattern like that? dots and the tree of life? What model is that Ibanez? I have never seen inlays like that on a Jem.
Awesome counter point ideas and your example sounds really damn awesome!
Also, I have the exact same guitar :)
Have you got it plugged into your pc and using software for the effects?
Lex van der Woude Nice! Go JEM555! I am using the program Guitar Rig through Reaper for my sounds.
Yesh we talking about the hip way
Bach was hip until it was taught to the college guys
Lost your wire cutter?
A lot of people prefer to leave the strings long like that.
Elvis Costello it's like a wacky hairstyle for your guitar
What's that thinger-mo-bobby on the guitar right behind the bridge/saddles? Some kinda midi pickup or sum'n?
correct
Thank Dr. Levin this inspriration genius =D
I don't hear it as any kind of counterpoint though, I hear it as a new melody made of all the notes,
''couterpoint...wonderful...torturing''
Sweet child o' mine goes Progressive Rock
The improv bits reminded me of Ratatat, cool stuff dude.
Neat af
Too good. :0
Fortunately enough, that's not a crime.
I don't think many guitarist understand what counterpoint melody is. This is 100% NOT counterpoint!
Ahh.. I came for wonderful, dense college student torturing counterpoint rules...
Oh well 😢 🤣
you look like the four year old that gave himself a beard and eyebrows with his moms eyeliner but your a musical genius
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Non of what your doing is counterpoint on guitar
James Jacobs non of it?
@@karsaurlong Don't listen to a jerk.
Good lesson but my God, clip those strings. When I see people with strings like that it makes me think they're not as smart as they think they are.