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Whit Smith
Registrace 21. 11. 2006
Swing guitarist and founder of the Hot Club of Cowtown
Lots of guitar tutorial clips for Swing, Jazz and Western swing styles. Vintage and custom guitar and amplifier gear too!
Lots of guitar tutorial clips for Swing, Jazz and Western swing styles. Vintage and custom guitar and amplifier gear too!
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Cool guitar drill for swing jazz soloing and intros
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A musical drill good for right and left hand dexterity, recognizing inversions and implementing diminished. Use in improvising solos or as a basis for harmonizing with other instruments.
Back In Your Own Backyard swing guitar lesson
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From the Billie Holliday version with added ideas to use.
Douce Ambiance: Django Reinhardt: minor study
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Swing guitar lesson. Ideas for playing in minor over the Django Reinhardt song, Douce Ambiance. Donations welcome :) Venmo; whit-smith-9 Paypal: whitsmithmusic@huongqugmailcom Personal online lessons available... Thank you Whit
Moving chords with drills Faded Love
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Inspired by Eldon Shamblins guitar style of moving chord voicings around over simple progressions to dress the song up a little. great for western swing, swing jazz, fiddle tunes etc.
Honeysuckle Rose for swing guitar
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Basic chords with some movement. Then a brief example of the melody. A solo demonstration and last a nice triads drill.
Anything Goes . Basic chords for Swing Guitar
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Cole Porter song. I took this from the 1956 Frank Sinatra version. I only took the basic tune and not the introduction verse. The bridge is in a second key {C}, and the song uses a unique modulation to return to the original key of Ab. Learning the melody and keeping it in mind is critical for any tune and will help navigate through unusual chord changes. Good luck!
It Was Just One Of Those Things {swing guitar lesson}
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Basic swing guitar chords to the Cole Porter classic! I am basing this version on the recording by Django Reinhardt from Rome 1949.
CHEEK TO CHEEK basic guitar chords
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Basic swing guitar chords to play Cheek To Cheek.
Cheek to Cheek Guitar piece
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An arrangement to work with as well as basic chords for swing guitar.
When You're Smiling Swing Guitar Lesson.
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Basic chords for swing guitar over the song, When You're Smiling. Based on the Billie Holliday recording from the late 1930's with Freddy Green, Lester Young and Teddy Wilson in the band.
Pennies from Heaven, chords for swing guitar.
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Pennies from Heaven, chords for swing guitar.
Elko,NV. 2020. Whit Smith teaches Streets of Laredo.
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Elko,NV. 2020. Whit Smith teaches Streets of Laredo.
Whit Smith, Western swing music class intro: Elko 2020 .1 of 3 videos
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Whit Smith, Western swing music class intro: Elko 2020 .1 of 3 videos
If I Had You. Whits Guitar Journal 6/26/19
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If I Had You. Whits Guitar Journal 6/26/19
Great vid. Please, what is the lovely sounding guitar, strings and pick? Thanks. Edit just looked elsewhere it's an L5!!
There's two types of guitarists. Those who use their thumb on the strings, and those who don't. You do it the right way, and it sounds great.
Whit!!! Your intervals are blowing my mind. More of this please, thanks (Sean Grimes).
So well put together. Big fan of your playing. A thank you!
I woke from a dream where I was playing this song, and a burning desire to learn a version like this. And here it is, wow! Terrific lesson, that’ll keep me busy a good while. Thanks, Whit! 10:36
Great for us less accomplished players, you let us pick and choose
What a lovely sound
Hi, Do you do online lessons?
Hi. Yes. All the time. You can email me if you like. Whitsmithmusic@gmail.com Thank you!
Thank you. I have cheated for so long. My cheating worked pretty well for some time. I will try to do better.
Great Lesson .Thank Whit
nice lesson
Everything iper clear as always! Thanks a lot!!!
You’ve got a great style of teaching Whit, I hope you do more of these someday.
Ive been aware of and looking for away to start learning triads....I think if found it....thanks for this lesson....I subscribed....
Thanks Whitt! I had a great time fooling around with this today!
LOL! Stairway to Heaven.
PLEASE don't stop!
You couldn't goof up IF YOU TIRED!
Cool moves Whit! Love how that Line descends throughout the progression.
You teach swing guitar in an interesting way that I'm amazed by your talent. Hope to see more of these videos.
Wow, these are some very sweet ideas. Thanks, Whit.
This is SOOOOO. informative and helpful to my amateur performing career!!!!!! BRAVO!
Whit! This is the best YT discovery of the year.
Great job! Thanks!
Whit Smith, I come back to your videos a lot. I find your conceptualization and your drills really helpful. Thanks!
Swell stuff!
Love it!
This is a really cool video and you help explain how to relate chords and the cooler things. ..thanks for posting...from Perth
Gorgeous!
Love it! Time to practise! These are great videos, very helpful and lots of fun. Thank you
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lovely, thank you. love all the variations. I'm playing in duo and trio so these variations are really valuable. thanks again!
You are a really good player ,but it was like an algebra lesson to a struggling basic math student..however I am sure to better players it was very helpful..enjoyed your music
Whit, I have commented on another of your fine videos how much I (we) appreciate your no-nonsense approach to teaching. I don't think I have ever replayed anyone's video lessons as much as I have yours! Simple question really, can you tell me what that instrument is? I can tell it's very old and probably a Gibson product but can't identify it for sure. I have an array of instruments with different voices. The closest I have to that sound is a 1937 Gretsch Hawaiian. It's very old and does not lend itself to much adjustment so it's a little hard to move smoothly along the fingerboard. (no truss rod even!) I am searching for an acoustic instrument (no pickup) that has a nice rich voice like that with good projection for small club gigs. Probably more than I can afford but would like to know just the same. Thanks again for your excellent work.
Thanks for your interest and your message. The guitar in the video is a Gibson L-5. Its from 1929 but has been refinished to natural and all the hardware was replaced. Best wishes Whit
@@stringdevil A beauty for sure. Not in my price range unfortunately. My luthier is an Eastman dealer and suggested their AR 610 CE. I have it home with me now. Bought it after playing it less than one hour at his shop. Plays like a dream, sounds like something punching way above it's weight and weighs less than 7 pounds. Did a little set up work on the bridge but the intonation, neck relief and rod adjustment are right on the money. I've been impressed with Eastman's instruments. I also own an Eastman mandolin and their solid body single cut SB59. The L5 is a desert island dream. Someday maybe...... You take good care of her now! Thanks for getting back.
Great Stuff ! Thanks so much for adding to my knowledge of the use of triads in playing melodies !
Thank you for putting this up
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The best Tea for Two guitar lesson here on CZcams, WTG! 😊🎼🎸🎵👍
This sounds so nice. Im new to ghis and learning, and have some questions: In a-part: what turnaround is that? Is it typical swing or is this western swing? In b-part: those dim an min walk ups, how do i know if they are appropriate? Or are you thinking: 'harmonic correct walk up' and then ii-V7 back walking down. Or you just do what feels nice hehe 😅
Excellent!
Whit Smith’s Chordination
Just an odd question here, have you ever heard of Postman`s Sack? You make my feet taping for AGES after I view any of your videos.
Holy crap your amazing!!!
Fantastic lesson. This is the stuff i grew up hearing in New Orleans Louisiana. Also relatives were a big influence in introducing me to Texas Swing. Thank you so much! Vince James
Tks whit. A very informative lesson. It's wonderful that you share your knowledge. Swing in many forms is many peoples favorite music.
2:16 Ab - Ab6 - Abmaj7- G7 Cm - Cm - Dbm6 - Dbm6 F7 - F7 - Cm7 - F7 Ab - Cbdim - Cm7 - F7 Ab - Ab6 - Abmaj7- G7 Cm - Cm - Dbm6 - Dbm6 F7 - F7 - F7 - F7 Ab - F7 - Ab - A7 Dm - Dm - A7 - A7 Dm7 - Dm7 - G7 C7- C7 - C7 - C7 F7 -> -> -> F7 Ab - Ab6 - Abmaj7- G7(E3) Cm(A3) - CmR3(A6) - Cdim(A3) - Dbm6(A6) F7 - F7 - F7 - F7 Ab - Cbdim - Cm7 - F7
Dang, I just love watching/learning from ya!
I love Leon Redbone's version. I'm not able to play at present (played 30+ yrs; spinal injury 17 yrs ago)... I'm just looking forward to watching you play! Thank you! 💯🎶 *I caught Leon it on Saturday Night (Live) Season 1. He played it with a tuba player. It was mighty fine. And OH how I wish I had my early 1960s Gibson ES125TC!! (You started playing. Lovely!!) playing.
Whit, I love your approach man, is there tab available for your arrangements?
god bless you and youtube, you are amazing!!!