Don't Trust 'The REAL BOOK'
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- Guitar Tip #18: Don't trust 'The Real Book'. | By Adam Levy
'The Real Book' perfectly imperfect, but it's still a good reference.
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Hi Adam, I don't know if you are still checking up on these or not. But I have just discovered them (2020) and wanted to thank you for this incredible resource you have left for us all here!
Just wanted to add from my own experience in playing with bands that you can have two people playing the same thing, get them to sing back to you what they are playing and you can have two very different interpretations of the same piece, call it your own musical filter maybe, where different people put different emphasis on the things they find important in music. Anyway just my two cents. Cheers from the UK! Hope you are staying safe.
Thom
Thanks so much, Thomas, and welcome. It's so true -- different people emphasize different things. Considering the age of most of the songs in 'The Real Book' ("All the Things You Are," for example, is from 1939), there's been quite a bit of interpretation and re-imagining over the years.
The sentiment of your video is spot on! Music is about the ear, the feel and the energy between performers and their audience. As someone who's new to Jazz having access to so much content and backing tracks (if you get the usb) has been so useful in developing my playing. I think if you stick your nose into a book at a show and sight read the changes then you're not really 'feeling it' so I can see why you'd want to discourage that sort of thing.
Cool technique at the end, it's late at night but looking forward to trying, sounds really cool.
Love the intro!
As a previous jazz guitar major, wish I'd talked to you before they handed me this book...ha!
Jazz-guitarist Peter O'Mara has a GREAT version of Round Midnight on his album called "My Time". I think that he's one of the best Jazz-guitarists alive and more people should know about him. Great musician!
Hello Adam, all the best for the new year. Love your tips, but there's a serious hum on some of them (like this one), maybe from your amp ? cheers
Thanks, Mark Somers . Yeah-it's amp hum. I hadn't noticed it before, but it is pretty loud. I'll work on improving the sound in future episodes.
I read this online and I think it applies to the Real Book. This was discussing the chord progression and song Rhythm Changes....
" ....it should be noted that “Rhythm changes” evolved into a chord progression that was not exactly Gershwin’s. As was often the case with other songs, jazz musicians streamlined the progression, reducing it to a simpler, more improv-friendly harmonic framework. "
I think the Real Book can be seen as a streamlining of the songs of the classic era of songwriting, intended for those learning to play and NOT as a definitive version of any one song. Let's stop denigrating a very useful learning tool. One that I imagine taught MANY music students up to a point that they were able to criticize the tool that IF it wasn't around wouldn't know enough to know it's different than other renditions of any one song....ie biting the hand that feeds them.
Thanks for this. It's true: 'The Real Book' is a good starting point, and has been for two generations (or more) of players/students. My hope is that students - at any level - will strive to *hear* the music and not be overly reliant on charts of any kind. Jazz is mercurial by nature. Even if we focus on just one recording of a particular tune, the chord changes may not be 100% consistent throughout. Of course, each player/student learns to hear such things at their own pace, and 'The Real Book' can be a useful guide.
When Fretting a chord where the fifth and sixth string are fretted on the same fret. I have a wooden bridge on my guitar I moved the 6th closer to the 5th string by recutting the bridge with 3 corner file and moving 1/2 the distance to the 5th string. It makes fretting these 2 strings with the same finger easier. And I haven't noticed any difference in my playing.
Great lessons. I hope to make some progress on my instrument. Thank you for your efforts. You are one of my favorite guitarists and it is highly instructive to understand your thought process.
Note: There is a 60 cycle hum on the audio. You might already know this.
+Professor Hamamoto I know about the hum-thanks. That's why I mostly do acoustic tips now.
+Adam Levy Guitar Tips I like hearing you on your ES-335, so it's worth the hum. I'm not complaining. I've learned a lot already.
Great video. I am a recovering Real Book addict. I've been working on learning tunes by ear, which was very tedious and difficult at first, but is getting easier the more I do it. I have also found that making my own charts by ear is such a great learning experience. Ironically, once I've gone through that process, I rarely need to look at the chart anymore, because I've internalized the tune through the process of learning it that way.
Interesting that you chose Round Midnight as your example. That tune is so notorious for having different versions, even on different Monk recordings. (Not to mention Miles' versions!) So it's tough to say what the "correct" changes are. I'm trying to learn some of the common variations, and be able to adapt to what I'm hearing from my bandmates.
How do you handle it when your bandmates know a different versions of tunes?
Make a chart with the changes you like and ask everyone to play what's on the chart.
Tune,-Dex cards were the first leadsheets.
Good Leadsheets have room to write notes such as alternate changes.
Crazy tone. What amp were you using!?
I don't remember, but it was likely my Supro Coronado 1690T. I use flat-wound strings, so that's part of the tone as well.
I know you say I shouldn't trust one 100%, but should I still have one of these for reference?
Uncle Squid's Broken Cassette Yes!
Adam Levy Guitar Tips ok. Thanks for the quick response. How's the six edition on amazon? Should I get that or should I look for an illegal edition?
Get whatever you can. The main thing is: Start working on playing those songs -- and play them in as many keys as you can (not just the published key).
Truth be told, ink and paper or symbols on screen are no substitute for the ear. In my beginning years of learning, there was so much wrong info in the guitar mags. I would never refer a student to the guitar mags. Trust your ear. As far as the internet goes, there's gold in them hills. You just have to go through lots of rocks. Some tabs help you hone in on the song. Also watching the original artist play their song is the most helpful.
I can't fret that chord. Fingers too small.
The monster book is much better IMHO.
No, you trust the Real Book - and it's your responsibility to find detail. The Beatles complete didn't give me the "oringinal" picking pattern, and after one play through - I go to the recording and learned in 15 minutes with the White Album. Same for Led Zeppelin Complete, I had been working on the sheet music and about 3 days later, it came on the radio while I was with guitar - learned the intro in real time. I was 14 then, I'm 57 now. Same on James Taylor, like the Real Book, you learn 3 JT tune picking patterns and you'll have them all. Just different string order - this is what the Real Book is about. In fact, if one just starts learning lots of the tunes in the Real Book - they won't need it as much later, because it gives the harmonic progressions and you just learn them in all keys. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP MY 6th EDITION REAL BOOK.
JIMMY BRUNO Hates the Real Book
It's easy to hate!
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Monk tunes are a bit of a trap, Monk's changes don't nessicissarilly work for others