It took me a long time to figure this out: if you really want to play jazz blues/bebop etc on a guitar ---- don't study guitar players. Study sax players. Sax players don't rely on boring fingerboard patterns like most guitar players. They really know their chords and scales, and especially things like guide tones, patterns, harmony, turns/grace notes/rhythmic devices/phrasing etc. You can't play sax well unless you learn that stuff, whereas on guitar a lot of players fake it by running their fingers up and down. I wish I'd known this a long time ago.
When I see videos like this it still blows my mind how much impact Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian had on jazz and bebop playing. There are VERY few players with such distinct note choices that just remind you of "them" every time you hear qualities of their playing. Awesome, awesome, video.
One of the best CZcams lessons ever.Your feel for phrasing is beautiful and vocal-like. You even take a breath before a phrase as a singer would. You're awesome!
I've been playing rock/pop/blues/country for 40 years and this is the best instructional video I've ever seen. Perhaps I just found it at the right time. Thanks Timothy.
Interesting. This reveals how stodgy and uptight a jazz education can be. My first semester as a performance major, my private instructor told me in one of our first lessons that I shouldn't bend strings, that wasn't idiomatic to jazz. Here we see Tim Lerch bend strings as he's playing bop influenced lines. Cool. Thank you for letting me out of that prison Mr Lerch. While we're at it, as much as I have loved Robben Ford, this guy is a whole other level. Any doubt? Watch some live videos of him playing and see what I mean.
You could have pointed out that horn players bend all the time and not just in semitones or tones but wild bends so not idiomatic to jazz at all but rather symptomatic of using heavy gauge flat wound strings with are difficult to bend.
Beautiful lesson. One other thing that’s so important to really get that vibe that I don’t think you mentioned is the liberal use of enclosures. For me those are a key element of the bebop sound.
Ya started talking about binary concepts and the bounce - I went oh no, then ya hit that pendulum swing thing - within seconds my blues playing took off like I'd never experienced. So after years of grind I'm over the moon, in fact I'm off to the moon. thanks a ton. Very happy from Devon, England.
Mr. Lerch......very good....straight forward analytical detail....thank God your explanations are concise...as opposed to those you can't stop talking! most appreciative for that.....very generous of you to share.
This is fantastic guidance. I love these ideas for getting more of a bebop sound in blues. I especially like the advice to work of the pulse on 1 and 3 to smooth out your lines. Love this!
Nice one! I think listening to Kenny Burrell and Grant Green regularly really helped me greatly with having tasteful bebop licks in a blues context firmly in my ear.
Hi Tim, Just wanted to say thank you for this video and your others, I've been watching them for a little while and feel encouraged by them. But this one in particular really broke some things down for me to where I may actually get some of this bebop into my blues playing. I've always wanted to be able to play jazz like this but always felt it was maybe just too late and too over my head. However this really encouraged me and I'm really going get into it and do my best to apply it to my blues playing. I just wanted to say thanks for the encouragement I've received because of your generosity to share your art. God bless you and yours 🙏 Sincerely, Kevin
Tim, man this is a great lesson as I always struggle with where I am trying to arrive and also where to land. going to the other video now and Thank you very much. Ps look forward to you and Walter teaming up again.
Very helpful video! Thanks so much for sharing your perspective. It occurred to me that when you talk about the 2 and 5 of 4, it's like some kind of "blues fractal" or blues within a blues, which then made me think of Gamelan music which is also crazy compelling and hypnotic! I needed that today. This will make playing piano more fun today.
Wonderful insights, Tim! Just got finished with a Jack Ruch lesson on mapping arpeggios and this is effectively the next advanced step in playing the blues! This is really special! 🙏🙏🙏 What a glorious time to be a guitar player!! 😄
Great as always! You play 2 or 3 lines and I have to take my guitar and play the whole night 😉 Regards from Vienna, Austria where it's 11p.m. at the moment
To balance out the note filled lines demonstrated in this video, be sure to watch this one as well czcams.com/video/t4I18AovZtI/video.html
Thank you Tim for sharing your knowledge. It's PURE GOLD! 🎸🎶💖
This reminds me so much of the old Joe Pass instructional videos on youtube. Equally as valuable but more wholesome
It took me a long time to figure this out: if you really want to play jazz blues/bebop etc on a guitar ---- don't study guitar players. Study sax players. Sax players don't rely on boring fingerboard patterns like most guitar players. They really know their chords and scales, and especially things like guide tones, patterns, harmony, turns/grace notes/rhythmic devices/phrasing etc. You can't play sax well unless you learn that stuff, whereas on guitar a lot of players fake it by running their fingers up and down. I wish I'd known this a long time ago.
A jazz blues enthusiast, watching from Kathmandu, Nepal! Thank you very much for this lesson!
When I see videos like this it still blows my mind how much impact Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian had on jazz and bebop playing. There are VERY few players with such distinct note choices that just remind you of "them" every time you hear qualities of their playing. Awesome, awesome, video.
I think there is enough material here to keep me busy for over a year - ha ha. Many, many thanks Tim. 🙏
One of the best CZcams lessons ever.Your feel for phrasing is beautiful and vocal-like. You even take a breath before a phrase as a singer would. You're awesome!
Great lesson, perfectly explained!! Thank you!
I like the chill way Tim explains his ideas loosely but thoroughly.
one of the greatest secrets: chromatic >>> landing! So easy said! Thank you Mr. Lerch!
Thanks.
Big help.
You’re a heckuva good guitarist.
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I've been playing rock/pop/blues/country for 40 years and this is the best instructional video I've ever seen. Perhaps I just found it at the right time. Thanks Timothy.
Always great stuff, Tim.
Great tone, feel and note choice. Thanks. And great lesson!
Outstanding! Thanks, Tim!
Feel better Tim! Thanks for providing great content despite being under the weather!
Interesting. This reveals how stodgy and uptight a jazz education can be. My first semester as a performance major, my private instructor told me in one of our first lessons that I shouldn't bend strings, that wasn't idiomatic to jazz. Here we see Tim Lerch bend strings as he's playing bop influenced lines. Cool. Thank you for letting me out of that prison Mr Lerch. While we're at it, as much as I have loved Robben Ford, this guy is a whole other level. Any doubt? Watch some live videos of him playing and see what I mean.
Everybody is a star..
You could have pointed out that horn players bend all the time and not just in semitones or tones but wild bends so not idiomatic to jazz at all but rather symptomatic of using heavy gauge flat wound strings with are difficult to bend.
Beautiful lesson. One other thing that’s so important to really get that vibe that I don’t think you mentioned is the liberal use of enclosures. For me those are a key element of the bebop sound.
This is a real lesson! Really clear and useful! Thank you!
Pure Gold, thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Ya started talking about binary concepts and the bounce - I went oh no, then ya hit that pendulum swing thing - within seconds my blues playing took off like I'd never experienced. So after years of grind I'm over the moon, in fact I'm off to the moon. thanks a ton. Very happy from Devon, England.
This is absolutely phenomenal, thank you Mr. lerch
This is brilliant. So much packed into this. Thanks, man!
Tim...this is super valuable info my friend. Thank you for sharing!
Tim thank you so much for putting this lesson out there. This is so helpful and so interesting.
Thanks for such a tasty and thoughtful share, Tim - you raise the tide for all of us. Blessings back to you.
Very practical and well presented!
Great lesson, Tim! Really appreciate your approach and demonstration on this🤘
Great video Tim! I learned so much from you over the years. Thank you.
Mr. Lerch......very good....straight forward analytical detail....thank God your explanations are concise...as opposed to those you can't stop talking!
most appreciative for that.....very generous of you to share.
I really love those ideas so inspiring and creative, soulful and chilled playing, Tim you are amazing!
What a gold mine, that was really interesting!
Thank you so much
Tim your lessons are super inspiring.
A big pleasure to follow your lessons!!!!
Phenomenal lesson. Thanks.
This is fantastic guidance. I love these ideas for getting more of a bebop sound in blues. I especially like the advice to work of the pulse on 1 and 3 to smooth out your lines. Love this!
Nice one! I think listening to Kenny Burrell and Grant Green regularly really helped me greatly with having tasteful bebop licks in a blues context firmly in my ear.
Thanks Tim great lesson !
Dear Master you're a Number One ! Thank so much !
Beautiful!....and the acoustic sound of the old L5 is wonderful. Inspired to get to work. Many thanks!
Thanks Tim, this is great sound
Very helpful approaches. Thanks for the well explained lesson. Looking forward to working on these concepts.
Best lesson I've seen on this particular subject, such a great feel and relaxing communication style. Sincere gratitude to you Tim🙏
Hi Tim,
Just wanted to say thank you for this video and your others, I've been watching them for a little while and feel encouraged by them. But this one in particular really broke some things down for me to where I may actually get some of this bebop into my blues playing. I've always wanted to be able to play jazz like this but always felt it was maybe just too late and too over my head. However this really encouraged me and I'm really going get into it and do my best to apply it to my blues playing. I just wanted to say thanks for the encouragement I've received because of your generosity to share your art. God bless you and yours 🙏
Sincerely, Kevin
Thanks…. I’ll be ripping this off….have a great Holiday and new year Tim🙏🏿
Lots of wisdom here!
Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!
A ton of value in this vid.
WATCH this Dude . Tim you really nailed It! This video brought a lot of things together for me. I am forever grateful. Very smooth...
Pedagogic soft and humble lesson!! Just great Tim, Thanks man!! Peet the Suede
This is an immense amount of wisdom and knowledge in 15mins
Tim, man this is a great lesson as I always struggle with where I am trying to arrive and also where to land. going to the other video now and Thank you very much. Ps look forward to you and Walter teaming up again.
"This is the way." Thank u, man -- for this beautiful lesson... Amazing!
so clear !! great thanks Tim
Always interesting, what a great guitarist you are.
Best Jazz/Blues lesson perhaps I've ever seen!! Thank you Tim, keep on Pickin'!!!
This was helpful. Very. Thanks.
Lovely stuff Tim!
Hello Tim, so much food on the table , you did it again, congrats, Bernard
Absolutely brilliant
Very helpful video! Thanks so much for sharing your perspective. It occurred to me that when you talk about the 2 and 5 of 4, it's like some kind of "blues fractal" or blues within a blues, which then made me think of Gamelan music which is also crazy compelling and hypnotic! I needed that today. This will make playing piano more fun today.
Thanks Mr Tim for this great lesson 👍 great playing !
Wonderful insights, Tim! Just got finished with a Jack Ruch lesson on mapping arpeggios and this is effectively the next advanced step in playing the blues! This is really special! 🙏🙏🙏 What a glorious time to be a guitar player!! 😄
Thank you for this lesson!
1/2 way through the only video of yours I’ve seen and I subscribed. Thanks!
🙏thank you so much - amazing stuff!
Thank you so much - sheer gold-dust ♫♪♫
Inspiring, thanks Tim!
My favorite guitar player, i learn alot from him
Excellent!!
Super awesomely helpful knowledge!
Great video and great ideas! I love Blues! thanks!
Hey Tim, thanks for sharing some ideas in a way that isn’t so overwhelming but still very useful. Awesome!
By the way… I will subscribe with you soon as I get my situation in order. Thanks again
really awesome, thanks!
So fabulous thank you love this swinging style blues style tasty now
I'm coming from rock'n'roll, pop, folk planet, I never dared working on jazz/blues, now I understand so much things thanks to you ! Thanks Tim !
I bet they will be teaching this in public schools 100 years from now!
Really interesting video Tim. Thanks.
Great as always! You play 2 or 3 lines and I have to take my guitar and play the whole night 😉
Regards from Vienna, Austria where it's 11p.m. at the moment
Well above my head but I’m so into this style.
You are a truly phenomenal player with amazing phrasing and feel. Your hands remind me of Robben Ford.
Well, that will give me several weeks of exploration. Thanks.
Thanks, Tim!
GREAT LESSON TIM Flintstones theme is also the Gershwin stand so many jazzers love to play in B flat most often
Yes sir!
brilliant! thanks mate!
Great explanation, no unnecessary jargon
Great lesson!
Great class.guitar prof and instrument thanks
GREAT LESSON
you know I had to show up for this one. Much respect.
Hi Jason love you brother.
I learned something.
Wow, thank you!!!
Great stuff!
Thank you!
Thank you for this great lesson..be Well..:-)
Excellent
Tension and release. 👍
Sounds great! Would love to hear more on your Epiphone 335 and the Collings i30!
Super tasty playing.
Great lines, little bit thelonius monk…little bit bach, a great blues mixture, I love it, just practising it,thanks.