"Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) Guitar Lesson

Learn to play "Cantaloupe Island" by Herbie Hancock on guitar.
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[@pedramrahmatabadi742]

This was a great lesson - thank you. Calm, slow (not too slow) and thorough.

[@fretprints]

You’re welcome

[@pjokivuo]

Fantastic lesson, many thanks!

[@josephrodrigues5055]

THANKS FOR YOUR SIMPLICITY

[@angelis93]

TKS..... Simple, easy and professional.

[@jellison7]

Fantastic! Thank you for posting :)

[@petercallaway3376]

Excellent and supremely masterful guitar tutorial!
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[@vishyoutubevideos]

great work! thanks for posting!

[@juanignaciovelazcogezscheg3176]

Thank you very much. You are the best!

[@romanchekrygin5015]

Very useful, thank you friend!

[@dobsonsky9056]

excelent lesson pace -many thanks -made my mood😀day

[@danielsuarez1431]

Awesome Jim. Greetings from Lima, PERÚ. 🎸

[@nanotechnicianhq]

Gratz on getting to 1k likes, I was a bit surprised you aren't more viewed ^.^

[@twli]

Helpful, thank you.

[@MrRonnmaui]

Great stuff here!!!

[@PhillipJ]

good vid....cleared a few things up i wasn't sure about...tanks man!

[@fretprints]

Glad it helped!

[@xuanthanhnguyen1986]

thank you for lesson

[@manulogiudice]

Great video, it was really useful! Greetings from Palermo, Italy

[@Dobrovinskiy]

thank you

[@carlosalkimim3470]

Hi, thanks for this best lesson. I liked this song. Congratulations. A hug from Brasil.

[@fretprints]

You’re welcome!

[@joseluisbevilacqua1054]

Thank so much Jim.

[@fretprints]

You're welcome

[@massimoputzu1809]

Thanks a lot

[@Mykahaia]

Very useful

[@johnpozo1137]

Nice work

[@fretprints]

Thanks

[@vincentrogers8586]

good lesson! Reduced a fairly complicated song to the essentials.

[@hollies56789]

A REAL COOL GUY GREAT NO HI!!! NO HO!! I HOPE I GONNA LEARN SOME TUNES

[@stevieboi61]

thankyou.👌

[@fretprints]

You're welcome

[@davidcamilli170]

Thanks

[@fretprints]

You’re welcome

[@seanabel9772]

Thanks for this lesson. Looking at the first chord you're playing it's a G# over C. That makes it a G Major inversion, right? And you're playing it over F Minor because the relative minor of G# Major is E-sharp (which would be F). Am I following your thought process correctly?

[@fretprints]

I hope I'm understanding your comment correctly. Let me know if I'm not.
So, G# and Ab are enharmonic notes. In this context, you'd want to use Ab, because that is a note name used in F minor.
Yes, the relative minor and major for the key of 4 flats are F minor and Ab major. In this tune though, F-7 would generally be more of a dorian sound; key of 3 flats. Notice the harmonic pairs at the beginning of the video contain d naturals during the F-7 chord. That would be a good starting point. You could certainly use other modes or groups of notes, including aeolian, while improvising.
The first chord would be F-7. It could be thought of as Ab/F. The voicing in the video would be Ab in 1st inversion over F in that case. If I'm thinking of the same one you're mentioning. I'd recommend to keep it simple though, thinking of an F-7 chord.

[@seanabel9772]

​@@fretprints Ahh, that makes WAY more sense. Thank you.

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[@jackgately7992]

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[@Katatopianos]

Technically wouldn’t the D Dorian clash with the melody? The melody has an Eb over the D-7 suggesting a Bb major tonality and a D Phrygian scale.

[@fretprints]

Good observation. Yes, Phrygian is a mode one could use to improvise here. That would fit with the notes in the melody. If soloing while the melody is not present though, dorian shouldn't be an issue. It can offer consonance to the sound.

[@williamfitzgerald9188]

This would be easier to recognize if both views of the fretboard were facing the same direction. Nice demo.

[@fretprints]

Thanks I've changed this in some of my latest videos. I'd like to see what kind of response I get.

[@lekinguitarrista8445]

how can I schedule a meeting?

[@fretprints]

Send an email to [e-mail]. Please included a little about what you're working on/towards and some availability information. Thanks. I look forward to hearing from you.

[@jackgately7992]

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