Guitar Lesson: How to Play In the Pocket
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2012
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In this free online guitar lesson, Berklee College of Music assistant professor and Berklee Online course author Michael Williams will show you how play "in the pocket" when playing blues guitar. He is joined by Berklee Online academic advisor Doug Orey.
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About Michael Williams:
Michael Williams has been active as a blues and jazz guitarist around New England since 1987. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and Canada as a member of Grammy winner James Cotton's blues band, and with many other artists, including David "Fathead" Newman, Mighty Sam McClain, the Bruce Katz Band, Sugar Ray Norcia, Darrell Nulisch, Toni Lynn Washington, Michelle Willson, Jerry Portnoy, the Love Dogs, blues piano virtuoso David Maxwell, and his own band, Michael Williams and Friends.
Williams performed on James Cotton's CD, 35th Anniversary Jam, which won a W.C. Handy Award and received a Grammy nomination for the Best Traditional Blues Album in 2003. He performed on Bruce Katz's 2004 release, entitled A Deeper Blue, and his playing, songwriting, and arranging are featured on Michelle Willson's CD So Emotional, which earned a four-star review in Down Beat magazine. In 1999 Williams released a CD, entitled Late Night Walk (Blue Tempo Records), which features ten original compositions with guest artists David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax, Sugar Ray Norcia on vocals, and Bruce Katz on Hammond B3 organ and piano.
Originally from Northern California, he has written jingles for radio and television, and performed on extended tours throughout Europe with jazz and theater groups.
Williams is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he has taught since 1987. He specializes in teaching a mix of blues and jazz styles, and has traveled to Europe and South America on several occasions as a clinician and performer for the college.
I love how this guy spits all this knowledge, then seamlessly just plays what he explained. (with no edits). what a boss. 🙏
Are you serious? He doesn't explain anything but he does what you have to do... Quite common attitude..
@@stefanoschipani He explains what he's gonna do, then does perfect examples of each. It's an advanced lesson, that's why i have to pause and analyze each part lol
Mike was my teacher at Berklee in Spring semester of 1991. Still sounding great!!!
This is the best tip I've heard in a long while. Gets you away from being a slave to the click track and lets you start to feel that groove instead.
Really great exercise. All the best players and teachers use this back beat practise. It's helped my rhythm tremendously.
I swear this is some of the nicest playing I have seen
It's a pleasure hearing someone speak and demostrate what they are talking about.
Thanks.
B.
look simple, sound awesome, but it still take a lot of time to practice ! Love these video
I've watched countless youtube guitar vids and this is one of the best. It's 5 minutes...
Thank you!
Learning so much from these, super like
love these videos!
A master at work
pure skill
i love this guy
This guys an absolute monster!
Obviously he's a good player etc, but can't believe no one's mentioning the fact he's going on about how people don't play in the pocket and how to count to the beat, then proceeds to count in out of time, and play out of time for the first 10 seconds :)
Mike is a great player. But what bugged me was all the examples are of him playing "ahead" of the beat. Would have liked to have seen a discussion about playing "on" and "behind" the beat, and how that changes up a groove while still playing in the pocket
any good instructional books I should buy. Berkley has a few of them
All well and good but how do you lock in with a singer in a band and the other guitarist? Like knowing when not to play, when to enter playing the rhythm guitar part and so forth?
Feeling like I found the perfect channel
How I love that jazz/blues piece! I wish I knew how they call that style so I could find a lesson on it :(
+babo85 Jazz blues rhythm guitar should get you good results if youre still interested
I usually get the basic E rythm.. I really like the walking bass style, but no luck so far.
That move with the picking hand closer to the bridge 2:20
DAMN!
NIce walking bass line!!
Is it ok to be front or back of the click sometimes ?
I practice with recording and trying to strum on the grids.
Is that the true way or am I working wrong ?
+Alper Berber probably should aim behind the beat a little bit to get in the pocket
Great video. But if some one could help me to better understand cuz all i saw was a professional playing well. Does anyone know of a different video where this pocket idea is explain a little better. I really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
dan B the meaning of the pocket is to play with that feeling that makes you wanna dance, its not only playing the chords and the melody, is to thighten up with the groove of the drums and bass, in this case, the backbeat its very important, the 2 and the 4, 1 (2) 3 (4), so wen you play you have to accentuate them, i hope you understand, sorry for my bad english.
Your English is just fine and thank very much for the explanation. To spite what i was able to understand, i am better off with visuals because seeing it work in tandem with its context is very helpful to me. Thank you so much. I'll continue to study what you've said and search for more info.
To me it's playing with precise time and with great feel. it's a feeling that you're in sync with a pulse, and having a developed feel for beat syncopation that exists as well. in his example he uses back beat which is a syncopated off beat.
Why is the backbeat considered so important? What makes it special compared to the other two beats?
Also, what would the backbeats in other time signatures, such as 6/8 be? Thanks.
Hi, I don’t know if you ever found the answer within the past 5 years.
The backbeat is mainly important in genres stemming from Blues, Jazz, Pop and Rock music. It’s special in these musical styles because it drives the rhythm and makes note subdivisions easier for musicians to groove between the beats.
6/8 time, however, is a compound time signature with 2 strong beats. Which means that it’s basically a child of 2/4 time (not 3/4), but we divide those two quarter note beats into triplets. When we do that we are left with 6 eighth note beats with 1 and 4 being emphasized.
For example: *1 2 3 *4 5 6
In the case of 6/8, the backbeat will only land on 4. But from my experience the backbeat is not often emphasized more than the first beat in 6/8 songs.
He's focusing on the two and four back beats to teach you pocket from a different angle. Think of it as playing along with the drummers snare drum. It's a way to help develop your groove so you don't sound like a starched button up collar.
I wish i found this a long time ago
Hes really on time. Okay practice with the backbeat!
god i still have so much to learn , fuck :( , amazing video
In the Pocket
all up in the pocket !!
he holds his pick different
i felt like he was a bit messy and wasn't specific enough with the notes when he was playing the funk thing. it's all about hitting the notes, syncopated, without filling it in between. i dunno
Perhaps you should enlighten us with your own video.
“How to sound like other musicians.”
guitar tone is terrible..........