@@zero15388 I think he said he was a slow learner. Could be modesty. The best people often are: slow, thorough, with a genuine dedication to detail that eventually results in greatness.
Joe Pass is my overall favorite Jazz guitarist. He just about invented the solo Jazz guitar genre. He and Barney Kessel really helped define the role of the guitar in Jazz. Your grandfather, Vito Bongiovanni, produced one the greatest ever. He must of been pretty talented himself! There have been many Italian-Americans who are awesome jazz guitarist, like Pat Martino, and Joe Pass. I will add Rick Beato and your Grandfather to the list.
I love this video. Joe Pass was so enormously talented that I could talk about him all day. This is a Joe Pass fan's dream lesson/ musical documentary.
My big brother was the road manager of Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Bruce Springsteen . We had these cats at home sometimes. Joe was adoring the pasta I did for him.
I have been playing guitar since 1963 . Chord melody is way over my head ! I'm a Blues guy, should have spent less time drinking beer and more time practicing real music ! Great tone on your guitar !
When I was a kid I saw Joe Pass play live with Oscar Peterson and Niels Pedersen. With all that monster technique on stage at once my head was ready to explode. Happily, the monster groove kept a lid on the pressure cooker, and I survived. Great video, Rick.
Great lesson on the inimitable Joe Pass! I've been playing for nearly 40 years, and I finally located someone who thoroughly can teach a part of Joe's incredible legacy. Thank you for this explicit instructional video!
I always said, "The day I play Cliffs of Dover 100% through, I'll know that I have accomplished all I could ever want" it's been 20 years now and I can proudly say, after 1,000's of hours of practice, I can play the first four notes flawlessly.
One of your best lessons,Rick. I had the privilege of meeting Joe Pass in 1980 after a seminar when I was studying Composition at Cleveland State,but that was the most insight I've ever gotten into his technique.Sweet stuff!
"If you can play like this, you've really accomplished something " Lol Joe's story is an incredible one. His dad would play Italian radio and turn to Joe and say "play that". He was then committed to a prison/rehab facility (for his drug abuse) where he learned to play unaccompanied. Great story. Great player. Great lesson. Thanks Rick
I played both albums while driving across country with my two boys, they almost memorized the tunes! I certainly revered the talent and saw him live once! WOW is too weak of a word to describe his playing! Thx for this!!!!
I've been playing guitar since age 13 and I'm now 68 and still playing the occasional gig (mainly blues) always as a semi pro. I started working on jazz guitar a few years back and You Tube has been a great learning tool (particularly when you slow it down - I used to learn from tapes that way when I started). Your videos are top notch and this will give me hours of practice material. One thing I find confusing is interchangeable chord names e.g #5 & b13, m7b5 & half diminished, F/G & G11 - I think it's difficult when you start out. Intercontinental was the first LP I ever purchased - Joe was the best ;)
Rick, I came across your Scott Henderson interview and through that, came here to check out your Joe Pass lesson. I'm so impressed with the planning and thought and effort you have taken to do this work. I really love how you integrate the lesson with hands on playing as well as music to listen to and learn from. The lessons are invaluable and it's been a light in the beacon type moment for me, discovering your site and all the great stuff you have going on here...Many thanks for putting in the time and preparation to do these tutorials and videos! Much love from Pakistan!
I remember getting heavy into learning how to play this way on the second half of the nineties. Even if you don't master the style it teaches you so much that's translates to everything else you may be trying to accomplish on the instrument. Hope you dona Grant Green video if you haven't. I got indeed with those early Blue Note recodings of his. I whish there would of been the amount of resources 30 years ago as there is today instead sending my money on Abersold play alongs. Music education has come a long way. Your videos are fantastic. Thank you.
There’s a Joe Pass hotlicks video that’s not on UA-cam anymore. I wish I could watch it again. It was the best lesson I ever had. Joe was ridiculously amazing. I wish I could sit in a room with him.
Pretty Amazing how you captured his phrasing like that. Now I feel like I can handle 25 percent of what he did. I listen to Joe pass at lease once a day. He never ceases to amaze me. I'm absolutely blown away by your knowledge of this man. I guess its from your Dad like you said.
I studied with Joe Pass in 1969 when I was 13. I only got three weeks with him as my family left California for the east coast. I ate up everything he taught me and couldn't Wait to get to my next lesson. He was a very nice man and I'll appreciate everything that he taught me for the rest of my life
@colinpadley1897 yes, I'm still playing, I have some stuff on UA-cam, I've been working on a recording project that I hope to finish in the next few months
Joe Pass is the most incredible guitarist ever. My dream band is Joe Pass on guitar, Charlie Parker on Alto Sax. Oscar Pedersen on piano Roy Brown bass and JC Heard on drums. Circa early 50s. That would be the only music I would ever need. Ever. Rick Beato thank you for your brilliance
I recently stumbled across your videos. There's enough stuff in this one 25 minute video to keep me busy for a couple of months. Thanks so much for posting these videos.
Even if I get nothing else from this video, you have introduced me to the playing of Joe Pass and the Virtuoso album. For this, you have my eternal gratitude.
Thank you Rick. Very good. Joe Pass was such a great guitarist the I think never got the notoriety that he should have gotten. He was an awesome guitarist. Always loved his playing.
It’s called chord-melody. Now you have a word for it. You can basically take any song and arrange them to chord-melody songs. Do it for 10 years or 10000 hours and you might have some interesting songs lol
Rick, thanks for posting this man. Not many advanced players out there willing to share this type of stuff without a pricey admission. I remember looking at all the videos in music stores years ago and wishing... man if i only had a couple hundred dollars to learn my heroes. was no youtube, etc.
Wow. I realize you have to be at a certain level of ability for this to make sense but it's a great lesson. It would take multiple private lessons to get through all this - and here it is for free. Impressive and greatly appreciated.
Two sides to this video: One is that nobody will play like Joe , but we get it, is a catchy title! The other is that it is an excellent video with well explained content. I own Joe's instructional videos and some times he just played and didn't stop or couldn't rationalize what he did. His music came from inside and he often said he didn't think while playing!
Wow. A lot to take in, but possibly the most valuable guitar videos I've found on UA-cam. I don't like using UA-cam, because you have to sift through so much junk to get to what you're looking for, but this was absolutely fantastic. Great editing too!
Wow. I grew up on my father's record collection from the 1920s through the 1970s. Joe Pass's playing is very impressive and Rick, This is a super interesting video. Thank you.
This is wonderful, I've already picked up on stuff that's gonna change a lot on how I play some tunes, and I haven't even touched my guitar. I gotta get your book sometime man... cheers
The first minute of Pass's "Night and Day" is worth taking a crack at learning by ear. I never could play the fast runs, but the melodic chord stops aren't too bad. I had a lot of time on my hands in college...
My first ever Jazz Album was Joe's Intercontinental , What I didn't realize back then that this was one of the best Jazz Guitarist and one of the best Jazz Albums ever. It turned my music world upside down back in the late 70's. I was lucky enough to see Joe at Fats Tuesdays a couple of times.
Hey Rick, Love your videos, especially focusing on certain guitar players. Would you be interested or able to do a video on the guitar styles of Ted Greene? Of course he's Mr. Chord Chemistry, and his playing encompasses everything in that book. His voicings, voice-leading, and putting it all together in solo guitar is truly stellar. It would be nice to hear your take on his playing. Thanks for all you do.
My instructor wasn’t kidding, learn memorize and utilize ALL inversions.. I used to play chord melodies this way, to pass early auditions in jazz then just stayed with the inversions I was comfortable with. I regret it now. I need to woodshed then again to play like this again
Thanks for this Rick. Joe's own tuition videos often become a little distracting for tuition purposes. Great to learn from your heroes but can seem like a mountain too high. Yours breaks down the steps in a steady, progressive way. I'll be watching this for weeks to follow as this is very much a style I would like to develop within my own playing.
Hey Rick....Thank You for your generosity with all of this information...You sure have set me on a good path to follow...I am gobsmacked at what Joe does and you have helped with your advice !!
In Seattle in the late 90s I was taking group classical guitar lessons from a great, very strict teacher; he made the whole class follow him to Jazz Alley to see Joe Pass one Saturday night (this was when you could line the back wall, standing with a beer). Our teacher said, "If you only get one thing from Joe, listen to his time; it's a metronome." Joe was in top form, and, true, his timing was perfect. At one point in the show Joe, kidding around, launched into some imitation 'classical' guitar, sliding the E chord at the 1st fret up to the second fret and playing some off-kilter Spanish scales. He said, "OK jazz guitarists, just because you can do that don't think you're playing classical guitar; those guys work like maniacs to get their sound." That made us classical guitar nerds feel great ....
Fantastic - thanks for sharing this Rick - I have to say - that put a lot of things into context. You really hit the nail in the head there for people trying to get their head around Jazz on the guitar. Thank you very much indeed.
In order to play solo guitar you need to have a strong understanding of scales and how they relate to chords. You have three things going on when playing solo guitar: bass, chordal accompianment, and the melody. Learn and analayze how the melodies relate to the chords. The biggest thing is to learn how to voice chords with either the Root, 3rd, 5th, and 7th on top. When harmonizing a melody ask yourself what note of the chord scale are are you playing at that moment. If it is a Root, 3rd, 5th, or 7th try and play a chord under it. If it is a passing tone that is a non chord tone just play the note. It takes a while to get used to this mode of thinking as it is more linear (playing up and down the neck) instead of position playing. Eventually after practicing this way, Solo guitar and playing with a group become one and the same. You just add or delete what you need or what you dont need.
Do a Ted Greene lesson. Step 1: learn approximately 970000000 chords/inversions. Step 2: learn to improvise like Bach Step 3: give lessons for $10/hour
Probably missing Step 3: Have a million seamless melody lines that ease into the underlying chords. Step 4: Have a killer tone at all times. Step 5: Take risks, go out on spur of the moment outside lines and then, as if by miracle, go back to the perfect harmony and landing notes.
I've seen you on the keys in your others videos and you're also great on guitar! An excellent tribute to Joe Pass, thanks for passing on the greatness. Love your work mate
Hello Rick. Another great and very interesting video from a Jazz-legend I barely knew before. Thanks! Another great artist, that would deserve a video from you, is Ella Fitzgerald. She truly is amazing, her intonation, her rhythm, her sweet voice, an her swining, just amazing. An evening listen to her records is certainly no time lost! Calling Miles Davis the Picasso of modern music, Ella would
Brilliant. I love that album .. it was one of the first I bought (along with one by Barny Kessel) . Never thought I'd see someone else who could play like that. Awesome.
Thank you, Rick! One thing that would help viewers is to place the chords in the top right of the screen to help decipher what your playing. It’s difficult to know the exact frets your fingers are placed. I noticed many guitar teachers on UA-cam do this.
I just bought a Les Paul special single cut, and I love it with the P90's it is such a versatile guitar. I don't know if Joe Pass would play one, but what the heck.
At one point Joe Pass was playing a Fender Jag because he was in rehab and didn't own his own instrument, so he had to borrow the one the program owned. So, yeah, I think Joe would play the Les Paul.
OMG I got my basic knowlege of theory and guitar from one of his real basic books Its flooding back now, I understand about 50 percent of what was taught in the book 35 years later haha for real he was a great player and his book was more than a good start for a beginner had some real useful info.
How your brain does not explode, I am amazed. First edit I noticed was not until 18:20 ish. I find all the chord names and fingerings that slip off your tongue are so intuitive to you but mind boggling to me. That said, in terms of enjoying your video and the ‘exercises’ you set up to try and imitate joe pass, extremely informative. I am always in awe that you take your time to share your knowledge (which is so exhaustive) with people like me, an enthusiastic amateur but not schooled in music theory (starting as I did in my informative years on trombone, no theory necessary, before progressing to guitar in my senior years). Especially enlightening are the influences (Wes Montgomery and the like) that you weave into the explanations. I guess I just wanted to say thank you Rick!
Hey Rick wouldnt be nice to make a video about Django Reinhard and all his strong influence in jazz, rock, even about his outstanding technique. Out there is a growing crowd whose is starting to play resembling his stile and mutating into a contemporary neo gypsy swing. I like to see that. Though thanks for all your videos, such a good influence...
Plenty of Django material out there. Look in DC Music school which as the actual great GJ masters teaching online....I have bought (about 15USD and you get pdfs, heaps of online lessons...)...the best money I ever spent on guitar!! Anyway,,,otherwise plenty on PuTube
@@dingoswamphead its reinhardt learn to spell and this guy is stealing joe pass's life long work and method you want to learn to play like joe pass then learn from his boks and dvd's not this parasite. but you never will play like django or joe pass because they never had the internet they had no distraction they had themselves to learn from no one taught them.. this guy is making hundreds of thousands a year on his youtube videos and you will just watch them and learn nothing. whilst thinking you know it all
Oh He was One of My Favorites. I learned so much from him and his style of playing. Great Catch Rick, and I so appreciate you covering this and all of the work you do as a mentor and inspirationalist. New word, I guess but that definitely fits your dedication to our craft. You take care and have a Safe holiday season. Keep bringing us these precious gems…. From all of us here at the label.
As undeniably great as Joe Pass is and was and shall forever be, and as much as he is one of my most favorite players and one whose utterly fascinating and inimitable jazz guitar stylings I would love to be able to even just passably, amateurishly emulate and replicate; notwithstanding the veracity of all those statements, I can't help but wish that you would create videos covering the techniques and playing styles of a hundred other perhaps equally great guitarists, both in jazz and out of it (but, let's face it: Primarily and predominantly in Jazz). Still, regardless of my other requests, which do not diminish its greatness in any respect, great video and very revelatory and informative! :)
I'll never forget the night I went to see Joe play in a really small club in New York with about 12 tables there I was like 3 ft away I wish I could remember what I really saw I know what I heard but it's hard to really get a grip on everything that went down I just remember hearing a single guitar player that sounded like an orchestra
Great lesson Rick! Along with all the other requests I'll chime in with "Please teach us how to play like Ed Bickert!" But hey, pretty much anything you teach is great! Thanks!
My dad had a copy copy of virtuoso.... fuck I wish I’d spent the last 40 years trying to understand how he made those sounds instead of dicking around with rock and rnb. Looks like you did and figured it out. At aged 52 I don’t think I have enough years left to play like you! Awsome... just subscribed... and thank you...
Took me a year to see this but, YEAH Dude!!! Joe Pass = Maestro! Total respect for Joe! My dad bought me an album of his back in 1979 i was freaked out then too! ( at 12 years old )
This is totally kicking! You’re opening my window into chord melody playing a whole lot wider than before. Have you heard Edgar Winter’s debut Entrance? It has similar stylings, no doubt influenced by Joe.
My dad's grandfather (Vito Bongiovanni), actually taught Joe Pass early on. My dad still owns the guitar he presented to Joe when he first taught him.
I'm guessing Joe was unbelievable on the guitar even then!
@@zero15388 I think he said he was a slow learner. Could be modesty. The best people often are: slow, thorough, with a genuine dedication to detail that eventually results in greatness.
The best!
Joe Pass is my overall favorite Jazz guitarist. He just about invented the solo Jazz guitar genre. He and Barney Kessel really helped define the role of the guitar in Jazz. Your grandfather, Vito Bongiovanni, produced one the greatest ever. He must of been pretty talented himself! There have been many Italian-Americans who are awesome jazz guitarist, like Pat Martino, and Joe Pass. I will add Rick Beato and your Grandfather to the list.
@@PoGGiE06 that’s encouraging to hear !!
This is the best jazz guitar video in the history of UA-cam you give away what generally takes 10 years to learn by ear this is so great.
8 minutes in and already learned more than in the last couple of years. Though 5 years old, the video is timeless. Thank you for that, Rick!
I love this video. Joe Pass was so enormously talented that I could talk about him all day. This is a Joe Pass fan's dream lesson/ musical documentary.
Joe Pass = the greatest jazz guitarist of all time. What a total guitar monster he was. Great lesson Rick!!!
Agree, unrivalled
My big brother was the road manager of Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Bruce Springsteen . We had these cats at home sometimes. Joe was adoring the pasta I did for him.
I have been playing guitar since 1963 . Chord melody is way over my head ! I'm a Blues guy, should have spent less time drinking beer and more time practicing real music ! Great tone on your guitar !
When I was a kid I saw Joe Pass play live with Oscar Peterson and Niels Pedersen. With all that monster technique on stage at once my head was ready to explode. Happily, the monster groove kept a lid on the pressure cooker, and I survived. Great video, Rick.
Dude!!!!!!
Great lesson on the inimitable Joe Pass! I've been playing for nearly 40 years, and I finally located someone who thoroughly can teach a part of Joe's incredible legacy. Thank you for this explicit instructional video!
I always said, "The day I play Cliffs of Dover 100% through, I'll know that I have accomplished all I could ever want" it's been 20 years now and I can proudly say, after 1,000's of hours of practice, I can play the first four notes flawlessly.
One of your best lessons,Rick. I had the privilege of meeting Joe Pass in 1980 after a seminar when I was studying Composition at Cleveland State,but that was the most insight I've ever gotten into his technique.Sweet stuff!
Setting the bar very high for all those other instructors:) Really practical pro tips and techniques.
Yes - I totally agree - that was mind-blowing. Rick seems to have just articulated what I wanted to know but couldn't pick up from all the pieces.
Transcription must have been tricky
"If you can play like this, you've really accomplished something "
Lol
Joe's story is an incredible one. His dad would play Italian radio and turn to Joe and say "play that".
He was then committed to a prison/rehab facility (for his drug abuse) where he learned to play unaccompanied.
Great story.
Great player.
Great lesson.
Thanks Rick
I know right, Dad set the bar pretty high lol. "If you can paint like DaVinci someday, you done good" :P
I played both albums while driving across country with my two boys, they almost memorized the tunes! I certainly revered the talent and saw him live once! WOW is too weak of a word to describe his playing! Thx for this!!!!
I've been playing guitar since age 13 and I'm now 68 and still playing the occasional gig (mainly blues) always as a semi pro. I started working on jazz guitar a few years back and You Tube has been a great learning tool (particularly when you slow it down - I used to learn from tapes that way when I started). Your videos are top notch and this will give me hours of practice material. One thing I find confusing is interchangeable chord names e.g #5 & b13, m7b5 & half diminished, F/G & G11 - I think it's difficult when you start out. Intercontinental was the first LP I ever purchased - Joe was the best ;)
Rick, I came across your Scott Henderson interview and through that, came here to check out your Joe Pass lesson. I'm so impressed with the planning and thought and effort you have taken to do this work. I really love how you integrate the lesson with hands on playing as well as music to listen to and learn from. The lessons are invaluable and it's been a light in the beacon type moment for me, discovering your site and all the great stuff you have going on here...Many thanks for putting in the time and preparation to do these tutorials and videos! Much love from Pakistan!
I remember getting heavy into learning how to play this way on the second half of the nineties. Even if you don't master the style it teaches you so much that's translates to everything else you may be trying to accomplish on the instrument. Hope you dona Grant Green video if you haven't. I got indeed with those early Blue Note recodings of his. I whish there would of been the amount of resources 30 years ago as there is today instead sending my money on Abersold play alongs. Music education has come a long way. Your videos are fantastic. Thank you.
I forgot all about Joe Pass. That’s what I love about your videos, you remind me of great music that I forgotten. Thank you Rick!
There’s a Joe Pass hotlicks video that’s not on UA-cam anymore. I wish I could watch it again. It was the best lesson I ever had. Joe was ridiculously amazing. I wish I could sit in a room with him.
Pretty Amazing how you captured his phrasing like that. Now I feel like I can handle 25 percent of what he did. I listen to Joe pass at lease once a day. He never ceases to amaze me. I'm absolutely blown away by your knowledge of this man. I guess its from your Dad like you said.
This is the lesson I’ve wanted my whole life. Thanks Rick!
I studied with Joe Pass in 1969 when I was 13. I only got three weeks with him as my family left California for the east coast. I ate up everything he taught me and couldn't Wait to get to my next lesson. He was a very nice man and I'll appreciate everything that he taught me for the rest of my life
@@andoletube it was California where I studied with him . We went back to Connecticut
@@andoletube absolutely
Are you still playing, maybe you're a pro?
@colinpadley1897 yes, I'm still playing, I have some stuff on UA-cam, I've been working on a recording project that I hope to finish in the next few months
Joe Pass is the most incredible guitarist ever. My dream band is Joe Pass on guitar, Charlie Parker on Alto Sax. Oscar Pedersen on piano Roy Brown bass and JC Heard on drums. Circa early 50s. That would be the only music I would ever need. Ever. Rick Beato thank you for your brilliance
One of the best jazz guitar lessons I've come across in recent years. Learnt so much from this. Thank you!!
I recently stumbled across your videos. There's enough stuff in this one 25 minute video to keep me busy for a couple of months. Thanks so much for posting these videos.
Even if I get nothing else from this video, you have introduced me to the playing of Joe Pass and the Virtuoso album. For this, you have my eternal gratitude.
Thank you Rick. Very good. Joe Pass was such a great guitarist the I think never got the notoriety that he should have gotten. He was an awesome guitarist. Always loved his playing.
I love how you demystify joe pass. I only wish I had been introduced to his music back in the 70’s.
Such a wealth of videos you're creating. Thanks for your hard work.
I've played guitar all my life and I just realised I know nothing.
Dave Tighe for me it's a good feeling, with all I have to learn I'll never be bored
Dave Tighe same here !!! Lol 😂😂😂
Much wisdom in what you say here.
This is actually super Zen. Like seriously actually Zen Buddhism not the American Zen.
you're not the only one 😂...
😭😪
How to play like Joe Pass
1. Be a genius
Exactly!
Q : How to play like Joe Pass ?
A : You cannot
This is one of your best and most frustrating videos EVER
It’s called chord-melody. Now you have a word for it. You can basically take any song and arrange them to chord-melody songs. Do it for 10 years or 10000 hours and you might have some interesting songs lol
The bass walk exercise is such a cool thing. Gotta practice that tonight!
After a few years...i decided to buy Virtuoso, just now.....this video convinced me!
Rick, thanks for posting this man. Not many advanced players out there willing to share this type of stuff without a pricey admission. I remember looking at all the videos in music stores years ago and wishing... man if i only had a couple hundred dollars to learn my heroes. was no youtube, etc.
what helped me understand joe pass better was learning maj6 min6 and minb6 chords and the relationship of them to maj7/subing 6th chords.
It cannot be described in words how grateful i am to you for making this channel...Rick, you are the f*ckin MASTER!!
My first exposure was Virtuoso #2 because the first record wasn't available at my local record store. Instantly obsessed.
You are one the most professional music teachers in you tube. Thank you
Finally digging into this lesson and really enjoying it. I know next time I listen to JP I'll be listening even harder. Thanks for all that you do.
Super excellent review of Pass' style, and various concepts he commonly used.
Wow. I realize you have to be at a certain level of ability for this to make sense but it's a great lesson. It would take multiple private lessons to get through all this - and here it is for free. Impressive and greatly appreciated.
Love your channel Rick, so much musical knowledge.
you were one of my favorite characters on the sopranos. Nice guitar work too.
Look let me tell you something dude. Thank you, but I recorded in DENMARK!
Two sides to this video: One is that nobody will play like Joe , but we get it, is a catchy title!
The other is that it is an excellent video with well explained content. I own Joe's instructional videos and some times he just played and didn't stop or couldn't rationalize what he did. His music came from inside and he often said he didn't think while playing!
Wow. A lot to take in, but possibly the most valuable guitar videos I've found on UA-cam. I don't like using UA-cam, because you have to sift through so much junk to get to what you're looking for, but this was absolutely fantastic. Great editing too!
Rick , I watch on of you videos about Joe and Wes Montgomery. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. I am forever grateful.
Wow.
I grew up on my father's record collection from the 1920s through the 1970s. Joe Pass's playing is very impressive and Rick, This is a super interesting video. Thank you.
Virtuoso is one of my favorite records. Great stuff Rick!
This is wonderful, I've already picked up on stuff that's gonna change a lot on how I play some tunes, and I haven't even touched my guitar. I gotta get your book sometime man... cheers
…really?! This is one of the most insightful jazz guitar lessons ever. You got me …SUBSCRIBED
The first minute of Pass's "Night and Day" is worth taking a crack at learning by ear. I never could play the fast runs, but the melodic chord stops aren't too bad. I had a lot of time on my hands in college...
mr7clay good thing to do..Prolly better that hitting the pubs and smoking the uplift leaf
My first ever Jazz Album was Joe's Intercontinental , What I didn't realize back then that this was one of the best Jazz Guitarist and one of the best Jazz Albums ever. It turned my music world upside down back in the late 70's. I was lucky enough to see Joe at Fats Tuesdays a couple of times.
That is a monster album indeed!!
Hey Rick,
Love your videos, especially focusing on certain guitar players. Would you be interested or able to do a video on the guitar styles of Ted Greene? Of course he's Mr. Chord Chemistry, and his playing encompasses everything in that book. His voicings, voice-leading, and putting it all together in solo guitar is truly stellar. It would be nice to hear your take on his playing. Thanks for all you do.
My instructor wasn’t kidding, learn memorize and utilize ALL inversions.. I used to play chord melodies this way, to pass early auditions in jazz then just stayed with the inversions I was comfortable with. I regret it now. I need to woodshed then again to play like this again
Instructions unclear. Got blinded by the awesome Joe Pass rays✨😎
Love Joe and Virtuoso. My absolute favorite guitar album❤
Best instructor of everything musical ever.
ever. :)
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Thanks for this Rick. Joe's own tuition videos often become a little distracting for tuition purposes. Great to learn from your heroes but can seem like a mountain too high. Yours breaks down the steps in a steady, progressive way. I'll be watching this for weeks to follow as this is very much a style I would like to develop within my own playing.
Hey Rick....Thank You for your generosity with all of this information...You sure have set me on a good path to follow...I am gobsmacked at what Joe does and you have helped with your advice !!
In Seattle in the late 90s I was taking group classical guitar lessons from a great, very strict teacher; he made the whole class follow him to Jazz Alley to see Joe Pass one Saturday night (this was when you could line the back wall, standing with a beer). Our teacher said, "If you only get one thing from Joe, listen to his time; it's a metronome." Joe was in top form, and, true, his timing was perfect. At one point in the show Joe, kidding around, launched into some imitation 'classical' guitar, sliding the E chord at the 1st fret up to the second fret and playing some off-kilter Spanish scales. He said, "OK jazz guitarists, just because you can do that don't think you're playing classical guitar; those guys work like maniacs to get their sound." That made us classical guitar nerds feel great ....
Fantastic - thanks for sharing this Rick - I have to say - that put a lot of things into context. You really hit the nail in the head there for people trying to get their head around Jazz on the guitar. Thank you very much indeed.
You are so fucking awesome in your knowledge and presentation. Not just guitar, but analysis of everything from movie scores to grunge rock. Amazing
In order to play solo guitar you need to have a strong understanding of scales and how they relate to chords. You have three things going on when playing solo guitar: bass, chordal accompianment, and the melody. Learn and analayze how the melodies relate to the chords. The biggest thing is to learn how to voice chords with either the Root, 3rd, 5th, and 7th on top. When harmonizing a melody ask yourself what note of the chord scale are are you playing at that moment. If it is a Root, 3rd, 5th, or 7th try and play a chord under it. If it is a passing tone that is a non chord tone just play the note. It takes a while to get used to this mode of thinking as it is more linear (playing up and down the neck) instead of position playing. Eventually after practicing this way, Solo guitar and playing with a group become one and the same. You just add or delete what you need or what you dont need.
That tone is heavenly!
Do a Ted Greene lesson.
Step 1: learn approximately 970000000 chords/inversions.
Step 2: learn to improvise like Bach
Step 3: give lessons for $10/hour
Eric Schick I’ve only discovered 869000000 inversions. Help. LOL
Probably missing
Step 3: Have a million seamless melody lines that ease into the underlying chords.
Step 4: Have a killer tone at all times.
Step 5: Take risks, go out on spur of the moment outside lines and then, as if by miracle, go back to the perfect harmony and landing notes.
Heil the Chord Chemist!!
I've seen you on the keys in your others videos and you're also great on guitar! An excellent tribute to Joe Pass, thanks for passing on the greatness. Love your work mate
Hello Rick. Another great and very interesting video from a Jazz-legend I barely knew before. Thanks! Another great artist, that would deserve a video from you, is Ella Fitzgerald. She truly is amazing, her intonation, her rhythm, her sweet voice, an her swining, just amazing. An evening listen to her records is certainly no time lost! Calling Miles Davis the Picasso of modern music, Ella would
Ella Fitzgerald, aka "The 1st Lady of Song".
Brilliant. I love that album .. it was one of the first I bought (along with one by Barny Kessel) . Never thought I'd see someone else who could play like that. Awesome.
Thank you, Rick! One thing that would help viewers is to place the chords in the top right of the screen to help decipher what your playing. It’s difficult to know the exact frets your fingers are placed. I noticed many guitar teachers on UA-cam do this.
I just bought a Les Paul special single cut, and I love it with the P90's it is such a versatile guitar. I don't know if Joe Pass would play one, but what the heck.
At one point Joe Pass was playing a Fender Jag because he was in rehab and didn't own his own instrument, so he had to borrow the one the program owned. So, yeah, I think Joe would play the Les Paul.
I've come back to this video 'bout a hundred times.
Thanks for all your videos Rick!are very instructive!
This is just the video for where I'm at playing-wise right now, thank you! I'm going to play with some of this stuff and move on to pt. 2 tomorrow.
Very nice! Grew up a big fan of Joe Pass. Need to put my bass away and pull out my guitar again. Thanks for the posts!
This frickin channel has EVERYTHING!
Awesome video. Glad to have a bunch of things to just tinker with now!
Great video Rick. I didn't understand some of the things I was hearing in Joe Pass's playing but now I think I do, thanks!
Wow. It’s like listening to 2 pieces of music at the same time!
OMG I got my basic knowlege of theory and guitar from one of his real basic books Its flooding back now, I understand about 50 percent of what was taught in the book 35 years later haha for real he was a great player and his book was more than a good start for a beginner had some real useful info.
How your brain does not explode, I am amazed. First edit I noticed was not until 18:20 ish. I find all the chord names and fingerings that slip off your tongue are so intuitive to you but mind boggling to me. That said, in terms of enjoying your video and the ‘exercises’ you set up to try and imitate joe pass, extremely informative. I am always in awe that you take your time to share your knowledge (which is so exhaustive) with people like me, an enthusiastic amateur but not schooled in music theory (starting as I did in my informative years on trombone, no theory necessary, before progressing to guitar in my senior years). Especially enlightening are the influences (Wes Montgomery and the like) that you weave into the explanations. I guess I just wanted to say thank you Rick!
Hey Rick wouldnt be nice to make a video about Django Reinhard and all his strong influence in jazz, rock, even about his outstanding technique. Out there is a growing crowd whose is starting to play resembling his stile and mutating into a contemporary neo gypsy swing. I like to see that. Though thanks for all your videos, such a good influence...
Plenty of Django material out there. Look in DC Music school which as the actual great GJ masters teaching online....I have bought (about 15USD and you get pdfs, heaps of online lessons...)...the best money I ever spent on guitar!! Anyway,,,otherwise plenty on PuTube
I've noticed the same thing, it's pretty sexy. Some badass gypsy jazz player was jammin at my local pawn shop.
Try Gypsy Jazz Secrets, by Robin Nolan. Lots of videos opening up some of Django's ideas.
@@dingoswamphead its reinhardt learn to spell and this guy is stealing joe pass's life long work and method you want to learn to play like joe pass then learn from his boks and dvd's not this parasite. but you never will play like django or joe pass because they never had the internet they had no distraction they had themselves to learn from no one taught them..
this guy is making hundreds of thousands a year on his youtube videos and you will just watch them and learn nothing. whilst thinking you know it all
@@guitaneman You seem upset, everything ok?
tTat T/R/B swith is in a daft place! Great playing Rick, your knowledge is amazing!
Absolutely wonderful lessons! Thanks.
this video is priceless, joe pass is the greatest and you teach his tricks so well. so much great stuff
Spot on, can’t believe this is free, thanks Rick
Oh He was One of My Favorites. I learned so much from him and his style of playing. Great Catch Rick, and I so appreciate you covering this and all of the work you do as a mentor and inspirationalist. New word, I guess but that definitely fits your dedication to our craft. You take care and have a Safe holiday season. Keep bringing us these precious gems…. From all of us here at the label.
As undeniably great as Joe Pass is and was and shall forever be, and as much as he is one of my most favorite players and one whose utterly fascinating and inimitable jazz guitar stylings I would love to be able to even just passably, amateurishly emulate and replicate; notwithstanding the veracity of all those statements, I can't help but wish that you would create videos covering the techniques and playing styles of a hundred other perhaps equally great guitarists, both in jazz and out of it (but, let's face it: Primarily and predominantly in Jazz). Still, regardless of my other requests, which do not diminish its greatness in any respect, great video and very revelatory and informative! :)
I'll never forget the night I went to see Joe play in a really small club in New York with about 12 tables there I was like 3 ft away I wish I could remember what I really saw I know what I heard but it's hard to really get a grip on everything that went down I just remember hearing a single guitar player that sounded like an orchestra
Thank you for this Rick! 🙏❤️🎸
Great lesson Rick!
Along with all the other requests I'll chime in with "Please teach us how to play like Ed Bickert!"
But hey, pretty much anything you teach is great! Thanks!
Fantastic - the guitar becomes a grand piano!
Really glad I dropped by for a look. Definitely going to learn some things from you. Many thanks! Really appreciate it.
lol, my dad also bought me "virtuoso" for x mass, about 1978,
Gotta love Joe Pass! Great video, Rick!
My dad had a copy copy of virtuoso.... fuck I wish I’d spent the last 40 years trying to understand how he made those sounds instead of dicking around with rock and rnb. Looks like you did and figured it out. At aged 52 I don’t think I have enough years left to play like you! Awsome... just subscribed... and thank you...
Sir, your videos are the best. Thank very much for doing this! Best regards to you and your family
A good ear-training exercise, too., for figuring everything out. But I succeeded in doing it. Thanks a lot, Rick !
Rik from Belgium
I love Joe Pass and recommend: For Django, Appassionato and live in Hamburg as my favourite recordings from him.
Took me a year to see this but, YEAH Dude!!! Joe Pass = Maestro! Total respect for Joe! My dad bought me an album of his back in 1979 i was freaked out then too! ( at 12 years old )
This is totally kicking! You’re opening my window into chord melody playing a whole lot wider than before.
Have you heard Edgar Winter’s debut Entrance? It has similar stylings, no doubt influenced by Joe.