George Benson’s DOUBLE Arpeggio SECRETS!

In this lesson I teach you the "double" arpeggios used by George Benson.
Check out Benson playing these ideas and more: • George Benson. Oleo.
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[@JensLarsen]

Great topic Chase!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Jens! 🙏

[@patrickgarcia8872]

@JensLarsen Nice to see you here! I have to thank you because your online patterns and phrases course has expanded my knowledge and playing off jazz by a lot

[@JensLarsen]

@@patrickgarcia8872 glad to hear that 🙂

[@JazzStrat781]

Really great content Chase as usual 👍🎸 can't get enough of George Benson, thanks so much!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Me either! Thanks Doug! 🤘

[@chrisoneill9175]

Great video Chase...really great how to use ideas by combining arpeggios over chords.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Chris! 🤘

[@adamtullymusic]

Great video as always. I was not aware of the concept of substituting II-V's at intervals of a minor third, as if they were diminished chords. That's going to give me a lot to think about.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Adam! Check out this video to learn more about the ii-V's that are minor thirds apart 👍 ua-cam.com/video/QPte6CDjre8/v-deo.html

[@grenciamars4876]

The third example really demonstrates some of the influence Hank Garland had on Benson (IMO)

[@valmontsibbo]

Great content Chase, I really like diminished 25's sub thinking. i love the precision of your explantaion and clear examples. Thanks Sibbs

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🙏 Glad you dug the lesson. SO much to get out of the different ii-V's based on diminished.

[@guitarist2752]

Top, merci pour la leçon 👌

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! 🤘

[@bozakarlin9034]

Great video, thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Boza! 🙏

[@gregycoolmoreau2365]

Thanks a lot maestro

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for watching! 🤘

[@joepalooka2145]

Great video. George is such a great guitarist that you could do many more videos just focused on his wonderful playing, going right back to his earliest recordings. His whole style comes right out of Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery. The other part of his playing is based on his other great talent as a singer. He really vocalizes his lines.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Joe! That’s the plan! 🙌

[@gregbrown391]

This is a good lesson incorporating double enclosures, combining arpeggios using the Lydian dominant #11. Thanks for sharing! Waiting for a link to the PDF.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Sent! 🤘

[@basildog007]

I'm having an epiphanerie! The reason Gmaj7 works all the way through G7 might be that this maj 7th F# is also a semitone slide up into the tonic so our ears don't mind as long as you land on any note but that F#... Makes so much sense and opens many doors 🚪 🙌 👌 👏

[@ChaseMaddox]

Glad you found it insightful! 👍

[@jimmyc5498]

Awesome choices of his material. Quick story, I got to meet George early 90s backstage after his show and I bring a cd ( a 70s NJ live club gig w Oleo) for him to sign. He says, I can’t sign this! I said, why not? He says, it’s a bootleg. I didn’t get a dime from those recordings! Oh well, still loved talking w him.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Haha that's a great story!

[@jimmyc5498]

Yeah. It’s a strange recording, the band is extremely aggressive, almost hostile tempos and playing, especially piano, like they were trying to chop Bensons head off. Then they rip him off on the Royalties? If you have any info on this let me know. It was called “The Masquarade is Over”.

[@ChaseMaddox]

I wish I had some insight on this, but I do not!

[@rickaguayo]

Great Benson Licks!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Are there any other kinds of Benson licks? 😉

[@Jamestele1]

That was plenty fast sir! I want that Ibanez guitar also

[@ChaseMaddox]

Haha thank you! 🤘

[@Jamestele1]

@@ChaseMaddox You earned it my fellow Welsh surnamed musician!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Haha yes sir! 🙌

[@thomaskelch5169]

like!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Thomas! 👍

[@cedricdemeulenaere2337]

but where is the link of Benson playing it?

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for letting me know! It's linked in the description now 👍

[@alanwebbguitar]

It’s hard to find a lick where George Benson uses his pinky. I never see it. Same with Wes Montgomery on single lines.

[@ChaseMaddox]

It happens on occasion, but very rarely!

[@irishmuso7129]

3:40 ...'then instead of going to D7 he goes to Cmaj7#5...' Ok. But why does he go to one chord rather than the other? Can you explain that please?

[@ChaseMaddox]

Both arpeggios work over D7 because they hit the chord tones and good extensions. As to why he played one of those over the other, you'd have to ask Benson 😄

[@Esotericboi]

SSHHHHHHHHH!!! SECRET INSIDE THE CLICK

[@hustlinc3540]

why does AminMaj7 work over D7?

[@AndoniDiazPuerta]

Because its de I of the A melodic minor, the relative to D lydian b7