Mick Goodrick Cycles Lesson by Tom Lippincott
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2023
- For the free PDF to accompany this video, please go to the Lessons page on Tom's website, scroll down to Goodrick for Dummies, and click the link: tomlippincott.com/lessons
Alternatively you can read Tom's article here and find the PDF at the bottom of the article.
This jazz guitar lesson presented by Tom Lippincott shows how to organise the chords found in Mick Goodricks Almanacs.
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The Almanacs are available for free from the Modern Guitar Harmony dot com website on the Resources page.
I started wandering thru diatonic cycles back in the '80's when I got Mick's "The Advancing Guitarist" book. In the years went thru all cycles, all most used scales and learned the fingerboard really well, along with good voice leading! The strongest lesson I learned back then is that guitar can be the easiest instrument to be played bad and possibly one of the hardest to be played decently.
The next step for me was to put stuff at work, you know, getting into reality. So I started using voice leading writing chordal arrangements of standard tunes off the Real Book. Everything started making sense as I could see things falling into other things, learning about short distance connections (think Bill Evans), pedals between chords and what not....
The amazing thing was that whenever my harmonic knowledge and practice had grown, I could go back to Mick's material and apply it to my new stuff... so more harmonic arrangements popped up, mostly applying chords substitutions, the more advanced ones. Like Autumn Leaves (in E min) becoming CMaj13 to Cmin13 to Bm7b6 to Amin6/B to CMaj7b5 to B/A to GMaj13.
Applying Mick's concepts and voice leading opened up a whole other universe to be explored for lifetime. I wish guitarists could see the light this brings to the mind, ears and hands!
It's endless, indeed....
Such a precious lesson ❤
Thank you!!
Mick would've loved this. He always appreciated students and friends studying the almanacs.
We're keeping his legacy alive. Have you checked out the Modern Guitar Harmony website? Lots of interesting stuff on the Resources page.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony I have. I was a close friend of his. I have all of his unreleased material I've yet to compile. He would love knowing people are working on his concepts.
@@TheRooDog Cool! Feel free to contact me via the contact form on the website. Would love to chat more 👍
Tom - wonderful job of discussing/demonstrating Mick's stuff! Your teaching style is always helpful! Thanks to you and MGH for posting this!
Thanks Marc and see you at the next meeting 👍🎸
This is all so amazing Tom! Thanks so much for dumbing all this down for us :) You sound great playing this stuff!
Enjoy the journey and feel free to share your discoveries with us in our FB group.
This was tremendously helpful!
Thanks so much. I'm always coming back to these lessons along with Mick's books... so much amazing stuff to play with. Thanks!!!
Magnificent and illuminating presentation. I’ve been at a loss for years…make that decades…as to how to learn these. Now I know how to start.
And I had no idea how wonderful they sound. Now I do. Huge thanks.
They sound great with passing notes, modulations etc. A real game changer 😀
man your lessons are amazing!
This ist excellent. Thanks!!
Thanks so much for this Tom! It’s nice to see Mick’s work (some of the most underrated yet important work in music in my opinion) continued! I have gotten more out of those almanacs than anything I can think of
Hi Pete. The almanacs are a treasure trove alright. Enjoy the journey 😃
Thank you for the amazing presentation of Goodrick's voice leading. So very helpful!
Thank you JazzFalconMusic 👍
excellent video!
This is an absolute goldmine of a lesson, thank you for putting this out here! I've seen great results from working this into my routine. Cheers!
Thanks so much! Wait until you've used this for a year or two. Your playing will be transformed 😀
This is wonderful, Tom!!👏👏… I love your passion - it is indeed a lifetime pursuit, and these colors of sound are so inspiring! Thanks🙏😁!
Thanks for your kind words Barry.
Thank You Tom ! I love to know about the harmony movements and your lesson its about everything else ....your demonstration its amazing . Congratulations .
Thank you. The almanacs are available for free (or small donation) on the Modern Guitar Harmony website Resource page. Enjoy.
Thank you very much for the work you're doing, it is truly valuable 🙏
Appreciated my friend 👍
Thank you so much for this, it's brilliant! I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel, cheers!
Great!! Don't forget that the almanacs are available for free, or small donation, from the Modern Guitar Harmony website Resource page. Enjoy your journey 😁
@@ModernGuitarHarmony Yes, thanks!
I worked through some of Vol 1 about 20 years ago. although i cannot recall all the things i went over, i often have bits and pieces crop up in my comping and general approach to harmonizing things on guitar. bottom line: it completely changed my view of the fretboard and opened things up for me. i think i'll go get vol 1 out right now...
Yes!! Feel free to post your discoveries in the Modern Guitar Harmony FB group.
Mick lesson is endless beauty on a guitar!
It certainly is. From The Advancing Guitarist to the Almanacs ( now available for free from our website on the Resources page ). The music that can be made is divine. However my favourite book, which I've only scratched the surface of is Generic Modality Compression. Find a sound you like and work with it for a while. Voicings after voicing just sound heavenly. We are all rich because of Mick Goodrick.
@italoop7850 Where are you from?
@@ModernGuitarHarmony I'm in Italy, Tom. Been playing gtr for 50+ yrs. GIT kid in the '80s... lots of Diorio, Henderson stuff. Student of Ted Greene. Later on years of study with Charlie Banacos and finally in NYC with Steve Khan, John Abercrombie, Wayne Krantz and Bill Connors. Stuff is endless.... gotta take a bite and make the most of it before the next bite.
@@italoop7850 sounds like you've been on a great musical journey. You'll love the previously unreleased John Abercrombie tunes on my channel. Himself and Mick Goodrick have such great interplay. It's a pleasure to meet you 👍🎸🎶☀️
@@ModernGuitarHarmony Yep! those gtr duos can be addicting! Joe and Mick, John and Mick, Sco and John.... what a feast for the ears!
Loving these tips.
Glad you like them!
Oh goodness, I also have an 8 string setup with a high A(using drop A on the bass for now), and was looking for something to better prepare myself with the exploration of the instrument. This is everything I could have hoped for. I will say, I will have to start from the beginning but luckily I know enough to follow along without any issues. Also I love that this more or less sets one up with expanding to the adjacent strings as homework (and I suppose should be done for baritone guitars, open G, etc). I'm as relieved as I am happy :)
Thanks for your comment Edel. Don't forget that you can access the almanacs for free from the Modern Guitar Harmony website Resource page. Enjoy the journey 😃
Great lesson. Just found your channel and subbed . Thank you 💯👍
Thank you for your kind words.
This is gold
Thank you!!
Don’t listen to people asking for a ‘practical application’. That is so lazy, and it’s the bane of existence for intermediates who are trying to become advanced, we don’t need song examples. Fundamental harmony theory will pop up everywhere.
This lesson is wonderful. And just what I needed. However, I will respectfully say, it’s almost unnecessarily and mindbogglingly difficult to follow ONLY because you’re using an 8 string guitar.
Basically had to build the triads on my own following the concepts you were teaching rather than learning visually. Big time slog that takes away from spending the time understanding the concepts. Brilliant lesson that I’ll spend months with. You’re right, you’re sharing enlightenment.
The almanacs are available for free, or a small donation, from the Modern Guitar Harmony website Resource page. You'll be able to follow along easier then. Tom's PDF is there too.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony would you happen to know which pdf this lesson corresponds with? Thanks in advance
@@jasonkesser Go to the Resources page on the Modern Guitar Harmony website, scroll down to Tom Lippincott and click on the Goodrick For Dummies pdf. You'll see an article but just scroll down to the PDF.
@@jasonkesser Tom starts, just after the 3 minute mark, with the first line in volume 1 of the almanacs. Hope that helps.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony thanks so much
Just what I needed
Great! Get stuck in and reap the rewards of which there are plenty.
Helpful? sheesh mind blown, Thanks Tom this is amazing. 🎸👍
Thank you. A little practice goes a long way. Don't forget to check out the Resources page on the Modern Guitar Harmony website 👍
Thank you very much sir, this was very interesting.
You are welcome 😁🎸🎶☀️
Great stuff. Thank you
Thank you Pedro!!
Man what the world great comp
Thank you 😊
Wonderful!
Thank you!
great lesson!
It sure is. Dig in and reap the rewards.
@Modern Guitar Harmony So helpful. Thank you for sharing!!!! Could you please explain pages 3&4 "Chord Families
All voicing arranged vertically" I don't understand how to go about playing them.
@collectitbydiyversity2442 each chord is a voicing or inversion so on the left side at the top of page 3 is a C major 7 chord spelled CEGB. You play a C note in the bass, the E note next, then the G note then the B note on the highest fret. On the D, G, B and E strings this would correspond to frets 10, 9, 8 and 7.
The above example is a root position chord because the root is in the bass.
The next chord is the same type, a C major 7 chord but a different inversion as it is spelled EGBC.
Does that help?
not sure what Im missing here. early on the video, going from Cm to Dm to Em, you seem to be playing triads on different string sets. It looks like the CM triad you are playing is the root based triad on first 3 strings, but then move to 1st inversion Dm on strings 2, 3, 4, then you play Em triad 2nd inversion on strings 1, 2 and 3.
At what time stamp is that Bill?
@@ModernGuitarHarmony nm, i figured it out, i was looking at it incorrectly, I'm following you now, thank you!
I love you thank you so much
Thank you 😊
i would love to see this in a practical application, like over a standard or something similar.
Check out the short story videos on the channel. Short Story #2 is pretty cool 😎😁
This is great in hearing you chat about it with your knowledge and experience in tow, but showing the chords and their fingering on the strings and frets from one angle from 12 feet away at speeds averaging just fractions of a second will not at the end produced the desired results of what you set yourself upon in this presentation….😂
I see the beautiful spiral bound copy he's got there at the beginning - I don't suppose there's any talk of making those available again? I've got the PDFs, but something about physical copies just scratches that part of my lizard brain. Lol
Not to mention, having it sitting on the stand already makes it easier to dive in than having to go open it in a digital file somewhere.
Yes, we are working on bringing all the Goodchord publications back to live. Stay tuned 👍😁
Thank you so much.
You are welcome 😁 Do you have much experience with the almanacs?
@@ModernGuitarHarmony No, nothing Master. In fact I am gonna watch this video several times. You are a great jazz guitarist. You made my day. Thanks.
I missed 1? or you started at 2? I will say when you got to the 3rd cycle, I was thinking about doing as you did in the 2nd and have that one go down as going up as well! After trying that one, the intervals are a bit wide with the 3rds and minor 3rds and I ran out of room! Good to try anyway.. took getting used to going backwards in 3rds but thats good exercise....never tried that going up as down ... but thats a cycle like the 5ths and 4ths going up but your'e going down.
Tom, thanks so much for the share
Cycle 1 is just a static chord. We are talking root movement. Cycle 2 is C D E F G A B C root movement. It's the same as cycle 7 but cycle 7 descends C B A G F E D C. Cycles 3 & 6 are the same and cycles 4 & 5 too. Hope that helps.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony Yes, thank you...
Tom is hella rad
He sure is 👍🎸🎶☀️
Am I misunderstanding something here? To me, what Tom calls "Triad over bass one" (T/1) is really "Triad over bass 4" (T/4). Right? G/C, Am/D, ...
Which makes more sense to me since T/1 is trivial.
With T/2 and T/4, we got everything covered: T/1, T/3, T/5 and T/7 are just the inversions. And T/6 is the 7 chord a 3rd below. Is that right?
G/C is TBN1, Bdim/C is TBN2...essentially a Cmaj7 chord is Em/C. Move it up a third diatonically Em becomes G to G/C or TBN1 , move the G up a third to B which is Bdim/C or TBN2.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony I see... So TBNx is his own label which has nothing to do with degrees, like I first thought?
BTW thanks for the amazing content! I've used The Advancing Guitarist in my study days but your take on Goodrick really opened up my mind big time. Thanks a bunch 😉
@@finkle131 Always happy to help and always happy to take donations through the Modern Guitar Harmony website. Thank you for working with the Goodrick material. It's an exciting adventure. 😀🎸🎶☀️
Great lesson! By the way on the pdf if I got it right on the cycle 4 the two voices should move down (not up) a diatonic step should they? 😊
Do you mean the cycle 4 triads or the seventh chords? With the triads, the 3rd and 5th move up and with the seventh chords the 5th and 7th move down. I did actually have a misprint on an old version of the PDF that said the 5th and 7th each move up on cycle 4 seventh chords. Is it possible you have that version from my website (it's since been corrected)? The one on the Modern Guitar Harmony site is the corrected version. Thanks for the kinds words, by the way.
@@tomlippincott yes exactly I confused the two movements sorry! The pdf is correct 👍 I am now working the cycle 2 going down the keyboard 🎹 and the cycle 4 going up, it’s amazing also on piano, do you know if these movements come from some baroque harmony book in particular or are they an original achievement by Mick Goodrick?
@@francescomanfredi They are from Mick but as many cycles can be found in many types of music you will identify some cycles by ear. The beauty also lies in the chord voicings. Interesting that you are playing them on the piano as you have ten fingers so should be able to play more of the book. Not every chord in the book is playable on the guitar.
He tells us the middle 6 strings are exactly the same. Ignore the two outer strings
I think it's so cool how you use a confusing 8 string guitar with unusual frets to demonstrate techniques to already confused students!
Tom's guitar is very interesting indeed. There are other videos on this channel and blog posts on the Modern Guitar Harmony website that you might like better. Best wishes and enjoy your guitar journey 😀🎸🎶☀️
This is great in hearing you chat about it with your knowledge and experience in tow, but showing the chords and their fingering on the strings and frets from one angle from 12 feet away at speeds averaging just fractions of a second will not at the end produced the desired results of what you set yourself upon in this presentation….😂
You can slow down the playback speed and watch it on a larger screen too. The almanacs are available for free, or a small donation, from the Modern Guitar Harmony website Resource page. Enjoy the journey!
These cycles come form Joseph Schillinger not Mick Goodrick
Goodrick is great teacher but the originator is Joseph Schillinger
Hello Sonic, yes, musical cycles are nothing new but Modern Guitar Harmony was set up, in part, to promote Mick Goodrick's materials and in particular the three Almanacs (which are now freely available from the MGH website Resources page). Tom's video is all about how to use the Almanacs. Feel free to check them out. You'll get a lot of new ideas and harmony under your fingers for sure.
@@ModernGuitarHarmony Yes I am familiar with the Almanacs, I have even written software that transposes to all keys and string groups with more scales. But these ideas came from Joseph Schillinger not Mick Goodrick. Mick just reformatted them into different formats.
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I have software that does cycles in all keys drop 2 & drop 3 where you can pick string groups
Do you have email where I can add attachments?